Dear So and So

Dear world:

Thank you for taking care of me with the job situation. I adore my new job.

CA

(I won't post details on TE, but if anyone I know wants them, PM me).

Dear Jeannie and Dave:

You are fabulous neighbors and we couldn't ask for anyone better to live next door to us. But the warm weather is coming and we wonder if you would mind closing your bedroom window during your twice-per-week night time escapades. You'd be surprised how well sound carries. I know that perhaps you're trying to prove to the world that 45 years of age is really the new 30, but my husband's jokes are sending me into fits of laughter and the occasional accident is slightly embarrassing.

Dear boss,

I cannot continue to carry this program by myself. I am so overwhelmed that it's no longer fun to be challenged, and the stress is beginning to spill over into my personal life. Oh, and I need a manager who actually helps me manage my workload, rather than just piling onto it. It's time for a new job, I think.


Dear MTB,

I'm sorry that I said I hated you and threatened to sell you yersterday. It was a bad ride, and I was already having a bad day (thinking about going back to work today). I'll make it up to you by finally naming you, and then maybe we'll head out to Fair Hill together- just us girls, no boys allowed.


Dear Grad School,

Shove it. I'm too stressed now to think about taking one more thing on. Maybe I'll take a grad-level continuing ed class this fall. It will be embarassing to tell people that I've changed my mind, but my sanity needs to come ahead of my ego.

Dear Best Friend,

Dump him.

Dear California
Thanks for the lovely weather. You are truly a state of incredible contrasts. In California so many people live the good life. Or they are desperately poor, or they are one of one of the largest prison populations in the world. California, where farms overflow with bounty, and fires rage through canyons and there isn't enough water. California, where farm labor is done by the original Californians, those that have not been deported, and unemployment and bankruptcy are at an all time high. California, who took the time to build the beautiful American River trail bursting with wildlife and no cars allowed.
Thanks California, for sharing your bounty with me for a few days. It's hard to understand what to feel besides gratitude and being overwhelmed.
m

Mimi, this is for you.... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE

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Originally Posted by Biciclista

Dear California
Thanks for the lovely weather.

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Dear Missouri- April Fool's day is over. Please stop with the sleet and snow. I've had enough.

Dear Mountain Bike Race Director,

That was really cool that you called DH to make sure he was okay because he stopped by the EMT tent. I feel a little silly asking the EMTs clean his cut and dirt covered knee but I am sure his doc that has him on the immuno-suppresants approved. Now if he would remember to pack the first aid kit I lovingly bought him. :p

Race EMTs- Thanks for being cool and helpful, you guys had a hard job the other day!

Dear Parents of child wandering the street I was cycling home on today,

Umm...last time I checked, a child under the age of 2 should not be wandering down the street half dressed without anyone with it :mad: Ummm...why did the child escape in the first place? Your very young child crossed a main road..twice :mad: The freeway on ramp is just metres up the road :mad: Helloooooooo..*knock* *knock*

Oh, that's right, you're too busy to notice the little sprocket doing a houdini trick. Perhaps you might want to put a lock on the torn front screen door or does someone have to come and hold your hand to explain it to you? You''re the reason I believe some people should not be allowed to breed. Perhaps while they're there explaining good parenting, they might want to tell you how to clean up the front of your house.

You're lucky I was paying attention & a local council worker just happened to be there. If i could figure out what social services department to call, i'd make a complaint.

Signed,
Confused & rather annoyed cyclist.

Dear Client,

Please don't send me your political email. We are not of the same mindset, and since this is a business relationship, it's really inappropriate. Also, since I've dreaded every project I've done for you, I'll be refusing any future requests.

Sincerely,
Your Jeweler

P.S. Your husband is a jerk.

Along similar lines.....

Dear neighbors,
I like you well enough and we do favors for each other from time to time, but...
Please, if I come over for no reason other than to bring you a bouquet of fresh flowers from my garden, don't see it as a great opportunity to try to convert me to your religion and 'save my soul'. You know my views already, please have respect for them. I don't try to convert you to my way of thinking. :mad:

Dear Cycling food manufacturers,

could you please make SOMETHING without wheat/grain/ glucose/rice/white sugar/ soy/ egg whites/ nuts /raisins? I am allergic.Even if it is nothing but ground up dates with apricots and quinoa, I will buy it until I die. I am sick of making my own snacks, as I have to make my own bread/cookies/soup/meals and am tired of this 'pioneer' crap.
And how about some honey based, non caffeine energy shots? It would be nice to have something that would revive me from near exhaustion without poisoning myself.

Dear Goddess of winds,

please do something about that 2 km stretch off nothing but headwinds both ways, on my commute. I know its not far but having to stop three times to rest while big men zoom by is demoralizing

Dear Cycling Clothing manufacturers,

for once, jeez, can you make a jersey for flat chested women? I can store two extra water bottles in the space left. And what is with the size of elastic in leg openings? Id like for once not to lose circulation.
And please, pretty please make some arm warmers and leg warmers that fit small ladies. Ill buy them in every colour for ever, just as not to have to knot rubber bands on my upper arms and over my leg warmers.

Dear Seat Makers,
not all chix like pink. your seats suck.

dear Goddess of the universe( whatever you are)
thank you for the kindness of strangers and my clinic nurse,who see me when I am getting my every other week IVC. You care more about my getting better from being ill, than my own family. Patients, Thank you for telling me all you cycling storys, esp the cute man who with cancer , who rides weekly 75 km, who told me that all I need to do is intervals and he'd see me racing in five years.

Thank you for sending me my best friend,who took me to buy a cycle.

Please send me someone to ride with.

Thank you for not giving me cancer, even though what I have isnt curable, I can live with it.

Please send Good day sunshine her health.

Dear Lance Armstrong,

thank you for setting a good example. Because of you and my own will, I got up on days I could hardly walk and rode my bike. Im almost better now and it sure helped to pretend I was you ,on, terrible days I could barely stand and had to work all day, standing up, for those bad years. Every day was a new Tour.
I am on my bike.

Dears powers that be, and you're probably female,

I need some peace of mind again. Have any to spare? I know it's spring and all, but this is so unsettling and I'm getting dizzy from the mood swings. I really don't need to doubt my entire life twice a day.

thanx chix

Dear Powers that Be

Please let me receive that news I've been awaiting and making it be :D:D:D:D. If it is not going to work out, please give me the courage to accept it with dignity, grace and peace.