Dear So and So

Dear across-the-street neighbors:

The next time you throw a party with speakers aimed at my house all day, I get to pick the music. Running on 6 hours of the Mexican equivalent of the chicken dance is a bit much.

Did you forget that your front yard is only 20x30 feet? And that your daughter is only, what, 7? Did you NEED to hire an MC and a sound system?

Or better yet, just give me advance notice and I'll go out of town for the weekend. Please. I'm begging you.

Sincerely,
Your passive-aggressive neighbor. One of many, I'm sure.

Dear self:
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get into some kind of job-hunting gear. Right now. That way you can have money. Money is good. You can buy bikes with it.
Me.

Dear Rain,

Mmk..let's get this straight..YOu will not make an appearance this sunday as forecasted. YOu will not ruin my 6hr...

Shooooooo

Shut up laproscopic stitches.

:rolleyes:

Dear Self:

Motivation to train. You need to find it.

Yes, it's hot outside, but it's gonna get hotter (it is the south after all). I know you don't like 90+ - but you also don't like to exercise inside. HTFU and get out there - otherwise, it's gonna be a LONG summer and you will accomplish none of your goals - which would SUCK.

--me

Dear Blueberry,

See tagline. :D

Get out there and do it girl!

Veronica

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Originally Posted by snapdragen

Thanks for the well wishes ladies. I can already tell the difference, no heartburny feeling! I'm sore where the little incisions were made, 4 in all. If it gets too bad I pop a vicodin and fall asleep.:p

Drugz are good!

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That photo is a total hoot. Seize the day, Snap.

Mkay Snap that picture was LOL funny! :D:D:D

Dear WR,

The boxes will not pack themselves. You MUST get up and do something besides ride your bike and read TE forums in order to actually PACK! Quit checkin' the weather 20x a day to see if you can squeeze in another ride or play with MapMyRide to find another cool route to try. GET OF YER BUTT AND PACK!!!

Respectfully,
WR

Every time I move I think I pack at least 50% of stuff at the last second. Moving is awful.

Snap, your pic cracked me up! Glad that vicodin is workin for ya!

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Originally Posted by WindingRoad

Mkay Snap that picture was LOL funny! :D:D:D

Dear WR,

The boxes will not pack themselves. You MUST get up and do something besides ride your bike and read TE forums in order to actually PACK! Quit checkin' the weather 20x a day to see if you can squeeze in another ride or play with MapMyRide to find another cool route to try. GET OF YER BUTT AND PACK!!!

Respectfully,
WR

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heheheh, sounds familiar ;) Glad to see I am not the only one who does all of that :)

Are you moving to another part of town or back here?

Dear face--
I know it takes you a couple weeks to adjust to being home and away from Cleveland's hard-on-skin water, but you feel like an oil slick. It's gross and now I'm ending up with spots.

Dear self--
Stop being a lazy bum and 1) change your razor blade so you don't have to keep nicking your knees, and 2) cook things so you can have lunch tomorrow and don't have to order a pizza. (As much as you miss the pizza from this place.)

Dear weather gods...

High of 95 the next three days in NC? In May? Heat indices in the upper 90s already? Really?

:eek:

hi today around here was 93, 90% humidity and winds in the 20-30 mph range. We haven't had any significant, measureable rain around here since January. Welcome summer.

marni

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Originally Posted by snapdragen

Thanks for the well wishes ladies. I can already tell the difference, no heartburny feeling! I'm sore where the little incisions were made, 4 in all. If it gets too bad I pop a vicodin and fall asleep.:p

Drugz are good!

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Aw crud, I shouldn't have made you laugh when I called you from Solvang!!! Bad Jo. :(

Ooh. No stitches, just tape. Tape that I appear to be slightly allergic to. Greaaaat.

Oh now, that is special.

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Oh now, that is special.

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Dear Bureau of Meteorology,

You're forgiven :D & we thank you for not forecasting rain for sunday.

Thank you!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHARRR!!!!!!!

happy mtn biker :D

Dear Neighbor with Dog,
I know you see no need to put your dog on a leash when you are standing in your driveway, talking to the DPW workers cleaning up the debris in the street. And wildly yelling "Warning, dog is on the street," or some inane thing when I am going down the hill at 20 when your dog runs out to chase me doesn't help.
At first I thought your dog wasn't going to chase me, but it did. Right when I was starting a little uphill. No way could I beat your dog. I almost rammed the cr*p out of your little darling, but I feared the damage to my bike.
Please, after 3 incidents with us on our bikes and your dog, can you get the message?

Dear motorists:

When the school bus's lights are flashing red, and the little stop sign unfolds from the side of the bus, you are supposed to STOP!

Dear school bus operators:

Perhaps you'd have better compliance by motorists if you stopped in middle of the traffic lane, got rid of the stupid yellow flashing lights, and instead started your red flashing lights a long way before the stop - like school buses did when I was growing up.

Instead you pull so far off the road that two cars could parallel park between the road and your bus, you run the flashing yellow warning lights so long everyone looses interest in watching them, and you switch to the red lights so briefly that each bulb probably blinks on only three times. I bet that the folding stop arm never even stops moving - that it starts retracting the instant it reaches full extension!


(I happened to be out on my bike at just the right time for a rare for me (about once a year) sighting of school buses in action.)

Dear self--
As pretty as it is, you do not need another jersey--especially one that is green and therefore is not suitable road wear. You also cannot afford another jersey, especially not one that is relatively limited use.
--Me, who doesn't look good in green anyway.
PS--NO, that doesn't mean you can have the blue one instead.

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Dear Neighbor with Dog,
I know you see no need to put your dog on a leash when you are standing in your driveway, talking to the DPW workers cleaning up the debris in the street. And wildly yelling "Warning, dog is on the street," or some inane thing when I am going down the hill at 20 when your dog runs out to chase me doesn't help.
At first I thought your dog wasn't going to chase me, but it did. Right when I was starting a little uphill. No way could I beat your dog. I almost rammed the cr*p out of your little darling, but I feared the damage to my bike.
Please, after 3 incidents with us on our bikes and your dog, can you get the message?

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Is there a leash law in your county or town? If so, I'd call and report them. It's not safe for dogs to be running loose anywhere near the road. As you know, I fractured my pelvis when two loose dogs ran out at me in the road in 2005. There was a leash law, so my out-of-pocket expenses were paid by the dog owners' homeowners' insurance. But that was a drop in the bucket compared to the after-effects of the fracture that limits my cycling ability and causes pain to this day. You could also seriously hurt or kill the dog, which would be no walk in the park either.

Dear body -- OK, they puffy bloat stuff can go away now. Gall bladder is gone, incisions are healing, now if I could only button my jeans.......:eek:


snap "destined to live in panda pajamas forever" dragen

More healing and recovery vibes for you, Snap!

Dear university--
Your website is supremely unhelpful. There are no links to ANYTHING I might find useful, and there is no option to forward your mail to something I can actually easily access without jumping through hoops and waiting for your ridiculously slow system to actually do something. There's a reason why my undergrad institution abandoned this years ago...

Dear mother--
No, I'm not going to sell my bike. I'm not sure you get it. It is my major source of stress relief, and I'm going to need that for grad school. If I sell it, I get about $150 for it, max. Yes, it's a tiny bit of a money pit (new saddle, tubes, tires), but it's less a money pit than the car and house you keep insisting that I need. (I'm not there yet. Nowhere near there yet.) Also a heck of a lot cheaper than therapy, alcohol or a gym membership. And a new saddle is a heck of a lot cheaper than treatment for anything I might end up with because I didn't buy a new saddle.
:rolleyes:

Emily, there is a leash law, but one with no teeth, as they say.
They have been much better about this, but still.
Oh well, am on vacation now, sitting on the terrace of the B and B, looking at the ocean, in between the bougainvilla.
I forgot what that smelled like.

Oh, and I won't be posting in the what did you eat today thread until I get back.

Ah, poor Owlie, you want us to talk to your mother?

dear Wind Gods,

Please oh please could you let it drop down to below 15-20 mph for just a couple of days. I can deal with the 95 degree heat, especially since the humidity is , for a rare and bizarre change, in the 20-30% range instead of 80-90%, but I am so sick and tired of the wind blowing in my face, no matter which way I ride.

Dear People at the Hospital Lab, doing my preadmission work,

Would it have killed you to check the fax machine more than once in an hour and a half for the orders from the Dr.s office, especially when after the first half hour, I asked if the fax had come in" and again a half hour later? And was told both times that it hadn't come in yet.

I know the Dr.s office is only two floors up and I happen to know that the fax actually came in after 15 minutes after I called upstairs and requested it?

And as for the blood draw- Come on guys, it's a hospital isn't there anyone there who knows how to do a blood draw. 6 stabs and two black and blue arms don't speak well for your supposed !00% rating for patient care. And as for the wait for the chest ex ray, don't even go there. Why does a routine pre-addmittance procedure have to take three hours, in spite of having an appointment? And why do I once again feel like I feel like I've been handled like a piece of meat? Don't tell me "oh the fax just came in" when I know I have been waiting an hour and a half and don't tell me to " lighten up, it will all happen in good time" or ask me where in my sense of humor and where are my manners"

Lets us have you sitting and fretting about lab tests while worrying about whether or not you will make it home in time to get lunch for your 90 year old diabetic resident FIL.

ARGHHHH.

sincerely

((((((((marni))))))))

Has your husband or anyone checked with your FIL's insurance to see if they will pay for home care while you're going through this? I'm so upset that you have to be taking care of everyone except yourself right now ...

I've read articles by doctors who were treated the same way when they were patients, and it wasn't til they were in that situation did they realize that they talked down to people every day, unconsciously believing that being sick/injured/etc makes people dumb. So frustrating.

I cringed when I read about the blood draw!! I can't stand needles, how awful :(

Big hugs to you!!

marni - write to the CEO of the hospital. It's very possible the staffers will be spoken to about their attitudes. A friend of mine has a brother who is an oncologist. He said that there's a big push these days to get hospitals to be accountable for patient satisfaction. Basically teaching doctors how to be kind and attentive to their patients. I would bet this holds true for other hospital staff too.

It helped when my dad was in the hospital, and I was dealing with the King of all A$$holes who called himself a doctor.

Dear Bicycle Trainer creators and dude at my LBS,

I just have to vent.... NO! It did not go together easily, square peg in a round hole, yeah right. And getting the bike actually up on the trainer, oh that was soooooOoo much fun. I got a work-out just getting my bike on the trainer. Let's see you people pull a new trainer out of the box, find all the parts, put it together, and mount a bike in 15 minutes.

I need a drink. :mad:

dear everyone,

thank you for the sympathetic mama bear growls. After a day of thinking about what happened I have decided that no, I am not exagerating the situation and yes I do need to send a rocket to the CEO of the Hospital, with a copy to my GP (who referred me to this doctor and hospital system) and the surgeon herself. Mind you, I don't think that she had anything at all with the situation, I am sure that the forms were actually there and that they just couldn't be bothered to look for them and it all went downhill from there.

as for the surgery issues:

My husband will be taking a week off once I get home, and will be able to go in late for work for the next week as he has masses of vacation to burn, so unless the project he is bidding on for his company suddenly comes through and they decide to send him immediately to Redmond, Ontario ( 75 miles north of Calgary) he will be able to go in later in the morning most days for a while. Which will help a lot. Also, my oldest son and my daughter will be here for the first week as well so Dad will have lots of company and help and once I can drive, I will be able to step up again. He really is quite capable except that he is blind which means he can't read his blood sugar monitor, nor can he fix a sandwich or something for lunch unless I put things out for him, or can act as his eyes. Which shouldn't be that much of an issue.

As far as in home care- Although medicare (dads' only insurance) would probably chip in, I am hesitant to go that route since before he came to live with us he had been living on his own with a caregiver 4 hours a day and had gotten very depressed and mentally shaky in spite of what a wonderful and caring woman she was.

Anyway, thank you for letting me vent-

marni

Dear BF--
I miss you. You don't need to be in your silly desert! Come back! :(
Me.

Dear Skype or internet connection--
Please stop sucking. It's getting really annoying.

Dear legs,

I am sorry that you are tired and sore after such a long ride today. But I love the way those rides make you sexy and strong!

Dear Legs,

Thank you again for the good times at de 6hr today :). Weeehar!

Dear everyone who used to own my house:
Did it ever occur to ANY of you that the carpet might be getting a little worn? A little disgusting? There might be lots and lots of things living in it? I mean, 40 y.o. wall-to-wall carpet is clearly not luxurious anymore.

I am experiencing firsthand why none of you ever wanted to be the guy to get rid of it (SO GROSS) but man is it going to be nice when it's gone. But fyi, anchoring the carpet under the pergo flooring (that you installed over hardwood and possibly over carpet as well) was a really stupid idea. Not to mention the room is now about 3 inches shorter. Don't do that again.

Dear legs (again),

Thank you for recovering so quickly! I enjoyed our 6 mile walk around Forest Park today :D

Dear neighbor downstairs with motorcycle and race car in garage below us,

I understand that such vehicles require a certain amount of maintenance and "revving", but you have no idea how annoying it is to those of us who have to listen to it drone on and on. Particularly on temperate days when we want to have our windows open.

I haven't noticed anyone else who has a garage in this complex using it as a car/motorcycle maintenance "shop". What luck we have. :(

P.S. I can't wait to move!

Dear Klutz, otherwise known as me,
So I know it felt strange getting on the bike without a helmet, I mean it's the first time she's been mounted on a trainer, but we were inside. Get the need helmet thought out of your pretty little head.....

So we get on the bike, and off, adjust the trainer, on and off again, adjust again. So you were worried about kicking the nick-nack glass shelf thing and breaking the glass, but did you need to fall off the bike the other way and nearly crack your skull? Maybe I do need to ride with a helmet all the time.

Fortunately no cracked skull, just a slightly bruised butt that hit the end table on the way down.

Grace, that's me.

Uh oh...

Dear Self...

It's a good idea to remember the exact due date for an assignment...twas yesterday..not today!! Hopefully the tutor will get back to me about handing the stuff in today....

Uh oh...:mad: :eek: :o :eek: oh dear....

uh oh...