An Invasion of a "STRANGER" Kind.... NEW THREAD IS UP!! Go Thee NOW!

[All7OfUs]

He thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Almost as funny as your DF following you around papparazzi-style with the camera at GF!

 

[Flossbolna]

ARE YOU SERIOUS!? Cairo?? Business trips that don't include ANY sightseeing are awful!! Just exhausting busy work, with only the benefit of keeping said employment.

I do hope that you will find a few minutes to make your guesses. I think I have a fun idea for a prizey-poo!

Unfortunately the Cairo threat is serious and I am still working to avoid it! Weired things happening here, now I got a offer for a new job at a parliamentary committee. What is going on? I am really missing my DIS time. Hopefully next week will be better!

 

[Millie12591]

Well, maroo is the sane one, and LeeAnn is older than me by 7 years, so I think between them, they'll put some sanity back into the Master Plan. I imagine the reality will be that we linger over meals a LOT longer than most parties being that we (at least LeeAnn and I) are a tad long in the jaw.

I wouldn't know anything about being long in the jaw.....<moving quickly incase lightning strikes> Your schedule will work it's self out, it has a way of doing that once there, sorta takes on a life of it's own.


I'll do it once more as well, just before I leave. And that one will include my TRAVEL itineraries as well, including the GERMANY and DC Meets!

Can't wait! Although it will mean I'll have already been and long since moved on from the trip. I'll just have to live through yours!



I woke up today, 100% positive it was Saturday. My hubby came in to say good bye on his way to work, and I asked him where he was going! I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed! Ah well, time will fly, because Friday means a lot of work for me.

Tha'ts OK, I looked at my ticker and thought it was wrong and it's not. What is wrong with me?!? Wishful countdowning.

Just popping in to let you all know I am OKAY!! will catch up tomorrow !!!

Sooo glad your good Rosie! I to have been a little worried about and for you. You take your time, we'll all be here....wishful countdowning and all.

Haha, I feel your pain. Fiance and I got to come home a day early, so I spent the day with the little guy. We played outside all day considering it was sunny and 83 degrees!

I'm introducing him to tons of Disney movies before our trip..he loves Peter Pan. Today, he was Captain Hook and he "locked me up" to the fence. He'd leave me there and go play on his swingset. I'd yell, "Hey Captain Hook! Can you set me free yet?!" And he'd be swinging or something and just yell "Nooo..not yet!" Most hilarious thing ever.

Soooo cute!! It sounds like a great time! I wish I had those days back to do over again. Right now I'm in the phase where I want to throw my youngest child out the window. God help me! (joking of course, not the God part)

 

[Millie12591]

Unfortunately the Cairo threat is serious and I am still working to avoid it! Weired things happening here, now I got a offer for a new job at a parliamentary committee. What is going on? I am really missing my DIS time. Hopefully next week will be better!

You in demand to go to another country and another job offer....wouldn't these things be a good thing? Or is it just that it's knocking you off kilter from having a peaceful life right now?

 

[All7OfUs]

Unfortunately the Cairo threat is serious and I am still working to avoid it! Weired things happening here, now I got a offer for a new job at a parliamentary committee. What is going on? I am really missing my DIS time. Hopefully next week will be better!

WHAT?! And I thought Cairo was weird! A new job entirely is over-the-top! Is it something you want? Is it better pay? better hours? More suited to your gifts??

I miss your DIS time too! It's not the same without you!

Tha'ts OK, I looked at my ticker and thought it was wrong and it's not. What is wrong with me?!? Wishful countdowning.

Soooo cute!! It sounds like a great time! I wish I had those days back to do over again. Right now I'm in the phase where I want to throw my youngest child out the window. God help me! (joking of course, not the God part)

What are you doing up!?

I thought we had this fixed! Tickers really are off by a day or even two sometimes. Depends on when you perceive your trip starting.

Keep working on the issues with DD; don't give up! I know it will work out if you are patient, persistent and consistent.

As for your coming and going by the time my trip rolls around, I hope you can live for a long time off the long-jawed TR I have planned! I"m tempted to share my title with y'all now, just to pique your interest.

 

[Flossbolna]

You in demand to go to another country and another job offer....wouldn't these things be a good thing? Or is it just that it's knocking you off kilter from having a peaceful life right now?

You are right and I should see it from this perspective, really! Cairo is a bit of a nuisance since it would be a one day trip which consists mainly in sitting in a conference room - and I am only asked because they want to look more important with more people.

WHAT?! And I thought Cairo was weird! A new job entirely is over-the-top! Is it something you want? Is it better pay? better hours? More suited to your gifts??

I miss your DIS time too! It's not the same without you!

The job could be very interesting, but really isn't what I want to be doing right now. It would include relocating to a new city, same pay, longer hours... And I am not sure that I would be good at. But it was actually very nice to be asked!!

 

[All7OfUs]

You are right and I should see it from this perspective, really! Cairo is a bit of a nuisance since it would be a one day trip which consists mainly in sitting in a conference room - and I am only asked because they want to look more important with more people.



The job could be very interesting, but really isn't what I want to be doing right now. It would include relocating to a new city, same pay, longer hours... And I am not sure that I would be good at. But it was actually very nice to be asked!!

ONE DAY!!! NO WAY!! That's a LOT of travel for sitting in a conf. room!

Sure doesn't sound worth it to me. Same pay for not much benefit. However, I CAN see where it would be nice to be asked. You must be very good at what you do.

 

[All7OfUs]

Every General reaches a point in which planning overload starts to happen; it’s inevitable. The National Archives and Record Administration hold literally billions of documents in offices all over the country! Millions are from every war the US has ever been involved in, and millions more are “captured documents” from the opposing sides. That alone tells me that some sort of generation of information is necessary in the planning and executing of a conflict of any scale in the form of a hard copy. By the way, it’s a fascinating website to tinker around in, if you’re so inclined. They have info. on genealogy, properties, law, you name it; just type in National Archives.

So, you can imagine, there’s just too much to hold in one’s brain when it comes to planning something that is the scope of a nearly 2 week foray in to the Battleground of Disney World! It needs to get on paper, and that’s what I’ve done. It’s now time to introduce you to my brains on paper- Code named:


The Mickey and The Minnie



Obviously, they are not bound yet- otherwise how would I lay out their loveliness for you? Imagine them with brass-ish (yes, I realize that is not a word) metal bindings.

There is no way to keep all that they hold between their lovely pages in my pregnancy-pilfered gray matter. No. Way. It had to be archived into the best I could do, with the limited resources I have. Even toward the end of my creative processes, my printer ran out of ink- and there’s no telling when we’ll find cartridges to bring it back to life. Probably not before we leave… sigh…. I’m really not sure of the best way to showcase all the treasures that they hold, and I know I’d lose your rapt attention fairly quickly if we went page by page. So, instead, I think we’ll go chapter by chapter, and give you a small sampling of the nuggets therein. Unless you scream for more. Which I doubt will happen. So, May is the month of the binders, and all kinds of other random nonsense to keep it fun and lighthearted. Who knows, they may be so incredibly amazing that one day they’ll be added to the collection of the most important documents of the American people at NARA. Look for them one day.

 

[carissanboys]

Very nice.

I normally have a binder for my trips, but not sure my short weekend trip will warrant one.

 

[All7OfUs]

Very nice.

I normally have a binder for my trips, but not sure my short weekend trip will warrant it.

Thanks, Carissa. It's been a fun creative project, that I hope will help alleviate confustication at critical times.

 

[that's nice]

I would never. Besides I really meant it was you that was handsome more than the couple, I just thought it would come off weird to say you were handsome. THEN....it just came off weird any way, so now I'm saying you were handsome in your picture and know that's it's already weird! I mean it in the most sisterly and brotherly way though, does that make it less weird? Besides...your wife is waaaaay prettier than that girl is, you did good!

You are too funny!!! Thank you for the compliment.

I'm so sorry for your loss Tim. I hope the celebration helps with remembering great memories about your friend.

Thank you. It was just a bunch of us having a few beers and hanging out. We met up with his brother and talked.

My Ticker is off by a day....wonder why?

I had 2 tickers last trip and one was off by a day. I know I used the same dates for both. It's OK.. it will make you be prepared one day earlier!

She's four? That's a year longer than my son, and a year and half longer than my daughter. BUT! The good news is that she should start going to bed earlier, you'll find they will poop out much faster at the end of the day. When Ty did this I started moving his bed time back by thirty mins. until I saw that he wasn't beyond tired to early in the day.
So you should get your time back for the most part, it will just come later in the in the evening.

Well this morning she was up at 6:15 and wouldn't go back to sleep. She still needs the naps she is just refusing them. Glad I was sleeping at 10:15 last night.

 

[that's nice]

Nice journals!

I might have to do trip notes next time.. but I do seem to remember most of what went down. I think taking a bazillion pics helps.

 

[If U Had Wings]

I love the binders!!! Very cute.

 

[maroo]

Nice binders!!!

I think I was planning to just keep my info in my iPhone?? But...I like your way better!

Can't wait to see what the chapters hold!

 

[that's nice]

Nice binders!!!

I think I was planning to just keep my info in my iPhone?? But...I like your way better!

Can't wait to see what the chapters hold!

Maybe there is a chapter documenting what veggies you eat and which ones you refuse?

 

[All7OfUs]

Nice journals!

I might have to do trip notes next time.. but I do seem to remember most of what went down. I think taking a bazillion pics helps.

Why thank you... I think you'll enjoy getting to know her sultry secrets...

Photos document- Journals steer the ship.

I love the binders!!! Very cute.

Hi Crissy!! I sure had fun putting them together; and I have to admit, I"m not quite done. I guess I need to get a little closer to finalize some things in them.

Nice binders!!!

I think I was planning to just keep my info in my iPhone?? But...I like your way better!

Can't wait to see what the chapters hold!

Hey Lady!! iPhones are great! I want one soooooooooooooo bad. Unfortunately Disney gets my every last dime this time around.

Just you wait, chickie! It's a wonder to behold.

Maybe there is a chapter documenting what veggies you eat and which ones you refuse?

How could I forget such an important section??!!!

 

[MKBekka]

Nice Brains on Paper! Considering I helped design a few of those pages.

BTW, we all had beans for dinner.

 

[tinkgurl]

Almost as funny as your DF following you around papparazzi-style with the camera at GF!

Yes! Glad you got a kick out of those pics! Love your planning books. You know, tomorrow is May..which means...we are both getting closer to our trips!

Soooo cute!! It sounds like a great time! I wish I had those days back to do over again. Right now I'm in the phase where I want to throw my youngest child out the window. God help me! (joking of course, not the God part)

Haha, I completely understand! We are trying to potty train and he is just being stubborn.

 

[All7OfUs]

Nice Brains on Paper! Considering I helped design a few of those pages.

BTW, we all had beans for dinner.

You did indeed! It was super nice to have company while I designed and dreamed!

Beans, beans the magical fruit...

Yes! Glad you got a kick out of those pics! Love your planning books. You know, tomorrow is May..which means...we are both getting closer to our trips!



Haha, I completely understand! We are trying to potty train and he is just being stubborn.

I can hardly believe it's already May. I think our first thread was started May LAST year!!!!!!!!

I've said it before.... potty training stinks. It was WAY harder than most anything else---- well, except Anara's over-the-top difficult character that we had to corral. That almost gave me a nervous breakdown.

 

[tinkgurl]

I can hardly believe it's already May. I think our first thread was started May LAST year!!!!!!!!

OMG, you are kidding me!! That is crazy to think a year has already flown by.