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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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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: Weekend plans?
My plans are to stay away from home as much as possible. Our kitchen is being remodeled and the demo started yesterday. it's torn down to the studs! I have no sink, no stove, nothing!
Working today, going to get my eye brows threaded after work and hiding out in my bedroom doing yoga, catching up on the DVR-ed shows, etc... We will order pizza for dinner.
Tomorrow I am running w/ my running group in the morning (12 miles) and then I have my grandpa's 80th surprise birthday party.
Sunday I am running a local 5K with some running friends. I need to grocery shop and I may hit the gym that morning before the race (doesn't start until noon) to do some strength training.
2012: Running & Race Accomplishments:
2-12-12: Riverview Winter Fest 4 mile, 34:59 8:45 pace - 23 weeks pregnant
2-29-12: Leap Year 4 mile, 36:45 9:11 pace - 25.5 weeks pregnant
3-11-12: Corktown 5K, 28:33 9:13 pace - 27 weeks pregnant
3-25-12: Rock CF Island Half Marathon, 2:11:03 10:00 pace - 29 weeks pregnant
4-16-12 Boston Marathon, deferring to 2013
8-11-12: Run thru Hell 10 mile or 4.8 mile
9-30-12: Brooksie Way Half Marathon
10-21-12: Grand Rapids Marathon
11-22-12: Detroit Turkey Trot 10K
busy!!! after work dinner iwth DH-yummy lobsters!! tomorrow AM haircut and eyebrows done at 10, 5pm dinner at moms, sunday at 1 i have to be at a bridal shower 2 hours away for DH's cousin's fiancee.
Tonight wine/cheese open house thing, then sushi and drinks
Tomorrow 2 yoga classes, hair appt, target run, grocery list/meal plan, clean
Sunday yoga, jog, groceries, finish cleaning, sleep in, relax
Nice and quiet all by myself this weekend!!!!!! :-))))
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Not too much. Nothing tonight, perhaps making a roasted red pepper dip for dinner and inviting a girlfriend over but not sure.
Possible client meeting either tomorrow or Sunday.
Other than that, nothing else planned! Maybe catching up on laundry, baking something, but thats about it.
Tonight - grilling out and having drinks, nice and relaxing
Tomorrow - tai chi, volunteer (sewing pillow cases for cancer patients at the children's hospital), bake muffins, work on blog posts, laundry
Sunday - run, take dog to the park, bathe the dog and not sure what else
tonight -- quick dinner then party prep -- cleaning, organizing, baking, cooking
tomorrow -- more party prep in the am, then in the afternoon we're hosting a homebrewing gtg for local nesties and DHs! we're pretty excited. Chili bar for dinner and lots of snacks and drinks of course!
sunday -- cleaning up and prepping for the week.
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Tonight - celebrating that my kids don't get much in the way of homework on Fridays. It's been a LONG week in that area!
Tomorrow - DH will take DD #2 to her swim lesson while I take DD #1 to her Tae Kwon Do school's black belt graduation to support some friends and let her see what it will be like, since she'll be earning her own black belt at the next one. Then we'll come home, relax a bit, and get to work on one of the three school projects she has due in the next two weeks. I'm pushing for dinner out, we haven't done that in a long time, but we'll see how everybody feels since once I get home and can take over with #2, DH is going to be getting back to work on our kitchen/bathroom renovation and will likely be cranky by dinnertime.
Sunday - probably taking DD #1 to Whole Foods for brunch. We have a tradition when she has a major project to work on that we head out there, get some food, and set up camp in their dining area to work (I bring along a book or a project that I've got going). She gets a lot accomplished without the distractions of her toys, sister, etc. After lunch #2 has a friend coming for a play date, so #1 will either do more work (depending on where we are with these projects as the first of them has to be turned in on Monday), hang out, or possibly go ice skating with DH to keep her out of the little girls' hair.
Somewhere in there I hope to get in at least one workout, a load or two of laundry, and a little house cleaning, in that order.
I don't work today, so my weekend started last night when I went to my town's wine and food fest. It turned out to be pretty fun, and there was actually some decent food there.
This morning a friend came over to chat and make a double batch of tiramisu with me, and I just dropped that off at the rehearsal dinner it was for. The rest of the day should be pretty quiet - I need to workout and I want to make a big dinner, but that's it.
Tomorrow morning, we're participating in a local event to clean up trash along the river in town, and then we're going to a wedding in the afternoon.
No plans on Sunday.
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I'm headed here for dinner tonight with several friends for DH's birthday. It's a five course (with 2-3 dishes per course) family-style Italian dinner, and I could not be more excited. We went last summer and it was amazing. We're meeting for pre-dinner drinks in about an hour.
Tomorrow and Sunday I plan to watch as much college basketball as humanly possible. I'll also probably start prep work on the dessert catering job I have for next week.