Dear So and So

[indysteel]

I like number 6 on your list, Emily! Lol!

[Crankin]

They sound like super azzholes to me.

[Catrin]

They sound like super azzholes to me.

Yep - and she obviously didn't expect you to respond to her. Not that anything good would have come out of that...

[emily_in_nc]

Yep - and she obviously didn't expect you to respond to her. Not that anything good would have come out of that...

Exactly. As I rode away shaking my head I said (under my breath). "Yes we do, B*TCH." Not loud enough for her to hear, but I have to admit, it did bother me for the first half of the ride, for some reason. I realized I shouldn't give a rat's azz what a clueless loser like her thought, so I moved on to more productive thinking for the rest of the ride, while filing the experience away to add to this thread later.

Ignorant people who think they know it all just irk the he** out of me, though. Thanks for the support, friends!

[Pax]

Dear Weather Gods,

More snow, seriously? Just stop it.

Thanks,

Ready for summer

[Catrin]

(I somehow posted this in the meals thread, unsure how that happened, so am moving it here where it belonged)

It is sad to lose two special women in a week's time. Both are in my church, and indeed I was present when they were formally brought into the Orthodox Church, both were over 70 at the time. These ladies were like my surrogate mom and aunt, and one of them just remarried less than a year ago! One was buried last Friday, the other died that same day and her funeral was yesterday. They will be sorely missed, two classy ladies with a kind word and generous heart for everyone they met and were more alive and vibrant than many half their age. I aspire to be like them should I live so long!

[skhill]

And on the topic of funerals... I didn't know the gentleman well, just to say hi and chat a bit at coffee hour at church. But everyone who knew Charlie knew his dog Bitsy (an elderly black lab). He didn't bring her to church on Sundays, but did to his bible study on Tuesdays! Bitsy was included among the survivors in the obituary in the newspaper, and quietly sat in her reserved pew at the funeral this morning. She even came forward at communion, and received a blessing.

There was something else notable at the funeral: a pair of armed, uniformed fish and wildlife officers. Charlie had been a lifelong hunter, and had long worked with the dept of fish and wildlife on a variety of programs, so the officers had the honor of carrying the urn. Guns and a dog in the cathedral, what a day. And there are supposed to be real live camels showing up for Epiphany tomorrow...