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Monday, monday morning....
How is everyone doing this morning? We had a busy busy weekend. I'll probably write a book on it later, but for now, I just figured I would post to see what everyone's opinion is on the whole "Osama Bin Laden is dead" stuff going on last night/today. 
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Re: Monday, monday morning....
We had a busy weekend. We said goodbye to our friend who's moving to CA. I finished up the wedding highlights video - I'm getting opinions on what I should change/fix now (anyone want to watch it?).
DH finally cut our lawn. It was over his knees in places - almost to his waist. In his defense, it's rained the past 3 weekends so he couldn't cut it.
And, like I posted on FB, I'm glad this chapter is over and can be closed. I really am. I was just at WTC last week. But, I am disturbed by the celebrations over this. I was sickened 10 years ago by people in the Middle East celebrating 9/11, and I don't see this as much different. I understand he was a horrible, evil person - I'm not disputing that. I think my comparison remains valid because there are people in the Middle East who think America is horrible and evil. But I don't think it's right to celebrate anyone's death. You can be thankful, you can be glad, but I don't understand wanting to take to the streets.
I'm back at work after a four day weekend so you can imagine how that's going.
I had a lovely time off, spent lots of time with my besties and my family, actually saw my husband a lot, and had a totally kick a$$ Royal Wedding Party.
And now...back to work.
Super pumped to hear the President announce he gave the directive to take Bin Laden down, and that our highly trained military carried this mission out precisely and with no loss of American lives.
hey all!!
Ugh, can it be friday already!?!?!? I honestly have no idea why I'm so tired EVERY monday! I go to bed early on sunday nights, get up at my normal time. Yet, without fail, i'm exhausted every monday.
My computer is still virus filled at work and they have yet to get me my new one. I'm annoyed beyond belief. I'm in a fiesty mood and the helpdesk better watch out!
As far as Bin Laden, I can't believe it's been 10 years. It blows my mind. Seems like yesterday. I just worry about retaliation.
Hello!
We had a very nice weekend. We went to our friends wedding on Saturday. Even though it was dry, Greg and another couple we went with wanted to drink before and after so I played DD which was very annoying because they all got DRUNK! I ended up dropping Greg off at a friends at like 9pm and went home because I was so annoyed and couldn't be around drunk people anymore and told him to stay there for the night because I would not come pick him up at 2am. (Yes this is kinda mean but I have done it several times since I have found out I was pregnant) he ended up walking home, not a super long walk maybe like a mileish. I sorta felt bad but not overly.
Yesterday we went to the Ray's game and dinner and then to the restaurant and watch some hockey playoffs.
I am also wanting it to be friday. We are going to the Seafood and blues feastival. Which will hopefully keep my mind off how much I actually hate this weekend. Friday will be the four year anniversary of my mom's passing and with it being mothers days also. Not a great weekend but at least we have some fun things planned.
Wedding video, um yes please!
Happy Morning everyone. Happy morning, what the heck does that mean...lol. I had a very busy weekend too and I'm so tired today. We had our graduation for our DV and SA training. They had a ceremony for us, we wore gowns and were handed certificates. It was nice that they made a big event for us and that we were able to share this moment with our families. I gave a speach about my experience. I was so flipping nervous! Public speaking makes me nervous but I wanted to say a few words so I had to try to get over my fear of public speaking.
As for the Osama thing, I'm probably one of a few people who is not really sure if he is dead. I would like to believe that that sucker is dead, but I want to see proof that he is dead. Where's the body? How did he die? IDK, maybe I'm just weird like that.
Oh, and Jen024 says hello!
This weekend was exhausting, stressful, and not really all that fun. Saturday was long, with a lot of driving (back and forth from MD to NJ), and the fancy expensive buffet that Jeff's family had hyped up so much was kind of crappy - of course I have to pretend it was totally awesome or I'm a snob. Sunday we went on a charter boat - Jeff organized it and there were seven of us. I hate hosting a bunch of people, I worry too much about everyone else having a good time, and I was getting really frustrated with Jeff for being a shiitty host, spending the whole time texting back and forth with his brother and ignoring the fact that everyone was hungry afterward. It sucks when you want to take someone aside and have a 'discussion' but you can't, so you let things slide rather than argue in public. We rarely fight, but it felt like Jeff was being a douche and as a result I was acting like a harpy. I think one of our friends was sort of miserable, too, and I felt responsible since we (Jeff) planned the trip and that was definitely affecting my mood.
Today I'm exhausted from the lack of sleep and all the goings-on this weekend, and I feel like crap for not exercising and for eating badly, when I was doing so well. And today I find out we're going out to lunch for a co-worker's birthday...yay. Hopefully tomorrow I'm in a better mood.
/rant.
Good Morning...I had a crazy, busy weekend for my sister's vowal renewal ceremony/reception. I felt like it was my wedding all over again because of all the work I did. And there was very little sleep (worse than mine).
My allergies are killing me and I stayed home today. After being outside all weekend, they've flared back up and I still have a froggy voice. Freakin' lovely.
I'll do some work from home today but mostly and finish the rest later this week.
I'm glad the search for Bin Laden is over but it's far from over and we don't look any better for celebrating and rejoicing over his death. And I also want proof, like Deb.
Hello!
I'm busy at work, as usual. I had a meeting at work on Friday that went way better than expected and hopefully things will improve here. Even though I'm sure it means I'll need to once again take over more responsibility for the time being.
I was insanely lazy on Saturday and instead of studying for my finals I decided to read Water for Elephants. OMG AMAZING! If you haven't read it yet, you need to. Like tonight.
Sunday all of my finals became available online and even though I wasn't expecting to do them for both of my classes in one day, I did. The accounting one was 3 parts, I got 100%, 100% and 87.9%. Stupid stock questions. The other one was 48 questions worth 10 points each. I got 4 wrong, so hopefully the professor will divide normally and that means I got a 91.6% on it.
I don't know what to do without these college classes taking up all of my free time. I told H he's going to have to start spending time with me again since I'm just going to be wandering around with nothing to do. Although I got the course book for next semester and I'm waiting on the owner @ work to tell me which classes he wants me to take.
Oh, I started the 30 day shred again last Wednesday. I took off Thursday, but did it Friday - Sunday. Last night H asked me if I had lost any weight. Nothing is showing on the scale yet, but I feel skinnier. Yay! I'm also logging everything I eat on sparkpeople.com again.
I thought it was pretty funny how the radio announced the death of Osama today. They said that Mariah and Nick are probably pretty pissed that the birth of their twins had to share the same weekend as the royal wedding and the death of Osama. I'm also slightly skeptical that he's actually dead. I mean, I'm sure Obama wouldn't say he was unless he really is, but I need pictures or something. I'm already tired of everyone commenting on facebook about it though.
And I think that concludes my Monday morning novel.
Married / The Cookaholic Wife
Happy Monday all!
Weekend was ok, I'm sad it's over. Friday I left work early to go home and sleep. Then we went to a bar for a friend's 30th bday party. Was kinda lame since she's 9 months pregnant and other new moms brought their newborns. Felt more like a baby shower where I drank martinis all night long
Saturday was the Cowboys N Indians bday party. Super fun! There were mostly cowboys, since it's easier to do than Indians, but one guy showed up in a full headress from the costume shop. I took no pics, I'm lame. My bestie and I defended our beer pong champ title, we rock!
Sunday we went to MILs house and watched Fringe. Then went to see Fast Five. Highly unbelievable movie, yet highly entertaining. The Rock fighting Vin Diesel was a big lustfest of muscle-man-meat.
LTB-my morning radio show also commented on the Mariah Carey/Nick Cannon vs. Royal Wedding vs. Bin Laden stories. I thought it was hysterical. I can picture Mariah throwing a shiit fit about it. I didn't believe Bin Laded was dead at first, but the details they're releasing are leaning me more towards not needing proof and believing Obama. Not gonna party in the streets, but I'm glad it's over for now. Retaliation does seem imminent IMO.
Why did the weekend have to end so soon? Had a busy weekend too, painted part of the master bedroom, went to a birthday party for friend's son at Chuck E. Cheese and we said bye to our nephews Sat night since they had to go back home yesterday to the freakin' desert of CA. Did some laundry and cleaning, ran with the dog and yesterday I volunteered at a trail race for half of the day and earned some credits for future races.
My boss is headed out on vacation Friday but has a busy week this week, which means I'll have a busy one too (which is good & bad). Shoot me now.
As far as OBL, I hope he is really dead and it wasn't a body double that was killed. Come on DNA analysis!
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I posted and ran earlier and I'm just getting back. I'll write my book now...
Saturday was dump day for our township, we took a truckload of random junk from the barn... worked on a few things, then I went to work 12-9 while Hubby did a bunch more stuff.. like mowing our lawn and working on our driveway. THEN, Hubby called me about 5 to say that the power was out AGAIN and we didn't get it back til almost midnight. *sigh* -little backstory- Our transformer got hit by lightning about two weeks ago now, and since then we have had two random outages... Apparently we needed a new one. Hopefully it's fixed now and I will be asking for a bill credit, but I doubt we'll qualify.
Sunday was a work day for us. Grocery shopping, mowing/weedwhacking the grandparents lawn, plowing/disking my garden area, dishes and laundry.... etcetc.
In case anyone doesn't know I have been working pretty hard on my glass etching and all that, making a "business" FB page and filling it with pics and possible prices for all the cool stuff I can do. I have a bunch of things to work on with that this week (filling a Dale Earnhardt Sr. mug order, etching the glass in a picture frame for a Mother's Day or graduate gift..) and I have had NO time lately to do ANYTHING but just get by.
My Osama opinion is this. I think it's a great thing that our military successfully completed an important raid without any of our men hurt, and I am glad to have a terrible man "off the streets" so to speak, but I really don't understand the celebrations in the street and the nonstop new coverage. I think a mention would have been sufficient, that's all our troops get when we have a casualty.... Why is Bin Laden so "special to monopolize our attention. I also worry about retaliation from his loyals. Personally, I don't need "proof" of his death either. As a normal citizen I feel that they (as in the military/government) wouldn't make this huge hoopla over nothing..
but then again, I've been wrong before. I guess the whole thing just suprises me.
I'm here, and excited for the week. I'm away at a conference/training through Thursday. Of course I didn't sleep well last night, being away from H and the puppy, but this is the price. I lived in the city where I'm visiting for several years, so I'm taking this week as a culinary tour of my old favorites. This morning it's off to Hank's for crab cakes eggs benedict, yay!
This weekend was long and productive. Community yard sale on Saturday, sold tons of crap and dropped most of the rest off at Goodwill. H is listing the last of the stuff on Craig's List so we can really get the office and guest room cleared out of extra stuff. This is good, because we bought a crib this weekend! It's this, but in antique black:
Wow, just checking in and NOTHING happened on here over the weekend. I guess we're dying out =(
I'm in rare form today. I took last Friday off to take my mom to get her CT scan of her wrist. Turns out she ruptured two tendons and when they pulled away they pulled tiny pieces of bone away with them. Ouch. Good news is they will fuse back together and she did not need surgery - just a cast for another couple months, even though she JUST got her other one off!! I swear I could not be making this up: she tripped at work a couple months ago and fell breaking both her wrists. She was doing PT and wasn't able to perform her usual job (she's a nuse). Last Wednesday was literally the day she was officially cleared to go back to work full duty, no casts. She ended up reinjuring her left wrist I posted about the SAME NIGHT! She's back to square one, except this time she didn't injure herself at work so she won't be getting worker's comp. Ugh.
Then, yesterday, I think I broke the little toe on my left foot while doing laundry. It's bruised and swollen and very painful. I have it taped but I know there's not much else they will be able to do for it.
When I went home to help my mom, my sister showed up and my parents had to tell her she will no longer have her apartment. She was crying at first but in a weird way I think she's relieved since it'll at least be less to worry about for her.
The good part of the weekend was H and I went out for a nice dinner at Capital Grille for our 5-year anniversary. I got Lobster and Crab stuffed shrimp; he got some kind of Delmonica steak. Amazing food and we even got a champagne toast and a free piece of chocolate cake for dessert with rasberries and fresh whipped cream. Such a nice night
I'm glad they got Bin Laden. They had his DNA to match up if they ever captured him, they had his body, the integrity of the President of the United States will be destroyed if it ever came to light they were making this up and he announced it to the world. The thought never even crossed my mind that it could be fake. I agree that it's a bit extreme to be taking celebrations out to the street. 9 years, 7 months, 21 days since the September 11 attacks and it's a time to be thankful for how much the troops that are fighting overseas have sacrificed for our freedom.
WOOOOOOOT, $1k chair and a nice gently used crib. That's the way to do things. Good work!
I'm unsure why people need proof that Bin Laden is dead since it's coming from all sides - dems, repubs, military sources. Plus if they announced this and he wasn't and we got a sh%tstorm of attacks from him later, wouldn't we look like severe a$$holes? Is everyone a conspiracy theorist?
As far as retaliation, my thoughts are this: terrorism has existed since man began to walk the earth, only the faces and tactics and reasons have changed as the world has changed. As long as humans are here, there will be war and terrorism. I think that's a solid fact. I'm sure the terrorists were planning something before this, they always are.
Oh wow that is awesome! I did look on CL briefly but didn't see anything great! Yeah if you can find a good deal grab it while you can
My thoughts (on OBL) exactly, well put. I don't need to see a picture, thanks.
And thanks, on the crib! I'm super excited.