9/24/09 3 Day Wonder - Cruise Meets, and FEs, and Goombays oh my!

[jenny105]

We'll figure it out when you book the cruise! We don't have to worry about it until then.

Glad you're able to get on the boards. I'm at work too!

 

[m_kasch]

LOL, we are such hard workers!!

Ugg, if I didn't take a break to Dis, I would go nuts!! I work with Unclaimed Property, which is people who don't cash their checks...and I get some interesting people calling me (obsessively) and sending bizarre letters to me. And then I have to file reports with every state, and keep track of all their rules...today is check cutting day though, which means counting letters and all sorts of fun-ness. LOL. I have about a million job functions. Most companies have about 6 people doing my job. We have me!! And it's a big company for that matter. This fall, I have to send out about 35,000 letters to people who don't cash their checks. All by myself. So when you a girl walking around the ship with about a zillion papercuts...you will know it is me!!

I am excited to be sitting with you guys too!! It will be way more fun than sitting with people who look like they want to kill you, LOL!!

 

[Lilo's Mom]

Yay! Another person on our cruise! Welcome! I'm sorry to hear that you got seasick the last time. Hopefully, this cruise will be much, much nicer for you. My name is Jen and I'll be sailing with my DBf Joe. We've been on cruises before but this will be our first DCL cruise!

Hi Jenny, I am Donna, my DH is Bob, and my DD is Kelly. Thanks for the well wishes about my seasickness. I hope it will be much better this time since I know what to expect and how to prevent it before it even starts!

I see that you are staying to Port Orleans. We originally booked there last September with bounce back and got free dining...it is our FAVORITE resort. Then we went to a DVC event here and decided with all of the money we spend at Disney year after year it made sense for us to buy. So I gave my Port Orleans reservation to a friend, and we are staying at Kidani Village using our points.

BTW I am addicted to the NKOTB CD...I heard they are coming back to Chicago in June or July, I would love to see them again.

I am hoping that my DH doesn't get seasick as well. I bought some WalDram (Walgreen's generic dramamine, I work at their corporate office and I got it super cheap at our sample store), so hopefully I will be prepared!! It would NOT be fun to spend our cruise with either him or I seasick.

I just noticed that you live in Illinois too. I know where Frankfort is, before my DH and I got married I lived in Lansing (Illinois, not Michigan ) and I have a few friends that live in Frankfort.

Isn't having a discount great! I have a part time job at Jewel Osco just for the discount on groceries and Osco brand products. Gotta love that you can buy 500 aspirin for about .70 cents!

We are gonna have so much fun i am hoping that my DFi doesn't get sea sick he has been deep sea fishing so i hope that he wont that wouldn't be a good way to spend out honeymoon. BTW just to let our new comer know my name is Lainey and i will be sailing with my soon to be DH Greg this will be his first cruise and my 4th cruise and my second one with disney.

Hi Lainey! Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! and thanks for the welcome.

I GOT IT BOOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry for the delay in getting on here but was at work til 5 (12pm EST) and was spending too much time on the net at work as it was waiting for the free dining to come out (oops.......) that i thought it wasnt a good idea to dis too!
but i got 12 nights at All Star Music including one day passes (dont need these as we've got annual passes but had to buy them to get the dining) for 2 of us for $1273.98
there are NO WORDS for how happy I am at the mo!!!!!
and this also means that:
I GET TO COME ON THE CRUISE!!!!
i havent booked it yet as we're going to book a cat 12 and there arent any available at the mo, but will book one as soon as it becomes available! at the very worst i'll book a cat 11 but if i can save $200 i'll wait!
gotta book the flights in a mo (and at some point cook dinner, but hey that can wait, gotta get my priorities right!!) but we're coming to florida!!

thanks so much for posting that the free dining was out, nice to know people care so much!!
ps: i managed to book it at 5.30am EST, shhh! i'd been religiously hitting refresh on my computer since 4am EST this morning!

Congratulations Karen on getting your Free Dining booked! I love free dining and am going to really miss that you can't have it with a DVC stay.

 

[m_kasch]

BTW I am addicted to the NKOTB CD...I heard they are coming back to Chicago in June or July, I would love to see them again.

I love NKOTB also!! I totally wanted to go to that concert, but I had already gotten tickets to see something else with my DSis, so I had to skip it. If the come back to Chicago, I am totally going to have to see them. I wanted to see them back when, but I was too little

Having the discount IS great, but the sample store just got closed up here in Deerfield. So sad!! At least I still get the discount in the stores.

We used to drive through Lansing on the way to Michigan, to avoid the construction on 80. Isn't there always construction there?!? I drive all the way up to Deerfield for work, and there is construstion almost the entire way to the exit I get off at off the tri-state. And now they are starting bridge construction, so my few breaks from the construction are going away. Don't you just love all the construction here in beautiful IL??? And the snow in March??? Can you tell I just love living here, LOL!! If my DH would move, I would be gone to FL in a flash!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

yeah we will have so much fun but its disney how could we not have fun
I can't wait for September our wedding and the great weather on the honeymoon anything at this point is better than the weather here it has rained almost 4 days in a row it hasn't been pretty here for awhile!! Since i tend to get headaches when the barometric pressure changes rain is not fun for me i am at home right now nursing a very bad headache thank goodness for yall i have someone to talk to so that i don't go crazy sitting at home alone.

 

[jenny105]

Hi Jenny, I am Donna, my DH is Bob, and my DD is Kelly. Thanks for the well wishes about my seasickness. I hope it will be much better this time since I know what to expect and how to prevent it before it even starts!

I see that you are staying to Port Orleans. We originally booked there last September with bounce back and got free dining...it is our FAVORITE resort. Then we went to a DVC event here and decided with all of the money we spend at Disney year after year it made sense for us to buy. So I gave my Port Orleans reservation to a friend, and we are staying at Kidani Village using our points.

BTW I am addicted to the NKOTB CD...I heard they are coming back to Chicago in June or July, I would love to see them again.

I've never stayed at POR and I'm looking forward to it. We took a side trip to check it out last time we were down in Orlando and it's just so beautiful! I can't wait to stay there. I'm afraid I'm going to get lost though, it's so big!

DVC would probably be a good investment for me one day!!

I love NKOTB. I have for 20 years! I'm planning on seeing them June 13 when they come back to NJ. This will be the 4th time on this tour.

LOL, we are such hard workers!!

Ugg, if I didn't take a break to Dis, I would go nuts!! I work with Unclaimed Property, which is people who don't cash their checks...and I get some interesting people calling me (obsessively) and sending bizarre letters to me. And then I have to file reports with every state, and keep track of all their rules...today is check cutting day though, which means counting letters and all sorts of fun-ness. LOL. I have about a million job functions. Most companies have about 6 people doing my job. We have me!! And it's a big company for that matter. This fall, I have to send out about 35,000 letters to people who don't cash their checks. All by myself. So when you a girl walking around the ship with about a zillion papercuts...you will know it is me!!

I am excited to be sitting with you guys too!! It will be way more fun than sitting with people who look like they want to kill you, LOL!!

35,000 letters??? Do you have anyone to help you out girl?? I would be going crazy!

 

[disney honeymooners]

I think i would go crazy doing that many envelopes but then again i do filing occasionally for my moms law firm and i get so many paper cuts that i look like i shook hands with edward scissor hands. However i am more accident prone that most people so it could just be me anyone else that i see doing filing doesn't ever have as many paper cuts as me.

Donna- You are very welcome thank you very much me and my DFi are looking forward to the wedding mainly so that all the stress will be gone!!
He is looking forward to fishing @ CC and the fact that he can eat as much food as he wants on the cruise since it is already paid for he still thinks that is really neat.

 

[jenny105]

Lainey, sorry to hear you aren't feeling well. Today it's gorgeous out but it's supposed to rain for the rest of the week! I hope the weather is perfect for our cruise!

 

[disney honeymooners]

it has been UGLY here all weekend and now the begining of the week also it is overcast and you cant see the sun i miss those few days where it was really warm here and i could start wearing my capris and flip flops

 

[jenny105]

Those days won't be here for us til May! I'm taking a trip to VA at the end of April so I'm hoping for some warm weather there!

 

[disney honeymooners]

may be they will be lucky i just hope that the 11th of April is sunny its my little brothers 5th birthday party and we are having it a a Place Called Pettit Creek Farms where he can ride ponies, go on a hay ride and see camels and other big animals and then a petting zoo and lots of games. As long as it is sunny for that i guess i can live through the rain. His birthday the last couple of years has been REALLY cold it will be really warm all the days leading up to his birthday and then bam a cold snap will hit and we will all be in big jackets and trying our best to stay warm.

 

[jenny105]

That sounds like a lot of fun! I'll keep my fingers crossed that it will be warm and sunny for his bday!

 

[disney honeymooners]

please do he is looking forward to it so much. He is also looking forward to starting kindergarten this August but what he doesn't know is that before he can go to school he has to get atleast 4 more shots and my mom is trying to get anyone else to take him to the drs office to get it done b/c she doesn't want to be the one that has to do it but none of us want to do it either b/c we know that as soon as they do it he is gonna want his mommy

 

[jenny105]

Aw poor kid. I don't know why but shots never bothered me as a kid. Except that one where it makes the little bump on your arm. That kind of hurt. I was always ok with needles. Blood...that's another thing all together. I can't even look at people giving blood. It's not the needle in the arm that bothers me...its the bags of it. Ick.

 

[disney honeymooners]

when i was little i had a problem with needles but i def have no problem now if it comes down to having to take a weeks worth of medication and not feelign better for a while or getting a shot and feeling better imedialty i choose the shot!! I have no problems with blood i have given blood numerouse times they love mine since i am O Neg they put on my Red Cross Blood Donor card that i am typeO Hero. The only problem is that if i ever need blood the only kind i can get is O Neg. My mom use to faint at the sight of blood when i got my wisdom teeth taken out i was all doped up and i had to change my own gauze b/c my mom had tried to and passed out cold on my bed so i was doped up trying to stand infront of the mirror and change the gauze in my mouth yeah i fell over quite a few times i am already a very clutzy person add pain medication and i am like a new born deer trying to walk

 

[jenny105]

I can only imagine you trying to do that when you're all messed up on meds! They've had two blood drives at my office and I have thought about doing it...but then I walk by someone who's giving (the room they do it in is right by our lunchroom!) and I immediately feel queasy. I don't know if I'd be able to do it!

 

[disney honeymooners]

my mom tried to give blood she didn't have much of a problem with it since she didn't look at the bags and she didn't look when they put the needle in but she has REALLY BAD VEINS and they collapsed so the red cross couldn't even use her blood they told her they appreciated ehr trying but that she shouldn't try giving blood since her veins collapse and they are very hard to find they said it would cause her too much pain and they would never want to do that. Half the time when they are taking my blood i fall asleep while in the chair but since i am going into the medical field blood of course shouldn't bother me if it did i am in the wrong area plus i am accident prone so i see my own blood way too much.

 

[jenny105]

Well, if I need first aid on the ship, I know who to look for! I went with one of my friends while he was giving blood to keep him company and I had to get up and walk away. Yeah, I don't deal well with it!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

yeah by then i will have been recertified in first aid and cpr so if you need anything come see me
Since im accident prone it helps for me to know how to fix myself up if i fall

 

[jenny105]

In that case, if I hear 'Woman Overboard!', I'll know who it was!