D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
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.
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.
Manic Monday Poll
Here goes!
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list
2. One item you're procrastinating on
3. Fantasy vacation spot
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes.
Re: Manic Monday Poll
1. An expense report!
2. Curtains for the living room. Right now I have two different curtains in the living room, contemplating which one I hate less. Ugh. I wish someone would redecorate my house. For free, of course.
3. I'll go with Australia, because I could go for a shiraz and a scuba.
4. I got a giggle out of this WaPo article on what manly pictures women would rather receive via Twitter. Think "Porn for Women."
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: get hanging candle holders for back porch
2. One item you're procrastinating on: painting the trim throughout the house
3. Fantasy vacation spot: Scotland
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes: My Drunk Kitchen. ywia. oh, she does drop the f-bomb a couple times, just fyi.
We make the rockin' world go 'round.
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: I found a stylist and I'm biting the bullet and getting a hair cut here.
2. One item you're procrastinating on: A transactional reconciliation for work
3. Fantasy vacation spot: Tahiti
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes: I'm currently debating this haircut. Thoughts? http://www.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2011/05/brooklyn-deckers-bob-haircut-t.html
Stand up for something you believe in.
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: Called my BFF in Seattle - we've been playing phone tag for weeks.
2. One item you're procrastinating on: Organizing my files at work.
3. Fantasy vacation spot: Hmmm... probably Patagonia, since we just crossed off New Zealand and we went to the Galapagos for our honeymoon (those were the two trips I've been wanting to do for a long time).
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes. This would fall in the funny/silly category: http://theoatmeal.com/
Baby248 - ETA 1/10/13
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list
Contacting parents about missing permission forms
2. One item you're procrastinating on
Scoring some writing papers
3. Fantasy vacation spot
Europe
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html
My Food Blog
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list
Giving our cat a bath
2. One item you're procrastinating on
everything? planning a Vegas bachlorette party (I don't know why I'm procrastinating)
3. Fantasy vacation spot
Greece
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes.
http://whatiwore.tumblr.com/
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: Writing my final paper from my dissertation nearly 4 years later. That takes procrastination skill!
2. One item you're procrastinating on: Making wedding albums (2 years later). I have a vision now I need to execute!
3. Fantasy vacation spot: Thailand
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes. Nothing exciting but I'm looking for some bright fun nail color for summer. Perhaps that will make me paint my nails more often! http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=S10701 I really want the bright blue Glee one!
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: Getting budget software so I can really start tracking our finances.
2. One item you're procrastinating on Getting the flooring fixed in our kitchen. The tiles have cracked and I want to replace them with marmoleum, but have done zero about it aside from one time googling "marmoleum flooring."
3. Fantasy vacation spot Hmm. I've actually done a lot of my fantasy vacation spots (sorry!) but I would love to go to do a trip that consisted of Seattle, a few days in Vancouver, then an Alaskan cruise.
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes. Well, this probably doesn't help anyone who doesn't have an iPad, but I love the InStyle Hairstyle Makeover app. So much fun! For those who are iPad-less, I offer: http://dumbtweetsatbrands.tumblr.com/
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
I have it! Slushied, yes? It has been my favorite toe nail color since it rolled out this spring. It looks particularly awesome with the red crackle over it.
Stand up for something you believe in.
Here goes!
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list
getting estimates for house stuff
2. One item you're procrastinating on
buying a couch
3. Fantasy vacation spot
Fiji
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes.
www.goop.com1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list Painting our bookshelves & DH's dresser
2. One item you're procrastinating on Calling to get our car insurance transferred
3. Fantasy vacation spot Seychelles (it was my fantasy before Will & Kate honeymooned there)
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes. Y'all may know this blog already, but in case you don't: http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
1. One item you've recently checked off your to-do list: Digging out of my inbox at work post-vacation
2. One item you're procrastinating on:Cleaning my closet (it seems as if this is always on my procrastination list...)
3. Fantasy vacation spot: A trip around the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark or the cruise to Greece, Montenergo, Croatia and Italy :-)
4. Please provide a link to something silly, funny, or fashionable for more procrastination purposes.
www.xkcd.com or www.theoatmeal.com
Yes, that one! I think you have won me over! ::runs to Sephora::