Dear So and So

[Catrin]

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...

[Dogmama]

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.

[Owlie]

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.

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.

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!

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.

[Cataboo]

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.

[Catrin]

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.

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

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.

[Owlie]

We barely got any.

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...

[bmccasland]

We barely got any.

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.

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."

[Eden]

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...

[Owlie]

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.

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.)

[Crankin]

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.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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.

[Crankin]

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.

[blackhillsbiker]

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.

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.

Deb

[bmccasland]

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. I have a rolling pin, and I'm not afraid to use it.

[Owlie]

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!