July 2009 Weddings
Kate&Mark
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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.
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.
Open letters
Dear Verizon,
Why, oh why, do you make it so expensive to get a smartphone? $200 for the phone, plus at least another $40/month for texting and a data package seems excessive, espeically when you times that by two phones.
I also don't appreciate that all of your non-smartphone phones are now sucky and boring.
Girl who's not loving the idea of her cell bill going up $80/month
Re: Open letters
Dear Obama,
I totally get that you're trying to make your own headlines today so it's not all Republican primary stuff, but did you have to call your press conference during my soaps?
Mildly annoyed
Dear Oreo,
Happy Birthday! When you celebrate 200, how about you come up with something better than Cake filling. It's not as good as I'd hoped.
Cookie Monsterette
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
Dear Tim Hortons Fairy:
I would really like a Large Mocha Iced Cap delivered to me please.
Thanks! Super lazy pregnant lady still feeling a tad sorry for herself.
Dear Wyatt:
Thank you soooooo much for sleeping so well last night! 13 hours is exactly what I needed! I feel like I can actually get some stuff done today now
Love: Your well rested Mama
Dear Baby mo2:
Thank you for all of your little kicks to remind me that you're okay in there! We're excited to finally see you on ultrasound in just over a month! Keep on growing baby!
Love: Your concerned Mama
Dear Doctor:
Just for future reference, giving someone a second dose of a drug they just had an allergic reaction to is probably not such a good idea, especially without their consent. Just a thought.
Thanks. Your cranky patient.
Dear Headache,
You keep rearing your ugly head about once a week, GO AWAY ALREADY! I don't like having to take Tylenol, but seriously nothing I do knocks you out. Please just go away and don't come back!
Signed,
The head that can't take the pounding anymore
Dear T,
I love you. I know you are super stressed right now, but please try to calm down. You can't control everything and some things just aren't that important, they're low on the priority list, so let them slide for now and just relax.
Love,
Your wife who's worried about you
Dear Jellybean,
Mommy would really love to feel you move around in there! If you could thump me just once sometime in the next couple weeks I'd be so happy. And keep growing! We can't wait to meet you in August!
Love,
Mommy
Dear Old Navy,
Quit tempting me with your cute maternity clothes and sales! I so don't want to fork over any money right now. I must be in denial that all the cute clothes I bought last spring aren't going to fit anymore, and really should be preparing and taking advantage, but I'm cheap and hesitant. Lower your prices even more and maybe we'll talk.
Signed,
Pregnant lady who should finally stop only wearing sweats
Dear Peyton:
You suck. Why couldn't you just have retired and made everyone happy?
Signed,
Your fan.... but more of a Colts fan.
Dear Gall Bladder,
Could you please stop giving me unpleasant surprise attacks in the middle of the night, when I don't think I've eaten anything that you shouldn't have liked.
Your tired of all these attacks "owner"
#1-BFP 08-22-09 ~ M/C 08-31-09 at 5 weeks 6 days
#2-BFP 08-6-11 ~ Due 04/18 ~ born via c-section April 22, 2012
My Blog
I don't see this as Peyton sucking at all. He's medically cleared to play, he wants to play and if he stayed until Thurs he would get a nice chunk of change. Why on Earth should he retire under those circumstances?
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
You'll get there! I didn't feel anything definite until week 20!
Dear Students:
I'm sorry your grade isn't what you wanted...but I don't give grades..YOU EARN THEM. And no, there is no extra credit you can do...you're in middle school now...do the work well the first time and we wouldn't have this problem!
Signed,
Your science teacher who is fed up with whiny students/parents at the end of the trimester when everyone is in grade-panic mode.
Dear DH,
Don't tell me the garbage stinks and then leave to go do something fun for the rest of the evening..leaving me to take it out. How about you take it out?!?!? Yes, I know you have a terrible gag reflex and only had 15 minutes before you had to leave, but a) we're having a baby...you're not getting out of diaper duty, so you might as well get used to it and b) it only takes 2 minutes to take the garbage out!!!
Though I do love your birthday present of getting tickets to see my Yankees play in Baltimore the first week of the regular season though...that did earn you points..but well...still..see above.
Love
Your Wife
Dear Little Lion:
We're getting SO excited to meet you...but these next 98 days don't have to fly too much..we have a lot to do before you arrive. BUT don't forget...you are NOT to follow your little cousin, Ally, and friend, Patrick's, example of coming way after your due date...got it??
Love,
Mommy
Dear Housing Market in Pittsburgh:
Please stop moving so darn fast so we can actually see houses we're interested in before they go contingent and we haven't been able to get up to see them! We're getting frustrated!!!!!!!
Signed,
House hunter
Dear body, pull yourself together! Seriously. Wtf. There is so much I could say to you but I'm afraid of the repercussions of complaining about so many of your parts.
Dear contacts, I really hate the fact you have apparently been scratching my eyes for months and now I can't wear you. See the above note.
Dear DH, thanks for not saying anything when I rely on shopping therapy lately and more furniture keeps being delivered to the house. thanks also for not saying anything about the pink flowered chair I just got for our bedroom.
Dear taxes, I'm supposed to pay you every year?!?
Dear Mackenzie's Hair:
Please stop falling out in interesting places.
Signed, the Mom whose kid looks like she has male pattern baldness
Dear DH:
Please don't say you want to "hang out" with me and then play video games until well after I have already gone to bed.
Signed, a wife who doesn't get a lot of adult interaction these days
Dear House:
Please clean yourself. You need a good deep clean.
Thanks from the stay-at-home-mom who hates housework
Dear Mackenzie:
Stop being so darn cute.
Signed, Your mom who laughs at your antics every single day
Dear Lowes,
I am very annoyed with your delivery service right now. Yes, I'm glad that you are going to deliver our new over within 2 days of us purchasing it, but calling last night at about 8:00 and telling us you would like to deliver it the next day between 1:30 and 3:30 is unacceptable. Then not calling at all tonight until we call at 8:30 only to find out that the "early" or "later" time that we requested is going to be between 9:30 and 11:30, really?! Not cool. Add to the fact that when I went to your website so that I could write someone an unpleasant email, your "contact us" page is just a list of FAQ's. That's not contacting you. You suck.
Signed, Annoyed customer who realizes even more why the big store chains suck.
Dear UCONN men and women bball teams-
Please step it up and dominate in March like we expect you to and know you can. We would love to see something like we saw last season!
Signed, Life long UCONN fan and 100% believer
Dear Peyton,
Thanks for the memories! I'm not ashamed to say I cried when I heard they're releasing you. But you will always have fans in Indy. Thanks for the amazing seasons, the records broken, the SUPER BOWL, and most importantly-thank you for becoming a Hoosier. Thanks for loving this city and the people in the city. Thanks for the gracious Children's Hospital-words can't express how much this has helped so many families. We'll always welcome you home, buddy! (P.S. Please take Reggie Wayne with you..he's being a little biitch. Tell him I said that too.)
Looove,
A fan who will always respect what you did for us
Dear J,
You're amazing. Thanks for the laughs and memories together. I can't wait for the next few months!!
I love you!
Dear weird meeting drama today,
I really want an explanation! The suspense is killing me!
Sincerely,
Curious
Dear m.
I am so looking forward to hanging out, just the two of us for TWO whole days! Thanks for taking time off with me. After the crazy busyness of January and Februay, we deserve it!
I love you,
b
I don't think he's sucking. It makes me sad he's leaving us. I hate to see him play for any other team, but let's be realistic...we can't keep him with a $28 mil bonus, get Luck, and fill out the rest of the team's needs substantially. It's just not in the cards. I respect him so much and I'm SO grateful for him and what he's done for the team, the fans, and the city. Any team would be lucky to have him. He's a hell of a player and a hell of a person. My hope/worry/fear is that his neck isn't completely healed (I know he's been cleared to play) and he'll get hit one good time and get hurt.
Do I think he should retire? No. Selfishly-do I want him to retire so he'll retire a Colt? Yes. Will that happen? No. Will I still wear my Manning jersey when/if he comes back to Lucas Oil? DAMN STRAIGHT.
Now I'm curious!
LOL I assume this was your board meeting you were presenting at... I understand, trust me. DRA-MA!
The above bolded is my sentiment. Obviously I can be realistic about it all. I was going to be pissed if they had resigned him just because of all the money that would be tied up in a what-if situation for the next 3-5 years, because that's all he's got left.
I am also afraid of his injury and would hate to see that get re-injured. To me, the neck is an awful touchy thing to put out on the line after an injury and surgeries in such a violent sport and from a non-professional athlete, it seems like a huge gamble to take. Especially when you just had babies not too long ago. He could make millions upon millions doing countless other things (coaching, sports announcing, commentating, THE FUNNIEST COMMERCIALS ON THE PLANET!!) that wouldn't require him to risk injury. But, again, I'm not a pro-athlete, so I will never understand that.
I love Peyton. Always have, always will.
I was also under the impression that Open letters were also a place for sarcasm and hyperbole, and not things that were taken 100% seriously.