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frustrations

Sent: Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:46 PM

Recipients: Daughter, Son, Daughter-in-Law

Email Body:

I know we all have frustrations.  However, if I don’t share mine, they just fester and I can’t move on.

  • Cell Phone is missing.  I must return to leaving the phone in my purse (once its found) because that’s the only way I have it when there is an emergency.
  • Why are they interviewing Shawn White in the summer Olympics?  He’s a snow boarder.
  • Most of the Olympic sports are also done outside the Olympics.  However, who rows a canoe in a half-standing position?  What’s that about?
  • Just how insecure are volleyball players?  I know of no other sport that requires a group hug at the end of EVERY play.  I just can’t watch it.
  • I’ve been watching the beach volleyball, so another reason I can’t watch the group play is that they are just too crowded.  Plus, how can they possibly miss when there are so many of them.  Obviously, I’m not a volleyball player.
  • The office key that vanished into thin air is still missing.
  • I miss my car.  I JUST figured out how to use the wipers today and its been raining the entire week I’ve had the rental car.  Its difficult to drive and continually hit the wiper lever.
  • Why do the runners in the Olympics crowd into the first lane and then trip over each other?  Does the whole graduated curve start only work for one lap?  I never ran track, either.   For the record, I played no organized sports.  I had casts on my legs from the club feet issue and its just difficult to do sports when you’re sporting plaster casts on both legs.
  • My kids should be on the lookout for a bill for all the catfood I have bought for the cats you left behind.  Screech is like 20 years old; however, he still gets pissy with me unless he gets treats sprinkled on the food.
  • I can’t call my phone to find out where it is because I put it on silent last night for church.
  • A week ago, I told my TV to record the ‘Rio Olympics’ series.  However, I have to tell it EVERY day or it records nothing.  Somehow, this strategy made me miss women’s soccer – I only watch when USA is playing.  Does NBC just really NOT know how to do the Olympics?  Yes, I’m blaming the entire network.
Ok.  All is not lost.  I continue to smile each time I look at my beautiful bouquets that I sponsored at the church in memory of my wedding anniversary and then took for myself.  Also, after working until 7:30 tonight, it was awesome to come home and just ‘heat up’ the leftover mexican lasagna that I fixed for my college roomies last weekend.  My office manager did not fry me like bacon when I spilled the beans about losing the key.
Love to all,
Mom
Notes: I cry laughing over the volleyball notes. The team high five made me snort, but the idea that there’s enough players on the field that it should never touch the ground brought tears to my eyes. Come on ladies. You’re in the Olympics. Get. It. Together. 

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