Tulip, you're my hero. You could be writing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Roxy
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Tulip, you're my hero. You could be writing to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Roxy
Dear UPS man,
You usually come at about 10 am every morning.
Today when I'm waiting for you to come so I can get out of here, it's 3 pm and you haven't visited me yet. This puts me square in the middle of rush hour, which means I can't really leave for another 4 hours or so when I'd wanted to leave at about 10 am this morning.
You suck. Even though you are bringing me a present. *dance*
Dear Chickee over the cube wall,
Please don't ever wear your new perfume in the office again. Thanks to your spritzing it I now have a low-grade migraine and had a mild asthma attack when you tested it out this morning. Oh, and a tiny dab goes a long way - it's powerful -I could smell you when you came back from lunch. :mad:
And many thanks to my group's Admin Assistant who loaned me her fan, so I could drive the air back at you. Thanks "Mom".
I'm sorry you've had to wait. I hope it's worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cataboo
I am amusing myself by looking outside for a package every 30 mins.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmehrzad
Apparently, much like a watched pot, a watched UPS man never comes.
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Originally Posted by Cataboo
Woohoo! My cycling sister got me a road morph pump 'cause my real sister can't buy me cycling stuff!
I just want to say again, you ladies crack me up. I love this board.
Roxy
Thanks for asking.Quote:
Originally Posted by channlluv
I visited my bike at the shop today. :) With the Christmas rush, they hadn't had a chance to really check the frame and fork out, but I'm sure it's fine. It looks fine, just the handlebars are tweaked out of position in the stem a little bit. I don't think it really hit the ground at all. Neither did my brand new helmet, which was a big surprise to me. The noise of something scraping against the ground, which at the time I thought was my helmet, was apparently just my $8 sunglasses. Even my gloves are undamaged. I managed to save everything with my face. :p
Two stitches in my upper lip, three in the chin. The doctor said he didn't expect a scar on my lip - which was a fairly clean split - but my chin probably will scar because there was some skin missing. That was probably your situation. Mine's on the bottom of my chin and shouldn't be very noticeable once it heals. The roadrash on my chin might leave a more noticeable scar...
Hand and wrist are pretty sore, but they'll heal sooner than later. Same with my chest/upper abdomen, which is much sorer than I thought now that I'm up walking around. It was fine for lying on the couch all day yesterday :rolleyes: but what I didn't think about is that that's where all the abdominal muscles attach to the sternum, so the more shopping I did, the more it hurt. Not awful, just enough.
I doubt the driver did it intentionally - just not paying attention. Anyway I'm well aware of how much worse it could've been, and it's all good. :)
Take care of yourself Oakleaf - vitamin e oil helps to prevent scarring.
I am glad your bike is mostly okay.
Dear Stupid People,
This is for the geniuses at my almost D-I-L's workplace, who when she told them she was getting married this weekend, decided it was good to inform her how a "real" wedding should be.
Geez, when did the wedding become more important than the marriage? This is the exact reason they decided not to go the traditional route. Even when they were told that they were going to have a party in the spring, she still got advice.
No wonder half the people in this country get divorced, if this where the emphasis is.
Dear Weather,
It has been almost a month since my last bike ride. Now that my leg is improving I really would like to go for a little ride - we are not THAT far north - can we please have a little warm-up and a break from the snow so the pavement will clear enough for me to have a ride? Please? Pretty Please?
It was warm enough today to go, but there was a ton of fresh salt on the roads to prepare for the expected snow tonight...
Thank you for your consideration...
Dear Lebron James & Coach Phil Jackson,
Quit your whining about having to play on Christmas Day. You make millions from your job, not to mention endorsements. I'll bet the LA Clippers would love to play in your prime time slot
Suck it up.
Catrin, it's the same here, but we're not expecting that much snow. It's supposed to get up into the 50s by New Year's, though.
Having spent the last four years in Cleveland, I never want to hear anything about Lebron James ever again...so would most of Cleveland, I imagine! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dogmama
My turn:
Dear boyfriend--
Rubbing in the fact that you're seeing all of your friends over Christmas isn't very nice. Especially because most of my friends from college are now out of state, and my friends from high school are either a)out of state; b) on vacation out of state; or c) have a sufficiently short break that we can't get together. My social interaction at the moment consists of my family. While I like them, they tend to get rather grating after a while--my parents because they still won't treat me like an adult, and my sister because of the constant jabs about my weight.
Stop, please.
Me.
Dear Family,
Don't make me put you guys in timeout and send you to your rooms till you can get along. I thought we were all adults. 8:30 AM and round 2 or is it 5 is starting.
Get over yourselves, it's Christmas where we celebrate the joy of fighting with each other and giving each other gifts. How bout you guys let me enjoy opening my presents and watching you guys open yours before you make me want to throttle you to stop the bickering.
Thank you.
They couldn't make up their mind as to how much snow we would get. In the end we got an additional inch to top off what is already there - just enough fresh snow to play in :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
Poor Ms. Explorer is collecting dust, but at least the snow and salty roads are forcing me to allow my leg to heal. Resistance on the spinning bike is far easier to control than wind and hills on the bike. Part of me has this irrational fear that I will forget how to ride my bike...but I know that is silly.
It would have been nice to have seen my family this year for Christmas, but such is life.
We barely got any. :rolleyes:
Dear parents--
Well done. I'm rather amused that you both managed to get me the same jacket, just in different colors. So, I could return one, or keep both...
Return one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
My mother sent my umbrellas, two of them. I now have an umbrellla for each day of the week. I moved from a part of the country that gets twice the rainfall than Seattle - drenching soaking rain where you'll drown without an umbrella, or the wind during the rainstorm will destroy it. Like I really needed an umbrella...
And I hear her voice in my head scolding me: "it's the thought that counts." :rolleyes:
I never buy expensive umbrellas as I usually lose them.... If you are like me, two umbrellas (or 5 or 6...) aren't really a bad thing...
I've got two umbrellas, both were free, and most of the time I have no idea where they are. I like my yellow rain coat. :D
Yeah, I'm returning one, but which I don't know. I much prefer the color of one, but the other is rather more practical. (Off-white versus blue.)
Dear Body,
What is wrong with you? I can't even eat a normal healthy diet anymore, without gaining weight? No whole wheat bread? No bread, ever? And I can't even look at any type of Asian food apparently. Sure, I am not riding 100-150 miles a week now, but I am doing winter training, running, hiking, yoga... more than 98% of the country does.
Well, at least there's snow, so maybe the x country skiing and snow shoeing will help. Frustrated.
x-country skiing and snowshoeing are HUGE calorie burners, as you probably already know.
(me, i spent a lot of time snow shoveling today- with our approx. 22" we got last night) My car is still buried...you can only do so much in one day. So I've been hiking into town this morning and tomorrow morning to work at the food pantry.
All I can say is thank goodness for wool.
We only got around a foot, although some towns close to here got 18 inches. I did an interval snow shoe today. Two climbs up the 20% grade hill in our neighborhood conservation land. That, plus a little snow shoveling, to get the stuff that the snow blower can't get. Tomorrow I am going x country skiing.
DH is a pastor. He's done fancy, expensive weddings and very simple weddings. He says that "At the end of the day, they are all just as married." The wedding day is over quickly. Hopefully the marriage lasts much longer than it takes to pay off the wedding. Sometimes I wonder. Sounds like DS and DIL-to-be have their priorities straight. Hang in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
Deb
Dear Charlie the Horse in my calf -
Go away I tell you, go away! I don't know what I did to earn your wrath, but I'm tired of your existance. :mad: I have a rolling pin, and I'm not afraid to use it.
Dear parents--
Thanks for looking over my personal statement draft, but I think you're forgetting one thing--it's a personal statement, not a scientific paper!
Dear Snowstorm (aka Blizzard Conditions),
Please let up long enough for DD's DBF to make it here from Wyoming for her 21st birthday. You have no idea how miserable all of us will be today if he is unable to get here.
Grateful for your kind consideration,
Deb & family
Dear Archie my brand new baby cousin,thank you for finally making your grand entrance no matter how fashionably late(13 days). Congrats. Your mother the accountant wanted you here this year somthing about taxes. I'm so glad you and mom are doing well in spite of the c section. Welcome to this big beautiful world baby boy I can't wait to meet you!:)
Dear lady who tried on the $75 smartwool turtleneck in the store before i bought it-
Thanks so much for wearing Patchouli perfume when you go clothes shopping and trying on new clothes in stores. Now I have to wash my nice brand new expensive merino top before I can wear it- simply to get your stinky perfume out of it.
Could be worse....could be Shalimar. :rolleyes: I hope you can get the stank out.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Dear Stingers,
Nyer Nyer :p I managed to escape much of your wrath today thanks to the vaseline trick.
Please stay away for a while as I train for the busso jetty swim.
Thank you.
open water swimmer
Dear Person that gave me bath salts:
I'm a shower person, NOT a bath person.... BUT today after doing the Christmas Bird Count, coming home and not being able to get warm despite the warm clothes I changed in to. I remembered the bath salts and thought a hot soak would warm me up.
Thank you, I'm toasty warm now, and I smell nice too. :D
Dear neighborhood children--
You know, running across roads with wild abandon is probably not a good idea, especially when you don't look first.
Dear Self,
Go and buy a good rashie!!! The stupid stingers will then miss areas one does not want stinger stings in.
AGHGHGHGHG...
I must have swum over a few as the rash is all the way across my tummy, both armpits, under my right breast..
AUGHGH..
OWWWW, CC! That sounds horrible! Hope your're feeling better soon!
Come on. Really.Quote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
You can afford to buy an expensive merino wool top and you're seriously complaining about this? You're better than that.
Thank you, Beth.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmccasland
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Originally Posted by Zen
Thanks so much Zen. I needed that dressing down from you. I was displaying only self centered thoughtlessness in complaining about such a thing on a thread like this. I'm grateful you made me see how my post was a shameful embarrassment compared to all the more important ones here. I will strive to be more like you.
Then again, I figured there'd likely be consequences after 'The Little Details' thread.
Now girls, play nice in the sandbox, or I'll have to put the training wheels back on your bikes. ;)
Once the snow melts. :p I ain't go'in out in the snow. I'm a fair southern flower not used to these things. :D
Hey, she started it!
And yes, if I buy a brand new piece of clothing and have to wash it before I can wear it because some woman tried it on while wearing stinky perfume...then I sure as heck will post my annoyance on Dear So and So, just like everyone else who posts here about inconsiderate acts by co-workers, irritating relatives, etc etc. I think it's very inconsiderate to wear heavy perfume (or heavy makeup) when trying on clothes in a store.
No need for anyone to dole out a superior lecture.
But fine! :)
Speaking of snow...
Dear Next Door Neighbor who is spending her winter in her second home in sunny Florida,
Next time you hire someone sight unseen to plow your driveway, can you please instruct him about where your property line ends, so he doesn't plow all your snow 6 feet over onto our lawn, all 22" of blizzard snow, carving big gouges out of our grass and then pushing the 4 foot mounds of your snow INTO our two lovely spruce trees that we bought and planted way over on OUR lawn, breaking many lower branches in the process? What kind of moron plows and smashes 4 foot snow banks right into beautiful growing spruce trees in the middle of a lawn?
BleekerSt - I believe you summed it up properly... "moron." Hope your trees recover from the insult in the spring. How rude.
Least neighbor and "moron with snowplow" could rectify things. But not mangle anything else in the process. I have not-so-fond memories of shoveling out the driveway after the snowplow did the street when I lived in the upper part of the lower penninsula of Michigan.