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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.
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Random time!!
Post em. I know I have plenty.
Re: Random time!!
Stepkids are GONE! My stepdaughter left me a note this morning that said "I will miss you, thanks for a great summer..I would stay, but I miss my Mom more". Thanks. I believe she had good intentions, and I guess I would probably miss my Mom after 6 weeks too, so whatever.
I put avocado in some egg salad I made yesterday (PW recipe) and it was AWESOME!
The Smurfs movie was SO funny! DH and I laughed more than the kids! BUT, PS. If you haven't seen it yet, your kids WILL find inappropriate occasions to use the word "smurf" after seeing it.
1. After getting head butted by Owen, I told a few friends that I thought Owen broke my nose. They told me to go to the dr, I opted not to because when the swelling went down, it looked okay to me, dh said it was fine. I saw my pals. They told me my nose is CROOKED!! Oh great!! Then, my MIL told me the same thing. NOOOOOO!!! Wahhh.
2. Owen fell THROUGH the bleachers at the fair. Scariest 2 minutes of my life, and I am pretty sure no one at that fair saw a pregnant lady run as fast by the porta potty's as I hauled asss. I was like a horse in a barrel race. I thought he was a goner. THEN, to top it off, the security people called the ambulance, and who pulls up - the guys I used to work with. I was mortified. Owen was okay though.
3. At said fair, I had a minor meltdown, and thank jebus I was wearing sunglasses, because I *might* have shed a tear when dh finally brought me back the funnel cake I wanted, and it was BURNT. It was like someone just killed my kitten.
4. I had to remove my wedding rings off of my sausage fingers last night - it was an ordeal, but I got them off. Today, I am buying a cheapie fakie ring because I cannot stand not wearing anything.
1. Our house has been on the market for 3 days and we've gotten 1 call and have a showing at 11:30am today. Yay!
2. DH is home cleaning the house for our showing. No yay! He better be doing a good job. I cleaned this weekend, but wasn't anticipating any showings same day!
3. My van is in the shop and I'm freaking that it's going to cost a bazillion dollars. Go figure the warranty ran out 5K miles ago.
4. I was cranky this morning, but I've had a good amount of caffeine and it has boosted my spirits (not to mention the showing helped). Happy Monday!
1. I feel like a walking zombie. I cannot wait until I am DONE with people from our Honolulu office. 5 hour time difference means my deadlines are falling overnight and on weekends.
2. I used to be in love with dress pants from the Gap (thanks to KMS), but I didn't like the price tag. Lately I am in love with the Perfect Boot Leg pants from ON and they were on sale last week for $19...and I had 2 groupons to use!
3. I plan on drinking my weight in beer Friday.
I'm new around these parts, but I want to play too.
*I'm pissed at DH for moving us up here before we bought a house. We live in a cramped 2 bedroom apartment and it stinks. I keep telling him that I'm not moving at 9 months pregnant, but it's like he isn't listening. I know we had to move for a better opportunity for his job, but come on!
*DD is driving me nuts. She has turned into a little drama queen lately. I feel bad for her, since we moved away from her friends, but when I ask her if she wants to meet new friends she just says "NO!"
*My first wave of morning sickness hit me this morning. I spent 10 minutes trying to puke and couldn't. Sorry, that was gross.
*I finally saw the last Harry Potter movie and I cried like a baby.
We moved when I was 9 months pregnant, and it actually was a great thing! I helped pack some, but when it came to the major moving, I got to sit on my butt and direct people with boxes!
* I have 3 days of summer left, and I'm still sending E to daycare tomorrow. I feel kinda bad, but she has been driving me nuts, and DH won't be home until late tomorrow night. At least I know she loves daycare and her friends.
* I just got an email from school saying I'm going to be sharing my room with a pre-algebra class every morning. I don't know all the details, but I don't know how this is going to work. Teaching 5-6 year olds art while there is an entirely different class going on in the same space is going to be a challenge. I'm betting they'll just boot me from my room during that time and make me travel to their rooms. Fun, fun!
* I'm hoping a semi-normal schedule will help E get to bed better. Putting her to bed has become torture! Last night I had her in bed, lights out at 9:30, but she was still coming out to do whatever until 10:30. I just ignore her, but it's annoying!
* I am making some adult pillowcase style dresses! Someone brought me some fabric to make her 3 dresses. I got the first two done, then cut the 3rd the wrong way, so now I have to go buy new fabric for her. Totally kicking myself on this one!
That's a good point. If this pregnancy is anything like my first, I'll use any excuse to sit on my butt towards the end.
Omg Tiff I HATE when they f up funnel cakes....seriously that is the only reason I go to the Summer Arts Festival every year.
-I'm trying to be good with money and just spent $65 online at Express. I think I need a divorce from that store.
-Diet pop sucks. I want my sugar loaded mountain dew.
-I have no work to do. Great way to start the week.
I hear ya sister! I hate diet pop, and LOVE Mt. Dew..if I can't have that, I'm better off just drinking water. You might try Mio..it's been helping me drink more water, and crave pop less!
I am not ready to go back to work yet. I don't want to leave Charlie... I keep having weepy times at the most random time.
I am stressing about my school schedule- there is no time to pump except early in the morning. I am hoping that my team is understanding. If not, I don't know how long I will last Breastfeeding.
My arm has been sucking as$$this summer. Can I get some of that pregnancy hormone injected? My arm didn't hurt hardly at all during pregnancy.
I need to stop spending money... Daycare is starting next week with Diapers etc. It will be expensive.
I am at my pre-pregnancy weight... but I am distributed differently so I need to go buy new work pants.
* Today was M's first day of daycare. I ugly cried all the way to work and now I'm praying noone at work asked me about it.
* We REALLY need to find DH a daily driver since his truck on a good day gets 9 mpg, but we don't have the extra money upfront to buy one.
* Speaking of money, being on maternity leave killed our savings and now we have daycare to pay for and I'm super stressing even though I know it will all be fine.
* I hate when you are setting up payment plans for bills and they tell you the minimum payment you have to make and they make it sound like it's so little of an amount. Great, but when I have 8 payments of $75.00 that's a lot of money.
* I have a serious love/hate relationship with my job. Most days I hate it.
* I brought a smart one and pizza rolls for lunch today.
I am back to pukey and it sucks.... big time. I let myself get hungry Saturday and it had some baaaaad consequences. Today I just feel like laying on the couch with a bucket...too bad I have three kids at home with me and that isn't fair to them.
All of the hacked Paypal charges came out of my bank account today and that makes me so not happy...it's a big amount and ten days is a long wait to get it back.
I start carpooling tomorrow...THANK GOD....driving to Omaha 5 days a week for 3 years cost a lot of money and a lot of miles.
*R's visitation with d-bag is finally over! R and my parents will be getting here on saturday morning. Yay!!
*d-bag should have officially lost his license, since it has been 30 days since child support enforcement took on the case.
*I had an awesome weekend. Friday night BBQ party in the beer garden with our new neighbors. 3 families and 7 kids. Saturday night Beach party at the town's pool. Sunday, BBQ. At our landlord's house, with some awesome pork roll deal that was stuffed with bacon & onions and cooked over a fire on a rotisserie.
*An American who lives in my town saw me yesterday and said "how far along are you?". I replied "6.5 months.". She said, "oh, you look like you're further along than that.". Nice, huh?
*I'm wearing my favorite dress today, but I can't decide if it's seasonally inappropriate or not. It's short sleeved, and I have on strappy wedges, but it's kind of a turtleneck. It's definitely not a fall/winter dress though. Eh, probably, now that I think about it. Oh well, I feel sexy and skinny, so whatever.
*Between the drunken baby running and the climbing in spaces that are far too small, the boys are covered in little bruises. Totally normal, but I didn't expect to be covered in bruises too. How did I get this giant one on my leg?
*I need to make a consult appointment for getting my wisdom teeth out. I've been stalling for three years. I'm dreading it.
*DH made homemade pizza this weekend, and it was amazing. It's the best thing he makes, hands down, and when he asked if I was going to give some to the boys, I said no. All for me!
Had an autistic student notice my chest and comment about it during class. Thankfully the kids were used to his random comments. Ah 8th grade boys. I wore a lot of cardigans after that.
* My dd decided she is done nursing. Kinda breaks my heart but also excited to be done. Just 38 more days of pumping then onto regular milk. Really gonna miss the extra calories it burns not gonna miss revolving my life around it. Plus a year of nuresing is a success in my book.
* Excited dh is working normal 8-4 hrs this week. We actually get to have a normal nightlife during the week!
what is it with people bringing in their dogs to businesses?
h is being amazing helping me out with my pain lately.
despite the pain i've sucked it up enough to get the bd on. probably making things worse but I love feeling so close to h.
I really want to redo our bathroom but think it will be on hold until next year after I pay off my med bills.
I have too many wants, I always want something....I feel bad about it. My mom said my dad was the same way and I'll out grow it. I only hope.
Kona sent me a coupon up to $15 off an meal for my b-day. woop!
Where do I start.
-I had a impromptu vacation last week which was much needed.
-They finished everything in my house last night at 9pm. We just have 1 fix and the mantle left. So nice to have them gone. But now begins the massive cleaning of the entire house including inside closets. It's almost overwhelming on where I should start.
-I need to rehang all the blinds in my house which is driving me crazy as I hate hanging blinds and of course I don't have the instructions anymore.
-I need to sell my car.
-In 2 weeks I am flying down to drive my mom up. I will have quite the balancing act with the sale, her and Lyra.
-I have so much to do in the next 3 weeks.
-Two days after the sale I am leaving for Oklahoma for a 2 week trip just Lyra and I.
-I'm kinda bummed I haven't bought us football tickets yet.
-Lyra rolled over last night in her sleep and freaked out at about 2am. I was in a deep sleep and had one of those panic moments of standing up then wondering where the hell I was and why dh wasn't getting up with me. Dh was still at work and I am contributing that panic to sleeping in different places for the last week.
My child has gone damn CRAZY. I swore to God & everybody MY child(ren) would not be like this.
I'm so ready to take a break soon from the photog thing. I love it, I really do, but man is it a lot of work.
We have SO many things to get done around this house before Kid 2 makes his appearance and I feel like they're never going to get done. And unfortunately, when one lives in a 100 year-old house, the projects aren't "easy" ones like painting and throwing up a new light switch cover. H is removing the old radiators & pipes this morning as we speak. . . leaving huge holes in the floors & ceilings.
I am gaining WAY more weight than I want/need to be. It's just so hard to get outside and walk 2 miles when it's like this outside. Flip side, it's just SO easy to stay inside and eat crap. I told myself today was going to be the change day. So far, I've had 2 muffins and a cup of coffee.. . and no exercise.
OK, so those were all vents. Whatev.
*If I would have known that I could be *this* happy, I would have not put myself through so much sh!t for so long. Life is too short to spend unhappy and complacent.
*Someone emailed me this weekend from a fake email address. The email was titled "Last Night" and the only thing it said was "Just wanted to let you know that I was with him last night while you were with your kids." Someone obviously has too much time on their hands and wants to stir sh!t and cause issues in my relationship. I ignored it, but I have my guesses as to who it is. Its sad and also makes me bust out the "I pity you" smile every once and awhile.
*Ava and Lily start kindergarten in 18 days. I'm freaking out.
*It's county fair time and I can't wait to get a corn dog! I also heard they have deep fried Oreos. Mmmmmmmmm...
*I'm being contacted quite regularly by consulting firms. Sometimes when my days are really hard and crappy, I consider emailing them back. The travel would make it impossible, but the thought is nice.
*ExH is being really agreeable and actually somewhat flexible/helpful when it comes to working together to give me a day here or there each month to attend things. Most festivities (example, an upcoming wedding shower) are on Saturday's and it's hard to find someone to keep the girls. I hope it lasts, but I can't lie and say that I think it will.
um, SICK. This is beyond someone just having too much time on their hands.. this is creepy! I would forward the email to exH with some sarcastic remark like, "really? i'm fine with you doing what you want, you can tell your gf I dont need a play by play.."
Ugh, sick dude!
Wait - I interpreted this to mean that someone emailed Jeana about her current relationship...like, that this idiot is pretending she was with J's BF while J had her girls for the night?
In any event, that's totally creepy and douchetastic, J. Glad you are not letting it get to you and are brushing off the ridiculousness.
My randoms:
I spent an obscene amount of money this month on clothing, so I'm putting myself (well, all of us) on a spending freeze for August. On the flip side, I love everything I bought for myself, so it's all staying. lol.
I cannot wait until DH is back to an normal work schedule again. He was home for the entire day yesterday and it was so nice to have some normalcy!
I'm excited to hop back into meal planning - I had been slacking since DH wasn't often home for dinner, but I want to have some real dinners for myself.
OH. Well, equally as gross.
** I hate the skirts rule at my job. Yep, we have to wear skirts and nylons every daymn day. Pretty sure I could still do my job in a pair of pants.
** I think I'm more bitter than I thought I would be about my little sister not making me her matron of honor at her wedding. We've been hella close forever, but had some words when she started dating this guy, resovled everything, but I'm pretty sure that's why she chose her friend over me.
** Because of the above, I'm not too upset about not wanting to go 3 hours away for her bachelorette party, and am glad I have my son as an excuse about why I can't go.
** I'm jealous of my husband and feel like he continues to get hotter as time goes on, whereas I feel like I continue to go downhill on a freaking scooter without brakes. Luckily I don't think he feels the same way about me.
** I might not have been as cheerful with DS this morning as I usually am for the fact that he up every 2 hours last night. You're not a newborn anymore. Go the F to sleep. (and I totally was thinking of that book when I was rocking him at 2 this morning.)
** I'd love to never see 2:00 AM ever again. Even when DS sleeps better, I still am getting up to pump then. And I'd love to remember what it's like to sleep longer than a 3 hour strech.
** I really want to tell DH how to do some things with DS more similarly to the way I do them, but feel like he would take it as me trying to tell him how to parent.
Also, this is my new favorite website:
http://surisburnbook.tumblr.com/
and it pisses me off that I can't read it at work. Stupid firewall!
This is fabulous! Now I can waste even more time today!
Pardon my sensible flats. I was not expecting to be photographed at the market. Clearly, Katie wasn?t planning on being seen, either.