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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Being the new girl stinks!
I really don't like being new in town. I don't like not knowing what other people know. Yesterday, we were driving to see a house and we got stuck waiting for ten minutes waiting for a train at ADM to pass.
I also don't like when people talk to you as if you're stupid when you don't know something. Lake Shelbyville's website hasn't been updated since June 10 about the beaches being closed and we want to go swimming. I called today just to ask and the woman acted as though I were an idiot because it had obviously rained last weekend, so the water is obviously still high.
I miss nice people.
Re: Being the new girl stinks!
I still feel like the new girl and I've been here for 2 years now. People will be like... "Oh, you know, where such-and-such used to be" or "That happened when the BIG tornado came through"... um yeah, I haven't lived here all my life, so you're going to need to explain the details to me.
I still have my days where I'm not sold on being in Illinois. It's gotten better over time. I don't think Illinois will ever be my HOME, just where I hang my hat for ~40 years (ya know what I mean??). Not that we know where we are going to retire or that we won't get transfered.
Just keep everything with a grain of salt. You know you won't be there forever and ever. And if you weren't there, you and your DH wouldn't be pumping money into the local economy keeping them employed.
And some people should just not have jobs dealing with the public. You've just run into some of them lately. I promise there will be some nice ones out there. I still miss the bank guy when we first moved here. He always remembered me when I came in (and this is a large national chain bank too... so whoa) and was always very helpful and insightful. Then one day he was gone
I was bummed. The bank hasn't been the same since, but I've managed.
We refer to our apartment as 'home' but not Illinois. Whenever we talk about going to Missouri, we refer to it as going 'home' since we lived there until 2 months ago.
I don't necessarily miss Missouri, but I do miss the fact that when we are in our hometown, everyone knows us and everyone is nice. The longer I live in a large city, the more I miss living in a town of 3,000 people. Sometimes I can pretend it's a small town because I'll be driving by fields of corn and soybeans.