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Flame-Free Black Friday Confessions!
After spending a holiday with families, I know someone has to have something haha.
My confession: Yesterday, I felt sorry for H's aunt. She's not very nice and is quite standoff-ish to both H and me. She's been this way since we got married (her husband, H's uncle, didn't even come to the wedding because he was hunting and that was more important, I guess) and I don't know what caused it. Anyway, she came in yesterday and basically b!tched everyone out because they didn't notice her hair was different.
Instead of feeling angry with her, like I normally do, I began to pity her because she obviously doesn't have much going on in her life if her hairdo is all she can talk about.
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Re: Flame-Free Black Friday Confessions!
I line-jumped at Kohl's this morning. Typically, I hate people who do that, but I did it... and I didn't feel bad.
I have no motivation today. None. I have a big project written in my planner (and normally I live and die by the planner) but I can't seem to get moving.
The confession part is that I'm doing a 3rd copy-edit of three of our papers before they go to press. My coauthor is doing the exact same thing, and she's very meticulous. So, I'm definitely considering half assing it. Like I said, we've already done this twice (and each journal has already had a copy editor go over our work---we're just reviewing it now that it's done.) In the end I'll probably suck it up and do the work (maybe after a nap!) but, truly, the world won't end if we end a sentence in a preposition.
I'm dying to know what my parents are getting us for Christmas. They're going to see my sister in England on Monday, and they're bringing her Christmas gifts to her and her husband. I am totally thinking about digging for information from her, since we usually get the same gifts. My mom HATES it when I ruin the surprise though, and my sis would totally tell her if I dig for info. Now I'm conflicted. What to do, what to do.
I am thinking about donating $$ to a charity in my MIL and her boyfriend's name for their Christmas gift. I can't think of what to get her, everything she suggests is REALLY expensive, and I'm annoyed that she came to my house and only wanted to talk about her new wedding ring and the 6000 sq. ft. house they're looking at buying (For the two of them). She's really superficial right now and it's hard to talk to her about anything, because inevitably it turns into "I have a sugar daddy, look at meeeee".
everyone except my and my grandma (well and my 2 kids) was drinking last night and I felt totally left out. My mom doens't usually drink, but apparently my grandma is sending her to the bottle!
I sort of kind of really hope my sister cheats on her boyfriend or he get hit by a bus or something. He is a total a$$ and she cheated on her last boyfriend (who I really liked) with him and he left her (which I don't blame him for). I dread going places I have to see him.
And speaking of dread, I also dread going to my parents house because my grandma is there. I hate the way she talks to my kids and I just really don't like being around her in general.
H and I said we wouldn't get Christmas presents for one another, but I bought him the jersey anyway. I want him to have something to open on Christmas - he doesn't really care, but I do. Especially since it looks like my MIL isn't going to come through with her promise to get H a new XBox [she wanted me to buy it, then she'd send me the money - um, really?]. I'm so sick of dealing with her.
Thanksgiving was hard because it's the first I've spent apart from H [and he freaking had to work a 12-hour shift, so I'm not sure he even got Thanksgiving dinner]. I've been crying all week about it but told H I was fine. I'm glad we'll be together next year.
My mom's been acting b!tchy lately, and I'm so annoyed. I'm not sure if we'll survive 10 days together at Christmas. She always gets like this when holidays come around - she freaking started an argument with my dad, and he's in Afghanistan. Seriously Mom? And that's on top of the family drama on my dad's side. Ugh.
I got a phone call from my uncle a few days ago trying to guilt me into coming to the family holiday celebration. Look, I don't see the point in spending time with people on a HOLIDAY when you don't want to be around them the rest of the year. Shouldn't you celebrate the HOLIDAYS with those you WANT to be around?
Also, SD's room has DH's childhood furniture in it. He doesn't like it and it is not very girly. Months ago, he asked his mother what he should do with it given that he wants to buy his daughter HER OWN furniture and his mother got all sorts of high maintenance about it. Of course, when the conversation was all said and done, MIL's comment was "Well, what IS the problem with the furniture - Stripes doesn't like it? Its Ethan Allen, it was very expensive." First off, why is everything somehow always about me? Second off, if she doesn't want it in her house, why should it be in mine? Third, she got to pick our her kid's furniture, why shouldn't DH have that right? Fourth, again, if she is so sentimental about it - enough to cause such a freaking stink about it, WHY IS IT IN MY HOUSE AND NOT HERS??? Anyway, they are coming to get it tomorrow and she is all "hurt" yada yada. Six months now we have been nice about this furniture, just come and get it already we aren't changing our fvcking minds!!!!
I went shopping for a bit Friday morning.... I parked @ JCP and when I came out I seriously could not get in my car. The mirror on the driver's side had been pushed in and the mini van next to me was seriously 3 inches from my pushed in mirror. Most people could not even walk between my car and the van, many people tried but as they saw me sitting in the passenger seat they would choose a different route.
I was pissed, I tried crawling in across the passenger side but I couldn't make my legs/hips twist the way I needed them to. I called my mom and instantly started bawling in the middle of the parking lot. I was totally embarassed and getting a bit more pissed as each moment passed.
I wanted to punch and kick the side of the van after letting all of the air out of their tires and keying the entire side but... I waited on my mom to get there and let her key the back quarter panel instead. She crawled over from the passenger side and backed my car out for me.
My husband, uncle, and dad were horrified and said that whoever owned the van should have been glad it was just my mom and not them. I do not agree with keying someone's car but in this case I had totally lost my mind and I was just livid.... I have since come to my senses and I feel bad that my mom did that but I am still really pissed off that they put me in that situation.
That's horrible! I would have gone back in the store and ask them to page the customer who owned the van so they could come move it. I've done this before at Target when I was too big to squeeze in between the car next to me. Especialy since that car scratched my car.
Did I read this right? Your mom keyed somebody's car because they parked too close? WTF?
ETA: Oops, didn't see the Flame-Free disclaimer in the post title until now. I'm still WTFing.
I know, man. Me too.
Flame/ judge me if you want, I wanted to do a lot more damage. I call BS on you not seeing the "disclaimer". Own your flaming and go on with your WTFing.
I didn't see the disclaimer, but you're right, I wouldn't have cared anyway. This situation is a little too effed up to leave alone. What did you want to do? Slash tires? Break windows? That is hardly a rational reaction.
You think it's okay to deface someone's property because they parked a little too closely? Grow up.
This is why I don't participate in this FF confessions crap anymore. It's only FF if people feel like it.
Sorry that happened to you Bri. I can definitely understand why you were so upset!
Nobody here knows the situation or who was parked where. Maybe Bri was on the far left of her parking space and the car to her left was at the right of theirs. Sometimes you park closer than you want to someone because of what the person on the other side of the space when you parked did.
Eh, I find it all amusing. My students think it's pretty messed that someone would key a car over this, though.
However, Black Friday is pretty darn crazy. It seems to bring out the uber-crazy in a lot of people, which is why I went to El Reno to get an onion burger instead.
I love this sh!t... Call in the troops! I didn't call my mother to fight my battle. I called her because I could not get into my car to get it out of the spot and I needed someone that could move it for me. I knew she would be the easiest to get in touch with that morning. I could not crawl over the console to get to the drivers side, I tried multiple times. Call the cops on me, ha!
Wendy, you are right, you weren't there. Maybe I should have taken a picture and posted it so you could see just how close they were. They weren't to the far right of their spot, both tires were fully in my parking spot OVER the line. People are crazy and I honestly go out on BF with a smile on my face and after I calmed down I went back to shopping with a smile on my face. Some d-bag that didn't know how to park just had to get me all sorts of pissed off and upset first thing off the bat. I am done explaining myself.
So have them towed, or get a ride and come back later, but destroying other people's property is still not ok just because you were mad.