Monthly Archives: November 2008

Brunch!

Due to dietary restrictions we will be going to The Original Pancake House at 39222 Fremont Blvd
Fremont, CA 94538 tomorrow! I have a final (edited) confirmation list that looks like:
[info]rightkindofme — Yes!
[info]mitrian — Yes!
[info]angelkatharine — Yes!
[info]polkamadness — Yes! (Ok, I’ll officially add you instead of just mentally adding you.)
[info]dangerpudding — Yes!
[info]jkuroda — Yes!
[info]yanijc — Yes!
[info]tshuma — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you. Yes!
[info]bk2w — Yes!

and a tentative list of:
[info]unseelie23 — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]pyro_pixie_86 — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]noirem — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]ribbin — Uhm… er… I’ll get back to you.
[info]zikzak5 — Yes! (No email, but weather is looking poopy so I guess you can’t make it?)

If I get no response from the tentative people by tomorrow morning I will assume you to be a no. I will be showing up at around 9:50 because a reservation for nine people may take a while. I hope ya’ll show up pretty promptly at 10! 🙂

Very sweet.

This morning we brought apples and grapes and donuts and bagels to our local polling place cause it’s an awesome thing for people to volunteer to do. When we got back from dinner tonight they left us a thank you note. Yay!

Things that are pissing me off today

The fact that making a flight reservation has taken me over an hour. I am getting really pissed off. Now I am on hold being shuffled between various Indian customer service reps who cannot understand me reading off my reservation number as I try to add a lap infant. I am really really frustrated. And after 20 minutes Travelocity told me that I have to call Air New Zealand. Now Air New Zealand is telling me they can’t do anything, Travelocity has to do it.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And Shanna just woke up from her nap and is yelling. This took her whole goddamn nap.

Edited: I am up to 55 minutes of phone time after 40 minutes of fucking with websites. But I’m done

about etiquette

I am so bad at taking constructive criticism, but I’m keeping an open mind. Some of the feedback on the letter is very helpful and I thank you all for offering opinions when I ask for one.

One point though for the folks who are telling me not to send such an email unless prompted, you are giving me etiquette feedback, not tactfulness feedback. It’s different. I am aware that according to tradition you should not send things like this unasked for. My family won’t take this amiss though. They are well acquainted with me being extremely forward and blunt and by now they just smile and nod. Noah’s family may think this is too forward but I don’t really care as long as they get the message. I would rather they think I am a bit on the rude side than to continue sending crap I don’t want. His family doesn’t know me and in the main they don’t know him either so they send random shit. Given that I have a problem with being sent tacky shit I will send to Goodwill as soon as I unwrap it I’d rather just say this stuff up front. If it means that a few of them decide I am awful and no longer send presents that would be jim-dandy-fine as well.

But ya’ll did give me some good tips on rewriting it to sound less demanding. I appreciate that. 🙂