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.
happy hump day
today is my friday and i could not be more pleased. i am all packed and ready to go to boston after work. we have to be up at 3 am to get out shuttle over to the airport and our flight is at 5. to KW by 1 
all i want to do is sit by our pool tomorrow (not even beach it, i will be too tired) with a cocktail until i fall asleep. and then i want to wake up, go get some seafood, come back home, and sleep again. THEN on friday i can really start enjoying the island!
clean up in town is going well, it is so wonderful to see so many volunteers helping. the bridge will be out for quite awhile (#1 thing damaged in my town) but the restaurant that brings all the tourists (simonpearce.com) plans to open again for fall foliage (which is truly amazing to me, two sub levels and the main floor were both under water) which is uplifting to think about. we will be at their relaunch dinner for sure.
anyway, hope you all have a great week and a half! i should have some time to check in later today, but other than that, i am out like a boner in sweatpants until monday the 12th.
happy one year to some of you! amazing to think of what we were all doing one year ago today...
Re: happy hump day
Shauni- Have a blast on your vacation. Have a drink or 5 for me at Irish Kevins and some conch fritters ar Schooners. Happy 1 year to you while you are gone.
It is really amazing to me that next month we will all have been married for a year, This year has flown by.
Last night I made pancakes and eggs for dinner and it was very yummy. Watched my DVR.
Glad to hear that clean up is going well in your town, Shauni. Between the after-Irene images and all the 9/11 anniversary stuff on the boob tube, I am bawling every other minute. Post-baby / PMS hormones suck.
K and I have had a number of mini-heart-to-hearts over the last several days about division of labor in our house. He's a little slow sometimes, but I think he's finally getting that, as awesome as I am, I still can't do it all. I do love that man, though.
And I bit the bullet and decided to start studying for my exams again. After a 2-year hiatus it's going to be god-awful hitting the books. But it is a necessary evil. I was promoted in the spring and I don't want to be topped-out career-wise because I don't have my fellowship. D-Day is May 9, 2012. Let the countdown begin.
Shauni, so glad you're going on vacay. Much needed and I hope you have a blast. It's great to hear about your town rebuilding, I've been thinking about you a lot and glad you guys are ok.
I have an MRI on my knee this afternoon. Please keep your fingers crossed that I don't need surgery again. I can't take the long recovery and lack of activity. Thank tiny baby arthritic knee having Jesus that this month has an extra payday. Stupid deductible
I convinced DH that we should go to Melting Pot on our actual anniversary since we'll be dog sitting and can't do anything other than dinner. He doesn't like the place b/c he hates dealing w/ raw meat and he thinks it takes too long to cook. I told him to give it ONE more chance and if he has another bad time, we'll never go again. (Which would be terribly tragic!)
Shauni- have fun and be safe!
Last night went home and it was rainy and cold and crummy. So i ate dinner and curled up on the couch. It was glorious.
Woke up at 10:30 pm (yes was already asleep) then again at 2:30 and this time was awake until about 5 am. Ridiculous! Dragging butt this morning.
That's all for now.
Happy Wednesday all!
It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! doot-de-doo-doot-de-do-do-dooo!!!
Nothing good going on here. Nothing too bad either.
I keep hearing that Zac Brown Band song with Jimmy Buffet and wishing I was going on vacation to somewhere warm with a beach. I am absolutely green with envy, shauni! And I say I want to go somewhere warm with beach, but H and I would spent about 75% of the time asleep. We're sleepers.
The Princess of Anything is Coming!
Had a dream I was queen.
Woke up. Still queen.
Happy vacation lady! So happy you will be on your way to KW this time tomorrow. Happy anniversary!
Last night I made the rest of my enchiladas, put a load of laundry away, ran and emptied the dishwasher, packed lunch and gym bag, and went to The 80s Rock Against Cancer Trivia. That was fun, we came in second. MFD said the bar food was the worst food he's ever had in his life. I was asleep by 11:30 p.m.
I have lots of cleaning to do but I really need to be in bed with a benadryl by 10 p.m. I am exhausted. I have PMS and I'm ready to punch.
I am in a livid Fing rage at SEPTA. I do not freaking get this. All other train lines are running. Amtrak is running and they run on the same lines so they can't use the hurricane as an excuse anymore. They're running two trains into the city in the morning in the same time they normally run NINE. WTF. I am furious.
This commute is killing me. Over an hour on the train each way every day this week, plus the drive time to the stations. The normal commute sucks, this extended one pisses me off.
Work it SusieQ! Good for you on the studying.
I told MFD this morning that he needs to pick it the F up, I need help and he's been busy lately at work so he hasn't done a lot around the house. I'm busy too. Let's do this.
Misty - agreed on boner in sweatpants. Hilarity.
I have to side with your hubby, I am not a Melting Pot fan.
I hope you don't have to have knee surgery! That would be le suck.
Guaranteed, this is the most hilarious thing I will hear all day.
Have fun on your vacay!
TTC since 08/2010
Anovulatory since at least 12/2010 (probably longer, unDx)
Dx PCOS 3/2012
SA 5/25/12--normal
June 2012--50mg clomid+TI--BFN
July 2012--50mg clomid+Ovidrel+TI--BFN, lining at 5mm
August 2012--5mg femara+Ovidrel+TI
Love boner in sweatpants but wanted to be slightly mature after blue balls.
Love, love, love the MP. Not going ever again would be tragic.
SMD - any idea when the trains will be back to normal?
I've only been once. I LOVED the cheese and dessert part. The meat part kinda did creep me out.
Boner in sweat pant also made my morning
praying to the boner gods that you don't have to get surgery.
sidenote: boner is one of my most favorite words of all time.
sidenote #2: rumor is barry o will be coming to my town today or tomorrow to survey the damage. of COURSE the #1 person I have ever wanted to meet comes to my hood while i am away. fml.
Blog
Ha ha. I think "Out like a boner in sweat pants" will be the new replacement for my old and lame "Off like a prom dress." :-)
Enjoy your vacation, Shauni! I'm sure you need it after all the stress of this past week. Glad the rebuilding has started and so happy your little restaurant will be back up and open soon. I can't believe it's time to start talking about foliage already!
Brew, MP sounds awesome! I can't ever get K to go there. He gets pissed that he has to pay a shitton of money to cook his own food.
I'm getting psyched for my trip. Still. Nothing's changed since yesterday. :-) I started packing up some things last night so I don't forget anything. Dealing with visa requirements and vaccination records and all that is something I've never dealt with before, so I'm getting neurotic over making sure I have everything.
Other than packing, I watched the latest episode of Weeds and went to bed early. All in all a good night. :-)
Shauni - have fun in KW! So jealous. I need a major vacay...maybe a long weekend getaway will be in the picture at the end of the month.
Brew - fingers crossed for no surgery! And there's no MP around here so never been. Might have to look up where the nearest on is and try it out.
Susie - GL with the studying!
I've been up since 5:30. I only hit the snooze once (pretty sure that's a record). I was out of the house by 6:00 and headed to the nursing home. I wasn't able to squeeze them both in this morning so will probably be going to the other one this afternoon.
I rushed home last night so J could take my car after my 5:15 client cancelled only to find out he'd already left for his training. I promptly fell asleep on the couch while the ribs finished cooking in the oven. OMG those babies were YUMMY! However, I didn't have the energy or the hunger to fix anything else. J asked where the other food was when he got home...oops. I was out by 9:30.
I NEED to go to Hobby Lobby or some craft store and get some felt and then hit up the goodwill store for some old records for some decorations for my mom's 50th party. I broke down and told her the theme this morning (well, she does need an outfit so my sisters can suck it if they don't like it) and she LOVED it! Score!
That is. Back to my super busy hellish day.
This.
Shauni- KW sounds awesome. Boner in sweatpants makes me giggle.
Susie- Yay for school, You can DO IT!!!!
Brew- Boo on the MRI, I had an ACL replacement surgery in Dec of '02. It was my freshman year of college AND it was rehabbed in Jan in MI. Snow on crutches, no thanks.
Hubby came home at a decent time last night, so we had dinner together and even some sexy time (which has been suffering lately).
I have to take Piper to the vet for her shots this afternoon.. but otherwise I'm just home working on laundry and dishes (hoping that some of the craigslist stuff I put on yesterday finally sells.
Yes hump day it is. Why did I go to bed last night thinking it's going to be Friday today, crikey. Anyways, working from home today but my stupid computer updated itself after I left so I'm waiting for a co-worker to help me log on when she gets into the office since my boss gets in after 830am. Dog and I ran about 4.6 miles this morning and while running I realized that I forgot to defrost the lunch meat so this means that I'll probably drop off a Subway sandwich to my DH for lunch so he doesn't buy any of the crapola food at the gas station next to his work. Need to grocery shopping today since we're just about out of, I don't know, everything.
Brew - good luck with the doc, hope you don't need surgery.
Shauni - enjoy the vacation, I know it's much needed. I went to KW about 15 years ago, lol.
IUI #1 10/12/11 (Bravelle + HCG + Prometrium & acupuncture) = 10/26 BFP! Beta #1=250, Beta #2= 615. 1st u/s 11/8.
If it's needed it will be ASAP, right when the big Oct blizzard usually hits CO
Do you guys think if DH really doesn't want to go to MP, I should pick somewhere else? 'Specially since it's OUR anniversary, not mine?
Loooove the 'boner in sweatpants' line. Jeff will appreciate that, we joke about that all that time.
Shauni - enjoy your vacation!
Steph - not to side with SEPTA, since I hate our train system too, but it's possible that some of their trains got effed up. When we had a monster snow storm, the trains were messed up well after the tracks were cleared because so many trains had been damaged during the storm, as well as their communication center. Since Amtrak uses different trains and whatnot, they might not have been affected the same way. I only say this because sometimes it makes me less frustrated to know there's a LEGIT reason for my inconvenience, vs someone being a twatwaffle.
Today is my Thursday, since the campus is closed Friday and Monday for the stupid Baltimore Grand Prix. I suppose I could have taken Monday off, anyway, but most of us typically don't. I am considering not even coming in tomorrow - traffic is already supposed to be craptastic, and a lot of people aren't coming in. There's some stuff I could work on from home.
I feel kind of sh!tty today because a friend of mine recently found out her husband is cheating on her. I sort of kind of knew about it (fourth-hand rumors), but was hoping it wasn't true. She'd had a bunch of FB statuses lately that led me to believe she knew/suspected, but I wasn't sure if I was just reading into it too much because of my 'knowledge' and my guilty conscience (I've felt bad about not saying anything, but didn't think it was a good idea). Today her FB status made it plain that she knows.
I feel terrible because I didn't reach out to her sooner in any capacity, and because I just didn't want it to be true. It sucks.
I would say yes, only b/c MP can get pricey, so if it was me in his position, I'd want to go somewhere we both want if we're going to be paying a good amount.
Shauni, have fin on your holiday. If you happen to be looking for a nice romantic dinner one night, go to Latitudes. It's one of my favourite restaurants of all time. It's out on that private island off the coast. You take a boat to get to it (it's behind the westin). It's open air dining and you can walk on the beach afterwards. It's also set up so that you can see the sun set. Damn it, I wanna go!
Brew, I'm corssing my fingers that you don't have to get surgery. That would blow.
SuzieQ, I hate school and I do not envy you have to study again. Although..I didn't so much mind studying and exams, I detest having to go to class. ugh ugh ugh
No news for me here. I'm going a little batty, trying to be patient and wait until the appropriate time to pee on a stick and find out if we managed to get preggers again. This is so dumb. I never even wanted kids before, but not it's like principle. I feel like I have something to prove. I am indeed a moron.
TTC since 2010
Me: 36, slightly elevated FSH. Everything else (hysterescopy, HSG, b/w) normal.
DH:30, with super sperm? >200mil post wash
BFP #1 - May 2011 - m/c @ 8weeks
IUI #1 - July 26 2012 - Femara = BFN
Suprise BFP Jan 15 2013. Hope this one sticks!
Oh little baby jesus, vacation sounds wonderful right now! I hope you ladies have a great time.
I'm lol'ing that even my saint of a BFF is now annoyed by my MIL, who keeps saying things like she's not sure exactly WHERE the baby shower will be, when she's been told many many times that it is at BFF's mother's house. MIL is very kind and nice, but she can also be frustrating. Don't ask a question if you're not going to bother to read my answer, and then just ask 5 other people the same question.
And my sister isn't helping - she apparently ran out of invites to the shower and didn't send one to the ILs. Doh! And yes, they're going to be in town from PA and coming. MIL keeps bringing up questions about when and where the shower is because she didn't get an invite, but she knows very well that's something I didn't have control over, because my sister did them. Ugh.
I think trying to get KU makes us all BSC. It's because there is so little about the process that you can actually control, and most of it is a "wait and see" game. It's infuriating and stressful and, as I said, makes you go BSC.
TTC since 08/2010
Anovulatory since at least 12/2010 (probably longer, unDx)
Dx PCOS 3/2012
SA 5/25/12--normal
June 2012--50mg clomid+TI--BFN
July 2012--50mg clomid+Ovidrel+TI--BFN, lining at 5mm
August 2012--5mg femara+Ovidrel+TI
googling now!
Blog
Dats...aren't you guys trying too? And Leolyns?
How are you girlies doing?
TTC since 2010
Me: 36, slightly elevated FSH. Everything else (hysterescopy, HSG, b/w) normal.
DH:30, with super sperm? >200mil post wash
BFP #1 - May 2011 - m/c @ 8weeks
IUI #1 - July 26 2012 - Femara = BFN
Suprise BFP Jan 15 2013. Hope this one sticks!
My issue with SEPTA is not that the train is not running, it's that there is no communication as to why it's not running, when they think it might run again, or even that they don't know when it will run again.
I would be happy if they said "Seek other transportation until further notice because we have trains that have been damaged."
Instead they give no info, run trains whenever the F they want, cancel them whenever they want and don't tell anyone when where why or how.
Gotcha - that makes a lot of sense. Ours is the same with crappy communication. One day after work I walked to my stop and it was closed. I called Jeff and asked him to check online to see what was up, and whether it would re-open soon and if I could walk to the next stop or if that was also closed, and the website said there was nothing wrong. Another day, they just kicked us off at a random stop with no explanation, and couldn't tell us when the train would start running again. I had never been to that stop before, and went above ground to find that it was in a VERY bad neighborhood. I called Jeff crying and he had to stop work to come get me and drive me to work. That kind of stuff happens infrequently, but it's delayed/stopped a lot. Or they will send a mini-train (two cars instead of 4 or 5) during rush hour and it gets so crowded that people can't get on, and I'm stuck wondering if I'll be able to get on the next train (which is supposed to be in ten minutes but can be as much as 20).