D.C. Area Nesties
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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.
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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.
My fellow Americans!
Hello!
I officially naturalized yesterday and I'm now an American citizen! 
::waves::
Re: My fellow Americans!
Congratulations! That is wonderful!
I have seen a few naturalization ceremonies and they always make me cry. How was yours?
It was very fun! They added us to the end of the day (late) because they had so many approvals lately so we were a very small class of 16. There was a very sad asylum case earlier in the day that delayed everyone so the USCIS team wanted to "make it happen" for those of us who waited an extra 1.5 hrs. It was just neat to be "official" after being here in the US for so long...and working in politics.
None of us cried but we were all big dorks with huge smiles on our faces taking all sorts of pictures of one another by the flag and the pledge. Our officiant was a pretty funny guy so we mostly laughed. After the video message from the President they had us sit through a photo/video montage to "I'm Proud to be an American" that was, um, it left several of us in giggles for how literal it was (the lyrics said "stand up" and it was always a crowd of folks standing up; the lyrics said a specific part of the country and the cut was that exact cut of the country - it was fun and in the end we were all singing along).
Then we all went downstairs and the whole class registered to vote right away before we went home. That was the best part!
fantastic! and welcome!
(I was born in Canada... but to American parents, on a RAF air force base...)
"What is a week-end?"
Planning Bio
Congratulations!!
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
"just" Canada. It was hardly the transitional moment for me as it was for some in the room and earlier in the interview waiting room (like the woman trying to get through the asylum process who had once been deported back to her country and was tortured there). It was neat to be there for those cases though and help take their pictures by the flags.
Stand up for something you believe in.