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Samuel Robert 4/4/11 (Photo by Gruman Photography)
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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.
Friday Confessions/Vents/AW's
It's been a long, tiring week so does anyone have anything to share or get off your chest??
Samuel Robert 4/4/11 (Photo by Gruman Photography) 
Re: Friday Confessions/Vents/AW's
Vent: Dear old man on 62 this morning, shaking your fist at me really pisses me off when you are the one who failed to use your blinker, so how am I supposed to know you decided to switch lanes? So yes, I will honk at you to get your attention as I assumed you were drifting due to your lack of signal usage.
AW: I have made a post or two on the bump, and we are expecting our first baby May 1!
Confession: I have been home less than a week from a 2 1/2 week vacation visiting my sister, and I feel like I would be okay never working again. Granted I'm sick and exhausted so I kind of have an excuse, but I'm having a really hard time finding any motivation to work.
Judging
Yay....congrats! I was wondering yesterday when you posted about bridget's baby books!
I don't really have confessions just excited that it's finally Friday! Carly and I are going to the cities to have a girls weekend with my mom and sister since Randy will be hunting!
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Confession: I am on maternity leave through Christmas and I already am thinking about calling work to see if I can come back early. I love my kids, but a stay at home mom I am not. And I admire those of you that are.
Vent: I'm so frustrated with our housing situation. Our house is way too small for 2 kids, there are toys EVERYWHERE in my house, but we are too upside down on our mortgage to do anything right now.
Vent: Sister in law, stop being a damn know it all! You don't actually know it all!
Confession: I have babies on the brain at all times, I can't go near my baby nieces and nephews with out giving my husband the sad I want a baby look. And I don't actually want a baby right now, I just have them on the brain! Constantly thinking about babies is wearing me out!
By the way CONGRATS!
Flame free, I hope!
I am going hunting this weekend, and I am really excited! Yes, I am a hunter. There are times that I feel like I am the only female in the world that hunts. Anyone else?!?!?!?
Confession: I have babies on the brain too. It's awful. BUT we did start looking at health insurance with maternity coverage this week so I know it's on DH's mind. His secretary told him he wasn't getting any younger.
No vents.
AW: We're going to re-do our upstairs and I'm SO excited. I suggested looking at Restoration Hardware for bathroom fixtures, knobs, hooks, etc... and he was 100% on board with their stuff. WOO HOO!!! So I get to go shopping this weekend.
Confession: I already know what one of my birthday gifts is. i was looking for something in the garage last weekend and i found a West Elm bag. i didn't even have to look in it to know what it was. my husband would never set foot in West Elm but i sent him a link to these a few weeks ago and i'm guessing that is what is in the bag. he's the best.
Vent: my boss is starting to make me insane and i'm really not digging my job anymore. that said, i can't quit because i'm wearing the golden handcuffs. i make too much money for someone with no college degree so until i finish school (which is a LONG way off), i'm stuck. i'm hoping to look for another position in the next 6 months so i don't kill him.
AW: it's my birthday in a week and a half. that's all. i just love birthdays. : )
ETA: CONGRATS to steph! : ) and where is the recap post on Dubai? we need photos.
and as to hunting, all the women in my family hunt except me. all my cousins, my aunts, my stepmom... but i'm the lone vegetarian so... : )
I know I need to get on that! I've been in bed every night by 8:30 all week so DH hasn't even seen my pictures yet:/ Hopefully this weekend I'll have time to go through them!
Vent: We are going to fix the water in our basement problem, which is the first step to finishing our basement. BUT DH is 98% sure that we have asbestos tile in the basement that we'll have to have professionally removed prior to the drain tile installation. So my hopes for having a nice November just got crazy busy and expensive.
Confession: I too have babies on the brain. Must be something in the air. We're waiting to start TTC until after DH graduates in December and hopefully gets a new job. It's so close I can almost touch it, yet still so far away, and who knows when we'll actually get to start. All depends on the job. Then once we start TTC, who knows how long it will take. In the mean time I am surrounded by pregnant friends and family and enjoying the quite time, just the 2 of us.
Aw: My living room and hallway will be repainted before the weekend is over, so I'm doing a future aw over that.
Congrats!!
Congrats Steph! Super exciting. Hope you have a H&H 9 months!
Confession: I too have babies on the brain and we have been trying. But last night as my DH was registering for Spring semester it really hit me that this is not a good time to be TTC. We are going to talk about it over dinner tonight.
Vent: I have been eating really healthy for the last 2 weeks and have not lost anything. 2 years ago when I was eating like this I was dropping 2-3 lbs a week. So frustrating!
AW: I bought 2 new pairs of boots last night and can't wait to rock them. Also, we are celebrating my niece's 5th birthday this weekend....I can't believe she is already 5!!!!!
Vent: It was my birthday on Tuesday, and while I certainly don't want to be an AW about it, I'm a little sad at the lack of attention my family and close friends paid to it. I only have 1 brother, and he didn't bother to acknowledge my birthday at all - not even a text or a facebook message. I always send a card and call him on his birthday (we stopped exchanging gifts a few years back). My mom called, but all she wanted to talk about was her new dog. My 2 closest friends "forgot" to call on my birthday and both emailed the next day to ask how it was. DH got home late because he didn't bother to vote in the morning and got stuck waiting in line at the poll after work. He called on his way home and asked what he should pick up for dinner. Way to plan a special birthday dinner. Plus, I felt sick all day and went to bed early. Probably my worst birthday ever.
AW: We're doing great on our savings goals, we're way ahead of schedule actually. Might be able to buy that lake cabin sooner than we planned!
Confession: I had babies on the brain constantly a few weeks ago. Now I'm back in the "I never want kids" camp. I wish I could make up my mind.
Congrats on the baby news, Steph!
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me too!
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Congrats Steph! Very exciting.
Confession - We've got everything moved out of our apartment into our new house and I have zero motivation to unpack. I'm just busy and when I'm at home I want to relax and unwind not deal with boxes.
No real vents or AWs.
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Confession: I'm not annonymous enough to make a real juicy confession without feeling like karma might kick me in the ass. So, I'll do my less juicy confession. I threw the halloween candy away. Took it outside and threw it straight into the large garbage bin. I never buy candy/junk food because if it's in the house, I know I can't resist it. We hardly had any trick or treaters this year, so we had a ton of candy left, and I just can't deal with it. I feel so very much like Miranda from SATC and her chocolate cake.
My other confession/vent - I stood my ground on something that my parents think is silly, but it's important to Joe and I, and while it caused some tension initially, I'm glad I got it off of my chest. My family was going to watch Chloe while Joe and I were at his brother's wedding festivities - in town. I didn't want Chloe home, in her kennel, all day, with someone just stopping by to let her out and feed her a few times. I wanted someone to let her have a normal weekend day like we have at home - with a small amount of kennel time but a lot of human interaction. If our dog is kenneled for too long, she acts like a lunatic and she gets way too hyper. It's her nature as a boxer to be that way, and we wanted someone to respect our wishes and not kennel her all day so that we could keep her life more normal for the weekend. So last minute, my parents said they were too busy to have Chloe at their house all day (with their 2 dogs, I recognize it does become a bit loud and crazy when the dogs play) They were just going to come over to let her out - which is exactly what we didn't want. I told them I didn't want them to do that, and that I specifically asked them if they would take her to their house instead of kenneling her. They said it wasn't a big deal, that she's a dog and she'll be fine kenneled up. They thought we are coddeling our dog too much (and to that I say - SO what!? She's our dog! Plus, I think people "now days" are different than our parents generation in their attitude towards their pets) and that is why we decided to take her to doggy daycare and have her boarded there. We paid for a day of daycare, plus boarding, plus they get some social interaction time with daycare. Chloe was so happy and exhausted the next day - we knew we made the right choice. I now know that if we want to leave for a day, it's prob just best to pay a doggy daycare/boarding service to take care of her rather than rehash the different pet attitudes our families have with us. Phew. (was that a long enough confession/vent?)
AW: nada. Seriously have nothing. Life feels nice, I guess that's something to be proud of, right?
ETA: Congrats on the baby news, Steph! Wishing you a healthy pregnancy!
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CONGRATS STEPH!!!
I do NOT have babies on the brain. Not even one tiny ounce.
Confession: After going to a week-long convention in my career field (architecture) I don't feel like I fit in. For one it's 90% men age 40+. I get extremely intimidated by the people who have been in the field forever. A lot of them take themselves and their design work waaaay too seriously though. I just want to have fun with it and I'm hoping I don't develop the "architect's ego" that happens all too often. I have a plan for what I'd do in a "perfect world" but financially it won't work for us for a good long while.
Vent: STOP EATING SUGAR JENNY. PUT THE CANDY DOWN. YOU DON'T NEED A SUGARY LATTE. JUST STOP.
AW: I love love love the choir I'm in. Every time we rehearse I pinch myself that I am there singing with the caliber of people in the group. DO RE MI, la la la!
i want to come and see you sing jenny!
I just PM'ed you a concert schedule :-)
Vent: DH's grandpa passed away on Tuesday and already the two non "blood related" aunts are talking about money and the house....um could we please get through the funeral first, talk about money grubbers...not to mention how do they know they'll even get an ounce of that. I hate people who expect that they're getting one dime from a lost loved one, its really quite tacky and tactless.
Aw: my 2nd buyer is writing an offer this weekend so now I'll have two buyers actually buying and not shopping for a house!!
Vent: I swear that my boss is getting senile. We discuss things and I go and prepare orders and reports and give them to him. Then he decides to do something different or forgets my reasoning behind the quick action. It's resulted in about 6 hours of work this week on my part, all for nothing.
Vent: Somdays it's disappointing to read a file on an offender and realize how he/she fits into to a family of offenders or a network of friends who all all offenders. It makes me really sad for their kids.
Congrats on the May baby (they are kinda the best, but I might be a little one sided on that)
AW: This time next week I will be in the air on my way to CA
I Can't wait
Vents: why must packing suck? I mean I love making list & the pre packing but that act of packing and making sure you have everything sucks
I'm not on this board very often these days but I wanted to tell you that this news makes me very, very happy! You are going to be the BEST mom! Oh, & your H will be a pretty darn good dad as well.
GL when you two decide to TTC!!
- Jess (formerly jessnallan....)
1st of all...CONGRATS Steph!!
no real confessions...
Vent: remember my co-worker that took an extended medical leave in March for 2 months while she went to rehab? she is gone again. I personally don't expect her back. So once again, i am stuck doing MY full time accounts receivable job along with HER 40 hour a week job. This week already I have over 15 hours of overtime and I will be here all damn weekend to catch up. There is no sign of any sort of way out of it either. Oh well, good for a paycheck I guess. But this can NOT go on indefinitely.
AW: Tiffany started having small contractions today. They are fairly regular (still 30 min apart) but not gaining in intensity yet. So I may be a grandma soon!
Confession: Nothing this week.
Vent: I have a group of 3 high school girlfriends who are all still very close friends to me, despite me living so far away. One of us got married in October 2008 and I bought the gift from the other three of us and the other two paid me back. This past year, another one of us got married in May and since we had a discount at Target, I volunteered again to be th gift buyer. It's been 6 months and the two other friends haven't paid me back despite phone calls, texts and email reminders. Reeeeal nice.
AW: We're getting new carpet! We were quoted something insane from a door-to-door carpet service a year or two ago and we didn't revisit the topic. But kids and pets have taken their toll and this carpet has to go, so we got a great deal and quote from Home Depot for the living room and then either DH or a professional who charges less than HD will be doing the stairs. Molly, I may be jotting you an email soon...
I hear ya on this! My non-blood aunt once looked me in the eye and told me that she was going to get my Grandmother's garnet earrings and necklace when she was gone. I was like 15! (Garnet is my birthstone and my Grandma has been telling me since I was just a little kid that someday she'd give those to me so whatever non related aunt. Take that!
) I think that death brings out some of the ugly in people sometimes which is too bad. Wishing you and your DH some time to reflect on happy memories of his Grandma.
health insurance with maternity coverage
What is this all about? I never heard of that before, I should look into that!
And congrats Steph!!
Vent/AW/Confession all wrapped up in one: I am so sick of my job. I want to hurry up and get pregnant so I can stay at home. We have been TTC for a few months now so hopefully it will happen soon. I know a handful of friends and now some Nest ladies who are expecting so hopefully you can send some pregnant dust my way?
Congrats on your discovery of a great doggy daycare!!!! Everything you typed is the exact reason DH and I choose to send our dogs to daycare instead of having family watch them. If they can't/won't take care of them the way we would, then they don't get the opportunity to.