Dear So and So

**Crankin** · 02-01-2011, 03:40 AM

Pretty good, for an armchair diagnosis!

**lph** · 02-01-2011, 04:14 AM

Thanks, peeps.

*sigh* yeah, I checked it out, and while I'll leave the diagnosing to the professionals, a lot did ring true.

Part of what has been making this difficult is this persons tendency to downplay and redefine what was said and written, and why, at a later point. Or at best blame being "a bit too spontaneous". But I'm done trying to guess what was "really" meant. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and when I get hit in the face with it - it feels like a duck - it doesn't really matter if the person wielding it insists that it's just a cute little duckling...

**limewave** · 02-01-2011, 06:00 AM

Stay strong LPH. It will be better for both of you. Just keep to the well-defined boundaries you've laid out for your relationship (or lack of).

**Dogmama** · 02-01-2011, 11:31 AM

I would set my email to automatically trash any correspondence from that person. Nobody needs to have the life sucked out of them.

**tulip** · 02-01-2011, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dogmama

I would set my email to automatically trash any correspondence from that person. Nobody needs to have the life sucked out of them.

I did that with someone. Works like a charm.

**malkin** · 02-01-2011, 05:21 PM

Oh ick. Sounds like a real PITA.

**alexis_the_tiny** · 02-01-2011, 06:48 PM

This might be very ill-advised but,

Dear boyfriend, go sod yourself. First you try to shunt me off with this group when you rode with another. Now you say I have to be able to ride 40km in 1 hour and 14 minutes before I can ride with this group because you're riding with them or I must go join the other group? Seriously, who died and made you god?

**marni** · 02-01-2011, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by alexis_the_tiny

This might be very ill-advised but,

Dear boyfriend, go sod yourself. First you try to shunt me off with this group when you rode with another. Now you say I have to be able to ride 40km in 1 hour and 14 minutes before I can ride with this group because you're riding with them or I must go join the other group? Seriously, who died and made you god?

Oh How I hear you! My mother's favorite statement was "you either have to learn to think of them as endearing qualities or kill them>'' Been there done that and have metaphysically killed them frequently. That is why I now ride almost exclusively solo or with a group of women. I have had quite enough of trying to keep up with anyone.

**crazycanuck** · 02-01-2011, 11:42 PM

Dear Cyclone Yasi,

Please slow down

& don't cause too much damage to Far North Qld..

May it not be as bad as Cyclone Larry...

Queenslanders have certainly had enough of mother nature..what have they done to piss you off???

**Cataboo** · 02-02-2011, 05:00 AM

Dear crazy friend, I get that you have a lot on your plate with work, family, etc. But you're making some crazy bad decisions and I have to deal with your crying fits because of your self created drama this week that you're staying with me. The heart wants what the heart wants is not an excuse for you to do whatever you want, including breaking up marriages.

Next crying fit, I am tempted to try to slap some sense into you, 'cause consoling you and giving you gentle reminders of the right thing to do is apparently too easily ignored.

And call me an old judgemental cynic, but I seriously don't believe love at first sight trumps 13 years of marriage. And I guess I don't believe in love at first sight, I do believe that infactuation at first sight can grow into love.

You make my head hurt.

**limewave** · 02-02-2011, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by Cataboo

Dear crazy friend, I get that you have a lot on your plate with work, family, etc. But you're making some crazy bad decisions and I have to deal with your crying fits because of your self created drama this week that you're staying with me. The heart wants what the heart wants is not an excuse for you to do whatever you want, including breaking up marriages.

Next crying fit, I am tempted to try to slap some sense into you, 'cause consoling you and giving you gentle reminders of the right thing to do is apparently too easily ignored.

And call me an old judgemental cynic, but I seriously don't believe love at first sight trumps 13 years of marriage. And I guess I don't believe in love at first sight, I do believe that infactuation at first sight can grow into love.

You make my head hurt.

Oh dear.

**Veronica** · 02-02-2011, 06:35 AM

Dear Tucker,

I know you have a very important schedule every day - play, eat nap, chase Cassie, chitter at the birds, play with the Curlies through the window... etc. You are a very busy big baby. But could we please move the snuggle moment to an earlier time in the day? I really like snuggling with you, but I can't be late to work and I feel so badly every time I have to push you out of my lap.

Love,

Your "mom"

PS You do have the loudest rumble and it makes me smile to hear it.

**lph** · 02-04-2011, 12:12 AM

Dear Self,

If you're going to gripe and complain about how painful and difficult it is to insert earrings into your tender, newly-pierced ears and how you never would have done it if you'd known how much fuss it was, please check that you are actually aiming at the hole. Trying to stab an earring through the unbroken skin of your ear, mulitple times, is obviously going to hurt.

yrs, the exasperated rest of you

**Dogmama** · 02-04-2011, 04:21 AM

lph - try putting a little antibiotic ointment on the posts of your earrings. They will slide in easier.

Signed,

Been There, Done That

**Catrin** · 02-04-2011, 04:32 AM

Originally Posted by Owlie

I actually ordered quite a bit from SpecialTeas'--the two I'm running out of were ST's. DBF's got some of Teavana's equivalent of one, and it's not bad, but isn't quite as good. They don't have the other one. Teavana has some good (if quite expensive) stuff, but a lot of their offerings are just weird froo-froo blends. Some of them are actually good, but a lot of them are just odd...and expensive. (I'm also a little bitter because they discontinued one of my favorite teas. I'll get over it.)

I just saw this, and say it isn't so! I really did like the oolongs that Special Teas sold, but looking deeper into Teavana's offerings I see what you mean....sigh...

Speaking of oolong, I am trying to find a source for Quangzhou Oolong - it is delightful and while I do have a local source for it I am hoping that I can find it for at least a little lower price. I want to buy at least a .5 pound of it, but my local store doesn't sell in quantities larger than 1 ounce, and I suspect that I can find it in bulk for less than $65 for a half pound!

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