Dear So and So

[Crankin]

I hope it goes well for you, Indy. All you can do is be proactive, which you are.

I got past my last paperwork hurdle today. Now it's just the normal stuff, like clients not being there when you go to their house... I thought this would not be such an issue with in home therapy, but it's part of the deal in this profession... at least in the program I work in, I can bill for waiting, calling, paperwork, so I still got paid for an hour.

[marni]

Indy Steel, I will be thinking of you and wishing you well. This has been a rough year on a lot of us.

marni

[Owlie]

((Indysteel))

Dear body:
Why are you awake at this hour? I don't want to be.

[malkin]

Dear HR Department:

The new $3000 deductible on our health insurance does not make me feel either "proactive" or "empowered" about my health care.

[Owlie]

Dear man driving a motorized penis extension:

No, I was not going to pass a slow-moving industrial lawnmower on a winding, tree-lined road with blind curves and a double-yellow line where the speed limit is 40 miles an hour and I can't see around said lawnmower. If you want to do it, be my guest. I'll happily talk to the cops about what happened.

[jessmarimba]

Dear HR Department:

The new $3000 deductible on our health insurance does not make me feel either "proactive" or "empowered" about my health care.

I don't know how much influence you have over their policies, but my company used to have a higher deductible insurance with a supplemental health reimbursement account that would refund us a good chunk of the deductible. I think it cost them significantly less money than the insurance with the lower deductible would have cost. Maybe it's a suggestion to bring up?

[Roadtrip]

Dear man driving a motorized penis extension:

No, I was not going to pass a slow-moving industrial lawnmower on a winding, tree-lined road with blind curves and a double-yellow line where the speed limit is 40 miles an hour and I can't see around said lawnmower. If you want to do it, be my guest. I'll happily talk to the cops about what happened.

Sorry to hear you had an encounter with the MPE. Tought you mostly stuck to the trail? Where were you riding?

Shannon

[Owlie]

Sorry to hear you had an encounter with the MPE. Tought you mostly stuck to the trail? Where were you riding?

Shannon

Thankfully, not on a ride. I was driving back from the trail. This was in the first few hundred feet up that road you took to that Starbucks where we met up the last time.

Speaking of which, the Montgomery Starbucks is now gone!

[bmccasland]

Dear Knee,
Is there a GOOD reason that you've decided to blow up like a balloon and hurt? I've been good to you, why are you doing this. Don't you hear Ann saying how good you're doing. Today was not fun. How about some nice narcotics for bed tonight?

[alexis_the_tiny]

Dear self,

Don't make transactions while on medication. Now you've accidentally deleted the phone number of a buyer along with the text message of her address to mail her stuff to. Brilliantly done. How now?? *Facepalm*

[Owlie]

Dear software--you are evil.

[Owlie]

Dear mom--
In the future, I'd appreciate it if you didn't take it upon yourself to clean out my room while I'm not around. I was hoping to break into the stash of stationery covered with pictures of cute animals colored by someone on an acid trip for grad school because I don't want to take it Too Seriously...and black/dark blue/dark green notebooks are a little boring. I can't, because you threw it out.

While on the subject: Your reasoning was because "you're an adult now." It was also your reasoning for replacing my bedding with white-and-boring. I happen to like brightly colored bedding. (Red sheets are good for other reasons too...) It's two or three years old--it doesn't bleed in the wash any more! If I'm An Adult, doesn't that mean that I get to define what being An Adult is? And if I want silly stationery made by a company that was popular in the 80s and 90s or my (un)necessarily huge stuffed toy collection or red sheets, is that a problem? Or does being An Adult mean being boring?

[badgercat]

....I was hoping to break into the stash of stationery covered with pictures of cute animals colored by someone on an acid trip....
....silly stationery made by a company that was popular in the 80s and 90s....

Lisa Frank?

[Owlie]

Lisa Frank?

Yep.

[Biciclista]

Dear Mother who is now entering her teen years
I have absolutely no problem with the idea of you dating. I hope you find someone that is good company and intelligent ( your #1 condition)
What I DO have a problem with is that you have decided that my DH can't meet these guys because he'll "say something" but you insist on ME meeting them and then you give me a long list of things I cannot discuss.
I cannot discuss my retirement (262 days from now)
I cannot discuss my age, her age, the ages of my kids, or anything related to those ages. Now I ALREADY know that she doesn't want age discussed, so it infuriates me when she has to "prep" me to meet some old f@rt who can't hear a word I said ANYWAY because he's deaf as a post and the only reason why he can hear HER is because he's reading her lips.
I can't tell you that I was laughing because the conversation we had was so pathetic
. him "How did you get this great cheese?"
her "a friend of ours from Italy brought it"
him "you went to Italy?"
her "no, it was a friend of ours, she brought it when she came"
him "how did you bring cheese in from Italy"
her "I didn't"
him " you could have gotten in trouble"

sincerely your long suffering grey haired daughter