Today was alright. I was afraid of it, the day my baby was due, but the sun shone and we had a lovely time. Me and DD had a haircut and a long walk through the woods. Then DH joined us for a picnic. It was a peaceful day. I'm grateful for it. I think I'll remember today for ever. I'm sorry you couldn't be with us, baby. We were thinking about you and wondering what you might have looked like. We love you anyway.
Love,
Mum, Dad and big sis
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I realize that it's in your best interest to stay inside me for another four weeks, but crikey, I really want you outside of me already. I have constant heartburn, can't sleep, am constantly cranky, have hot flashes, and have backaches. After all this, you'll be lucky if you ever have a sibling.
Zorro
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Dear Neffti,
Eek. I'm sorry I posted the above letter right after yours. I didn't realize it. Hugs and vibes...
Zorro
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You'd better not be getting sore when I'm down out of work with a bad back. You had just better not!
Me
Dear Back -
Shut. Up. Monday. Ok? just shut up until monday, and then I'll go get you shoved in a tube and we'll find out what's wrong, but until then, just cram it!
The tenant
Dear Brest -
That's it cat. I give up. You're feral, I get it. You hate me, I get it. You want me and everyone else on the planet to die. Alright, I get it. However, you're fast shortening your projected lifespan, because I cannot in any conscience, give you to someone else knowing how violent you are. I also cannot release you on my Uncle Paul's farm, as you are not spayed. I also cannot get you spayed, because for some reason no one, not even the feral cat rescues, will touch you. And I can't find a "trap, spay, and release" program down here, or I would sock you into it faster than you could spit at me.
Look, for the good of yourself, and the skin of my legs, could you calm down and realize that I am NOT Bad People? Please? I don't like failing at this sort of thing.
The monkey who feeds you
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Always good to hear about the Zorrling, even if he/she is being a bit of a tricky tenant at the moment! No worries at all. Hugs to you on the last lap - you'll be great.
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Dear DD,
Your first day at preschool starts in about an hour. You are so excited about making friends, and you look a peach in your new shiny shoes and jacket. That's my girl!
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OK, what set you off this time? Huh? We only get a cold sore when we have been under intense stress or badly sun burned. We have been in neither situation, so what's the freaking deal?
I hate cold sores.
signed, Me, with the fat lip
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Dear lady at the place I interviewed with who really likes me,
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! You said you'd fight for me to get this job, and I was surprised and delighted after the second part of the interview, which you weren't involved with, went so poorly. I hope you can convince those who matter to go with me as I'd REALLY love to work with your company. Please do your best to pull for me! And thank you for liking me so much and thinking that I'd be perfect for the position!
Hopefully your future employee, Syllavus
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LLO, is the problem with getting her spayed and releasing her the cost? There are some low cost spay/neuter progs in Dallas : http://www.lovethatcat.com/spayneuter.html#tx If they're not interested, and the main problem is that you don't have extra spay-the-feral-kitty money just now, PM me, OK?
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Dear Boss, I saved your bacon again. This time in a situation that really was of no benefit to me to do so. I think we need to start talking about a raise. I mean, everyone talking about how brilliant I am is nice, but it doesn't buy many flip-flops.
Please know I am glad to help. But I am beginning to operate at a level even farther above my pay grade than usual. In fact, the title you gave me on your presentation on Tuesday would work well. That is an actual UNM title, and it is two pay grades above what I am currently receiving. Which should mean a 20% raise.
Best, TGirl
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quote:Originally posted by Chloe: LLO, is the problem with getting her spayed and releasing her the cost? There are some low cost spay/neuter progs in Dallas : http://www.lovethatcat.com/spayneuter.html#tx If they're not interested, and the main problem is that you don't have extra spay-the-feral-kitty money just now, PM me, OK?
The cost is a factor, but she's also just plain not my cat. I'm trying to help out my business partner's mother. He's going to have to talk to her first and convince her (because she's more or less convinced that we're just not trying hard enough and Brest is a perfectly normal, sweet cat who's just a little skittish. Or something. I don't know) that what we're doing just isn't working. She was alright for as long as she was in heat, and now that she's not anymore, she's gone back to trying to attack when I enter or leave the room. Oddly enough I can sit in there without a problem. Make a move, however...
And I've made phone call after phone call, and all I'm told is "We're not accepting...." and I can't stuff her in a carrier and just show up with her. The last time we did that, she drew blood. And if I hadn't been wearing a chain glove, it would have been LOTS of blood...
ETA: And I sincerely appreciate the offer, but Banfield (Our normal clinic) I'm about 99% certain won't take her to spay her the way she is right now. I'll call them again in the morning and ask if they have a procedure, I suppose.
ETA2: Well, I managed to reach them before they close. They'll do it, but they'll charge their normal rate *ouch*. They also require an evaluation to determine if she's healthy enough for the operation. Yikes. Good luck to them...
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S, you damned idiot! You just totally blew it! I set up you and your wife to come to town and spend the weekend with us through her for a reason! She can keep a secret! You obviously cannot!
Thanks for getting drunk and blowing the surprise party, butthead.
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I agree. Send it. But don't mention the flip-flops! Mention all the crap you've done & then some. You deserve it girl!
M.
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My mom phoned me tonight to tell my that my cousin has just been told she may have lung cancer. She never smoked a day in her life but unfortunately for her she married Mr Pack A Day. You selfish bastard. I hope you're feeling guilty right now. So much for your theory that smoking doesn't hurt anyone but yourself huh? JERK.
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I know you like to challenge yourself, but doing something new on a project that has to be put together in 2 weeks is a bad idea. Freaking out about it and actually making R get irritated is even worse. When R asks you again what you've learned from this experience this might be the thing you want to take to heart.
Your student-sister
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Dear E (not my husband):
You're a nice guy, and I am glad R took you into the househiold, but in the name of the gods could you please starting planning ahead a bit better? We just drove out to R and A's house, because everyone figured you wouldn't be stopping there tonight only to find out that you guys were there. It's nice I don't have to get up early tomorrow to let their dogs out, but it would've been nice to know we could skip the drive tonight.
Your uhm. . .elder sibling of sorts
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Please let this child come home safely. There have been too many tradegys lately. http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/AmberAlerts/trenton_duckett.html I just saw on Nancy Grace that Jessica Lundsford's father is helping in the search. God bless that man! ETA: now they are saying that after the taping of the show his mom's melindas body has been found at her grandparents house LINK edited name & added links
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Dear M, I know it's been a hard month (okay officially on the 11th) but we did it. You cold turkey and me with the help of drugs and a patch. We're nonsmokers baby and it feels good!
WTF? You threatened to bitchslap that look off my face when I gave you the Glare of Death after you let your kid PEE ON MY FENCE?
Give it a rest already! You let your kid pee on my fence. WTF were you thinking? Who does that, other than you? I mean, I can see letting the kid pee in a vacant lot, or on the side of the road, if he just can't hold it anymore. He was a rather small kid, I get it. Had you let him pee on my easement? I wouldn't have had a problem.
But letting him pee on my FENCE?!? Jeebus lady, would you let him pee on YOUR fence? I highly doubt it, but you figured that since it was someone else's property, you could be just as rude and disrespectful as possible?
The next time I see you, you and I will be having words. And they won't be pleasant.
No Love Here,
Ms. 'may you have to pee on a 100 mile stretch of road with no rest stops, lady' K
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I would love to attend these final organising committee meetings, really I would. However, I need to be told about it more than two hours in advance. I mean, I chalked the first time it happened up to forgetfulness; I was a bit put out the second time it occurred; this was the third time you expected me to drop my plans to cater to you! You have my phone number. You have my email address. I live - literally - 30 seconds from the office. Really, I'm not that hard to track down. A little advance notice is all I need!
Miss "Believe it or not I do have a life outside this conference" Elaineous
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Dear parents, S1, M, J, C, A, S2, and everyone else I've been ranting to for the past several months,
Thank you so much for listening to me. I'm usually not such a negative person, but this job and dealing with these people has me completely stressed out. It's so nice to have friends and family members like you, ready to lend a sympathetic ear so I can get this anger and frustration out of my system. It will all be over in two weeks, and I am planning to thank you properly with lots of chocolate and alcohol.
Miss "You guys are the best!" Elaineous
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Dear Self,
Congratulations on standing up for yourself yesterday. It's a good first step.
Miss "No longer the department's doormat" Elaineous
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A letter I do intend to send, after I tone it down, and probably addressed to the hospital administrators instead.....
Dear nurses,
Holy crap, you guys suck beyond all belief! I am so sorry that my father decided to die around a shift change. But I swear to God, if you had gotten in that room one more time and reduced our mother to tears trying to rush the process, we would have ripped you a new a$$hole in the middle of your ****ing foreheads. We were waiting for my brother, who my SIL was tracking down in the field doing chores, and then who was hauling ass down the highway to get there in time, so that maybe, just maybe, Dad could die surrounded by as much of his family that he loved as possible. I don't know how we could have possibly made that more clear.
And guess what. We're not idiots. We can feel a freaking pulse, I can feel him squeezing my hand, we can see him watching Mom, we can see the tears in his eyes that weren't there before you started making mom literally hyperventilate, we can see him taking the extra breaths between the pulses of the bipap, hell, we can read the freaking heart monitor! So now, of COURSE we would not allow you to unook him! ****ing vultures.
And now, to work out Snopes bad-word filter a bit more, you mother****ing c***sucking a$$hole bitches, I hope you are plagued with boils! What I WON'T wish on you is that someone does the same to you on YOUR deathbed, because everyone should be allowed to die with dignity. Which you almost robbed our father of.
You're damned lucky my sister and I are forceful enough to protect our mother and father in their grief in Dad's final moments. But I will always resent that half of my final moments were spent looking at the corner of my eye at the door, in case I needed to head you off again to slam another door in your prying, insensitive faces.
This may be a hospital, but death can also be a private family moment if the family wants it that way. I would think working in the ward you worked in, you would realize that some moments are more important than a freaking shift change. We were with Dad, we were peaceful, we were accepting of the process we saw playing out in front of us, and you barged into the middle of us, threw us to the side, and brought Mom to tears AGAIN. Maybe y'all need to go through some sensitivity training or something.
Oh, and to the nurse AFTER shift change, you were perfectly lovely. Thank you for allowing us all of the time with Dad we needed that those on the shift before you weren't willing to give, and thank you for letting us wait for our brother to remove everything Dad was hooked to. We know Dad indeed passed before L2 got there, no matter how hard he tried to hold on for his only son, but we wanted... I don't know what we wanted, but L2 did better seeing the everything removed rather than showing up to nothing.
Most sincerely,
The youngest child of an amazing man
Dear Dawn,
You missed it. You missed seeing Dad before he passed, and you missed his funeral. I don't know what to say to that. I'm shocked that this inexplicable grudge (do you even know what you were holding against Mom anymore? Cause certainly none of the rest of us could ever figure it out, we had about the best mother anyone could hope for) of yours played into comlpetely missing your father.
I know part of it is because we had trouble even locating you, given how you seem to be constantly moving.
Listen, we all love you no matter what. And you have your own reasons for everything. I suppose I'm a little shocked those reasons outlived Dad.
He's buried in the same cemetery as our grandparents, Dink, and Aunt Florence, if you ever want to visit. The one not far from Uncle Phil J's house.
Love ya, Dawn. I'll always remember you reading me fairy tales at night, teaching me how to play the clarinet, going to your place to play after school, visiting you at college, being the typical annoying littlest sister to ya.
If you ever want to talk, Answer L1's letter. She has my new address and phone. I won't ever ask "why," I promise.
Love, PNJ
Edited to add in a little bad-word filter of my own, since the Snopes filter didn't cover a word I thought it would.
Edited again to clarify for her which Uncle Phil, because long story why, but we have three.
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quote:Originally posted by Morgaine La Raq Star: BTW, if DS stays in the program, with any luck, we'll be going to our first Jamboree in 2010, the 100th anniversary of Scouting.
You'll have a blast! Perhaps I'll see you there since I've already been invited to be staff again.
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Dear S.R., Anecdotes do not equal "data". I looked up the "correlation" between ADHD, autism, antibiotics, and tonsils and found...nothing. So unless you, or someone else, can provide me with conclusive medical reports that say otherwise, I don't quite believe it. It isn't known what causes autism. I used to have a friend that has identical twin sisters with different degrees of autism. And the concept of autism and ADHD being more prominent since doctors haven't been removing tonsils as often as they used to? Maybe it's that more children are being diagnosed correctly (or there's a lot of misdiagnoses). That children aren't just diagnosed as "retarded", but with something in the autism spectrum. Just because your brother had been diagnosed with autism, then those "symptoms" cleared up after he took antibiotics for strep throat, doesn't mean that much unless it's conclusive that there's a correlation. I'm not going to come right out and be like "I didn't find any evidence to prove it", but remember- I like to research anything that I'm skeptical about.
-Mickey
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Correlation doesn't equal causation either - just in case you need more fuel for your entirely justified fire.
Dear Universe,
First I drag myself all the way across the country for a job, and get fired after 6 months because I wasn't a good fit. I tried not to be the victim and to take responsibility for what I could with that, but there's only so much responsibility I could take when my boss didn't communicate about what she wanted, except to say that she didn't like people asking too many questions. I tried to do what she wanted, but I didn't learn it fast enough, I guess. I'll never really know.
So now D (the fiance) starts a job that's supposed to become permanent after a 3 month temporary term. Then he gets fired, not by the people he's working for, but through the temp company. Obstensibly for a typo. A typo? A NFBSK typo? He's the web designer, not the editor.
So, universe, I think it's understandable why I'm so worried about getting fired from my current job. I realize that if I create that, that's what'll happen, so I'm trying to be in action.
But it's hard, and I'm scared. I just want a little faith that things'll work out okay, and that money will continue to come in.
I'm not even asking for a tons of moola, just enough to be able to get a condo and have kids someday soon...
--Beth
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You were awesome. Thanks for making me less worried about that course and that test.
~The first to arrive to class.
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quote:Originally posted by Loyhargil: A letter I do intend to send, after I tone it down, and probably addressed to the hospital administrators instead.....
I'd send it as is. In my experience, medical personnel can be souless and unfeeling. The medical trials of you or your loved ones are just part of the job to them.
Show no mercy, take no prisoners and have no regrets. They deserve it.
ETA: The hospital should have a patient's rights advocate or a patient representative. Whatever the title is, their job is to help resolve disputes between patients and the hospital. Send a copy of the letter to them to.
It also helps to mention local newspapers and tv stations. They get really tense when you start talking about investigative reporters and such.
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Dear Lady who cut my hair, How many different ways would I have had to say, "I don't want bangs, long or otherwise" for you to actually LISTEN?? I asked for the ENDS to be layered, and for NO interior layers. My hair looks like crap, and in order to fix it I'd have to cut off a year and a half's worth of growth. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and go home and style it myself to see if I liked it, but it still sucks. I got my money back, and I will NEVER be coming to the freaking Hair Cuttery you work at again. Seriously, when I said, "I'm picky about my hair, I need the best cutter you have, who is it?", the correct answers was CLEARLY not "Everybody".
No Love, CQ
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quote:Originally posted by CherryQueen: Dear Lady who cut my hair, How many different ways would I have had to say, "I don't want bangs, long or otherwise" for you to actually LISTEN?? I asked for the ENDS to be layered, and for NO interior layers. My hair looks like crap, and in order to fix it I'd have to cut off a year and a half's worth of growth. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and go home and style it myself to see if I liked it, but it still sucks. I got my money back, and I will NEVER be coming to the freaking Hair Cuttery you work at again. Seriously, when I said, "I'm picky about my hair, I need the best cutter you have, who is it?", the correct answers was CLEARLY not "Everybody".
No Love, CQ
Don't forget to mention that you will be telling everyone what a horrible experience you had and that they should NEVER go there themselves. Word of mouth is usually the best and worst kind of advertisement.
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quote:Originally posted by CherryQueen: Dear Lady who cut my hair, How many different ways would I have had to say, "I don't want bangs, long or otherwise" for you to actually LISTEN?? I asked for the ENDS to be layered, and for NO interior layers. My hair looks like crap, and in order to fix it I'd have to cut off a year and a half's worth of growth. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and go home and style it myself to see if I liked it, but it still sucks. I got my money back, and I will NEVER be coming to the freaking Hair Cuttery you work at again. Seriously, when I said, "I'm picky about my hair, I need the best cutter you have, who is it?", the correct answers was CLEARLY not "Everybody".
No Love, CQ
Oh crimeny, I have empathy for you. I hate it when people won't listen, or when they just don't freaking know what they're doing. I actually heard "oops!" during a pixie cut once. There's so little hair to work with, "oops" is not a phrase you want to hear. That took a lot of gel and creative combing to cover until the hair in the bald spot grew out. Ugh!
And Darth Mikey,
I may just end up doing that. I've gotta get some time to grieve a bit more first. I want to make sure I sound pissed and not shrill, and I'm not sure I've quite got myself together enough for that yet.
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Thank you so much for scaring the crap out of my Yellow-Bellied-Scaredy-Bunny! When Rosie gets scared, she thumps her back feet. I'm glad that neither of you woke the kids. They are cranky enough as it is! Oh and the combined shock of the sharp snap of thunder and the thumping of bunny feet scared the crap out of poor Lemon Drop who was laying with the Rosie at the time! So think about this. Loud thunder + Scared bunny = Kitty claws in my body when he ran to me for protection.
Signed, Me
Dear snopesters,
This is just too cute to not post. Get out your insulin!
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Dear Organic Chemistry, I cannot understand you without the reccommended Molecular Model Sets, yet they go for 50 bucks on Amazon.com...why must college be so freakin expensive???
Sincerely, Your poor slave...that wants to be a doctor
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