I just say, "so this girl" and Jason instantly knows what I mean. I did mumble something about "on...the? boards?" at first, but gave up.
Lol. I do that one as well.
When I first started Nesting I had one husband, and then I went and got a dirrerent one. It was so hard to explain "The Nest" to him without sounding crazy. Especially, when I was trying to explain the awesomeness of everyone jumping ship and moving to proboards. I was like, "Yeah, the nest tried to screw us first and in turn we screwed them so hard, they got a fourth degree tear." I always get the WTF face from him.
Haha I have benn having to refer to all of you as my virtual friends. When I say nestie he corrects me "but you're not nesties anymore what are you now" One day I told him we were now nexties but that didn't really stick.
I just say "today on the boards..." and H knows exactly what I mean. It's "today on the boards..." or "today in chat...". He actually has a pretty good understanding of the group that frequents chat as opposed to the boards. He knows some of my TIP regs by name (like the one time I was on the phone with Hindsight and H asked me who I was talking to. I responded "Hindsight's Real First Name" and he goes "Say hi to Hindsight for me!")
It's so weird to be other there now. It's like driving through your childhood neighborhood. It's the same but it's totally different.
good analogy, it is like that
Also the couple of times I've gone back to the nest I find myself putting my cursor over the subject line and wonder why it doesn't show me the post. LOL I MUCH rather this board over the knot and love the term nexties.