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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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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.
Thursday Say Anything
Let's keep this board moving today! What's on your mind?
Re: Thursday Say Anything
DH is starting P90X this weekend, which is ambitious, but I'm really excited for him. I hope it makes him *feel* better (energy, etc). With the above, comes a new diet so now DH is doing all the meal planning (and cooking?) which will be weird. He's a great cook it's just that I usually cook and now I'll have to do the dishes, boo. But I hope the whole thing will inspire (or force) me to eat better.
DS's pedi appt was great yesterday and the Dr called his speech "amazing" which is, well, amazing to me.
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
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Today is my last day of work for 6 WHOLE days!!
Today I woke up with TWO big zits on my face. It really pisses me off. You would think I'm 15 all over again!
Lately I've had a lot of friends and family members try to talk me into starting a side photography business. I'm in that stage of my life where a lot of my friends are having babies and they've been asking me to take pictures of their kids. I've done ten sessions in the past three months! I absolutely love it, but I'm not a professional photographer. I don't have the gear to be a professional, I don't have the time to be a professional, and I don't have the education to be a professional.
But darn it, it would be freaking awesome to make some money towards new camera gear! I spent $1600 on a new lens in June and I'll have that sucker until the day I die. Seriously, if I break that lens I might die so it's a true statement. I want to upgrade to a full frame camera body, but I know there's no way I can talk DH into dropping $2-$3k on a camera body when we're trying to save up every penny for a kitchen remodel.
So right now I'm just a crazy red head who enjoys taking pictures of just about everything. This weekend I'm doing a one-year old session with the cutest ginger baby and I can't wait. I want this to stay fun and I don't want to take it up a notch and start to feel pressured to take amazing photos every time. Right now I have huge safety net because, "I'm not a professional photographer."
Crazy rant over.
I have a fly in my living room who is bothering the sh*t outta me.
I'm sad for my Mom and Stepdad because their family dog was killed by a hit and run the other night and my Mom found him in front of her house. My heart is still aching every single day missing my Ezeekial.
I am really excited to be starting my own business making rhinestone iron on tranfers for clothing. I will be getting all of my materials by the end of the week and I just keep stalking the fedex tracking system.
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MrsDeva - I'm sorry about your parent's dog! That's horrible.
Jen - Sorry about your zits! I always get hormonal zits on my chin and they're the kind that hurt really bad and they're hard to cover up. Drives me nuts.
I was really good about my diet and went to exercise class everyday last week and lost about 3 pounds. Then I ate a bunch of crap this weekend (even though I still worked out) and gained 2 pounds back. Blech.
My best friend is on vaca this week and I'm so lonely and bored at work as a result. We pretty much gchat all day and all of my other friends have jobs where they're too busy to email/chat during the day.
Sometimes I really miss the old days before people in our circle had kids. I still see my good friends who don't have kids quite a bit but all of DH's friends have kids and we see them like maybe once a year. It's like we have to throw parties just to see them and even then they either bring the kids and only stay for an hour or the wife will stay home with the kids. Some of the wives I haven't even seen in a few years.
Thank you gracie.
Jen I still get mad pimples right before that time of the month. Seriously, does it ever end!
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People, we work in half walled cubicles, why do you think it is appropriate to take a conference call on speaker phone, its not!
The upside to my 2 painful anti-biotic shots a few weeks ago, clear skin! They are testing to see if the infection is gone today, I'm keeping my fingers crossed it is.
DH bought 2 boxes of Snickers Ice Cream Bars at the store this weekend becasue they were on sale. I love him for it, but at the same time, I'm getting weighed at my MW appointment today and if I've gained a ton I'm going to blame him. He is more than supportive when it comes to my ice cream cravings, which I have when not PG too, I just don't usually give into them as often.
I'm glad to be going away for a few days to escape the home life stress. But at the same time, I feel guilty running away from home life stress. DH is going through some issues again that will get worse before they get better. We talked the other night and I was pretty open/honest/clear about where I stand in our relationship and why I feel the way I do about certain things. It felt good to say it out loud. No...I'm not up and leaving...it hasn't come to that...but I was pretty clear about why I feel the way I do and how I think he is his own worst enemy. With that said, I feel like I'm in a good place.
I have a slightly packed fall schedule coming up and I'm pretty excited about every minute of it. It's my favorite time of year!
I really am sad to hear of Art Modell's passing. He was a standup guy in the community.
I hate when a band replaces their lead singer. I can almost never listen to them again. Kind of like on soap operas, where one day you turn it on and all of a sudden there is a new person playing one of the main roles, just pretending everything is the same. But it's not!!
We are finally ready to replace our windows-got one quote, meeting with another guy later, and I am so excited. We are also looking at getting our tub and tile restored (previous owner did crappy DIY job) and it will save us a ton of money over gutting the bathroom. Hopefully it will be handy when it comes to selling the place.
I'm a little miffed my mom brought up the option of us having a lot to build on right now. Why didn't she mention this six, seven years ago when we bought our place?
My coworker put in her two weeks notice the other day. We were just informed that they're likely not replacing her full-time. This means that our little department will be putting out three monthly magazines, 3 websites, 2 weekly newsletters, and three additional yearly or biyearly magazines ... with FOUR staff members. How on earth can FOUR staff members do all that and do it well? We were already understaffed before this (a staff of six is considered "full").
~ Kelsey Jean ~
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I gchat all day, too! If you want someone new to talk to, just PM me :-p
~ Kelsey Jean ~
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Which band are you talking about?
Haha, not one in particular. Thought about it when Van Halen came on the radio the other day. Then Alice in Chains.