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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.
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.
So... what are you doing?
No one posts anymore, so you're getting my third one for the day.
Clearly, this board has been dead lately... just trying to figure out why.
So, what's been going on? What are you doing during the day when you're not posting? And why do you think everything's slowed down lately?
Re: So... what are you doing?
I posted a ton yesterday.
I'm here, I'm just not feeling the best. I'm headed to the allergist on the 11th to get testing and a formulation mixed to get shots. My voice is like 30% its normal volume.
I have no idea why things have slowed down lately- I was the only person who posted in the OOTD post yesterday...
Stand up for something you believe in.
Yeah... I'm trying to figure it out. Are people moving on? Bored with being a Niner? Or maybe they just don't like us anymore? *sniff*
I know people lurk. *wave*
I'm always here, and with work slow this is all the entertainment I have lately, but I hate feeling like I'm talking to myself sometimes. =(
updated 10.03.12
Dx: Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism After 2 years TTC & failed IUs,we have our IVF baby born 9/24/11
LO#2 aka 'Miracle Baby' Orig. EDD= 9/28 EDD moved to 10/3/13
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Ya, I'm a lurker, but then again I've always been more lurker than poster. Honestly, I'm not the best at initiating conversations in real life, and apparently that crosses over to initiating posts here.
Work has also gotten way busier in the last few weeks so I feel guilty about being on here during the day.
Pretty much this, word for word..except for the new job thing. For me it's that I have super busy days and then super not busy days. But then when I get to the not busy days I feel weird just jumping in and answering a few things because it seems pretty random if I haven't been on in a week.
I'm in the "overthinking online message boards" camp apparently
Oh c'mon guys, don't overthink! Things are slow, so there's no better time to join in and/or post about anything and everything!
updated 10.03.12
I was out of the office yesterday. Which is where I normally post from. I did do an OOTD yesterday on F&B, but we didn't have one this board before I left for our photo shoot. I wasn't at home hardly at all yesterday.
Other than that... I am working more. Nothing to post about here and yet nothing to contribute.
Zuma Zoom
Congrats to both my TTC buddies, Amberley18 and sb2006 on their beautiful babies!
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Work is starting to get busy. When the weather gets nicer we get hit with ads for rummage sales and just selling misc crap.
Plus, I am boring and don't have much to contribute most of the time
Today, I'm home with Robin. Work has been kicking my butt lately. January and February are my busiest months, because I have 2nd Grade Child Find (test every kid in 2nd grade for giftedness), so sometimes I can't get on until 3 and then it's dead or I've missed the fun. I feel like I've still been pretty active, though. I just don't have that much to post. We had some good daily things going (OOTD and PIP polls). What happened to those, Stees and Memily?
And for the 1000th time no one has said you're not allowed to post about your babies!
/vent
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I have a huge interview tomorrow so I've been preparing my seminar for it all week. I haven't done a thing to prepare for the one-on-one interviews because I don't really know how....
I'm basically freaking out.
And I still hurt, but someone brought edible donuts to choir last night so that was nice
*waves back*
hello
i lurk on occasion, when my local board is slow. but this board is slower. i feel like this board at least has people i *know*...even though i post/lurk so little on this board now, i don't *really* know anybody anymore.
♥ bfp1 06/14/2011 ♥ edd 02/22/2012 ♥
♥ baby jennlin born on 02/15/2012 ♥
who says you can only wear your wedding dress once?
honeymoon bio ♥ married bio ♥ planning bio
jumped ship to the new and improved nest. back to TB for baby boards.
Hah ya got me. I ran out of good ideas, and some of the real challenge days are weird and/or obvious for the niners. I'll start some up again, but I can't promise one every day.
I'm around all the time during the winter, but the restaurant I work at is starting up mid-march so I'll be around in the afternoon. The last few days I've been in a funk, but I'm getting better and I kicked p90x's ass today!
But this is why we provide the courtesy of labeling them BR, so that if someone is having a particularly bad day or just isn't interested, they don't have to read it. These blanket statements about how babies aren't welcome on this board or that people feel bad about posting about their babies, have no merit and just make us infertile girls feel worse. I was stalking the bump yesterday during my husband's surgery.
I'm not attacking you tgoff. This is really aimed at everyone. I just think it's BS that everyone else is allowed to share their feelings 24/7 no matter how offensive and everyone is still bff the next day, but the second someone chimes in with a TTC confession or vent, we're blacklisted.
I don't think anyone is blacklisting anyone...
updated 10.03.12
I realize blacklisting is a strong term, but honestly the message that comes across with these statements is "darn, we could all be sitting around talking about our babies all of the time if it wasn't for those pesky TTC chicks. They're so f-ing moody."
I'm really, really sorry you feel that way, and I'm not trying to speak for everyone, but I have a feeling thats not the way it is at all. Sure, we had a pretty explosive confession session last week, but it is what it is, and it was last week, and we should move on with the knowledge that we learned rather than dwell.
Yes, I said I felt bad talking about Sami sometimes because of all the other hardships that the TTC ladies have been going through, but only because I wish I could help take away the pain, frustration, and sadness... thats all.
updated 10.03.12
I don't think anyone is blacklisting anyone either...BUT...I agree with DD about how there is this double-edged sword thing surrounding the TTC issues. We don't want anyone to feel bad about posting baby stuff, and we don't want to feel bad about posting about our problems TTC.
I think there's just a lot of guilty feelings going around here, both from the TTC girls and the moms/moms-to-be. And I think we can all agree that nothing good ever comes from guilt.
I lurk quite a bit too though I think I've been posting almost daily lately. I feel guilty posting at work sometimes, since we do have quite a heavy workload right now since one of our analysts is out on maternity leave (and I want to make sure I get all my stuff finished up before *I* go on maternity leave!)
Sometimes I just don't have much to say, or I can't post until I'm home from work and all the "good" conversations were much earlier in the day and I feel like a geek posting a response so late.
Generally if I want to say something though, I will.
And I have a lot of baby stuff on the brain right now...very nervous/excited and trying to focus on what needs to get done. I'm also in the process of trying to return a damn custom-ordered couch and loveseat that are NOT the quality I expected and I'm afraid I'm getting the run-around.
I'll drink to that!
updated 10.03.12
Also, I'll speak for Stees, she's super busy getting ready for a conference but will be back when things slow down for her.
As far as TTC v. Babies, ladies, I think this poor dead horse has been beaten enough. Post what you want. People don't have to read it if they don't want to!
I, for one, will continue to talk about my kid all the live long day, because she's awesome. On Sunday she stole a french fry from her daddy and then proceeded to dip it in ketchup. Yesterday she learned to take off her diaper and proceeded to pee on the bed. She's funny stuff.
Post your TTC stuff, your pregnancy stuff, stuff about your awesome kid. Please do! I WANT to hear it because I care about you guys and what you're going through.