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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.
Vent of the Day (Add yours!)
I work for a magazine (I'm the food editor), and our health editor is the unhealthiest person out there. If I proof one more story where she's giving bad advice in print, I might scream and throw staplers at her.
I just had to take a plea to the managing editor to delete a paragraph in a story that recommended bottles shakes like Slimfast as a good breakfast idea, mostly because it was placed right above a sidebar that said to avoid any foods with long ingredient lists. Come on, Slimfast (and other bottled shakes) have a billion ingredients in it!
Vent over.
Re: Vent of the Day (Add yours!)
Mine is just an overall my day is sucking, whiny vent.
I went to bootcamp and our normal instructor is out, the fill in sucked. I got up at 5:30, on 5 hours of sleep, to go to a sucky gym class. I then got to work, I STILL don't have keys to the main door even though I'm usually one of the first people here. I had to stand outside in the cold waiting for someone from animal control (we share a building, they're here 24/7 but the doors are all locked) to see me and let me in. I come in and someone left a cat out in my office. Fine normally except this cat is crazy. I love him, but he's crazy. My trash can was knocked over, trash everywhere, scented oil container knocked over, my papers that were in neat piles were all over the place, he flung litter everywhere, and knocked my phone over and the phone wire (that's behind a filing cabinet) came out. It really was a disaster. So, I spent a total of 50 minutes either trying to get into work or trying to clean up my office.
Ha! I don't. (turn H's clothes right-side-out.) It's from my father - when he did laundry, he never turned clothes right-side-out when folding them, said we should do it before it goes to the laundry. So I say the exact same thing to H and feel like I'm becoming more and more of a perfect and scary blend of my parents lol. I also always have my clothes inside out because of the way I take off my shirts, which apparently is abnormal according to my college friends.
I'm so annoyed about the weather for tomorrow. Rain and snow and other ickiness? Bleh.
I'd like to piggy back off of this. Why does my son insist on leaving pens in the pockets of his school pants? I've forgotten to check them twice and both times, the loads of laundry came out with pens marks all over them
I think this is a man thing. My DH will put everything work related in his pockets and I never check, so I've washed screws, markers, pens, you name it's been washed.
I am much more of a lurker, but I have a big vent I need to get out today.
Background: I am a Special Education teacher for a Baltimore high school and I work in the subject of English. My 9th grade Sped class is the lowest and worst behaved group I have had, ever. They are so below grade level that it scares me and the other half are just flat out crazy. The crazy ones at least are normally absent.
Today was my formal observation. If you are not a teacher, this is akin to standing in a room naked and having people tell you what is wrong with your body. It is nerve wracking. It also happeded to be in this class from Hell. My lesson was solid, but I was still worried that the kids would get the material. I was in the hall doing the between class hall duty, when the kids arrived. ALL OF THEM even the bad ones that are never there. With in seconds two of them were fighting. Thank heaven my AP was walking into the room and grabbed the one boy that attacked the other. Then of course other students have to get involved and start yelling at each other and will not calm down. Two of the angels decided to sit on the back counter and talk out the window to the one boy the police are taking away. (yes this is my life) Finally, we get most of the disruptive ones out. But my lesson is now five minutes behind and the other kids are worked up and I have to get them back on track. I am down an assistant because he had to go with the ones we kicked out, so I have to revise my plan on the spot. I pulled off the lesson ( I think) but now without yet another student acting like a jerk during a good part of the class and ended up walking out of the room.
I am so pissed off right now and question why the world I take time away from my kids to do this job....
DH - I really don't need to hear sound effects from the bathroom. Close the door and turn on the fan. Thanks.
Love this! I'm always saying "Use the spray!"
Maybe this is a man-thing.....my DH seems incapable of operating the fan switch.
I don't turn them right side out either. You'd think H would learn but he doesn't..
I've got a bunch, and no surprise, they're all work related...
My supervisor is completely incompetent to do her job. To her everything is an emergency, she doesn't know the definition of time management, and tries to pawn everything off on other people.
One of the refrigerators at work died last weekend and the person who was supposed to respond failed to notifiy anyone or fix the problem himself until after 20 hours had passed. It wasn't a food refrigerator, but one in the lab that had chemicals, reagents and other things I needed to successfully do experiments. Because the fan kept running even though the compressor stopped working, the fridge got up to 90?F inside, but I'm being told that everything inside is still fine, even though it's 60? warmer in there than it should be. Um no. So because of someone's laziness or a serious design flaw in the system, $500,000 worth of stuff is gone...and honestly, that's a conservative estimate!
Because of so many personnel changes at work, I have more work than I know what to do with, so my supervisor decides the best way to solve that issue is to give me a kid who just had shoulder surgery and won't be able to use his right arm for 6 weeks. Um, we work in a molecular biology lab, how is this going to work exactly?
I am sick of everything I eat for lunch. And I can't think of anything I want to eat for lunch/I can't stay motivated to make a lunch everyday. But I need to because DH and I both spend a ton on buying lunch everyday.
I put my hair in a pony tail for like the 100th day in a row and I'm sick of it. I'm "between" hair styles and I either don't have time to do something with my hair or it's just easier to do a ponytail even though it makes me feel blah.
BFP#1: 01/10, M/C 6w -- BFP#2: 06/10, M/C 5w -- BFP#3: 09/10, DS born June 1, 2011
BFP#4: 07/12, M/C 5w3d -- BFP#5: 12/12, EDD 08/18/13
Decorate This
I had a fabulous four day weekend. Lots of QT with DH, went shopping with my sister, etc but I got absolutely nothing accomplished. I planned to paint the bedroom and do a thorough cleaning of the house but I didn't do any of it. I'm so irritated wih myself.
I think I a 12 step program to get away from house decorating, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I know I need to cut back so we can save up some serious money for our kitchen remodel, but there are so many other things we need that I can't control myself.
Other rant: Tomorrow is DH and mine's first-date anniversary. We agreed when we got married to stop celebrating the dating anniversary, but come on! This is 10 years, that's got to count for something. I can't tell if DH is playing it cool because he's got something up his sleeve or if he really forgot because I said something last night about it and he looked at me like I had three heads.
A Comcast tech was supposed to come between the hours of 10-12. They told me that if they were late, I'd get a $20 credit towards my bill. They also said I'd get a premium channel free of charge if they didn't fix the problem. Well, nobody showed and of course the problem wasn't fixed.
Guess who got the credit AND free STARZ
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We have self-scheduling at work, and I always try to do it as soon as the schedule opens so I get the shifts I want. The current schedule opened last week, but I haven't been able to sign up because some of my weekend shifts and rotating shifts weren't put in right. I emailed the woman who does it and she hasn't fixed it yet-this is the first time she's done the schedule, but come on, it's been almost a week! And this schedule is extra important to me because it's right before I'm taking vacation, so I want to optimize my shifts so I don't take so many vacation days. Grrr.....