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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.
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Fun Friday Poll
Let's liven up the board a little. Would you rather:
1. Have more free time or more money?
2. Wear a business suit or sweats?
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut?
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener?
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!)
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds?
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
Re: Fun Friday Poll
1. Have more free time or more money? more money - i have a lot of free time now, and i'm kinda bored - although, not bored enough to find a better/another job apparently.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? sweats, hand down.
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? long hair to my waist, my face it too fat for super short hair
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? anthony wiener, I can't stay the governator
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 5 dogs
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? cell phone - i dont like talking to people
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? motorcycle
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? nascar - love it!
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart. I had a friend in college who worked at McDonalds and it took me about a year to eat there again after some of her stories
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? ke$ha. i like her
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
Let's liven up the board a little. Would you rather:
1. Have more free time or more money?
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? How could this even be a qustion?
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut?
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? I would be a lot richer and actually find my H attractive (Wiener is way too scrawny for my taste)
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!)
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Smelling like grease every day would drive me insane.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I don't mind rocking out to Kesha songs while running errands.
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1. Have more free time or more money? - I could use a couple extra hours every day.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? I'd wear them to work if I could.
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? I'd probably wear it pulled back all the time, but I don't think I'd look good with super short hair.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? At least I'd get money out of the divorce.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) This is assuming I get to keep the one I have now.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? I can do most of my computer-related things on my phone.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? It's hard to put a baby on a bike.
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? This is a tough one, but I think the constant smell of grease would give me headaches. Maybe I could work in the stock room and not have to interact with the public.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
1. Have more free time or more money? more money
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? sweats
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? long hair. I look terrible with short hair.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Arnold. Only because he has more money and I could spend as much time as possible away from him.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 1 baby
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?air conditioning. I don't mind being hot.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? motorcycle
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? ballet
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? McDonalds. Walmart is the devil.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? Kesha
1. Have more free time or more money? I work at a non-profit, so the payoff for lower salary is great vacation time and work hours, so I have a fair amount of free time right now.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? I'm a comfort fiend!
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? No muss, no fuss, and easy to deal with. Plus, I'm a swimmer and long hair is a huge pain to shove into a swim cap.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? They're both abhorrent, but Weiner kept his weiner to himself. (Well, physically if not photographically.) Plus, at least we'd agree politically.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) Though I can get myself worked up right quick if I think about not having my dog.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? Being constantly available has its drawbacks. As for air conditioning, I speak from experience - I used to have a car without a/c in DC, and the a/c crapped out in my condo one June and it couldn't get fixed till August. Definitely some of the worst months of my life. I subsisted almost entirely on Popsicles during that time.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Motorcycles scare me. Plus, I drove a stick shift Dodge Caravan in high school, so I'd just be going back to my roots.
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? Sitting outside watching cars drive around a track sounds like torture to me. I hate noise, crowds, and being hot.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? I have some serious problems with Walmart's corporate policies. McDonald's might be just as bad, I'm just more informed about Walmart.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I've listened to my friend's 8 year old sing an endless loop of his interpretation of Justin Bieber. That was hellacious. I've no desire to repeat it with the real thing.
1. Have more free time or more money?
2. Wear a business suit or sweats?
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? short hair does not work for me
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? because i could live in the swank area of my old neighborhood in queens.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) i could hire a dogsitter, right?
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? i think this was the hardest question for me to answer . . .
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds?
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
1. Have more free time or more money? Free time - there just aren't enough hours in the day.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? Business suit - I'm used to it!
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? Pixie cut from senior year of HS to senior year of college. I'd love to do it again if it wasn't a b!tch to grow out (and I'm afraid I'd look to mom-ish at this age).
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Wiener, as long as I didn't have to take his last name.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) Five dogs. Ten cats would smell, and I'm still a bit on the fence about the baby situation.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? TV. We hardly watch the one we have.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Minivan - only because it is too damn hot here in the summer for a motorcycle, I need the A/C!
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? NASCAR - the people-watching must be highly entertaining.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart, for the same reason as NASCAR. Plus what Mrs.Handy said about the grease smell.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I've never heard Ke$ha, so I'd have to choose her over Bieber.
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i meant to say this too!!
1. Have more free time or more money? When I have free time, I just waste it.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? I haven't worn a suit since 2004.
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? I'd like to try long hair, even though I'd immediately hate it and threaten to shave my head.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener?
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) ...but a baby eventually.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? I never even turn it on as it is.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? I enjoy the ballet, thankyouverymuch!
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds?
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
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1. Have more free time or more money? I'm spoiled with free time.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats?
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? I had this less than 2 years ago and it was hot, but it looked amazing.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener?
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!)
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?...but only because I have my iPad.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? I swear that if you work at McDonalds you never 100% lose that smell.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
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Let's liven up the board a little. Would you rather:
1. Have more free time or more money? More money...if I'm doing this, I clearly have plenty of free time
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? business suit, because I wear sweats every day!
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? pixie cut- way easier
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Arnold
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) Um, 1 dog and 1 baby!
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? home computer
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? minivan
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? ballet
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? Ke$ha- I think she's fun!
2. Wear a business suit or sweats?
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? my head is not built for a pixie cut
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? umm, wiener, but i would NOT change my last name, that's for sure.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!)
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? As long as I get to keep my iphone and work computer!
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Can I walk??
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? I'm actually a NASCAR fan, but I'm half redneck (thanks dad) so it's basically required.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? That was a tough one actually.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
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1. Have more free time or more money? Free time...I currently do not have enough hours in the day.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? Business suit
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? pixie cut...not that it would look too flattering with my face, but my hair is so fine that it would be nothing but split ends down to my waist. ew.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Wiener. I don't know how Maria tolerated Arnold for all of those years.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 1 baby.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? home computer
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? minivan. Motorcycles make me nervous
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? ballet...for many years, ballet was my life.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? McDonalds...I really detest Walmart
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? Ke$ha! She reminds me of my zumba classes
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? If we are talking 1980s sweats then, suit, otherwise sweats
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? Pixie cut
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Do I have to? Arnold, only because I dont think Anthony is all the cute
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 1 baby... my Dad promises me that kids kids are more rewarding.. we'll see ;-)
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? Home computer or cell phone in a heart beat.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Motorcycle
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? Ballet
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart.. I worked at Target for 4 years I think I can handle walmart
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? Kesha
1. Have more free time or more money? I am in desperate need of just a few more hours every day.
Wiener, I guess?
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? sweats
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? pixie - super long hair takes too much work
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Yeah, definitely what circle of hell are we talking about?
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) Baby, since I've finally gotten to be competant with that. I've never had a pet, and I'm not eager to learn yet another new set of issues for a new type of dependant.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? Cell phone, since I really only use it to check personal email and FB from work (where those are blocked) and look at my calendar, which I could do on any old computer.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Minivan
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? ballet
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I can't honestly say I know for sure what either one sounds like, but I suspect I would like Kesha better.
Would you rather:
1. Have more free time or more money? More money at this point... even though I complain that my evenings go quickly, I really do have a fair amount of free time.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? Sweats
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? Pixie cut- my curly hair would get way too tangled.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Anthony Weiner- as pp have said, at least it wasn't physical. I know it's still cheating, but I feel like it'd be easier to work on a marriage without seeing the child he had with another woman.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 1 baby
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? TV would be the easiest for me to give up.
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Minivan
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? Ballet, though I'm pretty impartial to both.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart- at least I wouldn't smell like greasy food at the end of the day.
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I'm really not familiar with either...
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Cute Poll!!
1. Have more free time or more money? I stay home so I have some time...2. Wear a business suit or sweats? HANDS DOWN!!!!
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? I had this less than 2 years ago and it was hot, but it looked amazing. My hair is curly so it styles better longer
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener?
5. Have 10 cats 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!1 baby, they grow up and become independent eventually
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?...cell phone....
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? I'm actually getting excited for the day we get one
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? I swear that if you work at McDonalds you never 100% lose that smell....at least you don't have to see all the grease!!!
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha orJustin Beiber? Ke$sha...I actually like her for my gym list:-)
1. Have more free time or more money? More money, provided that wouldn't mean less free time.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? Business suit. I was just thinking the other day that I miss dressing nicely for work.
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? Pixie cut. I have always wanted to try it.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? I guess Wiener. But not if I have to change my name. Like someone said, at least he just sent pictures and didn't sleep around.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) 1 baby
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? Cell phone, although we have not yet turned on our a/c for the summer (don't hate me, but it's a lot cooler out here!).
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Minivan. I actually rather liked my mom's old Mazda MPV. Motorcycles are scary.
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? Ballet. I love the ballet. I've had the opportunity to go to a NASCAR race, and I turned it down.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Walmart
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? I guess Ke$sha.
1. Have more free time or more money? More money. Because then I wouldn't have to work so much and I'd have more free time.
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? Sweats!
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? Long hair. I would look BAD with short hair.
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? Weiner. At least he never actually physically cheated.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) One baby, for sure. At least they eventually learn to go to the bathroom on their own and feed themselves. And they live longer. And they're cuter (sorry, animal people).
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? TV. I'm not that addicted (plus, does no TV mean I can't watch shows on Hulu or Netflix on my computer?).
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? Minivan. They're lame, but at least they're safe.
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? Ballet.
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? Tough call because they would both suck, but at least at McDonald's there's promotion potential?
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? Would you believe I have never heard either of them? I honestly have no idea which is worse.
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1. Have more free time or more money?
-money
2. Wear a business suit or sweats?
-business suit, that would mean I have a job...and more money ;-)
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut?
-hmmm, that's tough, my hair would look like @ss either way because it's so thin. but I guess pixie...that's a little more edgy at least
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener?
-Weiner, Arnold has more of an ick factor for me for reason
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!)
-one baby, definitely!
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning?
-that's easy, TV
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle?
-minivan
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet?
-definitely ballet
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds?
-McDonalds, can we say free ice cream sundaes?
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber?
-definitely Ke$ha
1. More free time
2. sweats
3. hair down to waist
4. ew and ew
5. 10 cats (what's 8 more...)
6. TV
7. minivan
8. McDonalds
9. Ke$ha
1. Have more free time or more money? Money
2. Wear a business suit or sweats? sweats
3. Have long hair down to your waist or a pixie cut? pixie cut
4. Be married to Arnold Schwarzenegger or Anthony Wiener? i'm spending too much time debating this one too, dctolow! i'd rather remain an old maid than be married to either of them. true the wiener thing wasn't physical... YET. i'm sure if he hadn't been caught, it probably would have been sooner or later. but neither of them are attractive.
5. Have 10 cats, 5 dogs, or 1 baby? (I view these as similar levels of difficulty, ha!) I can't choose.
6. Give up one of the following: TV, home computer, cell phone, or air conditioning? phone
7. Drive a minivan or a motorcycle? minivan. motorcycle just screams "organ donor" to me.
8. Go to a NASCAR race or to the ballet? ugh. neither?
9. Work at Walmart or McDonalds? walmart. it actually probably has high entertainment value some days!
10. Be forced to listen to an endless loop of Ke$ha or Justin Bieber? ke$ha