Guess what day IT IIIIIIIS...

cu97tiger

@jenjen047 - Yeah, that happened to me when I went to Honduras on a cruise (or maybe it was Belize that was banned?) and again last year after I got my latest tattoo. If I'd been smart, I would have gotten my tattoo right when I got back from my cruise, but I wasn't that smart. Also, your summer of running sounds fabulous. If you need any pointers about a half-marathon, just let me know

@twodimes - Glad you're feeling better!

@peaseblossom55 - Remind me what test you're taking again?

@labro - Yay for cleaners!!

LizzyTish88

@southernpeach89 Spiders would freak me the eff out. I can't deal with them!! I had a total meltdown the other day because there was a wasp between me and my dryer. I have no clue why but sometimes I just become a huge baby around bugs and can't kill them. Other times I am the fucking champ and kill those suckers like it's my job. 

eilis1228

@Swazzle Super cute haircut! I love the color!

@southernpeach89 LOL at the craisins! It just means you're becoming an even cuter pregnant lady. 

@GoldenPenguin THREE MORE SLEEPS!

@lavenderfields13 ONE MONTH! Holy moly! It will be here before you know it! I know what you mean about wedding planning being more stressful than fun at times, and I'm sure this next month will be filled with tons of details, finalizing decor/timelines/payments/plans, but just try and breathe and think of it this way: in one month, you are going to marry your FI and have a friggin awesome party to celebrate! Try not to put too much pressure on finding the perfect spot to honeymoon either. It will be perfect simply because it's your honeymoon and you get to spend a week relaxing after all this chaos with your HUSBAND.

@speakeasy14 The house is coming along so well! The floors look fantastic! My FI and I usually just go to a nice dinner for our anniversaries. Happy almost 5th anniversary, btw. That's a milestone!

@caseface5 I'm glad you're feeling better! Headaches like that are the absolute worst. 

@hummingbird125 Please AW all the DIYs. Also don't be surprised when I beg you to make pretty things for me in October because you're so friggin talented.

@KeptInStitches BWW is sooooo good! I'm glad you had a great birthday! You totally deserved to drink a little too much, eat an awesome meal, and relax on the couch. Normal life can resume today.

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Every morning I tell myself I'll stay off NEY and dive right into work, and every morning I end up here while I eat breakfast at my desk. You guys are so addicting!

I'm still chugging through my 2-a-day workouts. I've been listening to Girl on the Train while I'm on the elliptical, and it's so crazy and creepy and good that I hardly notice the time. Recommendations for more thriller/mystery audiobooks or really awesome podcasts?

Today is the start of my company's annual online conference. I'm producing a session during the lunch hour, and I'm ready to get it over with. I get antsy waiting for presentations, even though I'm not actually doing much talking for this particular session. I was always the kid who volunteered to go first in school for presentations simply because I wanted to get it over with and stop thinking about it... 

FI worked late last night, and he'll probably have to work late again tonight. He's really unhappy with the work at his current job, so I'm lighting a candle under his butt to apply for some other jobs we found yesterday. I hate that he's so miserable.

WR things: A bunch of people have been asking where I'm registered, so I'm really excited... trying my best not to registry stalk lol. My shower is in about 3 weeks! Eek! Also, on Sunday I'm meeting with my friend's mom to discuss invitation designs. Apparently they've got some paper samples and some mock ups they want to show me. I think having invitations is going to make it all VERY real. 

Time is passing so slowly. Is it October yet? 

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@caseface5 Oh believe me! I HATE BUGS! I kill the small ones and leave the huge ones for DH to kill because I just can't. I found a dead brown recluse spider in our storage closet a couple days ago. I HATE THOSE THINGS!

lavenderfields13

@caseface @southernpeach89 I hate bugs in general, especially spiders! Just the thought of them creeps me out. Most people think I'm insane because I'm that terrified. They try to tell me that it's just a bug and it won't hurt me. Umm I didn't choose to have a phobia! Spiders are fucking creepy.

@eilis1228 I am looking forward to it being over in a month and my life going back to normal! Once you MAIL your invites shit gets really real!

LizzyTish88

@Southernpeach89 I would have freaked!! When I was having my meltdown about the bee, BF was in the bathroom and I was like "I need you right now!!!" And he's like "I'm shitting right now!!" Well when he was done, I went into the bathroom and he went downstairs to kill the bee. There is a vent in the bathroom that is above the washer/dryer so I could hear him and he tells me he stepped on it and killed it. To take it further he zapped it with our electronic bug zapper. You could hear the bee frying so he brought it upstairs and outside of the bathroom door and keep zapping it!! The noise was awful so I screamed and upset the neighbor's dog so he started barking. LOL. Always an adventure in our house!! 

bethsmiles

@jenjen047 - I've only been at my current job for 5 months.

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OMG @caseface5 I have a horrible bee story. They get really bad here during the spring and I was pulling into work and there was one buzzing around my car. So I sat there and waited for it to go away. Once I didn't see it anymore, I got out and accidentally caught my sweater in the car door. The bee immediately came back and I'm like flailing and screaming while I'm stuck in the door and there is a bee buzzing around me head.

People seriously probably thought I was insane.

untouchablets

@caseface5 and @southerpeach89 my bee story tops all, when I was 9 I was playing in my neighbors yard and there was a bees nest on the ground and I didn't see it so I stepped on it in my fun and games.. Well they swarmed and I got stung EVERYWHERE and what made it worse was that my dad was walking home from the bus stop and he saw me screaming and waving (for help) and he just thought I was saying hi. When I finally got home I was covered in bees and stings and my parents were like wtf?? So thats how I became intimately familiar with calamine lotion and a lifetime fear of bees lol

jenjen047

@cu97tiger - oh i will def come to you for tips!! this is my 3rd attempt at doing a half and i always hit a wall when i get up to 6 mile runs. running for more than an hour is just too much. i get bored.

@eilis1228 - are you kidding? i look forward to eating oatmeal at my desk, drinking coffee, and reading NEY every morning. im just pretty sure my desk mates prob all think i am crazy when they see me on a wedding site every day and im not engaged....

@bethsmiles - did they pull a bait and switch on you? that sucks to have to job hunt again so soon. ive been at my current job for <2 months and am not loving it. i think i mostly just dont like the 9-5 in an office routine every day. i just want a job that lets me WFH 1-2 days a week. in digital marketing i feel like it shouldnt be that hard.

LizzyTish88

@untouchablets That happened to my mom when she was young, and because of it she is deathly allergic. I have never been stung, so we don't know if I am allergic and/or if her allergy was passed down to me. I think that is why I am especially scared of bees. 

Spiders just suck.

AlPacina

@swazzle - You look smashing!

@Peaseblossom55 - Hell yes, studying sucks. But you got this! I have no idea how I'm going to convince myself to study for the PE once my 5 year mark rolls around.

@bethsmiles - Sending job vibes your way! I hope you hear back from them soon!

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You don't even know fear until you've been stung in the mouth. After it happened to me, in high school, when I would even see a bee I would sometimes feel like I was being stung......... I've gotten over it. Living in Costa Rica makes you pretty comfortable with bugs, haha. I don't even kill them anymore. I just put them outside.

So yesterday was a shit show. My blood relatives (tough to call some of them 'family') are just being themselves and I don't know why I expect them to change.

- My brother got convicted of 4th degree assault, with no chance to fight it because his wife had already successfully gotten that restraining order against him (albeit dropped,eventually). He gets a hefty fine and lost his gun rights for 5 years..... The real kicker? He went home to her after that. He went home to his psychotic wife that just put assault on his record. Whattheeverlovingfuck.

- I tried to ask my older sister about her plans for a family vacation. She spent the entire time not answering my questions, but instead trying to make me feel like a bad person. She is apparently a perfect person, and everyone else is selfish and the reason for the problems in her life.

- My other older sister got nothing for Mother's Day from her kids or husband. She does everything for everyone, and no one does anything in return. 3 seperate people told my nephew we would help him if he wanted to do something nice for his mom, considering he just used her truck to T-bone someone a couple of weeks ago. She asked her husband if he'd do her a favor for mother's day, and he told her "Why? You're not my mother."...... Anyways, she's already been depressed about my nephew being a dick, and her husband and her have been fighting, and I'm just going to send her a giant bouquet of flowers today because I want her to know that people appreciate her being there for them.

Peaseblossom55

@alpacina thanks!

@cu97tiger not sure if I even mentioned it really, the Series 24 for work.

cu97tiger

@jenjen047 - Time to update your music on your iPod... or start listening to books or something! Is it a boredom thing or does your body start shutting down? Around an hour is when you have to start ingesting calories.

@peaseblossom55 - Good luck!!

LizzyTish88

So I am sitting at my desk stunned a little bit. A girl that I went to school with and was an acquaintance with was found dead by her fiance Monday morning. She passed in her sleep and they have no idea what happened yet. This is so heartbreaking to me. I didn't know her very well, but thinking about all her family and fiance are going through it breaking my heart. 

I can't even imagine waking up and not having BF wake up with me...

bethsmiles

@jenjen047 - It's really a combination of a lot of different things. It's an entirely new field for me that I thought I might enjoy but I don't. There were things said in my interview that aren't true. And it's just overall not a good fit for me. I miss teaching a lot but I can't teach and afford to pay the bills so I'm trying to figure out what I want to do that will also not have me completely stressed about money. The job I just applied for fits in a lot more with what I went to school for (focused on health communication in grad school, did a lot of public relations in my undergrad - one class short of making it my minor) so I think it could be something outside the teaching field that I actually enjoy doing.

jenjen047

@alpacina - your sisters H and son sound......interesting. how nice of you to send flowers!

@cu97tiger - its more boredom. i listen to pandora. i want to get into a good book or podcast so i can be like @eilis1228 and forget im working out, but so far no luck. i tried serial but i didnt get hooked on it after 1 episode. maybe i need to start it on my commute and then wait til i am hooked and listen during a run?

@caseface5 - wow what a shock...im so sorry for your friends family. i cant imagine to lose someone so young so unexpectedly. heartbreaking.

phira

@bethsmiles Hugs and job vibes. Sorry you have to go through this all over again so soon. But they really misled the hell out of you when you were interviewing for this job

@jenjen047 I was just enjoying the nice weather today, and it made me forget, for the moment, that we got 108" of snow this winter. *ugly sobbing* IT WAS THE WORST.

@southernpeach89 I laughed out loud at your craisins story, mostly because of your reaction.

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J's job interview went all right this morning. He didn't elaborate much, but it sounds like it went fine and that he's just not getting a clear read on what they think of him. However, he's like ... super ridiculously qualified for the job, and he'd be an internal hire, which means that they'd have to do a lot less training and orientation with him. Fingers crossed!

I've got a moderate day here at the lab. Finishing my Western, and then I'll probably reuse the membranes for a second protein to look at tomorrow (SCIENCE). None of my cells should be ready today, which means I've just got to check and feed a bunch of them, which takes about 30 minutes all told. Tonight's plan is to do some light cleaning in the living room and kitchen, take out the trash, fold the laundry, and probably change the sheets.

AlPacina

@jenjen047 - Time to update your music on your iPod... or start listening to books or something! Is it a boredom thing or does your body start shutting down? Around an hour is when you have to start ingesting calories.

@cu97tiger - Can you explain this a little more?

I get bored running if it's over an hour as well. But I don't listen to music. Having stuff in my ears is extra annoying because they get really sweaty, and it also seems to throw off my breathing.

speakeasy14

@alpacina Ugh, all of that family stuff is frustrating. Hopefully your brother is hit with reality soon.  I'm sure it will make your sister's day by receiving those flowers.  You are an awesome sister!

@southernpeach89 supposedly spraying peppermint oil around entryways keeps spiders out.  Might be worth a try if they're all over your house.

All these bee stories are making my skin crawl. I also have a bee story: The house we lived in when I was 6 had a wrap around deck with built in bench.  The corner was my favorite seat. There was a yellow jacket nest right underneath the bench.  I didn't disturb the nest, but one decided to attack.  And because it was a yellow jacket it didn't die and just kept stinging me; right in my spine.  I had a bulls-eye scar until my late teens. 

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@speakeasy14 Hmm.... I've never heard that before. I'll have to give it a try.

untouchablets

TwoDimes said:

jenjen047 said:

good morning NEY ladies!!


@hummingbird125 - i love laundry. maybe i should quit my job and be a full time laundry do-er?

^^^ cosign. Laundry is the bane of my existence, it took me two WEEKS to fully put away the two+ loads I did recently.
Okay yesterday. I finally did it all yesterday.

AuroraRose41

@caseface5 I couldn't even imagine! I'm so sorry!

@AlPacina wow I'm sorry that your family is acting like that. 

@bethsmiles I hope you get an interview for that job!

@swazzle gorgeous! 

@GoldenPenguin omg so close to being an OMH!

@southernpeach89 I hope the pediatrician's office visit goes well! And that's too funny about the craisins!

Re: bugs. I hate them with a fiery passion. I have found at least 8 spiders (they all look the same; I think there is a nest or something) in my office this past week. I was able to kill 5 of them, but 3 of them ran up my blinds/window before I could reach them (it could have been the same one though, but I'm not sure given the number I have already killed). I submitted a maintenance request because they are freaking me out and stress me out even more when I am trying to get my work done. I am a huge arachnophobe. FI kills them in our apartment whenever I find them. If they are outside I just leave them alone, but if they come into my space they are dead. It also doesn't help that I am not as familiar with spider species out here, and I know there are more poisonous types here than there were in NY. 

I'm sending so many thoughts and prayers to the people who were on that train in Philadelphia right now and their families. It's so tragic. 

Other than that, nothing too exciting going on here. FI and I are trying to decide what to buy next for our townhouse. I know office furniture should be next, but he keeps hogging our bed since he likes to stretch out, and we have guests coming to visit from the east coast and stay with us every month from June-August, so I really want to get a king size bed for us and move our current queen to the guest room. 

Nothing really new at work lately; just preparing for my next project and kicking butt at it. FI is filling in for his manager and doing an awesome job at it, and his director has even hinted that a promotion is in his future, so that could be as early as this fall. Fingers crossed!

Oh, and WR news: we have officially decided (as long as everything at work goes well/no major unexpected expenses pop up) to go to Ireland for our honeymoon! So I have been planning that in my free time and getting super excited at the possibility of staying in a castle!

eilis1228

OMG SOMEONE BOUGHT US A GIFT FROM THE REGISTRY! WE GOT THE VACUUM WE REGISTERED FOR! AHHH!

Also, I got the promo miles from one of the credit cards FI and I signed up for, so I was able to book FI's flights to San Francisco next month! I have a conference there at the end of June, and he's finally going to join me! It always falls on my birthday weekend, so it will be so fun to have him there.

Wednesday rocks!

Swazzle

@bethsmiles - Good luck! I hope you hear back ASAP!

@eilis1228 - Have you ever read anything by Liane Moriarty? 

@AlPacina - I'm so sorry about the family troubles. That's really, really sweet of you to send your sister flowers. I bet she cries! 

@caseface5 - That is so sad I'm sorry for your loss. 

@phira - Fingers crossed for J!

@AuroraRose41 - EEEEE! How exciting!!!!!!

labro

@AuroraRose41 Yay for Ireland! That's going to be an AMAZING HM!!!

jenjen047

@bethsmiles - sorry about the job situation. i hate when you are misled in an interview. hopefully you find something soon that is a better fit.

@phira - the snow scarred me. i had a dream last night there were still a few piles on the sidewalk  *shudder*

@twodimes and @untouchablets - do you have favorite chores? my LEAST favorite is cleaning the bathtub, but that really doesnt even bother me too much. also dislike cleaning out the fridge, idk why.

@aurorarose41 - get a king!! if our bedroom wasnt teeny tiny i would definitely do it! there is a  significant slant in the floors of my apartment (thank you 125 year old apartment) so i end up rolling towards the middle of the mattress and then i yell at BF for crowding me (even though i am on his side of the bed). also yay for ireland! have you been before? any idea what parts you want to visit? def stay in a castle! BF is from ireland so lmk if you have questions!

@eilis1228 - yay for vacuum!! what kind is it? someday i want a dyson....

AuroraRose41

@jenjen047 that's too funny about rolling into the middle of the bed! And I haven't been before, but have always wanted to go. My dad's side of the family is very proud of our Irish-American heritage and even though my dad and my grandparents were all born here, they kept marrying other Irish Americans so were still 100% Irish American until my father married my mother. My mom tells me often about the time when my parents were engaged and they went to a family reunion where my father left my mother in a room with his great aunts from Ireland that only spoke Irish! My dad has taught me a few Irish phrases over the years and I have always really wanted to learn it. 

As far as places to go, I have a rough idea, but could definitely use some guidance. One thing that I am unsure of right now is how long we will be there, and that will definitely impact things.I think we can do about 7 days at least, although I am hoping to be able to do closer to 11-12. My main problem though is that I really want to see the southern part, but there is one very specific thing in Sligo that I want to see too, which is a memorial park dedicated after one of my ancestors. My ideal itinerary right now though is flying into Shannon, spending a few nights at Dromoland Castle (probably take a trip to the Cliffs of Moher from here), then heading to Killarney for a day or two, then Cork, maybe Waterford/Wexford, and end in Dublin. While it would be really cool to see the memorial park and the lands where my ancestors lived in Sligo, I'm not sure we can fit it in. I would definitely appreciate any tips/critiques/things to put on the list though! 

AlPacina

@swazzle - My sister just got her flowers and called me. She was totally crying, haha.

Swazzle

@AlPacina - You're an awesome sister