and we're back. [Walt, Wizards, and....Woolungasaurus?]

[bumbershoot]

Talked to the cousin, it's going to be really amusing to see her in person. The last time I saw her, she had no kids, I wasn't married, and it was for my mom's funeral. Not a good time to have fun! But just talking with her, I can hear that our voices are almost the same, which cracks me up.

See, our moms had/have kind of weird voices. Intriguing voices, but not "pretty". Not unpleasant, but definitely different. And my cousin and I have these high, light voices, and I know that hers is pleasant, and I've heard enough people tell me nice things about my own voice...I think it's going to be pretty funny for those around us to hear us chatter.

Anyway, we had a pre-talk talk the other night, and she just wanted to know that they can open their schedule for whatever, that they think a weekend plus a day before and after is good for them, and that I should choose whatever resort that works for our group.

Woo!

So we're going to talk again at the beginning of next week (since she and her husband are running off to stay at POP for the first time, this weekend).





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Gotta complain for a second, just to put it out there in the ether.

Not the happiest of subjects, by the way, feel free to skip it! It's just something that is really bothering me!




I'm really getting bothered by people who flippantly say things about "drinking the koolaid", when they are talking about, for example, owning DVC or Dave Ramsey's "being weird". Don't they remember what they refers to? It's not a funny thing. It's a horrible awful disgusting thing. "The greatest single loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster until the events of September 11, 2001". I was only a kid when it happened, but I could never ever use that "koolaid" phrase (though actually I just read on the wiki page that it was "flavor aid" not kool aid). Too ugly.

OK, complaint done!

 

[kaoden39]

And growing up in the bay area maybe we were closer to it. I find those "jokes" tasteless myself.

I am pleased to hear about you and your cousin. I hope they havea good weekend.

 

[bumbershoot]

kaoden39, that's very possible. Just like when I'm looking through the Lego catalog and see the Indiana Jones "Chauchilla" set, I get a little shivery, b/c I'm sure the name is said just like Chowchilla.

It's interesting. While I was looking at that wiki page (knowing that not all wiki pages are perfect with excellent info), it said that Harvey Milk and Moscone were involved with Jim Jones before he went to Guyana. And Milk/Moscone are considered, especially after the movie, to be heroes...my mom sure did mourn Milk. Just thought it was interesting how those guys were "taken in", to a certain extent, by Jones.

Also disturbing how much Jones looked like my first stepdad (who had the quintessential 70s hair and wore polyester shirts every day, oohhhh).

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, the hubs is just about landing at his stopover airport right now, on a week-long business trip! Sigh. Dude's gonna freeze; his more wintery coats are all too small right now, and so he has a nice warm fleece and a windbreaker type jacket to go over. I think I convinced him to put his gloves in his carryon, just in case his bag gets separated from him temporarily.

He lost another FOUR pounds! So that's 9 pounds in 2 weeks. As we've been saying, he's finally losing weight like a guy! Woo! He's going to hit wedding weight in no time, and wedding weight was gooood. I'm doing well, too, though I don't have a good scale. He is doing the 12 week program at the Y, and so can use their digital scale that is calibrated. I just have the old fashioned scale, which you would think would be accurate, but the employees say that it's often out of whack, and people really abuse it. So I guess I just gotta go with how I feel and look, and watching various lumps and bumps disappear (though I often didn't know I had those lumps and bumps, my dysmorphic concept of my body is THAT bad).

Eamon got into the gymnastics class (2 weeks after it started), and starting tomorrow he'll have FOUR days that he needs to be at the Y, vs the 3 from before. If he's at the Y, I'm there, and if I'm there I'm going to work out. So I'll be stepping it up! I'm pretty excited. I have many clothes from before the weight gain(s), and I don't tend to buy trendy-trendy stuff, so I'll end up with an old/new wardrobe as I smallen (I love that made up word).

So this is us!

It's going to make being in FL so much easier.

 

[kaoden39]

kaoden39, that's very possible. Just like when I'm looking through the Lego catalog and see the Indiana Jones "Chauchilla" set, I get a little shivery, b/c I'm sure the name is said just like Chowchilla.

It's interesting. While I was looking at that wiki page (knowing that not all wiki pages are perfect with excellent info), it said that Harvey Milk and Moscone were involved with Jim Jones before he went to Guyana. And Milk/Moscone are considered, especially after the movie, to be heroes...my mom sure did mourn Milk. Just thought it was interesting how those guys were "taken in", to a certain extent, by Jones.

Also disturbing how much Jones looked like my first stepdad (who had the quintessential 70s hair and wore polyester shirts every day, oohhhh).

So many people were taken in by Jim Jones. Most people like that are charismatic and it draws the people in. Milk and Moscone were both great men. They loved the city and the people of it and their lives were devoted to improving the lives of the people. Their deaths were so sad. And wow Chowchilla, that scared me for years, I wasn't able to go near a bus without a panic attack for years after that.

Well, the hubs is just about landing at his stopover airport right now, on a week-long business trip! Sigh. Dude's gonna freeze; his more wintery coats are all too small right now, and so he has a nice warm fleece and a windbreaker type jacket to go over. I think I convinced him to put his gloves in his carryon, just in case his bag gets separated from him temporarily.

He lost another FOUR pounds! So that's 9 pounds in 2 weeks. As we've been saying, he's finally losing weight like a guy! Woo! He's going to hit wedding weight in no time, and wedding weight was gooood. I'm doing well, too, though I don't have a good scale. He is doing the 12 week program at the Y, and so can use their digital scale that is calibrated. I just have the old fashioned scale, which you would think would be accurate, but the employees say that it's often out of whack, and people really abuse it. So I guess I just gotta go with how I feel and look, and watching various lumps and bumps disappear (though I often didn't know I had those lumps and bumps, my dysmorphic concept of my body is THAT bad).

Eamon got into the gymnastics class (2 weeks after it started), and starting tomorrow he'll have FOUR days that he needs to be at the Y, vs the 3 from before. If he's at the Y, I'm there, and if I'm there I'm going to work out. So I'll be stepping it up! I'm pretty excited. I have many clothes from before the weight gain(s), and I don't tend to buy trendy-trendy stuff, so I'll end up with an old/new wardrobe as I smallen (I love that made up word).

So this is us!

It's going to make being in FL so much easier.

You guys are doing great. And how great for Eamon and the gymnastics, I bet he is loving all his classes at the Y.

 

[bumbershoot]

OK I gotta stop reading about those awful things! Otherwise my prepretrip report is going to become "let's talk about psychos" report, and since there's no category for that, it'll be moved to the Community Board, and no one wants that.

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When last I did a really pretrip related post, I was talking Epcot.

Does anyone have any good Epcot websites to share with me? I looked at WDW, wdwinfo, and stitchkingdom's epcot pages already.

I was actually going to morph from a park over to Disney Quest, but then I went a'lookin' at wdwinfo's info, and...meh. When E's older, I think.

 

[QueenDoOver]

First of all, I admit it...I have used that phrase! Completly without any knowledge of where it came form, even though I do know about that horrible event. Just didn't link it. I will not do that again!

Well, the hubs is just about landing at his stopover airport right now, on a week-long business trip! Sigh. Dude's gonna freeze; his more wintery coats are all too small right now, and so he has a nice warm fleece and a windbreaker type jacket to go over. I think I convinced him to put his gloves in his carryon, just in case his bag gets separated from him temporarily.

He lost another FOUR pounds! So that's 9 pounds in 2 weeks. As we've been saying, he's finally losing weight like a guy! Woo! He's going to hit wedding weight in no time, and wedding weight was gooood. I'm doing well, too, though I don't have a good scale. He is doing the 12 week program at the Y, and so can use their digital scale that is calibrated. I just have the old fashioned scale, which you would think would be accurate, but the employees say that it's often out of whack, and people really abuse it. So I guess I just gotta go with how I feel and look, and watching various lumps and bumps disappear (though I often didn't know I had those lumps and bumps, my dysmorphic concept of my body is THAT bad).

Eamon got into the gymnastics class (2 weeks after it started), and starting tomorrow he'll have FOUR days that he needs to be at the Y, vs the 3 from before. If he's at the Y, I'm there, and if I'm there I'm going to work out. So I'll be stepping it up! I'm pretty excited. I have many clothes from before the weight gain(s), and I don't tend to buy trendy-trendy stuff, so I'll end up with an old/new wardrobe as I smallen (I love that made up word).

So this is us!

It's going to make being in FL so much easier.

Oh yeah for both of you! That is great. And it is all about getting around easier and enjoying life more and being there and being healthy for the kiddos, etc. I am also working out and feeling great for it, but the changes are slow. I did tell my husband that even after 10 days of eating better, I feel like my muffin top is smaller. I don't have a measuring tape but I wish I did. Sometimes that is more rewarding than dropping pounds. We used to do the Y, but Nathan doesn't like the kid's area, can't swim by himself now that they changed the rules, and since it was such a germ fest and flu was going around we stopped our membership. We will probably go back at some point though.

 

[bumbershoot]

First of all, I admit it...I have used that phrase! Completly without any knowledge of where it came form, even though I do know about that horrible event. Just didn't link it. I will not do that again!

Oh no, I was so so hoping that none of my friends here had used it. Dangit! I never meant to be rude to anyone.

Oh yeah for both of you! That is great. And it is all about getting around easier and enjoying life more and being there and being healthy for the kiddos, etc. I am also working out and feeling great for it, but the changes are slow. I did tell my husband that even after 10 days of eating better, I feel like my muffin top is smaller. I don't have a measuring tape but I wish I did. Sometimes that is more rewarding than dropping pounds. We used to do the Y, but Nathan doesn't like the kid's area, can't swim by himself now that they changed the rules, and since it was such a germ fest and flu was going around we stopped our membership. We will probably go back at some point though.

Woohoo for muffin top shrinkage! Isn't that just an awful place to gain? It feels like it will never leave. Only thing worse for me is the lower abdomen nonsense from pregnancy. Can't suck that in! Hubby insists that that area is shrinking on me...of course, as I note the changes, I also note that..it must have been WAY bigger than I thought it was...gah.

Oh the Y is so nasty! Or rather, some parents are nasty. It's one thing if you just don't know your kid is sick. But on Sat and today there were obviously coughing kids in the free kid play area (they have a front room where kids under 10 can play while their parents work out right in there...that's how it is *supposed to* work, at least). And the parents are always the ones with earbuds shoved into their ear canals, oblivious to little Johnny coughing his lungs out.

What a bummer they changed their swim regulations! Poor Nathan!

 

[bumbershoot]

Grr! We're both not feeling well. E is coughing. So, despite the strong urge to go "get back" at those coughers we've been around, we're staying home. Gol dang.

So that should give me ample time for research! But right now I'm helping hubby from afar with his hotel that seems to have given the wrong info to hotels.com, and is pretending like they are giving him something for free, instead of giving him what he paid for. Grr.

Ooh the hotel dude is a liar liar pants on fire. "we don't have that kind of room with Expedia" is what he said. But we booked it with hotels.com. And...they do indeed have that type of room on Expedia! Grr. Anyway, he moved Robert to the proper room, so that's good. And I can't blame myself for a cruddy hotel, because Robert chose this one. But I did the actual booking, so I still do feel guilty!

I want Thai food soooooo bad. But our "family fun fund" is down to 4.01 for the month and that's not enough for more than a thai iced tea! Though that sounds good....I should go out to get OJ anyway (if R were here I'd leave E home, but...)...



I'll get to researching soon, I promise!

 

[kaoden39]

This year is so much worse for colds and such. I never get colds and in the last six months not only did I have H1N1, but I have had two colds. Enough already!!! I hate having colds. I ordered a couple of Disneyland books from Amazon the other day and they came today so I have been pouring over them. It's not like I have never been, I know what to expect but, I am so addicted, I love the books and there was a new one I had never seen so I had to have it. It is the Imagineer's Field Guide to Disneyland. So I am in earnest palnning for a trip that will not get canceled on me this time.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh how fun to get those books!

OK I thought I could be more chatty, but my brain seems to have disappeared.

 

[kaoden39]

Oh how fun to get those books!

OK I thought I could be more chatty, but my brain seems to have disappeared.

I am not sure but I am seriously addicted to those books. You know they don't really change that much from time to time but I had to have the new Birnbaum. Although it has been since 2007 that I have been in the park, there have been changes.

 

[bumbershoot]

Realized I hadn't looked at allears' pages on the park.

"Epcot is twice the size of the Magic Kingdom".

I'd forgotten about Club Cool. Obviously we'll have to find out if the products are made as they are made in their "home" countries, or if they've been americanized...ie, eg, (as my old microbiology teacher used to say), if they have HFCS in them. I really want to surprise Robert with the Beverly (though he'll probably like it), but not at the huge expense of his blood sugar (spikes higher with HFCS than with cane sugar).

Gotta see IllumiNations.

OK I think that's enough of the epcot thoughts....


Ooh I'm tired, and E just gave the biggest yawn. If he gets better overnight, just how early would he get up if I put him to bed 2 hours before his bedtime????

 

[bumbershoot]

Aw dang, Robert was going to be home on Saturday, but now we'll meet him at the airport, get him an adapter for a different country, perhaps bring him some non-airport lunch, and then see him off (at the TSA area of course) for a second trip tacked onto the week-long trip!

In a way it feels better than him coming back then going a week later, but it's not going to be FUN for him, flying for so many hours on Saturday/Sunday!

At least he got a break the other day; took the train from point A to point B...alas, point C would take 24 hours by train, so it'll be a plane tomorrow.


Sure is interesting, this whole being alone with kidlet business. One thing's for sure; I'm MUCH more of a slob that Robert is!

 

[kaoden39]

Poor Robert and poor Molly and Eamon. I was thinking about you earlier when I saw that Disney is selling their "spa" products like the H20 products.

 

[DLR29]

Club Cool was the first thing that we did when we went. It's an awesome place to try new sodas and just escape the heat.

 

[QueenDoOver]

This year is so much worse for colds and such. I never get colds and in the last six months not only did I have H1N1, but I have had two colds. Enough already!!! I hate having colds. I ordered a couple of Disneyland books from Amazon the other day and they came today so I have been pouring over them. It's not like I have never been, I know what to expect but, I am so addicted, I love the books and there was a new one I had never seen so I had to have it. It is the Imagineer's Field Guide to Disneyland. So I am in earnest palnning for a trip that will not get canceled on me this time.

oh wow! That book sounds so interesting. The Imagineers Field Guide. Hmm... I'll have to think about that one. Does the library have any of these books?

We had H1N1 too, but then stopped the Y and we have not been sick since. Knock on wood

Molly, sorry Robert is off again!

 

[kaoden39]

oh wow! That book sounds so interesting. The Imagineers Field Guide. Hmm... I'll have to think about that one. Does the library have any of these books?

We had H1N1 too, but then stopped the Y and we have not been sick since. Knock on wood

Molly, sorry Robert is off again!

I have never seen it at the library but who knows. I have never even seen the Field Guides at the bookstore. I got that idea that they are considered children books but they don't read like it for me. My kids keep bringing everything home from school, and they even have hand sanitizer and everything.

 

[bumbershoot]

Males, minor Dis'ers, and...anyone who wants to not read details of wished-for future family stuff, just skip ahead to the next post, which will likely be tomorrow.









Oh, it's really OK that he's delayed coming home. It was actually my idea after looking at calendar weeks and whatnot. But then he went ahead and called their TA and made it happen, while I was like "oh wait, maybe we should take a month or two off of this whole baby thing, what with WDW and all in December", but it's too late now!

Sorry, waaaay TMI.

And waaaaay bummer, b/c I really, you know, thought...you know. Went off coffee, foods were weird...sigh.

Oh well. Sucks.

At least I have another few weeks minimum to continue getting this weight off, right? Because it'll only take a few weeks to lose, oh, 70 pounds, right? (eta, not that I would stop exercising should anything fun happen. now I'm in an established fitness routine, and they always say that you can normally continue with your ROUTINE...so I'm glad I have a routine now!)

 

[kaoden39]

Oh Mollysorry about this, but you have the right attitude. And yes, the regular habits are good to keep. And I need to get a regular routine going again myself especially with a June trip coming up again.