I'm sorry if these are exceedingly basic questions, but I have a few questions about ubox that aren't answered on the site and I can't get anyone over chat or phone support. I know it's a super busy time for all of you, so thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. I'm doing a cross town move that requires us to be out of our home 8/29 but we can't move into the new home until 9/7. Ubox seems like the best option, but could someone explain to me where my Ubox goes while we wait and how we coordinate drop off? On the online reservation it gives me options to set the drop off and pick up days at our old house, but makes no mention of drop off of the container at our new house. Second, are narrow city streets ok for the truck to manuever on? UPS and Fedex trucks fit up the street just fine, but I'm picturing the box arriving on a giant flatbed, which could be tricky. Thank you!

Just finishing up episode 11 and all the roomies are like "he's got to change, or leave" and "how many wake up calls does he need?" They are basically subtly talking about Mike's addiction. At one point Pauly says, "why do you think he's acting like this? it's because he's out of whatever it is that makes him happy." Basically, he was out of pills and thus acting like an asshole. Anything you've noticed watching the seasons back knowing what you know now?

I previously posted my dress when I found it in March at David's Bridal (it's in my post history if you're curious) and when it came in in July it was the wrong color. It was supposed to be blush but came in as bright white. (Aside: I don't know who at DB thought it was a good idea to name blush "ivory stone" and white "ivory.) Basically the consultant placed the order for the wrong color. We brought it back to DB as soon as we noticed and the consultant who helped us said she had never even seen the dress in the white color. Unfortunately, since I require extra length as I am a super tall human, there was no way they could get my dress, let alone any dress in the correct color in time for my wedding. At the time I decided to let it be because even though it wasn't the right color, it was still the right dress and I still felt beautiful wearing it.

Flash forward to last Friday and I brought it for my first fitting. The seamstress discovered it was 2 inches longer on one side than the other and both underlayers need to be hemmed in order to accommodate the issue and my total alterations would cost $365. My seamstress was very mad on my behalf (for any Boston brides out there it's Anaheit who does all alterations from VOWS) and told me I should contact the company. So I did, I wrote out the entire saga of the wrong color and the defects, provided side-by-side pictures of the dress I tried on and the dress I received, provided pictures of the length defects, provided a receipt for the alterations required. I asked David's Bridal to please try to make this right by at least paying for the cost to correct the issue. In addition to my nearly $800 dress, I also purchased a veil of nearly equal price from them that I am not looking to recoup. So far I've been getting emails from various DB customer service members who keep asking me to send them the same info I already sent them; no one seems to be communicating. Last e-mail I received they told me that the receipt I gave them was not itemized so they could not offer a resolution and could I go back to the seamstress and get an itemized one? I nearly blew my gasket. I don't have a car so in order for me to get to the seamstress I literally have to rent one.

Feeling pretty bummed out about everything and not sure where to go from here. Anyone out there have success with a resolution from DB?

I'm really struggling today. I've been doing IE with the help of a IE-friendly dietician whom I see every other week. It's been about 3 months since I started. I've had ups and downs, but I've been kind of amazed that over the last 3 months of eating what I want, I haven't gained any weight. Now, all of a sudden in the last week I'm up 8 pounds, making me heavier than I've ever been. I feel all sorts of anxious about how to continue with intuitive eating when the future feels like, if I keep gaining weight, I'll be extremely limited in what I can do in life because of my larger body. I see my dietician on Friday, but right now I feel so freaking crappy, especially since I haven't been doing anything exceptionally different. If anything, I should be *losing* weight because I just started medication for hypothyroidism and the side effects are supposed to be weight loss. I keep trying to tell myself that weight is just a number, but when you're my size, it's hard to think that way. All of a sudden I feel the urge to slip back into dieting and try again. Any advice out there?

On my to do list for the past 3 months has been figure out decorations. I'm a creative person, so I thought I'd enjoy this part but I mostly feel frozen with indecision about picking a direction for centerpieces, ceremony decor, signs, etc. How'd you narrow it down? Pinterest is definitely not helping...

I'm picking my dress up today and I LOVE my dress but my DB has been a hot mess from the start. Every time I go in something ridiculous transpires. Should I take my dress and run to a trusted seamstress? Or stick with DB? I'm only considering the latter because DB seamstresses know the dresses really well.

This is something we're thinking about doing: a basket of blankets for guests sitting through our (quick) outdoor wedding. BUT while I think it will make for cute photos, I'm wondering if it's actually worth the effort and cost. Did anyone do this? Did they get used?

Preface to say that none of this is that serious! But these little things can feel big when you're constantly the one making decisions.

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First woe: our wedding coordinator stood us up on our first venue and rental visit

We made plans months ago to have our coordinator meet our caterer and venue manager, see the venue space, and then drive us to the rental place to pick out all the chairs, plates, etc. I confirmed with her a few days before. She didn't show up which was (1) super embarassing because it was basically a waste of our caterer's and venue manager's time (2) costly, because I took the day off work to make this meeting happen AND we had to rent a freaking car to get to the rental place since she was supposed to drive us. I called her multiple times during the day, sent her texts. She didn't get back to me until 4 hours after we were supposed to meet. Which leads me to...

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Second woe: I had to fire my wedding coordinator

Obviously if it's YOUR JOB to show up and keep everyone on time, and you don't do that the first time we meet, then ya gotta go. Still, I hate upsetting anyone and girl was blowing up my phone for hours once we finally got in touch apologizing, offering deep discounts, etc. I felt bad but, man, a migraine doesn't excuse you from at least contacting me to tell me you're not going to make it!

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Third woe: WOW Air went under and now my honeymoon and bachelorette party are cancelled.

This was crappy news to wake up to, and more of a headache than anything. Spent the morning on the phone with the credit card companies to stop payment. We'll regroup on the honeymoon and figure something else out. Not sure what's going to happen with the bachelorette. Now everyone has to figure out their shit and try to get their money back with the airline cancellation and I sort of feel like it's all my fault -- like I caused this headache for a bunch of my friends. So as far as I know, no bach party in the forseeable future.

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Fourth woe: just got diagnosed with alopecia

After yoga one day, I came home and my fiance pointed out that I have a quarter-sized bald spot on my head. Deeper searching revealed another couple of spots that are fortunately all easily hidden with strategic hair styling. Dermo said there's not much they can do for me/can't promise I won't have other more prominent spots by my wedding. I have faith that I do have options if all my hair falls out, but man...what a blow to my confidence.

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That's it for my wedding woes. Anyone else get screwed by WOW? Any words of encouragement?

Hello, today I went to see my PCP about the following lab results:

TSH: 5.99

Free T4: 0.70

Annnnndddd...my doctor doesn't want to treat me, seems to think it's a fluke and that we should watch and wait.

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The reason I even got these tests was because I've been losing my hair; like full on bald spots (I'm a 30 year old female). I saw a dermotologist who said it could be alopecia but it could also be caused by thyroid especially since I have a family history of hypo (my dad, grandma, aunts on both sides of the family all hypo, my mom had thyroid cancer). In addition I've had some more non-specific symptoms like weight gain, feeling tired, low libido, etc.

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My jaw dropped to the floor when I saw my test results. I honestly wasn't expecting that; even though I have a family history, it just never really dawned on me that I could also be hypo. When I brought it up with my PCP today she said it was "a little elevated" but my T4 was "normal" so no need to do anything. I asked her about the hair loss and other symptoms and she said she didn't think my levels are high enough to cause any symptoms. Am I crazy?! Did anyone else have symptoms at my levels? And if they think I "might go on to develop hypo" why are they waiting to treat my already elevated levels? Any suggestions for how to move forward?