Wednesday letters

[librarychica]

I’ll start since I’ve been up since O-dark-30

[librarychica]

Dear DD2,

I’m sorry I was grumpy with you. It was 3am. When you wake up at night and cannot get back to sleep the correct action is to get a glass of water, do some calming breathing, even come get your father or I. The correct action is not to go get your tablet out of my office and try and watch YouTube videos.

This is not the first time we have had this conversation.

See you were able to get back to sleep! You just needed to be firmly spooned between me and the dog evidently. It was very warm there between you and dad with a side of dog.

— Your very sleepy mother

Dear little brother,

Sometimes I feel like we are just talking past one another. We used to be so close! We live 40 minutes away from one another why does it sometimes feel like we are in two different universes?

I’m glad you came for dinner anyway.

— your sister

[rere]

Dear new high speed fiber net,

I love you. (BTW ATT, I hate you.) I went from 3mp to 300mp. We watched all the TV last night with no buffering, had no issues on the phone. I think I'm going to take my laptop home today and download a 60 page report for the fun of it.

Dear Direct TV,

It should not take 30 minutes for us to break up. It's odd that you can get my bill from 188 to 59 when I try to cancel. I don't care if it's free, we are done. I have my new fancy internet and will be streaming from now on.

Signed its not me, it's definitely you.

Dear dd,

Great job killing it on your tests. I know you had to study all weekend. One more test this week and you get a break.

Signed, Proud mom

[erbear]

Dear DD1,

I love you. I do. I think you are an amazing kid and I just want you to see that you are limiting your choices in the future. I don't think you're dumb. I think you're very smart which is why your grades are so frustrating to me. YOU CAN DO THIS.

xoxo,
Mom


Dear Self,

CHILL. She's a 10th grader with Bs at a rigorous school. There's a college for everyone.

xo,
Me

[186momx]

Dear doggy
I don't care that you have decided to start sleeping with me at midnight. I fo need you to not stand on me when you want down. I can't get up to help you off the bed if you are on top of me especially if you are pooping.
Senior dog mom

Dear DD
I'm sorry for yelling this morning. But see the dog was standing on top of me pooping and you were up and couldn't figure out how to turn o. The light. The I poked myself in the eye trying to move with poop on me to flip the stinking light on.
Mom who was having a bad morning

Dear WPs
I'm booking a hotel room at the coast for part of Thanksgiving weekend. I don't know if I'm escaping my family or DH, but I need a change of venue.
Me who never does this

[supertrooper1]

186momx, staying on the coast that weekend sounds like a great plan for self-care and a break from it all.

Dear work,

I'm in the office by myself today to join a TEAMS call with other coworkers from around the country. I could have done this from my comfy office at home instead of getting ready and driving to work to sit alone in a not so comfy office with a bra on. Why can't we be 100% telework?

Signed,
At least I got a delicious Lotus this morning from the coffee stand on the way

[waverly]

DH took a trip to DC to see his sister and friend last week or 2 weeks ago.

So I get a trip away also. Too bad I don’t know where to go.

[k3am]

rere it’s amazing how awful cable companies can be. I remember I had SO MANY issues with comcast and they treated me like crap. When we moved and I could finally get another provider (ATT in this case, which was great for us), Comcast offered me 6 months of FREE service to stay with them, and even that wasn’t enough. Alas, we are back with comcast for internet, despite my hesitation, but it’s Comcast business and DH’s company had a dedicated service rep and we’ve never had a problem. But we dealt with crap internet in the new house for years because I hated comcast so much.

Dear electrician,

I know we live in CA and it’s not super cold compared to parts of the country, but it was low 40 temps last night and we have no real walls downstairs.. please figure it out today! “Luckily” the alarm system (that.. isn’t active) woke me up at 3am and I was able to figure out that for some reason the HVAC system isn’t just shutting on/off randomly like we thought - if the garage light is on, the system is on. So that is hopefully a good clue to get you on your way!

Signed,
Elsa 🥶

PS hopefully the new temporary wall downstairs helps some too!

Dear DH,

You are a lucky duck, enjoying a work trip in NYC while we sort out all the first full week of demo issues. But it is weirdly 100% better this way. Have a cocktail or two for me!

Signed,
Ready for you to be home!

[186momx]

supertrooper1 did you get the crazy wind gusts last night too?

Dear DH
I don't care if you come with us girls to the coast over Thanksgiving weekend but you need to drive yourself and come up with your own activities. I want to walk the beach and chill at the pool. I do not want to shop, go do tourist crap, drive all over the place, do crazy hikes or be responsible for your mood/happiness.
Me

[supertrooper1]

186momx , yes, it was super windy last night and quite a bit the last week or so. Plus we've received several inches of rain and our rivers are rising fast. Luckily it's staying cold in the mountains so the snow isn't melting to add to the full rivers. People are still rebuilding from the major flood two years ago and we don't need another one.

[twinmomma]

Dear boss,
I hope that you can give me better direction and support after our meeting this week. I generally feel like my entire team is floundering right now and I can't figure out our role in the organization or what your vision is for us to be doing at this point. You keep splintering off projects and sending me on wild goose chases. You're the CEO. Give me some overall strategy and define my role, for the love of god. The frustration and lack of goals and meaning is making me want to search for a new job, and I know that's ridiculous. I love it here but I'm just so tired of running in circles lately.
Signed,
Frustrated manager

Dear daughters,
I cannot wait to see you tonight and get to spend the rest of the week and weekend with you! I haven't seen you in a week and a half because of work travel and custody schedules. I miss you guys!
Love,
Mom

[waverly]

Dear co-worker,

You are making it impossible for me to bring up questions in our meeting. After I ask a question, you choose your point of view and argue with anyone else that has a different point of view. Most of the time it is not me that you are arguing with. You even argued about a vendor using our water; it is not our responsibilty to manage vendors. They can choose to use our water or choose to bring their own. That is their choice, and has nothing to do with us. I don't really care how their coffee tastes; and they are only there 2 times per year. 

Should all my questions just go to my boss then? I guess the management meeting is not the time to ask questions? Just in case it triggers you into an argument?

Signed,
Annoyed

[dglvrk2]

Dear Daughters,
I really want to check out of motherhood today. DD1, you have been rude all day. Nothing really inappropriate, but certainly not nice. DD2, you just want to be on your screen. You got easily frustrated when I tried to help you with your homework.
No thanks for dinner or after school treats.
Nothing.
Allergy meds are kicking my butt today, making me extra tired.
I wish I had more to give right now...
UR Mom

Dear H,
DD1 does not want to drive 2.5 hours to ski two runs on the one ski area that is open in our or neighboring states on Sunday. She'd rather work on her music. I'm supporting this. YOU can do this 5 hours of driving (2.5 each way). I'd totally go with you if I had no other plans for the weekend and we didn't have kids but....
Your wife who is trying to balance everyone's objectives

[waverly]

I’m on day 4 of my second cold in 3 weeks. First one was laryngitis. This one is non stop nasal congestion. Ugh

My kids brought home both of these.

[sdlaura]

waverly sorry you’re not feeling well. Not sure if you tested for Covid, but this round for me was mostly just cold symptoms (plus a little extra tiredness and some brain fog, but that could have just been related to the head congestion, I thought).

[twinmomma]

Dear work,
How do you not understand that when it comes to data and reporting, crap in equals crap out? I am working on the data I am provided. If your data is wrong, my report will be wrong. I cannot magically deduce things from incorrect data. I do the best I can to spot check when possible, but the reason the database exists is so that I can just export what I need and assume it will be correct for my project.
Signed,
Frustrated that I'm being blamed

[mae0111]

twinmomma,

OMG I used to have the same argument with my manager that eventually pushed me to leave my job after like 15 years.

"Your website analytics are wrong"

"Correct - because you won't give me a budget to implement a good analytics package"

"You should be able to fix this"

"I can - with a budget to implement a good analytics package"

"I'm not investing money in this bad data"

"Okie dokey"

Round and round we went.

I'm sorry - it seems like you're having a lot of frustrations at work lately. Sounds like growing pains at your company?? I hope things calm down soon...

[twinmomma]

mae0111, Definitely feeling a lot of frustration lately. I'm ready to lay it all out on Friday when I meet with my boss (the CEO). When I started here, I felt really energized and involved in a lot of great projects. But over the past year especially, the projects I'm passionate about and good at have been getting peeled away and shopped out for parts to other divisions. The sales teams are running the show and as the head of marketing, I get looped in after they've implemented a campaign on their own haphazardly, it's completely failed, and they want me to pick up the pieces. There's no strategy lately, it's all just reactionary and trigger happy decisions. Add on to that being overlooked for a promotion (probably because it looks like marketing isn't doing well lately) and I'm just burnt out. I've been window shopping other jobs, but I know that I have it really good here with benefits, flexibility, and pay. So I'm not really ready to give all that up. I just need my boss to get it and mandate some changes.

[librarychica]

twinmomma, I feel you. I work in information management and a good chunk of my job is making this argument. Also, generational AI is only as good as the data you point it at — it cannot provide context on its own and it requires a ton of content so if there are gaps in your content, there is gaps in your AI report. And my favorite — we can not automate your gut feelings. Not because I am not competent but because no one can.

[waverly]

Nov 14, 2024 9:57:38 GMT -5 sdlaura said:

waverly sorry you’re not feeling well. Not sure if you tested for Covid, but this round for me was mostly just cold symptoms (plus a little extra tiredness and some brain fog, but that could have just been related to the head congestion, I thought).

No I didn't test.  The one time I had it, I had body aches for 4 days, so just nasal congestion seemed very different.  I know on the news it can run the gamut, just my experience.  If I were around anyone immunocompromised I would test.

No real tiredness or brain fog, just the runny nose that won't stop.  It just feels unfair ha ha.  But having researched this a lot when we were constantly sick with little ones, I know 6-12 colds a year is unfortunately considered normal. 

[186momx]

Dear Dad and business partner
Can you please tell the clients you work with directly that you are going to be on vacation 12/2-12/15 and if they need anything to call/email me.
Your comcast email can't do out of office instance responses so I'm going to have to check your email anyways but come on and help me out. I'm taking Thanksgiving week off and I've told all my payroll clients once and will send a reminder email out end of next week.
Daughter/business partner

Dear shipping companies (USPS, Fedex)
Stop telling me my packages are out of delivery and then not delivering them. I'm stalking the Fedex tracking looking for the $200 of dog food that said was out for delivery on Tuesday. I also delt with the office post office trying to track down the office amazon order. I had to get the postmaster to track it down and then they hand delivered it to me (office is 2 doors down from the post office).
Consumer who is worried about porch pirates