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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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Friday Confessions! (FF of course)
Because I really don't feel like working today and would like to be entertained, let's have 'em! 
Re: Friday Confessions! (FF of course)
I may add more later, but here's mine.
I woke up this morning to discover when I shaved my legs yesterday, I only shaved one. Apparently my left leg needed to keep warm yesterday. Oh the awesome things stress does to a person's mind....
I hate checking voicemails. As an event coordinator, when a big event comes up, I can get 20+ in a day, easily. They suck. I guess what really bothers me is having to call every single person back and tell them all to do the exact same thing, when they're all calling just to ask me to take all of their info over the phone and do it for them. Ugh... I would if it wasn't so many per day!
The worst part is I can't listen to music at the same time like I do w/ data entry.
LOL!! Lets just say that you got an early start on shaving your legs today..?
Mine: I am really, REALLY conflicted on the topic of when to have children. The official answer is: "not this year" .. but on some levels, (first confession) I have a tad bit of baby fever. I believe its just because I feel like I'm missing out. Every single one of my close female friends, except for three single ones, are either KTFU or have a couple of critters running around. That means just about every conversation is about kids, or having kids, and I without fail get asked about it within five minutes of answering the phone or chat or whatever.
On the other hand, I *just* got married. I want to enjoy the DINK lifestyle for a while, and I may possibly go to grad school.. or defer and save my salary for another year.. which if I did that, we'd probably throw caution to the wind on the kid thing. I just signed up for four races going until September, so I'm committed to triathlon to the year. I've put money down on it.:P I also don't know if I like the idea
I'm only 30, but DH is about to turn 40. He's always wanted to wait a while, so that's fine, but I do worry about him being an old dad.:P But, I guess if he is OK with it then that is fine. And what if we have issues getting KU? Ugh.
Next week I'm going to be in Austin - and seeing friends and whatnot.. and I am SO, SO not looking forward to the "have babies. have babies NOW!!!" discussions that are absolutely going to happen. Peer pressure makes me run in the other direction. So after my rambling paragraph, my second confession is, I'm sooooo not looking forward to that.
my DH has terrible taste in flooring/colors. I think he may be color blind. He is incapable of understanding "matching". This came to ahead during our design meeting on wednesday for our house. it wasn't pretty.
i have baby fever. but this new house bumped our plans out. somedays i'm totally okay with it - other days, i'm sad i have to sacrifice the timing.
DH doesn't know about my blog (that goes through our process of building). He'd be irritated I put that much info on the web. I haven't decided when I'll spill the beans...
"The House We Built."
A journey of building the dream.
Hehe.. You know, I have to say, having had many things happen that have really bumped out plans I had in my 20's.. and I'm really happy about how things have turned out. Now, lets note that I feel like a nutball since I don't have a plan at the moment (see above).:P
I always wonder how many DHs worry about the blog kind of thing. I've never actually directly talked to mine about my blogs, but I have posted links to them on FB so I assume he sees them.
Oh, I've got a third confession - I canceled today's workout so I could go shopping instead.. an hour of spin = two hours walking around a mall, right (*snort*)?
shanwalk - This is why men need women. Otherwise, the world would be full of funky/ugly houses.
Also, with the blog, as long as you aren't using real names or putting addresses or anything like that, I wouldn't worry too much about it. I haven't actually looked at your blog yet (can't access it from work), but if it describing the house building process, I'm sure its immensely helpful to a ton of people.
orangefelt - I hope you get to enjoy your visit and don't get too bombarded with baby questions. FWIW, although you're in a different place than I am, sometimes its nice to fly without a plan for a while. Plus you're newly married and should completely enjoy that for a while.
My other confession for the day is I'm so excited that Wednesday I will be finalizing my divorce. I should really be more upset about the end of my marriage than I am.
Yay thegastons, thanks for reinforcing the good stuff! :P
And you know.. do NOT feel bad about being excited about Wednesday! You know you are making the right choice for yourself, and that is fan-tastic. I remember the feeling I had when my divorce was final from XH.. it was like walking on clouds.
I vote for celebration! 
I was the same way when I went through my divorce!!
It gave me permission to move on with my life! Go celebrate...do a happy hour!
My confession: I should stay home this afternoon and work on a cake but I am heading to a happy hour for drinks and crawfish. Yes, I may be be up all night working on it when I get home but I need a escape!
Also...my house is a mess. I haven't dusted in over a week. My dryer is full of clothes that need to be folded. My bed is not made. I don't care. Very rare for me but dang it feels good!
thegastons - ditto OrangeFelt... congrats on the finalization! I'm so excited for you to start this new chapter in your life.
My confession: I'm coming down to Austin this weekend and it was kind-of a spur of the moment decision but now I'm not sure I want to go anymore because my favorite massage therapist at milk+honey is booked all day. And that makes me sad. I even texted him to say how sad I was, hoping he'd move his schedule around or stay longer than his shift for me. I need a good massage SO badly. I just went to Massage Envy here at lunch for a 20-min quickie and it just wasn't the same. Don't really care about seeing family or friends... I just wanted to see my massage guy. lol
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
My confession of the day is that I hold a lot of grudge against DH!!! I seem to have a hard time letting go of things!! I don't bring it up to him and I don't talk thru the issues I have, because I don't have any solutions for them!!! But at the same time it eats me up. I love him but there are some fundamental flaws/issues. Nothing that I didn't know about. but I had hoped he would step up to the plate and assume more responsibility after a while!!!
Don't feel one bit guilty about this...the day my divorce was finaly was one of the happiest days ever! Just be sure to have something planned that evening...or at least I did. I didn't want to take a chance on getting down and sitting home alone. Had a great evening at The Melting Pot with 6 or 7 other girlfriends.
I am so freakin' excited that my former undergraduate advisor may be taking a really great teaching position at UT that my reaction to hearing the news may be compared only to that of Sue from SNL.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/39816/saturday-night-live-engagement-surprise