Open letters 11/30

[186momx]

Anyone...

[186momx]

Dear Mom/Dad
DD and I gave you holiday lists. There is a few items on DD's list she really wants/needs. I've asked if you aren't going to go that route to please tell me so that I can buy those items. I would like to finish my shopping so can you please tell me yes/no.
Not wanting to buy duplicates
Daughter

Dear WPs
DD is still on a high over H surprising her Monday night.
Me

Dear SPED
Thank you for letting DD do a A/B schedule for the next couple months.
WPs, electives run on semester schedule, but the rest of the classes run on tri-mester schedules. DD was supposed to go back to academic support Monday but still has Tech until the end of January and in the middle of a big group project. We worked it out that M/W is academic support, Tu/Th is tech, and Friday is a flex study hall day where DD can go where she is needed. DD would love to continue this schedule for the rest of the year even with making up the other class from home.
Me

[twinmomma]

Dear sales team,
I very rarely pull rank with you, but today, I'm pulling it all damn day. Do what I say. Do it correctly. And stop making me and my team run in circles because you're being lazy and acting incapable of doing basic admin tasks. I will fight you and I will win. I hold all the cards here.
Signed,
Director who is pissed

Dear trip people,
The 10+ emails and texts you've received say "click this link and fill out the information" and yet, more than half of you have not been able to execute that simple task. The information I need is very basic. What is your name. Where do you live. What is your date of birth. I am not asking you to take the SATs over here!
Signed,
Amazed at the incompetence

Dear court case,
Wow, this is such a time suck and a ridiculous use of my time and energy. And every time I answer another question about it, my blood boils more.
Signed,
You suck

Dear self,
Have a drink and some chocolate tonight. This week has been a hell of a ride already and it's only Wednesday.
love,
Me

[waverly]

Dear WP,

I decided this will be my weekend for shopping but I have nothing else planned (except for a soccer game for DD). Nothing sounds like fun, and I am hesitant to make plans with anyone. Maybe we will gear up for a Marvel movie marathon part 2. Oh and we still need to decorate too, so I guess we are doing all of that stuff this weekend. Christmas is not my favorite holiday and seeing that all the events are Christmas themed is not very inspiring. I don't actively dislike Christmas, I just prefer other themes like being on a Florida beach or something more like that.

Signed,
Feeling meh

Dear DS,
I hate that it requires heavy intervention for you to get good grades even though you are totally capable of doing the work, you just don't want to put in the extra effort that it takes. And then everything is slightly late which is more effort because then you have to email the teacher to say it is submitted online, and you don't email your teachers. Its just a lot of effort to keep you on track that you could be doing yourself.

Signed,
Frustrated

Dear SIL,

Could you please stop calling DH up out of the blue and upsetting him for no reason. I get that you want to communicate your Christmas plans with him, but since your Christmas plans don't involve us whatsoever, then the 20 texts and 3 phone calls were unnecessary (and we did not initiate them). And your rudeness with was also unnecessary. Did you really need to proclaim that you and brother were making dinner as a favor to your parents (implying a decades old sibling favoritism and rubbing salt in the wound of estranged brothers)? The last time you were making dinner as a favor to your parents, you (Freudian slip maybe?) missed your flight and never arrived, and your anxiety riddled brother (the other brother not my H) burnt the food because he is not capable of doing much at all. The brother doesn't work and doesn't go to school and just lives off your parents. He's a narcissist that is incapable of having relationships. Your parents took your in-laws on a tour of the local cemetery and people called us to tell us how weird it was. Have fun if that's what you want to do, but no need to insult my H in the process since he is not involved.

Signed,
SIL

[librarychica]

Dear twinmomma,

Is this a problem endemic to sales teams? I work with engineering data and was borrowed by the sales side of the house to help them get their data in order. So much of the issue is that folks just … don’t want to. It’s frustrating.

Sincerely,
Maybe I could have been a children’s librarian?

Dear H,

I do not think it’s fair to blame “work stress” whenever I am short with you or the kids. There are a couple kindly stressful work things but, you know what? It’s more stressful managing all the holiday nonsense essentially by myself.

Just please stop,
Me


Dear gymnastics place,

What do you mean you can’t give me a copy of the cancelation form? That’s sketch.

So glad my kid is over gymnastics. This is a weird place.

Also me.

[k3am]

Dear oldest sister,

You're the only one who thinks mom is 100% okay living at home. Soooooooooo hows about YOU be the one who deal with shit like the gardener wanting payments, the caregiver napping on the job, and no one feeding her dinner?

Signed,
TAG, YOU'RE UP BIOTCH. (And yes, I just said Biotch like it's 1997.)

[rere]

Dear brother,

If you want to survive Christmas, you will stay here. Mom is mom x10. One of tou will not make it in a small house 5 days. Here, tou have your own bathroom, living room ans Christmas tree.

Signed, trust me

Dear hospital partner,

You signed us and 4 other agencies up on some national healthcare collaborative "team". I don't even know what it is. But there were 10 people and apparently you all were supposed to be leading meetings in between the monthly zoom meetings. But you didnt. So I and only one other team member get on this national call and find out we are supposed to present 10 minutes on our project?? Congratulations team, thanks to my complete bs, people across the nation think we have this really cool project putting case workers in middle schools and a coalition of law enforcement, social services and health to address mental health and resources for kids.

We are not. I will not sign up for any more of y'alls waste of time, no follow through ideas.

Signed, done.

[traveltheworld]

Dear DS,

If you are going to lie about playing video games when you are not supposed to, you should get better at it. You dad and I were both gamers and we get it, we both lied a LOT to our respective parents but we were both much better at it than you are so we didn't get caught nearly as often.

Signed,
Amused parent

Dear DH,

Yes, lying is bad. But need I remind you that you pretended to go to computer coding class for an entire semester, even convinced your parents to give you the money to sign up, but instead just played games at an internet cafe? You turned out ok. Losing your mind over DS lying about playing an extra 30 minutes is probably an over reaction.

Signed,
Amused wife

[twinmomma]

Dear librarychica,
I work in an entire sales organization, so I feel qualified to say that yes, it is just the nature of the beast. Sales people are just something else...
Good luck!
Twinmomma

[waverly]

Dear retiring co-worker,

We are happy that you are retiring because you are a very big complainer. But on your last day, we are having a big party, and we are all excited for the food, and you still come in like there is a big rain cloud over you. I asked another co-worker if you would be happier retired, and she was like probably not because their personality is just complain- y.

Signed,
Be happy!