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

[m_kasch]

What??? You, obsessed???

 

[jenny105]

My whole family is going to this one....even my 39 year old BROTHER.

 

[Lilo's Mom]

Whoa....I've been catching up on the posts today....your 39 year old brother is going to the concert? Did he lose a bet or something? If Kelly tried to take her stepbrother to see the Backstreet Boys, he would rather shove a hot poker in his eyes! Wow!

I have been so busy between my full time job and the part time job, that I haven't been to the movies in about a month....which is really sad considering I don't have to pay to see movies. I finally have a Saturday off this week, so I may just spend the day in the movie theater!

I did find some time to put together the first day of my FE gifts this week, so I have something accomplished. I tried to move on to the second FE gift, but found one of my key supplies was sent to me broken...and naturally I bought it five months ago, so I can't take it back or exchange it. Oh well, lesson learned! Also I need to get some bigger gift bags for the kids...I didn't keep track of what I bought for them and a few things are too big for the bags. For all the parents...don't panic, I didn't buy stuff that is going to be a pain for you to pack and bring home! The gift bags I bought for the kids are about the size of a sandwich baggie, so I need to find something a little longer.

I have been carrying around a spiral notebook to keep track of all the things we need to buy for our trip, the things we need to remember to pack, and the daily plans for the trip. Bob still doesn't understand why there has to be a daily plan. The poor delusional man still thinks you can just decide what you are going to do when you wake up in the morning. I let him try that on our trip last December... the results were a disaster. Silly man.

By the way Karen, thank you so much for the candy! Bob was really happy, he ate one bag right away then put the rest away for another day.

 

[jenny105]

Oh no, there was no losing a bet. He WANTS to go. I was showing the pictures I took to the rest of my family and I took a video of Hangin Tough. He came running in when he heard the song and started singing and waving his arms back and forth. I'm sure the fact that there's going to be thousands of girls there is a factor too!

 

[karentan]

i've had the WORST day. i went to the bank at lunch for my boss to pay in about £10k, i get there and its £500 short. so i've spent the whole afternoon worrying that they think i've done something, and panicking that i'm going to be fired or something.
i didnt get called into her office before i left so i guess i've still got a job, but i've had the worst afternoon just sitting there and panicking for 3 hours.

home now, cant wait til the weekend. i neeeeeed it.

 

[Lilo's Mom]

Karen, it sounds like you had a horrible afternoon! I would think if nobody called you in to ask about the deposit they must have realized they made a mistake. I hope that you are able to relax now that you are home. I don't care what anyone says, stress at work is a killer! Sometimes I get so upset and stressed out I get dizzy, then I go home and all I want to do is sleep.

Hang in there!

 

[karentan]

yeah i had a horrific headache all afternoon, came home and chilled and watched some tv, helped clear my head a bit. not looking forward to tomorrow though.

 

[jenny105]

Sorry you had such a bad day Karen. Try to get your mind off of it and don't even think about tomorrow.

 

[m_kasch]

Karen, that is a horrible day!! I'm sure everything will be fine. Someone probably didn't add correctly. But that must have totally sucked!!

My work was horrible yesterday, not so bad today. I had to deal with some people in the accounting department, I really just hate them and they are not nice...so it was just brining back flashback of when I worked over there and wanted to quit at least once a week, LOL. Thank goodness I transferred departments!!

I get to book my shore excursions and palo ressie in 25 hours, yay!!

 

[disney honeymooners]

hey how is everyone doing today? greg and i found out that his godmother is going to buy us a fridge for our house so that is one less big appliance that we have to buy now we just have to focus on buying a washer and dryer which are about 300 each with gregs discount.
I started packing up all of the stuff in my room and my little brother said sissy where are you going? i told him im moving out when i get married and he said but i dont want you to go. He can be so sweet sometimes.
well jen we have a little over a week and we can finaly book our ADRS.

 

[Lilo's Mom]

That's great about getting a fridge as a gift! Any appliances that you don't have to buy for yourself is a good thing. We had to replace the dryer a couple of weeks ago, so I convince Bob that we should replace the washer as well. The Gods must have been on my side that day because I somehow convinced him to buy the Whirpool Steam Washer and Dryer in red. Oh my goodness I am suddenly in love with doing laundry! They are amazing machines.

I can't wait to make my ADRs, but since we don't start the land portion of our vacation until September 27th, I have to wait a little longer than the rest of you do.

 

[karentan]

i've gotta make mine on sunday, but i still havent decided which ones to go with
i'm so unorganised recently, plus all this cr*p with work really isnt doing my head any favors at the mo.......

 

[m_kasch]

I'm up waiting to book my shore excursions and spa treatments. I'm so excited!! 13 minutes...

 

[m_kasch]

Yay!! I got everything that I wanted for my ressies. I was freaking out because I couldn't get on until 11:15, and I am crazy about the times...but it worked out in the end, LOL. Here is what I booked:

Day 1 -- Rasual Treatment (Spa) 6:30 - 7:20 (it IS our anniversary trip after all, LOL!! )

Day 2 -- Palo at 6:00 pm - This way, we can see the sunset, and still come down to the main dining room with the rest of you. We might not be hungry, although Tim never seems to be full...but I didn't want to miss a dining room!!

Day 3 -- Castaway Cay Couples Massage -- 9:00 - 9:50 am, & Sting Rays, 1:00 - 2:00. I think we will get bikes or maybe a water bike or something too, and we have our own snorkel equipment to do that.

So, I am excited!!! Who is in the Castaway Club here, I can't remember. You guys will get to book your excursions in 15 days!! Yay!!

 

[karentan]

i am, yay!!! didnt realise it was that close, 15 days!!
then again i've gotta make my ADRs on sunday. and i still havent decided what and where yet!

i woke up at 5.30am this morning and couldnt get back to sleep. grrr. so i got up at 6. going to be soooo tired later, and gotta drive straight from work to the airport to pick mum and dad up.

 

[Lilo's Mom]

I'm in the Castaway Club too. Did you call to book everything, or did you do it online? The Disney websites seem to always have issues when I use them. Before we bought into the Vacation Club, we had a reservation at POR with free dining and park tickets. I called to cancel that reservation in April and it took them unitl June 1st to give me back the money I had put into it. It makes me think twice about reserving anything online...my luck we would get on the cruise and there would be no record of what I booked.

 

[m_kasch]

I did it online, and didn't have any troubles. Maybe just because so few people can book at 105 days? It seems like Disney's websites have troubles when there are a lot of people trying to access them at once.

Our cruise is 15 weeks from today!!

 

[jenny105]

Yay for booking your excursions! I can't wait to book mine but I have to wait until July 11th. Oh well, I'll have the ADRs to keep me occupied until then.

I finally uploaded the NKOTB pics. If anybody is interested, let me know and I'll post.

 

[FutureDis]

Hi everyone! How's it going? I've been eyeball deep in Disney World plans since they release park hours for September.... think I have it mostly figured out! Now I just have to get my ADRs <crosses fingers> I think my husband is tired of hearing about DW... LOL. Oh well, I guess it is a good thing that at least one of us is a "planner" type.

Around the end of August I'll get with everyone about the Photopass share. Can't wait! I need to setup the account about 1 - 2 weeks before the first person starts to use it. As far as I know, Karen is going to be the first, starting June 12th, right Karen??

 

[m_kasch]

June 12th? Wow, Karen, you will be in Disney a long time -- I am jealous!!!

Did you hear that the photopass cd is going up in price? I'm not sure if it will affect the prepay or not, I read that on wdwmagic.com I think.

I registered for the 4 parts of my CPA today -- now I am offically nervous!! The first part is July 23rd, and the second is August 28th. They are the longer parts, 4 & 4.5 hours...so by the time I see you all on our cruise, I will be 56.6% done with the 15 hourse of testing!!