Military Nesties
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: Dear _______,
Dear DS,
Please stop screeching like a banshee every time I put you in your high chair. At this rate, I will be deaf by Saturday. Thanks.
Love,
Mom
Dear Christmas Card List,
Please stop expanding exponentially. This morning I had 20 names left and bought 36 cards. Somehow I'm out of cards again and still have 4 more names.
Love,
Frustrated lady with a hand cramp
I may think of more later.
ETA: Dear DH,
I get that you have to flight plan for this weekend, but it would be really helpful if you could feed/bathe DS tonight so I could get a break before you're gone all weekend and I'm parenting solo. I know that you have work to do, but your "i have sooooo much work to do" argument loses some credibility every time I walk into your office to find you reading Cracked. Then you have the nerve to tell me that you don't have time to deal with the kid so I can rest. Fail.
Love,
Your PMSing wife.
Dear Weather,
Please start cooperating.
Love,
The lady trying to keep a baby in.
Dear UPS Delivery Man,
Apparently Santa wears a brown suit in my world. Keep up the good work.
Love,
The shopaholic who abuses her mom's Amazon Prime membership
Dear Calendar,
Whatever happened to October and November? I swear it was just September yesterday.
Respectfully,
A new mama who has lost all sense of time
Dear Vacations,
How do you always make my house so messy? It defies logic that being gone for one week could wreak havoc on my living room.
Sincerely,
Confused at the clutter
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Dear USAF,
I could KISS you right now! I know, I can't believe that came out of my mouth either. Enjoy it, I don't see it happening again.
Shocked,
Fancy
Dear post twin pregnancy body,
I have no words for how awful you look. I'm going to try to whip you back into shape, please cooperate.
Your embarrassed owner
(who would do it all again in a heartbeat for those two incredible babies)
Dear new duty station,
Dear bloggers on my blogroll,I can't wait to get to you! Can we fast forward time just a smidge?
Love,
Anxiously awaiting Feb
I'm bored, why aren't you blogging these days? The holidays are no excuse. You should have MORE to blog about right now! Its the Hap Happiest Season of All. You're forcing me to resort to snooping on the bump boards I don't frequent for entertainment.
Yours Truly,
your creepy blog stalker
I changed my name
Dear Fancy Face,
I actually like that one too
Dear precious pooch,
Please stop barking at every little noise the house makes. You're waking the baby.
Love,
Your zombie mom
Dear parents,
Please come back. I miss you already.
Dear husband,
Please stop coming and going so much. I need you right now. Just for a little bit.
Dear George Wash U,
Thanks for sending me a courtesy email telling me I paid for my application and started the application but never pressed "submit." That would have would have sucked royally, and I'd be out 75 bucks. Also, please give me an interview.
From Jilly
I changed my name
Dear Self,
Get your butt in gear and figure out what you want to do for the rest of your life. Keep applying to jobs that seem like a good fit. Just get it together.
KThx,
A
Dear Coirker,
Can you just quit already? I can't wait for you to quit or get fired. You need to go and you need to go now.
Thanks, A
Dear Husband,
You rock my socks,
That's all! Love me
DH has been trying for a month to get his orders issued. He learned late this afternoon that things are finally in process--but that the process will take a month to complete. Ummm, that will give us two months to get EVERYTHING lined up for an OCONUS move. And, honestly, with the holidays (read: half day schedule) coming up, I'm willing to bet money that it will take 45 days instead of 30. It's not like we sat around and wasted time. We have been proactive. When the earliest EFMP screening appointments were booking two weeks out, we went to a neighboring MTF and got the paperwork done THAT very day. The delay is not on us.
Please, I'm stressed out enough as it is to be moving to a country where I don't speak the language, only to see my DH off on a deployment fairly soon after our arrival. To have things on this end be as challenging and stressful as they already have been, I am going to be a basket case before we even get on the plane to Europe. My DH has PCSed plenty of times in his 16 years and he has NEVER experienced problems like this.
Please, can somebody get their sh!t together and get DH his orders before 2012???? I beg of you.
Signed,
An Already Harried Hausfrau
Dear H,
Why did you have to tell your entire family about when you are coming home? I know they are all going to come to the pier, then insist on hanging out with us afterwards. This is ruining my plans of getting laid then taking a nap. Can't they just wait a day? I want my husband all to myself!
Sincerely,
that cranky lady you married who needs to get laid.
67/200
We dealt with the same crud. It took forever to issue the orders then they issued them 9 months after his supposed start date. It took a full bird from the gaining unit to call and chew some a$$ to get things corrected and in place. Its the new system I think. Its all kinds of messed up.
Dear Marine Corps,
Please want me.
Love, Stan
Dear ungrateful jerk faces (you know who you are),
When I say "I'm sorry I don't have the authority to approve XYZ but you're welcome to contact my supervisor and see if he/she can assist you" I'm not being rude. In fact I'm being nice by trying to help you. Please stop complaining to my boss that I'm an azzhole who refuses to help you. In the future I'm just going to say "I don't know" and pass you to someone else.
-me
DEAR DoDEA:
Please have some sort of loop-hole that will allow DH to apply for that position before he goes on terminal leave. Staying in Germany would be the best thing for our family right now. My SS NEEDS to stay in the DoDEA schools for his educational, emotional and fiscal sake.
Sincerely,
A StepMother who does not want her son to backslide backinto the scary teenage angst.
Dear IT Department,
Get your f*cking act together. An entire week without phones and 4 hours without system access is a joke. If we're going under please stop bringing the system back up and giving us all false hope. Just set it on fire and be done.
Dear UCD,
I plan on applying to 4 or 5 of your open positions tonight. It would be pretty awesome if you would interview me for one or two of those positions and give me one of them. The research positions would be amazing as would the 4-H position. I love me some 4-H and would love to help with programing for the little 4-H'ers of the world!
Thanks,
A lady who would like a job with her degree that pays better than where she is now, even if I have to drive to Davis daily.
Dear Afton,
Did I ever tell you that I used to live outside of Sac? And that my dad worked at UCD? Seeing you mention it made me smile. There's nothing quite like an official frog crossing.
Love,
Ash
PS- Job dust headed your way!
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Dear DH,
I am astonished that you washed random things together. I also am in awe that you think you are above taking care of two kids by yourself when I do it EVERY day.
Toodles,
Your wife who is going out with her best friend tomorrow to enjoy herself.
I didn't know that Ash! And thanks for the job dust!