Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear TE ladies
The DH and I hopped on our bikes and light rail and managed to get downtown, eat donuts and hot chocolate and get home. We rode 7 miles. he's really beat, I'm ecstatic, but DARN it's so HARD to get him to eat enough!!!
He's happy that he did 7 miles, but is grumping about how weak he feels. He's really doing well, considering.
that is all.

7 miles= good. Doughnuts too.

Dear Owlie REALLY! electric heat is extremely expensive. wear more wool. You and your packages, it is a constant source of entertainment for the rest of us.
You must have a lot of neighbors with sticky fingers!

Or something. Since I've been directing packages to the office, I think this is a screw-up on the post office's end.
I'll stop griping about it.
(And yes, I've contemplated moving, but my lease ends during move-in time for undergrads--poor timing. Most of the rent around here is a fair bit higher too, and the lower electric bills won't offset that. If there is a difference, it's only by a few dollars and not worth the hassle of moving.)

[Pax]

Mimi, that is fantastic!!!


Owlie - complain all you want to, it's cathartic for you and in a small way, funny for us.

[OakLeaf]

Dear Bengals,

Not again. Really, you don't make it easy to be a fan.


Dear Mimi and Don,

Yaaaaaaaayyyyy!

[Owlie]

Dear Bengals,

Not again. Really, you don't make it easy to be a fan.

I don't have TV...so I take it they've performed up to their usual standards.

[Biciclista]

Dear Owlie
I agree with Pax. Please don't quit complaining. You are reminding me of my younger self.

[Catrin]

Yippppiiieeeee! I just found out that my voluntary accident insurance is giving me a couple of hundred bucks for the dog bite from last spring. I will take it

[Biciclista]

Yippppiiieeeee! I just found out that my voluntary accident insurance is giving me a couple of hundred bucks for the dog bite from last spring. I will take it

congrats!!!

[Owlie]

Yippppiiieeeee! I just found out that my voluntary accident insurance is giving me a couple of hundred bucks for the dog bite from last spring. I will take it

How did I not see this? YAY!

[OakLeaf]

I don't have TV...so I take it they've performed up to their usual standards.

I thought to myself, "Well, there's always next year. Just like there has been for the last 23." And then I realized that Owlie's too young to remember the Bengals having made it past the wildcard game.

[Owlie]

Happy anniversary, Pax and Pax-honey!

I thought to myself, "Well, there's always next year. Just like there has been for the last 23." And then I realized that Owlie's too young to remember the Bengals having made it past the wildcard game.

LOL! Yes...When I was a kid, my dad told me that they made it to the Superbowl one year. I didn't believe him.
(That may have been because I was old enough to have known that that happened either shortly before or shortly after he moved to this country, and was unlikely to have cared much about football at the time. What would he have known? )

[alexis_the_tiny]

Dear postal services, HOW is it that you managed to deliver my bike stand to me minus ALL the bolts required for assembly and with one part of the cardboard tube looking like a T Rex used it for a chew toy under perfectly intact plastic? Did you somehow imagine I wouldn't miss the bolts in an unassembled piece of furniture if you wrapped it in plastic? Absolutely mind boggling. At least you spared me the whole "We can't leave a delivery notice at your house because you might not have a mail box" thing this time... Owlie, I swear your postal service and mine need to be friends.

Dear self, it's time to take a proper weekend break this week. Working from home through 2 weeks of annual leave and through two weekends without a break can actually kill. Oh and delegate some of the darn work, you have a teaching partner for a reason.

[marni]

Yay for Mimi and Don- Congrats on your tour de doughnut.

Dear Oakleaf-

I'm sorry your team lost but at least the neighbor Texas fans won't have to commit hari kari, which considering all the hype the game has gotten, would have been the only option for a large maority of the population here in Texas.

marni

[Blueberry]

Dear Owlie:

I like reading your complaints They remind me of a different place in my life - and that's a good thing!

[Owlie]

Dear sister:
Please stop telling me how much your "long distance" relationship sucks. He lives 30 minutes of highway driving away. So you don't get to see each other...except every weekend, when you stay at his apartment. (Funnily enough, I live 5 minutes (surface streets) from him. You don't come say high to me. Just as well, because you'd probably want to go to the mall.) FYI, my SO is 2,000 miles away, and we don't know that we'll get to see each other in person again until one of us graduates.
Gr.

Dear paper for lab management class:
I hate you. I can't do 'abstract' stuff, and I'm not good with people. This will be an interesting quarter.

[NbyNW]

Dear local company,

Please stop dragging your feet and decide if you want to make DH an offer. For one thing, you won't regret it. And for another, there really is another company on the other side of the country that is ready to deal. Thirdly, I really really really really really don't want to move again.

Just please try not to think about it too long. Pretty please?

Limbo is its own kind of hell.