04/22/07 April 22nd Wonder

[LadyShiva]

Wow... Linda, that's some bad karma to the scheduling person!!!

I'm sorry! The best curse I can come up with at the moment (elbow deep in federal tax calculations) is that I wish they have 4 phones to count federal excise taxes for 2003-2006...!

Why oh why do we have so many phones?????

Brandie

 

[mousebrat]

Regarding the princesses on the Wonder, check out http://www.disney cruiser.info/w070204/w4day0.htm (without the space between disney and cruiser) for navigators from the February 4th cruise. Check out the schedule under "character."

 

[CNC1010]

MOUSEBRAT - Thank you kindly for the info on the princesses! MERCI! MERCI! MERCI!


And LINDA...the "good" for you is just around the corner ... well in a 2 months and on a big ship that is! Hang in there! This too shall pass and calm seas are ahead!

 

[LadyShiva]

Good morning, all... Except Linda, who should go back to sweet sleep! *SLEEP!* Ok, I need to watch more than Colin on "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" if I start quoting him...

*wave*
Brandie

 

[LJC1861]

Well, I am happy to report that I got 10 uninterrupted hours of sleep last night. The phone was blessedly quiet and everyone who was supposed to show up for work last night and this morning did.

I had two meetings today, one of which was with my boss. I had my annual review which was much better than I had anticipated and then she sent me home to get some rest. As I am way over in hours I was told to take it easy this week, so I will. I have a few committments but luckily I can set my own schedule otherwise.

As busy and frustrating as it was to have to work so much, it is a good thing to be working with the kids and observing staff as well. I do enjoy working with the residents and not just being an administrator. It is also good for the regular staff to see that an administrator can and will do the smae things that they do each and every day. Working with our residents, and seeing the small miracles that occur each day make me remember why I got into this field in the first place. It truly is my vocation and I learn something from the residents each and every time I work with them.

Thanks again for all the support this weekend. It was one of the things that got me through...checking this thread for new messages from all my new cruise buddies. I am so looking forward to meeting everyone on the cruise.

Linda

 

[LadyShiva]

Well, I am happy to report that I got 10 uninterrupted hours of sleep last night. The phone was blessedly quiet and everyone who was supposed to show up for work last night and this morning did.

I had two meetings today, one of which was with my boss. I had my annual review which was much better than I had anticipated and then she sent me home to get some rest. As I am way over in hours I was told to take it easy this week, so I will. I have a few committments but luckily I can set my own schedule otherwise.

As busy and frustrating as it was to have to work so much, it is a good thing to be working with the kids and observing staff as well. I do enjoy working with the residents and not just being an administrator. It is also good for the regular staff to see that an administrator can and will do the smae things that they do each and every day. Working with our residents, and seeing the small miracles that occur each day make me remember why I got into this field in the first place. It truly is my vocation and I learn something from the residents each and every time I work with them.

Thanks again for all the support this weekend. It was one of the things that got me through...checking this thread for new messages from all my new cruise buddies. I am so looking forward to meeting everyone on the cruise.

Linda

You're such a sweetie! Congrats about the annual review!

Did this weekend give you a renewed sense of purpose? From what I read, while you aren't rejuvenated, you seem recommitted to your "vocation."

*smile* *wave*
Brandie

 

[LadyShiva]

Heya, do we have a motto for our cruise? How 'bout "We're with Roveer!" ?
He won't notice a few more of us, right???

Brandie

 

[LadyShiva]

We have snow forecasted for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday... I'm going to be soooo happy to get on that boat where it will be nice and warm!



Brandie

 

[LadyShiva]

My brother's name is Gavin, too. My mother was into the Camelot names with her second marriage. My sister's name is Gwendolyn.

And then there's me... I was named after the song.

Brandie

 

[Dawn414]

I was perusing the Anne Geddes name book and came across both Gavin and Kendall...they were different...I liked them. Of course, finding things with their names on it proves to be difficult, but at least there won't be 5 of them in their class. And oddly, we DID find licenses with their names on them in Nassau last year. Weird.

Dawn

 

[LadyShiva]

I was perusing the Anne Geddes name book and came across both Gavin and Kendall...they were different...I liked them. Of course, finding things with their names on it proves to be difficult, but at least there won't be 5 of them in their class. And oddly, we DID find licenses with their names on them in Nassau last year. Weird.

Dawn

I think Gavin is becoming more popular. 'Course, now that my brother has me trained to say "Gavin" he wants to be known as "Benjamin" which is his middle name. Stinker. My daughter also has a "Gavin" at her day care.

If you see anything with "Brandie" I'll be amazed. I actually came across another Brandie on the DisBoards today--knock me over with a feather!

*wave* Have a great day!
Brandie

 

[LJC1861]

Hey everybody,

I hope this note finds you all well. I have been out of touch for the past few days as we are house and pet sitting for some friends who only have dial up...horror of horrors, and the DIS website and boards just won't load properly. So, I have made my way to Starbucks to get my DIS fix for the day.

I was asked today if I wanted to attend a 2 day conference on Autism. Needless to say I said yes! I guess hard work does pay off. I was the only one asked to go and it looks like it is going to be an excellent and information packed 2 days. So, a conference at the end of March and a cruise at the end of April!

The weather here in the mountains of NC has been georgeous the past few days. Spring is not far off and it is finally starting to warm up.

How is everyone else today?

Linda

 

[LadyShiva]

Yay, Linda! Congrats!

The weather here is awful, but it isn't as bad as some of my co-workers in other states. Half an inch of ice on the roads is downright nasty!

Brandie

 

[mousebrat]

I didn't know if we wanted to do nametags for our dismeet on the first day. I know that someone said that they would check on the lime green mickey heads from Home Depot. I don't mind printing name tags if we want to do that. Any ideas?

 

[LadyShiva]

I didn't know if we wanted to do nametags for our dismeet on the first day. I know that someone said that they would check on the lime green mickey heads from Home Depot. I don't mind printing name tags if we want to do that. Any ideas?

I was going to go check at Home Depot, but we got another blizzard that weekend.

I'll try again this weekend; the snow is supposed to be over for the next few days.

Brandie

 

[LJC1861]

Mornin' everybody, happy Friday!

What's everyone up to this weekend?

I am taking today off from work as I worked WAY too many hours this week. We are going planning on doing a bit of shopping tomorrow morning in preparation for a birthday dinner for several of our friends in the evening. Then I have to make a party sized banana pudding to bring.

Hopefully Sunday will be a pretty day so we can be out and about and enjoy the sunshine.

How about everyone else?

Have a great day!

Linda

 

[LadyShiva]

Mornin' everybody, happy Friday!

What's everyone up to this weekend?

I am taking today off from work as I worked WAY too many hours this week. We are going planning on doing a bit of shopping tomorrow morning in preparation for a birthday dinner for several of our friends in the evening. Then I have to make a party sized banana pudding to bring.

Hopefully Sunday will be a pretty day so we can be out and about and enjoy the sunshine.

How about everyone else?

Have a great day!

Linda

Welllll.... Our new LG fridge has broken for the second time in 9 months, so we're swapping the old fridge back into the kitchen from the garage. Don't buy LG, by the way. For anything. The repair guy can come out March 15th. Don't buy LG--bears repeating. Took them 5 weeks to fix the fridge when it didn't work when we plugged it in at our house. Don't buy LG. Hubby left the freezer stuff out on the counter overnight because "he didn't see it." Yeah, there's more... He was the one to pull it out and put it all out on the counter. And yes, I did ask him 3x later if he was sure everything was in the deep freeze.

Sooo. Yeah. Thank goodness our old fridge works, huh? The first guy to come out showed us how to fix it. I'm pretty glad he did that. *argh*

That banana pudding sounds wonderful. I'm thinking of having cookies for lunch. *sigh*

I'll try and get out at some point this weekend and swing by the paint department at Home Depot.

*wave* Have a great weekend, too!
Brandie

 

[LJC1861]

Brandie,

Cookies for lunch??? Sounds like my kind of meal!!! What kind of cookies re you having?

I have 2 boxes of Girl Scout "Thanks Alots" on my counter. I had pretzels and coke for lunch....a few cookies for dessert sounds like a perfect ending.

Fridge trouble.....does not even sound like fun. I hope it gets better.

Hang in there,

Linda

 

[LadyShiva]

Brandie,

Cookies for lunch??? Sounds like my kind of meal!!! What kind of cookies re you having?

I have 2 boxes of Girl Scout "Thanks Alots" on my counter. I had pretzels and coke for lunch....a few cookies for dessert sounds like a perfect ending.

Fridge trouble.....does not even sound like fun. I hope it gets better.

Hang in there,

Linda

As for cookies... Yes. One or two of each, excepting the peanut butter ones. I also have the coconut Milanos (? little white bag of cookies, from the grocery store) calling my name. I did "good" and ate pizza and Chef Boyardee, but the extra calories are still calling my name.

But hey, at least I have the ability to get more food from the store, and money to buy it with. I keep reminding myself it could be worse; I could have been in the bad weather in Alabama this morning. I even have a working fridge and deep freeze for any food I go get. So no more whining!!! It's Friday!

Ok, back to work!

*wave*
Brandie

 

[LadyShiva]

I picked up a couple of stacks of Mickey heads at Home Depot. By the way, there is no "Lime Green"... I got Alien Green and Sonic Boom. Alien Green is just that... what I would guess alien snot looks like. No offense intended! The other color is a darker green.

The stickers are actually pretty small. I'm thinking about 2 to 2.5 inches wide, maybe. Mousebrat, I think the small clear or white Avery labels should work; do you have any? I can't run the Mickey Heads through any of my printers, and I don't have a label printer. I just have a scanner and a few printers in the house. That's not to say I can't grab sheets of labels from Wal-Mart or something.

What name should go on these? Our screen name or our real name? I don't think I would recognize it if someone called me "LadyShiva" in real life. And these stickers are probably too small to go with 2 names.

My other cruise has a PDF with pictures + whatever information you would like to volunteer. Would you like me to put one of those together? I would prefer to gather that info via PM, if we're going to do it.

Lemme know your opinion when you get a moment, please.

Brandie