Friday the Thirteenth :-|

teddygirl9

We had the most beautiful sunrise this morning, so I'm convinced it cannot be a bad day. Weekend plans - oil change. That's all so far. I also need to buy a mouse (computer) and use up a mall gc before it expires.

All these questions about american taxes are so confusing to me! Either I just dont pay attention to ours, or theyre just simpler. I should probably do mine as well...

eilis1228

@labro I think about 6 weeks before her due date is normal. Last fall I went to a friend's baby shower in mid-October, and she was due at Thanksgiving. She ended up having the baby October 30, so we did it just in time! We also hosted a shower at work for a coworker in early December, and she was due at the end of January. I believe her family threw a shower for her a few weeks before ours though, so it's really whenever you want to do it.

@TwoDimes I love your inspiration pics! Such a happy, bright combo of flowers. 

@GoldenPenguin YAY! Let the RSVPs roll in!

@speakeasy14 awwwww cute puppy!

@Swazzle Nice chairs! Can't wait to see them once they're stained and even prettier than they are now.

@CocoBellaF Glad you're starting to feel better! I hope you're able to go shopping later!

I got my silk flowers in the mail yesterday. I ordered these prior to receiving the offer for free flowers from my distant cousin (first cousin once removed? second cousin?). I ordered these to see the quality and how easy it would be to make my own bouquet, and if I liked them, I'd keep an eye out for sales for all the flowers for my wedding. I discovered that I'm definitely not a florist lol. The flowers look pretty good, but I'm glad someone else can worry about ordering and arranging everything. Here was my inspiration pic when I ordered the flowers:

This is what I came up with last night:

I wasn't really wowed by it. I'll keep the flowers as a plan B and play around with them some more though. Maybe they can be a toss bouquet or my bouquet for my bridals or something. I like the color combo, but I think I need more variety of texture. 

Anywho, this weekend will be interesting. Not sure what we're doing tonight, but tomorrow we're going to register at BBB and Macy's. Tomorrow night we're going to a friend's Pi Day party. They've asked everyone to bring pies, and they're serving pizza (another form of pie...). FI is going to make a chicken pot pie, and I found a tiny little pie at the grocery store the other day that looked good. It's a salted caramel apple pie... yum. Sunday we may go see the new Cinderella movie with some friends and their daughter, or we may just stay home and be lazy bums. 

labro

@eilis1228 I'd definitely keep it for a toss bouquet or something along those lines? I think what's bothering me the most with that bouquet is everything is TOO balanced, at least with the purple calla lilies.

@GoldenPenguin YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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@eilis1228 - I'm with @labro, I think the calla lilies are throwing me off.  I almost feel like some sprigs of something or tiny buds might be nice?  Or maybe some flowers with a different shape to shake things up?  The colors are beautiful!

ETA:  Wrong colors, but maybe do you like any of these?
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eilis1228

@labro Yeah, it's just off. Needs more oomph. I think I either need to just stick with roses or add different flowers with different shapes to give it more texture.

@CocoBellaF Ohhh I love those! Adding dahlias would be fun and maybe some berry sprigs or something.

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@eilis1228 - I LOVE dahlias and berry sprigs!  I think adding more texture would be fun, but all roses is very classy and beautiful.  Either way, it'll be pretty!

ETA:  If you can get to a LOFT Outlet this weekend, they are having up to 50% off plus I have a 10 or 15% off coupon I can send you!  They have a TON of dresses and skirts for spring!  I thought you said you had one near you...?  Anyway, the petites section here had a lot of cute stuff, so I thought yours might, too.

eilis1228

@CocoBellaF Yes please! There's one a few miles away from me. You are awesome!

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@eilis1228 - PM or FB me your email!

nycgal85

Good afternoon (EEK!) everyone!

I just came back from my big ass presentation for work (well it' wasn't really that big of a deal, it was an informal setting, but my boss was making it out to be the highlight of her career). It went very well, but my boss is a psychopath and she made us run over by rambling and then she kept interrupting me, since apparently I'm not capable of presenting on the presentation I created myself without her input.  Sigh....  The only plus is now all the professional staff sees how she is.

This weekend is going to be insane for us. Tonight one of FI's best friends is coming over for dinner, since she wasn't able to come out when we had our little celebration last Sunday. I'm making shrimp risotto and broccoli rabe. Tomorrow we're going to FI's dad's house to watch his alma mater in basketball conference championship and then we're going to hang out with two other couples for our [semi] monthly game night. We order in food and play CAH or Resistance or Cranium or whatever other board game someone brings. It's always a lot of fun, but I'm a bit wary since the two other couples have been dating almost 9 and 10 years respectively and they still aren't engaged and I know the one GF is very bitter. Her reaction to us getting engaged was yelling congrats over the phone while giving her BF the finger. So yeah....there's that. On Sunday two of our best friends and their little girl are coming over for brunch in the morning (their little girl will hopefully be our flower girl, she will be about 18 months by then), and then we're baking irish soda bread in the afternoon.

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@Hummingbird125 - I love the skirt!!

Ugh, I haven't even thought of doing my taxes yet. I usually just do the e-file through H&R Block.

@eilis1228 - I think the flowers are pretty, but I agree having someone else take care of them is definitely a way better option!!

lavenderfields13

Happy Friday the 13th everyone! FI and I actually started dating on Friday the 13th so it's a special day for us. We wanted to get married on Friday the 13th but it didn't work out that way. We settled for a Saturday the 13th (3 more months!).

This morning I went to the dentist and then got my eyebrows threaded before heading back to work. After work I need to workout out to keep on schedule. I'll probably make dinner and then spend the rest of the night searching for wedding ideas.

Saturday I have a consult at a hair salon for extensions. I'm really sad about how short my hair is and want it longer for the wedding. I have a feeling it's going to cost way too much since ideally I'd like the ones that stay in for months. We'll see. Then I want to get a manicure.

Sunday I'm having FI's cousin look at my wedding dress to see if she'll alter it for me. Then FMIL and I are going to try to find her a dress, shoes, accessories for the wedding and get lunch. Busy weekend for me! Hopefully we get back early enough so I have time to hang out with FI on the couch. 

eilis1228

nycgal85 said:

 It's always a lot of fun, but I'm a bit wary since the two other couples have been dating almost 9 and 10 years respectively and they still aren't engaged and I know the one GF is very bitter. Her reaction to us getting engaged was yelling congrats over the phone while giving her BF the finger. So yeah....there's that.

WTF? 

nycgal85

@TwoDimes and @eilis1228 - I know, it is really f-ed up. In all honestly, I was surprised it wasn't the other GF as she has been dropping not so subtle hints for probably the past two years...like she will bring up a wedding registry just randomly in conversation. It's really annoying actually. I really think her BF is just not doing it to spite her. FI spoke to him the other nights (this is FI's best friend and will be his BM) and he evaded the question when asked when he's going to propose. The other couple, the one which the GF responded with the finger, supposedly he's using his tax return on a ring.

ETA: Crap, I just realized, I surely hope they don't lurk on this board.....oops

AlPacina

Good afternoon (EEK!) everyone!

@nycgal85 - It is 10:10 AM here.

bethsmiles

nycgal85 said:

@TwoDimes and @eilis1228 - I know, it is really f-ed up. In all honestly, I was surprised it wasn't the other GF as she has been dropping not so subtle hints for probably the past two years...like she will bring up a wedding registry just randomly in conversation. It's really annoying actually. I really think her BF is just not doing it to spite her. FI spoke to him the other nights (this is FI's best friend and will be his BM) and he evaded the question when asked when he's going to propose. The other couple, the one which the GF responded with the finger, supposedly he's using his tax return on a ring.

ETA: Crap, I just realized, I surely hope they don't lurk on this board.....oops

That would make him such a huge asshole. it sounds like these two couples need to get their shit together and learn how to communicate!

AuroraRose41

Good morning ladies! (It is 11:00 am here). Yesterday was a terrible day, but not in the way you guys are expecting. I wasn't able to go to our coworker's service, as I had a surprise meeting that I couldn't miss and the guy couldn't reschedule . I heard it was lovely and very humble but fitting though from FI who did attend. 

FI and I carpooled in yesterday because I wanted him to have the car in case he wanted to carpool with others to the service. Well, FI's teammate (who didn't know the coworker well) stayed at work to finish a task that FI and FI's manager asked the teammate to do. Teammate left at 5 pm. FI gets back to work at 5:30 pm, and is going through the results and finds out that teammate did everything wrong and was just lazy about it. They weren't mistakes; it was just sloppy work/laziness. (Background: We are all test engineers. FI told teammate to look at results of a test, and retest any failing parts. Teammate didn't retest all failing parts and said he did. Data proved that teammate lied.) Anyways, this was high priority and was already behind schedule, so FI needed to stay late to fix this idiot's work. FI drove me down to the train station about 3 miles away since I missed the last shuttle. We get there 10 minutes before the train is supposed to arrive. FI goes back to work, and I buy my ticket. 2 minutes before the train should be arriving, an announcement is made that it is delayed up to an hour. It was over an hour before the train did pull in at 8:45 pm. I didn't get home until 9:30 pm last night, because of this guy's laziness (and also because FI and I tried to be courteous about parking at a well liked person's funeral...but still. I blame idiot.). FI didn't get home until after 11. There are rumors that 100 people are going to be laid off in our department (we have thousands in it). I think this teammate will be one of the first to go, as this was not an isolated incident either. 

I think tonight FI and I will be having a few drinks after our day yesterday. As for the weekend, we have a Skype meeting with a potential officiant tomorrow, and no plans apart from that. It is going to be HOT here, so a beach day might be in order. 

lmcooper86

AW: Our invitations went in the mail Tuesday or Wednesday (they had to be hand sorted and canceled, so I don't know if that was all done before the pickup at the post office on Tuesday) and we've now heard that 3 people have received them! YAY!!! I am hoping that a bunch of them got delivered today!

labro

@lmcooper86 I hope that means you'll start seeing RSVPs next week!

nycgal85

@bethsmiles - Well, I wouldn't go so far as to call him an asshole, but he's definitely extremely immature (he's almost 29). Not for nothing though, they're both sort of immature about it. You're definitely right, they don't communicate that's for sure. But the boys are too busy playing video games 24/7 to actually talk to their women (whom they both have lived with for almost 3 years). Honestly, if I was them I would have been gone a long time ago, but that's just me....I don't put up with that shit.

AdoptedCalm

@TwoDimes I love love love your flowers. Yellow flower arrangements make me very happy!

@untouchablets Where do you work? Your boss sounds pretty tough on you.

@nycgal85 Sorry for your sucky friends.

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My weekend plans consist of work. I cannot wait for April when I can start having weekend days off.

We are probably going to the movies tonight to finally see American Sniper.

We also got a delivery from Blue Apron and have been trying those meals. We had a delivery of three meals and tonight is the last one. The first two were very tasty so I am looking forward to tonight.

untouchablets

@AdoptedCalm I work at Starbucks, not really the kind of job you think of as being a life stressor but it really is tough. I'm a supervisor so I run the store when the manager isn't there. I was searching for a better job a few months ago but then we lost two supervisors so now I'm the only full timer. We have one part timer, a shift from a different store helping us, and one barista is getting ready to be promoted. Not exactly the optimal time to leave. I'm the most experienced and flexible so if I left my store would be up a creek. I really love my manager. I've been working with her for five years and we've been at two stores together so I have a lot of loyalty to her. She's really not bad, she does her best with my schedule and tries to give me time off when I ask. It is just hard to stay positive when I know her biggest flaw is not praising my accomplishments and hard work.