Dear City of Chicago,
Thanks for the water fountains. They really help on my runs. I'm going to pretend that you've used the $110 I've paid in parking tickets so far this year to do upkeep on the water fountains.
Delusionally yours,
LH
Printable View
Dear City of Chicago,
Thanks for the water fountains. They really help on my runs. I'm going to pretend that you've used the $110 I've paid in parking tickets so far this year to do upkeep on the water fountains.
Delusionally yours,
LH
Dear Mr MoleQuote:
Originally Posted by tlkiwi
I have given you the chance to move to my neighbours yard and I have been civil. Still you pesist so Im sorry this is my new message wonderfully provided by tlkiwi and get the hint PLEASSSSSSSSE.
Dear Mr. Runny Nose in the next Cube Over:
BLOW IT ALREADY! I understand that several of us in the mapping department have allergies and we are doing our best to cope with them however we can. Most have Kleenex at our desks and use them often, some have gone as far as to mooch a roll of toilet paper from the bathroom for the express purpose of keeping snotsies off our keyboards. Please, pick a method that works for you and stick with it because hearing sniff...Sniff...SNIFF all day gets rather tiresome!
Thanks,
The Booger Free Gal to your left
Dear Ms Coughing Co-worker:
I finally got Mr. Runny Nose on the other side of me shipped off to Tater-land. Could you please join him? You are more than loud enough to drown out Mr. Runny Nose so she won't hear him.
If you can't move, try seeing a doctor. While you're there, ask him or her to check your hearing. Your conversations can be heard through solid walls and doors, and they really aren't all that interesting and dreadfully ruined the Beethoven on the radio.
SK
Dear chickens,
Words cannot express how much I enjoyed my fry-up breakfast just now, but it's all because of you. Cheers.
Dear fog,
Thank you for making the super 14 final an interesting affair...What a game, we in the pub, our friends in auckland nor anyone else could see what was going on. I'm sure the comment from murray mexted saying "for all we know, the ball could have landed in new brighton" will remain in many people's minds the quote of the game!!!!
Sky tv, thank you for telecasting the game but could you please show the level shots when it's pea soup on the field?
Avid crusaders fan
:)
Dear Wickham Park,
Please try to stay at least 50% cloudy and under 85F on Sunday. A shower in the afternoon would be nice!
Nanci
Dear postal service,
PLEAAAAAASSSSEEEE deliver my replacement tubes today! I really need to ride. It's been a week, afterall. I've had a stressful week and if I don't get to ride soon, my head may explode, just like the old tube.
Anxiously awaiting the mailman,
Fishdr
Dear New Apartment Complex Residents,
Why did you put that bizarre seahorse birdbath outside? It not only frightens my dogs, it is ugly. The complex looked nice, now your apartment is resembling the "My Flea" market outside Rockdale.
Curious about the birdbath,
Your Neighbor
Dear childcare worker at Gold's Gym,
I understand that you had to put my child in time-out because he threw a block. You tell me that you put a movie on and he calmed down after said time-out. Why did you feel the need to force a conversation out of him? Why wasn't the time-out enough? You tell him that he can't play with any toys until he really sits down and talks to you about this and then you're surprised when he has a meltdown? Earth to you...not all strategies work on all kids. You can't force a thought provoking conversation out of most three year olds. Ugh.
Signed,
thanksforthe20minuteworkout
Dear crazycanuck,Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
You are a good woman.
Yours,
;) One-eyed Cantab, born and raised.
Hi Brandy - its interesting that your childcare workers are allowed to use "time out" as a strategy for "behaviour management".
Over here we have changed the words... behaviour management" is called "positive guidance" and the strategies used have to reflect that phrase.
Timing children out can potentially get early childhood teachers into alot of trouble... it is written into our ECE Regulations here. So I will join you in your letter to this childcare teacher, and if she worked in Middle earth I would also be able to tell her I was going to report her "teaching strategy" to her supervisor/head teacher... and if that wasn't taken seriously, then to the Ministry.
Isolation from others is used for POWs, and should not be used for three year olds.
Did you manage to catch the game last night Kiwi? CC? Crusaders/Hurricanes?Quote:
Originally Posted by tlkiwi
Dear Wellington... next time you decide to host a significant final of the worlds greatest ever contact sport, please ensure the rolling fog stays out of the caketin... although I was seated in my living room and got some excellent close-ups - it would have been nice to have some "aerial" views and I am sure those that played good money to actually be there are extremely disappointed to be unable to see most of the action!
Rugby-Raven
Road Raven...I think the fact that we don't really use time-outs here at home is why he has a hard time with them there. He's one of those kids who when he knows that he has done something wrong he feels bad and doesn't want to keep talking about it. I was telling my husband that he probably felt really bad and he had already been in time out...forcing him to have a discussion about it afterward just sent him over the edge and into meltdown land :( Unfortunately, using time-outs there is the policy. It's really not the best situation and I try not to use it unless I absolutely have to.
When my "little one" (now 23 y.o., 6'5", and very sweet and laid back) was in his terrible 2's ... and 3's, and 4's ... the day care teacher designed a whole program for dealing with, not only my explosive kid but several others in the same class. She did a year-long program on "feelings". They went to the art museum and looked at paintings to see what emotions the people in them showed. They listened to music and painted emotions as they listened. They read books on emotions -- anger, joy, sadness, etc. After a few months, these little toddlers could understand and express their own feelings better, at which point they stopped "exploding". Much easier to recognize, and talk about, your own feelings when you've used books etc. to learn about others' feelings first.
From there, this teacher went on to a several year program about trees -- which put an end to kids breaking branches off the trees in the park around the day care. The class would "adopt" a different tree each year -- a big pine in the forest one year, a neighborhood birch the next, and so on. They'd visit the tree in each season, and a botanist from the university gave them a toddler-accessible lecture on what the tree could be used for -- like making sweet syrup from birch sap, which they then did, or a trip to the paper plant to see spruce made into paper. Great program!
Then in grade school, when there was a littering problem, the whole faculty decided to do a program on colors and seeing your surroundings. For instance, my son's class spent one lesson on their knees by the windows painting the winter scene outside. learning that snow is not white and spruce trees neither simply green nor black. Not long after, he started taking pictures of sunsets over the fjord and sending them to his big sister (who was away at college) to make her homesick; he'd just stand there awestruck by the windows and say what a beautiful place we lived in, then take a picture to remind his sister of that. And yes, at least for a while, there was a lot less litter around the school.
So yep, time-outs and "serious talks" with 3-year-olds are not the best methods, just the "easiest" and "fastest" for impatient and unimaginative teachers.
No, RR I didn't manage to see it (it was played at Jade, btw). I had to catch a train to go and pick up my bike - it was still in Surrey after my (mis)adventure the other weekend.
:rolleyes: I just LURVE it when I can make a complete dork of myself on a global scale! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by tlkiwi
You didn't miss much as the fog was very thick... but glad you have picked up your bike... free of holly I assume?
Brandy and Bikeless - early childhood is something I can rant on about for a long time - this is my job - teaching early childhood teachers...
In short though, I am glad neither of you support "time out" as all it teaches children is that you have more power than them and you can be a bigger bully.
And what a progressive teacher, Bikeless, to be teaching your terrific two about feelings and empathy. We often do not credit the very young with ability to reason and think laterally or to be empathetic... and yet most people quip that the most learning happens in the first three years...
RoadRaven...we were at the pub watching it live...or what we could see of the game....
Dear Edmonton Oilers, Thank you for doing so well this season. It's great to see my hometown happy about thier hockey team once again...14yrs is a bit too long though!!!!! Make Canada proud and bring the cup home....
Happy hockey fan..but unhappy hockey fan that has to put up with only being able to listen to the game online...*&^^^F^^ sattelite tv that cancelled the contract to carry the nhl games live down here in aust after the players strike.....
Crazy "off to beg someone with broadband to allow us to borrow thier house to watch the games live..."canuck...
Well, Ms. Raven, I couldn't let anyone here go assuming that Canterbury hadn't qualified top of the round-robin and earned that home final fair and square. :D
You know, I give lots of what could be considered in-class timeouts (if someone is preventing someone else from learning, then they will be moved somewhere they won't have the opportunity to continue doing so), but I don't send anyone out of my classroom unless they have done something (i.e. a fist fight) that warrants an immediate visit to the principal's office. It's pointless - most behaviour problems arise when children don't have the skills necessary to complete the work required, and they'll never learn those skills if they're not in the classroom. The single most frustrating aspect of doing supply/relief/sub work is that you simply don't have the opportunity to implement any of the long-term, positive strategies that help those kids so much.
Dear Postal Service,
Why do you insist on taunting me??? Yesterday you delivered my tire levers, but not the tubes. Now - I know that both boxes were sent at the same time from the same place, presumably. Now, since Monday is a holiday, I will not get me tubes until at least Tuesday! Which is even more torturous, because it's my telecommuting day. So I'll have to look at the tubes, but won't be able to do anything with them until "after work". Torturous!
Sincerely,
REALLY needing to ride my bike:p
Dear Wh*re who stole my tube of Aquaphore out of the bathroom during my 9 hour 48 minute death march (Wickham Park Marathon). Thanks a lot. I hope you have a good use for it. Perhaps you, like me, have salt chafing on the insides of your thighs, in about 3" diameter circles, that every time you peed for the next four stops, felt like someone was slicing your inner thighs with razor blades. Or maybe you felt the oncoming of inner arm chafing from the too-rough fabric of your running shirt (the only one that could possibly stay dry and not soak up ten pounds of sweat) and sought to nip that in the bud before they, too, turned into two-inch diameter circles of raw skin. But probably, you are some loser who has never run for 30 seconds in your pathetic life, because you can't put down your smokes long enough to! I hope you enjoyed it!!
Nanci
Dear Nanci,
Wow - you survived! I've been wondering how you did and I never had any doubts. :) I'm impressed!
Hoping to just run around the block without stopping,
Fishdr
Out of 33 starters, 13 people finished the marathon, and two of those went on to finish the 50 miles. 39% finishing rate.
I'll come up with some highlights, but first I have to figure out how to get on my bike for the Memorial Day Bike Club picnic.
Nanci
Dear Furniture Shopper,
Don't you realize how rude it is to come into our store talking on your cell phone? You can obviously see me walking up to you in order to greet you. Are you so self-important that you can't put your phone down for a few minutes out of common courtesy??:confused: I promise I won't pin your arm behind your back and make you buy anything!
Sincerely fed up,
Dear Nanci,Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Good luck! I hope your legs don't rebel. And I hope your weather is better than here - cloudy and drizzly. At least it's not in the 90's - finally.
Fishdr
Dear Allergy Fairies,Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
Could you please ignore SadieKate's request to send Ms. Coughy to my area? See, the Tater-cube is nice and quiet now and I would really rather it stay that way!
Thanks so much,
The Silent Spud
Dear New Programable Thermostat,
Thank you for working (as in turning the AC on!) after I installed you. I was worried because one wire didn't match up, and one slot was left empty, and I didn't know if I had a "heat pump" or not. I do not know what a heat pump is. But all seems to be well, at least until I need the furnace!
Nanci
Dear God,
I had this idea. Wouldn't it be cool if we could move trees around just by pushing them? I could move the huge ones to where they could shade my house better. I could move the really pretty ones in the back 40 closer. I could move them all away when a hurricane came through, instead of sleeping in the part of the house that wouldn't get crushed if one fell. I could fill out the bare sections of fence line, so I wouldn't have to look at the neighbors or the road. Just an idea, please take it into consideration.
Thanks,
Nanci
Dear weather gods,
Here is your weather schedule for the week beginning Monday, June 12th:
Monday June 12 - you may choose to rain this day. Rain yourself dry.
Tuesday June 13- if you're still feeling a little soggy, go ahead. Rain. Surely you'll be fully wrung out by midnight.
Wednesday June 14- Sunny. And Hot. Like +25 (celsius)
Thursday - June 15 Sunny. And hot. Like +25 (celsius)
Friday June 16- Sunny. And hot. Like +25 (celsius)
Saturday June 17- preferably overcast, maybe some sun. Not a chance of rain. Even a cold front would be acceptable. Please don't go any hotter than 25 (celsius). Or cooler than 5 celsius. Oh, and if you could keep the mosquitos and wind at bay, that'd be greatly appreciated too.
Sunday - I don't care what you do because I and 799 other riders will be done our race. You can even snow if you feel you need to let off some steam.
Yours in racing the ride of my life,
Rider 596.
Dear Self,
Why do you suck so much at everything?
Dear Nanci,
What I had in mind when I placed the trees where they are is that you put the *house* where the huge ones are so they can shade you better. And you could put the *house* 40' closer to the pretty ones in the back.
Sorry about the hurricanes. Could you prune the big branches? Don't prune the fig though :eek: oops.
Or how about this: for all that you do for my animals, I'll just try to keep the branches off you when you sleep :)
Feel free to fill out the bare sections of fence line though. I don't like to look at your neighbors or the road either.
Thanks,
G**
Dear Kimmyt,
There must be _something_(s) you are good at! Please elaborate!
Nanci
Dear "Everything Happens For a Reason",
Last week was truly awful and this week is feeling just as difficult. I understand that time and patience reveals all, but I would really appreciate things getting better soon, especially if I don't get to know the reason just yet. Thank you.
Deat kimmyt,
I agree with Nanci. I'm sure there must be a bunch of things that you're good at!
Dear kimmyt...do you accept long distance hugs & smiles? :D
Dear dudes on the kebab run (tues night ride) thank you for taking good care of Linda last night...(she dislocated her elbow & stretched the tendons quite badly). It's good to know we ride with funky people!
Dear Man(my dear) thank you for staying with greg & tom @ the hospital whilst waiting for linda to be fixed up......!!!
Dear ladies on TE...thanks again for being there!
c
Dear TE gals,
Thanks for the well-wishes.... it was just one of those days, you know?
I'm feeling a bit better now though!
K.
Also, I guess I'm pretty good at posting on the Internet!!
Dear legs,
I'm sorry that I told lungs to get over themselves because I was going to work out whether they liked it or not,but please go easy on me.
Dear ex co-worker,
Well, I guess you got your way anyway by quiting so that you could have Saturday off, but I to have a life. By the way, you can not get through life without having any stress, so suck it up!
Dear Mr. technology guy on the phone,
Please stop bragging about your accomplishments and talk to me about what we're supposed to be talking about - developing technology. Please pardon the noise - even though it sounds like I'm whapping the phone on the desk, it's construction outside. Yeah yeah... construction.
Sincerely,
A person in need of riding a longggggg ride today to relieve stress.
thank you for supporting me in all the ways that you do.
Thanks for buying me the great b67 saddle and installing it
onto our tandem even though the rest of the bike club continues to make snide comments about it being too springy and large.
Thanks for bidding on a bike on ebay for me because i liked it.
Thanks for axing YOUR bike ride thursday night (all right, there was a deluge but who's checking) and occupying your entire evening working on the new Veloce bike so that I could ride it.
Thanks for accompanying me to the school playground (where there were an unusual number of cars and kids playing basketball) so i could get used to
the new bike on a relatively flat surface with lots of room for turning around.
Thanks for being patient when it appeared that i'd forgotten everything i used to know about bicycling including shifting and braking.
Thanks for being patient while I complained about the b17 seat you lovingly installed on my new bike.
Thanks for being there when in my despair, it looked like i didn't like my new bike at all..
Thanks for not totally losing it when i went and bought yet another saddle ( a b67, the only kind that seems to work for me) for a bike that we're not even sure i can ride.
You are an incredibly cool husband and I promise I will never trade you in or make another comment about the 30 + bike Jerseys that you own.
Thanks again.
mimi
Dear fishing gods,
Thank you for the start of fishing season! Even though I loooove my dh we spend way to much time together. We work together as well as we are married. It is hard sometimes not to have any time to yourself. But because of this great thing called fishing season i am now getting a few morning's to myself!
Just please watch over him and keep he's boat safe. See the time before last he's boat sank.