Dec 2007 A mouse Odyssey/lotsa pics

[disneyaddicted]

jackdis Bermuda? Awesome! I would so love to go there. I went over and read your trip report, sounds like you had a great time, I didn't realize there was so much to do on a cruise, lots of shows and stuff. That was a really nice report, you did a great job.

Yes, I got the fan at Walmart too, $5.

Are you all set in disney mode now? Your trip is real soon. Wish mine were.



greenmickeyfanatic Away on vacation and no post card to me? Where did you go? New pups in the house, how cool. when our mutt Chloe had pups it was the neatest thing, she only had 5 but they grow so fast and take up alot of time, your family must be busy, what kind of pups are they?
When are you getting your new camera? Hopefully in time to play with it and find out what it can do before you go.
I tried posting the link but it won't show up on my screen, it could just be down for the moment, I will try and post the link again later.

ILMICKEY No vacation for you either huh? bummer! at least I did get to see my brother and Lola, I was hoping you could make it to the party, you were greatly missed. Oh well, maybe next year.

I am crafty, but not bedazzler crafty!!!

Fantasmic is on the itinerary, but it's for our second day at MGM, trust me I do not want to miss this show, I have heard too many great things about it.

dddisrunner Thanks, I love shopping for vacation supplies, and Disney supplies are the most fun!!! I did have a great time with my brother, thank you.

SwansLoveDisney The party was great, better than I thought it would be.

 

[disneyaddicted]

Hey all, my visit with my brother went great. He even let me talk to him about Disney He did draw the line at watching the Disney DVD planner, I am guessing it's because I got him so pumped up about disney and he really wants to go now and watching the DVD would have made him cry he didn't say that, like I said it was just a guess. He did say however that once he is established with an airline I could have all of his buddy passes and fly for free. That is nice of him, but no way am I flying standby for a trip to disney, that could take hours even days

Lola wants to go to Vegas instead. CHA! She says Vegas is to her what Disney is to me. Yeah, right!!!! No way in this world can she be Vegas obssessed, she's not online everyday just researching, she doesn't watch every show about it (and record it) Did she order personalized maps of Vegas? NO SHE DID NOT! Did she do a trip report on Vegas? Does she spend her free time chatting with other Vegas lovers? NO SHE DOES NOT! Does she hyperventilate at the tiniest thought of Vegas? I DOUBT IT! I had to get firm with this girl, and I hated to do so, but I told her, "Don't ever compare your so called love for Vegas with my true love for Disney, I am sure Vegas is nice, but it doesn't come close to disney!" She then tells me she went to Disney World when she was 12 and she was bored with it, she brought a book and read it while waiting in lines. Who can be bored with Disney? She totally shattered my sweet girl image of her, she is willing to go to disney and give it another try, after all, she wasn't with me on that trip and that can make all the difference. I am not bragging here, just being completely honest!
Anyway, we are hoping to do a big trip in about 2 years. I will hold off on the pre trip report on that one for a while

The party was great, I didn't have the music too loud at the pool, didn't want to upset anyone. Kent made us the best seafood dinner the first night, my brother loves Kent's cooking and requested shrimp and snow crab, Friday night was pizza cause nobody wanted to cook. The party ended about 2:00am Sunday morning. (I told you I throw the best parties) my party got crashed by some people I didn't know, but the more the merrier, they didn't stay too long. My neighbor was having a small party at the same time, he ended up taking the party inside and we stayed at the pool.
It was just a good weekend, Matt is so funny and can have me rolling on the ground laughing with just a look. I wish you all could meet him. I honestly can't wait to take a trip to Disney with him. The funny thing is, up until 5 years ago when ever I would visit my family, or they me, Matt would hang out with my kids and ignore us adults, now it's me and Matt who are the best of friends.

One cute Matt story and then I have to get to work. When Matt was 4 he loved the Movie The Little Mermaid, he even wanted us to call him Eric, he would pretend the couch was his ship, one day he stood on the arm of the couch and yelled "I lost her once Grim, and I'm not going to lose her again." then he jumped off the couch and hurt his ankle, I would have loved to see the whole thing play out, but he was hurt and crying and didn't want to play anymore.

I will be back later cause I want to tell you of my awful nightmare I had last night about Disney, it left me feeling sick. But I am so far behind on work right now. I guess I have to do that prioritizing thing I once heard of.

 

[ILMICKEY]

Hey all, my visit with my brother went great.

I am so happy that you got to spend time with your brother!!

Lola wants to go to Vegas instead. CHA! She says Vegas is to her what Disney is to me. Yeah, right!!!! No way in this world can she be Vegas obssessed, she's not online everyday just researching, she doesn't watch every show about it (and record it) Did she order personalized maps of Vegas? NO SHE DID NOT! Did she do a trip report on Vegas? Does she spend her free time chatting with other Vegas lovers? NO SHE DOES NOT! Does she hyperventilate at the tiniest thought of Vegas? I DOUBT IT! I had to get firm with this girl, and I hated to do so, but I told her, "Don't ever compare your so called love for Vegas with my true love for Disney, I am sure Vegas is nice, but it doesn't come close to disney!" She then tells me she went to Disney World when she was 12 and she was bored with it, she brought a book and read it while waiting in lines. Who can be bored with Disney? She totally shattered my sweet girl image of her, she is willing to go to disney and give it another try, after all, she wasn't with me on that trip and that can make all the difference. I am not bragging here, just being completely honest!

You set HER STRAIGHT!!! Vegas? Oh Whatever! Keep working on her. Start sending her little things. Subliminal messages. Have Matt play disney music while she sleeps. Learn how to talk like Mickey and call her!! You CAN do this!

Anyway, we are hoping to do a big trip in about 2 years. I will hold off on the pre trip report on that one for a while

You have lots of time to work on her. Tell her you can even wear slippers to the parks!

The party was great, I didn't have the music too loud at the pool, didn't want to upset anyone. Kent made us the best seafood dinner the first night, my brother loves Kent's cooking and requested shrimp and snow crab, Friday night was pizza cause nobody wanted to cook. The party ended about 2:00am Sunday morning. (I told you I throw the best parties) my party got crashed by some people I didn't know, but the more the merrier, they didn't stay too long. My neighbor was having a small party at the same time, he ended up taking the party inside and we stayed at the pool.

I'm coming next time!!

It was just a good weekend, Matt is so funny and can have me rolling on the ground laughing with just a look. I wish you all could meet him. I honestly can't wait to take a trip to Disney with him. The funny thing is, up until 5 years ago when ever I would visit my family, or they me, Matt would hang out with my kids and ignore us adults, now it's me and Matt who are the best of friends.

That's really sweet!!! I always wanted a brother!

I will be back later cause I want to tell you of my awful nightmare I had last night about Disney, it left me feeling sick. But I am so far behind on work right now. I guess I have to do that prioritizing thing I once heard of.

YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE US WAIT????? WHA WHA WHAT!! Priorities stink!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

Your party sounds like it was great!

And the visit with your bro sounds even better!

Nightmares about Disney?!? What?!?

 

[disneyaddicted]

I do not claim to be OCD, nor am I a perfectionist. To me perfection is looking to create an inner peace, but also being a perfectionist means nothing is ever right or good enough, so no I am not a perfectionist. I know how to settle when it comes to many things and just be happy with what I have, I can live in the moment and not feel like, if I only had this or that I would be happier. I am not a multi tasker (I even hate the word) I am very good at doing one thing at a time. there is a Budhist teaching that says "See the glass as already broken." I interepret that to mean, life is forever changing, everything has a beginning and an end, we were born, we will one day die, just like the glass was created, it too will one day break. It sounds raw, but to me it's peaceful, if you expect something to last forever you are disapointed when it doesn't, so I spare myself the pain and just enjoy things for what they are when they are. And you know that saying, "Where ever you go there you are?" The significance of that statement you take life with you where ever you go, so stop wishing to be some where else. I do follow that....

EXCEPT FOR DISNEY
I can't wait to go and am forever fanatasizing about my vacation, I over plan, over strategize over think every scenerio, I build it up so huge in my head I cry. And for that one week reality takes a back seat. "Life is a test, it is only a test, had this been real life you would have been instructed what to do and where to go" is piped in my head for the duration. I am not able to give in to flexibility, I say I am, I have even scheduled it into my intinerary, but truth be told I have a huge fear of not being able to get it all done this time. I have been obsessed going over maps and trying to fit it all in and still have time to sleep. I worry that my travel mates will want to sleep in and not want to make rope drop, you are probably thinking big deal go alone. Yes, I could go on my own, but I worry when everyone else is missing all the fun.

I woke up this morning in a horrible deep depression, it passed only when I realized that it was all a dream and I still had Disney to look forward to.

In this dream I was always waiting on someone, or looking for something, but never able to get to what I wanted. It was actually a boring dream until my dream self realized it was time to head home and I had only made it to Magic Kingdom, and once again I didn't see Mickey Mouse at all. I was waiting in line to board the bus to the airport and was telling my friends, we didn't do ToT or RnR we didn't take in any shows, we have all our meal credits left. What did we do, our time is wasted. Then at home I went to look through my pictures and found I had only taken 3 pictures and 2 of them were on the plane. I was so sick and heart broken I cried to Kent and begged him to let me go back next week so I could do it all, but Reese had said it was a great vacation, no regrets, she loved it all, so DH didn't believe me that I had missed out on all of it. I felt like I had wasted time and tons of money and had nothing to show for it. It was a horrible feeling, then I woke up in ready to cry mode, I told Kent about it, he laughed called me a dork.

I am sure this probably sounds like nothing to you, My sister Bo, said "Ty, that is not a nightmare, it's not even a bad dream, you just over stressed yourself on a ridiculous level." Now, first off, she has never been to disney world, so she is not qualified to say what is a Disney nighmare and what isn't, second, she is a fly by the seat of your pants kind of girl, she plans vacations, like when and where to go, but that's it, everything else is a "Let's see what happens." and that is good, I do that alot, but not for Disney. How can I make these muggles (a borrowed word from disunc) understand that you have to plan a trip, you can't just see what happens, yeah, maybe leave an hour or two a day open to see what happens, but aside from that you have got to research, plan, make ADR's check show times, parade times, extra magic hours and coincide that all together.

I have heard of people Coach T for one, having a high level of tolerance for stress. I do not have a high level of tolerance for stress, doing that only means you take on too much, I have learned to lower my tolerance for stress, cause I know regardless of how hard I work my in basket will still be full on the day I die. I play first!! (maybe that's why I am always trying to catch up with work ) I have enlightened myself here. Anyway, I am open for dream interpretations, I am even open on any suggestions to lower the stress of disney planning, and over thinking.

Am I the only one out there who feels this way? All my thoughts lead back to Disney. It's invading my sleep in a bad way, I just want to have the best vacation and I keep promising Coach and Coley that they will love it. What if I let them down?

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

You are not alone!!!

I also feel a tremendous amount of pressure to make this the perfect trip for everyone involved.

A whole bunch of different scenarios go through my head each day of what may go wrong...crazy, since everyone I'm going with is so laid-back and will love it no matter what.

And, like you, this is the one thing in my life that I obsess about and over-plan for. For example, we're going to Hawaii for a week and we leave in, oh, 22 days. Have I planned a single thing for that?!? Not a chance.

 

[disneyaddicted]

SwansLoveDisney Well, I am glad I am not alone on this. I would love to visit Hawaii. My DH was there in his Coast Guard days, said it was gorgeous. But honestly if I had to choose between the two, I know I would choose Disney everytime. If DH wants a trip other than disney than he's going to have to plan it.

P.S. How is the costume coming along?

 

[CantWaitToGo2007]

I agree, you're not alone!

On many occasions I have left a sink full of dishes and a yard that needs to be mowed to go play at the beach. Life is too short. Play comes first


Nanette

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

SwansLoveDisney Well, I am glad I am not alone on this. I would love to visit Hawaii. My DH was there in his Coast Guard days, said it was gorgeous. But honestly if I had to choose between the two, I know I would choose Disney everytime. If DH wants a trip other than disney than he's going to have to plan it.

P.S. How is the costume coming along?

I would also choose Disney over any other destination. In that way, I think it's a good thing that I have DH to balance me out!

The costume is coming along SLOWLY. I ordered the Lumiere candlestick from ebay. I am going to hit up some thrift/consignment shops this weekend to see what I can find.

 

[LurrrvtheDuck]

Ok, haven't been here in awhile Ty! Sorry life got in the way.

Anyway, loving all the new purchases. I love my Croc flip flops too, they are so comfy and come in very handy in the hot Florida Disney weather.

Anyhoo, glad to hear your visit with your brother went well. at his Little Mermaid play acting. Is his ankle ok?

about your Disney Dream. I know that feeling I had a similar Disney Dream not too long ago and had a frustrating time in my dream while at Disney. But to quote The Lion King: "Hakuna Matata", your trip is going to wonderful and you guys will have a great time and make so many more fabulous Disney Memories.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Hi Ty

I love your report, it is so much fun to read.

You are a hard-core scrapbooker, the pictures you posted of your scrapbook from last year are amazing. I wish I had the creativity to scrapbook. I just throw all my pictures in a photo album and I am done.

I was happy to hear that Reese made cheering. Congratulations Reese!

That accident you witnessed must have been horrible. I can't even imagine what it would be like to witness something like that. Thank god you were there and were able to call for help.

I loved you HD antics. The diversionary conversation on the first trip and then those disguises you wore for the LGMHPC heist were hilarious! I couldn't stop laughing! The pictures of Reese in the store and then outside on the shopping carts were great. You two sure sound like a lot of fun!

I also loved your Mickey phone and that you make all your Disney calls on it. If it were mine I would pretend it was my direct line to Disney and would forbid its use for anything that was not Disney related.

I'm so happy for you that you got to have a nice visit with your brother. Family really is important and you are really lucky that you have such a loving and close knit family. I can't imagine anybody wanting to go to Vegas over Disney though, that's just madness!

Oh, I also hope that you are able to brainwash your friend Jen into becoming a Disney lover like the rest of us. She has to take her kid to Disney! Every kid needs at least one trip to meet the Mouse!

I can't wait to hear more about your trip as December gets closer. I am going to go and read your first report and Reese's also so I can hear all about what you did last time and all the fun adventures you had.

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Ty,

I just finished reading through your report and I also read Reese's report. You guys are too funny. It is so nice to see a mother and her teenage daughter getting along so well and it is very clear that you two have a very loving relationship.

Now that I am all caught up on your past Disney adventures I can't wait to hear more about your upcoming trip. You will finally get that picture with Mickey!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Hellooooooooo! Where are you??

Shopping??

How many days now before the kids come home?

 

[djcandyrocker]

So happy you are going back!
You are gonna have an amazing time. Reese is just adorable and I think these will be memories to last a lifetime for you guys. I miss your old report...I started reading it when i was in Disney. You really should write a book

 

[disneyaddicted]

Can'tWaitToGo2007 Yes, play comes first then work comes to bite you in the rear later. But I never learn do I?

SwansLoveDisney People tell me that they would eventually burn out on disney, but then again these are people who have never been to disney EVER! I could go for a week once a month and never tire of it. I always say if I were rich instead of beautiful I would be at Disney when ever the urge calls, which is always, everyday, all day.

LurrrvtheDuck I know what you mean about the whole life thing getting in the way. If it were up to me I would spend the majority of my day on the boards reading TR's. I am so far behinde in my readings now, but I am looking forward to playing catch up once life settles down a bit. but anyway, glad to have you back.

Lifelong Dreamer Welcome to my pre trip report, I am happy to have you here. I followed your link in your siggie over to your report, I am still in the process of reading, so far it's great. Aren't brothers wonderful with all their embarrassing craziness? LOL You super special lucky!!!!! I now love to say that, it's hilarious. Thank you for all your kind words about Reese, she's my minnie me, some people have referred to us a Lucy and Ethel because of the trouble we manage to get into together, I really should try and be a better example, but that just sucks all the fun out of life, as long as I keep things legal we should be o.k. stick around there's more to come.

ILMICKEY I am all over the place. Shopping a little, but mostly swamped with work, I was trying to get it all done so I could have 2 weeks work free to just be with the kids when they come home, I finally finished all the cheer wear for Cougars but they have sold out and placed another order, so it's back to the shop, then I find out I have 2 orders for 2 different sororities, the work just keeps coming, which I shouldn't complain, cause that's more Disney dollars. Also the cheerleading season has started, and even though Reese isn't here I still have the booster meetings and different committees I serve on for both squads, busy busy me.
I was suppose to get the kids back this Sunday, but my wonderful sister Bo talked the ex into letting the kids go with her a day early for my Dads surprise 60th birthday party, so now I will head to Mi a day early for the party and get my babies a day early. Reese is ready to come home, she has called me 3 times this week crying cause she is homesick, I am strong for her and try and cheer her up best I can, little does she know that I cry too cause I miss her and Jim so much. Hopefully this is the last summer they will have to go for so long.

djcandyrocker I am so stoked that I get to go back and try again, I am working hard on this trip to make it most memorable, I am armed with knowledge this time.

All my Dis friends Thank you for keeping me company over the summer, you have all made me laugh so much and it is a huge comfort to have friends here, and even though we have never met in person I feel so blessed by how much support everyone has shown me. You guys are great.

 

[ericamcl]

yay! i was so happy to see that you posted again!

how much longer til the kids come back?

 

[disneyaddicted]

Thanks ericamcl Been busy, I sure do miss the boards when I can't get to them in days.

I get the kids this Saturday, looking back can say this summer flew by quick, but at the beginning of the summer it seemed like a day lasted a week.

 

[jackdis]

Thanks ericamcl looking back can say this summer flew by quick, but at the beginning of the summer it seemed like a day lasted a week.

I TOTALLY know what you mean. The last week of June and first week of July seemed like an eternity..in a good way! And then, after that, it just flew by. I wish August would slow down. I think that's why I'm not I'm packing yet for our Disney trip. I don't want the summer to be over!!!

Teacher here!!!

 

[Lifelong_Dreamer]

Hey Ty,

That is great that the kids are home on Saturday. It must be so hard for you during the summer when they are away. I can't wait to hear about all the Disney hijinks that you and Reese will plan in prep for your Disney trip!

 

[ElizaB39]

I don't know what to say about your nightmare except the following.

You know that it is not even remotely going to come true, three pictures? Come on, you will probaly have 300, your dream just left off the two zeros, right?

You will not only have seen the MK, how is that even remotely possible? Just not gonna happen, especially since Reese said it was a great vacay (in the dream).

What you are stressing about is not seeing Mickey Mouse. That MUST BE #1 on your list this time. I mean it. The very first thing on the very first day is GO TO SEE MICKEY MOUSE! This is the one thing you lamented about over and over in your trip report. You must take care of it right away! Okay?

The other thing you are stressing about is your friends having fun. Note to self; I cannot control the reactions of other peoples that are undisneyfied. I can present to them the BEST EVER itinerary, hope they have fun, encourage it, expect it, but be prepared for it not to happen. This way you let yourself off the hook of being RESPONSIBLE for other people's fun and amazement at Disney.

I KNOW you will have a great time, it is in your nature. I have read all of your trip report, and this pre trip report too. There is no way that those two other people are not going to have fun with you and Reese. For Pete's sake, I am tempted to make reservations at Disney at the same time, search for you in MK visiting Mickey the first day, casually bump into you, say, Oh, are you Ty and Reese from the DIS? (you will be notable due to the prevalence of lime green Mickey heads) Continue on with my spiel that I am a solo traveler and look pathetic so that you will invite me to join you on your fun-filled week!

IT WILL BE SUPER DUPER GREAT!

Eliza

p.s. you are missing your kiddie coos too and that is adding to the situation.

Peace!