Dear China,

Hey! How's it going? Do you think that you could maybe throw us all a bone and get those referrals over to the States this week? We have been waiting a long time now, usually patiently, and feel that we deserve a little break here.

We have all of the necessary ingredients to warrant the arrival of the referrals: rumors that matching started (a week ago today), rumors of a "confirmed" cut-off date (although I don't see how it can be confirmed and a rumor at the same time, but anyway; by the way, couldn't you have done a few more than 4 days, why don't you show a little spunk next month and hit it out of the park with double digits, I BELIEVE!!!!), TA's for last month's referrals have started to arrive, and all of waiting parents are slowly going insane. All we need now is to hear that packages are on the way. Can you please get the in the air ASAP???

We 1/5/06ers have big plans for picture sharing and baby shopping this weekend and it will be hard to do either if you don't hold up your end of the bargain here. We've waited, we've been missed by one day, and now we seem to be enduring the longest period between referrals ever without hardly any stinkin' rumors (yes I know it's really not the longest, but it sure feels that way). I am going to be seriously upset if I can't go clothes shopping soon. You can only expect a woman to wait so long for the day when she can actually shop for cute clothes for her new daughter (or son).

SO, GET ON THE STICK AND SEND THE D*** PACKAGES ALREADY!!!! I AM SERIOUSLY RUNNING OUT OF PATIENCE!!!!