12/09/06 Cruise Continued ~ Pirating Bananas DIS Geekorama Part 2 Part 6

[Bella2000]

I get ready to sign off and suddenly a flurry of new posts - what to do = stay and read - just for a while - but I have to work - no must stay - gotta go to sleep = stay

No wonder I have a headache

 

[elaineteresa]

hi all - I did link up for late dining but I got eclipsed by the large group with Diana. We are looking forward to it. My kids are big chatters so just be prepared.

We will miss you on thursday night - our Palo night.

don't they say that bigger isn't always better?

elaine

 

[Jhalkias]

But I was doing good!

doing "well" - adv.



John1

 

[Bella2000]

Breyers chocolate double churned light Even the kids like it!

oooh I need to write that one down...40 seconds.................................................

 

[Bella2000]

Sneaking out here... I can't control myself and I'll never get work done.

 

[klineyqueen]

doing "well" - adv.



John1

 

[klineyqueen]

I have enjoyed posting tonight. I will be back tomorrow....early....you know that baby of mine!

 

[pyramid2000]

Sorry, but I have to vent! The local news stopped my laughing instantly.
Our mayor was arrested for a DUI a few months back. Now he is a good mayor and is great when it comes to things for the kids,ie Little league, but a DUI is a DUI to me. I don't care WHO you are! They just said he was convicted. Good. His loss of license is only for 3 months (usually at least 6) and that may be overturned. Something about the validity of the test used. Isn't this ALWAYS the excuse!? OY!

The newspaper also said that he had a woman in the car. He was parked somewhere with the car running. He was begging the officer to let him go and yelling that he would be ruining his family. The officer would be responsible for ruining HIS family?? Ummmm, how about taking responsibility for your own actions!?!?!
Sorry. Done now.

 

[Jhalkias]

PJ or Bella . . .

Any live feeds on the big Apple announcement tomorrow?

Are we all ready to order our new iPods?

Really need to get to bed . . .

John1

 

[pyramid2000]

Yes, that is correct. You have to remember that Dennis and Angie are old, 39 years married. Still some pricing, but more posting and NEVER on deck 9.

OMW!!
Thanks Angie! I needed that!

 

[lbgraves]

oooh I need to write that one down...40 seconds.................................................

I get the vanilla like that too.

 

[pyramid2000]

Hey, he can do that. On our 26th anniversary he had 24 red roses with 2 yellow roses (26 roses for 26 years) sent to my office with a note "Two friends in a sea of love." I can tell you that husbands of my co-workers got educated!

Awwww...

 

[Jhalkias]

Sorry, but I have to vent! The local news stopped my laughing instantly.
Our mayor was arrested for a DUI a few months back. Now he is a good mayor and is great when it comes to things for the kids,ie Little league, but a DUI is a DUI to me. I don't care WHO you are! They just said he was convicted. Good. His loss of license is only for 3 months (usually at least 6) and that may be overturned. Something about the validity of the test used. Isn't this ALWAYS the excuse!? OY!

The newspaper also said that he had a woman in the car. He was parked somewhere with the car running. He was begging the officer to let him go and yelling that he would be ruining his family. The officer would be responsible for ruining HIS family?? Ummmm, how about taking responsibility for your own actions!?!?!
Sorry. Done now.

Don't you know, no one is responsible for what they do anymore - ESPECIALLY politicians!

John1

 

[klineyqueen]

Sorry, but I have to vent! The local news stopped my laughing instantly.
Our mayor was arrested for a DUI a few months back. Now he is a good mayor and is great when it comes to things for the kids,ie Little league, but a DUI is a DUI to me. I don't care WHO you are! They just said he was convicted. Good. His loss of license is only for 3 months (usually at least 6) and that may be overturned. Something about the validity of the test used. Isn't this ALWAYS the excuse!? OY!

The newspaper also said that he had a woman in the car. He was parked somewhere with the car running. He was begging the officer to let him go and yelling that he would be ruining his family. The officer would be responsible for ruining HIS family?? Ummmm, how about taking responsibility for your own actions!?!?!
Sorry. Done now.

Oh that stuff ticks me off! When I was in HS our principal got arrested and had a DUI. He got off the first time. Then it happened again. This time the charges stuck and he ended up losing his job. After the first time the kids would call him Dewy (DUI) behind his back. Talk about a great role model for HS kids!!! Sheesh!

 

[MrsMork]

My 9/11 story . . .

When I originally went on the school board, I was appointed (a previous board member had died in an accident). I was a very reluctant politician, and had I not been appointed at first, I probably would never have run for office.

Anyway, 2001 was the first year that I had to run for my seat on the board. I did my first campaign like I did Disney when we first went - comando style control freak. I had a wonderful campaign committee of friends, and we were meeting every Tuesday morning at my office for a campaign commitee meeting. We were meeting that Tuesday as usual, and while meeting my MIL (who was home with Sophia, our 19 month old) called me on my cell phone to tell me a plane had hit the world trade center. Like others, I told the folks I was with, and we all thought it was a small plane, and an accident.

My friends left, and the rest of the day unfolded to all our horror. MIL kept calling me with updates - tried to get internet updates, and CNN was flooded and you got verrry sloooow updates. I will never forget I was running for office at the time, and that I was in that meeting. The owner of our company was out of town too, and I had to make some business and community decisions for us. That day I called the Red Cross, and told them that we would be taking special collections at our stores for the Red Cross to help victims of the tragedy.

I was also school board president that year, and had to make decisions with our Superintendent on how to handle the kids at school. We let parents who wanted to pick up their kids. We allowed kids to call home and use their cell phones. We allowed kids who were mature enough at the High School to turn on the news as the day unfolded. And we made our counselors and best teachers available for kids who wanted to talk about what was happening.

Our VP of operations was in Las Vegas for a Bakery show, and was actually IN a plane, at the gate when they grounded all the planes. After three days in Vegas, he and the two guys with him rented a car and drove all the way back to Ohio. Three guys in a rented Dodge Neon. On their way home, they stopped at a McDonalds, and he forgot his palm pilot in a McD's in Kansas. They called us because they opened it and found his address, and they mailed it back. It was that kind of time, that NO ONE thought of doing wrong, and keeping something like that.

My most prevelant memory though was the silence in the skies. We had a dog then too, and we live very near our regional airport. There is almost never a time that I am outside that a plane is not taking off, landing, or flying in the short distance. When I would take the dog out, the silence in the skies those nights was eerie. I felt like we had been sent back to an earlier time. When planes did happen to go by infrequently, they were always military, and it was almost a scarey sound, instead of the familiar one that let you know everything was OK.

I do miss something about that time. I know many have said it, but we were truly together as a nation then. We all looked at each other differently, and you got a brotherly feeling from each and every other one of our countymen. We all flew our flags more proudly - and I have flown one at my house consistently since that day. We developed a great respect at that time for those who serve us in our fire departments (Amy's dad is a retired firefighter), police, and others who serve us in our communities. We have become so crazily divided since that time that it is sad to me - and there is not one person, party, or group to blame for that - we are all to blame.

I often hope and pray we can come together like that again without the need for a tragedy like 9/11. Our politicians will have to grow up a lot if that is going to happen. I often worry that we brought another child into the world shortly before the tragedy, a world that has become so changed from the much more innocent time we knew before, and a way of life she may never really know or understand in her lifetime.

John1

John, it is good to remember the kindness. In St Louis there was not one rental car, one train ticket, one bus ticket or even rental trucks available within 3 hours, so I was really stuck there. The staff in the hotel were incredibly kind and generous. I remember walking a couple of blocks that Friday for a prayer service at an old historic church. There was no way to get inside, the parking lot was even overflowing with people - no room for cars. We stood in the parking lot, all strangers, not able to hear anything going on inside but that did not matter. We were together and we were all praying. It was a very amazing moment that I too wish we could have held on to.

 

[elaineteresa]

I'm so lost - are pink fluffy handcuffs a new giveaway item?



elaine

 

[pyramid2000]

All this talk of pricing and pink fluffy stuff....I might have to follow DH to bed. I could do a sudoku puzzle or something!

How could i forget about Sudokuing??

 

[klineyqueen]

PJ or Bella . . .

Any live feeds on the big Apple announcement tomorrow?

Are we all ready to order our new iPods?

Really need to get to bed . . .

John1

I wanted an iPod for my BD but then I told DH to wait. Now I need to think of a reason to "need" one!!!!!

 

[pjpoohbear]

People, I am doing 12 hours days, I check in over my lunch, catch up on 15 pages and then get home to 22 more pages, you all need to get a life, .

Pj

Luv Ya!

Ps, still have 10 pages to catch up.

 

[Jhalkias]

Good night all.

Don't make me catch up on too much tomorrow morning.

I REALLY do NOT need to be DIS'ing at the office anyway, as Amy told me, but I MUST read every post, and I would never get caught up if I didn't!

Disney Dreams!

John1