Cincinnati Nesties
Dear Community,
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.
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.
FFC Friday!
What's your Flame Free Confession for today?
Mine: I was <.> this close to calling off work today. Not b/c I feel sick, but b/c I'm sooooo freaking exhausted and tired. If I wasn't trying to rack up my hours for extra holiday spending money, I would've. This has been a really long, tiring week for me packed w/ so many late nights and super early mornings. While I'm glad that today is Friday, I'm also bummed b/c I have to work tomorrow. Its such a waste b/c we are generally slow as heck.
What's your FFC for today?
Re: FFC Friday!
I have two:
1. My company's health benefits fair was today and I was sorely disappointed by the selection of chatchkees (sp?). Apparently, I am a kack snob.
2. Whenever we do anything "thankful", like 'Thankful Thursday' - I throw up in my mouth a little when anyone says they are thankful for their husband. Yes, I'm thankful for my husband every day - it's automatically assumed as this IS thenest. I think it's assumed that most of us are thankful for our husbands. However, 3 years after the fact of transferring from knot-hood, my thinly veiled disguise at being the perfect wife has been removed. I am thankful for my husband, I plan to grow old with him, but there are days when I can be all of that AND still not like him very much. I would be truly thankful if people would pull off the goody-two shoes, put their stinky socks on the ottoman, and be thankful for something OTHER than their H's for just one tiny moment. I swear it won't hurt.
This weekend will help!
You are a better person than me. There have been maybe a handful of days in my marriage where, if you had asked me directly if I felt thankful for my husband, I would have said "no, not right now." So my thinly veiled disguise might be even thinner than yours.
I'm an idealist when it comes to things like war, existing together in society, etc. But I am a realist when it comes to love.
My confession...hmmm, how much can I reveal? I always get paranoid people IRL are going to recognize me. I guess I'll go with I wanted to throw my husband out of the car on the way to AND from work yesterday. He made a really, really insensitive comment about having to wait for the bus again...this being the bus that is always stopped at the end of our street loading a boy who uses a wheelchair. He didn't think the terms he used and saying that HE would take his child to school instead of making everyone wait was insulting. In his mind, he wasn't saying she was wrong for putting her kid on the bus, just that he would do different. I know I am especially sensitive about special needs kids, but come on.... After telling him not to judge, especially when we don't have kids, I was told I was a bleeding heart and the rest of the trip was silent. Hey H, how 'bout you get your rear out of bed on time and THEN we wouldn't be running late for work, which would help us avoid the bus. Just sayin'...
**disclaimer** this makes him sound like a complete @ss. He doesn't intend to be a jerk, just truly thinks the word "retard" is the go-to PC term, etc.
I, too, am thankful for my husband but he really gets on my nerves sometimes.
And I'm not at all thankful for that.
I've been super snarky for the past couple of days. Pretty much everyone is getting on my nerves, and when that happens, it's REALLY fun being a therapist let me tell ya. Actually, for the most part my clients aren't getting on my nerves so much as bosses, coworkers, other people I have to deal with like case managers, the people that made us do a mandatory training this morning on cultural competence in working with the gay/lesbian population that contained absolutely NOTHING I haven't heard before. My job title does not necessarily mean that I have a lot of patience for people or even that I always LIKE most people!!