How many damn times do I have to ask you to go to bed? I waited in there for 20 minutes for you to finally come to bed. I really don't care if you come to bed with me or not, but when you come in and flop on the bed, take your socks off, get your 2 covers, fluff your pillow 10 times right after I fall asleep, it wakes me up and I can't fall back to sleep. Either come to bed at 10 or wait until 11 and I am good and asleep. If I disrupted your precious sleep while you are working, there would be hell to pay.
Signed, Grandparents slept in separate rooms and that seems nice.
Dear DH again,
When our son walks in and ask you a question and you bark at him, I don't blame him for not wanting to go out to dinner. You say you didn't say anything bad, but again for the 1934 time, its how you say it. You bark at me the same way, and I don't like it either. I certainly would not go anywhere with you talking like that and wouldn't have went last night if we didn't have parent conferences at school.
Signed, you worked for 4 days straight 12 hours, and all was peaceful.
Dear DD,
We are all going to have to be medicated before you go to high school. Basing this on the fact that the tour of the school is today and you are feeling sick and begging not to go.
Signed, you have to go to high school, it's the law.
Post by supertrooper1 on Feb 27, 2019 9:49:41 GMT -5
Dear STBXH, Accusing me of hiding money yesterday was not cool. You stressed me out for no reason. How did you not know that you've been seeing your mom's accounts in your online account since the bank updated their system last October? Signed, Successfully called your bluff
Dear coworker, I can only train you so much. I have 2 days left to train you and if you can't learn this correctly, you're in for a long haul in this position. Signed, Not my problem after Friday
Dear XH, No, I'm not going to help you do your taxes because I've always handled it in the past. You can go on the HR Block website and look at the list of documents you need and figure it out. I'm not logging in to your student loan accounts and finding the paperwork for you. You're a grown ass man. Act like it. Signed, Not my problem
Post by mustardseed2007 on Feb 27, 2019 10:15:26 GMT -5
Dear DS,
I'm sorry you forgot your stuffed animal for sharing time today. But at least we had pokemon cards in the car that you could take instead. This is coping, problem solving and LIFE SKILLS.
Signed, Mom who wanted to run home and get the stuffed animal but didn't
I had a dream once that DH and I were divorcing and he was incredulous that I wasn’t going to keep paying his car insurance. I woke up, shook him awake, and said “If we ever get divorced, I’m not paying your car insurance.” Poor guy was like “um, okay.”
Thank you, thank you for going up to my DD and saying hello and asking her to sit with your friends (she certainly wasn't going to make the first move). You introduced her to your friends and they even complemented her outfit. She thinks you may have the same homeroom. She is now excited about high school (for now).
Signed grateful mom who contemplated sending a note of thanks to your school you go to, but don't want to seem as crazy as I actually am.
Post by librarychica on Feb 27, 2019 12:44:22 GMT -5
Dear children, nieces and nephews,
I am beginning to worry about having all five of you in my house at once. Please be awesome this weekend so we can have cousin invasions on a regular basis.
Dear Body, I don’t know what is going on, but I haven’t been this kind of anxious in years. Work is crazy, DD is unwell, sports are going, DH is traveling, I have 9 million administrative tasks to complete to keep our lives running - none of this is new. So why the shaky, tight chest on the brink of a panic attack feeling?
Please stop. I’m stressing about stressing. Which is making me feel crazy
2chatter, I am here with you. My heart felt like it was skipping for a week. It has backed off, but started again last night when we took DD to parent night at the high school. I feel like it is stress combined with hormones, since the worst of it seemed to coincide with my time of the month. Hormones are out of whack anyway.
Post by traveltheworld on Feb 27, 2019 16:35:04 GMT -5
Dear DH,
I'm so so excited about our NYC getaway. I know I haven't been very good at showing how much I enjoy spending time with you, but I truly do, so this will be so nice. It's only 3 months away!
Signed, Excited
Dear House,
Stop falling apart. Ok, maybe that's an exaggeration - but given how DH and I are completely incapable of fixing even the smallest things, you having any issues is stressing me out. This is why I bought you - you should be new, shiny, and has no need for repairs!
Signed, Not sure what to do with a cracked sink, a dining room light that is broken, and a leaky shower.
Dear DH, When I text you that I am super stressed out and feel like I can’t breathe, it’s probably a bad idea to call me four hours later with your office door open and put me on speaker, chat about the weather, following up with a “doing better?”. Because I am really likely to say the not radio edited version of this “the MFing QA environment keeps crashing and my effing deadline was last week so no I am not effing “doing better” whatever the eff that means because I still feel kind of like S and the GD kids are going to want dinner in like an hour and a half and I would prefer to work until midnight and finish this. Instead I’ll be taking care of the sick dog, probably during the two hours people in India leave QA the eff alone. Want to b about how it’s cold there some more?”
Signed, Send texts, I don’t have time to chat - this is the fifth time your office has learned your wife has a dirty mouth
And no, I am not amused that your boss “really likes me”
Dear snow Go away or at least stop falling. I'm tired of shoveling you. I want to go to work and work without the kid in tow or in fear of getting stuck in the parking lot. 3rd snow day and DD is beyond bored. I'm sending her to aftercare all day tomorrow no matter what so I can work. Not a SAHM
Post by mustardseed2007 on Feb 28, 2019 13:15:37 GMT -5
Dear Tomorrow,
Please get here quick! I get to take the day off, take DD to visit/interview at DS' school, read for Dr. Suess day and I get to not be at work all day.
Signed, Yipee!
Dear DD's Teacher,
So DD has not done any work in 3 days? Well...I did talk to her about that and she's promised me that she's going to do a ton of work today. But she's 4 and...you can't make her do work? Not to be a jerk but...that's your shift and getting a 4 year old to learn things during your shift is your job. Right?
Dear Snow/Ice Go Away Signed 4th snow day and tomorrow doesn't look promising
WPs I'm at work. Got my car stuck in the parking this morning. Dad got us parked by sliding all over the place but we are in. Ice buried by snow with ice on top. Now I have all these elderly people calling wanting to come in. I just saw a giant truck get stuck trying to get out of the on street parking. I keep telling them its okay to wait but no they just have to get the taxes in. What happened to common sense? 186momx
Post by covergirl82 on Feb 28, 2019 14:51:21 GMT -5
186momx, back in the end of January, during the polar vortex, my parents (both 72) drove over an hour to snow blow at their secondary house (our "cottage") on bad roads and -40 wind chills. I was mad that 1) the neighbors (the house is a neighborhood with close-by neighbors) couldn't just help out and snow blow the 30 feet of sidewalk in front of the house or 2) they couldn't wait a few days until the polar vortex passed. We also had a full week off of school at the end of January, and it was a challenge to WFH and keep increasingly cabin-fevered kids occupied, so I feel you.
I can’t complain today - DS came home with a 101 fever and DH’s immediate response was he will fly in tonight and take him to the doctor in the morning for strep and flu tests. I made sure to tell DH that was awesome and thanks for not making me ask for help over the weekend - he said DS is his and so I can spend time with DDs and take care of vaca prep and get a pedicure.
Actually, he wanted to board the dogs for $153/night so we had camera monitoring and personalized updates. We have our neighbor’s house sitter caring for them at home for $180, and I plan to tip her $50. He resisted for a minute, but then saw the light. I did ask him why he spent time researching luxury dog boarding when he needs to pay the IRS $52 (some error I would rather pay than understand), transfer my Sirius to our account, book the hotel on the way to the beach and get our yard guy to define the spring schedule including creek clean up. He apologized for making me keep track of tasks he hasn’t completed —- so I think he has had a lobotomy this week.
mustardseed2007, what kind of work do 4 year olds do? My dd is 4 and they are learning about penguins and Antarctica.....not like worksheets or anything.
mustardseed2007 , what kind of work do 4 year olds do? My dd is 4 and they are learning about penguins and Antarctica.....not like worksheets or anything.
oh it's montessori so they do their lessons independently by themselves after receiving a lesson or sometimes in small groups of one or two.
There's letter sounds (a box with 3 letters and then 4 objects per letter all mixed up and they match the objects that start with a letter to the correct letter). There's also doll washing that she's done a lot of lately (you pour water in a bucket and wash a doll with soap and water and dry it off). And number rods (a counting/quantity thing). There's also a xylophone activity that she likes.
Although Friday is dusting day and they dust the whole classroom too. That sounds more like work to me, ha ha.
The montessori thing is neat in many ways but was problematic for my son in some ways and is showing to be problematic for my daughter in other ways.
Dear Weather, Not only do I not know how to get dressed each day due to your insanity, I have no idea what to pack myself, much less two children, for a week in Seaside. With rain in the forecast I think the plan is pack a random mix of winter clothes and spring staples and hit the outlets to cover any gaps (like DD has no cardigans that fit).
I was excited to buy DD shorts last night but wonder if she will get to wear them on Spring Break
Dear today, Can we just be done? I leave for my trip on Sunday and would love to just be out of the office already! I'm itching to pack and get everything settled at home before I'm gone for a week. Signed, Can't focus!
Next time you get sick in the middle of the night, please please please do it in the bin next to your bed, on the towel next to your bed, or in the bathroom 20 feet away.
Signed, not sure our beige carpet will ever recover from all the strawberries you ate for lunch
You have asked me twice to present at your community event. At 6PM on a Tuesday. I fit it in my schedule, between my home life and then adjusted my work life. I send you my slides, 39 of them, and a video yesterday asking you to have this ready to go on Tuesday night. You email me back saying you dropped the ball and haven't promoted this, can we reschedule. I haven't responded because I was taught if you can's say anything nice, keep quiet. I am thinking no we cannot because my schedule is booked through May. I don't just sit in my office waiting for people to fill my time each day.
Signed, I am over people not doing what they were supposed to do.
Dear School District Thanks for having school today! We really could have had a delayed start yesterday and been fine but it did allow your janitorial staff a little more time to shovel walkways. PS: Why does the admin building and schools who share that parking lot get completely plowed and the rest of the schools don't? Happy WM
Dear Me Find some Fing energy/motivation Signed Tired Me
"I'm required to give you a performance review. Consider this your performance review. I'll see you Monday, have a good weekend" doesn't really count as a performance review. But I guess you get points for efficiency?
Signed, Employee who assumes that means you think I'm amazing.