Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 16, 2017 8:10:55 GMT -5
Dear mail thieves, You suck. I hope you enjoy 3 pairs of toddler socks you stole from us. I just hope there was no mail in our mailbox that was important or had personal information on it. Signed, Buying a locking mailbox
Dear DH, When my alarm goes off in the morning, I just want to lay there for a few minutes before I have to get up. I know you think you're being nice with a back rub, but I really don't want to be touched at that time. Especially if you think it's going to lead to anything because it won't. Love, Tired after all of this overtime
Dear WPs, I'm going to Punta Cana! I get to tour a bunch of resorts and decide if they're up to our standards for the work trip. What a tough job I have... I can't wait! Fingers crossed we find something good enough though, or I might snap. Signed, Excited!
Dear agency, I totally want to come visit you. I completely understand the benefits of meeting the entire team that works on my account. I think it would be great! But, you're inviting me down during a very crazy/expensive travel window for me. I don't know if I can convince my boss to cram in a trip to see you in between a major conference and a Punta Cana trip. They love me, but I don't know if they love me that much! I have a feeling the answer will be "Can't they do a conference call?" Signed, Client with no real travel budget
Dear Doctor, Please help me out. I'm feeling like crap lately and am so glad I can get in to see you tomorrow! I think I'm ready to try that prescription we discussed for real. Diet changes haven't worked. Side effects be damned, I need to feel better. Thanks, Your patient
Post by judyblume14 on Aug 16, 2017 8:23:40 GMT -5
twinmomma, You seem to have a job very similar to one of my besties. I hate you for it
Dear All WPs who do day care chauffeuring, God bless you. I'm not cut out for this. After 2.5 days into a 5 days stint of this and I'm ready to quit. Admiringly, Judy
Dear H, Thanks for doing this all the time. It's exhausting. But PLEASE, light a fire under your butt in the morning. The face that I am takng the girls in the mornings means we need to leave 30 minutes earlier than usual. You are not helping me achieve that. At all. Love, Your grateful but super annoyed wife
Post by covergirl82 on Aug 16, 2017 8:48:55 GMT -5
Dear school principal,
You are the best!! Thank you for putting DD in a class with her one good friend this school year after being separated last year. It was a rough year last year with lots of cliquey girls in DD's class, and she just really needs a solid friend in her class. I'm really hoping this year I hear "I had a great day and played with Friend" (and maybe some new friends too) instead of hearing "I didn't play with anyone today/nobody wanted to play with me today."
Dear Universe, I am going to tell DD that all Of her bffs are in one class together and she's in another with only one person so far she's friendly with and no one from her real squad (come on! Out of 9 girls none??) Please let her take this well, and roll with it AND OR let the one girl who hasn't reported on teachers be with DD, too. If her BF since Kinder can be in a different class that would be great! This isn't social engineering, it's sanity mom
Dear DH I enjoyed your passive aggressive FB post about being grateful for FB so you know teacher assignments. 1) you could have asked me - I didn't know you cared 2) name one identifying feature about any Kinder or fourth grade teacher and I will grant that this is relevant to you today 3) 13 year old girls post like that on FB so you are in good company! 4) you could access the parent portal like I did - you have had the login for four years but haven't used it - you could, you know. It's how I magically know about assignments, grades, absences, etc.
Wife who needs a man, not a child - I already have three children
Thank you thank you thank you for sleeping all night. Mom and Dad needed some rest after being up with you all night the past two days. FX this virus is gone! Mama
Dear Boss,
Thanks for being so great about me needing to be home unexpectedly with DD2. This WP guilt is tough on days like this so I'm grateful for you. I will take it as a compliment when you told me that you don't know how I do it all. Grateful employee
Post by erinshelley21 on Aug 16, 2017 9:12:57 GMT -5
Dear Bank Account, You're lucky Garth Brooks is coming to Indy while we are on vacation or else you'd be shelling out some money for me to see him. Love, your owner
Dear Guy That Works For Us, I'm willing to let you continue to work until April, but April is IT! But that's only because there might not even be an agency anymore. And don't you dare try to ask for part of the buyout or some sort of severance. Signed, I can see you doing it
Dear DD, I need to you take all 4 bottles at mamaw's today. I'm 99% sure that you aren't sleeping at night because you're only taking 15 oz vs the 20 oz you were taking the week before last. Love, your mama who enjoys snuggling you between the hours of 6am-9pm.
Dear MIL, I don't think you'll have to "force feed" her. Calm down. I still can't figure out how the little piglet went 4 hours without eating Monday morning. Love, your DIL who needs her sleep back.
Dear DS2. I'm sorry you've been sick all week, but could you please sleep more than an hour at a time at night? Signed, Tired Mommy
Dear DH, I have an annoying cold. I've been taking care of a sick baby home with me all week, getting up a million times a night, and dealing with a boatload of stuff at home. Namely, recovering/unpacking/laundering after our week long vacation last week, dealing with all the paperwork, logistics, supplies, and goodbye stuff associated with switching to a new daycare next week, planning a large baby shower for my sister on Sunday, and trying to keep up with some job search activities that I had rolling. No, I do not want to go to IL's lakehouse this weekend. Do you have any idea how long my to do list is, and all I really want is some peace and quiet. Signed, Eye roll
Dear New Daycare, I like you. I really, really like you. It has been a while since I toured, but the open house last night reminded me of how much better you are than our current daycare. Thank you for helping me feel less guilty about moving from the place we have been since DS1 was 3 months old. He left last night begging to go back to you tomorrow. Signed, Grateful Parent
Dear School, Yay DD has one of her bffs in her class and is cleaning her room! Unreal! And...DS has his three buddies in his class - I am so happy as they have known each other since they were 1 and it will so help them transition.
This is the first year I feel really good about both kids' schedules at the elementary - excited now.
Oh, please don't let DD have a stomach virus. It might send me over the edge. Hopeful mom
Post by HeartofCheese on Aug 16, 2017 10:43:00 GMT -5
Dear guy who my H previously defended on drug charges:
Please do a good job with our roof. Please don't think about how you know where we live now. Please just be a harmless user, not a psychotic addict or kingpin.
Thanks, Not nervous at all
Dear roof,
Please be cool when you're done. Green on green could be scary.
Thanks, Not nervous about my crappy design abilities at all
Dear boss I just saw who interviewed me but didn't seem to want to make eye contact,
Please make eye contact.
Thanks, Not nervous about trying to make more money when I'm divorcing the shit out of my H
Dear universe:
Why do I feel like I am at the beginning of a series of opened Pandora boxes?
Thanks, Not nervous about my ability to adult and parent in the midst of stress
I realize you are tired, so am I, hence falling asleep at 8:30 last night. However, if you bark at me every time I open my mouth, I will not talk to you anymore. I don't gave to put up with and and will not.
Wife, who can hold a grudge for an extremely long time.
Post by justcheckingin73 on Aug 16, 2017 11:29:46 GMT -5
Dear Elementary School,
We are exactly 7 days out from school starting and I still don't know who DS' teacher is. This happens every year. Can you please get your crap together?! Same thought to the PTA - we're getting a whole new board this year. Who is on it and why haven't they been posting anything on FB?
Signed, Frustrated but not surprised
Dear coworkers,
Do not complain about things "taking forever" when you don't give me all of the information in the first place. Also, don't expect me to throw together something that looks like crap. I'm in Marketing - I don't do that.
Signed, I'm sure I work way more hours than you do so get off my back
Dear DD I'm really glad you like playing the recorder and have such an interested in learning to read music and do it correctly. Please don't be bummed when your plan of asking the music teacher if you can learn real music in class that includes music reading and instrument playing doesn't happened or she tells you that you can't do that. If S thinks you are doing good over the next two weeks while she babysits I will track down Bubbie and TT's old middle school music teacher and see if he will give you lessons. He won't look at you like you are crazy for wanting to learn I promise. Mom who is happy that you want to learn music
Dear school I really hope someone other than the secretary will be at school this afternoon when I come and register. I need help formulating a game plan for DD and the coming school year. I envision dragging her crying to school the first day. Worried Mom
justcheckingin73, meet the teacher night is 8/30 they post class lists 4 hours before the even starts. I wish we could find out earlier to help prep DD.
Thank you for giving us the JrK teacher we really wanted. I mean.. we WERE the first family to sign up and pay for JrK, and I'm pretty sure she's been with our center the longest, so I'm not sure why I was worried about it, but I'm really happy. Ms. P has a smaller class (1 teacher, 12 kids, vs. 2 teachers, 24 kids) and is consistently heralded as amazing by everyone I've ever spoken to. (Not that anyone's said anything bad about the other teachers, but she pretty much overshadows them). DD is elated. So am I. DH is happy that we're happy.
Signed, Excited to focus on normal kid stuff.
Dear work,
I HATE YOU. Well, I don't hate you, but I hate having to try to play catchup after vacation, picking up all the moving pieces that my coworker was juggling when she finally/suddenly decided to take a LOA, AND having workout clients. My workout client is ruining my life, basically.
Not to mention I'm feeling like an inadequate imposter. Between this and abnormal kid stuff, I feel like I'm constantly on the go. I really just want a day or eleven with no kids, no DH, no work, and no worry to veg. And maybe clean my pig sty.
Post by justcheckingin73 on Aug 16, 2017 12:59:15 GMT -5
186momx , they don't even have a meet the teacher night at our school. It's so frustrating.
And I can commiserate on dragging a crying kid into school. My son had to be dragged in to preschool and 1st grade. Kindergarten wasn't an issue for some reason. I'm dreading this year but will talk to him about what to expect and hopefully he goes in without an issue.
ETA:
Dear Xfinity,
Please fix the internet outage. I was so productive before you went out.
@justcheckinin73 - class lists were posted at midnight and meet the teacher is tonight. I always wish for more time so we could schedule little mixers and things like we did in private school.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 16, 2017 13:41:12 GMT -5
Dear WP, Trans Siberian Orchestra just announced their tour dates and I'm off the weekend they're in my area. I've been to several shows, but pre-DS. Has anyone taken their kids? How old were they? DS has sat through a movie in a theater, but I'm not sure how he would do at this show since it's so long. My hope is that he would be enthralled by the music, lights, and pyro. Signed, TSO fan
Post by erinshelley21 on Aug 16, 2017 13:42:19 GMT -5
Dear WP, You'll be happy to know (well, maybe, I don't know at this point in my career saga lol) that the college I graduated from provides free career counseling to current and former students. I just signed up and am excited to get started. Signed, thanks for all the advice a couple months ago
saraml13 , could you send your H with the kids to his parents' lakehouse?
DH also suggested that, but the problem is we only have one car. So that would leave me stranded and unable to do all my errands. ILs are already up at the lake house, so there's no option for car pooling. DH also has a number of things he should do around here this weekend, so it really makes no sense to go out of town.
Post by greenmonkey1 on Aug 16, 2017 19:51:55 GMT -5
Dear Universe -
Please let DS2's hearing be fine. I guess I completely misunderstood the recommendation from the audiologist back in April. Do I think he has hearing loss, no. Does the report indicate hearing loss, not as far as I can tell. But apparently I was supposed to make a follow-up sooner than I did and now I feel like a crappy parent. Although the report does say to repeat the audiology exam before he turned 30-months and he was already 33-months. This is why I need to remember to get written reports.
Signed, Parent whose learning style is clearly not auditory
I have never taken DD to a TSO concert (or been to one myself) but I have taken DD to several concerts. Probably somewhere between 15 and 30 depending on what you consider a "concert." She went to her first at age 4 and does phenomenally well at them. I have taken her anywhere from the little stage at the mall to bars to arenas. I do have common sense about how wild the crowd is likely to get and whether there are chairs or a safe corner where I can take her if a mosh pit does break out or is larger than expected. The only issue I had is when she said, "I'm going to the merch table" and whew she slipped between people's legs and under tables. When I finally "excuse me"'d all the way to the merch table she was getting a photo with the band. She was 6.
Stop being so excited that one of the Mean Moms isn't sending her kid to the school anymore. It's not kind, and you are better than that. Her daughter is sweet even if she's not.
Your Better Self
Dear Company:
Just because your main competitor just announced layoffs doesn't mean we need to. We are already a lean organization. Especially mine.
Signed, Nervous Sole Breadwinner Who Needs Her Job
Dear Self:
Start looking seriously for a new job. While you love your company, and you love your job, things just feel really scary in the whole industry right now.
Post by supertrooper1 on Aug 16, 2017 21:35:10 GMT -5
akafred, that's great that you have taken her to so many concerts.
No mosh pits at TSO concerts. They're tame audiences. But DH is going to fight me on this. He thinks they're too loud. We have headphones that he can wear when it gets loud, but DH didn't think that was a good solution.
Dear random company I applied to, No, I am not filling out a 20 question excel questionnaire for you before you even have a conversation with me. I'm happy to set up a time for a phone screen to discuss the role and my qualifications. I am not going to waste my time filling out your mass mailed form with questions like, "How would you rate your skills in area X. Explain why", "Briefly summarize your main strengths and weaknesses", and "Describe your approach to the first 90 days in this role if hired". I have only a cursory understanding of the role from the job posting, so how the hell am I supposed to tell you what I would do? Who the heck wrote this thing? I'm pretty sure everyone else you sent this to is blowing you off as well based on the follow up voicemail you sent me.
Signed, Annoyed Non-applicant
P.S. Learn how to use mail merge so you can at least address your email to people, rather than just starting it off "Hello!"
mommyatty - that first one is so spot on!! There are a few families who left our school this year (some kids aged out, others moved or opted for homeschool or private school) and it really bothers me (about myself) how happy I am that they left. Glad I am not alone!