Is it OLW time yet?

blabla89

Hey apartment,

You better clean yourself because ain't nobody got time for that.

Kisses,
Girl with too much to do
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Dear Grandma,

I'm so excited that you're coming here to go dress shopping with me! This weekend is going to be SO. MUCH. FUN. Just please don't judge my apartment for not being spotless.

Love,
favorite granddaughter
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Dear FI's office,

Please stop making FI work 7 day weeks with no overtime. It's not cool. Nobody likes you anyway.

Sincerely,
Lala

Peaseblossom55

FI,

23 days!!! OMG can't wait to call you my husband.  Sorry if I'm freaking out over details.

Love,

Your FI

Dear sister,

Yay thank you for making me an aunt again.  Really excited for you.

Love,

Second time Aunt

Dear wedding,

Can you just plan the rest of this yourself I'd appreciate it a lot.  I could really use a Franck right about now.

Love,

Stresed Bride

Work,

The next 3 weeks or so are going to be hell, aren't they? Too much to get done in a short period of time.  Please be kind to me..... and let me get through everything relatively unscathed. 

Thanks,

Stressed employee

[Deleted User]

Dear QT and Racetrack,

I think your coffee is better than starbucks! I love you! And...you also have a frozen yogurt bar which I think is awesome!

Dear H,

Yay for getting a Summer job while you're on break! I can't wait for you bring home some yummy bbq from CUE!

Dear lawn,

You need to be mowed...by H.

Dear puppy place,

Please have healthy puppies for us to take home!

ETA: spelling

Blue & White

Dear pee stick,

Thanks for telling me a little Blue or White isn't in the cards currently, but could you maybe have a chat with my period and tell me where the hell it has been in the last two months?!

-I swear I have a doctor's appt next Tuesday

Dear new doctor,

You better be awesome.  I told H: I need a doctor that is both REALLY smart and REALLY nice.  It is NOT okay to be medium in either category.  I will not be your best patient, but I promise I will be an interesting patient and very proactive in my healthcare.  I will also leave your practice if you are an a-hole.  So please please please live up to your reviews!

-I have really bad white coat syndrome and most white coats have never even heard of my skin condition...

Dear hubs,

Good luck at the retina specialist today!  I hope your retinas are doing swell and that your cataract didn't get worse.

-Aren't you only 28?!  I think I married a grandpa

Dear Barack,

You are very wordy in this breaking news announcement.  What I would say is "Dear VA, you are sucking at your jobs.  I can't wait to fire at least a quarter of you and hire about 10000 more people to fix this shit.  Or just revamp the whole problem.  Because obviously the VA has always had problems.  And we need to fix this.  But less wordily."

-My tv turned right to this announcement

Dear world,

If you want to hire me, I'm an awesome employee.

-me

Dear crazy homeowner,

I would love if you accepted our counter even though it's way the heck lower than your counter.  That's because your counter was stupid, and even our realtor thinks you don't want to sell the house.

-Just trying to get you tons of money for your home, duh.

Blue & White

@southernpeach89 congrats to the hubs!  It can be hard to get a summer job as a teacher when they know you're gonna leave at the end of the summer   And yay bbq!!

@peaseblossom55 yaaaay so soon!!  cannot wait!

@lalalaurita ugh 7 days a week of working does not sound fun   Do you even get to see him?!

[Deleted User]

@Blue- One of his teacher friends is actually the bartender at the restaurant so he got a really good rec from her. He wants to go back to school in the Fall to get a leadership degree so this job will basically be saving for that.

LizzyTish88

Dear BF's Mom,

You still suck.

No love.

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Dear home,

I love you. For reals, love you. Thank you for being just what we needed. Now if you only cleaned yourself, we'd never leave!

Happy Homeowner!

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Dear BF,

The period from Hell is over. Prepare for all the sex.

It's been way to long!

blabla89

@Blue just barely. It's not ever week, but when there's a major release or update to the company's website it's always done on the weekend. The frustrating part is that FI had no idea this was what he was getting into.

@southernpeach89 high fives to your H!

Peaseblossom55

@Blue Yay thanks for being excited for me.  I can't wait! I can't believe it's almost here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yup it needed that many exclamation points) Also good luck on the counter offer I hope it works out.

Blue & White

@southernpeach89 that's awesome.  I don't know if I'd want to be involved in school leadership in the traditional ways (principal, assistant principal, etc.) but I think I'd be awesome as a math specialist or something.  I obviously need to get a teaching job FIRST but that's a someday goal of mine   As long as I don't lose the students.

[Deleted User]

@Blue- You will find one! Math teachers are a big need! H is a special ed math teacher and next Fall 2015 they are moving him to Special Ed Department Head which is really cool! He eventually wants to become the principal of either a high school or middle school but that probably wont be in the works for another 5 years or so.

GoldenPenguin

Dear Maine,

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU ON FRIDAY!! 

Love,

Maineiac

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Dear BF,

You are the best thing that's ever happened to me. I don't know what I would do without your unwavering love, support, encouragement, and snuggles. I'm not sure how I got so damn lucky, but I couldn't be happier that I did. I'm so glad I get to spend the rest of my life with you in it.

AAAALLLL the loves,

Me

PS Ring? Please? :-D

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Dear @swazzle, @buddysmom80, @csousa1, and @hummingbird125,

SOOOON!! I can't wait to kiss each and every one of you, square on the mouth.

Love,

Me

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Dear self,

Minus four pounds!! Keep it up, hot stuff.

Love,

Self

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Dear @cu97tiger,

Thank you. You know why.  

Love,

Not even a little BSC. NOPE.

phira

Dear legs,

Get geared up! We're still going running today, even if I feel like puking!

Signed,

Owner and proprietor

Dear photographer,

I am a little frustrated that you need to reschedule, but YAAAAY that you're about to become a parent! Best reschedule reason ever.

Best wishes,

A client who wishes that we were besties

Dear PI,

I am going to be meeting with you soonish to tell you that my experiment did not work. I have been dreading this meeting for 24 hours. Please make my dread be entirely unreasonable.

Sincerely,

Someone who can totally do science, I promise

Dear American public education system,

While I fully believe that you should only hire qualified instructors to teach, and that being an expert in a field does not make you a good teacher, I wish a master's in education weren't a necessity. I just can't afford the degree.

Best,

A huge fan of teaching

Blue & White

@phira a masters in education is sometimes not good enough to teach in certain fields without a teaching certification in addition to it (this seems odd, but it is what it is.)  Good luck with your PI!!  I know those meetings can be a bit on the stressful side (actually, an old coworker just told me that working in our lab was by far her hardest job ever.)

@goldenpenguin I've always wanted to go to Maine!  I need to get on that  

GoldenPenguin

Blue & White said:

@phira a masters in education is sometimes not good enough to teach in certain fields without a teaching certification in addition to it (this seems odd, but it is what it is.)  Good luck with your PI!!  I know those meetings can be a bit on the stressful side (actually, an old coworker just told me that working in our lab was by far her hardest job ever.)

@goldenpenguin I've always wanted to go to Maine!  I need to get on that  

Maine is the best. Growing up, I couldn't wait to get out, but now, I would NEVER change growing up there for anything, and going back to visit is one of my most favorite things. Plus, Maine is like a "thing" now (I just saw a tourism commercial on TV here last night. It was so strange), so everyone thinks I'm super cool for being from there, haha. 

Blue & White

@goldenpenguin exactly! I would never give Maine a second chance but one of my friend's mom's (I'm closer to the mom than the friend honestly) grew up there with her awesome Italian mom and sisters and it's just so dang beautiful!  That was my favorite part of Ashley's Bachelorette season cause I mean...she was from Maine.  Of course, not anymore because she's nuts.  I mean, Jersey/Philly area is cool, but details.  And yea, along a similar vein - the Space Coast of FL (where I live) has put TONS of money into advertising to attract more tourists...so the whole Uhaul drive from VA to here, we saw a million signs for our town.  Which honestly, has no tourist attractions at all besides a beach.  It's crazy how tourism is being used to bring people to these random places!  I mean...we have one of the biggest birdwatching festivals in the country, but...most people aren't birdwatchers

phira

@goldenpenguin Maine is great. One of my fellow grad students is from Maine, and I used to go up every summer for camp (in Washington; I loved field trips to Camden, and we'd also go to an arts fair every summer). My coworker is from York Harbor--I can't believe he commutes to Boston, but I totally understand why he's not moving for a better commute. These days, I'm usually not up in Maine, but J's family drives through to get to Nova Scotia every summer.

@Blue Fortunately, the meeting went okay. My PI entirely forgot that I *had* done this particular protocol with my coworker's cell lines, and shown that I could get the protocol working. So it might honestly be my cells. And I was the one who suggested using her cells as a positive control. He likes when I come to meetings with specific suggestions about what to do next. So, that's good at least.

Blue & White

@phira it was always a good thing when my PI suggested something and I had already done it, haha.  Excellent job   Hope your cells start behaving soon!  I worked with E coli so they were pretty good at behaving as long as I used the right strains

CLoGreenEyes

Dear feelings,

STOP IT WITH THE EMOTIONAL AEROBICS! YOU ARE KILLING ME!

Sincerely,
Sometimes I hate being an INFJ

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Dear boss,

I think you're an awesome manager for the most part, but please. Have you considered lithium? These periods of you being all moody and then snapping into four billion unnecessary projects at once are not working for me.

Love,
Your favorite aide

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Dear college reunion,

Please be fun and not weird. I have a feeling C and I will be fielding some questions from people we haven't seen in a while, and that's gonna be tough. It'll be great to see all my friends in one place, though.

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Dear work phone,

For the love of God, stop ringing when I'm trying to eat my lunch! I am hungry!

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Dear OR job I'm about to apply to,

Please be the one, you sound amazing!!

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Dear @peaseblossom55, aggghhhhh, getting so close! I'm so excited for you!

Hummingbird125

Dear @swazzle, @buddysmom80, @csousa1, and @goldenpenguin

I cannot wait to see you all and sip yummy drinks and attempt to eat pickle dip!!!!!!

3.5 weeks!

xoxo,

me

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Dear @Swazzle,

I hope we can have a puppy play date this weekend - that would be awesome!

Love,

Me and Kaya

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Dear FI,

You're hot and sweet and smart and funny. And hot. I freaking love the shit out of you and cannot WAIT to see you at the end of the aisle. Thanks for giving me an amazing massage last night. I'm sorry it made me too relaxed and sleepy to do what you really had in mind, but that's just the chance you take sometimes! 

Please force me to go running with you this evening and at least 3 times a week until I look like a supermodel. K Thanks.

Love you!

Your fiancanance

P.S. Did I mention you're hot?

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Dear annoying friend,

Get over yourself. I don't know what in life makes you think you deserve the things you do, but it needs to stop. You are not a special snowflake. Also - people don't get what they deserve in life, they get what they get. 

I don't get why you're not single.

Sincerely,

Your secret frenemy

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Peaseblossom55

@CLoGreenEyes thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

KeptInStitches

Dear research,

We're to the new, novel, and significant part of my research!! Yay!

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Dear dermatologist,

The meds you want FI to take are really scary. Are you sure they're the only ones possible?

Concerned FI

lmcooper86

Dear work,

UGH. Do yourself, I do not care about you right now.

No love, employee who feels slacky

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Dear clients,

You are annoying the shit out of me these days. What is wrong with you? If I could call you special snowflakes over the phone I absolutely would.

No love for you either

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Dear BF,

You are hilarious. You bought be the TK magazine because I was cranky and you know I am on this site. You're just the sweetest and I love you.

All the loves, lmc

Blue & White

@keptinstitches My derm once suggested Accutane. I said "ummm no". Most derm medicines are scary as crap, in my opinion. Since the stomach disaster of summer '13, I've been adamant in only using topical medications if at all possible. My skin is doing worse than it was with antibiotics, but I am FEELING so much more like a human. I hope whatever your FI is on will be short-lived and help him quickly so he can get back to normal! @lmcooper86 it always bothers me that wedding magazines are like 90% ads lol. amazingly, I don't notice this as much with other non-wedding magazines.

KeptInStitches

@blue, they actually want to put him on methotrexate, which comes with a long terrifying list of side effects. His arms are in bad shape, but I don't know if it's a good idea to take that.

GoldenPenguin

KeptInStitches said:

@blue, they actually want to put him on methotrexate, which comes with a long terrifying list of side effects. His arms are in bad shape, but I don't know if it's a good idea to take that.

This was a drug in one of my sister's chemo treatments when she had leukemia. You don't even want to see my face right now.

GoldenPenguin

Also, what on his arms are they trying to treat? 

Blue & White

@keptinstitches i dunno if this works on arms...but has he tried clobetasol yet?  I have that for my scalp psoriasis that barely ever flares up, but when it does, I just do that for like 2 weeks and it goes away for months.  Of course, usually you just have to basically go with whatever the doc suggests   But just googling the side effects doesn't make me want to take methotrexate...at all.  it's definitely a personal decision, though.  I told my doc "hellz no" to the Accutane and we went a different direction.

KeptInStitches

@GoldenPenguin, they're trying to treat psoriasis and eczema.

@blue, I don't know if he's on clobetasol or not off the top of my head. I'll ask him.

ETA: He is, but I can verify it is not effective at this time. Just by seeing his hands/arms.

evadorrough

Dear plane tickets,

Stop getting more expensive!  I cannot buy you until BF finalizes his plans, so I have been helplessly watching you go up in price over the last few weeks.  

No love,

Girl who just wants to start planning this trip already

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Dear work,

Do yourself, please.  I have no motivation.

Signed,

Over this job

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Dear shoes that shipped over a week ago,

Get here already, I want you on my feet!

Love,

Your future owner

Blue & White

@keptinstitches that stinks.  I knew clobetasol is kinda an old first resort (I actually had to ask my last derm for it cause what he was suggesting wasn't working) but it works for me and is so much easier than his other option so I thought I'd throw it out there.  Lame.  I'm pretty sure that my new doc on Tuesday is just going to be like "oh yea, you should see a derm" because docs are lame.  I just want a primary care doc that is capable of addressing stupid stuff like ear infections AND more important stuff like chronic illnesses, derm or not.  I will see a derm obviously, but I want to be able to go to my primary if I have an issue and not wait over a week to get into my derm.