Childfree (by choice) Disney Lovers!

:cheer2::yay: Way to go, well done!!



Do blackberries really grow on trees in your neck of the woods? Where I live they grow on an out of control, thorny vine.:confused3

I have heard mulberry trees referred to as blackberry trees before, but you're right that blackberries only grow on bushes. Some blackberry bushes are upright and look like trees, but they still only grow about 6 feet tall.
 
I'm with you Madd, definitely enjoy the free workouts in my home. Our basement is actually a workout room with a soloflex, stair stepper, treadmill & freeweights. We also have a tv with a dvd & video player for my tapes and dvd's.

Speaking of those workouts, I hit the 30 lbs. lost mark on Saturday!!! Woot woot!!!:woohoo:

wow congrats on hitting the 30 pound mark Tammy! That's awesome!

So I weighed myself for the first time in a month last week and it's the first time since we moved down here that I hadn't gained anything. I haven't lost either, but not gaining was a big thing. I looked back over my online weightloss journal and I've gained 17 pounds since the end of November...that's really scary. But I'm definitely trying. I"m finally eating less and better. I"m not walking as much as I"d like, but I am doing something.
 
So I weighed myself for the first time in a month last week and it's the first time since we moved down here that I hadn't gained anything. I haven't lost either, but not gaining was a big thing. I looked back over my online weightloss journal and I've gained 17 pounds since the end of November...that's really scary. But I'm definitely trying. I"m finally eating less and better. I"m not walking as much as I"d like, but I am doing something.

I hear ya, I gained almost the same amount since November too, but I haven't gotten back on the scale since I've started my workouts again. There has been a few too many days where I talked myself out of my workout to instead sit in the sun and read my book, way more fun, lol. My workout rountine used to consist of at least one Leslie Sansone dvd usually two, squats and weights but just recently I found a walking dvd of Leslie's that's called Walk Strong and it combines intervals of cardio, weights and squats or lunges. The first time doing it just about killed me, now I just work up a really good sweat.
 

Tammy, congrats!! :yay:


I am finally back on track. Lost the 6-8 lbs I had put back in the last few months, so I am down 31 on the year.

I also have a half marathon on Aug 1 to keep my behind in gear on working out and training.
 
I hear ya, I gained almost the same amount since November too, but I haven't gotten back on the scale since I've started my workouts again. There has been a few too many days where I talked myself out of my workout to instead sit in the sun and read my book, way more fun, lol. My workout rountine used to consist of at least one Leslie Sansone dvd usually two, squats and weights but just recently I found a walking dvd of Leslie's that's called Walk Strong and it combines intervals of cardio, weights and squats or lunges. The first time doing it just about killed me, now I just work up a really good sweat.

I LOVE Leslie's videos! They're my indoor cardio activity.
 
Tammy, congrats!! :yay:


I am finally back on track. Lost the 6-8 lbs I had put back in the last few months, so I am down 31 on the year.

I also have a half marathon on Aug 1 to keep my behind in gear on working out and training.

that's awesome Kat. I'm sure training for the marathan is the perfect way to keep the motivation high to get out and do something instead of sit around.
 
DH and I are childfree and often joke Disney would be better if kids weren't allowed in.

We love kids, but we work with them 7 days a week and have our nieces and nephews over all the time and stuff, don't think we're haters lol
 
Welcome FigmentLady! :woohoo:

Wait and Cheryl will sum us all up for you- you'll see:laughing:

So, do any of you watch Ghost Whisperer? The show is really stupid but I have to watch. I've been watching since day one, KWIM? One of those shows. Anyway- this ghost kid was telling Melinda that they (the ghosts) call the living "BREATHERS" :laughing: I thought that was a funny take on the word "breeders".

Good Morning everyone!:grouphug:
 
DH and I are childfree and often joke Disney would be better if kids weren't allowed in.

We love kids, but we work with them 7 days a week and have our nieces and nephews over all the time and stuff, don't think we're haters lol
:welcome:

Wait and Cheryl will sum us all up for you- you'll see:laughing:
Wait for it.....




You'll find we are mostly harmless to ourselves & others. :goodvibes


Hope everyone is having a good Thursday. I'm exhausted, but happy. Our new bedroom furniture was delivered yesterday, so we got through a lot of boxes & stuff last night now that we have dressers to put our clothes in. :banana: Tonight I am hoping we can get most of the guest room done now that all our stuff is out of there.

Tomorrow we have tix to see Lynyrd Skynyrd! :upsidedow
Why yes, we are that old! ;) It was $25 for lawn seats, so we figured why not? It should be a fun evening.

Anyone else have fun plans for the weekend?
 
So, do any of you watch Ghost Whisperer? The show is really stupid but I have to watch. I've been watching since day one, KWIM? One of those shows. Anyway- this ghost kid was telling Melinda that they (the ghosts) call the living "BREATHERS" :laughing: I thought that was a funny take on the word "breeders".

Good Morning everyone!:grouphug:

I have watched it occasionally. It is like a train wreck, isn't it? Like you can't stop watching.


Cheryl, have fun at the concert!! Sorry we couldn't join this time, this weekend is just too crazy.


I don't know if you would call my weekend "fun"... Sat 7AM 6 mile run, 10AM-noon choir rehearsal, come home, shower, feed in-laws, back for concert call at 7PM. Sunday we will probably go out to bfast with the inlaws and then send them home.


I was really excited today - 5K at lunch in 36:39. Considering I could barely do 3 miles in 50 min at the beginning of the year...
 
:welcome:


You'll find we are mostly harmless to ourselves & others. :goodvibes
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Mostly harmless... Don't panic... The answer is 42... :rotfl::lmao::rotfl2::hippie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

I'm getting ready for a conference in DC NEXT weekend, so extra work this weekend. BUT, I've survived the first two weeks of summer in the library!!! :dance3:

And, I went ahead and secretly upgraded the room my mom and I are sharing for our girls weekend in October from the a garden view in the Poly to a theme park view due to an awesome PIN offer... and am having fun with the Wii Fit, so hopefully that'll make a difference...

Anyone see the crowd pics and reports from WWoHP? I have friends in the area, and WHOA, it's nuts...
 
Blah, I'm working all weekend. The one good thing is that it's the last 2 days of 6 days-in-a-row fun. All I want is to sleep in a little!

Hope you all have slightly better weekends than me :thumbsup2
 
Cheryl, have fun at the concert!! Sorry we couldn't join this time, this weekend is just too crazy.

I don't know if you would call my weekend "fun"... Sat 7AM 6 mile run, 10AM-noon choir rehearsal, come home, shower, feed in-laws, back for concert call at 7PM. Sunday we will probably go out to bfast with the inlaws and then send them home.

Concert was fun... they (Lynryd Skynryd) played a lot of older stuff :goodvibes Which is why we were there. Few years ago we saw Joan Jett & she did mostly new album w/a couple oldies tossed in & we were dissappointed.
The crowd was interesting... made for some good people watching. :rotfl:

Hope the concert goes well tonight. And have fun w/the family!

The rest of our weekend involves unpacking boxes in the shed, hanging shelves, grocery shopping & laundry. Gee... I don't know if I can handle all that fun and excitment in 2 days. :laundy:

Hope everyone else is having a fun weekend.
 
Oh absolutely.... Huge pretty much anything Sci-Fi, although with Hitchhikker's visually more the BBC version that ran forever on PBS than the movie version that tanked a while back, even with the voice of Alan Rickman... we have all the books...

I'm currently debating about these:
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and drooling over the new Doctor in Doctor Who...

:goodvibes
 
You can add DH (27) & I (26) to the list of child-free by choice Disney lovers. Though we love my niece and nephew (and love spending time with them), kids aren't in the cards for us - we like our sleep, money and traveling too much :thumbsup2 No offense to those who have children - but we don't want them!

We do have two furry children, Mia and Abby. We've had Mia (a tuxedo cat) for almost 5 years and Abby (the tabby) for 4 years. When we adopted Mia from the shelter, we adopted her with her brother, Max and got them when they were about 5 weeks old (the shelter said they were 8 weeks old - a vet said otherwise). However, a year later, Max developed serious kidney issues and had to be put down. Mia wasn't doing well on her own, so we adopted Abby who was about 4 months old (and severely malnourished). Abby was mildly feral and though she's loved me from the start (she grabbed on to me in the shelter!), she's been much more apprehensive with DH because he's the one who had to make her take pills when we first got her and catch her to give her the flea stuff (which we don't have to do anymore). She's opened up to him in the last year and a half and will now snuggle him if he's lying on the couch. Both cats are very sweet (though have serious jealousy issues between the two of them!), love to snuggle us and are VERY spoiled (our cat sitter tells us that they're two of the most spoiled yet sweetest cats he's ever known - maybe that's why I tip him so well? ;)). Okay, enough about them! :lmao:

We LOVE doing Disney without kids, though we are the ones to take my niece and nephew when they go (the rest of my family could take or leave Disney :scared1:, except my mom who's a closet Disney nut - my parents live in CA, so at Christmas visit time, we take my niece and nephew). This last time we were there we ended up buying into DVC, so are looking forward to using our points!

We have a WDW trip planned for the end of Sept-beginning of Oct - there for 10 days and hitting the first couple of days of the Food & Wine Fest. We'll drink around the world and run the half marathon. (Both not very child-friendly I'm afraid - proves that we shouldn't have them! ;))

We then used the extra year's points (well sort of - has to do with use year stuff) from DVC to book a 4 day cruise on the Disney Dream. Two trips to plan at once - I'm in heaven!
 
DH and I are childfree and often joke Disney would be better if kids weren't allowed in.

DH and I have broken the small creatures at Disney into 2 categories: children, which are quite wonderful, well behaved (although sometimes tired and cranky), and charming to watch as they discover the magic that is Disney, and monkeys.
Monkeys are little creatures who were born with the potential to be children, but their parents sadly thought that humanity was just inherent, and let them grow rather than teaching them anything. We love children and enjoy interacting with them. Monkeys, on the other hand, are to be avoided at all costs, particularly because their sires are usually rude and oblivious people.
 
Wow, so many new peeps joining the thread, Welcome everyone!

You can add DH (27) & I (26) to the list of child-free by choice Disney lovers.
:yay: Somebody else from BC, woohoo! Welcome!

Monkeys are little creatures who were born with the potential to be children, but their parents sadly thought that humanity was just inherent, and let them grow rather than teaching them anything.
I'm not sure I would use the word "monkey" for these children but the word I would use is not legal on the Dis :rolleyes1:laughing: To me, monkey = cute & mischievous.

Good Day All!:wave: Hope most of you had a good weekend and :hug:'s to Madd and Tiffany. Praying for a positive outcome for both of you.

Happy Summer Solstice!!!! For the first day of summer the weather here is not cooperating, hopefully it will clear off this afternoon. Wednesday DH and I are heading off to the interior of BC to go camping with my parents. The best kind of camping where I only have to show up, my parents have a 5th wheel with everything including the kitchen sink.:laughing: I only need to bring my tent and clothes (and the bottle of raspberry vodka as well as :smokin:) So looking forward to it, I love camping.

Have a good week everyone!
 

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