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

[BuzzBoyMom]

Okay - gotta go...we're having filets, baked potatoes and brocoli tonight. Family favorite.

Ya know - maybe that bed we ordered was really a water bed! Get it...rain...bed...water bed...okay, my brain hurts...I'm calling it a day.

Have fun y'all!

 

[TanaL]

We had a discoloration in our stucco about 1 foot, and I asked the House Doctor, a local fix-it man to fix it. So he called a stucco company and they put up thier metal scaffolding and took down the stucco section and then they ran away. I am serious, never came back. I still have some great metal scaffolding if anyone wants it. So DH goes home and looks at it and puts his hand in the wall and it goes through the 2 x 4. I called the insurance company and the adjuster came to our house and told us we had mold. It was the first case of toxic mold in our valley. They tore off all the stucco and it looked like we had had a fire. Tonight when I get home, I will post pictures.

so the stucco people could tell just by looking at it? Did they tell you what they suspected or just run off and not talk to you? How scary that must have been! Thank goodness you dealt with it right away.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I was just reading your bed story and had to share my shipping horror.

I could not believe that they were going to make us wait that long but we were stuck. Our medical insurance will only cover up to $1K for each device every 3 years and these were only 1.5 years old. I had to fight tooth and nail to get them to pay for these because each time they want to know why DD has the hearing loss. If I knew that, I would be better than the drs.

Oh, I'm so glad yours worked out....considering your situation...mine is nothing. So glad for your DD.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I had to go back and see who got 24000. Congrats PJ

 

[lbgraves]

Are you just offering during the cruise? I need someone for the next 6 weekends. Would like to sleep in alittle...can you take 2 boys for a few days?!

I guess that we all have to be very careful what we say around here.

 

[kimerinc]

Today I feel like the most horrible mother. This morning DD and I had a meltdown over her clothes. She did not like the ones I picked and when I tried to talk to her, it was obvious that the Dragon Tales are way more interesting than I am didn't even hear me talking, so when I brought up the 2nd outfit, I got attitude. We usually do this at night, but because DH is gone, I let her sucker me into watching the wild. Well, lets just say I did not act my age. I told DD it wasn't a 6 year old and mommy fight, it was 2 6 year olds. I threw her clothes on the floor and got all sarcastic with attitude. That works so well! Neither one of us slept well last night and both went to bed WAY to late. But, she has an excuse. I feel like such a dork. Who acts like that. How old am I! I feel ashamed...

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

Today I feel like the most horrible mother. This morning DD and I had a meltdown over her clothes. She did not like the ones I picked and when I tried to talk to her, it was obvious that the Dragon Tales are way more interesting than I am didn't even hear me talking, so when I brought up the 2nd outfit, I got attitude. We usually do this at night, but because DH is gone, I let her sucker me into watching the wild. Well, lets just say I did not act my age. I told DD it wasn't a 6 year old and mommy fight, it was 2 6 year olds. I threw her clothes on the floor and got all sarcastic with attitude. That works so well! Neither one of us slept well last night and both went to bed WAY to late. But, she has an excuse. I feel like such a dork. Who acts like that. How old am I! I feel ashamed...

Um...Kim...we're all entitled to have our moments. The good part is that she probably won't ever remember this day. The bad part is that you will. Don't beat yourself up. From what I hear - just wait till she's a teenager!!!

 

[kimerinc]

Yes, also being told that we couldn't let him cry it out to go to sleep. If his breathing became difficult he would have had to get a tracheotomy. (sp?) It made croupe a little scarey.

Yikes Lisa! So did you get, what, 2 hours of sleep a night for 2 years? And the stress!!!!! YIKES!!!!

 

[DSharpe]

Today I feel like the most horrible mother. This morning DD and I had a meltdown over her clothes. She did not like the ones I picked and when I tried to talk to her, it was obvious that the Dragon Tales are way more interesting than I am didn't even hear me talking, so when I brought up the 2nd outfit, I got attitude. We usually do this at night, but because DH is gone, I let her sucker me into watching the wild. Well, lets just say I did not act my age. I told DD it wasn't a 6 year old and mommy fight, it was 2 6 year olds. I threw her clothes on the floor and got all sarcastic with attitude. That works so well! Neither one of us slept well last night and both went to bed WAY to late. But, she has an excuse. I feel like such a dork. Who acts like that. How old am I! I feel ashamed...

don't be ashamed - i've done the same thing before! sorry - i know it'll all be ok!

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I wish I could get out of the office, but my phone keeps ringing!!!

 

[becka]

What a crazy day. I still don’t have a fix to our production problem but we went ahead and backed out all of the changes. I don’t feel personally too bad because I know that I did what I needed to do as far as testing, etc.. It is a system thing that is not happening in test. No one seems to know why this is happening or how to fix it. Somedays I just LOVE my job.

On top of all of that DH talks to his Mom today and my MIL is talking about going on a cruise! This is a woman who thought we were insane for traveling at all especially with the kids because it was so dangerous. She really freaked out about the cruise because she was convinced we would all just fall off the boat. Now she is talking about going on one herself???? She wants us to explain how to book one, etc.. She says she wants to take one next year and she is actually considering Disney because they don’t have casinos and she thinks there will be far less drinking/smoking and the entertainment will be PG. I think she is under the impression that we are booking one for next year and she wants to go with us. I told DH he had better tell her that the next time we book DCL it will probably be for late 2008. I am wondering if she is just going to decide to come with us on this cruise instead!!!

Now one part of me says we would have extra help with the kids and that could be good but the other half of me says to run like you-know-where. I cannot imagine having her around most of the time. She would want to eat together, see the shows together, sit at the pool together, etc.. and I have other plans. I really want to hang out with you guys and I can’t possibly imagine explaining to her that I have plans with strange people I met on the Internet! I also plan to have a good time and act a little crazy and I can’t imagine her reaction to that. I think that just might do her in. She already suspects I am the worst Mom on Earth and this will just confirm it for her!

 

[pjpoohbear]

Yes but there's just so many season openers for shows next week, i feel like i need to write them down or else i'll miss them.

Desperate Housewives (is it this Sunday or did they change that night too?)
House (i missed the first one because they put it on at 8pm that week)
Grey's (i know 9pm on the 21st)
ER (10 pm ? on 21st)

oh i i think i need to learn to work the VCR because Grey's is on at the same time as The Office on Thursday's now. UGGG

i have a speadsheet in excel, want a copy?

 

[tynkerbell]

kewl on the mickey burgers! i will check out store next time i am there. I suppose I could get a mickey cookie cutter and make them myself too. Are there mickey buns as well?

awww, a shoe girl! I need a dd to buy cute shoes for!!

Ah, how cool would Mickey shaped hamburger buns be?? The patties sound cool too but they'd get lost in the bun. But I suppose the cookie cutter idea works with the bun as well. What a neat idea.

Also would be cute to use a cookie cutter for kids sandwiches in their lunch box. Maybe I'll start doing that as the cruise approaches to get the kids even more excited about the trip.

 

[MommyMinnie]

Tell ya what - both parties customer service STUNK!!!!!!! It was outrageous.

Bottom line where we left it last night....the bed was sitting in the guys driveway. It rained. We told Select Comfort to send us another brand new one and come get that one.


I was speecheless!!!! Had to share the story.

Karen, you are getting no love.

That stinks.

 

[tynkerbell]

And it still isn't working...

I just tried it and it's working fine for me. You said you tried reinstalling realplayer, right?

 

[MrsMork]

They said they would, but we thought it would be better for my DD if we moved in with grandma and grandpa for a while instead. At the time they lived 15 minutes away. That way she could ride her bike and play in the yard. I just could not think of her in 1 room for that long. DH was really sweet about it and my parents were great!

Let's hear it for grandparents!!!

 

[tynkerbell]

in my opinion, you really did not miss anything if you didn't see the finale - very anti-climatic as far as I was concerned!

True. And I felt like it was really rushed at the end. I think everyone was pretty much disappointed with who was in the final two so there wasn't a whole lot of excitement.

 

[MommyMinnie]

Now one part of me says we would have extra help with the kids and that could be good but the other half of me says to run like you-know-where. I cannot imagine having her around most of the time. She would want to eat together, see the shows together, sit at the pool together, etc.. and I have other plans. I really want to hang out with you guys and I can’t possibly imagine explaining to her that I have plans with strange people I met on the Internet! I also plan to have a good time and act a little crazy and I can’t imagine her reaction to that. I think that just might do her in. She already suspects I am the worst Mom on Earth and this will just confirm it for her!

How's she going to react to CJS? and all the ?

 

[MrsMork]

I'm finally getting a chance to tell you all our funny story from last night.

Tuesday, our Select Comfort sales lady calls and says our bed should arrive on Wednesday.

Wednesday, I'm home...no boxes. We were told there were 6 large, heavy boxes that the bed comes in. Okay...waiting...waiting.... Everyone comes home from football practice at 8:30. No bed. I think - okay, tomorrow.

At 8:45, the phone rings...
Me - "Hello"
"Hi, is this Don Rhoad's house"
me - "Yes"
"Is he there?
me - "Yes, may I ask who is calling?"
"Well, did you order a select comfort bed?"
me - "Yes......long pause...."
"well, we have your bed at our house. This is your neighbor about 10 houses away."
me - long pause...."ok, I'll let my husband know"

Apparently the (explatives deleted) delivery man delivered the bed to that guys house and that guy's wife's jewelry to our house. Found that out after I walked out to the driveway at 9PM.

So we call UPS. They say - gosh, sorry, not sure what we can do.

Huh?!!! We have an expensive bed sitting outside at teh wrong house and you don't know what to do?!!!

So we call the bed store where we bought it. They say - can you hire a moving company to go get it

Huh?!! It is 9PM and we paid to have it shipped to our house. Now you want us to pay to have it MOVED from the wrong house to our house.

Tell ya what - both parties customer service STUNK!!!!!!! It was outrageous.

Bottom line where we left it last night....the bed was sitting in the guys driveway. It rained. We told Select Comfort to send us another brand new one and come get that one.


I was speecheless!!!! Had to share the story.

Oh my goodness!! I'm sitting here with my mouth hanging open! That is unbelievable!

 

[MommyMinnie]

Today I feel like the most horrible mother. This morning DD and I had a meltdown over her clothes. She did not like the ones I picked and when I tried to talk to her, it was obvious that the Dragon Tales are way more interesting than I am didn't even hear me talking, so when I brought up the 2nd outfit, I got attitude. We usually do this at night, but because DH is gone, I let her sucker me into watching the wild. Well, lets just say I did not act my age. I told DD it wasn't a 6 year old and mommy fight, it was 2 6 year olds. I threw her clothes on the floor and got all sarcastic with attitude. That works so well! Neither one of us slept well last night and both went to bed WAY to late. But, she has an excuse. I feel like such a dork. Who acts like that. How old am I! I feel ashamed...

You are doing FINE! Have a and find your happy place. After all you did get that mold taken care of didn't you!

I just got into an argument with DD about how to renew a magazine subscription. It seems I'm to befuddled to do it without a blow in subscription card.