Welcome to TE Sarbiker. I see that you're a fellow resident of Indianapolis. Nice to "meet" you, although I hope you're feeling better.Quote:
Originally Posted by sarcbiker
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Welcome to TE Sarbiker. I see that you're a fellow resident of Indianapolis. Nice to "meet" you, although I hope you're feeling better.Quote:
Originally Posted by sarcbiker
I just got home from a cruise on a mega-ship. Good news! Offset of the carbon footprint of the entire cruise was achieved through Reverb, Barenaked Planet, and Native Energy. The goal was to include all the travel to and from the cruise, as well, but I don't know how far that went and the website has not been updated (since we just got off the ship on Friday). I know they did it for the last Barenaked Ladies cruise.Quote:
bike or active tours instead of huge cruise mega-ships,
http://www.reverbrock.org/shipsanddip3/jointhecause.htm
There's no reason why we can't have great cruises with great bands on mega-ships, AND work towards a better environment.
Karen
Thanks for the welcome! Residing close to downtown Indianapolis, and since I work there too, no excuse not to ride...Quote:
Originally Posted by indysteel
well, maybe one excuse......still nursing this flu bug....still off the bike, maybe try Friday:(
getting a little depressed..plus got the winter blahs.....
sarcbiker
Dear Peanut--Be a good girl and be nice to your mommy. Sounds like you're a very lucky doggie, having such a wonderful mommy who loves you.
Dear higher power,
I would really like all this stuff my sister is going through to be over with! And for my little Lorelei to well again! Please make the next months go by fast for them!
And peanut,
No licky!
Dear Neighbor,
If you insist upon using the foul smelling, gas guzzling, environment polluting snow blower, could you please have the courtesy to learn how to direct the snow somewhere other than where I have to put mine?
You can't be so blind as to not be able to see that pile of snow at the edge of my driveway is approaching 6' in height and is more than 3' wide. I'm running out of room. So, why do you insist upon directing the snow from your driveway on *top* of my pile when you have plenty of room for that snow closer to your property line.
Tell you what, I won't come over and pour sand in your snow blower tank, if you would be so kind as to not use your snow blower to toss your snow 10' onto my property where I, a eco-friendly shoveller, need to put it.
Thorn
Dear Almighty God(dess) of telekinesis:
If you blessed me like I'd asked you to my Women's Studies class wouldn't be so boring. Tomorrow, I don't need a full-on blessing of telekinesis. Just a smidge. If only my professor would develop a little heat blister or something in the middle of her forehead from my BURNING EYE LAZORS OF BOREDOMTM I would be in your debt. It could be something random, chaotic, etc, too. Anything. I took this class- "Women's Studies" under the assumption I would be "Studying Women". I was mislead and disappointed, you see. So if you would be so kind as to give me a half hour of coolness, or maybe just wake up Cthulu and see if he'd be up for some tentacleation of greater Portland, I'd be grateful.
Thanks and spanks,
Kit
My mom had that with the RAGE setting. Scaaaaaarrry!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Dear Goddesses Who Control Physical Therapy School Admissions:
Pllleeeeeeeaaaaaaaassse, oh please oh please oh please
let that soon-to-be-here letter in the mail from PT School be big and fat and welcoming...... not small and skinny and denying.
Oh please oh please oh please. I live, eat, and breathe physics, physiology, psychology and anatomy, I'm living on Top Ramen, I make literally 1/5 what I used to, I have no social life, I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS FOR GOD'S SAKE,
can't you cut a girl a break? I have tossed caution to the wind and am working my little hind end off to achieve this goal, and I'm a wee bit nervous. :eek: So see what you can do.
Dear Future Presidents (no, not those ones...lol),
Thank you for the Britney Spears Dance Remix of Piece of Me. Yes, I'm 13 years old with my addiction to this song. :o http://youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-HmDmjkP8&feature=related
Brandy...who swears this is the only song from crazy Britney that she likes. REALLY! :p
To the editor of cycling club's newsletter:
It was very nice of you to thank by name all of the people who served as ride leaders in 2007, but you unfortunately left my name off the list. Yet you managed to list the three other women who served as my co-leaders. How'd that happen exactly?
So, it literally was a thankless job.
Dear Indysteel,
Thank you for being a ride leader. I helped my cycling coach (rode sweep) on a couple rides, and truly I had never realized how much *work* leading a ride is. She was dashing all over the place, it wasn't just a bike ride for the ride leader.
Dear indysteel,
thank you for leading your ride! As a newsletter editor, I've been known to leave a name off... I'd give you an extra boost the next time (but I'd also have gone through my days of the week and the rides and checked 'em off before publishing..) oops, I better go and do our winter one now! THanks for the reminder...
Thanks Knotted and Geonz!!! I felt really silly getting mad last night when I saw my name excluded from the newsletter, but being a ride leader at our club involves putting a route(s) together (our has three different lengths from 18 to 65 miles), marking the routes with painted Dan Henrys, preparing a map, buying food and supplies for 100 plus riders, getting everybody signed in the day of the ride, and manning two SAG stops along the way for the duration of the ride. This was the first time we'd done a ride and it was, quite frankly, like herding cats. So, I was sort of peeved (sniff, sniff) that everyone else got thanked but me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geonz
The good news is that I'll live!!!!
Indy; you really DID do a lot. I'm impressed. There's absolutely nothing wrong with sending the editor a note (I'm an editor too) and saying, uh, you forgot me, i did the crazy kats ride and sagged for bla bla too.
Next issue, they'll put something in to the effect "WE FORGOT INDY!!"
My acceptance to law school letter was one page. Don't let that old tale fool ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by trickytiger
My PT acceptance letter was one page. Here's hoping it comes soon!!
Dear you.
This is just silly. Let me see your fireplace now, before it's done. Let me see *you.* Not on a bike ride. Not on a group thing. Just you and me.
And let that acceptance letter come!!!! (But keep us posted one way or 'tother.)
Mine, too. They don't send any other information until later in my experience. SB--what kind of law do you practice--if you practice?Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthernBelle
Good luck, Trickytiger! I hope you get in!
Yep. Undergrad packages were large because they included potential information about grants. Law school acceptance was 1 page with you pay XXX written under the "we are pleased to inform you."
Sue-
That really is a big deal! Our ride leaders (sometimes) sweep and are responsible for handing out cue sheets and getting liability waivers. It's each to her own for food, though....
CA
Dear Co-Worker-
Just because you have kids and *have* to leave to pick them up doesn't mean you should *always* dump after hours work on me at the last minute. You could at least ask if I have time right now to do it (I don't). I do have plans after work (which I will now have to cancel as usual). Thanks so much for asking.
CA
Dear CA_in_NC, why do you have to do the after hours work? Just state that you have other plans also. You do not need to say what those other plans are. No one's business but yours if it's only to go home to a bubble bath. Your darling co-worker needs to learn to plan her own workload and there's no time like the present. Children are not an excuse for special employee privileges.
Been there, done that conversation with my bosses.
To Whom it May Concern:
Please, PLEASE, let the drama at work come to an end.
Signed,
Ellen (your faithful office manager)
Dear Goddesses that control Physical Therapy Admissions:
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you........!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D
sometimes prayers really DO get answered
Yay! Congratulations!Quote:
Originally Posted by trickytiger
Dear Gods/Godesses of plumbing: Please let the problem with the toilet backing up into the tub be a minor one requiring a minimum of workmen tramping through my home making disparaging noises about my minimalist housekeeping techniques, and let it also have nothing to do with the antique drain field out back which we've been ignoring for years. Please. Please. Please.
Dear Mother Nature,
Will you please give the Midwest a break from the crazy weather patterns. When it's zub zero one day, 72 degrees the next day, tornados that destroy houses that night and then an ice storm two weeks later that leave people powerless kinda SUCKS. If you remember, you also hit us with an ice storm last January that left millions without power for weeks.
Thank you.
EE :D EEEEEEEEE :) EEEEEEeee :cool: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) eeeeeeee :) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :p eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE we get another TE PT!!!! EEEEEEEeeeeeeeee :p eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) eeeeeeeeeeeQuote:
Originally Posted by trickytiger
:D:D All right trickytiger! Congratulations!
Dear Admissions Committee,
You will be receiving my application for the Masters in School Counseling in the next day or two. Please make the right decision, which of course, is to invite me for an interview. Once there, please be so overtaken with my charm :rolleyes: and academic ability that you put my application in the "yes" pile and accept me to study with your program in the fall.
Thank you very much!
And Dear trickytiger,
Great Job, woman!! Yeah-hooo!!!
Congrats T2 & best wishes to FlyBye.
Thank you, guardian angel, for today's good news. It made this morning's ICY, rainy, foggy, horrible drive to work worth gutting out.
Flybye, I am hereby mailing you my get-into-grad-school karma. It's only gently used, and should be perfectly good still!
Trek- I will act out the EEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEE!! dance for you the next time I meet you. It involved jumping and flapping and a high-pitched excited noise. Very unlike me, normally!
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Originally Posted by trickytiger
You so stinkin' nice ta me!!!
Dear Smoke and House Alarm Manufacturers:
Is there some effin' reason your systems must always start "low battery" alerts in the middle of the night?
--Sleepless SK
I feel your pain SK ... our smoke alarm started chirping in the middle of the night and the bedroom ceiling is 18 ft tall. We have to get an extension ladder to remove/replace the battery. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Us two and Bubba isn't here. There is no way I can haul the stupid ladder into the house by myself without whacking up the walls and moulding.
One of my co-workers just called. His carbon monoxide alarm started last night also. Was there something kind of weird ju-ju last night? The waxing gibbous moon?
What?
:(
I just found this discussion thread. I enjoyed it greatly while eating lunch at my desk at work (yes, let big brother watch--some day I just hope to get fired over using the web for personal business!). I just hope I can be as witty as some have in my Dear So & So....
Dear Goodess of Health,
I am tired of my cold. I do not normally get sick and I am now sick and tired of being sick. I need--no I WANT to ride this weekend, so please let me feel better.
Dear Bike,
Be kind to me this weekend. I really, really want to ride you faster...you sleek pink carbon beauty! So let's be one with the wind (hopefully it will be at my back the entire time!).
:o
Dear Oregon Department of Revenue,
Why is it that even though I decreased my allowances, thus allowing you to take even more of my income, you give me back $200 less than last year?! :confused: I gave you a lot of my money and if you aren't going to put it to good use, I want it back! :mad: Besides, I want to buy my new bike so that I may continue saving the roads and the environment. Doesn't that count as a charitable donation?
Dear company of employment,
Please, pretty please give me more than a paltry 3% raise- that barely covers the cost of inflation! I would like to remind you that I didn't see any other supervisors or managers at store 287 volunteering to work overnights for 3 months during Christmas...
Dear IRS,
Thank you soooooooo much for informing me NOW that I overpaid by $14 last year. Now, if you'll provide the refund with the current interest rate, we'll call it even.
To Whom It May Concern --- Thank you for decent riding conditions this am. Just a touch of black ice, which I could easily see and avoid. Thank you, too, for keeping the snow away.