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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.
Re: Confessions/Vents/AWs
Confession: I hate Halloween. I want to skip right over it and get to Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Vent: I am tooootally not prepared for my 5K tomorrow morning. I'm trying to stay positive about it because I know I won't win so as long as I cross the finish line I'll be okay :-)
AW: I'm SUPER excited for a choral performance I'm in tonight. Can't. Wait. I hear that tickets are almost sold out which is awesome! It's always much more fun singing for a packed house. La la la ???
Vent: nasty, asthma cold during the best week of fall? SUCK!
Confession: since I'm chronic-pain free, all healed up, I've been wanting to get in shape. The confession part is I've gotta put my actions in place since we just have one car and my parents house (where I escape kids when DH is home) is only 2 miles away. I'm lazy! Sigh... biking shouldn't be hard, right? (I've got a big laptop so running doesn't seem as doable.)
Aw: I've had some HUGE insights for my web marketing biz (for therapists) and am totally psyched to be working on that stuff. I've got a tightish deadline b/c I'm going back to grad school in the fall and won't have the mental space for all this then. I'm also pitching my THIRD national magazine article for my exact audience. Yahoo!
Vent: nasty, asthma cold during the best week of fall? SUCK!
I'm with you!! It's been HORRIBLE for me this week also! I was even out of work for 2 days which is RARE for me.
Confession: The car in front of me at Caribou this morning paid for my coffee. I contemplated paying for the car behind me, but then my coffee wouldn't have been free anymore:/ I feel like a bad person now for being selfish so next time I'll have to make up for it.
Vent: Can't think of anything good right now, other than I'm sick and my brain is mushy today. I wish I could have called in sick today but I called in sick on Monday morning to try to beat this cold before it started, clearly that did not help me.
AW: My sister had a baby girl on Monday (my first niece!) and my mom, grandma and I are leaving on Wednesday for a 2 1/2 week trip to visit them in Dubai! I also graduate tomorrow and am SO ready for a vacation, I only wish DH could come with us.
Confession: I hate life right now. Just having a tough week, I know it will all work out, but I have a LOT on my plate right now and jsut took on more than I can handle. After the baby shower the 23rd, things should calm down.
Vent: I HATE HATE HATE how expensive my steroid inhaler is for my asthma! It's $450 without insurance, and even after my BCBS I pay $95. Yes, the insurance is a HUGE help, but spending $150 on asthama meds every month gets VERY old!! Especially on my one income home.
AW: I have almost everything readyfor the baby shower. I just need to get menu finalized and a few last minute things. Plus I got 2 baby blankets done for Kael so far.
I wouldn't say I hate it, but I definitely don't love it like everyone else seems to. Sure it was a fun excuse to wear a costume to parties in college, but that is where my fun ended.
Vent: I hate shopping. I shouldn't say that - I hate not being able to buy the things I really want that are way too expensive, and can never seem to find anything I like at cheap stores. I need a complete wardrobe overhaul but it's so overwhelming I just want to take a nap.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
Confession: We combine all of our income but I'm supposed to get a bonus and I don't want to share. I'm a dork and want to put it into my retirement account instead.
Vent: DH is awful at coming up with Halloween costumes. He wants to be Daphne and Scooby Doo. I'd rather dress up in army fatigues with name patches saying: Gen. Depression (for DH) and Major Ann Ziety (for me.
AW: Meh, nothing really. I guess we got the outdoor lighting finally up and I can see Rusty at night.
Confession: I really dislike the holiday season! Can't say I hate because I like the family time, and the atmosphere, but I don't like how its always a drain on my pocketbook and its a revolving door of food. I am so not interested in holiday's that involve gorging myself on food anymore. I think my weight loss over the years has ruined any amount of eating I do because I never think about it for enjoyment or the fact that one meal won't ruin my diet, but rather about the caloric intake and what I'll need to do to work that all off the next day.
Vent: My son's daycare is always my vent...they are an awesome daycare but they are so very very strict that its hard to handle sometimes.
AW: In this dismal RE market I am excited to be working with two buyers!! I have two buyers under contract right now and I am esctatic! Now if they were interested in something other then a long (I mean short) sale...
Vent: I'm really starting to hate my job because my boss is a diva and a half. He sent me a whiny text yesterday because he's in the middle seat... IN FIRST CLASS. i wanted to throat punch him.
AW: I got nothin'.
WARNING: GROSS AND TMI BELOW.
Confession: I have this ugly wound on my chin because I can't keep my hands off my face. i HATE the feeling of dry skin and i keep picking it off and therefore it's not healing.. going on 3 weeks now! i hate myself for this bad habit but i don't even realize i'm doing it sometimes.
Confession: I was looking at a wedding blog yesterday and had the biggest case of wedding dress envy. Thankfully a few co-workers were able to talk me off the "ledge" of loving her dress more then mine.
I really want to get re-married and do it all again. I need to get going and get my wedding albums done so I can re-live the day. We are also TTC. we are on the second month and getting excited to see if this will be the month.
Vent: I've had a headache since yesterday. A co-worker is "sick" but yet keeps coming INTO my cube to talk to me, if your sick: stay in your own cube or stay HOME. GUR
Rave: a close friends wedding is tomorrow and the weather is beautiful for her and all of the 10/9-10ers out there. I also have another wedding on Sunday that I am uber thrilled to be co-coordinating, and equally thrilled that it is in Stillwater, one of my all time fav places to be.
Vent: My daughter is really putting me through my paces and I don't know what to do with her. Too much to go into, but I'm fed up and hate dealing with all of this.
Vent 2: I love my job right now. I hate that I could be getting laid off in 3-6 months and even more than the that, I HATE not knowing. Just tell me and put me out of my misery.
Confession: As aweful of a parent as it makes me, I REALLY REALLY do not want to be a mom right now. I love my daughter and I don't regret having her, but I'm ready to be done. I hate that I let her make me feel like a failure and being completely lost.
AW: My anniversary is on Monday! DH and I are taking the day off the spend together. I'm trying to find something fun/special and cheap that we can do together.
Confession: I'm super excited to go back to work in a few days. I've been ready for about a week. I love my job and my co-workers. But...today I am totally feeling like I am not ready, maternity leave has been awesome, how could I leave my kids all day, and all that crazy stuff that makes no sense to think. I don't know if that's really a confession. Just something that's on my mind.
Vent: I hate that my house feels like it's in a constant state of cleaning chaos. It's sanitary and really not all that messy, but the cleaning is never-ending. And I am disappointed in myself that I let it bug me.
AW: Nothing major. Just the every-day type of little accomplishments. If next week goes smoothly, that will really be something worth AW'ing about.
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Confession: I probably could have worked another week or so but I was ready to be done.
Vent: I am so ready to have this baby but my body isn't showing any signs.
AWs: DH bought me flowers earlier this week. However, the best AW's is I am writing this post on our new laptop! I've been begging for one for almost a year.
Confessions: I've been a little punchy lately at work, and I feel like I've been saying stupid sarcastic things that people could take the wrong way. I'm feeling a little guilty about it. Just some dumb moments, I guess.
Vents: I have one class that has some good students in it, but there's also this group of students that won't SHUT UP. I'm going to have to redo the seating chart again. They're driving me nuts. I made one particular loudmouth (who happens to be a football player) do 15 pushups after class one day. He barely did 14. I have been giving him crap all week, and told his coach this week too. After I announced to a few crowded lunch tables that the guys blocking for him had better do their job because there's no way he could break a tackle if he can't even do 14 pushups, he started quieting down in class.
AW: I got the best card in the mail from my niece this week (belated birthday), and my brother got me MTM season 7. Both my siblings got me seasons of MTM. Rock on.
That's gotta be a huge relief for you both! Congrats to him!
That's fantastic! Congratulations to your DH, and you!
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