Christmas Cruising 2005

[tiggerwannabe]

Good news!!!

I hope I'm not jinxing myself by saying this outloud....

Our realtor called yesterday and said we are getting an offer on our house. They are offering our asking price - plus - they WANT us to lease back the house from them until our new house is finished, or May, whichever comes first!

I am soooo excited about this. I hope it goes through without a hitch - it's perfect. I SO don't want to have to move twice.

Carry on....




grim

Yay!!!! :crossing my fingers for ya:

 

[nskjerven]

Grim & Dede:

Break a leg, or good luck, or whatever you say. I know how stressful the selling end of real estate can be. I'll toss some PD your way....

N

 

[nskjerven]

http://www.narniaweb.com/

not sure about all of it myself, but what I've glanced at looks really good....

 

[Wick]

...on Chad's computer.

Jesse likes the Narnia series, couldn't get into HP at all. That lion gives me the creeps, though!

Grim, what great news! And so perfect, you get to stay there with the relief that it's sold. How much better can it get than that? I'm so happy for you and Dede.

I think I'm about to make my final cruise payment in a few minutes. I have to check my online Disney Visa account, and if they got my last payment check, I'll have a zero balance ready to rise in one shot to something like $6,000! I want to do in now to make sure I get my rewards dollars in time for sailing. It sometimes takes 2 billing cycles to show up. And I'm hoping to get my $50 onboard credit by using my DVisa. Some people have been having trouble getting it when booking through a TA other than DCL, but the Costcoers have been lucky I've heard. I'll let you know.

 

[trinibjill]

Everyone is having such great news. I guess the PD works. aw:

 

[tiggerwannabe]

I don't have birthday photos...

but I do have a slideshow from the Faire

http://photobucket.com/albums/a42/M...nt=Sept05c001.jpg&slideshow=paused&interval=3

 

[minniegrl]

Hi All!

Thanks for all the get well wishes and for the house selling cheers.

I am feeling much better today. I hate those cruddy congestion illnesses. Grim said I sounded like a chain smoker because my voice dropped a few octaves. (no offense intended ) Mainly just sneezing and coughing today.

Thanks to Tori for giving me another way to pass my time before the cruise!
First, I'm counting down to our October Disneyland trip.
Then, I can count down to the new Harry Potter movie.
Lastly, I can count down to the cruise!

I love Harry Potter, too. I got into it when I was teaching 6th grade because a lot of my students were talking about it. I've read all the books (multiple times) and made Grim buy me all the movies. He watches the movies, but won't read the books, so I have to talk about them to my sister. I thought book six was good because it tied up a lot of loose ends, but have been so sad about the losses in the past two books. You almost feel like you've lost a family member! JK is amazing. I went to her site a couple of times before book 6 came out because I just couldn't take it. I had to hear some of the buzz.


Tig, your blueberry wine sounds wonderful! I'm going to work on getting Grim to take me to the renaissance fair here next spring.

Has anyone heard of a restaurant called "the melting pot"? Its a fondue restaurant, and Grim is taking me there Sunday night. If you've been, tell me what's good or what to stay away from. I've heard that its amazing, but there's a lot to choose from.

Kris, I know that I'm going to be so jealous of how great you look on the cruise, but I'll only have myself to blame! I'm so impressed that you make time to workout while teaching and taking care of a family, too. I must get motivated to get back to Curves!

Hi to everyone that I didn't name!

Oh, and even though you CAN make cheesecake in a pie pan, why would you?
I like how beautiful it looks when you take the springform off.

Dede

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Hi Dede!

The Melting Pot sounds like a NY kinda restaurant

 

[Aisling]

I am feeling much better today.

Dede, glad you're feeling better.
Another DL trip?? You're almost as bad as Tig and her trips to WDW!
Tiggie, aren't you going again in October?? You're a couple of lucky girls. I'm really trying to plan a 2006 trip to WDW, but my family won't even let me talk about it. "We didn't even do the cruise yet!" They just don't understand my need to have a Disney trip in the works, even if it's years away. Planning is my hobby, so thank goodness I have the Dis.

Well, I did it. Maybe it didn't sink in yet, because I haven't gotten nauseous yet, but I emailed Costco to charge me for the final payment. That's how Costco does it, not by phone. So tomorrow I should have an email from them, and then I'll call to make sure got my $50 credit. Grim and Dede, in case you didn't know, and you're paying with Disney Visa, the code to ask for in the email is DCC.

And Dede, we still have 3 months to shed a couple, enough to make a dent!

Jesse is going to use my laptop for a while...his computer is misbehaving.

BBL

 

[domiii]

Dede - one just opened in Somerville. Please let me know. There is a website. I believe it is (meltingpot dot com). Seems pricey to me - I am curious how you like it. Anyone ever been to a PF Changs - GO - it's fabulous.

Did I tell you with 1 weekend left - we have collected over $700. We are all confident we are going to make our goal of $1,000 towards the hurricane relief. And now there is another one or two. Glad I am not cruising this hurricane season.

Jill was it scary?

Monday is almost over!

 

[trinibjill]

Actually, no. It was kind of exciting. They took us around the hurricane. They changed a couple of our destinations. One day the waves were a little rough.

The adult pool was like a wave pool. At one point I was in the pool & the next minute I was sitting on the side. The main topic was about the former admitted gay governor.

They couldn't get back into Port Canavaral & we went into Miami instead.
And there the Magic & the Wonder docked next to each other. Now that was cool. There were a lot of other cruise ships there also.

Jill

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Aisling, my dear, let me share a secret with you

My family puts up with my obsession because I leave them out of it

Do they get that glazed over look when you mentioned the D word?
Mine do...

So I come here, and I talk to my fellow nutcases all I want...you people enable me.

so does Rose She says "I have a house in Orlando for a week, wanna come?" what would you say? When we leavin!

She and Mom and I can talk Disney together but the rest of both our clans run as fast as I can say Disney

Talk to us, we'll listen

 

[Aisling]

Did I tell you with 1 weekend left - we have collected over $700. We are all confident we are going to make our goal of $1,000 towards the hurricane relief.

People have really been generous with hurricane relief. Even if it wasn't a lot, almost everyone I know has said they donated some amount. You'll make your goal, Karen, and feel great sending in that money!

 

[Aisling]

So I come here, and I talk to my fellow nutcases all I want...you people enable me

How does that Sister Sledge song go...we are fa-mi-ly!

 

[trinibjill]

How many postings does it take for the tag fairy to colorize the words?

 

[Aisling]

It's supposed to be random, as the Tag Fairy reads through the posts, he/she decides to color you. Post count doesn't matter. There was a time when begging the TF was very popular, whole threads were devoted to getting the TFs attention, and then they disappeared for a while...no new tags for months.
I was one of the beggars, but I did it privately, PMing a mod on the Universal Board that I got to know pretty well while planning my Universal trips. And then a few days later, I had the new tag lines added, and colored.

The TFs are just mods who screen the posts for Dis no nos. When they see something they like, they tag you.

I just followed my nose and had a sweet breakfast!
At Disney I get a warm cozy feeling

These are my tags, but I didn't put them there. The TFs read it in my posts somewhere and posted them as my tag line, and colored them. So the excitement is not onlyto see the color, but to see which lines from your posts they will choose to use.

Jill, if you don't feel it's beneath you, I'd be happy to privately beg a certain mod I know. No guarantee, and no knowing what lines they'll find to tag, but I'll be happy to do it if you would like!

 

[trinibjill]

Oh no, it's not beneath me. Bless any one thats begging.

In fact, at work some times the operations unit has a bad habit of putting officers in a unit that nobody else wants. Having 134 inmates & only 2 officers working a unit the last thing I need is that. I went to operations the other day & got on my knees & begged please - please - please. They thought it was hilarious.

Thanks

 

[nskjerven]

Hurricane Relief....our kids at school got the penny drive idea with a twist going on. Each house (building) at our school, 4 of them..split like this....4 K & 2 2nd, 4 1st & 2 2nd, 4 3rd & 2 4th, 2 5th, 6th & office staffers, each have a huge water jug (I think they are 10 or 20 gallons, the big ones) sitting in the office with their house name on them, place pennies in "your house" and higher coins and bucks in the others. The game is the most pennies win...you can defeat other houses by sticking in other coins and bucks (they have to subtract that amount from their pennies) All the money still goes to Huricane Relief and one house wins....the race is now between my kids houses....the kinders and the 3rd graders. I'm staying out of it, it's up to the kids to ask me for help, I think each of them have donated, but I can't in all fairness to each kid, it's hard though I want to help them figure out how to win....All in all it's nice to have this happening at our school. Most of the kids at the school come from very low income families, public assitance is very common in our school. The location of the school is really close to alot of multi family housing units, hence that type of families in the neighborhood. High immigrant population too, so that is alot of the influence of the Spanish speakers too...very eye opening environment for me. My family growing up very middle class and I really didn't see much of the harder side of life, I'm glad that my kids do and understand that not everyone gets to go to Disneyland (4 times in one year) let alone on a cruise. For the most part Miss Molly is very giving of herself and her money and things, little bro still is growing in that area, he is still young I know that with proper guidance he will be a giving child too.

okay, soapbox dismount,

LYMI,

Nan

p.s. We have a place La Fondue, like the place you're describing. La Fondue is GREAT, pricey but GREAT!!! My advice is don't eat too much at dinner because you fill up on it way to fast and the best part is of course the choc dessert.

 

[nskjerven]

I can do that tooooooo, but first I need a tag line huh????

okay here's your chance, aim and fire your best ones to me, please be kind remember I'm a mother of two (ha ha ha )

oh yeah, gotta share a conversion from the other day...

Paul: blah blah blah...our DIS friends
Nan: what do you mean "OUR" friends
Paul: well aren't they mine too?
Nan: well, only by default since I'm a nice person you get more friends
Paul: you nice, ha, they haven't met you yet
Nan: okay no friends for you.

Just kidding it didn't really happen that way, but Paul did say "OUR DIS FRIENDS" just wait he'll be on the board soon, I can just tell....

N

 

[nskjerven]

Tigg:

aka my bean counter friend....do you have a list of who is going to be at AKL the night before?

& do you have a list of who is going to be in the exchange?

The rest of you:

And if you want to be on those lists have you let Tigg know????

Thanks for your time....

N