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

[DisneyMomma81]

I hope you have a fabulous Birthday Celebration

My mom turned 50 yesterday!

 

[Brady's Mom]

Happy Birthday! I have the Beatles birthday song running through my head right now - whenever anyone in our fam has a birthday we all go down and bang it out on Beatles Rock Band. It's become a new tradition.

My friend calls what you are going through with your energy work a "healing crisis". She says because you have so many toxins in your body that you are releasing that you'll feel worse before you feel better. I haven't done energy work in a while - but would love to be able to do it with someone I trust like my chiro. But, alas, our insurance changed and we haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Drink LOTS of water and make sure you rest. Sleep is important when you are doing energy work.

I am going to start Zumba on 11/18 - going to San Francisco next week and the instructor is in France, so no classes right now. My friend recommended it, my sister's done it and so have some other people I know. Hopefully it will work for me and I'll like it. I am not a very good dancer and always feel kind of dumb doing dance routines.

I used to do Muay Thai kickboxing (the real thing) and loved it, but I had such low, low energy from doing it that I had to give it up. I didn't lose any weight when I was doing it (for a year), either, which totally sucked. I did look a little better, but I want the scale to acknowledge me, too!

I hope your Chinese food was/is good and you enjoy your presents! We are going to indulge our Chinese food fetish when we are in San Fran. next week. We can't get good stuff here unless we make it at home!

 

[kaoden39]

Happy. happy birthday!!

 

[bumbershoot]

Got a call from Kouzzina just now. They are closed for renovations from the 29th through 14th, so we got canceled. But she got us in at 5:30 on the 15th, so that's pretty awesome! Grand Re-Opening day!

 

[kaoden39]

Oh that is fun!!

 

[bumbershoot]

How much of your mood has to do with your birthday?

I hope you feel better after your Chiro appointment.

And good for Robert.

I see your ticker.....

I had to give up on the old ticker, and put in a new disboards one. Harumph.

I think I'm OK with the new age (actual b'day on Tuesday), but I can't be sure. As I used to say when practicing...I might be feeling better, but I sure am better feeling! (not to mean that if one feels me I feel better...but that I'm feeling...more...OK that's hard to explain, never mind)

I hope you have a fabulous Birthday Celebration

My mom turned 50 yesterday!

HB to her!

It was a good day. Didn't quite realize how good until we got home, had dinner (we ordered a TON of food at lunch and brought it home then had it at dinner too), and the guys put a candle in a nummy cupcake and sang HB to me. Got tears in my eyes and ever'thin'. Still not the same, will never be the same, without my mom, but they help make it all up...sniffle.

Happy Birthday! I have the Beatles birthday song running through my head right now - whenever anyone in our fam has a birthday we all go down and bang it out on Beatles Rock Band. It's become a new tradition.

My friend calls what you are going through with your energy work a "healing crisis". She says because you have so many toxins in your body that you are releasing that you'll feel worse before you feel better. I haven't done energy work in a while - but would love to be able to do it with someone I trust like my chiro. But, alas, our insurance changed and we haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

Drink LOTS of water and make sure you rest. Sleep is important when you are doing energy work.

I am going to start Zumba on 11/18 - going to San Francisco next week and the instructor is in France, so no classes right now. My friend recommended it, my sister's done it and so have some other people I know. Hopefully it will work for me and I'll like it. I am not a very good dancer and always feel kind of dumb doing dance routines.

I used to do Muay Thai kickboxing (the real thing) and loved it, but I had such low, low energy from doing it that I had to give it up. I didn't lose any weight when I was doing it (for a year), either, which totally sucked. I did look a little better, but I want the scale to acknowledge me, too!

I hope your Chinese food was/is good and you enjoy your presents! We are going to indulge our Chinese food fetish when we are in San Fran. next week. We can't get good stuff here unless we make it at home!

Oh yes, total healing crisis. When I was in chiro school I fell into the rebel out-there crowd, LOL, and we would say that many "emergencies" were spirits crying out "I'm emerging, see?" Doesn't work for all situations, I know, but it does for a lot. I kept having single-car accidents (some caused b/c I swerved for an animal, one caused by a woman merging *into* me and causing me to end up in the median, etc) that I called accidents until someone else noticed that my spine and being were getting *better* with each accident. We started calling them my "on purposes". I know, floaty woo-woo stuff...


Oh, our birthday song growing up was the Stevie Wonder song in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. It's a pretty awesome version of a HB song.


With Zumba, if you can't do a particular move, just move in some way. No one should care.

Happy. happy birthday!!

Thanks!





Eamon and I still felt a bit blah, but we went out today anyway. Had quite a full day! Robert felt good, but tired...not only is he working out more, but I also remembered that this drug he takes for the pituitary thing used to absolutely knock him out for 2 and 3 days after he took it. Well, he's probably gotten used to it, but also you take it exactly each week so that it builds up in your body...so he's probably just tired from the changes it creates in his hormones. It does something to the dopamine which then blocks the prolactin...so it makes sense he's still sleepy.

Anyway, went to the chiro (again), I had some nummo coffee at a new coffee place (all single sourced beans, organic almost everything, etc etc, but at the heart of the matter is that the coffee is GOOD), went to Seattle, had lunch (Snappy Dragon is the name of the restaurant, YUMMMM), went to a math store (called Math 'n Stuff) which was surprisingly busy!, went to a co-op for yum cupcakes, went to Sephora near the University of Washington to pick up my little birthday thing (if you're a member of their rewards thing, they send you a b'day card that you turn in for a little bitty goody each year)...then went to Road Runner shoes for...yeah, shoes.

OMG shoe costs for two are bad enough...but then we discovered that they sell kid-sized shoes, and E is at a size 13 so we got him a size 1 athletic shoe (as low as their shoes go), so we bought THREE pairs of good athletic shoes in total (fainting). Then those special wicking "dry" socks...a set of 3 pairs for each of us...please don't even look up the cost of those, I nearly lost it when Robert and Eamon insisted that we get E the socks too....it was like...OK, 3 pairs of shoes, OK, 2 sets of socks for the grownups, OK...but that one extra set just pushed me over the edge! But I relented. Thankfully it was basically budgeted for (and NEEDED), but still!



They were golden with the gifts! They got me a waterproof/resistant Kindle cover and a book called Designing Disney, Imagineering and the Art of the Show. Winna!

 

[Brady's Mom]

Yay! Presents! I love it when DH thinks about and picks out presents for me without any prompting. I think they are more special since he took the time to listen to what I might want and then act on it. Rather than just asking me what I want - and then getting it for me.

The book sounds really cool. I must look it up at my local library - I need something new and interesting to read.

 

[kaoden39]

I have the Nook and my family knows that books related to that are always a good idea. I see that your guys know the same thing.

I understand what you meant by the feelings vs feelings. It is hard to explain.

 

[bumbershoot]

He was telling me that the presents were from my wish list, but I so rarely put things on there that I want to get randomly (I use it for me, not to let others see it) that I just could not remember what I had on there!


Shannon (brady's mom, not disneymomma!), I forgot to tell you that I did show Eamon your family picture, and let him know that he had helped your one son. He was really amazed that anyone else had problems with it and that anyone had made changes based on it. I think he was proud of himself for helping and impressed with you guys. Kinda made all the "no you can't have this b/c of the ingredients" moments worth it to him, I think.


I've been getting tons of CDs all priced and compared (the two sites to sell on have different values for most CDs, and one reimburses shipping while the other doesn't) and ready... Money aside (b/c of course the money you get from selling CDs doesn't even come close to approaching the money one paid for brand new CDs), it will be so good to have all of these items OUT of the house! I was telling Robert "we'll have lots of space for all the money that will come to us!"


Oh Michele, you're such a traitor with your Nook... Oh wait, no...if even Bezos can state that there's room for all ebook readers out there, then I can be nice, too. Heck, my brother and his wife prefer to read ebooks on their phones! I do not get that one! But it's hilarious to watch them sit down, anywhere, anytime, whip out their phones, and just start reading. Last year they would sit and text (maybe to each other, maybe work-related, who knows), like when the 4 of us went to DCA back in summer of '09 and Eamon and I went to the Animation Academy, leaving them sitting in the middle of the "movie room" in the building, just looking at their phones.... And this year they are reading books on 'em.

 

[kaoden39]

My niece tried to talk me into getting an ipod touch to read. Oh no not this kid, that screen would drive me nuts.

My reasoning for buying the Nook rather than the Kindle was partially a supply and demand thing. The Kindle was on back order and the Nook was readily available. I knew that if I waited I would not get it. I would have spent that money I had set aside for me on Scotty or the kids, and I had an incredibly selfish moment. Do I regret it? No, I don't.

It's like that trip without the family, I say I'll do it but I probably won't I feel guilty having fun without them.

And I give him credit for checking your wishlist. That shows that he really wants to make sure to get you what you really want and not the waffle iron he wants.

 

[Brady's Mom]

Molly, maybe it's nice for E to know that he is not the only person in the universe who has a problem with HFCS. Because of Jeff and really the other boys, too, I stay away from it as much as possible. We read a lot of labels and the boys will often ask me if something has HFCS in it. We've been doing a lot more at home baking since we know the ingredients. We do fudge sometimes with CS, but that doesn't seem to bug anyone as much as the HFCS. I think the preservatives also add to the problem - since I know I have a problem with preservatives.

I will try to get an updated picture of the boys loaded on the computer (I took a nice one a week ago) so he can see how big Jeff is - that way he knows that it's not just younger kids who have trouble with it - but that big kids have trouble, too.

 

[bumbershoot]

And I give him credit for checking your wishlist. That shows that he really wants to make sure to get you what you really want and not the waffle iron he wants.

Very true. However, since I have, in the past, kept it mainly for myself, that meant I got "How to Cut Kids' Hair" as a Yule present the other year.

And how funny is that example...I bought the family a present of a good waffle iron a couple months ago! We had a cheapie cheapie Belgian waffle maker from when we were engaged, and neither of us much LIKES Belgian waffles. So I finally bit the bullet and paid $35 for a skinny waffle maker (that has plates you can flip and cook other things...like french toast just yesterday!).


Wow that's a lot of smiles...

Molly, maybe it's nice for E to know that he is not the only person in the universe who has a problem with HFCS.

...that way he knows that it's not just younger kids who have trouble with it - but that big kids have trouble, too.

Absolutely true.

 

[bumbershoot]

We'd already decided to rent a car for most of the stay.

But in looking at costs...seriously, it's cheaper to rent a car at the airport from the 30th to the 17th, than it is to rent from a city site from the 1-16 or 1-15 or 2-15 etc etc.

So why am I stuck on taking Magical Express?


The more I think about it, with logic instead of feelings, the more I realize that taking ME on *this* trip might not be the best choice.


I jsut now realized...our flight doesn't get in until almost 6pm. Why are we wanting to wait upwards of 3 hours for our luggage? Sure we could get the luggage and put it on the bus ourselves, but it might be quicker to just get a car.

Oh boy, I have a feeling tomorrow I'm going to be trashing the ME plans!

 

[kaoden39]

Waiting three hours for luggage? Seriously? No thank you. Rental car all the way.

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, you can do things during that time. When you take ME you put special tags on your luggage. Handlers behind the scenes at the airports take your bags before they come out on the carousel, and they are taken to your resort separate from you. So you get to the resort on the bus, check in, then do whatever you want, and approx 3 hours later your luggage should be in your room.

That works well when you have a full and busy day and you get in early, but not so much when you're arriving later and have nothing but lazing around to do.

 

[kaoden39]

I normally am all for having my own car when I go to Disneyland but, you know I think it might be nice one time to not have a car. Especially if I stay onsite.

 

[bumbershoot]

For this trip especially, we want the ability to run out to the store (they have a Whole Foods! my city does not, grr), to have the ability go anywhere on a whim. And I'm not really keen on the whole bus thing...boat, yes, but not bus.

 

[Brady's Mom]

Well, you can do things during that time. When you take ME you put special tags on your luggage. Handlers behind the scenes at the airports take your bags before they come out on the carousel, and they are taken to your resort separate from you. So you get to the resort on the bus, check in, then do whatever you want, and approx 3 hours later your luggage should be in your room.

That works well when you have a full and busy day and you get in early, but not so much when you're arriving later and have nothing but lazing around to do.

Hmmmm....maybe ME needs to be one of those things that gets left undone this trip and is an inducement for a return trip to try it out. We still have things left to do at DCA and DL and my little kids use it as a reason we have to go back. And - since we now stay w/in walking distance they miss the tram. They tell me that we have to do that again, because they like it!

 

[bumbershoot]

The guys in my household are funny. They have been watching a thing about Taylor Swift, and are now watching the video for her "I love him more than you do" song (can't remember the actual name of it, but it's the same basic story as Rick Springfield's Jesse's Girl). I cannot tell you how many times Eamon has seen that video. He Taylor Swift...



Can we please be done with this cold now?

 

[kaoden39]

I love Whole Foods, but unfortunately we don't have any here either and the nearest one to me is in Marin county. The closet we come is the Nugget in the neighboring town, and Raley's is okay.

Loren loves Jordan Sparks.