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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.
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.
Need some local nestie pals
Hey guys,
So here's my dilemma. I'm a Minneapolis local, loving life with the new hubby and new home. We're both recent college grads and working on establishing careers and getting started with the rest of our lives. HOWEVER, most of my college pals are still in the "wake up in some random dude's bed" phase. While I respect this, and still have my party days, I find that they have a hard time understanding my married lifestyle. So basically I just wanted to say hey, my name's Megan, let's be friends! 
Megan
Re: Need some local nestie pals
Isn't it amazing how hard it can get to meet people and make friends later in life? It's not like we go out and knock on doors and say "hey". Kudos to you for blatantly putting this out there.
Also so often by this age people have their friendships established and aren't necessarily looking for close friendships.
What is it you and your hubby do that you're busy establishing your careers?
Hey Megan! Welcome to the boards. I couldn't agree more with you on how hard it is to find good friends!
After marrying my husband I moved to St. Cloud where we purchased our first (now we are on our second) home. All of my friends are in the twin cities or still doing the college thing. I totally understand where you are coming from.
The girls on this board are great! Occasionally there are "get togethers" where the girls meet up. I unfortunately haven't been able to attend any of them yet, though. I hope you find the boards helpful and fun.
-Bethany
My Cooking Blog
Hey! We're sort of in the same spot, being that we're one of the first in our group of friends, to get married. For the most part, our friends are on the same page as us, but then you have the ones that we're having "peanut wars" at our reception. YEAH. CLASSY.
We find, that there are just some friends we can't hang out with, unless we want to have drinks & "party". Then there's other friends we can do dinner, vacations & just hang out with, because they're more on our page.
It's crazy to me, how the relationships really have to change as people grow, which doesn't always happen & in turn, pushes people away.
I'm new myself to TN. I was an avid poster on TK, during wedding planning, but am trying to make the transition here now! = ) It's amazing how having an outlit like this is so helpful!
Hope you find the boards helpful! These ladies seem great!
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Michael & Andrea - 09.09.11
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Hi and welcome!
I get where you're coming from, I'm just kind of on the other end of the spectrum. Instead of being the first of our friends to get married, we were among the last. We were both 31 when we got married and are now almost 35, so we don't have the issue with friends still living a college/party kind of lifestyle.
We're now in the situation where a lot of our friends have kids (we don't) and it's hard to plan social outings when our friends have to arrange for and pay babysitters. I'm not a child hater or anything, I'm all for planning kid-friendly events sometimes like asummer BBQ or game night or whatever. But once in awhile we'd like to go out to a nice restaurant or a show/concert. We're beyond the "party" days too, but still like to have adult-only social events occasionally.
I dearly love my friends, it just seems that we spend less and less time together and I miss the social events.
I had been thinking of trying meetup.com, does anyone here have experience with that?
Mr. Sammy Dog
Welcome!
My H and I are in the same boat. Newlyweds (not so much anymore, but still) so our friends who are still dating don't "get it" all the time that we don't want to go out and party. Wine, please...hang over until noon - no thank you, I have DIY projects to do!
My H grew up in this area, so he still sees his HS friends occasionally. I grew up in SoDak, went to school in small town MN and then came here. I have a couple female friends outside of work, but it's tough.
What career are you establishing? Which part of Mpls do you live? I'm in the north burbs, although the MN nesties are all over.
-Susan
Certified Veterinary Technician / SAHM