Dear So and So

[OakLeaf]

Thanks all.

No license plate, but one of my riding buddies did yell at the driver. I was just trying to breathe and not real aware of much for the first few minutes... It turns out that the people who stopped actually took my friends to the hospital and they all waited until my husband got there and reported to them that I was going to be okay! There really are super good people in this world.

My face looks awful but the main issue is a sprained wrist. Should be fine in a couple of weeks.

[PamNY]

Oakleaf, that sounds like no fun at all. Hope you heal fast.

[channlluv]

Um...is your bike okay? Were you on the Synapse?

How is your wrist and how are the stitches today? Where did you get them? I had to have stitches in my nose from a skin cancer removal and it was horrifying, but five years out, I can hardly see the scar anymore. Maybe yours will be a good war story if nothing else.

I wonder why that person would stop short in front of you. You're not in one of those areas where the shock jocks encourage morons to abuse cyclists, are you?

Roxy

[tulip]

Dear Self,
You have made certain choices, and second guessing those choices now is not really healthy. You made the best choice at the time with the information you had. Okay, so you may have been a bit impulsive at times (a bit???), but it is what it is. You are your mother's daughter, after all, as hard as that is to swallow.

You cannot go back and do things differently. Start where you are and breathe. You are here, now, and this is what you have to work with. Let it go and be at peace.

[Owlie]

Dear self--
You'd think that you'd have learned this by now, but following orange juice with milk, hot chocolate, or even milky tea is probably not the best idea... Ugh.

Off to brush my teeth again,
Me.

[channlluv]

Dear Self,
You have made certain choices, and second guessing those choices now is not really healthy. You made the best choice at the time with the information you had. Okay, so you may have been a bit impulsive at times (a bit???), but it is what it is. You are your mother's daughter, after all, as hard as that is to swallow.

You cannot go back and do things differently. Start where you are and breathe. You are here, now, and this is what you have to work with. Let it go and be at peace.

Tulip, you're my hero. You could be writing to me.

Roxy

[Cataboo]

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*

[bmccasland]

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.

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".

[kmehrzad]

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*

I'm sorry you've had to wait. I hope it's worth it.

[Cataboo]

I'm sorry you've had to wait. I hope it's worth it.

I am amusing myself by looking outside for a package every 30 mins.

Apparently, much like a watched pot, a watched UPS man never comes.

[Cataboo]

I am amusing myself by looking outside for a package every 30 mins.

Apparently, much like a watched pot, a watched UPS man never comes.

Woohoo! My cycling sister got me a road morph pump 'cause my real sister can't buy me cycling stuff!

[channlluv]

I just want to say again, you ladies crack me up. I love this board.

Roxy

[OakLeaf]

Um...is your bike okay? Were you on the Synapse?

How is your wrist and how are the stitches today? Where did you get them? I had to have stitches in my nose from a skin cancer removal and it was horrifying, but five years out, I can hardly see the scar anymore. Maybe yours will be a good war story if nothing else.

I wonder why that person would stop short in front of you. You're not in one of those areas where the shock jocks encourage morons to abuse cyclists, are you?

Roxy

Thanks for asking.

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.

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 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.

[Cataboo]

Take care of yourself Oakleaf - vitamin e oil helps to prevent scarring.

I am glad your bike is mostly okay.

[Crankin]

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.