Austin Nesties
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Dear Community,
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.
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.
Wednesday confessions!
Just wanted to get this post started early since I know that tomorrow is going to be a loooooong day for me.
Anyone have anything to confess?
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Re: Wednesday confessions!
I'll go first:
1) I totally heard DH when he asked if we could turn the TV off so he could get some work done but I pretended I didn't so I could watch Glee (which was definitely not as good as last week).
2) When I read some cryptic message on FB I always think the worst of the situation. Like death, break-ups, layoff, etc. I simultaneously hope those things aren't happening and secretly hope that there is some sort of interesting drama that will come out. Ugh, I hate that I automatically think that. But seriously, why post a cryptic message if you don't want to be dramatic?
3) I have some friends that I love but find it very hard to like sometimes. Of course it'd be easier to have all friends that you agree with on everything, but that wouldn't make life very interesting. But sometimes, I seriously want to shake some sense into them!
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
Confession - my trip to NC is also a final job interview/salary negotiation for my BF, and a house hunting mission if he decides to take the job.
I go back and forth from being really really excited about it, to being really really ready for the churn to be done with. I actually hope that he DOES like the company and take the job, so we don't have to go through all of this re-lo stuff again! My other hope is that some company in Austin will suddenly offer him something instead. The RTP area sounds cool, the job sounds cool, I can VERY likely keep my job here and just go remote, and we'd plan to come back in 3 years.. why not?
Luckily, we'll know allllll the answers when we get back next week.
We played Cranium with friends last Saturday. DH and I were a team, and it was a Club Cranium charades card. I was standing behind the chair DH was sitting in, and I wasn't really paying attention to what was going on. I looked down and saw the card in his hand, and read the answer. James Brown.
I should have said, Oh! Oops, I read the card! I should have.
But I didn't. DH was so excited that We were going to GET this one. He stood up and took off his hat and emptied his pockets. When the timer flipped he dropped to his knees, threw his hands in the air and yelled, "I feel Good!"
I played it off pretty well, I must admit. I gave him a blank stare for a moment, then the light bulb went off and I said, "James Brown!"
We got the point
I am annoyed that one of my coworker friends always posts political FB stuff, but I don't want to defriend her bc she is one of my few "work friends". I'm only "friends" with three of my 20 coworkers.
I think what annoys me the most is when I've asked her about her perspective she's very condescending and strongly one-sided. I'm an information-gatherer and like to hear all opinions, and it's not that I disagree with her, I just can't stand her attitude and rudeness towards any other opinion. Which like I said is sad bc we are good friends other than that.
I have a few of these as well! For me, its more trying to figure out why they like to create drama! It kind of drives me nuts, but at the same time I get annoyed that I get excluded from things just cause I don't have kids. To me, it doesn't matter if you have kids or not - if I'm friends with you, and your kids matter to YOU, then they matter to me too. Why be weird about it? Bleh. Love em, but don't understand it.
This past weekend H and I along with a big group of friends went up to Dallas for a wedding. It was a lot of fun and there were plenty of good times to be had.
THEN when we got home one of our friends posted all these pictures and...my dear nestie pals, I look DREADFUL. Really, really awful. Like, immediately schedule a dermatologist appointment and have a "woe is me" pity party awful. The thing is, I try really hard not to be vain and horrible, so I can't ask her to take them down because then I'll look all diva-y. I untagged myself from the worst pictures, and when they called me out on it I tried to play it off in a really nonchalant way, but inside I was actually having a complete self esteem melt down bonanza. Yeah, I'm a pile of crazy.
Ah, the price of faking confidence...
(The pets post below was made to distract me from my own vanity and oh boy did it work. You guys have the cutest pets ever and I am finding it easy to focus on the adorableness until my sanity returns.)
Sometimes I pin stuff
My Bio (wedding pics added 7/6)
My 101
I have another one, and I may DD later...
I don't like Mother's Day anymore. My mother passed over 7 years ago and really, I've gotten over that for the most part. However I am not a fan of my MIL this time of year bc she's very different than my mother. My whole life all my mom wanted was a kiss and a homemade gift. She would rather have a handmade card than store bought anyday. And the gift should be from the heart, whatever it is, no matter the cost.
MIL is different. We're planning a garage sale and she didn't want to do it the Sat the 8th bc "that's Mother's Day weekend".
We always have to make a big deal of her the whole weekend. Shower her with gifts. Get a nice card. I tried the homemade thing w/ DSS making her something and that didn't go over so well.
It's not that I mind honoring her, I just hate when it's a requirement with such expectation. Totally ruins the whole thing for me. And embarassingly enough, I am becoming bitter from all of the Mother's Day advertisements.
Kudos for sticking with 'em. I gave up.
I confess that I haven't done any sort of exercise this entire year. In all honestly, the morning sickness has been pretty bad, especially in the evenings, but at this point it's just pure laziness. I'm embarrassed that I've turned into a complete bum, I had higher hopes for myself.
I am really irritated with some of our friends. Aside from all the drama that surrounds this wedding, the way they are going about it is so rude!
First they tell us on a Thursday, "Hey! We're getting married in Mexico in 6 weeks. If you want your passport on time, you have to order it by Saturday."
Then the next Monday they tell us, "Hey! The money for the vacation is due TODAY!"
Then after we've already booked our vacation (using the money I had saved to remodel our kitchen), they tell us, "Oh by the way, we aren't actually getting married in Mexico. We'll probably just do a thing at sunset with just the 6 of us. You know, I love you, I love you, done."
THEN they tells us a week ago that they are having a WEDDING here in town! THIS weekend. So now this trip to Mexico is really just us going on their honeymoon with them, but they expect my DH to take off work and come in town for the wedding this weekend.
Sorry, aside from the fact that I already have to listen to both of you talk seperately about how you don't want to be getting married to the other one, and the fact that you gave us 6 weeks notice to go to Mexico for your wedding, and the fact that we spend our kitchen savings on it, and the fact that after we spend that money you tell us that you aren't getting married in Mexico anymore, DH already took a week and a half off from work for your wedding. He can't really go to his boss with no notice and say he needs a whole other weekend off for your wedding.
FireChiefsBride: Hey, don't feel bad about that. That's a tough situation to deal with and I think everyone here can empathize. Losing a parent is a pain that can dull, but it will never really go away and it's completely understandable to feel a little resentful about feeling forced into a situation that makes you miss the personality of the one you lost.My best friend in the whole world lost her mom almost 2 years ago and there are definitely moments where she feels sad simply because she misses the reaction her mom would have had to a situation as opposed to the reactions of the people around her.
Big hugs.
Sometimes I pin stuff
WOW. I'd be pissed. Really really pissed.
Ditto that! Geez, not cool!
Diabetic DH is OOT, so I had a gooey ice cream dessert from DQ yesterday. I felt really gross afterward, but it was worth it.
On a related note, I have decided that I do not like any of the cupcake places in town.
SLB - I'm FURIOUS for you! what an asshat move of your "friends."
especially now since you can't really take advantage of the open bar.
Ooh, what is this treatment?
It's a Keratin (sp) treatment, and supposedly you wouldn't need to straighten your hair any more, just blow dry and go!
Well thanks, you guys! I'm trying to stay as calm as possible about this whole thing, and look at it like ... if it weren't for this situation, we would not have gone on a nice vacation before we have a baby. I think in the long run, we won't regret taking this last vacation by ourselves.
And yes, I'm very, very sad I won't get to enjoy the open bar
I plan on taking full advantage of the buffets though! Supposedly, as far as all inclusive resort buffets go, this place has the best food. Fingers crossed!
Oh.
When I saw the word "brazillian" and "hair treatment" I immediately thought something else.
BFP 12.20.2010 :: missed m/c 1/2011 around 8 weeks
BFP @ 9dpo 5.24.2011 :: missed m/c 6/2011 around 7 weeks
positive for ANAs (1:40) with a speckled pattern
MTHFR c677t mutation (heterozygous)
*folic acid, baby asprin, Prometrium, acupuncture, Lovenox*
BFP @ 9dpo 2.1.2012 || HCG = 8 : Progesterone = 19.2
2nd HCG @ 11dpo = 40 || 3rd HCG @ 21dpo = over 5000!
Stick, little one, stick! EDD October 15, 2012
if it makes you feel any better, you aren't alone.
Ditto! that is just plain r-u-d-e.
This is definitely a good outlook! Yay for an awesome vacation!
This morning I suddenly wondered if I have more nestie facebook friends on FB than high school FB friends.
While counting, I realized I was missing a HS FB friend who was previously on my friend list: a fella I had a huge crush on all during elementary school. He evidently defriended me at some point! Meanwhile, he maintains facebook friendship with six HS peeps who are also on my list. Jerk!
On a completely unrelated topic: is there any way to find out on FB who exactly is viewing, say, all of your vacation photo albums that are open to all of your friends?
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LOL!!!