September 2009 Weddings
Stand up for something you believe in.
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.
~Beth~
Are you okay? I saw your fb and your week sounds hellacious. Anything we can do?
Stand up for something you believe in.
Re: ~Beth~
Aw, Mary. This was so nice of you. I haven't been able to check in because the past two days have just been miserable. If you'd like a nice read, I will detail all the reasons why (aka, my miserable manifesto email that I sent to my BFFs and sister yesterday) I am grouchy. And trust me, I KNOW that these are first-world problems and on some of them, I am probably being a brat. I'm totally aware of this.
1) My families inability to just pick a frigging day for our yearly family picnic. My cousin is coming home from the Marines and they don't know how long he'll be in town before he has to leave again. But they do know WHEN he's coming and at very least it will be for two weekends. How f'ing tough is it to just plan on one of those weekends?? Instead, they're just sitting, waiting until he gets home. For what? To ask him? He's going to say "I don't care". Meanwhile the rest of us who make plans in their life more than a WEEK in advance are apparently expected to just have two or three weekends wide open. But then when we can't go it's going to be "but you're cousin's back from the Marines." IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. IT HAS TO DO WITH YOU NOT PICKING A F*CKING DAY.
6) My boss' cornea - My boss called Mon morning and left a 10 minute voicemail. Her mom (who watches her kids) was driving her grandmother back to her house in PA today so my boss was going to work from home. On Saturday her house was hit by lightning (for the 2nd time!) and blew up her modem so she had no internet to work from home so she was going to drop her son off at school then come in for a little while. Except Sunday her and her son were horsing around and he SCRATCHED HER CORNEA so deep that she had to go to the hospital (I have a huge issue with eye stuff, I literally THREW my phone receiver at the wall when she said this). So now she has eye antibiotics and an eye patch and can't drive. So she's out and I have to deal with her crappy psychotic clients all week.
7) Tuesday was more crap with her clients. It was a miserable day because my boss apparently promised all these people email blasts but has all their paperwork with counts/quotes/details at home. Really helpful when I have to ask 2 dozen clients a day to resend their info. They love that.
8) TMI - got my period this morning, which probably accounts for about 72% of why I've been so cranky. Not pregnant, on Cycle 9. Those 9 cycles have ranged in length from 37 days to 49 days. So TTC is going pretty badly. Awesome.
9) got home from the gym last night, Jon cooked dinner, I promptly tripped over a cord and upended an entire plate of steak tips with BBQ sauce all over our couch. (which prompted the FB update.)
Yes, I cried. No, I don't know how my husband deals with me. Yes, I do wish there was a #10 because leaving a list at 9 just looks weird.
I saw your FB post and was thinking of you, too. Ugh, I'm so sorry to hear all of this....yeah, taken alone they might seem like some small things, but I totally agree that added all up, that is a lot. I hope your week starts to get better, or at least that you have a better week next week. I also hope that your IL's figure their crap out, and that your TTC journey ends soon. Hugs!
It's just been a stupid week. I know like you said, all these things all by themselves are stupid small annoyances. But my sister's complaining to me about family stuff, my mom's not being helpful, my IL's are being wildly annoying on just about every front and I'm trying to get work done that should be easy but instead is like pulling teeth.
That on top of the TTC stuff and then capping it off with BBQ sauce all over our couch, I've just had it with this week
I know, people have REAL problems and these are not it. I'm just crabby.
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Thanks
I'm very sorry too. That's an overwhelming week for anyone. I understand about the ILs- it isn't that mine are bad, it is just that sometimes they're all up in my business when I don't really want them to be. And they're frustrating because they also never plan things and then suddenly they're coming for 5 days- please clear all schedules. Ugh.
Re: The Boss. It sucks, it seems like one thing after another that no one can help. I'm sorry you have her sucky clients.
Also re: TTC- have you talked to your OBGYN? Are you at 1 calendar year yet? If not, I think it is at least worth a call since your cycles are so long- do you think there's a chance of PCOS (I ask bc my sister has the same issues so I know a little bit about it)?
With the BBQ sauce- there's nothing worse that the thing that trips you over the edge. Doesn't matter how small or stupid. I tripped over my husband's shoe that was left at the edge of my bed where I get out during one week like yours and wailed like a baby for about 15 min. Sometimes the crying makes it better.
Please feel free to email me or message me on fb or page me or pm me here if you ever need to vent, I totally understand.
Stand up for something you believe in.
IL's - they're nice enough people they're just SO gossipy. MIL joined because Jon's aunt is on FB and said to her one day that she probably knows more about what's going on in our life than MIL does. So that got MIL all huffy. Unfortunately now they're both blocked. Just GTFO.
The boss just gave me Monday off, so that kind of helps things. I know it's not her fault that this stuff happened over the weekend, it was just frustrating.
TTC - I went in April, she said to give it 3 cycles and then we'd talk and now it's been that. I'm doing OPKs, so I know I AM O'ing, which is good I guess. We tested for PCOS last time and it was negative and I called this morning and have an appointment for a consult in 2 weeks. I've been off the pill since last Sept so we are coming up on a year. So hopefully we'll figure something out at the consult.
The crying did help a little
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Thanks Mary, I do totally appreciate it. You're the best
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