Thanks for all the comments I've received from my recent entry.  I certainly don't mind negative comments - as long as they're intelligent and not petty.  So I spent all of Thursday interviewing nannies, for us and for my books!  I met a great array of people, with some great experience.  What I found interesting about the experience is that most of the 'good' nannies that get regular work, do so by word of mouth, most families have had bad experiences with agencies and continue to have needs, but advertise privately.  I love meeting new people, I met people from all over the world and I enjoyed hearing about their experiences.  I think that's one thing I could really enjoy about this, the people!  Being in my home as well and taking a less formal stance encouraged people to be more natural, as opposed to trying to say the things they think I want to hear.  I found it quite easy to quickly assess who would fit better in our family.  I whittled down so many applicants so only the ones with the strongest experience I interviewed and from there, it was gut feeling and personality all the way.  I chased up the graphic designers, feeling eager to throw myself into the task ahead - although still trying to study my critical thinking paper (and for the sake of one of my commenters - be there for the girls' classes), oh, and juggle a miserable, teething Egg on my knee!  Tidy up after my parents, help our live in with her visa paperwork - which she'd left to the last minute, chase up the insurance company over the laundry room and answer a continously ringing phone!  You know when you have a gut feeling not to do a certain thing but you go against it, and you do it anyway, and then you're even more pissed off when it predictably turns to custard?  No?  Maybe I'm the only one!  Anyway, the guy from the commerce implored me to use this graphic design company.  Their business card was crap, the posters in their office were crap and their website is crap.  Despite these clues, I wanted to use local businesses and wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt.  I received three design ideas today, and oh my god!  One word...clipart.  I'd given them a full brief, and lets be honest, I'm not one to mince my words or needs or expectations!  The images were poor quality and in some cases, not clear!  I decided to search for other companies, sticking to Wellington, but not so local to me!  I found this awesome company with excellent marketing campaigns for big names here.  Its not trendy or abstract, its just clean, modern and fresh images.  I worried I'd be small cheese for them, but I sent off an email anyway.  I didn't get a reply, but decided to follow up with a phone call.  A woman answererd, I didn't even say my name and she knew who I was!!  She remembered some of  my brief in the email because she'd been interested by my idea and had forwarded it to an Account Manager.  She apologised profusely that I'd not heard back sooner.  I assumed she was the receptionist and told her about my recent experience with a local company.  She asked to meet me on Monday.  Towards the end of the call, I asked for her name and to quallify her role.  She's only the Managing Director!!  I'm nervous, excited, nervous, sick!  Actually, its Friday night and I'm shattered!  Eggy is in our room and she doesn't like it as much as we don't!  She sleeps just as badly and Steve and I bumbling around like zombies.  Anyway, this week has been full on of big ups and downs.  Yesterday, I was in the bath reading a crummy gossip magazine and seeing about these famous celeb chefs who's businesses are failing and I thought, christ, if they can't do it, what the hell am I thinking?  I'm a mum of three, a student, struggling to lose the baby weight, often smelling of babysick, not having time to brush my hair and I'm thinking about starting a business?!!  I'm a FAKE!  Steve's faith in me has stayed strong and he's gently pushing me along in this.  It'll be interesting to see how Monday goes.  I told most of the people I met on Thursday about my idea and they were very enthused.  I've identified a need, a gap here and my premise generates interest and enthusiasm, but the question is - can I pull it off?  Oh christ and I've got this 10km fun walk next week!  I need to prepare more!  Busy head.  Busy head.