Oh, dear DIS friends, I'm sorry I've been neglecting you! We fell all the way down to page 3! It's been a loooong week here at Casa Crystal!
The blogathon went awesomely (is that a word?), and I wanted to say a specia thank you to you trip report readers who came by my blog to support me!
The rest of the week has been crazy! It started with me making my car payment online, but instead of it going through once, it went through THREE times, sending my bank account plummeting into the red, and causing a few overdraft fees. Grr! I'm STILL working on getting that straightened back out!
Then, my beloved kitty Tallulah got sick on Monday! She spent about two hours throwing up and...well.. similar on the other end! I was freaking out, and called the vet as soon as they opened (8am), but they didn't have an appointment until 3! (Grr!) I managed to get a few hours of sleep, and then took her in to get checked out. They're not quite sure what made her sick, but they gave her a couple of shots and some pills, and she seems to be doing a lot better- at least food is staying down! But she's still not too perky.
In actual Disneyween related news- Going by rumors and past dates, I'm expecting AP rates for October to come out within the next 2 weeks! That means we really need to buckle down and figure out where the heck we want to stay! I got a chance to talk to Kelly about it last night, but we still haven't been able to come to many conclusions.
The problem is that this is her first year teaching at a new school, so she's unsure how many days she'll be able to get off. She's thinking that she may have to leave on the 26th after school (A Friday), stay at WDW Sat, Sun, and Mon, and head home on Tuesday the 30th. Anyone familiar with Disney Math knows that's only 3 real park days, aka about 3 days too few! Plus, it means she would miss going to the Adv Club in costume on the 31st! I'm really hoping she can get at least a couple of extra days, so that she could go home on the 1st (Thursday), and therefore get to stay for Halloween!
As a result, in order to deal with my crazy needs to plan, I'm going to draw up plans for if we have 3 days, 4 days, etc.
I'm thinking that if we only have a few days, the WL is going to be the most convenient place to stay. It would make it much easier to o tea and
MNSSHP on the same day, for instance, since both of those activities are close to the WL, and would mean a fairly short transportation time getting back and forth. (I'm not sure that 2 hours is enough for me to transform from mere mortal into Pirate Extraordinaire!)
In joyous trip related news- our new traveling companion arrived this week!
Snape is seen here on the DIS, checking the DVC rent trade board in hopes that someone has a BCV studio available! (Dude, I need to stay away from that board- it makes me wish I was going now! Someone's got points to be used in August for $5 per point! That's practically free!) We're still holding out hope that something will become available for us! (Although with the new rules, we won't know until 30 days or less before our trip. And I'm banned from posting new threads there because I committed the dark, unspeakable sin of putting a smiley after the word "bump".)
So, now that I've caught you up on the State of the Disneyween, I'm off to break out multi-colored pens and figure out how to smush two weeks of WDW goodness into three (%$Y%U$*) days!
I love it! Thanks for posting it!
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, cuz I haven't read the book yet!
If you need me, I'll be here. All day. Alllll day. My butt is getting tired just thinking about all the sitting ahead! 
I have to finish some reading before I start back to work on Tuesday (I'm a teacher) then I have to finish the biography on Walt Disney that I CHECKED out of the library (as it is DUE very soon). Then, and only then, do I get to read HP7! Like I said, pathetic! 
, and just saw HP5 last week! 
