09/16/06 Double Scoop Group- see ya real soon!!

[seashells]

Rhonda, sorry to hear about the passing of your father...wishing you and your family the best at this time.

 

[sirena]

Rhonda,
I am TRULY sorry about your loss. I just spoke to DH about your dad's accident today when he was telling me about his bad experience in the flight today. Gosh! Everything happens in one second and your life changes forever. Take care and take it easy.

 

[sirena]

Hi,

I've been lurking and reading the posts for a few months now. Thought I'd finally pop in to say "Hi". We will be cruising with our three girls (almost 2, 5, and almost 8) and my brother, his wife, and daughter (almost 5). We booked our excursions and Palo reservations last weekend, so we're all set on that end.

I think all the work you've been doing is great! Thank you so much for your dedication--or obsession. We'd love to sign up for the wristbands, pins, etc. Just tell me what I need to do.

All this time and now you come out!! Well, More friends for my DD4. Great! Just let me know how many buttons you would like and PM amanda01 for the wristbands.

 

[jjgarv]

Sirena and Bishop,
We are also facing the "Better use the potty or no pools" tactic with Gracie our 3.5 DD. She is so excited and talks abou the cruise everyday! She lists all the characters she will see.....not crazy about seeing Hook and Beast, but insists on bring her Princess dresses to show all the Disney Princesses. Are you all thinking of doing any excursions with your little ones?

 

[sirena]

Sirena, how did your DH like Peru??? I am thinking about Peru for next years vacation....minus the kids of course

Well not only am I trying to lose a few inches for this vacation...eating nuts and apples oat bran cereal water water water instead of my regular diet of coke and chocolates, cookies candy and any meal cooked with wine butter and full cream....

...but I have also made it to day 5 without a smoke

this is the longest i have ever "not smoked" since 1989.....and bonus im not using any patches etc so its not costing me $$

The only thing i miss about smoking is the cashier asking me for ID
when your 35 and the legal age is 18...well it feels nice to get carded!!!!

Asha,
great job on giving up the smokes! put the money you would spend on it away so you can buy drinks onboard and celebrate

DH is still sleeping since he took the redeye from hell. He said it was a busy city (Lima) but we did not get around to talk about anything else but the flight.

 

[sirena]

Sirena and Bishop,
We are also facing the "Better use the potty or no pools" tactic with Gracie our 3.5 DD. She is so excited and talks abou the cruise everyday! She lists all the characters she will see.....not crazy about seeing Hook and Beast, but insists on bring her Princess dresses to show all the Disney Princesses. Are you all thinking of doing any excursions with your little ones?

Wow! Today's the "coming out" day. Glad to see more posters here today. And finally I find some friends for Isa. I was getting worried since everyone else has older kids. Isa did not take the pic w/Hook last time (I tricked her by telling her we were in the line for Mickey) and she said she doesnt want to this time either. Beast was not there though. I did bring the Cinderella costume for her and she wore it on the last night to take a pic w/ Cinderella. Priceless! I don't think I'll do any excursions but just head to the beach/shopping area. I will bring one stroller for DS1(will be 20 months) and DD4 will have to walk. That means I will be limited to 1/2 mile radius. Unless I take a cab...

 

[sirena]

Nobody has voted for the tshirt design yet. Go and click one of the three buttons. C'mon now, lay off that coffe cup.

Here's the link:
Click here to vote (POLL: Tshirt design)

 

[seashells]

I wont be getting t-shirts so I didn't vote....

 

[gssmks]

Welcome aboard to all new families.

I was just checking inquickly before heading out to the Booster's Club meeting. We are hosting a fishing tournament this Saturday and our 4th Annual Mid-Summer Bash next Saturday, so we have planning and organizing to do. This should be all of our fund raisers until the Saturday before school starts back. Then we have a Back to School Bash.

I will stop in to catch up and say "Hello" after the meeting.

 

[SmoothSailing]

Hi,

We'd like two of the buttons, please.

Thanks!

 

[SmoothSailing]

Hi,

We'd like two adult and three children's wristbands.

Thanks!

 

[dzneprincess]

I hate myself today and I do mean hate...



I never ever carry cash. I like to use my debit or credit cards...EXCEPT when we are on vacation. I just returned from vacation June 4th.

Being the lazy person I am, I have not taken my funds back to the bank yet. $900 worth of funds. I know I am stupid. Stupid stupid stupid...I told myself right b4 I left for lunch, oh crud I gotta put that back in the bank or I am going to lose it.


Do you see where this is going? I grab my wallet for lunch. I take the whole thing, like an idiot. I walk over to subway. I order, I pay. I fix my drink. I realize my Ipod and my wallet are in the same pocket. Oh no, cant have that one or the other may fall out. I move wallet to other pocket.


Fix my drink walk to work. Eat my lunch, return to work, reach in pocket to return wallet to purse. Wallet not there! Dont panic Amanda. you left it in the break room. Walk back to break room, not there. Heart skips a beat. Dont panic Amanda, co workers playing a joke on you. Ask co workers, nope they are not messing with me.


Walk fastly BACK to subway, dont get to paniced Amanda, or you will feel like a fool when some good soul has turned it in. Ask manager, wallet turned in? NOPE. PANIC mode sets in. Retrace steps Amanda. Maybe you set it down and you will laugh about this when you find it in the fridge in the breakroom, or in the restroom. NOPE.


Tears and panic now. Back to SUBWAY again. Are you sure no one has turned it in? NOPE...TEARSS TEARS AND MORE TEARS....back to work....cry again..coworker suggests I check trash cans in SUBWAY and around in case someone trashed it...back to SUBWAY...nope not in trash cans....just like that...in the blink of an eye...it is gone. I do not know if I set it down, or if I was pickpocketed. I have been crying all afternoon and I am just sick about it. I have had that $$ in my wallet for 2 weeks now, and thought about paying for stuff with it, but said nah...I like my cards then I can see exactly what I spent where.. iwill just put this iin the bank..STUPID STUPID STUPID...I keep hoping that maybe the person who picked it up, just has not been able to get in touch with me yet. That is very unlikely. $900!!!!!!$900!!!!!!!I think of the OT the Steve worked in order for us to have such a luxirious vacation and I just wasted it away in a second and it breaks my heart. I think of the plans I had for that money, and I get so upset....I am sooo upset right now I just needed to vent

 

[dzneprincess]

Rhonda,
I am so sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[WldWcnWmn]

Rhonda - I am so sorry to hear about your loss. Our family will be thinking about and praying for your family.

(Favorite) Disney Princess Amanda - Do we have enough signed up for Brunch?

Seeing the last two new families that came aboard opened the realitiy for me that "others" are out there that know about Palo and booking at the 90 day mark. I live in a little bubble where I think we are the only 50 families or so that are going on this cruise


We put our request in for buttons, but we're not getting t-shirts I don't want to sway the vote; so I didn't vote...I like both designs!

I took my Castaway Club backpack into our local mall and had it embroidered with my name right above the front pocket. It looks so good. I told Mekayla the bag we get (hope it's a bag) as a CC "gift" this trip will be hers and we can get her name on it after the trip when we get home.

I read on another thread that the exclusive gifts aren't always available - like the toiletry bag and the excursion bag and the Bon Voyage package. We were going to order one of each of these, but it looks like they're a no-go.

I got my Mickey Mouse luggage today from the budget board here on the DIS boards- I don't know what kind of "budget board" it is, I have already bought $100.00 worth of disney stuff I didn't know I needed I have a really nice Joy Mangano bag that I brought on the last cruise (holds a ton of stuff)
but now it looks like we'll be taking this new Mickey luggage. Think it'll be "easy" to find in the Disney Cruise terminal? Probably not! I guess we'd better do what we can to decorate it to make it look "different" I am going to buy a bunch of sharpie markers and tell DD to go to town!

 

[WldWcnWmn]

I am so sorry to hear about your wallet. Oh my gosh I would be freaking out. Nothing I can say to you will make it better - I am really very sorry to hear about your incident. It will turn out o.k. It really will. One way or the other it really will. You'll get a "magical" gift one way or the other. You don't want to hear it, but the universe works in mysterious ways. Keep the faith, don't beat yourself up it'll work out! I know it's easy for me to say - but I am a single parent and I know money comes hard. It'll be o.k. We're gonna' send you blessings and good wishes

 

[akasleepingbeauty]

Amanda I am so sorry about your wallet and money. I know just how you are feeling and it just stinks, doesn't it? I really hope that somehow it works out that the money and wallet is returned but if it doesn't I hope you can forgive yourself. You didn't do anything wrong - the person who stole your money is responsible. It really is the worst when a lesson like that has to be learned in such a painful way!

I will be cruising with dd6 and ds3 and I hope they can meet some nice friends among our DISer families. We too are still working on the potty-training issues - too bad ds can't go in naked as we'd be fine then We're just crossing our fingers and toes and arms and legs that it will all work out by September as ds is really wanting to go to the club and dh and I are really wanting some "quality time" together!

Thanks again for your kind words regarding my dad. He was truly a great man and we'll miss him terribly.

 

[skoi]

any meal cooked with wine butter and full cream....QUOTE]

No wine, butter OR cream? You're a trooper. And no chocolate. I guess if I want to get serious about losing weight I should cut out those things too.

Seriously- I'm struggling to stay on South Beach. I did so well 2 years ago, and it took a long time for the weight to come back on.

Julie

 

[skoi]

Rhonda- our sympathies to you on the loss of your father. We'll be praying for you all.

Julie

 

[ericamanda01]

OMG! What am I doing here!!!! I haven't finished packing! The house is a wreck! I haven't finished laundry. I need to go to the pharmacy, go tanning, I need to take a nap, I need to make dinner! AAAAAHHHHHH

But hey I got my hair cut yesterday and it looks super cute! So I may be going insane, but I am damn sure gonna look good doing it!!!!

Now seriously stop posting so I can get some of this junk done people!!!

Rhonda I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your dad. You and your family are in my prayers.

And Amanda, don't sweat it. It's done and being upset about it won't bring it back. It will only upset you more. Besides it's just money and trust me as a teller at a bank, money really is gross. You wouldn't believe all the germs on it. And now think of all the fun you will have shopping for a new wallet! I'm here to keep your glass half full!

 

[sirena]

Amanda,
Best of luck in getting your wallet AND your money back. Maybe the person who found it is still contemplating wether to give it back or not and will do the right thing. I got pickpocketed once but had only a few dollars in the wallet. A week later the mall security called me and said they found all my documents/credit cards in the trash. They actually kept the wallet.