Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear 11 Year Old Student,

I am so proud of how you have turned yourself around since this meeting. I really thought it was going to be a waste of my time and nothing was going to change. I am THRILLED that I was wrong. Your attitude has been so much better, and you have taken responsibility for your self and your learning. You have become exactly the kind of student I knew you could be.

I'll admit, how you perch in your chair still drives me nuts . But it's a small price to pay to see you smiling, happy and eager to learn.

Your very happy teacher

Dear prof--
I'm trying to answer your questions. I really am. But I cannot find a third characteristic. I've searched 4 or 5 papers--far more than I should need to for an UNGRADED project--and I cannot find anything. Unless you mean that the fact that the two characteristics that I've already come up with leave obvious marks is in itself a characteristic.

[Bethany1]

Dear Cat,

While cleaning up fabric, I realized you had peed all over it. I had wondered why you were pawing around the past couple of days but didn't think much of it.

Out of curiosity since you do this by bed and have a pile of cycling clothes I checked them and that it was indeed a litter box.

Why did you do this? DH is ready to toss you out into the cold because of it.

What's up buddy? You okay?

At least I know why my bedroom smells funny now and my house. Eww.

Are my cycling clothes ruined and will washing them get rid of the urine? I'm heading to Lincoln tomorrow so if there's something via Petsmart or Petco let me know.


The Mom

[goldfinch]

Are my cycling clothes ruined and will washing them get rid of the urine? I'm heading to Lincoln tomorrow so if there's something via Petsmart or Petco let me know.


The Mom

You could try an enzyme cleaner. They have stuff like that at Petco/Petsmart. I'd dump it on full strength. Let it sit for a bit. Then wash.

[malkin]

We did the enzyme cleaner stuff on bike clothes and everything else when (the late) Tiger T. Cat made it necessary. I think he was letting me know that using piles on the floor as an organizational strategy had gotten out of hand. It really did encourage me to keep the place picked up after that.

[Bethany1]

Got everything cleaned up. Hopefully he starts doing better. It doesn't appear to be a UTI as of now.

Dear Public School,

I am tired of you asking for money for everything. Last week my kids came home saying they needed money for their sheet music and lunch for some college thing the day before this trip. This ended up costing me 35 dollars total.

A couple of weeks before I had to buy sheet music for a Disney theme choir show for your stupid fundraiser that charged 20 dollars a ticket. I don't have 40 dollars for my DH and I to give away.

My son came home needing money for nice restaurants (15+ dollars) for the honor choir trip for lunch and dinner for two two separate days that same week. What happened to McD's? While I'm glad the choir made 1st, I'm broke.

What happened to a sheet of paper that I need to sign and give money before my kids go on a trip a week or more before? That's how it worked when I was a kid.



Dear Loud-Mouthed Old Lady,

Call me whatever you want, but I meant it when I said "Geez lady, Shut up because no one cares" after you kept harassing the assistant manager while I making my purchase.

From,

the Lady Who Said What Everyone Else Wanted to Say



I just made sure to get out of the parking lot ASAP because I knew she'd be crazy enough to ram into my car or follow me around town. She did follow me out yelling something I couldn't make out but I was in the car before she could do anything.

My DD said the manager's jaw dropped and he about fell over in laughter as she tried not to die of embarrassment right behind me.

I get customer service and retail, but no manager should have to deal with crazy customers like this.


Dear Nature's Miracle Cat Cleaner,

This stuff is awesome. My house smells so much better.

From,

Able To Breathe Now

[Crankin]

Bethany,
Are you OK?
Please pardon my big mouth, but you sound stressed and irritable.

[Trek420]

Dear so called management at the company I've been happy to work for these umpteen years,

You've insulted a friend when two of you joked about her weight and called her fat. It's unprofessional, rude, and possibly fireable at your level. You've truly exceeded your level of competence. It's rude, mean, uncalled for and so against policy it's not funny.

[Bethany1]

Bethany,
Are you OK?
Please pardon my big mouth, but you sound stressed and irritable.

I've been stressed for about a month. It's like everything hit at once and my body and mind hasn't adjusted. Between my basement flooding, not having heat for 3 days, schools begging for money, anxiety/depression, a significant drop in income and the last straw was finding my cat had (has been) peed all over my cycling clothes has me completely frazzled. I had washed them a couple of times and they still reeked of cat urine. I lashed out at the lady in the pet store only because I was trying to purchase cat cleaner and couldn't think straight with her yelling at the manager who was doing my sale.

Turns out apple cider vinegar mixed with laundry detergent does the trick and my cycling clothes are back to normal. At least I feel better about that.

Today the weather was nice and doing about 2 miles before my body gave out helped with the stress. I'm wondering if I have exercise induced asthma and need to see a doc. Either that or I somehow manage to burn through energy so fast I bonk and don't know why. I have a love/hate relationship with cycling.