I'm pretty sure I am not going to pay a lot of attention to a 3 hour webinar on how to fill out an online grant application. You clicking throughout the 4356 screens it takes to fill out this grant is not super easy to follow, plus, I am about to fall out of my chair even with coffee. Why don't you give us an outline of what you need in Word and we fill it out like most people. The every other page glitches that is the norm for this online form is not super efficient.
I know you miss your daddy. I know that you have a lot of changes right now. New classroom, Dad is out of town, and you are getting a sister soon. I wish I could make it better for you. I promise lots of cuddles tonight.
I CAN'T STAND YOU. I know I wanted the first company to sell my loan, but the company they sold it to isn't any better so far. TELL ME HOW TO PAY YOU. Why is that so hard? I WANT TO GIVE YOU MONEY. And I want to do it when it's due, not 5-7 business days after my payment is due.
Signed, Someone who doesn't want to deal with this BS
Thank you for having a business model that makes sense and actually having an instructor who could start giving my kids lessons this weekend. I was happy to give you money for an honest to God name of a person who will come to my house to swim.
Mom of 2 Eager Kids Who Can’t Swim
Dear Second Swim Instructor Company I Called:
People shouldn’t have to resort to threatening to dispute the $795 charge as a scam to their credit card company to get you to respond to them. And if you don’t have instructors lined up, don’t send a million marketing emails about your “awesome” service. And don’t charge people until you actually book them a freaking instructor!
Dear DH, When you're oversleeping by 30 minutes and our kid spills a half gallon of milk all over herself and the kitchen and I have to clean that up, give her a shower, and somehow still get myself to work on time, yes, I'm going to yell at you. I'm going to be angry and frustrated and take it out on you when you finally roll around to getting up. And when you finally get up and see me mopping the floor, with milk dripping down the counter, while a kid is in the shower, maybe don't start making your own lunch and getting yourself ready? Maybe help me with the Sh*t show going down around you? Because I will get angrier. We had a deal. Part of your half was getting up on time to make mornings less stressful. You did it for a couple weeks and now you've completely given up. I'm raging. Get your act together. Signed, Angry wife
Dear FIL, I hope you know what you are doing by taking MIL home instead of to a nursing home. You have the phone numbers of resources to use to take care of MIL. Use them. DH only has so much time and effort to give you. Signed - worried DIL
Dear SIL, What is wrong with you? Your mom has been bouncing in and out of the hospital since the end of March and you have yet to make an appearance. DH has already told you that your mom's good days are getting fewer. I know you live 8 hours away, but this is your mother. Don't give me BS about needing to work or not having money - your Facebook posts show otherwise. When are you going to grow up and realize the world doesn't revolve around you? Signed - peeved SIL And PS - your cute little post about how you don't feel good and ended up with strep and don't like to take antibiotics, but will just this one time so you don't infect your visitors this weekend blows my mind. I love how you took a pic of the antibiotics bottle with all of your personal info on it (including address and RX#) and posted it on Facebook for the world to see. I hope someone hacks your health info.
You are correct that their invoice doesn't have an address. Try google.
Signed - I refuse to do it for you.
Stick to this. My boss has gotten in a bad habit of doing simple things for other people because he gets frustrated and its easier to do it himself, but when he is in a time crunch and we are all bogged down we still get people asking to do little simple things for them because we have babied them too much.
Dear DH, Thank you for figuring out that the kids and I are in a groove and you, good intentions aside, are an agent of chaos. Last night after practice it was awesome that when it was time to transition to shower/bed you let it happen. See how it all flowed and no one whined or cried or yelled? That’s a normal night here. You jumping in to tell DS he can wait a bit before shower or tell DD yes to ice cream throws everything off. The kids are used to being told what to do and doing it. Don’t break that! I’m glad you are finally starting to see this. Whew! Happy wife, happy life
Dear DH You stopped coughing and sniffling last Thursday. You started up last night again after therapy. I'm pretty sure you slept on the couch last night or didn't sleep at all. Can you please get your act together. Not sleeping or eating will make you sick along with the giant stress elephant you are carrying. If therapy isn't helping and adding to this then maybe you need to not go every week. Signed Frustrated Wife
Dear DD I get you really want a big party. I gave you a couple choices dinner out and open gym with a couple friends or a party at the house. You want both but can't have both. I really want the dinner out route but why you feel you need a big party is beyond me. So can you please give me ideas for this party at home. Mom
Post by supertrooper1 on May 30, 2018 11:58:21 GMT -5
186momx, When I was a kid, a birthday party at home was make pizzas, watch a movie and have cake and ice cream. There were no organized events. We just played or watched a movie. One year, my mom did a scavenger hunt which was pretty fun.
Dear camp- thanks for being awesome. The kids had a great day yesterday, and this morning they didn’t even want hugs because they were already chatting it up with their counselors. Love happy mom
Dear baseball team- I like you guys. You are laid back but it’s been 4 weeks when are we getting our uniforms and starting games? Does the delay in games mean the kids are really bad this year and thus need more practice? Love left in the dark mom
Dear DD- You are so sweet always making me drawings that say I love you and pictures of you and me. I get now that I am the most important thing/ person in your life. Love mom who is scared to mess it up
Dear co-worker- You are entitled and have bad anxiety. If you haven’t already get yourself some help because your thoughts don’t make sense anymore. Love co-worker
Dear DH- happy to see you tonight. Dear DS- I am happy you are so into sports because your coordination and strength need all the help they can get.
Dear spring/ summer- thank God for you. Seriously loving the weather! Love winter hater
Post by traveltheworld on May 30, 2018 12:36:36 GMT -5
Dear Universe:
Why can't someone invent a teleporter? I really don't want to leave on a Sunday morning, fly 10 hours, just to get to a Monday meeting. I miss hanging out with my kids, as annoying as they can be.
Signed, Frustrated mom
Dear Book Club members,
Please continue to show up. I really like the book club. It's my only "me" thing.
Signed, Woman who really needs more of a social life
Post by erinshelley21 on May 30, 2018 15:21:58 GMT -5
Dear WP, I've been feeling kind of "blah" lately and not around as much as I have in the past. The whole major life change that's coming but can't really make any decisions on is really starting to get to me. I've been trying to keep up but having a hard time even doing that. Signed, I hope I feel like hanging out more soon!
xctsclrx, that's the exact reason I'm in this position. Their manager quit and I'm now seeing the ramifications of him doing everything for them because it was easier. It is so frustrating and is going to take a long time to undo it.
I hope your Bookclub continues to blossom. Mine turned into some of the best friends in the world. We do one big girls trip every year for a long weekend. We have multiple social events a month now.
Post by erinshelley21 on May 30, 2018 20:15:37 GMT -5
Dear body, I've been taking care of you better than I EVER have for the last 6 months, especially the last month. Why am I sick out of the freaking blue?! Neither of my kids are sick, DH isn't sick, no one at the gym has been sick, nieces haven't been sick. All usual sources are healthy. I don't get it Love, we are getting our shit together so let's cut the crap.
Post by vavavictoria on May 30, 2018 21:46:29 GMT -5
Dear eyebrows,
You were microbladed today. The shape is awesome. The darkness is kind of scaring me. Please let it be true that the color will fade a lot over the next few days and I won’t look like a crazy person. That’s what everyone says but it’s kind of nuts to look in the mirror and just see eyebrows.
Love Person who went from never even using brow makeup to having perfectly drawn on but very dark semi permanent eyebrows 😳
Dear DH, When you're oversleeping by 30 minutes and our kid spills a half gallon of milk all over herself and the kitchen and I have to clean that up, give her a shower, and somehow still get myself to work on time, yes, I'm going to yell at you. I'm going to be angry and frustrated and take it out on you when you finally roll around to getting up. And when you finally get up and see me mopping the floor, with milk dripping down the counter, while a kid is in the shower, maybe don't start making your own lunch and getting yourself ready? Maybe help me with the Sh*t show going down around you? Because I will get angrier. We had a deal. Part of your half was getting up on time to make mornings less stressful. You did it for a couple weeks and now you've completely given up. I'm raging. Get your act together. Signed, Angry wife
Dear twinmomma I think we have the same husband. Signed, Wife to someone who is “not a morning person”
Post by covergirl82 on May 31, 2018 7:10:07 GMT -5
Dear now former co-worker,
I will miss you so much, but I am really happy for you that you have a new job that allows you to WFH 100% which I know you're excited about because you feel it will improve your work-life balance. I hope we can get together for lunch now and then, and maybe work together again someday. I will miss having someone I consider a true friend at work.
Dear Beloved Son, Quit it, I will not negotiate every part of the morning routine! I'm stressed and tired packing at night while you sleep close to 11 hours You don't want to eat breakfast no problem. Signed tired and frustrated
Dear work, There has got to be a better way. Business is booming and my area could use an extra hand Signed Open to help but managing
Dear insurance, I hate you. I need 3 epi pens because school and after care each require their own and we need one for home. So when you deny my prescription and only allow the pharmacy to give me one at a time, that's an issue. Especially when I don't find that out until I show up to pick up the prescription that I thought would be filled. I cannot believe that I have to call every three days to get a "refill" in order for me to get enough of these stupid things. Who has time for that?! Do you really think there's some crazy epi pen hoarding epidemic that requires you to ration them out like this? Signed, Pissed off customer
twinmomma, It's the same way with my son's inhalers. Except insurance says that we need 30 days in between refills. School and aftercare both need them, along with one for my purse. So I need to start refilling at least 90 days out? This is a crazy system. It's not like I am hoarding inhalers, my son just needs them to breath. At least for the summer I can send the school one to summer camp, and then there is no aftercare.
twinmomma, I have the same problem. Also, have you noticed that the expiration dates don't last one year? The last time I picked up it was 8 months out and the time before that, it was only 6 months. I don't have the time or money to be refilling three prescriptions twice per year. The pharmacy claimed they get what they get and we can try another location with a better lot date. Are you kidding me!? The pharmacist also told me we could use it past the exp date but school policy won't allow us to do that and I'm nervous about it.
mellym, We haven't run into that yet, thankfully! For costs, have you gotten the coupon from epi pen? When I combine the coupon with our insurance, it actually ends up being free for us! The pharmacist tried to tell me I could split up the double pack to get more, but the school wouldn't accept that last time since the prescription is on the box and it says it's for two. So, so frustrating.
I am sorry that I didn’t answer your last email. Honest to god I thought you were joking and I was trying not to assume you’re an idiot.
Love, Me
Dear WPs,
DH is meeting me for lunch today. True fact, here is an email exchange we had yesterday. Him: where do you want to meet? Me: let’s try this new place (web link) Him: great - Thai sounds good Me: even cooler... it’s Taiwanese! Him: I just said that. How is Taiwanese not Thai? Me: lol
Apparently that was a real question. I had to explain it when I got home last night. Not even kidding you, these words were spoken by me: “Taiwanese, as in from Taiwan. Thai food is from Thailand.”
You were microbladed today. The shape is awesome. The darkness is kind of scaring me. Please let it be true that the color will fade a lot over the next few days and I won’t look like a crazy person. That’s what everyone says but it’s kind of nuts to look in the mirror and just see eyebrows.
Love Person who went from never even using brow makeup to having perfectly drawn on but very dark semi permanent eyebrows 😳
Dear current old job
Two more days!
Love person who hopes new job is awesome
They'll fade. I promise. But you're going to look like an effing crazy person for another two weeks. Most people won't say anything, but you're going to get some looks.
I hope your end result is better than mine. All accounts are that people either love them or hate them, and while I don't hate them, I'm solidly in the "regrets" category.
You were microbladed today. The shape is awesome. The darkness is kind of scaring me. Please let it be true that the color will fade a lot over the next few days and I won’t look like a crazy person. That’s what everyone says but it’s kind of nuts to look in the mirror and just see eyebrows.
Love Person who went from never even using brow makeup to having perfectly drawn on but very dark semi permanent eyebrows 😳
Dear current old job
Two more days!
Love person who hopes new job is awesome
They'll fade. I promise. But you're going to look like an effing crazy person for another two weeks. Most people won't say anything, but you're going to get some looks.
I hope your end result is better than mine. All accounts are that people either love them or hate them, and while I don't hate them, I'm solidly in the "regrets" category.
I definitely got some looks yesterday. And my 3 year old asked me why I did this to my eyebrows. Then she requested that I make them pink so I’m not so sure of her judgement. Lol.
Have you seen if anything can be done to “fix” yours? And why don’t you love them? It was a big leap for me since I’m pretty low maintenance.
I’ve been taking nsaids like crazy so the inflammation seems to have died down this am and they are less dark. From what I’ve seen online though that may reverse. Of course I’m going out to dinner Friday and Saturday so good planning me. Lol
vavavictoria, plan on them to be even darker days 2-4 before you see light at the end of the tunnel.
I'm guessing I wasn't a good candidate for them. My skin didn't hold the pigment well, despite following the aftercare instructions. I did a 2nd/extra touchup which helped, but at the end of the day, the pigment only stayed in certain parts.
My whole goal had been to be lower maintenance, since previously I was dyeing them (one of my eyebrows gets blonde part way thru) and then filling in with pencil. And after having done them, I'm... dyeing them and filling them in with pencil anyways, but if I don't do both of those things, they just look... weird.
I have debated whether I give it another go (see, I don't HATE them) with someone else or just let them fade. But the price tag and feeling like a hermit for a week after doing them have me leaning towards not doing it.