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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.
Vents & Confessions
This is a dumb vent, but I am annoyed at People magazine for continuing to publish photos of Kate Middleton from 2006, 2007 like they are current. If you don't have a recent photo, don't publish anything. They also did a story saying that she "probably" had a hen party and it was at one of four places... that story has zero facts to it, they are slipping to the level of US Weekly or the other mags that just make up stories.
My confession is that I shed a tear or two during the musical episode of Grey's... that has not happened in awhile while watching Grey's. I loved the music in last night's episode.
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Re: Vents & Confessions
Vent: DH and I have different spending habits and we can never seem to be on page about it. He doesn't get that you don't use the joint account for a trip to 7-11 or buying lunch or buying a new blu ray movie. It may be every now and then, but that account is for bills and his little spending bursts add up!
Confession: I am going to the dentist tomorrow for my 6 mo check up and whenever I go for check ups, I start flossing about a week before just so my gums don't bleed when he does it.
My vent is that I'm ridiculously over house hunting. There are only like a handful of houses in our price range and they are either in high crime neighborhoods, are smaller than our old apartment or they are covered in mold and need to be completely gutted and rebuilt. We fell in love with a house a week or so ago that was only on the market for 2 days before it had 5 bids on it, we put a bid on it and we lost to a cash buyer. We saw four houses last weekend and fell in love with one. It would be perfect for us and we put a bid on it. Unfortunately it's a short sale, the owner recently passed away, the listing agent hasn't been able to get a hold of the son of the owner and thus it's been a week since we put an offer in and we've still heard nothing. I just want to know if at least the son will accept our darn offer or not so we can see if we can even move on to the bank approval process which we're told could be at least 4-6 weeks.
Another vent is that at the beginning of this whole process, I find out DH's credit is so screwed up from his college years that he can't even apply for a loan so I'm on my own for all that crap. I'm really pissed at him for not learning how bad his record was until I went to apply for both of us and I'm really pissed at him for screwing it up in the first place. His parents do everything for his sister and I'm sure that if he had bothered to speak up about his problems, they probably would've helped him out and he wouldn't be in this crappy situation at all. Then he has the nerve to show me pictures of his friend's new $500k house that her parents built for her. I know there are so many things I should be thankful for but I'm just so aggravated right now.
I'm very annoyed w/ DH right now.
He left work early yesterday b/c he got sick, he was OK by the time I got home. I ordered a pizza for dinner for me and DD since I assumed he still wouldn't be in the mood to eat or cook anything. So, I served up the pizza for me and DD and then asked him to come to the table (he was laying on the sofa watching something on TV) he looked at me like I had 2 heads and said "you want me to come watch you and DD eat" no a-hole, I want you to want to spend time w/ your family. Once he said it like that, I told him no, and then proceeded to not talk to him for about 12 hours now. I don't know why the family meal concept is such an impostion on him. ugh
So work has been overworking me like crazy. They literally give me no time to go home between mandatory shifts and my own shifts. I am barely getting one day off. They wanted me to work 14 days in a row double shifts almost every day. I physically can't do what they are asking of me and I am punished for it.
Dh and I are going to Vegas for two days for our anniversary. I need to get my hair done and since I have had no time off and I wont have a day off until the day we leave I have to go to Vegas with hair that desperately needs to be done. I am only getting days off because I have a vacation day.
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Sorry you are going through this! The house buying process can be so frustrating. It makes me sick to think of the homes we could be living in, in today's market with what we paid on our house 4 years ago. So many things keep popping up that need fixing and our 5 year house has turned into our 15 year house most likely because of the market. I can't even imagine trying to raise more than 1 kid in that house. Ugh.
Vent: The new person at work is driving me BSC. They don't know how to prioritize, spend too much time on things they shouldn't and not enough on the things they should, butts in to everyone's conversations and invites themselves along to things they haven't been asked to attend. It's so hard not to say anything sometimes, but I'm not the boss and it's not my place.
Confession: sometimes when it's not busy at work, instead of finding something to do, I either do freelance work or I watch TV on my computer
Vent: I want a baby, but the financial commitment scares me. The economy really did a number on us with DH working in the industry and we are still recovering.
I feel completely bloated and tired. I want to go home.
Vent: I cannot stick to a healthy lifestyle. I work out but I love food so much! DH and I indulge several times a week with wine, which leads to late night eating. I take total responsibility for it but it is still frustrating!
Vent: I hate when people start copies and then leave the room. I show up to make copies and it is on 17 out of 105 packets. It will inevitably need paper, jam, etc., so I end up practically making someone else's copies for them while they are elsewhere getting things done. But if I leave, I lose my spot in line.
Confession: I accidentally wore my Target rainboots to work, with no extra shoes. I normally wear them to go out with the dog, and then when I was ready to leave, it felt like I had shoes on so I didn't notice. Oh well, the kids liked them, and at least it's a half day.
Ugh, I am constantly venting about this. We thought we would be in our house 5-7 years. Nope, its gonna be longer than that. Stupid housing market. I really wish we would have waited a few more years, saved more money, and bought something better when the prices came down. I want my forever house, dammit!
Confession - my feet hurt from my boots!
Vent - I hate the Airtran/Southwest merger. It's killing my work schedule and the costs of flights have gotten crazy. I use to take a nonstop roundtrip flight from BWI to IND for $150 (3 weeks in advance booking). I can't even book a nonstop on Airtran to IND anymore and Southwest doesn't even have one way's that cheap. It's REALLY annoying. The nonstops Southwest have suck!! This is the 2nd time that I have been stuck in an airport because I can't change my flight to the earlier flight/fly standby... (I've been stuck here 5 hrs both times) I hope they realize that the IND market is bigger than they thought! PLEASE bring back more nonstop flights or let Airtran have a couple nonstops. UGH!
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Uh, me too. I didn't just shed a tear though, I legit CRIED. I loved the song choices too!
My vent: DH hasn't done our taxes yet. I didn't make enough income last year to file, so I think we're doing married filing jointly? I'm leaving it up to him but I'm SO annoyed they aren't done yet. He thought they were done a week ago, but then had to re-do them to account for his HSA, and his dad suggested calling his aunt in CA who's a tax accountant or something. So now he's MAILING our paperwork to her today and she's going to file for us. We're getting a sizable amount back, thanks to MY tuition payments and lack of income last year, and I want to put it towards our summer vacation and other fun stuff, but now we're going to get it so late since he's so late to file! Ugh. I told him next year I'M doing our taxes! In February!
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I look forward to my DH's bowling nights for the same reason. He's normally home from work hours before me, so Thursdays are my "free" evenings. I enjoy having that evening to myself as much as he enjoys hanging out with his friends at bowling.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
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Vents: I work in a restaraunt. When we take cups to dish we put them in racks. When the rack fills up you flip it over and start another. Lately I feel like I am the only one who does it. EVERY time I go back there is a stack of cups where I need to sit dishes. I can't just leave it there so I clean up their mess, then my mess.
Another work related- we are open on Easter. The owner considered closeing because we have been so slow in previous years, but he decided to stay open. Two years ago it was so slow the servers we out back washing their cars. So not only do I have to be away from my family on Easter, I have to do it for no money. Literally I will be lucky to walk out with $30-$40. There is nothing I can do about it because no one will work because it's Easter.