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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.
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Wacky Wednesday
Pet peeves:
At work/school
At home
In public places
In books
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately?
At work/school
At home
In public places
In books
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately?
Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookstores
Re: Wacky Wednesday
At work/school When someone is in the "good" stall in the ladies room and I have to use one of the ones that have no flush power.
At home My husband watching TV at the "I am an old man and completely deaf" volume.
In public places People invading my personal space by standing way to close to me in lines or whereever.
In books lending out my books and not getting them back.
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? Lily giving me eskimo kisses before I left for work this morning.
At home - Door slamming. I promise you if my husband slams the front or basement door one more time, I'm leaving him.
In public places - inconsiderate people. You're not the only person in the world!
In books - unnecessary cliffhangers ... just finish the damn book.
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? My kiddo singing her ABC's and the way she says "L M N O P" "N N N N P"
At home Dirty dishes not put in the kitchen.
In public places Slow walking people, especially when it's crowded or in tight spaces where you can't get around them.
In books I can't lend out books either. Every time I do, it's months, maybe even years, before I get them back. Last time the person had to buy me a new copy because they lost mine.
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? Not much today, but my husband made me breakfast. It was nice to not have to cook.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
At home: The dogs scratching on the doors. I told Luke not to teach them that when they were puppies because they'd get so big and tear up the doors. And of course I was right and our downstairs doors are destroyed. And every time they scratch it annoys me again.
In public places: Loud talkers
In books: insta-love
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? Just had a great chat with a student about what she's been reading lately that resulted in her checking out the Delirium series.
At home: The way my wood floors look dirtier an hour after I've cleaned them than they do after the dirt has formed a nice, uniform dust blanket. It makes me just not want to bother.
In public places: People, pretty much.
In books: Any overused phrase, but especially if it's something "funky" that you can tell the author just thought they were SO clever to think of
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? Planning my MANY summer vacations, and always - my sweet babies
52 Books in 2014??
My sweet babies:
At home The way DH half cleans up, like washing the middle of the counters or wiping down the stove but not the burners. And the way he cannot hang up stuff on the drying rack without overlapping thing, therefore they don't dry.
In public places Oblivious people who have no idea there are other people in the world beside themselves.
In books This mainly happens in fantasy books, but intentionally non-traditional spelling of names and places to be "fantasy-esque." George RR Martin, I'm looking at you with your Margaery, Lysa, Arya, Tywin, Varys, Ygritte, Danaerys. We get it, you prefer using Y instead of I!
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? My near kitty (grey kitty in avatar) who never ever sits on laps but likes to sit down next to me snuggled down on my lap for a good stretch the night before last. I loved it!
At work/school When people put weird colored paper/letter head in the printer and don't take it back out and then I print ten pages of legal documents on blue paper! *shakes fist*
At home When I've emptied the dishwasher and DH puts something in the sink. Or puts dirty clothes next to but not inside of the hamper. #rage
In public places Chewing with mouth open, talking really loudly, people on their phones while checking out, texting while driving, smoking near building doors, traffic, people blocking things in the grocery store, everything.
In books Bad endings in a really good otherwise book. Cheating when it's done in a positive light. Authors who use the same descriptions/phrases more than once in all of their books.
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? My nephew when we were blowing bubbles for him.
At work/school: When I try to help a student out by doing him a special favor, but he doesn't bother to listen to or follow my directions, then freaks out at the last minute and flies off the handle and writes angry emails and copies my boss. Uggh.
At home: When my boys mess with my comforter or the pillows on my couch. I can deal with other messes, but if those two things are a mess, it irrationally drives me crazy
In public places: When people talk on the phone in a public restroom. Loudly. About personal things. I'm trying to pee here, and I don't want that broadcast to your co-dependent mother.
In books: These make me roll my eyes:
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately?
At home: that little bit of fluff the vacuum cleaner just will not pick up, no matter how many times you go over it
In public places: too loud music, either ambient music or people with earphones; I should be able to talk to the person next to me without shouting, and if I can hear it through your earbuds, it's too damn loud
In books: grammatical errors and typos
Now, to finish on a high note, what has made you smile lately? a silly Youtube video of a dog trying to jump on the sofa and a very nice email correspondence from a friend