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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.
Re: Confession/AW/vent
Confession: I have zero clue what is going on with this "government shut down" business. Zero. Maybe I should turn on CNN once in awhile...
AW: I've been doing some major house cleaning this week. WAY more than "normal". I won't tell you how big the hair ball was that I sucked up from under my dresser. (It was huge.)
Vent: DH is sick today so our fun date night is most likely cancelled :-( He is never sick though so if he stays home from work I know it's bad.
Confession: I can't remember, I had a good one all ready if someone posted this and now I can't remember.
AW: I got nothing. I get to go to the Twins game on Sunday?
Vent: I hate the MCA tests. HATEHATEHATE. My kids struggle with having food in the house and a jacket in the winter. They do not care about standardized tests.
Vent-
I'm sick and tired of my coworkers who don't put in 40 hours a week. And sick and tired of management for doing nothing.
One employee comes in late 3-4 times a week. She's supposed to be in at 9:30 a.m. but she'll waltz in anytime between 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Another employee is supposed to be scheduled till 5 p.m. but she usually disappears by 2:30 p.m. or so.
A former employee, scheduled for 8 hours, routinely put in only 7.5-7.75 hours a day.
It's hard to ignore when it happens on a regular daily/weekly basis and has continued for the entire time that I've been at this company.
But because it doesn't affect my job, I'm just going to keep my mouth shut. But there are days when I'm thinking, "why am I putitng in 8 hours when so and so routinely comes in late or leaves early..."
Vent over.
Ugh. That is SO not cool of them. Is there a way to anonymously report all of this or would it be obvious it was you who said something?
AW: My H graduates next month (finally)! So excited and very proud. On top of that, we just made the last semester's tuition payment, meaning we're done! School is totally paid for and we have zero student loans.
Confession: I've been kind of crabby toward him lately, especially when he asks me to proof-read his papers (there's a ton of them!). I feel bad, and I'm trying not to come off as annoyed, but sometimes I just want my own downtime. I've been trying very hard to work on this because I know he's more stressed than I am (FT work and FT school); I know I need to be more supportive. The good news is that the end of the tunnel is near!
margaritas in mexico
Confession: I ate like crap last night. 3 (cheap, chocolate covered marshmallow nabisco) unhealthy cookies, a bowl of cheerios and a slice of banana bread for dinner. At least I had a glass of milk and a few glasses of water.. Of course, my stomach feels all bloaty/gassy today, so I need to learn my lesson and eat normal food.
Confession 2: our AGM is leaving for a new job and I am sooooo happy!!
He has the worst attitude and isn't a great leader, which makes working for him so hard. I'm glad he's moving on..
jack | born 9.13.12 at 40w4d | 9 lbs 12 oz | 23 in
my puppy loves - chloe & jenson
pregnancy blog | chart
Confession: I can't think of one right now.
AW: I lost 2 lbs last week. Am on WW, but it was a rough week, my birthday celebration lasted way more than 1 day, didn't track my food, and was totally dreading stepping on the scale this morning. Gives me new motivation.
Vent: I just saw on startribune.com another shooting a couple blocks away from my house. We had a murder 6 houses down from us last month. I love the area where I live, but it's really frustrating and sometimes I feel like I'm not even safe walking my DD up to the park:(
All three are related to my closet cleaning/organizing projects that I did this week while Andy was on a work trip:
AW: While I was home alone this week, I cleaned and organized four closets in our house. I took everything out, sorted through things, vacuumed the floors, dusted the shelves, and put things back in a nice and orderly fashion. I'm so proud of how pretty these closets look now.
Vent: Andy is a hoarder. Not as bad as the people they feature on those TV shows, but the guy can just not get rid of stuff. It doesn't matter if it's useful or sentimental ... he just keeps everything.
Confession: During my closet cleaning, the useless crap that Andy has collected ended up getting packed up into boxes labeled with yesterday's date that are now in the garage, where they will remain for one year. If, during the next year, he doesn't notice that these things are missing, they will go in the trash. Every once in awhile I do this. I hate keeping so much useless stuff in the house, and if I ask him, he will want to keep everything. But, I figure, if he doesn't even notice it's missing for a year, he doesn't need it and will probably never notice that it's gone. Really, I'm not an evil wife. It's not like it's valuable stuff of his that I'm planning to throw away, it's junk. Things like socks with holes and free promotional items with vendor logos that he picks up at work conventions (how many travel mugs and luggage tags can one person possibly use?!?).
Mr. Sammy Dog
Confession - b-pics tomorrow and I'm a teeny bit freaked out.
AW- my 4 day old nephew is freaking adorable. I'm resisting the urge to visit again until next week but I bought him a really cute outfit for this summer that I can't wait to bring over. My sis/BIL were team green so all the clothes the poor kid has are yellow with ducks. He's getting some dinosaurs from his dear auntie.
Vent - it is 77 degrees in the office and the "glowing" look is just not cool. Management has been informed 3 times now and they still haven't fixed it. If I wasn't getting OT this week, I'd say "call me when you get it fixed because I'm outta here!"
That seems like a reasonable plan....if you know he won't freak out if he ever finds out. I'd probably freak out a little bit even though I've gotten MUCH better about getting rid of things.
My dad's motto is "If in doubt - throw it out!" but that means sometimes he throws out something of my moms and she finds out and is mad. Sometimes my dad is a little TOO quick to toss. He likes things done yesterday. Like last week he tossed an empty clay flower pot in the garage. My mom asked him about it and he said, "It was empty." She said, "I was going to plan stuff in it next week since it's nice now." Oops. He went and got her a new one. :-)
Confession: I ate three slices of pizza for lunch and will also be eating pizza for dinner at my MIL's.
AW: I have officially gained less now than the same point with DS.
Vent: I hate that DH reads my blog. For years we had an understanding that he wouldn't, but that he would respect I respected him enough to not post inappropriate things. I hate that I feel like I can't post whatever I want anymore.BFP#1 - 8/26/2008 | Isaac Levi @39w 4/26/09 :: BFP#2 - 6/22/2010 | natural MC @9w 7/28/10 :: BFP#3 - 10/25/2010 | Ezra John @39w 6/26/11 :: BFP#4 - 8/7/2012 | EDD 4/17/13
There's about 25 employees. There's no way to do it anonymously
I tell myself it's okay because I'm not just trashing it right away, I'm giving him a year to see if he really cared about any of that stuff.
Plus, some of the things I moved out of closets were still in boxes that had not been unpacked since we moved into our house. In Sept. 2009. So, he's already had more than 1.5 years to use a lot of these items and never even opened the boxes. In fact, one of the boxes was labeled "clothes Andy doesn't wear" and another box was labeled "Andy's junk". He's the one who labeled these boxes. If he already knows it's stuff he doesn't use and junk, I can't believe we even moved these boxes into our house! :-)
Mr. Sammy Dog
We must work together. Seriously, this. It bugs me. I just hope that my manager takes note and when the time comes for a promotion or something, karma kicks in.
Confession: I'm about to have an MRI for a possible hip stress fracture in an hour and I'm still going to run my 5K race tomorrow even though the doc said not to run until he sees the results. What he doesn't know won't kill him. I didn't even mention my plans tomorrow. I'm not missing ANOTHER race. And I'm not in pain. Yep. Hardcore.
AW: I'm flying to FL on Tuesday morning for a very much-needed vacay and time with my mom, dad, and sister who I haven't seen in over a year.
Vent: I hate my job right now.
:::Our Adoption Journey:::
Evan James was born 1/24/13 and matched with us 2/20/13. The LOVE OF MY LIFE!!!
Confession: I, like MsKiz, have no idea what a government shut down means and I have no motivation to figure it out. The only thing I have paid attention to is the fact that since we haven't filed our taxes yet, we probably won't see the money til August.
AW: DD turned 2 on Monday and we are having her parties this weekend. Yes, parties plural. Tomorrow she is having a "friend" party with 4-5 kids her age at an indoor playground. And Sunday will be with all of the grandparents and aunts and uncles.
Vent: I hate when family drama effects gatherings. I have 2 cousins (we'll call them cousin #1 and cousin #2). Cousin #1 has a daughter who is 2 and a baby on the way in a few weeks. Cousin #2 is single, almost 30, and deals with a lot of emotional issues. They don't get along very well. I have invited cousin #1 to the above mentioned party on Saturday and cousin #2 to the party on Sunday. It is mainly because I don't want to be stuck in the same room as both of them and the awkwardness that may ensue if they are in the same room. I am playing it like I am trying to be sensitive to cousin #1 and her 8 months pregnant, almost bed rested status that she only has to come to one instead of both, but it is more to make the rest of the relatives at ease and avoid any potential drama.
My only compalint is that I put on nearly 10 lbs while in Ireland! Damn.
And my rheumatiod arthritis has flared up something fierce in my right shoulder, so I can't evn go to Body Pump! Ugh. I'm on the 5 OTC naproxen, 2 times a day plan. Its about the same as the 500mg prescription naproxen Drs have put me on. I sleep VERY soundly and last night woke up at 4am because my shoulder hurt so bad.
I just want to feel better so that I can go back to working out and loose this extra that I put on while on vacation.