I hope you both have a great time at National Convention!!! Concert, Rodeo, classes, touring the city. It will be great!
Signed, mom who got up at 5 to see you off.
Dear DD,
I am glad you took a leap and signed up for this trip. You were sad and cried this morning about missing dad and me and the dog and the house, but remember, you have been excited about this for months. You will have a great time and learn a lot and make some great new friends.
Signed, the crying is killing me.
Dear Life360,
I don't think I could love technology more. I can track DS while driving at all times. I can screen shot that he went over 55 yesterday. I can also call DD this morning and asked why he missed his exit. He knows that I am watching, which is even better. I can see that they got on the bus at school this morning and are now about 30 minutes out from their hotel.
It is very not like you to make a plan to take me out to dinner tonight. Usually I make all the plans. You declared you were taking me out, when, and even picked a new restaurant I have been excited about.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Oct 30, 2019 10:07:18 GMT -5
Dear CFO,
Quit giving CEO false information that makes him call me screaming. I realized you had misinformed him about half way through the conversation and corrected it to calm him down, but you fucking suck. And your response? "Oh. My mistake."
Post by supertrooper1 on Oct 30, 2019 10:27:54 GMT -5
rere, I hope they have a great time at the National Convention. I always wished I had went, but I didn't even make it to our state convention.
Dear self, Get yourself out of your funk and find your motivation to do stuff. You're not even keeping up with the day to day stuff around the house. Signed, Depression sucks
Dear Beau, Yes, you may have had too much to drink last night, but our text conversation made me happy. Knowing that your feelings for me are going in the same direction as mine made my night. Signed, The person that thinks you're amazing
Why are you getting sick? But I have to admit, if you need to do it, this is the right week for it. Because I’m traveling pretty much every week from now until Thanksgiving after this one.
Signed: Let’s Get This Over With, ‘Kay?
Dear Boss:
Thank you for being mostly cool about my needing to leave and return in the middle of an all day meeting next week. DS only has one kindergarten show this fall, and I didn’t want to miss it.
Signed, Appreciative Employee
Dear New Head of DS’s School:
Um, you finally gave us a day and time for the show yesterday. The show is next week. What the actual fuck?
Signed, Not the Only Working Parent Taken By Surprise
Dear Headmaster of Said School:
I might bring this up next time you ask how we are doing and how things are going. It would be good to remember that my job is what allows us to be among the 4 highest contributing families so far this year.
Thank you for finally realizing that MY KID IS NOT CAUSING THESE PROBLEMS. It only took that kid having multiple outbursts in class, reports from teachers from recess, and countless emails and phone calls from me for you to figure out that my kid is doing ALL THE RIGHT THINGS and that the other kid WON'T LEAVE HER ALONE. I still find it interesting that when my kid was accused, CPS was alerted like 18 hours later, but when this other kid is accused, it's weeks of investigation before you finally act.
So here's the deal. I spent a TON of time volunteering last year. PTO meetings, room parent stuff, field trips, and OMG the fund raising. We contributed thousands of dollars beyond the tuition to help fund different initiatives and to generally make you look good. All that's done.
Signed, Still prepared to go nuclear if this crap continues
You are a public school, so to push fundraising events where the entry ticket is $85 each, including for the children, is a bit much.
Signed, Annoyed
Dear DS,
No, we are not paying $320 to go to a "carnival" that your school is putting on.
Signed, Do not have a growing money tree
woah. Per person?? Our public school charges for carnival tickets for activities but not for entry. Same for the private school that we attend. That's really steep.
Crazy suggestion to consider, but perhaps when shipping stuff like mirrors and breakable items, you invent some kind of label for the box to indicate the items are fragile? It would be world altering and perhaps things wouldn’t arrive destroyed?
Post by traveltheworld on Oct 30, 2019 11:42:10 GMT -5
mae0111 and mustardseed2007 , I think the school is calling it a "carnival" to make it more attractive for the kids. But there's supposed to be a live band, and is being hosted at a pretty nice venue. Nevertheless, that pricing is ridiculous in my opinion.
But then again, this is the same school where the principal had to ban the use of Uber Eats because too many parents/students were using Uber Eats to deliver lunches, causing traffic and safety issues. *insert giant eye roll*
traveltheworld - this GenXer never even considered Uber Eats for lunch. That sounds like just the thing I need to do to piss off the current administration.
traveltheworld, do you also have to make an annual donation to the PTA? For our public school fall carnival, if you have made your recommended $350 per student contribution, you go free. Otherwise you have to pay. But it's definitely not $85.
Post by greenmonkey1 on Oct 30, 2019 12:38:58 GMT -5
sdlaura $350/student for PTA! Do you receive approximately that amount/student in services (not the right word, but you know what I mean) from your PTA? Our PTG dues are $25/family and that gets us discounts on tickets for events (i.e. $8 ticket for BINGO rather than $10) and the school directory. I cannot imagine paying $350/student - we have three kids and I am choking at the thought of spending $1,050 annually at our public school on top of supplies, school fees, etc.
greenmonkey1, yep, we have two kids there now, and one day will have three at a time, so it adds up, but I figure it's still a lot cheaper than private school
The money pays for a lot of stuff like all school supplies, field trips, science and art, the school garden, the store where they get to "buy" things with points for doing good - that sort of thing. So we don't pay for supplies or other school fees during the year.
It's also a very HCOL area - so I guess they figure if people are spending what they are to buy houses in the district, they can afford it.
Where in NM? I go to Albuquerque and Santa Fe regularly for work. Also, I wish my husband was less frugal and would suggest that I hire a household manager
librarychica, it's beautiful, but I don't think I would move there permanently. There seemed to be a lot of problems with poverty/ drugs in the rural areas. Santa Fe was nice.
Dear weather,
Excuse me, why did I wake up to a winter wonderland? It's Oct 30th, not Christmas! Now it is all melted and cold rain which will continue for trick or treating- Yuck!
Dear WP- If you are attending an event at the school where 10 million people will be and parking is an issue, how early would you get there? I was thinking 9:30 for the 10 am parade. People will probably be lined up 20 minutes before, but it will probably be raining so I could wait in the car until the line goes down. I also am volunteering at the party afterwards.
Signed, The person who needs serious logistic help for every super crazy school event especially for parking (although it is not as bad as back to school night).
Where in NM? I go to Albuquerque and Santa Fe regularly for work. Also, I wish my husband was less frugal and would suggest that I hire a household manager
About 40 minutes outside Santa Fe. Los Alamos, specifically.
librarychica, that's pretty remote. If you're the type of person who might be happy living on a ranch in the middle of nowhere, you might like it, but I imagine that would be an enormous change from where you are now.
waverly, I take it walking to school isn't a choice. Me who walks to big school events to avoid parking a block from my house. We live 5 blocks away.
Dear Management Company Thanks for sending a contractor who didn't give up on finding our pesky little water leak coming from the upstairs tenants. Glad I had no major work this week as he cut open my ceiling and found the leak coming from a random hold. The water was coming from faulty caulking job around the tub/shower. The tenant upstairs just moved in in May. Why wasn't this checked between tenants. Cranky tenant who is now stuck smelling mud & paint fumes
traveltheworld, wow, no way I would spend $85 for a school thing. Our fall carnival is you buy how many tickets you want tickets are .25 each and games cost .25 food anywhere between .25-1.00 and we have free activities too. We are already getting grief that it is going to cost families too much $$$.
Dear School Principle The new PTO board just wants to put on fun activities that don't cost parents a fortune but still raise a little money. Could you please approve the events and dates so we can plan ahead instead of stressing and rushing around with 2 weeks okay notice. Also why do we have to translate all signs. This never was the case before why this year? the lady who is making signs and now is starting over as I need to do them all in Spanish.
Post by supertrooper1 on Oct 30, 2019 13:55:39 GMT -5
librarychica, I have an aunt and uncle that retired to Los Alamos. They love it. He's from Washington, she's from Northern California and they lived all over for work. I haven't visited them there, so I don't know first hand.
186momx , it technically is, but for back to school night we have tons of supplies. For tomorrow's parade and parties it is supposed to be nasty cold rain, it is a mile away, and I am picking up DD. If it were nice out, I might try it just to see how that goes.
Dear beau, Really excited that you're going to attend my work holiday party with me! Now I have to figure out how to explain to you that you don't have to be nervous, because literally anyone else in the world is a better guest than XH was since he'd get wasted, refuse to socialize like a normal person, and make a fool of me in some way shape or form. But also know that my CEO, CFO, and VP may be a little protective of me given how my marriage ended in flames and they want to see me happy... I promise, it'll be a fun night! Signed, Thankful PS - Telling me you're totally fine with making theater reservations for a year from now is adorable and very sweet and makes me really happy.
Dear WPs, My therapist says it's finally time to buck up and explain about XH to new beau... We've been seeing each other for almost six months and it's getting progressively more serious. And I still haven't opened up about the emotional abuse or the affair disaster. I don't think it'll scare him away by any means, but it's just a lot of baggage to throw into something that's been just fun and easy until now. Wish me luck figuring out how to do this. Signed, Panicky
Why do you request my transcripts and then also make me hand jam every class. Why? just why? Also why won't you let me see my transcript so I can enter off of that one. Instead you are making me request my own copy so I can fill this out accurately.
Post by supertrooper1 on Oct 30, 2019 16:28:10 GMT -5
twinmomma, have your girls met your beau? If not, I would shoot your XH a text saying you wanted to let him know you've been seeing someone for 6 months and wanted to give him the heads up that they were going to meet him. As for telling him about the messy marriage stuff, I know I stressed about telling my beau some very personal stuff and he his reaction made me wish I hadn't stressed so much. He was so cool and sweet about it.
BTW, I can't believe it's been 6 months for you already!
Dear career, Wait is that an actual pulse? Excited to complete 2 interviews for my dream healthcare co!
Signed, You got this Working Mom
Dear Family, Thanks for trying to get your act together as it relates to chores Signed, Appreciative mom
Dear son, I'm so proud you made the honor roll. You are only in 2nd grade but please don't be lazy your teacher did mention you have your moments I guess we all do (I pray you are not like your daddy as a student)
supertrooper1 no, the girls haven't met him yet and I haven't met his son either. Trying to figure out how to navigate that too. I might suggest we just bring my kids and his kid to a play place and keep it super casual to start. I do have to give XH a heads up. I know he'll be gross about it - super sweet and supportive, so happy for me, I deserve the best, etc. He's so good at being fake like that. Gag.
Wow - you move fast. Submitted a LinkedIn application, received a canned email from the CEO within 30 minutes telling me that you want me to do the more detailed application and begin the interview process. Yay!
So I did the detailed application this morning (lots of writing, took 2 hours), and got another canned email within 20 minutes... telling me I have been screened out. Whomp whomp.
So, yay efficiency, but ouch to my ego that I got booted from consideration so quickly. 😕