08 DEC 2007 - 7 Day Eastern Magic Part 3

[SeaSickPsycho]

Whoa, a Disney-addicted economist...now that's an original combination! I spent a year or two researching labour market info...made my brain hurt (I came so close to failing stats it isn't even funny), but I can see how it could be addictive, actually.

How old are your kids? I've got a 7 yo boy and a 4 yo girl.

And have you seen the link in Wendy's sig? (J'smom2) It's got all the cool plans for the cruise if you're interested.

I've heard of bunco but never played. My dh and I used to love playing a game called "One-twenty", but no-one here knows how to play. Time to start training the children, I guess.

We don't have to wait for them .... we can just take over and book out the ship.

Now I am scared, I've only been with this group a few hours and already discussion of mutiny. I love it! Pirattitude Rules!

 

[RBennett]

That was me, I went for 3 Semesters of college. I got a job at "Heaven on Seven" any Chicago dissers will know it. Its an upscale cajun restaurant, i was a fry cook....It did not go well at all! i didnt know that being a cook entailed scrubing grease off of a wall from 2-4 in the morning after the restaurant closed. It was a great job from 4pm to 11pm!
I love to bake too! do i smell a disboards recipe exchange?

So Tina and I were actually thinking about this tonight, which is really funny. Why not on the ship, along with the Secret Santa, everyone bring one or two recipes that they really like and we can share them with each other. It will be like an "Unofficial DCL Cookbook". What does everyone think??

 

[pfishgirl]

So Tina and I were actually thinking about this tonight, which is really funny. Why not on the ship, along with the Secret Santa, everyone bring one or two recipes that they really like and we can share them with each other. It will be like an "Unofficial DCL Cookbook". What does everyone think??

I don't have any to share.. I use the ones on the boxes..

 

[brack]

Now I am scared, I've only been with this group a few hours and already discussion of mutiny. I love it! Pirattitude Rules!

I want to be Captain

 

[brack]

So Tina and I were actually thinking about this tonight, which is really funny. Why not on the ship, along with the Secret Santa, everyone bring one or two recipes that they really like and we can share them with each other. It will be like an "Unofficial DCL Cookbook". What does everyone think??

I'll tell my DW to pick some. She is about to try this dessert ... it's a grits pie that we saw on Paula Dean's show.

 

[RBennett]

I don't have any to share.. I use the ones on the boxes..

That's fine Stacy! I personally only have a few that aren't already on a box, but everyone was talking about bringing something from where you live and we figured, what's more representing of where you live than your food! For instance, I have a couple recipes like potato soup, or a "punch-bowl cake" and some others, and know in other parts of the continent food is really specific to that area. Another thing that most people freak out about when they hear we eat it down here is deer. I love it probably as much as beef. Sorry if that bothers anyone. I don't want to offend any vegitarians or vegans or anything. I try to respect everyone's religous, political, and food preferences.

 

[Cruise]

Does that mean I have to bring a lettuce leaf and a bottle of water since I live in LA

 

[WIFamily]

So Tina and I were actually thinking about this tonight, which is really funny. Why not on the ship, along with the Secret Santa, everyone bring one or two recipes that they really like and we can share them with each other. It will be like an "Unofficial DCL Cookbook". What does everyone think??

That's a great idea. I'm in.

 

[BethC1952]

So Tina and I were actually thinking about this tonight, which is really funny. Why not on the ship, along with the Secret Santa, everyone bring one or two recipes that they really like and we can share them with each other. It will be like an "Unofficial DCL Cookbook". What does everyone think??

I love it!

I'll tell my DW to pick some. She is about to try this dessert ... it's a grits pie that we saw on Paula Dean's show.

ANYTHING from Paul Dean's show is great! She's a favorite around here.

Another thing that most people freak out about when they hear we eat it down here is deer. I love it probably as much as beef.

We get a bit of venison here from time to time. I really enjoy it because it's usually very lean. Another favorite of mine, although very hard to get in these parts, is beef heart, for the reason listed above--it's always very lean and usually very tender. It makes great stews!

Beth

 

[coastgirl]

So does that mean his relative are Cajuns? I was born, raised and still live right smack in the middle of Acadiana. BUT I don't cook, kinda know how but don't like to so DH does all the cooking. He's a Cajun too.

He's Acadian, the folks who hid in the swamps and didn't leave Canada when the English tried to kick them out...some left and came back also. They don't have the cool music or, IMO the good food (I like the Cajun version better), but they still have an active French-speaking culture in parts of Nova Scotia (the NS in my sig) and New Brunswick. Dh's parents both learned French before English.

Good drat!

As I get a double

I have an 18 yo girl, 7 yo boy and a 4 yo girl. My 7 yo boy doesn't like the kids' club but I hope he will go some this year. I did just remember that a kid he knows from down the road will be going with his family this same week (assuming they haven't changed their plans.) If not, maybe he could meet your son.

Woohoo, matching kids. Jennifer and Bill (TxTaylors5) also have a just-turning-5yo girl and a 7 yo boy. My guy would love to meet yours, but don't let yours talk mine out of the club!! That's why we picked Disney--I need some grown up time! ;-)

There's a couple other people here that homeschool. I'd love to pick all your brains. I think one of the greatest things would be being able to do things like this cruise while traditional schools are still in session. DH and I are so used to being able to travel according to our own schedules that I think it would be hard to adapt to planning around school schedules.

Or you could be like us and just...haul the kids out whenever you feel like it. I refuse to travel during high season!!

everyone was talking about bringing something from where you live and we figured, what's more representing of where you live than your food! For instance, I have a couple recipes like potato soup, or a "punch-bowl cake" and some others, and know in other parts of the continent food is really specific to that area. Another thing that most people freak out about when they hear we eat it down here is deer. I love it probably as much as beef. Sorry if that bothers anyone. I don't want to offend any vegitarians or vegans or anything. I try to respect everyone's religous, political, and food preferences.

I LOVE that idea, of bringing something local. The whole postcard thing was puzzling me, I didn't know what I could put on it, but maybe a recipe...and the idea of getting a sampling of "real" American regional cuisine sounds really cool. (And if it's off the box, that's ok with me too!) Rob, I actually quite enjoy game usually, but I just don't like to think where it comes from... A bit hypocritical there so I don't talk about it usually, just shut up and enjoy the moose burgers ...not that I have a recipe for those! A lot of "our" stuff shows up in New England cuisine also, anybody ever have a blueberry grunt??

Ok, thank goodness for the time change, I'll get a bit more sleep...g'night folks.

 

[MrsMork]

have a terrible addiction to anything Disney. None of my friends have any idea how much I love Disney.

Oh you have found the right place here! There are many, many of us who have family/friends who don't know the "real us". Out there we have to be professional and adult, here we get to be the Disney Kids that we really are!

 

[MrsMork]

I am going to be missing my monthly bunco party while we are on the cruise. I almost changed the cruise date so I wouldn't miss. Would we have time to play a round or two on the ship? Anyone interested?

There should be time on the sea days if anyone is interested. We have never played, but our DD,DSIL, DNephew and his DW play. I'll have to ask if they want to get something together. DD is Sweetpea on these boards, but she works full time and goes to college as well so she has little time to be her reall Disney Kid.

 

[Cruise]

I LOVE that idea, of bringing something local. The whole postcard thing was puzzling me, I didn't know what I could put on it, but maybe a recipe...and the idea of getting a sampling of "real" American regional cuisine sounds really cool.

That's a really good idea... turn the postcards into recipe cards. I was sitting here wondering how I'd do a recipe card. I wonder if there's a label size that would work for printing out the recipes then attaching to the postcards. I could hand write them, but I don't know if you'd be able to read them.

 

[MrsMork]

So, um, the big excitement here tonight was some awful piercing alarm starting up somewhere in the house...took a while to track it down to the furnace room, and obviously I assumed it was the furnace, which'll freak a girl out...On closer inspection it turned out to be our septic pump. Who knew a septic pump even needed an alarm?? The previous owner, God love him, left a slip of paper with all the names of the service people tacked to the wall above the alarm thingie. ....So, Mr Please-don't-talk-to-me-on-a-dark-rainy-weekend-night Service Guy was pretty discouraging. Dig it up! Call the pumping company to pump the tank! Then I'll come look at your alarm...

It went off two or three times after that, with dh resetting it, but has (knock wood) been quiet for a few hours now. I am really, really hoping it has something to do with the Noel-inspired downpour we are experiencing, and we really don't have to dig the whole thing up...we don't know much about septic, but did get a recent pumping certificate as part of the purchase, so I can't understand why we'd need to pump it again so soon. Pllllease let it be the rain, and plllllllease let it self-resolve without anything nasty backing up into my basement...

20 year septic owners here....we've had some experience but have no alarm. If it was recently pumped (in Oregon that is a requirement at sale) then it should not need pumped.
We did have a blockage at the outlet to our drain field once. That caused it to back up into the basement. ewww! DrHug and a few good men took a long pipe and cleared it out. It was really a funny sight. We ladies were watching from the deck while the gaggle of men were all in the pasture bent over intently looking at the outlet. Then they all JUMPED BACKWARDS as if they had a rope tied one to the other. They heard the WHOOSH! coming their way when they hit the blockage. It did not, of course, come up into the pasture, but they sure thought they were gonna get it!

Or it might be the downpour although we have never had buckets of rain back ours up.

If you have to "dig it up", you don't really have to dig the whole thing up. Just have to dig a hole where the cover is so they can remove the cover to pump it out. Ours is about 2 foot square and about 2 feet deep, so that is the digging that is required. At least that is it if you remember exactly where the cover is. We wound up digging a 4 foot square hole last winter because we were just a tad off on where we thought it was. It backed up during the only week that we had snow and ice, of course. Our pumping guys will NOT dig it up for you, no matter how you plead that you are an old lady and the ground is frozen.

 

[MrsMork]

So, um, the big excitement here tonight was some awful piercing alarm starting up somewhere in the house...took a while to track it down to the furnace room, and obviously I assumed it was the furnace, which'll freak a girl out...On closer inspection it turned out to be our septic pump. Who knew a septic pump even needed an alarm?? The previous owner, God love him, left a slip of paper with all the names of the service people tacked to the wall above the alarm thingie. ....So, Mr Please-don't-talk-to-me-on-a-dark-rainy-weekend-night Service Guy was pretty discouraging. Dig it up! Call the pumping company to pump the tank! Then I'll come look at your alarm...

It went off two or three times after that, with dh resetting it, but has (knock wood) been quiet for a few hours now. I am really, really hoping it has something to do with the Noel-inspired downpour we are experiencing, and we really don't have to dig the whole thing up...we don't know much about septic, but did get a recent pumping certificate as part of the purchase, so I can't understand why we'd need to pump it again so soon. Pllllease let it be the rain, and plllllllease let it self-resolve without anything nasty backing up into my basement...

20 year septic owners here....we've had some experience but have no alarm. If it was recently pumped (in Oregon that is a requirement at sale) then it should not need pumped.
We did have a blockage at the outlet to our drain field once. That caused it to back up into the basement. ewww! DrHug and a few good men took a long pipe and cleared it out. It was really a funny sight. We ladies were watching from the deck while the gaggle of men were all in the pasture bent over intently looking at the outlet. Then they all JUMPED BACKWARDS as if they had a rope tied one to the other. They heard the WHOOSH! coming their way when they hit the blockage. It did not, of course, come up into the pasture, but they sure thought they were gonna get it!

Or it might be the downpour although we have never had buckets of rain back ours up.

If you have to "dig it up", you don't really have to dig the whole thing up. Just have to dig a hole where the cover is so they can remove the cover to pump it out. Ours is about 2 foot square and about 2 feet deep, so that is the digging that is required. At least that is it if you remember exactly where the cover is. We wound up digging a 4 foot square hole last winter because we were just a tad off on where we thought it was. It backed up during the only week that we had snow and ice, of course. Our pumping guys will NOT dig it up for you, no matter how you plead that you are an old lady and the ground is frozen.

 

[MrsMork]

It's funny, your mom sews, you don't, I sew, and my mom couldn't glue a button on.
Do we all get to make Lime Green T-shirts? If so what can we put on the shirts?
For our family shirts I want to make a sick green Jolly Roger with our team name, Sea Sick Psychos.
Will you be decorating your door? I really want to this year. I want to use a theme for the week. Not sure what it will be though.

Yes, yes! Get lime green shirts! Check the link on Wendy's signature. There are door magnets and iron on patterns for the shirts!

 

[MrsMork]

It's more than just tea. The little girl gets a princess doll, crown, wand bracelet, and they get to meet Sleeping Beauty. We did it for DD 3 years ago. She loved it and had many wonderful memories. We both did.

Whew! Glad to hear they get more than just tea and scones and a greet with a princess.

 

[MrsMork]

For $200 the princess needs to come home and do the dishes and

Brack, you obviously raised a young not a

 

[MrsMork]

Do you think the people who aren't DIS'ers but are still cruising are just as "strange" as we are?

Beth

Some are I think. They are the ones that will ask about the green shirts and want to know how to get their own. Others are "just going for the kids" and aren't kids at heart like we are.

 

[SeaSickPsycho]

There's a couple other people here that homeschool. I'd love to pick all your brains. I think one of the greatest things would be being able to do things like this cruise while traditional schools are still in session. DH and I are so used to being able to travel according to our own schedules that I think it would be hard to adapt to planning around school schedules.

I do love the flexability homeschooling provides for my family. We get to travel when it is less expensive and not as crowded. This year I enrolled my son in the new Georgia Virtual Academy. He is now considered a public school child even though I teach him at home. We have an to log in daily but I should be able to do this on the ship.

You are right, it is hard to plan around school schedules. Last year I made the mistake of enrolling my children in three different school. It was crazy. All their days off were different.