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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.
Confession
I don't really know 2 of my cousins. We led very different lives. They both had kids as a teenager. One is a year older than me and has 3 kids (that are now in their teens), has been married twice (I think) including once to a guy that was abusive. She's had a hard life. Her dad passed away a few years ago (he was my dad's little brother). I know her life was rough....
But I still had to laugh at her Facebook status today:
"just signed up for collage today"
I so should not be laughing at her....
Re: Confession
My confession is that I saw an informercial today with some twits using an exercise machine. Text scrolling across the screen said "LOOSE UP TO TEN POUNDS"
and I just got irrationally cranky. I do not understand how it seems to be impossible for people to remember LOSE vs LOOSE. I know, the majority of people just don't care but it chaps my ass. Maybe I should say
I am LOOSING my mind, LITERALLY.
You know, because LITERALLY is also completely misused.
**Please minimize the number of subsequent confessions passive aggressively alluding to people with hang-ups on grammar.
I am super cranky this week and I don't know why.
I was checking Corey's homework this morning and I knew a couple of his sentences were grammatically incorrect, but couldn't remember why. Time to break out the grammer books so I can refresh my memory I guess.
Sadly I know college graduates whose spelling and grammar skills are no better.
Franco, I'm with you. I realize I'm not perfect and probably have spelling and grammar errors as well, but I judge those who do, especially the errors that my fifth grade teacher wouldn't have accepted.
My confession: I'm rather annoyed at my SIL. She asked if we were free for her two daughters' birthday party this Saturday before planning it, so we have to go (her kids and my kids are very close, so we wouldn't miss it). Then she scheduled it for 10 am in freaking Hamilton. If we asked her to be at an event in the city that early she'd be furious, but she has no problem asking us to be there that early. We'll have to leave by 8 and my kids don't usually wake up until 8.
No, you shouldn't. If anything, praise her for getting her act together and going back to school to be a roll model for her kids. Good for her!
*Sorry, but since I work in higher education devoted to helping adults return to college, this strikes a chord with me.
Relax. I congratulated her and wished her luck with her studies. I didn't point out it is college or that she might want to spell out associates instead of telling people that she is "trying for an ass degree".
Mommy to Stephanie Lena - 2.13.07 and Evan Ralph - 9.23.10
Angel Baby (m/c at 9 weeks) - 1.2.09
Christmas Card Picture - 2011
(aka: the only picture I could get of them together that was not blurry and had them both sitting still!)
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The Stephanie Song...click here to listen!
Sorry but I just LOL-ed at "Ass Degree".
Mommy to Stephanie Lena - 2.13.07 and Evan Ralph - 9.23.10
Angel Baby (m/c at 9 weeks) - 1.2.09
Christmas Card Picture - 2011
(aka: the only picture I could get of them together that was not blurry and had them both sitting still!)
Click here for My Bio
The Stephanie Song...click here to listen!
That would annoy me too and I wouldn't do it. I'd respond and say, "The girls can't WAIT! We'll be late, though, but we're looking forward to it!"
*always remembering Annaleigh Lucy*
i was thinking the same exact thing as lauren...i would let them sleep until they woke up, get them dressed, give them bfast to go and head out...bfast to go would be my concession, but there is no way i would wake them early!
I considered doing that. But my older niece is 6, so old enough that she would be disappointed (she and Julia are really close). While I'm annoyed at her parents, I don't want to take it out on her.
You are right. I should not laugh. And if I had done it to her face, I'd apologize. A friend of hers actually just did and i feel very bad for her.
I am very proud of her. I am also sure she knows the difference and it's a typo which I found amusing. But you are right. I should not laugh. If it had been my sister we'd all have laughed (including her) because we all know she knows the difference. So my immediate reaction was to chuckle.
And I know that I am very lucky that I had a better life in general than her.
You are right. And I'm willing to accept your criticism because it made me actually think.
I just hope this is the time she does it.