Trouble in Paradise
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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.
flamefuls!
I want to start a bunch of random posts, but I know (despite the assurances of the hamster team) our post counts are going to be decimated during the switch, I'm holding off so that I can boost my post count after the fact.
I am laaaaame.
Re: flamefuls!
I don't have a confession, it's been a really lame week.
They're getting rid of post counts as part of the mythical switch? Some people are gonna be PISSED.
No they aren't. But this is the nest. You know something is going to go wrong.
My reading comprehension failed. I think I took it to mean that they'd initially proposed a reset and then backed off from it. If it's just them saying they don't *think* something will happen, then yeah, it's going to happen. I'm in IT... whatever your team doesn't think will be a problem is usually the biggest problem.
I gots me a new car to replace the broken one! It's not flameful. I drove almost two hours to get the best priced vehicle...maybe a little flameful? Anyway, I'm really happy with it.
On here I have 5,898 posts. On the local board I have just over 1,300 posts.
That's right. I posted on my local board just to see my post count. I'm lameass.
http://pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi#general
Hmmm.
I fell asleep at my desk today. That's all I've got as far as flameful. And not even that flameful. Methinks it's time to rethink getting up at 4:30 a.m. every day.
L+L, what kind of car did you get?
I feel like picking a fight today for no good reason. Reading stupidity on here just makes me want to rip into people mercilessly. I keep imagining that scene in Anchorman when Christina Applegate shoves Chris Parnell in the face and something else.... bleh.
Me too. I'm trying to squelch the thought though, or I'm going to wind up taking a stapler to my coworker's head. Especially if I have to hear for the twelfth time today how faaaaaaaaaaaaaat she is.
An 06 Ford Focus
We may buy a house.
OMG I hate that.
My employer started a biometric measurements program. Basically, if you meet certain health standards you get a big discount on your insurance premiums.
Every.f?cking.day since October 2010 I have heard nothing but comments about weight, diet, exercise, eating habits, diet programs, etc. It is so annoying. They've even started weekly WeightWatchers weigh-in meetings every goddamn Tuesday. There's company-wide emails sent out for various diet and exercise crap. Posters hanging everywhere about how healthy it is to use your lunch hour to walk (we're not supposed to eat meals at our desks, snack food only).
All they've done is start a company-wide eating disorder.
http://pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi#general
You know what this means? All of us are going to be busy with board wars, sex-pee threads, and posting in Mexico for a looooong time.
Sweet. We have an 05. 140K miles, manual locks, manual windows, the works.
On the plus side, as my H says, it's cheap to maintain because you can take the entire thing apart with a Leatherman.
whaaat! SO exciting! Tell me more!
All our dreams are dashed! Darn it!
Remember that thread I posted about downsizing into a small apartment? Welllllllllllllllllll we obviously chose not to do that, we didn't renew our lease either yet. We started looking around at properties in the area and FI went to the bank at lunch to ask what we'd need to apply and about how much of a mortgage payment we would have for the price of the houses we want to go see. Turns out the mortgage payment would be similar to our rent payment now (minus down payment, closing costs, etc.).
We could get a 1300-1500 square foot house for a reasonable price. There are about 10-12 properties in about a 5 mile radius of our place that we're going to look at and decide where we want to go from here. It would be real nice to have a bigger space, bigger kitchen and a yard.
Exciting - yes!!!
I'm sure you are TOTALLY on top of this already, but don't forget to account for property taxes (which I'm quite sure you know about), insurance, and maintenance costs when comparing monthly payments. You also need a bigger nut of liquid savings on hand for emergencies, like when your furnace breaks in the middle of January.
I think the rule of thumb is something like 0.5-1% of the home's value per year spent on maintenance, so divide that by 12 to add to your monthly nut.
Not trying to be a downer or anything, only being that RE isn't the slam-dunk "investment" it used to be, I hate to see people get overcommitted and then, say, not be able to afford childcare a few years down the line with no way to lower their monthly housing costs.
Anyway, here's a fun tool to play with (that's not trying to get transaction fees out of you or sell you long-term financial products):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calculator.html
Thanks Fuss. Don't worry - we are considering all those things. It will definitely be "more" to take on financially than just living in an apartment now with taxes and maintenance cost, but we could handle it. We're trying to keep our options open.
I have been tempted to stab people with pencils all day. Especially the annoying receptionist who sits outside my office and a) checked her voicemail on speakerphone twice, and b) later spent 30 minutes on a personal call talking about everything from wind turbines, to how her dog bit someone because he was wearing roller blades. (The someone, not the dog. Though I would like to see a dog wearing roller blades.)
Also, my husband got laid off officially on Monday, but had been "working from home" for the last 6 weeks. (There was nothing for them to do, because their division got taken over by another company, so they "worked" from home until their termination date.) I just need one mental health day where I can sit around in my pjs and watch Pretty Little Liars and read and not talk to anyone, but he's always home. And then I feel badly, because his mental health is suffering, between being home all the time and the phone not ringing, and I know he has it rough, but ZOMG! I hate my job and it's about to get ridiculously busy and I just want ONE DAY, GAH!
Phew. I feel better now.
Hah! Cool. I think mine has 61k on it. It's one of the mid-level models, so it does have power windows and locks. I'm glad the parts for this car are so much less expensive - every bit helps.
AND a hatchback, which I love.
so, this weekend, I had Buffy out.
I changed her diaper (w/o a changing table) @ a fast-food place. I stood her on the floor and told her "okay, stay right there" while I re-packed stuff into the diaper bag.
She stood obediently...opened her bag o' rasins, and dumped them on the floor.
quicker than thought, she picked one up off the filthy burger-king bathroom floor and put it in her mouth.
I grabbed her and stuck my finger in there to try to fish it out (I know, the damage was already done and she was already eating the germs--plus I wasn't done washing my hands post diaper change. So, uh, I didn't help)...
All taht succeeded in doing was getting me bitten.
She ate floor-raisin and I scooped the rest of them into the trash (then washed my hands)
No flaming from me. I've seen Baby Fuss pick raisins off the floor and pop them in his mouth so fast, I thought I'd hear a sonic boom.
I am seriously LOL at this right now. My kid's been eating floor-cat-food before I can get it away from her, so at least yours is eating people food!
So far this week, my child has had a Junebug pried from his mouth, and licked a super dead roach. Neither of which we ever visible to any of our adult eyes. It's seriously a huge mystery where they came from. At this point, I'd settle for Burger King Floor-Raisins.
Oh, and when his first sentence is "Nice blinker, asshat!"....I'll take the credit/blame for it.