Dear So and So

[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!

[jessmarimba]

Dear everyone with happy news:

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and Congrats!



Dear Owlie:
My sister literally lives 3 blocks from my guy - both are on the other side of the country. It's perfect for me because I can just walk back and forth to see both when I'm out there, but I really wish the two of them would make some mutual friends. It would really make my life easier!


Dear back:
I'm tired of this. I don't know what I did to aggravate you, but this is ridiculous. When I'm done with my book, I'm going to want to do stuff again so you have about 100 pages to learn to behave.

[Catrin]

Mimi - somehow I missed your Tour de Doughnuts with your DH, congratulations! This is so good to read

Jessmarimba's back, please listen to her and feel better!

[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.

[spokewench]

Didn't really want to start a thread on this so I'm putting it here. My wonderful father passed away at the age of 93 on Friday night. He lived in Tucson - 4 hours away and I was planning on travelling down on Saturday morning to see him, but he passed on Friday night.

I am very sad, but very glad that he only had about one week of not really being well enough to get up out of bed and communicate very well. He passed in his sleep and he is blessed that he did not have to suffer very long.

He was a loving and caring Dad and when I was a kid, he was always the one who supported me in all my sporting endeavors. I will miss you, Dad.

[indysteel]

Didn't really want to start a thread on this so I'm putting it here. My wonderful father passed away at the age of 93 on Friday night. He lived in Tucson - 4 hours away and I was planning on travelling down on Saturday morning to see him, but he passed on Friday night.

I am very sad, but very glad that he only had about one week of not really being well enough to get up out of bed and communicate very well. He passed in his sleep and he is blessed that he did not have to suffer very long.

He was a loving and caring Dad and when I was a kid, he was always the one who supported me in all my sporting endeavors. I will miss you, Dad.

((((Spokewrench)))). My sincerest condolences to you and your family. I hope you find comfort in the warm memories you have of him.

[Owlie]

Didn't really want to start a thread on this so I'm putting it here. My wonderful father passed away at the age of 93 on Friday night. He lived in Tucson - 4 hours away and I was planning on travelling down on Saturday morning to see him, but he passed on Friday night.

I am very sad, but very glad that he only had about one week of not really being well enough to get up out of bed and communicate very well. He passed in his sleep and he is blessed that he did not have to suffer very long.

He was a loving and caring Dad and when I was a kid, he was always the one who supported me in all my sporting endeavors. I will miss you, Dad.

My condolences, spokewench.

[marni]

Didn't really want to start a thread on this so I'm putting it here. My wonderful father passed away at the age of 93 on Friday night. He lived in Tucson - 4 hours away and I was planning on travelling down on Saturday morning to see him, but he passed on Friday night.

I am very sad, but very glad that he only had about one week of not really being well enough to get up out of bed and communicate very well. He passed in his sleep and he is blessed that he did not have to suffer very long.

He was a loving and caring Dad and when I was a kid, he was always the one who supported me in all my sporting endeavors. I will miss you, Dad.

Spikewrench,

I am so sorry for your loss. Take care of yourself and try to focus on the positive memories. While death is never looked for, but at least he went quickly which is a positive thing in its own way.

marni