10-14-2006 Cruisetoberfest IV

[alikat99]

Hey everyone! Well, I'm officially unemployed as of today. I turned in my laptop and had my exit interview this afternoon. I'm still on payroll until Jan 31st, then I get my severance. I've gotten used to the idea and I'm actually kind of liking the idea now.

We're heading to WDW tomorrow. My sister, her DH and my 3 nieces will be arriving into Orlando very soon, so we're going to meet them tomorrow. Then, we're taking the 5 girls to the Magic Kingdom on Saturday. I can't wait!

Baked TONS of cookies yesterday with my mom, and I'm so happy to be done baking. I don't know how we're going to eat this many cookies.

Safe travels for anyone going out of town for the holidays. We're staying here, but Chris's family will be coming to town for the holiday.

Well, gotta run, I hear Madison crying. (she's tired, but won't take a nap)

Take care...

 

[papa]

Take care Amy and good luck in the job search.

They are talking about the possibility of some snow in the forecast. That stuff is for our northern branches of the dis family. Mike

 

[Hygiene99]

SSSSSHH Mike we do not like the S Word...


Well We Are Of To Logan Airport To Retrieve Winotracy / Bill..
and Will Deliver them Safely To The Cookie Event...
On Saturday ...
Peter


Off to The Henniker New Hampshire High School Site To Invite them To A House party.. starting Friday night .. Running All Weekend...
Peace out Peter

 

[Tulirose]

Please disregard and see following post.

 

[Tulirose]

Tomorrow is Cookie Night. Today much to do but I wanted to post a picture of the Walmart meet earlier this month.

Left to right: Tulirich, Tulirose, Goofynut and Art (sorry I don't remember your user name! LOL)

 

[fortierv]

Everyone have great weekend. Cookie night sounds like a load of fun. Debbie and I will have about 30 in our home for a party tomorrow night so we'll be spreading the cheer ourselves. Christmas lunch at work today and a half day off from the General. WOO HOO.

I'm in a drawing tomorrow through a local radio station to win a new Kawasaki 250 dirt bike. There's 78 of us who get a key and try to start it so my odds aren't too bad. I never win raffles at work though so my hopes aren't high. Debbie said I can keep it if I win but I can probably sell it and pay off our 06 cruise.

Everyone be safe and have a wonderful Holiday.

Van, Debbie and the Girls

 

[Viking]

Tomorrow is Cookie Night. Today much to do but I wanted to post a picture of the Walmart meet earlier this month.

Left to right: Tulirich, Tulirose, Goofynut and Art (sorry I don't remember your user name! LOL)

This is soooooo great

Is it possible that Richard became a bit -uhmm, how shall I say it?- 'richer ' since we last saw him? I guess we have to drag him to the ship's gym in '06

 

[Viking]

Everyone have great weekend. Cookie night sounds like a load of fun. Debbie and I will have about 30 in our home for a party tomorrow night so we'll be spreading the cheer ourselves. Christmas lunch at work today and a half day off from the General. WOO HOO.

I'm in a drawing tomorrow through a local radio station to win a new Kawasaki 250 dirt bike. There's 78 of us who get a key and try to start it so my odds aren't too bad. I never win raffles at work though so my hopes aren't high. Debbie said I can keep it if I win but I can probably sell it and pay off our 06 cruise.

Everyone be safe and have a wonderful Holiday.

Van, Debbie and the Girls

We keep our fingers crossed for you, Van!!!

 

[jeanneg]

Have a wonderful time at cookie night, everyone! Someday, when the kids stop coming home so soon before Christmas, we hope to be able to join you. It sounds like it's gonna be a blast!
Van: good luck with the contest. If you win you gotta buy us drinks!
Amy: have a great time at WDW.....will you be there for Christmas?
Rose: thanks for posting the Walmart photo...that must have been fun.
Arlene and Andy: Merry Christmas???????? We thought you were the "other guys"......!

 

[alikat99]

Amy: have a great time at WDW.....will you be there for Christmas?

No, we're just going tonight and Saturday. We only live 1.5 hrs away, so we are there quite often. I can't wait though, because it's the first time that my BIL has been to WDW with his 3 girls. Every other time that we've gone when my sister is in town from Norfolk, my BIL is out to sea with the Navy.

We're on our way out the door right now.

Have fun a good weekend everyone!
Amy

 

[Twinave]

Love the picture of the mini-meet at Wally World!
Avé

 

[Viking]

I just finished my xmas-shopping I was at the office at 0645am today, but as I was nearly alone in our 300+ people-office-building with no one coming by or calling everything went so smoothly that I had everything done at 1015am. So I went to our area's nicest mall and did some serious shopping When I left the mall at 1pm all parking spots were filled and it started to get hysteric in there - The early shopper avoids the storm
Tonight I'll do the long due update, adding okwmiester & alicat99 :jumping4: and removing our friends from Colorado All additional requests for changes should be submitted not later than 1pm EST!!

 

[Hygiene99]

Hi everyone! Tracy and Bill arrived safely in Boston yesterday! We are getting ready to go to Cookie night! We are having great fun! Went to lunch and then to a concert. Tracy got to go up on stage with Martina McBride!! It was so exciting. Too bad we didn't have a camera with us! Hope everyone has a great day! Will report back with all the info from Cookie night when we get home.

 

[Hygiene99]

Hi All .. Peter here

We Went to Legal Seafoods For lunch and then headed off to The Surprise we planned for Winotracy and Bill .. We Got Tickets For The Martina McBride
Joy of Xmas Show .. Front Row... Was AWESOME With Martina Singing Directly To us .. LOl Was An Awesome Show
During the Second Half of The Show Tracy Was Selected By one of the Back up Singers To Go Up On Stage and Sing Christmas Songs With Martina,

And Us With out A Camera Was Great Fun For All..

We let them know what the Surprise was about 2 hours Before, But left out the Part about Being in the Front Row..So As I Parked the Car.
Running Late Due to Traffic Mess... Jenn Escorted them to There Seats
Very Surpirsed...Show started late and I Joined them..with out Missing A beat.. .... Today we are off to the World Famous Cookie Night Event...
and then later this Evening .. A Dis Dinner Meet....
What A great Weekend ... Peter

 

[Viking]

Folks,
I just sent The List. I needed some extra-time, because today I found 'Pretty in Pink' on DVD and Anja I had to watch it immediately tonight - 1980ies at its best
To all the Cookie-Lovers:
Have a great night
If the Dollar continues its drop next year we may join you in '05

 

[jeanniec]

Eric -- Thanks for the list and all the hard work you are doing to keep it up. Anja must be aging very quickly since we saw you in October as the list states that she will be celebrating her 80th birthday in 2006. Maybe you are exercising a bit too much.

I'm sure you are all enjoying Cookie Night. Wish we could be there, too.

 

[Viking]

Eric -- Thanks for the list and all the hard work you are doing to keep it up. Anja must be aging very quickly since we saw you in October as the list states that she will be celebrating her 80th birthday in 2006. Maybe you are exercising a bit too much.

I'm sure you are all enjoying Cookie Night. Wish we could be there, too.

Jean,
we will celebrate Anja's AND Eric's 80th birthday: Anja will be 37 and I will be 43 (37+43=80).
And you can never exercise too much

 

[Tulirose]

Cookie "night" was great fun. We are not allowed to disclose the secrets of this sacred event BUT we CAN discuss other aspects of it.

First, Rich and I were disappointed to find out Arlene and Andy were not going to make cookie night due to Andy feeling under the weather (Hope you're feeling better Andy!). Arlene and Andy live only about 20 minutes away from us and we seem to only meet in other states. Hopefully that will change before our cruise in 2006 and there was a general consensus last night to have a NY DIS meet sometime this Spring or Summer. We will have to work out the plans for that

Sarahsmom and group (MaryJo, Sam and Sarah) were the first ones we saw before actually arriving at Bette and Kim's house. We saw Sam when we went to park in the wrong spot and quickly circled back to park next to them. Upon arriving in the house we were priviledged to meet Gulliver - The largest dog I have ever personally met in my life! He led the way for us to arrive into the kitchen where we found Bette and Kim making final preparations for cookie night. We were warmly greeted by them and soon other guests began to arrive.

Hygeine99 (Peter and Jen), WinoTracy (Tracy and Bill), CDMickeyLover (Fiona and Jim) and someone (sorry I forgot both user name and RL name) from the Panama return cruise, all arrived along with many of Kim and Bette's friends and neighbors. They had a full house. Rich was laughing at initial introductions because people were being introduced with the user board names and it reminded him of the Identify Theft commercials.

As previously said, sacred events of Cookie Night cannot be revealed but we had a wonderful time. Rich did get a rise out of the ladies present, however, when he made a chauvinistic comment in fun a bit louder than he planned on. The women responded quickly and loudly. I have to say, in defense of my hubby, he really is the furthest thing from a chauvenistic male.

Kim and Bette - You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for welcoming us into your home and allowing us the opportunity to meet so many different people. One of the neatest things about the DIS boards and an event like this is being able to talk with so many people from so many different places. Wish we could have stayed to join the mini-DIS meet at the restaurant later and allow us more time to talk further with more people. But, as you know, we headed back to NY early and this allowed us to stop by a relative's home and join a family event Saturday night that we had completely forgotten about.

Next year, if we are invitied again, we plan to arrange our schedule differently allowing us to participate in a late night of fun!!!

 

[piglet33]

Glad everyone had a great time at Cookie Night. Hopefully we'll be able to make it next year. We're expecting some snow tonight so it looks like I might be working from home tomorrow.

New computer is up and running so fast. I really love this thing. Lenny set the
other one up in the basement and loves it. He sits on the couch and surfs. Looks like I may never see him.

 

[Viking]

Glad to hear that CookieNite was a success.

I also have a new gizmo for my puter: I added a DVB-T Receiver, which I can either hook up to the desktop or my notebook. DVB-T means DigitalVideoBroadcast-Terrestrial. I can receive 24 stations in digital quality and can record them on my harddisk, cut out the commercials later and then burn it onto DVD.