Wednesday Open Letters

[dglvrk2]

What's up this week?

[waverly]

Dear DS,

I'm glad you are feeling well after your oral surgery. I hope you continue to recover well.

Signed,
Mom

mommyatty- good luck tomorrow!

Dear former friend,

Your posts and texts give me every indication that you are not really mentally well. But since you don't want to talk or get together there isn't really anything I can do. I hope that one day you feel better.

Signed,
FF

[186momx]

Dear Me
I'm working today when I told everyone I was going to be off. Why? Because no one followed directions.
Going home at noon!
Me

Dear Weather
No more lightning! We can't add anymore fires and that includes human caused ones. Keeping my fingers crossed that the smoke stays in the upper atmosphere so our air quality doesn't get horrible.
Burning up here in Oregon

[dglvrk2]

Deer DD1,
There are few things more frustrating in life than attempting to find bras that fit well, especially when you first graduate from wearing sports bras 24/7. This is especially problematic because, thanks to your great great babushkas and omas, you're quite busy. Hang in there. It will get easier.
UR Mom

Dear Victoria's Secret,
If you suggestions:
1. Have a barat your stores. Or at least offer cans of wine to middle aged women. We are either coming in for something to remedy our own saggy goods or needing something for our daughters, neither of which is remotely fun.
2. Have bra straps pre-adjusted for normal people. No one wears them as tight as they come.
Your loyal customer since grunge was king

[librarychica]

Dear self,

Why are you so damned tired? You are living your normal life with your normal obligations, working your normal job from your flippin home office. Maybe when you’re cleared for real exercise again you’ll perk up.

Signed,
Wants to crawl back in bed

[librarychica]

Jul 24, 2024 13:11:11 GMT -5 dglvrk2 said:

Deer DD1,
There are few things more frustrating in life than attempting to find bras that fit well, especially when you first graduate from wearing sports bras 24/7. This is especially problematic because, thanks to your great great babushkas and omas, you're quite busy. Hang in there. It will get easier.
UR Mom

Dear Victoria's Secret,
If you suggestions:
1. Have a barat your stores. Or at least offer cans of wine to middle aged women. We are either coming in for something to remedy our own saggy goods or needing something for our daughters, neither of which is remotely fun.
2. Have bra straps pre-adjusted for normal people. No one wears them as tight as they come.
Your loyal customer since grunge was king

She has my sympathy. My oldest DD has the slender, pear-shape of her paternal aunt and lives the 30A bralette life, though pants can be a challenge. DD2 looks just like me at her age so for her I predict a short hourglass with disproportionately large boobies. Sorry my child.

[waverly]

Jul 24, 2024 14:09:00 GMT -5 librarychica said:

Dear self,

Why are you so damned tired? You are living your normal life with your normal obligations, working your normal job from your flippin home office. Maybe when you’re cleared for real exercise again you’ll perk up.

Signed,
Wants to crawl back in bed

How many weeks from the surgery has it been?  Hope you feel more rested soon!  

[supertrooper1]

Dear coworker,

You are brilliant and are so knowledgeable with everything in our job. But sometimes clients need a little more handholding. I know she is our other coworker's client that you are covering for today, but I shouldn't have had to get involved because she was frustrated you wouldn't help her more. She was getting the run around from multiple departments in our agency and she needed help on the back end that we can provide. I think I solved her issue, but she is still calling me!

Signed,
Apparently I'm considered the nice, helpful rep in my community.

Dear clients,

I have a please email me tag in my signature for a reason! I need time to work on these issues and phone calls are not efficient in my line of work!

Signed,
A gen zenial that prefers email to talking on the phone.

[twinmomma]

Dear self,
You need to start moving your body more. You have a walking pad, you have a Peloton, you have hand weights. Use the resources available and get yourself going! It's going to help your joints, help your energy, and help lower your cholesterol. Get off your butt!
Signed,
Motivated self buried deep within lazy self

Dear name change process,
Oh my god. I forgot how terrible you are. I feel like this is taking forever to check every box and make sure things are updated in the right order. I think next week I'll finally be done and not in limbo anymore. How has this process not been improved over time?
Signed,
Annoyed

[librarychica]

waverly, 4 weeks today! Thanks. I feel good overall just these last two weeks very sleepy.

[macmars45]

Jul 24, 2024 12:57:16 GMT -5 186momx said:

Dear Weather
No more lightning! We can't add anymore fires and that includes human caused ones. Keeping my fingers crossed that the smoke stays in the upper atmosphere so our air quality doesn't get horrible.
Burning up here in Oregon

Co-signed,

your WA state neighbor

Also:

Dear wind,

Please stop blowing so hard. You are exacerbating the dry heat wherein it's super easy to cause a spark. A few weeks ago a guy was trying to mow down his excessive weeds to lessen the chance of fire and started a fire that burned down two houses and a barn. Poor guy; I felt so bad for him.

Surrounded all all sides by wildfire

[k3am]

Dear self,

Your interviewing skills are out of shape.

PS: The timing is horrible, the cleaners come half an hour before a phone interview starts. Whoops. Looks like I'll be taking a call from the car.


Dear DD,

I'm completely conflicted and trying my best to hide the fact that I'm leaning towards feeling happy that you're considering quitting team. Also annoyed that unlike most sync teams, our season doesn't follow a school calendar with auditions in August, so you'll have to slog through until February.

Signed,
Still your biggest cheerleader

Dear DD's teammate's mom,

STOP TALKING SHIT ABOUT MY KID. It's one thing to do it privately with your daughter, but to talk about her while you have another girl from team in the car with you? NOT COOL. And you're completely off your rocker if you think that this other unrelated girl isn't going to mention it to DD.

Signed,
Pissed

[mommyatty]

k3am,

Can you take this to the coaches and explain your kid is being bullied by a freaking adult?

Also could she audition for another team in August?

Signed,
Pissed On Your Behalf

[k3am]

mommyatty , I'm 100% sure the coaches won't get involved. The woman is acting irrational - I know it, they know it. We did approach DD's private lesson coach to see if she knew what the other mom said she overheard, but coach claims she didn't say or hear anything inappropriate. The coaches who are on the ice all defer to the head of the program, and she's unaware of anything actually going on.

We are taking the approach of let her bad mouth all she wants because she's only making herself look bad. DD is getting a LOT of lessons/lectures about take the high road, certain things are okay to vent to your family and maybe some close friends (and random internet strangers, in this case), but no kind of gossip stays contained, so if you're going to say something, you better be 100% sure it's correct and you'd be okay with that person hearing you say it.

There are no other team she can audition for - sync isn't the most popular sport and it's the only team in the area. The next closest is about 1.5 hours away (and in all honesty, she wouldn't make the cut there even if I wanted to make that commute happen)

ETA: I have reached out to this woman MULTIPLE times now to ask her to share/explain what's going on so that we can get it resolved with no response.

[k3am]

Interviewing is much easier when you don't really care. The guy liked me, trusts the guy who referred me, and will be trying to get a new req posted for another job he thinks I'd be better suited for but also wants me to consider the original role.