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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.
Re: Ten Things Tuesday
1. I'm sick of doing laundry. It just never stops.
2. I know it's only going to get worse once the baby arrives.
3. I do not like ironing DH's shirts. Even though they claim to be "wrinkle free" I still have to iron them from time to time.
4. I have some errands to do today and I don't feel like doing them.
5. I didn't change out of my pajamas all day yesterday.
6. I'm getting a pedicure tomorrow after my Dr.'s appt. and I'm excited.
7. I haven't had a pedicure in years.
8. I vow that today will finally be the day that I pack my hospital bag.
9. I think I'm feeling grumpy today.
10. I need to get off the computer and do something.
*edited out due to repeat. sorry*
*edited out due to repeat. Sorry, but computer had a spasm. I don't know why I can edit the comment, but not delete it. grrr*
1. Posting this reminded me that I needed to call my step-mom and wish her a happy birthday.
2. I am an idiot about #1. Last week Friday I posted about needing overnight delivery for her b-day gift. I had her birthday written in an old calendar, and when I looked at that, I totally had a duh moment and forgot to figure out the date, and not the day. Even though I knew her birthday was the 27th, it never occurred to me that it was the 27th on Saturday like 3 years ago. I ended up wasting $ on the overnight delivery, and exhibiting my idiotness when I called her 4 days early for her birthday.
3. Step-mom is having surgery tomorrow (re: some skin cancer). Prayers please.
4. I ended up making a dress shopping appointment for Saturday.
5. Because of #3, she is now not sure if she can go dress shopping on Saturday. Luckily, at least one of FI's sisters and his mother are coming. So I won't be totally alone.
6. I still haven't talked to my mom since last week.
7. We are in a stalemate.
8. #6 and #7 suck.
9. I have no idea how to resolve #6-8 because, quite frankly, I am still hurt and angry.
10. My engagement pictures are next week Thursday. Yikes.
1. I have a meeting at 1 today, but that's normally when I eat lunch. I'm torn about whether to eat lunch before the meeting or after...
2. Why do people have to go messing with my schedule like that!
3. I really want breakfast for dinner tonight!
4. I'm trying to figure out how to create a healthy breakfast that includes some vegetables.
5. I'm thinking tomatoes, onions, ham and cheese baked in a ramekin with an egg... That sounds so good to me right now!
6. I also have left over taco meat that I could eat for dinner... but breakfast sounds so much better...
7. I NEED to get my flower beds planned out so I can get some flowers in the ground before it gets too late into the fall.
8. I need to go grocery shopping tonight!
9. All of this talk about halloween candy has made me hungry for sugar.
10. I am so excited to start decorating for halloween!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
1. I feel like I have been wondering a lot more lately why people feel the need to be so rude and/or mean to one another. Are people getting worse or am I just noticing more.
2. This includes people having to express their opinion when it's not asked and when they know it differs from yours.
3. I want to tell people to be nicer. Which is funny because I have been sort of grumpy on and off lately.
4. There is one aspect of my job I really hate (besides my boss), but it will always be a big part of it. It makes me wonder how much longer I can stay. That bums me out.
5. I think #4 is why I have been so grumpy.
6. FIL called on Saturday morning and said he was driving by and could he stop by for a quick visit. His call woke me up b/c I couldn't sleep the night before & my house was a bit of a mess.
7. #6 was odd because we see FIL like twice a year. Good guy, but we don't exactly hang out a bunch. It was nice that he made some effort to see his son though.
8. I have been getting a lot of voicemails at work where the person very slowly tells me their life story and then when they finally get to the phone number, they say it too fast for me to understand. Annoying.
9. All of my things are a bit complainy or Eeyore like. Blech.
10. I'm going to wear my new boots this weekend. Yay for new boots.
1. My morning started off crappy... I dropped my whole cup of coffee on myself on my drive into work.
2. I was too far into my drive to turn around and go home so I had to stop at Target to get a new top, which normally I don't mind, but I am trying to not spend extra money and I ended up dropping $40 on a new tank and sweater.
3. I need to get my hair cut but it's been so long I am not sure what to do with it. My H wants me to keep it long, but I can't not handle the 20 minutes it takes me to blow dry it in the morning anymore. One day I might just surprise him and come home with it all chopped off!
4. I have been thinking a lot about what I want to be when I grow up, ha, and decided I am going back to school in the winter. I have a good job now, but I am not happy. I don't want to be an administrative assistant my whole life, and unfortunately I think I will have to leave this company if I plan to do anything else.
5. I have no idea what I want I want to go back to school for?!
6. Do they have assessment test you can take to see what you would be good at doing?
7. I may have the only 15 month old that knows and wants to go to bed at night, all I have to say to DD is 'time for bed give daddy a kiss', and she grabs her pacifier and her stuff dog and goes right to her crib. It's very cute.
8. DD has learned how to climb the baby gate... she climbs it like you would climb a fence.. time to upgrade our gates to ones she can't climb!
9. I have nothing planned this weekend except yard work!
10. I wish today was Friday..
1. I've been really stressed out at work today which has resulted in low productivity and lots of nesting.
2. DH and I are contemplating whether to upgrade to a 2 bedroom or look for a rental house OR stay where we are. Staying where we are or the upgrade sounds good cuz it's EASY!
3. DH is buying me sushi tonight.
4. My henna tattoo is wearing off and that makes me sad.
5. I want a real tattoo but I don't know what to get or where.
6. I haven't been shopping with my mom in forever, and I really want to see her and do that.
7. I don't really have money to go shopping.
8. I need to wash my hair.
9. I got a new shower curtain that ties the bathroom together REALLY nicely. I'm really proud of it, and I hope that I can either decorate the rest of my apartment really nice or decorate the new one when/if we move.
10. I have a headache from clenching my jaw. Ow.
1. Two weeks ago, I had mexican for lunch and then a quesadilla from panchero's for dinner. After dinner we went to my birthing class and while there, my hands started swelling so bad that I had to take my rings off. I had a doc appt the next day and mentioned it to my doctor. He basically said to try to limit my salt intake. I then told him that I did have mexican twice in one day. His response was "yeah, don't do that". Well, I have my BF class tonight & will be going to panchero's with DH on the way. And what did I have for lunch - yep, a burrito.
2. #1 was really long, so I think it counts for two.
3. I am surprised that I don't have a food coma from the burrito yet. I'm actually doing alright.
4. Tonight is the last time I need to go to the hospital (for BF class) until I need to go to the hospital. Yay!
5. We have an u/s on Friday. It will be the first time since the anatomy scan that dh has even heard the heartbeat. It's so cute how excited he is.
6. I have a presentation that I need to give in 2.5 weeks at work. I have not even started on it. I am surprisingly not stressed about this.
7. DH and I went to the UofM game with my parents last weekend. It was a great day, but incredibly tiring. We're going again this weekend, and I'm a little afraid of how worn out I'll be afterwards again.
8. At the game last weekend, when we were going through security to get into the stadium, the guard actually asked me 'you got anything in there?' pointing at my stomach. I looked at him and said, 'yeah, a baby'. He looked at me a little funny & I'm not sure if he was embarrassed or not, but he let me through without any more questions. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
9. Today, I finally finished the year-old paperwork I started last week. It's so nice to get that over with and off my desk.
10. This morning, DH and I finally had a serious discussion about names and I'm pretty sure we're set for both boy and girl. We even have a second girl name, if we don't think the baby looks like what we've got picked out.
This happens all the time to me. I usually end up eating at ~12:30. I hate it when people don't take into account the late lunch eaters.
1. Glad DH is home a few extra days (been here since Thurs. night).
2. He's not sure when he has to leave or where (he knows the client, but not the location: could be their Hartford, Las Vegas or Minneapolis location).
3. I love having DH home, but the planner in me at least wants to know when he'll leave so I can plan things for us to do when he's not here.
4. People who don't put their shopping carts away annoy me.
5. I say #4 since as I was loading DS into the car at JcPenney, I see this cart come right for my van, luckily I stopped it in time.
6. Then when I was at Kroger someone put their cart right in front of mine, and the cart corral was just to the left of them!
7. This makes me sad & mad that people are too lazy to put things back. I'm sure there are many people who are physically unable to do it & they would trade for that person's ability to put a cart back.
8. DS is teething again. How many teeth does he have in that mouth?
We must be close to the end soon.
9. Today is my parents' 42 anniversary, I guess I should probably call them sometime today.
10. I broke my bracelet on the minivan door at JcPenney today. I'm glad I only paid under $5 for it, but sad because it went so nicely w/my outfit today.
1.) We're all moved into our new house!
2.) I feel great in regards to the pregnancy and all but my body and feet ache terribly from moving and packing everyday for the last week.
3.) This house is costing us a fortune! Between Michaels, BB&B and Marshall's Home Goods, we are going to go broke.
4.) Even though I'm complaining about #3, we are on our way to IKEA
5.) I have been off work for a week and I'm dreading going back to work tomorrow.
6.) Today is my sister's birthday and we are going to dinner at Chili's tonight, I'm pretty excited about that.
7.) I bought a dozen Just Baked cupcakes for above mentioned birthday dinner and I think I'm even more excited about that.
8.) Our new house is really amazing, what a ginormous improvement from where we were living.
9.) My cat, Peaches, is slowly becoming acclimated to the new house but she's pretty much a scared-y cat and won't come out from under the bed.
10.) We have a resident red squirrel that lives on our deck and we named him Roscoe.
This made me laugh out loud at my desk. People think I'm crazy!