Early roll call for March 20-23rd 08 Wonder cruise

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Marsha,
It sounds like you need to sit back and relax with a cup of hot tea and some tranquil music for a few minutes.

I know how your feeling. I hate it when things are beyond my control

But some how it all seems to work out ok in the end.

soon you'll be zipping around in your new van and new chair
Then enjoy your May trip.
After that is all over then think about June cruise. Enjoy that cruise before thinking about September on so on!!
But keep posting here with me in the meantime

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Good morning Marsha,

I know your not home right now but I wanted to keep the thread bumped up so i decided to say hello anyway

We have lots of nice hot sunshine today. I think I will sit out and enjoy for a bit.

Hope someone else will join us here soon,

 

[brady961]

Just got home little while ago. Boy I am so tired. will catch up later here and/or emails.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Have a good rest.
I will be on line over the weekend, but not quite as much as usual because my son Randy will be here tomarrow to visit.

I will watch the Magic pull out tomarrow though

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Marsha and anyone who might be dropping by today.

I wont be on line as much today because I have company coming, but I will try to drop by to help keep us bumped up at least one more time today!!


Marsha, hope you are rested up today. I had crazy dreams and didnt really get enough rest, but that is just the way it goes. I have had many tips about the scrapbooking we dicussed and I think it is going to be alot of fun and not too hard to do. Just have to give thought to each page before I do it. Rearrange it a few times before glueing things in place.

I got some basic paper on close out at wal mart really cheap so I can practice with it. I dont mind making mistakes on cheap paper.

I will e-mail you later about what I learned.

Hope you have a great day!!

 

[brady961]

Rested Up?????????? yeah sure. not much sleep last night either. gotta find that handle to turn brain faucet off at night LOL.

ran around most of today doing errands and of course am exhausted.

But part of the exhaustion too is excitement about friends coming to WDW in May. So I get three days at POP with friends. Then cruise in June which this morning a friend called so say she is GOING!!!!!!! WOO HOO. Excited yet stressful trying to coordinate selling my car, receiving power chair, purchasing the van, along with work schedule, etc....

Although I am exhausted again, I am also running on adrenaline from excitment with so many good things that will be happening in the next week and weeks to come.

catch ya later.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Morning Marsha,
hope you cleared your head enough to get some rest.

I am waiting to watch the Wonder pull out tonight!!
I am dog sitting today so wont be back on line until evening, uless they get pooped and decide to take a nap later.
They play constantly. and occassionally toohard and will get too playful and I have to make them have a time out!!

Like 2 5 year olds, you cant turn your back for one minute!!!

 

[brady961]

Good morning. I am out running more errands today. Later today or tonight I have to switch things from one car to another. I had taken everything out of my personal car, put it company business car so could get my career cleaned and detailed. I wanted it looking as good as possible for appraisal.

Now have to get all my stuff out of company car, then pack tonight to leave in morning for work. So won't be on computer tomorrow until evening. Plan is to return home on Thursday, however, if power chair rep says can deliver chair on Thurs then I will come home on Wed. Really hope that can happen on Thursday. Sell my car on Friday. Plus van place can come get the chair on Friday. If and BIG IF all this happens like this, then I definitely would have the van by May4th WOO HOO.

Ok gotta get out the door for more of those errands. hoping to get done and back home before heats up to much today.

hope you have a good day and will catch you later.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

just stopping by for a minute to say Howdy while the dogs are sleeping.
We all played ball for a very long time this morning, so now they are resting. However when I get up to get my food for lunch I am afraid they will both jump up again and want to play ball again.

Will chat later,

Good luck with things happening on schedule!!

 

[brady961]

I went out this morning to run more errands. i forgot to bring in battery to travel chair last night to charge so soon after in first store, realized battery was low.

So that sorta put a hault on all the errands I needed to do today. Did go to Walmart to pick up a few items, but walked, which wore me out quickly.

I came on back home and decided the other errands could wait until next weekend.

I am going to spend rest of the day resting. Then switching things out in cars, packing for traveling, and loading the car tonight. Then in the morning I am not worn out just carrying things from door to car. Just get up shower, dress, grab laptop and hit the road.

I won't switch out the cars or load the car until tonight once cools off again.

It is already very warm and I got so hot just being out the few minutes this morning. So this afternoon, rest time, and hopefully will remember to watch cam of the Wonder leaving out.

have a good day, get some rest.

later

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Howdy Marsha,
I survived the dog sitting but I am pooped!!
I am heading for a nice hot bath anf then off to bed by 9 p.m.

Minnie chowed down a whole bowl of food and is already zonked out for the night.

Tomarrow I will need to do a good vacuum job due to the extra dog hair. Greg was so nice and he swept and mopped the kitchen and entryway floors that were covered with paw prints and hair!!!

I will check back tomarrow, I do remember you said you wont be near your computer until evening , so I will bump us up in the morning.

Someday we will find another person to have fun with!! I know we dont have the ship to ourselves?? But that could be fun too!!

We really could race up and down the hallways!!

I'll be in touch

 

[brady961]

howdy
i have slept all afternoon and woke up at 10p because someone called me. thought would check the boards before trying to go back to sleep.

just hope i can sleep the rest of tonight as i have to drive about 4 or so hours in the morning for work.

i plan to return home Thursday, but I am hoping the power chair rep will say he can deliver the chair Thursday, friday at the latest. On fri or saturday i plan to go sell my car/SUV. I will use my company car until I get the van, which hopefully will be by May 4th or the following week at the latest.

Going to be busy week with work between traveling, conducting staff training, selling the van, and praying the chair is delivered. Of course my whole plan for getting the van when I hope is stemming that the chair will be delivered next week.

Spoke a lot this weekend with friend that is going with me on the June 3 night cruise. Plus another Diser and her daugther going on same cruise we have linked for dinner. It's so exciting chatting with the other diser as its their first Disney cruise. It's close to like reliving my excitement for my first cruise. So her excitement is just adding to my excitement.

Think I have figured out way to snorkel at adult beach on CC, and carry crutches with me out into water. tie to cheap ring floats together, the tie crutches on top of the floats. plus have long rope/string to hold on to floats yet still be able to use my arms to swim. so this june will be a test run on snorkeling. I will be wearing a flotation belt though to assure i stay afloat, or if fall i am able to get back up.

So you have your Carnival cruise soon and my june cruise is sooner LOL. just about a week apart from each other. would have been funny if both cruising at same times, and just happen to dock at same dock same day LOL. of course yours is 7 days and mine is 3 days.

When i get back then you leave, I will be dreaming about how great the 3 night was and how my 7 night in Sept will be.

ok i will try to check the boards before i leave in the morning. if I don't will in the evening from hotel.

have a good night and Monday.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Howdy Marsha,

I think your plan for snorkeling will work just fine. I dont swim, I sink!!
Actuall I never leanred due to a scary experience as a kid. Now I am so afraid I just cant seem to relax enough to really give it a try.
I love to play in the water, we even have apool that i play in, but only when Greg is out there too.

I am getting your bad habits!! Shame on you for sharing them with me
I woke up at 3 a.m. and didnt go back to sleep

I was extra tired too.

Well today I need to wash bedding, grocery shop, and vacuum up dog hair. Sounds like fun huh??

I iwll keep in touch,
try not to work too hard

 

[brady961]

LOL we should coordinate sleeping patterns that way could come here and chat LOL.

i am about to head out so will check boards tonight.

if you want to come over and do my laundry, clean apartment (Hey its only two rooms so wouldn't take you that long), and straigthen things up I will leave the key under the mat LOL.

have good day. chat more tonight and later this week.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Marsha,
just dropping by to say Good Night to you.

I got some good close out buys at Wal Mart for cruise scrapbooking stuff today. I will e-mail you about it later.

Take care ,
Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

morning Marsha,
I am off to the mall this morning to checkout the scrapbooking store and to look for drapes.
I will be home by lunch time, I hope!!

I will be in touch,

Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Howdy Marsha,
I made it home just in time for lunch. I did buy a few things and then I printed off pictures of Minnie to start her album. It should be a good learning experience and hope it goes well.

Hope your not working too hard!!


Anyone else out there going with us?? We would love to have you join us here.

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

good morning,
just dropping by to say howdy!!

I am off to walk the dog and then to start my first page of scrapbooking.

catch you later, don't work too hard!!!

 

[brady961]

just got home not long ago. came back day early since they are delivering my new power chair in the morning HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course will have to take pics to share LOL.

I get to play with it this weekend at home and around house (won't have way to transport it until get van). Then van company will come get it Monday to install lock down system. They will bring the van and chair back to me Friday May 4th HOORAY (of course if all goes as scheduled <G>)

have a weekend in May at POP with friends. so been and need to continue working on what Pal and Minn will be taking to wear at the parks. Funny I focus more on what they will wear then I do for me. I just put on top and capri's/shorts and go LOL.

Also started a cruise bag for June. I am taking Minn only and my friend going will bring her Pal. Since three nights figured ok for us to bring one and not both bring both. So things I think or for sure want to June cruise related to Minn go into the bag. Found the Dora the Explorer clothes fit Minn great. So have been buying out every outfit i can find LOL.

So working on Pal and Minn's suitcase for May WDW weekend which I believe is just about complete. And throwing things into a beach bag for June cruise for Minn. I need to work on coming up with a Pirate outfit for Minn. Pal has a nice one but he will wear it in Sept, so I don't want her wearing it for June. Of course Pal will wear the same one each cruise as he did last cruise <G>

I am hot and tired. I pulled something in shoulder/back this morning picking up travel power chair and putting it in SUV. So thinking once I get everything out of the car, will go lay on a heating pad. grrrrr

So excited yet nervous to finally receive and see the power chair. I know its a blessing and will offer me much more freedom with less effort/energy. Yet also like having to take that next step in accepting this yucky disease <G>

hope you are ok. and if out much say hydrated.

later gator

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi Marsha,
I'm sure your new chair will be great!!!
I stayed in today and worked on minnie's scrapbook. I have so much to learn, so I am experimenting with stuff . It is fun to do.
Tomarrow I will be home all day too because we have a bed for the guest room being delivered in the afternoon.

I had a awesome surprize today.
When I was born my folks didnt have much money so they only took 3 or 4 pictures of me until I was about 3 years old. My mom didnt know what happened to the old photos of me, she did have some of my older brothers.
So I have gone my whole life wondering what I looked like as a baby.

Today my brother e-mailed me some photos for the scrapbook i am making for my mom from all of us kids.

One photos was my dad squating down holding me at about age 3 or 4 months, and one brother on each side of me. I was so excited I cried on and off for an hour. I know it probably sounds crazy to people but it is just something I always wanted to know and always felt I had missed my whole life.
Of course I was a very cute baby Just like I thought. I even had a little hair on my head

well time for dishes, I'll be in touch.