It's Monday

brittany634 · December 2012

and I'm feeling it.

I've had migraines all weekend ;/ So i feel like I haven't slept at all

We did however go put down the deposit and sign all the paperwork for the house, we go back next weekend to pick out the granite and cabinents and such! I'm excited.

jennylee813 · December 2012

Yay for home building (boo for migranes)!

I'm soooo sick of crappy internet service at home. We couldn't even check our emails this weekend, and we're paying a fortune for nothing! Because there aren't enough slots for everyone to have high speed, we're stuck using a turbo hub. That's fine when the cell towers aren't active (which is typically between 5-7 am - that's when FI checks his messages and does his online stuff), but this morning he couldn't even check his email at 6am. Crazy!

And I really wanted a snow day. We had a storm yesterday, but it didn't carry over. There's more on the way, so I'm hoping for one tomorrow. I have to have hope!

Happy Monday!

brittany634 · December 2012

I wish we had "rain days" I don't do well with snow, but rain days would be nice-

What is a turbo hub?

applejambutter · December 2012

I wish we had snow days too. My car does so bad in the snow.. They didn't plow our parking area at work because while some of this place is under construction its still gravel.. but that just means I slide allll over..

Yay for your house!

Angelface225 · December 2012

Good morning ladies! Tons of rain here, which makes for a rough Monday morning! I just realized that I have to be up early everyday his week, something I try to avoid, I get a lot done on my late start mornings. Soi'm trying to stay motivated! Have a great morning!

LesPaul · December 2012

Good morning.

I'm procrastinating this morning because it's still icy out and I haven't driven this car after a snowstorm yet. I'm really nervous about sliding into someone. Hopefully the roads will be clear once I get out of the neighborhood.

tlc35 · December 2012

Good morning! It it supposed to rain here today as well and then cool down tonight. I need to finish Christmas shopping today for my family since we are going to have "Christmas" this coming weekend.

cwaggoner07 · December 2012

Brittany - So excited for your home plans!!! It seems like everything is happening so fast!

And yikes for everyone having internet problems.

I'm still recovering from our awesome Hipster Christmas party Saturday night (I put up a picture in the Sunday thread).
H and I are having our family Christmas tonight. I have a feeling my big present is tickets somewhere because he told me to stay completely free tomorrow night as well, and that's why we're doing it so early. Whatever

We have somethnig every night this week and I love it!

jennylee813 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:9674ef7e-43be-434c-a532-f217ef9c16ea">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]I wish we had "rain days" I don't do well with snow, but rain days would be nice- What is a turbo hub?
Posted by brittany634[/QUOTE]

We seldom get snow days. We're more likely to get 'cold' days. It has to be -45C for the primary to close, -45 for the middle school and -50 for us at the high school. The last time we had a snow day was because the bus depot wasn't cleared out.

A turbo hub is internet that runs off the cell towers. It's typically used for people at the cottage. It worked great for us this summer when we were traveling, but it's awful here in town because there are so many of us that can't get regular internet and we have to rely on it for our home phone and internet connection. The more people that are using it, the slower the service. On really bad days, we can't make or receive phone calls either. I've been talking to DS on the phone and gotten cut off. Things like Netflix and Skype are totally out of the question.

brittany634 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:a8f3fae4-f903-49ae-8424-afb5b3ea3dac">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]Brittany - So excited for your home plans!!! It seems like everything is happening so fast! And yikes for everyone having internet problems. I'm still recovering from our awesome Hipster Christmas party Saturday night (I put up a picture in the Sunday thread). H and I are having our family Christmas tonight. I have a feeling my big present is tickets somewhere because he told me to stay completely free tomorrow night as well, and that's why we're doing it so early. Whatever :) We have somethnig every night this week and I love it!
Posted by cwaggoner07[/QUOTE]

I know I feel the same way! 3-4 months to home ownership, and I CANNOT wait!!!! it's super exciting :) I'm already painting/decorating/putting new furninture in it in my head :)

brittany634 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:75c24d9b-8618-42e9-917f-38c1479d8cf8">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Monday : We seldom get snow days. We're more likely to get 'cold' days. It has to be -45C for the primary to close, -45 for the middle school and -50 for us at the high school. The last time we had a snow day was because the bus depot wasn't cleared out. A turbo hub is internet that runs off the cell towers. It's typically used for people at the cottage. It worked great for us this summer when we were traveling, but it's awful here in town because there are so many of us that can't get regular internet and we have to rely on it for our home phone and internet connection. The more people that are using it, the slower the service. On really bad days, we can't make or receive phone calls either. I've been talking to DS on the phone and gotten cut off. Things like Netflix and Skype are totally out of the question.
Posted by jennylee813[/QUOTE]

That seems very inefficient, you can't get actual internet/phone connection through somewhere like verizon or something? (sorry if i sound completely clueless, i've just never heard of that before!)

brittany634 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:28cc2537-41f7-491d-bbf7-f06858f1b104">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Monday : This is what I'm most excited about when we buy a house too. I think our Internet is working now. For now... I also am coming down with a throat/congested thing :(
Posted by Edie Bee[/QUOTE]

Oh No Edie!-Burt's bees makes amazing cough drops!

I'm so excited- forgive me if I talk about it alot for the next few months- :)

cnf2013 · December 2012

OH Brittany, that is sooo exciting! I'm jealous your building a home. Our house was built in 1931 and definitely looks like it, haha. If I have to stare at our pink plastic tiled bathroom another year I will have a freaking aneurysm.

I have doggy Santa pictures!

That's Griswold, FI and I's crazy chocolate lab.

There's Griz on Santa's lap again. Then the Black lab is Pete and the yellow is Hayley. Those are FI's parents dogs. It was craziness trying to contain all three of them. I have a video of our chaos that if I can upload to photobucket or youtube or something I'll post as well. But I have to figure that out first.

cwaggoner07 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:859da441-eaf8-49ee-ba7b-733d67160ab7">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]OH Brittany, that is sooo exciting! I'm jealous your building a home. Our house was built in 1931 and definitely looks like it, haha. If I have to stare at our pink plastic tiled bathroom another year I will have a freaking aneurysm. I have doggy Santa pictures! That's Griswold, FI and I's crazy chocolate lab. There's Griz on Santa's lap again. Then the Black lab is Pete and the yellow is Hayley. Those are FI's parents dogs. It was craziness trying to contain all three of them. I have a video of our chaos that if I can upload to photobucket or youtube or something I'll post as well. But I have to figure that out first.
Posted by cnf2013[/QUOTE]

There's this guy in Dallas who has done Santa at the big mall here for like 20 years, and he's totally legit. He teaches at UT Austin in the Spring, but his entire fall is devoted to being Santa. He even has a real beard.
Anyways, I read an article about him last year and he told the story about one of the craziest things he ever saw was a lady with 3 very well behaved dogs, and they all rearranged themselves and she moved them 100% by just talking to them. He said she never touched them, and they were better directed and behaved than most children.

dtbluv · December 2012

Good Morning!

I can't remember if I have to be at work at 7:30 or 8:30 this morning. I texted my boss, but she hasn't responded yet. I don't want to get ready yet if I don't have to be there until 8:30.

A friend and I held a writing contest among our friends five years ago, and she emailed the entries to me last night so I could reread them. I've been doing that so far all morning, and I'm realizing our friends are completely hilarious.

LesPaul · December 2012

That's cute, cnf! Here's Nala with Santa. The Humane Society does a Santa Paws fundraiser every year.

cnf2013 · December 2012

We took ours to the spca sants paws fundraiser too. And the guy playing santa is one of our city officials that everyone loves. Hes been their santa for quite a few years now. The santa at bass pro last year had a real beard. But he also had a lazy eye and was kind of mean. Nala is adorable too.

brittany634 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:d2ebae0a-975b-4729-8e86-40b289b749f1">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]Cute dog/santa pics! Charlie is at work with me today. He's wearing a Christmas collar thing and spreading cheer :-) Edie, yuck, feel better! Brit, congrats on your house! Has it gone through inspection yet? My H is OOT from this morning until Wed evening which means I have to get up early for dog duty so I am super tired. Combine that with being woken up at 4am when my H left, yeah. Tired.
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

We are building it, it hasn't even broken ground-next month is when that will happen and it takes about 2 and a half to 3 months to finish.

B2Z728 · December 2012

Morning!

I'm in such a haze this morning. I'm going to need multiple cups of coffee to get through this day. It doesn't help that it's foggy and rainy here too. Driving to work this morning felt a little dangerous because I was so tired.

I'm jealous of everyone's dogs with Santa pictures! So cute! I look forward to the day we can do that too. Fingers crossed it will be next year sometime.

Painting your new house is fun for the first couple rooms... then after that you get a little tired of it. At least we did. We've had to paint every single room in our new home. Only the kitchen and dining room is left, plus we need to paint all the trim in the whole house. We had gusto in the beginning but that enthusiasm for painting is a bit less now.

B2Z728 · December 2012

Just saw your Hipster Party photo, Swag. Looks like a great time!

H and I love themed parties. We're going to have one for our joint bday party in January. Our birthdays are one day apart, but I'm a year older than him. We always celebrate our bday's together. It's a lot of fun.

jennylee813 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:764339ae-1dd9-4ef3-9b8c-0234c3bfd0ab">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Monday : That seems very inefficient, you can't get actual internet/phone connection through somewhere like verizon or something? (sorry if i sound completely clueless, i've just never heard of that before!)
Posted by brittany634[/QUOTE]
lol - nope. Not clueless, and I wouldn't have believed it myself until I moved up here.

We have one phone provider up here (land lines that is), and there isn't enough fiber op here to support the boom in the community. They're laying another cable now and have a testing period coming up, so it will be a few more months before the town gets any more bandwidth.

as of now, even here at school, if we have an entire class working online, the rest of the school is supposed to log off the internet to facilitate them getting work done.

shaydenise · December 2012

Morning, ladies! It is most definitely a Monday. I knocked over my water glass on my nightstand this morning trying to turn off my alarm and spilled water on my ipad and phone (thankfully all seems to be working) and then I ran into the corner of our dresser with my hip bone. Now, I have a huge ugly bruise. Blah.

I had a great weekend though! I finished up all Christmas shopping and now I don't know what to do with myself ha ha. Also, we took our holiday card photo on Saturday night and it was a lot of fun! I put our camera on a tripod, got a wireless remote for it, and set up a little photo shoot in the backyard. H and I had a blast doing it. I think he had a good time seeing me excited about something because I've been kind of down lately. It was pretty great

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shaydenise · December 2012

This is the only one I have with me at work (it's the one we picked to go on our card). I like it

B2Z, painting trim is the worst! Ugh I hate it! We've painted and repainted so many rooms in our house it's ridiculous. I think we've finally settled on a good living room/kitchen and master bedroom color. I know we will be repainting our guest bedrooms though...

shaydenise · December 2012

Thanks, Edie!

B2Z728 · December 2012

Shay that photo is great! I love it because it's not your typical, "let's stand in front of our tree/fireplace" photo. It will make a wonderful card.

I don't mind painting trim all that much. I like that I can sit down on the floor to do it. The worst part is probably the taping off the top and bottom of the baseboards. We don't have any crown molding to worry about. The actual painting part goes pretty quickly. H hates it though.

cwaggoner07 · December 2012

I had the kind of morning where I showed up and had so much work to do I kind of panicked and went into overdrive but it took less time than I thought so here I am with nothing to do anymore...

kd.joseph · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:d2ebae0a-975b-4729-8e86-40b289b749f1">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]Cute dog/santa pics! Charlie is at work with me today. He's wearing a Christmas collar thing and spreading cheer :-) Edie, yuck, feel better! Brit, congrats on your house! Has it gone through inspection yet?<strong> My H is OOT from this morning until Wed evening which means I have to get up early for dog duty so I am super tired</strong>. Combine that with being woken up at 4am when my H left, yeah. Tired.
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

I hate this! H is leaving me on Jan 2nd, I'm not looking forward to it.

Atti is going to camp bow wow on Wednesday, while the grandbaby is here.

kd.joseph · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:f4dc25ea-d6db-425c-a203-8ae05282c78c">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]This is the only one I have with me at work (it's the one we picked to go on our card). I like it =) B2Z, painting trim is the worst! Ugh I hate it! We've painted and repainted so many rooms in our house it's ridiculous. I think we've finally settled on a good living room/kitchen and master bedroom color. I know we will be repainting our guest bedrooms though...
Posted by shaydenise[/QUOTE]

Is this what I'm getting, cause that's cute as hell!

brittany634 · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:9fe839f7-07ee-41ef-ab1a-5675836e5c01">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Monday : I hate this! H is leaving me on Jan 2nd, I'm not looking forward to it. Atti is going to camp bow wow on Wednesday, while the grandbaby is here.
Posted by kd.joseph[/QUOTE]

does Atti not do well with little ones?

jennylee813 · December 2012

Awesome pic, Shay!

kd.joseph · December 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_its-monday-5?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:ca365e45-7a02-46ce-8348-5c3a99a692a6Post:ffce76a8-a46b-4c1c-81ad-4cfda64f1d3a">Re: It's Monday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: It's Monday : does Atti not do well with little ones?
Posted by brittany634[/QUOTE]

If he hurt her it would not be on purpose, he's just a big goof all paws and tongue. Plus, if SD puts her down upstairs Atticus barks if he hears noises upstairs. So, it's just simplier to send him off, plus we are leaving town to visit H's mom 3 hours away for the weekend.

Atti learned how to push the buttons on the washer/dryer, just to hear the music, thats my goofball.

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