Well I'm officially signing off for the week, please keep it to a dull roar so that I can catch up upon returning.
Have a wonderful week!
Adios!
to your family. Enjoy the wedding today. for Bob's mother and a safe trip for him.
See you this afternoon!!
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I am sorry...but snap away!!
I think MIL's who need their eyelids detached slowly is the order of the day....who wants me first, you or Glynis??
Vicki - Well, I can be a bit high strung depending on the situation. And for some reason my mother brings out the worst in me! I tell myself to be patient with her and let her do things her own way but her inability to make good choices makes me so ANGRY!
Diva Girl's selfish wish list is always first, above and beyond all else. BOTH of them need counseling but neither one will go. My mother has bills piling up but she won't file her medical claims, won't file her income tax and won't cash in the life policy she has on me. I suspect she has a life policy on my middle sister, too. Her car is a death trap yet she just keeps making little repairs and spending more and more money. Her cell phone isn't under contract - it's with Sprint. Diva Girl's cell phone is with AT&T so it costs them minutes to talk to each other! I offered to go with my mom to get an AT&T phone. For the activation fee ($26) she could have a brand new handset and since we are AT&T customers ALL of our calls to each other would be free. But NOOO! She doesn't want to get into a 2 year contract because she doesn't know what will happen yet. She didn't sign a new lease at the end of March because she was waiting for more test results. Hello? She's not going to move no matter how advanced the cancer is! She doesn't understand that she can't just write them a little Post It saying she hasn't decided what to do with her lease!
She doesn't want to spend time with me because I stress her out. She thinks of me like one of those MILs so many of the DDAers have!If I am not there then I can't talk to her about her bills or her phone or the insurance or anything else unpleasant. I interfere with the view through her rose colored glasses. On the other hand, she is DS's only grandparent and she is my mom and I love her and care about her so I want to see her. Unfortunately I can't seem to keep quiet about all the things she isn't getting around to addressing.
It's been a long time since I've been up this late, but I think I have everything done with the exception of the last minute things that we will use before packing them in the morning.
DH thinks I'm nuts to insist that the house get a good cleaning before going on a trip. I want to come home to a nice clean house with fresh sheets, and I don't want any laundry waiting, that way I can empty the suitcases in the laundry room and start on it right away.
Elizabeth -
I'm going to try and get some sleep now, I'll probably check in before we head out tomorrow, I'm not going to take the laptop, we already have enough to carry.
Jennifer - I hope Kyle is doing a decent job of running interference for you!
Bernadette - I didn't even think about the hat being online so you could see it! Good thinking!
I always budget for cabs if we need them, so that's not a big deal unless we need them every day. One poor lady said they spent $75 in a single day on cab fare!If the reports were newbies or people who had never been before I wouldn't give them a second thought. The thing that has got my knickers in a knot is the reports from people like us who have been a bunch of times and know how things usually go. People who have NEVER rented a car before who are just pushed to the brink by waiting an hour for a bus day after day. I hope they really are working on the dispatch system and will get it sorted out soon. DH said we've never had a problem at AKL. Since we have never had a problem we have never had to try to get help from them! It sounds like if anyone in a DVC room has a problem they are told "tough" and left to work it out on their own!
I guess we'll hope we don't have a problem. And we're only in a DVC room the last 3 nights. (The last 4 if our waitlist comes through.)
DS and I are packed now. The cell phones are charging. I never did get any cash because I can't work out how much to bring. I guess I'll just go get some and hope it's enough!
For the most part, we hardly had any more conversation 
We did stay up until after midnight which was frustrating, but she had to work today so they were all gone when we woke up.
I love to read your "half-full" posts, Stephanie. You have a knack of saying things so well. I would not do so well. I would probably make people angry.
I am a silver-lining kind of person too, and often want to respond that things will be fine. However, my two lovely, loving daughters often tell me that my expressing my eternally optimistic, rosy view of the world is not always appreciated by someone who is down in the dumps or needing to work things out verbally.Who knew??
But, Elizabeth... (listen to Stephanie!
Kristin and I are on our own for the majority of this weekend. Bob's Mom was back in the hospital earlier this week for another blockage in what is remaining of her colon.She is home, but he and his other brother who is not in the Punxsutawney area decided that this was the perfect weekend to head home for a family get-together.
The Greek church in our area is having their Festival this weekend so I know we will head there for one meal.Also, one of my favorite wine shops has recently opened an outdoor eating and drinking area so we will be there for lunch one day too. And then there is that leftover amount on that gift certificate we used, Tammi... so Bistro Bethem here we come!
I suppose when Bob gets home on Monday we will think about the ubiquitous cookout!
Did I mention that the final score was 13 to 3
10 weeks from now we'll be spending our first night at AKL concierge.
Deb, 5 weeks sounds better than 10.
Vicki, 2 weeks sounds better than 5.
Jen, cruising tomorrow sounds best of all!
All I can add to this Elizabeth is... if I allowed the naysayers on the DVC board to effect how my trip was, I would have had 3 bad trips. Between the "moldy" talk for OKW, the bus issues at SSR and the total unavailablity of BCV for F&W, I should have just stayed home. But I didn't let them get me down and I had a great room at SSR, no bus troubles. I was able to get a spotless GV at OKW at 7 months for Sun-Friday. I was able to get BCV during F&W with an EPCOT view no less.
Your mileage may vary.I didn't have a DTD view at SSR and my heart sank right there at the desk. I was so upset, I just knew I would hate it. Waa, waa, waa. I allowed it to bother me the entire time I was riding to my room. Grump, grump, grump. And then I got off the elevator and had to walk all the way to the end of the hallway. OMG, this was going to suck. And opened the door and fell in love.
But nothing prepared me for OKW. My sister and I walked into the one bedroom and it took our breath away. That villa was bigger than her apartment.Right near the bus stop. We didn't wait for a bus for more than 20 minutes. Most times it was 10.
Hang in there Elizabeth.
God sent me 2 angels (her & my uncle) to bring me up when my parents could not. I remember the Emporium & riding It's a Small World. Wish I had more pictures.
