C & V Thursday

emilyb213

Confessions? Vents? Let's hear 'em!!

emilyb213

Confession: My fiance is going to be out of town until Saturday night because he'll be coaching his team at the state track championships, and I'm secretly excited to have the house, the bed, and the nice TV to myself. I may have popcorn and ice cream for dinner tonight while watching a really bad girly movie, just because I can.

Vent: For the last week or so, they've been reconfinguring the layout of cubicles on my floor. There have been workers everywhere, moving desks and stuff, there's wiring for the phones and computers all over the place, and it's noisy as all get out. I'm over it!!

SugarFoote

Confession: I was super mean to FI this morning. I'm not a morning person at all. Well I am until someone picks at me or is talking super loud. Basically I just want to attack everyone and anything that is peppy in the mornings...People just shouldn't be so giddy at 6:00AM. It's not natural. So when FI called me at the crack of daylight, I was ill. And actually threatened to cut his balls off. My exact words were, "When we get married, if you piss me off, there is a good possibility that when you wake up you will be missing one of your balls"...I really feel bad now even though I apologized and he knew I was joking. There is no way I could ever harm someone like that. I mean, I faint at the sight of blood...so his manjunk is safe.

Vent: I asked FI to make a guest list for his side and he said we don't need a guest list...umm yes, we do actually. That list determines everything! The caterer will need a head count for food and price, I need it for chair/table rentals, I need the number of tables to know how many table linens/centerpieces/dinnerware/etc., I need it for invitations and save the date orders. That list is my life right now and I don't have it so I'm basically dead.

I'm going to ask FMIL this weekend about it since FI is useless in wedding planning.

SugarFoote

Since TK is being a crazypants and won't let me edit my post...

"Vent: I asked FI (again) to make a guest list for his side and he said we don't need a guest list...umm yes, we do actually. That list determines everything! The caterer will need a head count for food and price, I need it for chair/table rentals, I need the number of tables to know how many table linens/centerpieces/dinnerware/etc., I need it for invitations and save the date orders. That list is my life right now and I don't have it so I'm basically dead."

sopraffina

Confession: I have been spending way too much time looking at wedding websites at work. It's not that I don't have anything to do. I use it as a kind of stress reliever, but I must be really stressed! I promised myself that once I got everything planned, I would focus on my health and losing weight. It's been going great, but I still find myself looking at offbeatbride and stylemepretty all day.

Vent: I went to see my venue all set up for a wedding last Saturday, which was awesome, but the coordinator confirmed we won't be able to start setting up for our wedding until 2 hours before the ceremony starts. Maybe she's trying to extort more money out of us to get in earlier? I'm thinking about telling them we are starting at 4pm, then putting 5pm on the invitations. The only thing I'm really worried about is the chuppah. Ours is basically going to be a black wrought iron gazebo without the cover. We're decorating it with garland and hanging bubble vases, and I HAVE to be able to see it beforehand. I don't want to be running around in my dress doing all of this! Plus, my cousin's husband is setting it up for us. I feel bad that he's either going to have to construct a gazebo in a suit, or probably use our hotel room to shower and change within that short timeframe since they live too far away.

It sounds more ridiculous the more i talk about it! Oh, and I just realized I forgot to check out the bathrooms there again. Dangit! I hope they're not a disaster.

bar10521

Confession: Not really a confession more of a "YAY". About a week ago I got an e-mail from TK for $300 off of a photo booth package if you book by 5/25/12. I really love the idea of the photo booth and wanted to do it but after talking to FI he didn't think it would be worth the money and brought up that we were saving for a house so he shot down the idea. Then last night he said he wanted to book it! I'm so excited he agreed that we wouldn't get shots like those from our photographer and that it would be really fun. So now I have to get a hold of the company to book it by tomorrow so we get the discount. 

Vent: I have been up since 4:30 this morning for work (to anyone who does this regularly I'm not sure how you function and I bow to your skill) and I'm feeling worthless right now. All I want to do is crawl back into bed but I can't because I have an allergist appointment, dinner plans and a butt load of cleaning to do when I get home. Thankfully FI has class tonight otherwise I'd be mean cranky pants to him I'm sure. But on the upside I get to leave at 2 today since I got here at 5:45!

ashlidie

No C, just V

I am exhausted... I have had a bunch of things going on outside of work that I don't have time to relax at all.  Since last week Ive been running on fumes, and while I enjoyed the beach, I had to stay up late each night to be DD and woke up early in the morning to get to breakfast at a decent time to meet up with other friends.  Ive had a football game to play, take my car to get fixed from when my 2 month old car got rear-ended (shop is not close), a bingo game I promised a friend, car shopping for FI since his commute just extended dramatically and his truck's a diesel, AND FIs truck broke down this weekend so trying to fix that too, very busy at work because this is my last week here until the fall since I am going to my internship next week.  I found out really bad news about my Uncle and I haven't even had the time to process it (cry about it).  I havent cooked or done dishes or laundry in a week because I simply haven't been awake and at home long enough to, so I get to look forward to lots of housework tonight.

BUT after that, it's all over.  I will sit back and read fifty shades in peace and go to bed at a decent time and wake up tomorrow refreshed and ready to finish my last day on campus...  I so can't wait until this weekend either since we are going on the water, attending two cookouts, seeing another uncle's band play, and just lots of spending time with people we love.

blferguson1s

Confession: I told FI to go out and get something on his lunch break because I didn't want to get out of bed this morning to make it.

Vent: I'm not exactly thrilled with FI right now. We're still trying to get our trailer done so we can move in, but he doesn't seem too motivated to do anything. He goes to work at 6am and is working overtime this week because of Memorial Day. When he gets home, all he wants to do is take a nap when we have tons of stuff to do. My mom and I were over there attempting to hang blinds until 9 last night. When I got back home, FI was passed out in bed. It's frustrating that I'm trying to do so much for our future, but FI doesn't seem interested in any of it. UGH!

Thank goodness for C&V Thursday. I need somewhere to get all this out every week.

kellyeliz

My confession and my vent are the same:

The Vent portion:
I have a staff that requested a 2 month vacation this summer! She has the benefit time available and the CEO made me approve it even though it doesn't meet the needs of my program and 1/3 of her yearly work needs to be done in the summer. So I approve her 2 month hiatus with the understanding/expectation that she will have all of her paperwork and documnetation compelted before she goes so that another staff can just attend her meetings in her place (they are similar to IEPs). You would think she would be happy right? What a nice boss I am letting her disapper for 2 full months while everyone else covers for her and takes on extra work all summer! Anyway - she is pissed because she thought vacation meant she didn't have to do her job and she keeps saying to me isn't it easier for you to just get rid of me? (well yes it is but I am not allowed to cranky lady!). She is on the verge of retirement and has told multiple other staff that she probably isn't coming back from vacation she just has to get her social security in check. She is also "refusing" to do other major parts of her job because she is too busy "getting her work done" and keeps telling staff that it's nice I think she has time to do everyone else's job. WHAT?!?!

So here is my confession: this lady makes my life a living hell and I hope she doesn't come back! Those 2 months are going to be fabulous!

Sorry it's so long! I'm couning down the days until this woman leaves. Is that terrible?

kellyeliz

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2013-weddings_c-v-thursday-7?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:f30b0bfc-508d-415c-bf59-ab83e327da37Discussion:13ad7821-bbca-4e72-adb9-5272ab36cceaPost:7f329f0a-14d6-4024-95db-b2cf93ffd087">Re: C & V Thursday</a>:
[QUOTE]I don't know if mine is a confession or a vent, so I'm just going to lump it into one. I slept like absolute sh!t last night.  <strong>I've started going tanning in a stand-up, and yesterday I got extra burnt on my chest and stomach.  It burned SO BAD, and it was all itchy and it hurt. </strong> I tried to go to bed with an ice pack on my chest, which didn't help in the least, and fell asleep around 1230.  Woke back up at 1ish in pain, and don't think I fell asleep until 2 or 3. So I woke up at 9 today (yeah,45 mins ago lol) and I am so behind on everything I needed to get done today.  I need and oil change, go to Sec. of State to renew my plates (which, btw, needed to be done in Feb), do FI's laundry, and still somehow make it in to the office. So much for a relaxing mani and pedi I thought I'd deserve after all that prep for the weekend.
Posted by mrskaiser22[/QUOTE]

OMG the same thing happened to me yesterday! I have been putting off tanning (mostly because I tan at the gym and tanning means I have to workout) haha. Anyway I am in a wedding next weekend and our dresses are a pretty pale yellow so a tan is definitely needed! I went once last week and then spent the weekend at the beach. I went back yesterday and came out so burnt! I'm sitting at work so itchy!

cnf2013

Sugar- "manjunk" made me giggle.

Soprafinna- I've been useless at work lately. I've been hooked into wedding websites and TK board lurking too much. 

MrsK- I honetly don't know how people use the stand up beds. I love tanning in a traditional tanning bed because it puts me right to sleep. Best 20 minute nap ever. 

Confession: I've also spent too much time lallygagging at work and looking at wedding-y things. I work by myself in a satelittle office. It's very easy to be unproductive when no one else is around to say anything.

Vent: I have a presentation at a youth center this afternoon. My work laptop blows so I use my personal one. But I left it at home on accident. So now I have to use my lunch break to go home and get it. Lame. 

EDIT: I have a second combo c&v... For the last ten plus years since I've been correcting my vision I've still not been able to really see well. There was a few years stint where I just gave up trying completely. Well I went to the eye doctor on Monday and they final decided to explore the fact that they can't get my eyes to focus during exams and that even when correct my vision is still off. Turns out I have a degenrative disorder called Keraconus which is basically where the cornea thins out and changes the shape of your eye. This means my perscription will continue to rapidly change uncontrollably, glasses will not work for me, soft contacts may stop working for me, and even with corrected vision, I will never be able to fully see. If it gets too bad I may even need a corneal transplant. FI and no one in my family seems to think it's a big deal. That kind of frustrates me because I was told part of my eyes are basically disintigrating out of my head and no seems phased by it. I, personally, think it sucks because I'll never be able to see right, I'll need my eyes proded at forever, I'll never have a consistent or working perscription and eventually I'll probably need eye surgery. I wish the people in my life would be a bit empathetic for me. 

anastassiiat

Confession: I've been really bad about getting to work on time lately. I'm only 5-10 minutes late, but it's been like this every single day of this week. Today I was up an hour earlier, and I still didn't walk in the door until 9:05. The worst (best?) part is that my boss doesn't really care when I get in as long as I get my job done, so it doesn't give me enough motivation to get myself together.

Vent: FI has decided last minute that he wants to have a wooden sign with our names/wedding date for our e-pics this Sunday, and since there is no way we could get it done on Etsy on such short notice we had to DIY. So we've spent last night cutting out letters and glueing them together while I was secretly wishing I could watch one of the shows I had saved up on my DVR.

sssdee

Confession - I've been slacking majorly on the wedding planning front.

Vent - I dislike wedding vendors who up their price for no apparent reason!

Because of my above confession, I've been tackling A LOT of wedding stuff - getting quotes from photogs and transportation is my focus today.

So I am going through previous emails from vendors at wedding shows that I went to in Jan. 
I emailed a photog for a price list and she responded this:
Current prices for the packages are:

Cute Wedding package: $2199
Popular Wedding package: $2749

Fancy Wedding package: $3599
*Just to let you know, that we are increasing our prices for 10% in August, 2012.

So then Im thinking those numbers look different than I saw before - Pull up the old email that is dated Jan 10th of THIS year and they are:

Our Popular $2599 (Tax incl.) and Fancy $3299 (Tax incl.)

Soooo basically she raised them $150 and $300 respectively, removed the tax included AND will be raising the price AGAIN in a couple months? WOW Now tack on the extra couple hundred dollars and add 23% onto that. Fantastic!

Mind you, she doesnt have alot of new content on her blog so she isn't as busy as I see other local photogs (that I can tell) and everything else is the same in her packages. For reals?

/rant.

cnf2013

Our photog did something similar... when I initially started contacting her, the package we wanted was $1200. By the time we finally got together to sign the contract it was $1300. So I pulled up her webpage afterwards and low and behold, in the two week span we started talking to when we went under contract, all her prices had gone up. We were her second 2013 wedding, so I think she timed it with that in mind to get the charge out in time to hit all the 2013's she was starting to book. Sucks none the less. 

anastassiiat

Another vent/rant: I decided to treat myself to a mani/pedi during my lunch break. A co-worker suggested a local place, so I've figured I'd give it a try. They accepted my walk-in right away and everything was going great, I got my pedi and the girl was starting on my mani. She asked me to go wash my hands and when I went to sink there was this huge cockroach just hanging there. Super gross!!! I've already paid so I didn't want to say anything cause I was aftraid she'd screw up my nails if I do, so I pretty much just bolted out the door the minute she finished and you know I'm not going back again! Stinks though since she did a really good job!

iloveu4ever

For the first time I don't have any!

Miss Esa

Confession:
I told my SO that the lunch he made for me was good. Usually he is a good cook, whatever he made for lunch was tragic though.

Vent:

My SO doesn’t want to go E-photos because they “are a waste of money, and we have lots of photos of us” (The photos of us are all Myspace style photos and are all camera phone photos. I told him that its important to me, and I would pay for them, but its still an issue. He doesn't even want a photographer at the wedding! Its frustrating because I wanted to meet with the photographer this weekend and set up a date for our engagement photo session. 

kellyeliz

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2013-weddings_c-v-thursday-7?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:f30b0bfc-508d-415c-bf59-ab83e327da37Discussion:13ad7821-bbca-4e72-adb9-5272ab36cceaPost:5a9193da-41fb-4345-a7c3-a79f4b4a0767">Re: C & V Thursday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: C & V Thursday : Hhaha I'm so pale I only go in for 6 minutes.  Plus, my back gets all broken out when I lay in the beds. Confession: they have a radio so I just dance in the booth.  I'm sure if someone walked in on me they would laugh in my face, that's how ridiculous I look.
Posted by mrskaiser22[/QUOTE]



MrsK I dance in the standup booth too! It's almost like you can't help it! When I hold onto the bar at the top I feel like a stripper in one of those weird glass booths haha. Yesterday I was actually looking around thinking about what people would see if they put a camera in them haha

belle7fl

Confession and vent: I know this is going to sound really bad but I feel the need to let it out. My FI has been training to go to the Olympic tryouts next month in Oregon (all the way across the country) pretty much for the past 4 years. He did great last season and was #10 in the country but this season he's been sucking really bad and we can't figure out why. Anyway he hasn't bought the tickets yet and I'm secretly hoping he changes his mind and decides not to go because work is crazy right now, I am in the middle of five store relocations and remodels and designing a VIP section for the theater all before August so I'm super busy and really don't have time to go away. I go to all his track meets and I am super supportive, I would even consider moving if he wanted to focus on training with better athletes but I just wish he would make a decision already, it's less then a month away!

KplusA

Confession:  I hate my future father in law.  He lives in Seattle so I don't have to see him a lot, but whenever he comes to visit I dread it so much.  He'll ask about my life but then interrupt me in the middle of it to go do something else (then why even ask?) or he'll have something really condescending to say about what I told him.  I always try to keep it super brief and upbeat but it never helps.  Last year I was graduating with my master's degree the next weekend and I was so excited to be looking for elementary or special ed jobs.  He and his buddy (who he spends most of the weekend staying with) were so negative about me finding a job, and said that I wouldn't be able to handle working with special ed kids and that they would "tear me apart".  They had a good laugh in my expense while I tried not to cry.  My fiance never sees how much it hurts me, and he doesn't understand how I feel at all.  Oh and he also LOVES gambling and always drags my fiance to one of the nearby casinos so that he can watch him gamble for hours.  One time he kept my fiance out until 2:00 am on a work night.  Ugh.  Which leads me to my vent...

Vent:  He is coming to visit TOMORROW!  I am so nervous!  Especially because I actually do have a job in special ed (which he said I would never be able to handle) and I freakin love my job but I don't even want to talk about it because I'm sure he'll have something horrible to say.  Also, he is paying for our honeymoon plane tickets to Alaska (which I really really really appreciate) but he's also making us come visit him in Seattle during our honeymoon!  So I'm trying to get my fiance to convince him that we won't have time to visit him during our honeymoon.  I really hope I can, because if we have to visit him I'm not going to be looking forward to this honeymoon anymore  : (