What does "freshen up" mean?Any making-up activity involved? In a sentence "I'm gonna freshen up", the lady then went to the bathroom, so I didn't get her exact meaning by this saying. Is there any make-up thing going on here?

Not Very Feminist Not until yesterday did I truly understand why he became awkward when the moment the nurse said it was a girl.Watching him playing with his baby girl in their car,the man with high education and kinda weathy looked like a stranger to me,I mean he was tender.He is my uncle, the one encouraged me during his visit to my college, and now he appeared to be a slave to his dear daughter.No matter she was throwing his glasses away or she just beat him, my uncle never got angry.I could tell he was uncomfortable but the next thing happened made me felt even more uncomfortable.While struggling with my little cousin for the glasses, he started making comments showing his unique views on stocks,schools,how to raise a child...Actually it was his habit to make comments on everything and gradually it became a skill for him to communicate with people.However this time the words seemed ironic to himself."Ah,girls,fighting fat,being graceful,and staying thin and graceful are the only things they need."While storking the naughty kid he blurted out intentially pretending to be casual.This man is bringing his sweetie up carefully but looking down on women at the same time.With his wife who is my mum's closest sister following, mum and I kept silent. The spirit of my mother's upbringing towards me was always being independent.Though according to 19 years life experience it failed, I am still way too far from what mum had expected,I try to stick to it. So what a funny thing education would be if girls can only live on beauty and things related to beauty.What if you have to support yourself or sometimes your family?I'm not feminist but I either can not take his words as casual saying.Criticizing women while holding his as precious gift from god?I really don't get him. The moment he knew he got a daughter rather than a son as his wife had predicted proudly and ridiculously before,he was totally disappointed but now we got his girl everybody's center.Besides it's a torture when his kid was a disaster, you have to love her as her parents crazily do.All this made me sick and felt like a nightmare.It's absolutely the result of the worship of authority and I guess his fate of having a daughter just hasn't taught him enough.

Nanny's Diary As a nanny, you need to look on up the kid as if she were a 70-year-old professor while she's spitting on you whenever she's down. You got chase her everywhere and when you gotta go to the bathroom,you will be the one to blame as someone who's not responsible.I'm not taking it as something low,and i know that takes love, patience and patience. It's like i can stand that i'm becoming your new nanny,wating for your daughter painting a pic while you all shopping in the store,pretending that she's with a normal temper,collecting things she threw away,being doubted whether do i have the ability to take over a kid in 30 mins... but hey, could you guys stop changing so much in your attitudes towards me in a second?You parents spoke like totally different persons who i really don't know,like in the past i was partially of the family someone who can be forgotten and if you'd spoken to me for a single word all night it doesn't matter and now,in a flash,i'm so memorable and you guys must stand up to fight back every word that seems against me.Does it reminds u my name?And all this makes me sick.Is this something you called pay? And my mum's training me like i'm gonna devote myself to the naughty,like what she did,she did something great,but does it have to be like i'm gonna do the same thing like it's a bonus? When did life teach me to be so mean since i'm messing with myself tonight,keeping tearing myself into pieces and then trying to put them together.Like it's changing every second as another world when i judge myself right or wrong.I'm so serious with turning this page that i dont want it to be turned over easily.I wanna cry out cuz i wanna say i don't like it at all,while it reminds me of the cliched saying "everything's the same with or without you".So it's like i'm a spoiled child being too sentimental again.I truly don't have a clue in living in a world of twisted relationships,please wake me up from the nightmare,i hope it's just kinda growing pains.Or just make me fall asleep as others and when i wake up i could say i've got through.