July 2010 Weddings
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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.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Wednesday Rant
Dearest husband,
I love that you are spending all your time on our kitchen cabinets...they do look lovely and it really modernizes our whole kitchen. But since you were laid off over 2 weeks ago, do you think you could throw in a couple hours here and there to searching for a new job? Cabinets are pretty but they don't help pay the bills.
With much affection,
Wifey
Re: Wednesday Rant
dear work:
PLEASE i dont want to spend another 4 extra hours working today again...2 days with that junk is enough!!!
House Renovations
Married Bio
I am a gluten-free, gun-toting wife! :P
I love you, Daddy...2/24/1953 to 2/13/2011
Dear Coworker,
Why did you apply for the same job as me, when you are overqualified, and I am perfectly qualified? Why are you ruining my chances of employment when the grant paying my salary ends in December, but your job is not in jeopardy?
Sincerely,
Your soon-to-be-unemployed fellow lab rat.
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Dear TAs,
Why are your rules inconsistent with the APA Style Manual you tell us to follow? You seem to just want to make more work for us.
Sincerely,
Drowing in citations
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Dear Glee,
You have disappointed me. That was kind of a boring Grilled Cheesus episode, musically. And it made me sad. A show called "Glee" should not make anyone sad.
Sincerely,
Me
Dear University,
Please let me know soon if I am even a candidate for the job. I'd like to know sooner rather than later if I'm going to be stuck at my current job - I need to mentally prepare.
Anxious Potential Employee
Dear Airlines,
Please let the cost of flights back to Ohio for Thanksgiving go down. I don't want to shell out over half of what it cost us to go to Mexico for a 2 hour flight. That's just insane.
Unhappy Passenger-to-be
Dear Facebook,
Please stop being a pain in the a**. I am trying to have a conversation with my sister via your facebook chat, and first, I could not see if she was even online. Then, she couldn't see what I was saying. Now, I can't see anything she says, and she's been "typing" for over five minutes. I would love for you to stop messing around.
Thanks bunches,
Me.
unhappy fan of mother nature
Dear cold,
Please go away, i can not function. My head hurts and i can't breathe. My throat is so sore. My body aches. i do not have time to be sick and my child does not understand it. Nor do I have patience to deal with him because you seem to want to cozy on inside my head. GET OUT!
Desperate broke mother
Dear MIL,
I love you but I'm soooo not looking forward to getting up to take you to the airport in the morning. I know you're anxious but meeting the friend that you're traveling with at 4:45 in the morning is not going to be pretty.
I'll be sleeping at my desk tomorrow.
Dear test takers,
Stop being stupid, you are making my job harder. Just take your test. Don't try to cheat or take parts of your test. We find out and then have to do more work to cover ourselves if case your stupid self comes back with a complaint.
Oodles,
Your proctor
Dear Husband/Job,
Yes, I know I'm lucky to have both of you. But this 5:45am bullsh*t can't continue. I am exhausted by Tuesday night, which is not a good sign. I have no flipping clue how I'm going to get through musical season, when i have to leave at 5:30pm and not 2pm. One of you needs to bend a bit, and it's not the job, unfortunately. We may have to consider renting housing in another location, which you are not open to hearing, but I don't know that I can do this for the next two years.
- The tired wife/teacher
Dear Colleague,
Yes, I know you were transferred here involuntarily and don't want to do half the crap they're making you do. But I get so little time with these kids - less than you do, since you get them for instrumental lessons - and I resent you taking them away from me when we get so little rehearsal time, and I'll never get that time back with them. Go f*ck yourself. I hope you get caught leaving at 1:10, when you KNOW we're not allowed to leave until 1:45 at the earliest. At least with you causing all of the problems in the department, they're leaving me alone.
- Your falsely patient and cooperative colleague
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me.
You made my wedding day complete.
Dear Chicagoans who frequent a certain donut and coffee establishment across the street from my condo,
I know you know how to read street signs. You can buy coffee and you drive. So you must have passed the driving test. There are two signs that say No Parking ANYTIME. This means you. Even if you think it's only going to take 5 minutes to get your coffee. Those are five minutes of my life I am never going to get back b/c one of you inevitably blocks the gate to our parking lot every single morning. Please do not flip me off when I beep. I am beginning an hour long drive to work. Those five minutes count. And besides- I don't want the gate to close on my car when I realize I can't pull out b/c you just parked and blocked my exit. Please be considerate of your neighbors. Please go to any of the dozen of said establishments that are within half a mile rather than the one outside my door. Or at least do me the courtesy of asking if you could get me a donut, muffin or a strawberry coolata.
Thanks,
A not so patient neighbor
Dear feet,
Please stop hurting. I know I haven't done much on you, and you're holding up a bit more weight than you should and I'm sorry, I'll work on that. But PLEASE, make it a little more bearable to stand up and work for 8 hours and I swear I'll run or something to try and make it easier on you.
Love,
Your owner
Dear job #3,
Please don't schedule me outside of my availability, it's not fair, and then I feel like a jerk because I have to tell you I can't work because I'm at job #2.
Love,
Your new yet eager to please employee
Dear H,
You sort of suck right now, and you should know it. But you don't and I don't want to say anything. Yes extra money is nice, but YOU volunteered for this drill. And for you to go on drill means you have to take my car, because your POS won't make it, so I am carless. I hate your car, it's probably going to break down on my and you have baking powder covering the floor because of the acidic crap you spilled every where. This is not fair.
I NEED MY CAR.
This drill is lame. And we both know you're really going because you want to get drunk. And see your friends.
Boo hoo. I basically didn't see my friends for five effing years because we lived there. Now you live here and it's been nearly two months. Get over it. It's not like you spent that much time with them anyways....please. I need my car. You shouldn't be going this weekend. This is selfish and unfair.
Love,
Your pissed off wife.