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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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Re: FFC Friday?
I am so glad it is snowing today because I am still in my PJs and my new boss is awesome about letting me work from home.
I let my direct-reports work from home too. hopefully they don't take advantage, but I think it is nice to not have to kill yourself to get in if you can do 99% of your job from home.
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could his mom be a cougar??!
Oh thank you for this!!!!
FFC 1: My MIL is having "brithday party" for her mom, sister and myself tomorrow. She has been planning it for over a month and I just found out about it last week. DH thinks there are going to be a ton of people there. I asked this morning who was coming and it is just us and the above people. Also DH said she was going to be inviting my parents and she never called them. Then they expect us there all day Sunday too because we don't see J's gram much. I don't want to go. I want a day with my family. That is my time. The only time I get with them. I'm not spending it with someone I'm mad at... which brings me to...
FFC 2: I'm now worried about MIL watching B. Last Friday when I picked her up there was an accident and B and FIL almost fell into a wall/the ground. I caught them and everything was fine except my nail gave B a pretty good scratch on her cheek. She cried. Within 5 minutes she was fine happy and smiling. MIL onthe other hand screamed and ran crying from the room absolutely panicing. She actually said and I quote "If something happens to this baby I don't want to live. I won't be able to live." 15 minutes later after everything was calmed down (except her) she had a mini wave of panic again and had to sit down because she was dizzy. How am I supposed to feel if this is the way she handles a scratch? What if she falls down the stairs as a toddler? Is MIL just going to let her sit at the bottom of the stairs crying while she panics in the other room? DH doesn't understand why this worries me because he can "guarantee" that won't happen. He wasn't there. He didn't see what I saw. And then Monday when I got to their house to drop off B FIL told me MIL wasn't able to watch her that day and didn't J tell me? Obviously not if I'm standing in your driveway! Maybe she should have told me since I'm the one that drops her off and picks her up. Then when I dropped off B on Wednesday she didn't say a word about either event. But did to DH. Hello! Please talk to me too. I'm the mother. UGHHHHH!!!!!!
Possibly, but this guy was a senior when I was a freshman, so he's somewhere around 36 or so...which puts him 18 years older than my student. So there may not be a huge age difference between him and his wife (if at all)
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I could use this too!
#1: I'm kind of irked at my boss (well, the boss boss, our CEO, not my direct boss). I've been super sick the last few months, and have finally figured out it's migraines that were just strung together with major symptoms. So, needless to say, I've been to a ton of doctor appoitments. In December, they took me off salary and put me on hourly wage as I'd used all my sick days. Well, since that time I've been able to maintain almost full time hours (about 3/4 time), missing 2 days in one month (as compared to about 10 in November/December!). Last week I was in every day for 7-7.5 hrs each day. I was sick on Monday, and then in on Tuesday this week for 8.5 hrs. Then Wednesday, I had a dentist appointment and a bank appointment and came in at noon. She says to me, "maybe we need to have another chat about your hours. We need you here more." Um, excuse me, but haven't I been here? I missed ONE day! Seriously! So, that led me to cancel my gyno appointment yesterday, cancel my lunch date with DH for his birthday yesterday, and cancel my lunch with my friend today, just so I didn't piss her off. I now have to wait 3 weeks to see the gyno, DH didn't get to see me for more than 2 hrs on his bday, and my friend doesn't have another free day for 2 weeks. Ugh. All this, and then SHE left at 2pm the last two days and isn't even here today! WTF.
#2: I'm sad that I didn't get to do anything special for DH's birthday, but he doesn't seem to care. I don't think his family is really "into" birthdays. His sisters and his dad didn't even call him, but yet my mom, sister and grandma did! It makes me wonder if he'll be into doing things for our kids when we have them!
Mine is silly, but I need to get it out:
I cannot find the right shade of lavander to paint my baby girl's room. So far, I am now on sample number five, and nothing on our wall looks like it does on the swatch. I am so frustrated! I realize that it's not a huge deal and that we have so much time, but I am sick of spending $ on these paint can samples! Ugh. I am making myself take a break from it this weekend, and then trying again in a week. Of course, Matt doesn't really understand. He thinks 'they all look the same'. Sigh...
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When Brian was gone this week, I went through his drawers and closet and donated some of his clothes. He has had t-shirts since college and still refuses to donate they yet does not like wearing them.
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I'm gonna have to plug DH's company for a minute here....he works for a very large paint company based out of Cleveland (I know you know it.....) I promise if you find the "right" color of lavendar, even in a magazine, they can color match. They also have all sorts of different color decks, go in the store, and ask for every single lavendar they have.
My so-called BFF from childhood is horrible at returning calls, texts, emails, etc....I'm tired of her sucking.
So I called her out on it and now we're in an email fight.
Ha, I'm 15 today.
Lavender is tough. When I was little I picked a really pretty lilac for my walls. Well when all was said and done my room was this awful bright pink/purple, totally different than the swatch.
Mine's kinda silly but:
My Christmas tree/decorations are still up. We'll likely take them down this weekend...maybe.
1. I really hate the expression and when people say/type "FML" either on TN and TB or on FB over stupid things when in reality their lives could be so much worse. Seriously, is it really THAT bad or are you just having a bad moment in the large scheme of things?!
2. The small(er) party I had envisioned at home for Mariela's 1st birthday isn't going to happen because DH wants to invite his extended family "just this year, because it's her 1st birthday, Hon.". I get that it's her 1st birthday, but she won't remember it...it's for us more than anything else and I just don't see the point of spending a ton on food and supplies. We could easily cut our guest list and just have around 25 people, but he doesn't want to, so instead we'll be having closer to 60 if everyone we invite comes. At least I like planning these sorts of things, I just hate spending the money when I really want to save and pay down debt more so that I can cut my hours by another day sooner rather than later.
My RE told me to only have one cup of coffee a day rather than two.
So I bought a bigger cup.
A+S | Met 8/24/06 | Married 9/27/08
Started TTC 12/2008 | dx PCOS 5/2009
6 failed clomid/femara/TI cycles, 1 failed clomid/ovidrel/IUI cycle
Successful Cycle: 5/12/11 - 1000mg Metformin + 100mg Clomid(late response) + TI = BFP
? 2/13/12 - We proudly welcomed our daughter, Hadley Teresa! ?
? Lots of Luck to all of 3T/IF ?
Hilarious! When do you have another appt?
My HSG is coming up on Wednesday. Then we'll schedule a follow up and go over financials and timing for the IUI
A+S | Met 8/24/06 | Married 9/27/08
Started TTC 12/2008 | dx PCOS 5/2009
6 failed clomid/femara/TI cycles, 1 failed clomid/ovidrel/IUI cycle
Successful Cycle: 5/12/11 - 1000mg Metformin + 100mg Clomid(late response) + TI = BFP
? 2/13/12 - We proudly welcomed our daughter, Hadley Teresa! ?
? Lots of Luck to all of 3T/IF ?
Our fridge (which is only 3 years old) decided to stop working today. I had to pull everything out, put it in bags, and drive to my moms to use her fridge. We finally found a repair man that could come out today and he said he will be here in between 12 and 2. Well it's 2:05 and he isn't here yet. So annoyed!
My BIL's girlfriend drives me nuts. She lives with IL's (moved in one piece at a time) eats their food, uses their water, etc. She is always whining she has no money, school is so hard, and has such a tough life. She is 21, going to school for early childhood (not knocking on that major or anything but its not rocket science), and lives in a place with free rent! I am sick of hearing about her pity parties.
I have another one..
I'm tired of my teacher friends cheering for a snow day, and then complaining in June when they have to work extra days. I would love to have summers off and work 190ish (including development days) a year. I'm not saying it's an easy job or anything close to that, but there are some perks to working in education
I'm irritated by tax season already.
One of my properties has 360 units. Our management company sent us our Cert.s of Rent Paid (CRPs) a few days ago...completely out of order. I finally got them separated out by each building, current, and moved-out residents. Keep in mind many of those residents are getting two CRPs as our property switched management companies half way through the year. After all that work, we realized the dates for the current company are all wrong.
We finally got the corrected CRPs in today and started working on sorting by building, then apartment, then current and non-current, copying, sorting into piles delivery method or file piles, etc. The problem is, I'm the key organizer of this little project and I'm working on it with my two managers. It's too confusing to try to explain to the other girls who work between now and Monday when I come back, so I told them to just leave it all for when I get there, since I know exactly what needs to be copied, what needs to be filed, what needs to go out, blah blah blah. I don't mind, but I really wish that our company wouldn't have screwed it up in the first place!! We could be done by now. Not to mention we still have to look up forwarding addresses for everybody who moved out before the new company (that put the forwarding addresses on the CRPs) took over in May.
There are about 1,700 CRPs :-/
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