limelight • daniel seavey

daniel

I have a mini rant at the bottom if you care to read

As we drove down Hollywood boulevard I held her hand and sang along to the radio. She smiled at me and tucked her hair behind her ear. I pulled in the parking lot of In N Out and opened Kendall's door. She laced her fingers in mine and we walked in. "I know you don't like fancy food so I brought you to your favorite place instead"

"You're so sweet" She kissed my cheek. I blushed a little and smiled back at her. We ordered and sat down on the bench outside. The sun would be going down in about an hour so we needed to finish before then. I took a picture of her and she covered her face with her hands.

"Awe don't cover your beautiful face" I said and she uncovered her face and blushed. She took a few pictures of me and I pretended not to notice. I finally looked back and her and she frowned. "I was trying to get a candid picture"

"I'll stare at my beautiful burger then" I smiled and she started laughing. "Oh my Seavey you're such a weirdo"

"Can I be your weirdo?" I wiggled my eyebrows up and down at her. She was taking a sip of her coke when I did this and she laughed which resulted in coke coming out of her nose. She widened her eyes and continued to laugh. "Stop oh my gosh did you see that?" She laughed some more. I couldn't help but laugh back at the fact that she had just shot coke out of her nose.

"That was great Ken" I commented. She wiped the coke from her face and from the table. We finished our food and went back out to the car. People had stared at us the whole time we were in there, probably because we were loud. I closed her car door and we started to drive to the beach for the second part of our date. I watched her sing along to the radio and dance as I drove. I couldn't help but think about all the reasons why I was falling in love with Kendall Besson.

Okay I'm so sick and tired of people making the comment that I "shouldn't charge people when I babysit" first off, you don't know the families I babysit. I have a constant job with two different families. They know I charge.

We worked out the prices when I first started. Don't tell me I charge too much because I let them decide how much they want to pay me. My neighbor next door who I babysit for every Wednesday from 5:30-9:30 gives me $20. That's $5 an hour. Her son is a year old. I feed him dinner, a snack and put him to bed. She came up with that pricing because she thought it was reasonable.

The second family I babysit for has a 10 month old. I babysit every Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4:30. She gives me $30 a week. She also came up that price. She asked me if that was good and I told her yes.

Someone who I used to be close to told me I was "cheating people" and I "shouldn't charge them so much because they probably don't have the money for that" they came up with the prices. I had pricing when I first started two years ago but I'm very flexible and I'll be happy with whatever you decide to give me, I don't demand money and I certainly do not cheat people.

My neighbor across the street is a family friend and they have a little bit more money than everybody else, she always gives me double no matter what and I always try and give half back to her but she never takes it. The other day I babysat for one of her kids for two hours and she gave me $40. I tried to give some back but she wouldn't take it. I had told her I'd babysit for free since she needed to take her other kid to the hospital but she gave me money anyway.

Yes I did make $120 in two weeks but that was because I had babysat for three kids up the street, plus my neighbor across the street and my regulars. It honestly makes me mad when people make the comment that I'm charging too much because they don't know the people I sit for, they don't know what we've worked out, they don't know how long I babysit for.

My housing has a Facebook page and people message my mom all the time and ask me to babysit. I take the money they give me and I don't complain. I'm grateful they pay me at all, they don't have to. So I would appreciate if people would stop saying I'm being rude by charging people and saying "oh I babysit for free because I'm nice" I'm nice too. I've worked all of this out with the people I babysit for. You don't know everything so please mind your own business. It's not your business to judge me or make comments about me when you don't know the whole story.

Thank you to the people who read my rant, and if you did please comment so that I know someone actually read it 😂