What's Cooking?
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: Open Letter Tuesday
Dear People I Know:
Please stop asking me if I'm going to keep Katie home with me once I start working from home. Would you be able to do your job effectively if you had a toddler in your office? No? Well, neither can I. Just because I'm not physically going into an office every day doesn't mean I'm not going to be working. Do you think I'm going to be sitting on the couch watching TV all day? Not to mention the fact that she absolutely loves school and is learning so much being there. It wouldn't be fair to either of us if she was home with me.
Thanks a million.
Signed a woman who didn't believe her new boss when he said people have misguided notions of what working from home means but now knows better (and hasn't even started doing it yet!!!)
Dear DH,
I don't appreciate that you say things so confidently that I believe you, and then it turns out you were way off from what you originally said. You got me all excited about our vacation and in a matter of a few hours, all of our fun plans have been shattered and now we're going to be sitting in a cabin all week with your family member that you don't even want to spend "too much time" with.
Get your facts straight before you tell me stuff.
Your,
Upset that she doesn't get to tour Alcatraz wife
Dear co-irkers,
Stop being rude. I do not appreciate you standing at my desk (next to my chair!), only to talk to the person who sits across from me. None of you have ever introduced yourself, so I don't even know your names. Yet you continue to invade my space and talk loudly to my cubicle neighbors while I am working at my desk.
Signed,
Wants you out of my space
Dear Life,
I'm not sure what it is with you lately, but you're too much. Please stop adding more projects to my plate. I'm already on the verge of a meltdown; my heart is fluttering, my shoulders are tight and on fire, and I'm not sleeping well. If you could chill out, I'd really appreciate it.
Love,
Exhausted Girl Slowly Losing Her Grip
Dear Dude Who Uttered Threats to my Office Today:
Not cool, not cool at all. I hate being on edge at work and it's scary that we had to lock the front doors and monitor who came in/out, with a security clerk at the front door.
It's insane that this is somewhat "normal" around here too....wish I would have known this before...lol. Oh isn't work fun...
Dog:
Stop teething.
Seriously.
Self:
Get over your nutritional standards about what dogs can and cannot chew on and give dog a bone.
Seriously.
From Hey To Horses
I'm sure you gave them the same look I always gave people.
Dear DH,
Your household job is to wash the dishes. I do appreciate that you already ran the dishwasher two nights this week for a change instead of letting the dishes pile up on the counter all week like you usually do. However, washing the dishes also includes washing pots and pans that don't fit in the dishwasher. I'm getting really fed up with cooking when I always have to wash a pot before I can start. That's when I decide things like "let's just have a pizza tonight" and then our budget gets shot. So please shape up and do ALL the dishes, not just the ones that fit in the dishwasher!
Signed,
Your frustrated wife
Dear work:
Please get to 5 pm. I am too excited to make dinner tonight.
-a gal who is very excited to make dinner tonight
Dear driver who pulled out in front of me,
You cut me off, causing me to have to slam on my brakes, and you have the nerve to flip ME off?! WTF!
Signed,
You're-damn-lucky-I-was-paying-attention-and-have-good-brakes
Dear local rental company,
We are using you for EVERYTHING we need for our homecoming reception in a week and a half. Everything--bars, chairs, glasses, linens, statues...everything. I've been to your store 3 times in the past month and had my order completed and sent to you 2 weeks ago. So imagine my surprise when I get a call at 6pm today from one of your employees telling me that our bill needs to be paid IN FULL by this Friday in order for our "specialty linens" to be order and here in time for our reception. Now, I fully understand that you'd like us to pay ahead of time. Fine. That's normal. HOWEVER maybe you should have told me this earlier. Like when I placed the order. I know your payment is being processed but seeing as we are a state university, this TAKES TIME and you did not inform me ahead of time (it isn't in the contract) that you need your money a week in advance. Never mind the fact that our accounting department is located at our other campus, an hour away so it isn't like it is easy to just grab it and bring it downtown to you.
And your employee that called me to notify me of this certainly have some balls to ask me if I even realize how expensive our order is. OF COURSE I do. I ORDERED it. I had to have it approved because it is so much $$$. We are only using your over-charging, incompetent company because you are the only company that can offer us the specific gold color that we need for our table cloths. So yes, I realize how much money it is. You also must have some serious balls to suggest that I write you a check and just have the accounting dept change the name on your check to me and reimburse me. I do that frequently...put things on my credit card and get reimbursed. HOWEVER I'm not doing that with a bill that is $XX,XXX.XX because you didn't have your sh!t together. I'm just not.
Please know that you had the opportunity to gain a HUGE client in us but because you just randomly "happened" upon our order this evening and realized that you need our money by Friday I'd have to say your chances of retaining our office as clients after this event is non-existent.
Sincerely,
A very stressed out, pissed off client
TI, IUIs, IVF = c/ps and BFNs
Dear Today,
Please end. It has been rough. To make matters worse, I dropped my iPod nano for the first time today and the face smashed. I am not happy.
Signed,
Unhappy gal who will be shelling out money for an iPod touch.
In some ways I enjoy saying pretty much what I said in the letter above to these people but really it's just annoying that they don't have the common sense to know that would never work.