September 2009 Weddings
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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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Confessions
It's gonna be a long day kids, let's get some juicy stuff going!
- when our board is slow, I lurk other boards and really enjoy reading the confessions and UOs of people I don't even know
- I very oddly like the way my pee smells after eating asparagus.
- we used to tell people we might start trying to have a baby Nooner after we were married 2 years. That's clearly around the corner, and we're still telling people "maybe in 2 years."
aaaaaand GO!
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Re: Confessions
- i have a bunch of photographers in my google reader and i confess that when i look at pictures, i scroll through until i find one of the bride and groom's rings. i like to look at those first. not because i have ring envy, but because i think you can tell a person's style/personality from their ring.
- my unpopular opinion (yea i know this is confessions...too bad) is that the "share the road with motorcycles" campaigns really irk me. more often than not, its the guy on the motorcycle zooming in and out of traffic at excessive speeds than the cars around them driving erratically. and a lot of times the motocyclists who do drive this way also arent wearing helmets!
- one of my coworkers is getting a divorce, and i didnt want to say it but im really not surprised.
oh, I have another one I forgot:
- Thanks to Michelle, I definitely see "penetrated" whenever I see Kat's SN now, lol.
It was bound to happen.
And along the same lines, I dont understand why people have to use other people's already-established SNs... oh, it was my husband's old SN, or oh it was the nickname my hubby used to go by in high school. Dude, c'mon... no offense to anyone here, but be your own person. What about YOUR old SN, or YOUR old nickname? Sure it may have been cute in high school, like wearing your BF's ring or letterman jacket, but now? Ugh.
Also, people around me are having their 2nd babies. I'm afraid to admit I might be getting baby fever.
I'm really stabby today, and I had more to go, but my brain is also mush and I can't think of them right now. I'll be back.
updated 10.03.12
Ditto. I also like reading budget posts on MM. I don't know these people, but a lot of the time it makes me feel better about my own situation.
- Last night I watched a E! Investigates marathon. One was about Jaycee Dugard and one was about a girl in IL whose classmates strangled her and then chopped her up because she was putting moves on one girls crush. Stories like these make me want to keep Ellie under lock and key for the rest of her life! I'm so afraid of someone taking her away from me.
- My teeth hurt. I know it's because I need my wisdom teeth removed, but I don't want to do it.
- I have like 140 recipes pinned on Pinterest. I need to get cooking.
- I had a dream last night that I got fired from my job, and it was so real that I woke up crying. I felt weird all morning, and then my boss came in and gave me a hug and I felt a million times better.
- I got an Express catalog last night and it made me sad because I'm too big to wear anything from there. Anyone want a coupon?
- I confess, I left Jon's number when I called the furniture store to complain because I was afraid if they called me I would literally cry due to how frustrated I was with the whole thing. He's dealing with them much better than I ever could.
- I confess that I wish I could start working from home now. Jon says he doesn't want me to feel like a 50s housewife just because I'll be home all day but...the truth is..I'm kind of excited to both cook and clean and go to the gym on my own schedule around whatever work I have.
OMG this. This crazy motorcycle driver was swerving in and out of traffic in a no passing zone on my way to work. I really thought I was about to witness brains on the pavement.
I sort of wish bff would just divorce her husband. I'm so not a divorce person, but he's seriously crazy. And he's dragging her down with him.
Please see vent post below, it's a little confession-y as well, lol
I'm calling in "sick" tomorrow to hang out with the bestie. She finally got a full time teaching job (after looking for 2 years) and wants to go shopping for some post baby work clothes and hang out. We haven't really hung out just the 2 of us since the baby was born, so I'm pretty excited.
Also, kind of in conjunction with my post below, with Jay having BOTB his sex drive has gone way up even though we're clearly not trying. It makes me think I could deal with more of the pressure since I'm receiving multiple orgasms in return.
To piggy back off of this: I seriously break down crying everytime the VS catalog/flyer comes in the mail. I just don't feel sexy and don't want to see all these cute outfits that I can't even fit one of my thighs in. Plus, seeing all the skinny b!tches (yes, I know most are airbrished) doesn't help either. Part of the reason I just cannot wait until the baby arrives is so that I can get my @ss in gear and lose some weight. Ya, ya, you can say it's because I'm pregnant that I can't wear that stuff but let's be real, I was big/overweight even before I got pregnant...now I feel like a beached whale ! I wasn't allowed to do any cardio while doing IF treatments so I know it will be some time until I can even get into a decent routeine. Until then, all VS catalogs & Cosmo magazines are getting tossed ( Cosmo mostly b/c of all the sex topics and besides not feeling sexy, I'm in too much pain down there to try to have sex).
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
::peeks in from under the massive piles of chaos on my desk to post::
I've got a few...
I will probably get flamed for this, but my job is making me racist. And classist. And I HATE myself for it... but I can't help it sometimes. It's so bad.
CB and I made this whole crazy super detailed budget to save $ for house #2 and pay for his grad school on Monday. I then proceeded to spend $125 on my hair cut/color/conditioning last night and do not even feel a little bit bad about it, despite the fact that we only budgeted for $80. My hair looks fab, I deserve it, so whatever.
Whenever someone asks me when I'm going to have a baby, I roll my eyes and say "I'd rather have a cocktail". They laugh and think I'm joking, but I'm 100% serious. BNOTB doesn't even BEGIN to describe how I feel right now, especially after seeing my boss' snotty nosed 3 month old SCREAMING b/c he was sick this morning. NO.thank.you.
My SIL's wedding pictures came back and they are AWFUL. SO tacky, color editing is wierd, and she looks SUPER trashy. And I am absolutely delighted by it. I look completely exhausted in like half the pictures, which I was b/c I did EVERYTHING that day while her other maids got hammered and smoked cigs. It will be really difficult for me to keep a straight face when she's showing them off to family @the picnic we're going to this weekend, esp when MIL fake "oohs and ahhhs" over them when I know for a fact she told CB the other day she thought they were "not as nice as ours" and that "the photographer did a poor job".
I have not shaved my legs in a week and a half. I have worn skirts for the past 4 days.
::hangs head, leaves to go back to the hell that is my job::
I need to start using this line. And I agree 100% right now. I've been BNOTB, but I really expected that to change. I'm beginning to wonder if it ever will.
- our TV died a few days ago. Instead of repairing it for around $300, we charged a credit card to get a shiney new one for $1000. It was so irresponsible of us to do this...but OMG this TV is amazing.
- my BC pills are about to run out and I had to change to an insurance plan that doesn't cover Rx. I'm kind thinking that its okay to just go off 'cause if I got pregnant again soon I'd be okay with that. But this is also super irresponsible because a. we're STILL paying off the medical bills from Phoenix's birth...and b. said insurance plan also doesn't cover maternity care. But I'm totally getting baby fever again and really don't want to wait that much longer to have our second baby (like MB, LOTS of my friends just had their baby #2s).
*reaches out hand to Ortiz and Nooner*
come to my side friends. its nice over here.
I.Can't.Stop.Eating. Seriously, I have been such a pig lately. And the sad thing is, I really don't feel that bad for it. I had this whole thing after I had Weston, that I wanted to lose 20 lbs before I even thought about TTC #2. We aren't trying or anything, but I don't see that weight loss happening now. I blame it on Floyd. He tells me how beautiful/sexy/perfect I am on a daily basis, so I have no extra motivation to change.
Also, my sister's birthday is this weekend. She is having a party at a campground starting in the afternoon and then some people are camping for the night. We are bringing Weston for the beginning and then my mom is taking him home with her and we are staying the night. It has been a long week and I intend on doing some damage to my liver. Just sayin'.
I am currently on nada since I had my Mirena removed. Condoms only. Does this worry me? Not as much as it should. Meh....
updated 10.03.12
I confess that I am terrified to go back to work this weekend. I'm worried I'll run into people that took care of me last weekend in the ER and they'll ask questions and I'll cry. Crying at work is my biggest fear ever.
I also confess that I kind of wish I had asked to stay home from work until after next week when my parents come visit, because I'm currently scheduled to work till 11pm on the day they fly in and I'd rather go eat Jeni's ice cream with Ty and my folks than be at work. I did try and play the pity card with my staffing secretary today but she still told me I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting the day off.
I've had like no appetite for over a week and I kind of hope I drop a few lbs because of it. It'd be a nice consolation prize.
Oh, and one AW: as of today I can fit into my normal jeans. They're a little tight when I sit down, but still!
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
Go get 'em, girl!
I don't think I have any good confessions...mostly just vents. I had a full physical/exam last week, and I've always been lucky to have good health, but something showed up that is not really a huge deal, but it feels like a personal blow to me somehow, especially in terms of our recent ttc. I'm just bummin', and I need a cocktail.
I start my new job placement on Monday. I'm scared to death. I've already had about 2 panic attacks because of it and can't sleep. We had inservice yesterday and I went in again today to help finish up what we started: the ladies/men I will work with are really nice and the atmosphere seems a lot like my last placement, but getting used to different styles and different kids (going from autism to life skills) is really wearing on me.
And even though I'm older than some of the people I'll be working with, I still feel like I'm not up to par with them (even though I was graduating college as they were graduating high school). I'm sure that's a self-esteem issue though and a whole other animal compared to my anxiety....
I'm going to be a mess for the next month.