Christmas Cruising 2005

nskjerven said:

John.....where are yours...inquiring minds wanna know :scratchin You've been riding that bike again haven't you :cool1:
N


I'm working on it. I'm only about 1/3rd of the way done :eek:
I have to crop, adjust levels, white balance, curves, sharpen, etc...
Well, I don't HAVE to, but I'm gonna...


grim pirate:
 
I love all of your talk of drinks. Almost makes me want to have one. The main thing I'm jealous about is it's warm enough to ride where you are. (Best riding song - Born To Be Wild - .

Enough of changing the subject. WHERE ARE YOUR PICTURES :confused3 ?

yOU HAD THE BEST CAMERA :confused:

Jill
 
Dede: you may have booked it first but....Wilson's bday is 2/24 & we have the week off school & kids tickets are free with adults again!!!! Yeah the good times are back. We'll stay at the fleabag across the street too...Next to best western.

Tigg...might be interested in a trip just for mama..we'll see it hinges on that house thing..

Wilson and I can't snuggle in the chair with the laptop so I have to sign off now.

Check ya later,

Nan
 

Hi all!

Grim and I just looked at your pictures, Tig, and they're great! ::yes::

Nan, that was Grim that scheduled out next trip. I was under the assumption that we were going to be saving money for the new house.....guess not! :scratchin

:banana: Yay, Grim! I didn't know that you found the :banana: benders recipe! We'll have to try it out next weekend. Think we can get some rum cake here before then? :hyper:

Oh Aisling, the only mud picture I have is of the group of people I went back with. I was supposed to find them at dinner on Pirate Night, but the bodice of my costume restricted the oxygen to my brain, and I forgot! Will post that photo when Grim's finished messing with out photos.

Well, friends, I miss you and I can still hardly believe that our cruise is already over. Back to life in the real world!

Bye for now
::MinnieMo Dede
 
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA---you all looked like you had such fun at dinner, I am so sad I missed it! (dinner got dicey occasionally for us...we mistakenly believed that we would each have dinner w/ every other family in our party at least one night....SIL (****s)/BIL simply felt that they should eat w/ Dan's bros family most nights cuz the cousins wanted to sit together...which left our children out, and that upset them (AND US) greatly!)

Grim & Dede, I am SO sad we didn't get to spend time together!

Tig--your daughter looks just like you!

Is there anyway to buy photos off photobucket? I see a few of yours that I could use to fill in the gaps in my pathetic picture taking! I like the one of Dan & I, and I DEFINITELY need pics of all you guys!!!

Well, kinda lazy day here. Need to run & return some things to Walmart--just don't wanna deal w/ the crowds. Should put Xmas stuff away....I have it all piled up on the dining room table (that's what dining room tables are for right? I think we have actually eaten at it maybe 5 times...I've owned it 15 years!) I might putter in the scrapbooking room... ::yes::

I have a project to fix for work...really needs to be done...procrastinating at all costs.... :crazy2: :scared:

Have a good week everyone!
Kris
(****s next to SIL got bleeped...remember the special surgery I mentioned that she had...fill in slang body part into the 4stars! :hyper2: )
 
Kris: Sorry we missed SIL b##bs would have liked to see what was so special about them.... :rotfl2: :rotfl: :rotfl2:

We missed you guys at dinner too. Next time...hear that....we have to plan a real Diser meet and play date. I'm thinking I need to ditch my kids and party with the big girls....(I haven't mentioned that to hubby yet, ya think he'll spot me for it?) :confused3

Tig, I loved that picture of Kris and Dan too. I figure I'll make a Dis page in my album.

Kris, ya did get the album 50% off didn't ya? If not of course you can buy it at twice the retail on ebay....funny to see stuff like that there. Paul would no way let me bring home stuff just to sell. Of course I'm sure he'd let me sell my own stuff.... :rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:

Kris, dining room table is the table of crap, didn't ya know?

Brownies in an hour better get moving.

N
 
No need to buy the photos...right click on the full size photo you want and select "save" and tell it where in your hard drive you want it :teeth:

you all have my permission to copy whatever photos you want for your own ---

yes, it will only save one at a time but it's the easiest way I know to copy photos that belong to other people ;)


 
I got plenty of pics with the folks we had our dining rotation with, my side bar was to get photos of everybody else as I ran into them...

I wanted to edit my stuff before posting but knew that would take another week or two...so I didn't...it's driving me nuts that I know there are some out there that are fuzzy or too bright but you all don't seem to mind.

If you copy any, feel free to edit them...
 
Tig, I'm so glad you got pictures of Kris/Dan and Karen/Dom! You even got Tori's parents! You're the best! These pics will definitely fill in my scrap book.
And Grim, yeah Chad sure loves taking his own picture. Cracks me up! I'm going to try that rum recipe. I bought 2 bottles of St. Martin rum, one light and one dark. I swear I rarely drank before this trip, and now I'm a borderline lush! I blame Ronette 100%!

Kris, a funny story about b**bs for ya...a co-worker recently got implants, and we all were feeling her bubbies everytime we saw her during the day. It started off as curiousity as to what they felt like, but then it turned into a silly thing that we did everytime she went by, we'd cop a feel! I'll tell ya, you can tell fake bubbies from real ones, and I'll stick with real!

I wish we could all plan a DL trip together. :wizard: for me to win LOTTO.
 
Aisling, Would you consider DL in summer 2007?

Stefanie's Mom Rose is already planning, you could piggy-back with us you know ;)

 
You know I'm in Dland for 2007, but that's so far away!!!!! And you have to plan at least a day or so in No california to mess around here, I'll show you a good time, wink wink.

We had a good day, Brownies, we had one of our teachers from school come over and teach the girls the promise and pledge in sign language. Very pretty to watch (I think) then Paul and I made dinner for our playgroup 3 couples 6 kids, matching sets of 3 8 year old girls and 3 5 year old boys. Makes our playdates easy...We had Costco lasanga and salad & bread. Pretty yummy, but no rum drinks....I had wine as my follow up.

Gotta update with Lee about her dive trip...

talk to ya tomorrow,

Nan
 
Stefanie's Mom Rose is already planning, you could piggy-back with us you know

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She plans early...love it.
 
Tig & Aisling--I copied about 15 pics from you guys--THANKS!

Couldn't sleep...finally decided I needed to get up and edit that report for work...copied pics instead!!!!! Ah the procrastinator strikes again!

Well, better go have breakfast!

Kris
 
Aisling: That was a monkey on your back not a piggy on your back back :rotfl2: :rotfl: :rotfl2: :rotfl:

I should order my pics today. I need to have them sorted and ready to scrap to make the scrap cruise worth while.

Port hole question here. Lee and I have a port hole room, no veranada availble now...I'm worried I might feel blah, with out having the fresh air. Advise anyone? It's only 3 days so not so long, but my plan was to really scrap not hanging out and drink rum and party. Okay I'm scrapping and drinking rum, may as well be honest with you huh?

Speaking of Lee (again) she brough home from Cozamel, DISNEYLANDIA, the Spanish version of disney Monopoly. It's really cute. See you can even leave the country and find the Disney Magic :flower3:

Dad update, he is home, but not doing great. We are worried about my mom having to be his total caregiver. He spent all last week in bed, no bathroom trips or anything. I know TMI, but it really is hard on my mom to have to detail with all this. I hope today, while they are at the doctor appointment (which is now set weekly) that mom will speak up and ask for help from a home nurse. Not much we can do from 5.5 hours away other than make suggestions and hope they take positive actions.

No info on the house. Tomorrow is 7 days, so no news is no news.

Better get to work, had a lazy start today (I'm blaming my disney cruise coffee mug.....)

N
 
Server is down, so I can't check email, so will chat w/ you guys!

Nan--a cruise is like Vegas for us. Room is only for showers, sleep & :hug: (but I guess there won't be any of THAT on your cruise!) We did like the sunlight w/ an outside cabin on Princess, but didn't find we really used the verandah on Disney (except a bit the day I was stuck in the room w/ Jack)

Not much else here, am proud of the work I have gotten done here today at school. Guess I just needed a real week to get back on that horse!

Who mentioned a girls trip? GREAT idea. I thought you should all come to Lincoln, since I am the one in the middle, but WHAT would we do here??!! NYC makes more sense since 3 of you live there. Flights are actually pretty cheap--$250 RT not even on Southwest! Plus I'm guessing we might not need a hotel....that saves BIG bucks in NYC!!!! This is a definite thought, girls...

Well, can't peel my orange and type at the same time (not that I can type all that well w/ these d*mn nails anyway! Love/hate relationship!)

Kris

PS oh, SIL & her "twins" were interesting...I only saw her in a swimsuit w/o a tee over it ONCE the whole cruise!! WHAT is the point of spending that kind of $ (and pain) and cover them up??!! I didn't pay for mine, and I was showing them off :rotfl2: (OK, mine are to detract from other areas....)
 
Hi Kids!


Cruise pictures are up.
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Still have to do WDW.

I opened a new account at smugmug:
grimgrinnin.smugmug.com

I was unhappy with pbase (lots of down time, limited amount of storage - even though it was a pay service). Smugmug looks really cool so far. Unlimited number of pictures, up to 8 megabytes each. You can:

order prints directly from smugmug

buy an archive of your pictures (which is huge for me - I'm always worried I'm going to loose my pictures, even though I back them up to a 2nd hard drive AND make hard copies on DVD)

others can download your original image

you can protect your original image if you DON'T want others to have it

full screen slide show

Good stuff. Anyway - if any of you want any of my pictures, help yourself. Just be sure to click on 'original' for image size before you save it. It you try to print the small, medium, or large images, they'll look like poo.

Hope you enjoy,


grim pirate:
 
Hi Kris
I'll be in your fair city of Lincoln, NE the first week in August. At least I'm fairly sure I'll be there. I plan on making skating nationals. I am also considering going to Calif after that is over to see DL & Alcatraz. Sooooo, maybe I can visit at least one day with you & a day or two with Nan. Also, we are supposed to have a day with Aisling, arn't we? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy :cool1:

Yea, Grim's pictures are up :worship:

Jill
 
:worship: LYMI, Grim Great shots!!! Oh boy look out scrapbook here I come....

Nan
 
trinibjill said:
Hi Kris
I'll be in your fair city of Lincoln, NE the first week in August. At least I'm fairly sure I'll be there. I plan on making skating nationals. I am also considering going to Calif after that is over to see DL & Alcatraz. Sooooo, maybe I can visit at least one day with you & a day or two with Nan. Also, we are supposed to have a day with Aisling, arn't we? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy :cool1:

Jill

Jill--Do you do both roller & ice skating? Isn't roller skating here? THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! ::yes:: ESPECIALLY since you & I didn't formally meet on the cruise, either! :sad1:

Grim--you don't look like the "quiet guy" you have been portrayed as.....! :tongue:

I gotta go check out your site, Grim---maybe I didn't need to bring my camera after all--you all have at least filled in the spaces! I did take the camcorder....only to use it only as we embarked at Castaway Cay! We did go to the family dance party after the Golden Mickeys in Sea Studio (is that right?). I didn't want to go, but it actually turned out to be QUITE fun. Actually the men were dancing more than the women! There would have been some terrific filming there...of course I thought of it as the party wound down! (Would have liked a little footage of cutie CM Jake :cool2: !)

Marcus has a slight fever and barking like a dog :sick: Dan is staying home w/ him.

Well, put in to do a Harris lab study (they do drug testing for FDA). I have done some in past. Generally a decent sum for some time & blood draws. This one would require me to be there 2-3day weekends over the next month---I'm thinking it'll be like a scrapbooking getaway! (Plus I can cover the charges from the cruise w/ that chunk o' change!!!!! :eek: ) Hope I get it!

Not much else here. Sure glad I have you all to chat with a few minutes a day--a nice bright spot in the day :goodvibes (one of many, usually!)

Nan--prayers for Dad & fingers crossed for the house!

Tig--how's it being back to work at the shop?

Aisling--how's self-employment going?

Dede--how's it being back to school? Doing OK here....much better after a stressful first semester! It's all downhill from here! I, too, have considered another occupation...what I have always wanted to do is write travel & restaurant guides. I travel & eat well (paid for by someone...??!!), and write about my experiences! Sounds like a win-win situation!! Hmmmm....wonder who would be willing to cover the upfront $??!! Of course, I'd need a nanny...I supposed it isn't a terrific job when you have 3 young kids!! Oh, well, pipe dream...that and being a vocalist (although GERD seems to have done a number on my esophagus, so can't hit the high notes like I used to!

Alright...I digress...
Ni night
Kris
 

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