Taking the whole day off today was smart. You have a ton to do around the house. Your calendar was clear except for one call you’re still going to make. Stop feeling guilty. Everything will be fine. You have plenty of leave.
Post by erinshelley21 on Apr 18, 2018 9:21:19 GMT -5
Dear Self, Do not beat yourself up over stumbling through the phone screen you just did. It has been 9 years since you did any sort of interview and that one was to fold and sell panties and bras. You're fine. You applied to that job mostly for practice anyways, so it served it's purpose! Love, yourself
Dear kids, You both slept great! Let's do that again! Love, mama who enjoyed only getting up once and sleeping in her own bed all night
Dear Bro, Today is your therapy appt. Go to it, schedule another one, and keep on going. Your wife and I are about to lose our minds. If you were only being this way towards me and at work then I could take it, but the fact that this is happening at home when you have a baby on the way is sad and neither of you deserve it. Let's get you fixed up. Love, your sister
Wth with selling two boxes of those damn candy bars. Dd is determined to get the pizza party. We have peddled those stupid things to everyone we know and still haven't finished the first box.
Dear deli, Why can't you offer some kind of gluten free bread?! I miss your delicious sandwiches and am so jealous of the special trip my coworkers are making today to get food. Gluten free bread is a thing and there are some pretty decent brands. I think subs are one of the top things I miss... Signed, Disappointed GF Eater
Dear work, Please don't explode on me next week when two of my people are on vacation. I'm already struggling with bandwidth right now. Can it please be a calm week? Thanks, Stressed manager
Post by supertrooper1 on Apr 18, 2018 9:33:07 GMT -5
Dear DH, I still don't know why you got pissed at me on Monday, but whatever it was, I'm pretty sure it's your issue and nothing that I did. Signed, Wishes you would grow up
Dear coworker, I'm pretty sure when our agency implemented a program so we could work out 3 hours a week on duty, they didn't have in mind that you would go outside to smoke and walk around the parking lot. I think the smoking cancels out any walking that you're doing. Signed, SMH
Post by sweetptater on Apr 18, 2018 9:46:19 GMT -5
Dear DH,
Deciding to cycle the water softener last night in order to fill the hot tub with softened water was YOUR CHOICE and YOU are the one who decided to do it during dinner/kids bath time. Telling me that I couldn't have picked a worse time to "get all of this shit out and dirty a ton of dishes" (I'm sorry? Cooking during DINNER TIME is a bad time???) only served to piss me off and make you look like a moron. I hope you had fun staying up until 1230 AM ALONE waiting for the hot tub to fill.
Signed, A very well-rested (apparent) Dinner Fairy
Dear Mother Nature, I'm am over snow, it is April. Another 5 inches tonight is cruel. Hopefully they don't cancel school tomorrow. Signed, Tired of snow, want to stop wearing a winter coat
Post by covergirl82 on Apr 18, 2018 10:19:30 GMT -5
Dear friend,
I was fine with helping one time to find a carseat for your DD who just had a baby, but I'm done. I work full-time and have kids who keep me busy with activities, so I can't search the local FB sale groups for more stuff. You can easily become a member of those same groups, and I guarantee you have more time than I do now that you're not working full-time and your kids can drive themselves to activities, etc.
Signed, Friend who is not your personal shopper
Dear HR Generalist,
The fact that you are so incompetent that you made a leader prepare and present a job request when you SHOULD know that 3 other managers, who have people doing the same kind of work, are preparing a job request similar to what the leader presented today is ridiculous. Don't say you don't know about the other work when you've been copied on all the emails. I can't believe you just got a pay increase for "high performance" either.
Dear today and tomorrow Please go by as quickly as Monday and Tuesday did. I really need my day off Friday. Singed Can't keep my eyes open and feel like I've been hit by a train
Dear IRS and ODR Thank you for accepting every single one of our e-files last night. I really don't have the energy to deal with rejects this morning. Tax preparer
Post by mustardseed2007 on Apr 18, 2018 10:58:40 GMT -5
Dear Dad at DC,
When you had your son who had no shoes in the drop off line and you were panicking because your wife has his shoes or whatever...my comment that they have shoes at the day care didn't really mean you should hand your shoeless child off to the drop off line staff and then get into your car and leave without checking in with the school or explaining the situation to the office staff or your kid's teacher or anything. I know your wife. She's going to die from embarrassment and then tell you off so bad tonight.
Signed, Mom who is over the "clueless" dad routine on behalf of all moms in the world. Also laughing a bit at the pandemonium inside day care today... Also feeling bad because I was laughing ....
Dear weather gods, Please let spring get here. I want to go outside and play in the sunshine. The cold rain and snow is getting old, not to mention the flooding and landslides that are happening.
Dear body, Why are you still sick? It's been a month and I don't think I've had one day where I felt 100%. Either shape up or we will be visiting the doctor soon.
When you had your son had no shoes in the drop off line and you were panicking because your wife has his shoes or whatever...my comment that they have shoes at the day care didn't really mean you should hand your shoeless child off to the drop off line staff and then get into your car and leave without checking in with the school or explaining the situation to the office staff or your kid's teacher or anything. I know your wife. She's going to die from embarrassment and then tell you off so bad tonight.
Signed, Mom who is over the "clueless" dad routine on behalf of all moms in the world. Also laughing a bit at the pandemonium inside day care today... Also feeling bad because I was laughing ....
Speaking of dads and shoes, DH packed the kids' backpacks this morning, and I noticed their shoes were not in their backpacks. So I asked H if he was planning on them wearing their shoes or boots, because if they were going to wear their boots, they wouldn't have shoes at school. (And one of the kids has gym today.) So he quickly packed their shoes in their backpacks.
Post by traveltheworld on Apr 18, 2018 12:25:07 GMT -5
Speaking of DC and shoes - I sent DS to his first day of DC without shoes. He was 9 months old and didn't crawl nor walk, so we never put shoes on him. It never occurred to me that it was odd. When DC told me he couldn't attend without shoes, I was almost in tears, because I was counting on dropping him off. I finally had to call the national head office (DC was a national chain), explain myself, and agreed to sign a waiver. And because they didn't have a waiver for that purpose, I had to draft said waiver, write it out by hand, and sign it.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Apr 18, 2018 12:39:38 GMT -5
traveltheworld, whhhhaaaaat? I'm trying to remember....DD started daycare at 4 months old. At some point day care did ask us to get her shoes (well before we ever got them for DS) because of playground time, but I still feel like she wore socks there most of the time.
traveltheworld , whhhhaaaaat? I'm trying to remember....DD started daycare at 4 months old. At some point day care did ask us to get her shoes (well before we ever got them for DS) because of playground time, but I still feel like she wore socks there most of the time.
Yup. I was stunned. When I asked what the point of shoes were since he can't walk or crawl, they said that in case of emergencies, they need to evacuate, and he'd need shoes for that. Which is ridiculous, because again, it's not like he would suddenly learn to walk if there was an emergency evacuation!!!! But they insisted that it was national policy, hence the call to the national headquarter.
Nothing makes you feel like a less than stellar mom when you are told that you are the ONLY person this happened to in their history of operations, with thousands of kids. Thinking back, that was probably not true - other centers probably just didn't bother with enforcing the stupid policy. But at the time, I believed it.
You were lovely to meet today. It's clear that you loved this house and I'm thoroughly impressed with how organized you are - everything you're leaving behind is clearly labeled and organized.
But really, I'm most impressed by the fact that your son was 17 when you moved into this house, which means you're at least somewhere between 55-60 years old and you definitely don't look a day over 40. Please tell me it's because you had a fountain of youth installed in the master bath.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Apr 18, 2018 14:52:40 GMT -5
traveltheworld, at every center I've ever been to, they evacuate the crawlers and young walkers by putting them all in cribs and wheeling the cribs out the door. Weird.
traveltheworld, at every center I've ever been to, they evacuate the crawlers and young walkers by putting them all in cribs and wheeling the cribs out the door. Weird.
The center used wheeled cribs for evacuations too!
traveltheworld , at every center I've ever been to, they evacuate the crawlers and young walkers by putting them all in cribs and wheeling the cribs out the door. Weird.
+1. I didn't send DS in shoes until he was 13 months?
k3am, No I'm in the office working away. Finishing up the finally payroll quarterly report and got all the payrolls that I put off Monday & Tuesday done. The day has flown and we are talking about closing up in an hour or so (2pm) to go home and take a nap. We've actually been really busy all morning.
Our friends 2.5 hours away want us to come over this weekend to visit. They are telling me that I will get a pamper weekend of no cooking, no cleaning, and juts R&R. That is all fine but it doesn't deal with the fact I haven't done laundry in almost 3 weeks or gone to the store to buy anything other than milk and bread since the 18th of March. I need a weekend to do crap. Am I the worst friend saying no I can't come get pampered because I need to be actually home?
k3am , No I'm in the office working away. Finishing up the finally payroll quarterly report and got all the payrolls that I put off Monday & Tuesday done. The day has flown and we are talking about closing up in an hour or so (2pm) to go home and take a nap. We've actually been really busy all morning.
Our friends 2.5 hours away want us to come over this weekend to visit. They are telling me that I will get a pamper weekend of no cooking, no cleaning, and juts R&R. That is all fine but it doesn't deal with the fact I haven't done laundry in almost 3 weeks or gone to the store to buy anything other than milk and bread since the 18th of March. I need a weekend to do crap. Am I the worst friend saying no I can't come get pampered because I need to be actually home?
Go to your friend's house, Fred Meyer Click list while you're there and pick up groceries on the way home. Have your H do laundry. Tell him he owes you this one favor. You deserve a break.
Pretty tired of recleaning after you leave. What I wiped out of the sink that you are supposed to clean was gross. I pay you too much to have to redo the bathrooms and rewash the floors. You were awesome for 3 years. I’ve already had to talk to you about it. What’s up?? You’re sweet. I don’t want to fire you.
Signed, Homeowner who is not picky as you described, but rather hygienic and expecting that people will do the job they are paid to do.
Dear DH -
I don’t know what crawled up your butt and died last night, but you were a huge jerk. I don’t even know what set you off. But storming off, only to return to dump a bag of your dry cleaning next to the door to REMIND me to drop it off was kind of a d!ck move. I’d been sick for 2 days, then forgot, in my rushing to cover all other things, to drop off your shirts. My bad. You don’t have to be an a$$. I assume my apology will be ready when I get home from softball practice??
186momx, I'd ask for a raincheck for the next weekend or another weekend after that. I'm the type of person that needs some downtime with just my family and getting business taken care of.
Dear Brain, I am not snorkeling or on a boat or on a plane. So get used to flat ground. I can’t handle this constantly dizzy, unable to stand up without looking drunk, exhausted state. If I take a giant step again and fall while trying to sit on a chair I am going to lose my mind. W T F this has never happened to me before
Dear DH, You were awesome on our trip and have been great since we have been back. Are you joking when you say you are going to the office tomorrow because you don’t want to be around the sick kids? Not doing this alone has been awesome. You better not bail. Also, I asked to work late first!! Not fair!!
Dear boss and boss's boss, whoever is passing along an assignment from above,
Why is it that whenever you give me an assignment on Friday afternoon for a pretty good sized project that will take at least 20 work hours, and I ask when it is due, and you say, "How about next week?" and I ask for more specifics, and you say, "Midweek?" and I confirm that you need it COB on Wednesday, INVARIABLY you come to me Tuesday morning and tell me that your boss is asking where it is? I would like to exceed expectations here. At the time you asked me, I was starting the data checks and summary page. I was on track to finish by late afternoon TUESDAY, a full day prior to when you said you needed it. How can I possibly exceed expectations in this environment? I'm always made to feel like I am slacking off even though I did a DAMN INCREDIBLE job on the project with some impressive visuals, delivered early. It's discouraging.
YOU TOOK THE BATHROOM MIRRORS?!?! As DD would say... what the what?!?!
Signed, Baffled and annoyed.
Dear shopping/to-do list,
You're getting long. And now I need to add mirrors to you. UGH. And toilet seats (who doesn't have slow close toilet seats?!?!). And closet shelving. And a kitchen table. And a dining room table. And a couch. And a guestroom bed. And..and... and 189 other things.
Signed, The lady who was sillily commenting to DH that we had enough free cash at the moment to get some new furniture and move a big chunk into the brokerage account.