Girls Only Trip. OLD THREAD! Please see first post for link to new one, thanks!

[lisadoll93]

Man, this thread is like a ghost town lately! Where is everyone??

Hopefully you are all out enjoying your summer. Today is my 15 year wedding anniversary.
To celebrate we are taking the kids out to see Wall-E when he gets off work tonight.

Well, since we don't have anyone to watch the kids, that's the best we can do right now. We just had this long vacation so that was kind of a splurge and then his parents will be here sometime in July so we can have a night out then. So for now, Wall-E will be fine. I'm actually looking forward to seeing it. I hope it's good.

Have a good day everyone!

Did you get married when you were 15??? You do not look old enough to be married for 15 years.

Summer is just trucking along here. Kids farmed out to Grandparents.

 

[Califgirl]

Happy Anniversary, Beth!

 

[stacielee]

Man, this thread is like a ghost town lately! Where is everyone??

Hopefully you are all out enjoying your summer. Today is my 15 year wedding anniversary.
To celebrate we are taking the kids out to see Wall-E when he gets off work tonight.

Well, since we don't have anyone to watch the kids, that's the best we can do right now. We just had this long vacation so that was kind of a splurge and then his parents will be here sometime in July so we can have a night out then. So for now, Wall-E will be fine. I'm actually looking forward to seeing it. I hope it's good.

Have a good day everyone!

I sent you a present, did you get it?

 

[mommaU4]

Did you get married when you were 15??? You do not look old enough to be married for 15 years.

Summer is just trucking along here. Kids farmed out to Grandparents.

Nope, I'm 36. We were married when I was 21.
I'm glad you're summer is going well. I wish my kids were at their grandparents. LOL They are eating me out of house and home.

Happy Anniversary, Beth!

Thanks.

 

[mommaU4]

I sent you a present, did you get it?

I did!! Thank you!!! I just sent you a PM.

 

[toocherie]

I'm here--just have had a couple of really busy days between work and some stuff at the house (new cleaning lady, meeting with painters, etc.)

Get to go this afternoon to get a bone density test! Oh, the joys of getting old . . . . . next up . . . . colonoscopy . . . . oh boy--can't wait!

Other than that trying to get my house cleaned up for company next month

What is everyone doing for the Fourth of July? Big plans? I waited too long to try to have a barbeque and everyone's either going out of town or already made plans in my family . . . so it will be quiet (which actually is fine with me since my company will be here the following week). I live in a horse community and they have a parade where they decorate up all the horses and they walk by my deck on the way to the parade so that is always fun to watch.

Everyone have a great weekend! I may go to DL on Sunday if I can get up the energy!

 

[stacielee]

I'm here--just have had a couple of really busy days between work and some stuff at the house (new cleaning lady, meeting with painters, etc.)

Get to go this afternoon to get a bone density test! Oh, the joys of getting old . . . . . next up . . . . colonoscopy . . . . oh boy--can't wait!

Other than that trying to get my house cleaned up for company next month

What is everyone doing for the Fourth of July? Big plans? I waited too long to try to have a barbeque and everyone's either going out of town or already made plans in my family . . . so it will be quiet (which actually is fine with me since my company will be here the following week). I live in a horse community and they have a parade where they decorate up all the horses and they walk by my deck on the way to the parade so that is always fun to watch.

Everyone have a great weekend! I may go to DL on Sunday if I can get up the energy!

I've already had the colonoscopy done, have a history in my family. It actually wasn't bad at all; just think, it gives you the opportunity to get all cleaned out and start eating healthy Yeah, right!! Haven't done the bone density yet, but I did just have my hormones tested... Yes, I'm a female

We're going to Michigan for 2 weeks, we have a cabin in Northern Michigan, where it's about 75-80 degrees right now. Much better than here, "Hotter than Hell" as DM calls it, where it's been 105-110 for the past 2 weeks, maybe 3!! My youngest DD's birthday is July 4, and my (usually D)H is July 7, and my brothers is July 16, so lots of celebrating to do, especially since my DD will be 13!!! I will officially be the parent of 3 teenagers!!

I just read this quote online, "Visiting every Disney theme park in the world may seem like an odd life goal for a child-free 30-something, but a wise person once said 'for those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, none will do.'" Is that not completely true!!! Just change "child-free 30-something" to "parent-of-3-teenagers 40-something" and it makes even more sense!!! Would love for that to be my new tag -- Tag Fairy, where are you???

For all of you Photopass people from our April trip, I sent Beth the CDs as well, thought that since she planned it all for us, that was the least I could do! Now she just needs to figure out how to look at the 701 pictures!!!

 

[bumbershoot]

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What is everyone doing for the Fourth of July? Big plans? I waited too long to try to have a barbeque and everyone's either going out of town or already made plans in my family . . . so it will be quiet (which actually is fine with me since my company will be here the following week). I live in a horse community and they have a parade where they decorate up all the horses and they walk by my deck on the way to the parade so that is always fun to watch.

Hey toochy.

Just read the last page of the thread (haven't been to the thread since the last time I posted, whenever that was).

This 4th, not only will hubby be off, but he also has the 6th and 7th off (his weekend)! Very exciting, with just that one day of pesky work in between. We've just moved closer to Commencement Bay, and we will have a lovely view of the parade of tall ships on the 3rd, going right past our window (if you ignore the street, ravine, and more street and another street between us and the waterway, LOL) to the spot for the Tall Ships Festival.

We'll go to the waterfront for the 4th and fight the masses, the hordes...then on the 6th or 7th buy tickets for the Tall Ships fest and go enjoy the free parts, then use our tickets to explore the sailing ships, including the Lady Washington, which was used for the HMS Interceptor in POTC!

It will be a surprisingly action-packed weekend for us, since usually hubby is working part or all of the 4th.

However, before that, we have to get *something* on our balcony. We live in a condo community that is mainly retirees, and they are brimming with patriotism and community spirit, and each condo is required to show the red white and blue. We have nothing on the balcony right now - we don't even go out there, as the railings are not to code and Eamon doesn't quite understand the concept of "accidentally falling to your death"...seems to think he won't HAVE an accident, even though we've been to the ER twice in just over the last year.

So I figure we'll buy some bunting or whatever, then Eamon and I can have a project where we color small flags of the other countries to which our family owes our existence. Then put those little flags a bit out of site, so we can be patriotic with the community, but privately fly our true colors of appreciation of the other countries (Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Korea, and Portugal, just to name the last 4 generations) at the same time.


So that's what WE will be up to in the next week+!



I got my 20 page Shutterfly photobook that I made. I called it (stupidly but honestly) "our pretty disney", and it's like a walk through the park, only seeing the pretty bits. It's VERY colorful and just full of photos; only one page has writing on it, to commemorate Eamon riding TOT on our last trip. I just love doing photobooks like that; I'm not into the wordy scrapbooks that are more like journals, but I like doing *something* extra to go next to my plain and simple photo albums, and making little books like that is perfect.

 

[DangerMouse]

Man, this thread is like a ghost town lately! Where is everyone??

Hopefully you are all out enjoying your summer. Today is my 15 year wedding anniversary.
To celebrate we are taking the kids out to see Wall-E when he gets off work tonight.

Well, since we don't have anyone to watch the kids, that's the best we can do right now. We just had this long vacation so that was kind of a splurge and then his parents will be here sometime in July so we can have a night out then. So for now, Wall-E will be fine. I'm actually looking forward to seeing it. I hope it's good.

Have a good day everyone!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BETH!!!

We just got back from seeing Wall-E. We went to the first show of the day. It was very, very good. Really amazing animation and very emotion filled. I was super impressed, but then again, Pixar is really my favorite animation studio ever. Lasseter is just simply a genius! Oh and the new Pixar short is one of the funniest ever.

Hope you all enjoy it as much as my family did.

 

[bumbershoot]

We just got back from seeing Wall-E. We went to the first show of the day. It was very, very good. Really amazing animation and very emotion filled. I was super impressed, but then again, Pixar is really my favorite animation studio ever. Lasseter is just simply a genius! Oh and the new Pixar short is one of the funniest ever.

That's good to know!

I Lasseter. The photobook I mentioned...the very last page is a small closeup of that Tinkerbell thing from the front, with a big closeup of the Lasseter wine bottle in the Ratatouille window on Main Street, as a "thanks" to the guy for being part of making such good movies.

 

[DangerMouse]

Molly, my kids got to do a tour of the Lady Washington a couple summers ago when it was docked in Coupeville on Whidbey. They had actors dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, and Elizabeth Swann. It was kind of cheesey, but the ship was way cool.

Sure wish we were up there for the 4th instead of sweltering down here. We are usually watching fireworks in 100+ degree heat because it doesn't cool down at night anymore.

 

[bumbershoot]

Molly, my kids got to do a tour of the Lady Washington a couple summers ago when it was docked in Coupeville on Whidbey. They had actors dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, and Elizabeth Swann. It was kind of cheesey, but the ship was way cool.

Sure wish we were up there for the 4th instead of sweltering down here. We are usually watching fireworks in 100+ degree heat because it doesn't cool down at night anymore.

What fun! I doubt they'll have people dressed up like that, but hey, who knows?

Come on up, we've got room.

 

[disney-inspired]

Hi, Ladies!
I'm posting this here because I feel more comfortable since I know most of you.

My dad talked to us last night and said that according to his doctor, he might need to go through radiation to completely kill of his thryoid.

This is most prevention because they found cancer in part of his thyroid (which they took out) when he had surgery a couple weeks ago. The doctors just don't want to take any chances. The hard part is that he went to get his T4 levels measured and they are still pretty high. T4 levels is a hormone your thyroid produces and even though most of his thyroid is gone, whatever was in the reserves is still working. The Doctors say they have to wait until it completely finishes before they can decide if radiation is the proper treatment. Which means that my father has to get worse before he can get better. And they say medicine is advanced nowadays.

What this means for us is that he will become more irritable and have practically no energy. He can't eat anything with iodine (no red things, salt, etc) so he will be eating organic foods for about a month. Because his thyroid controls his metabolism and the thyroid is pretty much non-existant, his metabolism will slow down dramatically causing higher blood pressure and he could possibly gain a lot of weight.


Sorry for being so and a downer but we really need your prayers. Thank you girls!

 

[mommaU4]

Hi Cheryl: Good for you for doing what needs to be done for your health. Getting older isn't fun, but you gotta do what you gotta do to make it to a nice old age. It's better then the alternative!

Your plans for the 4th sound nice. Ruben is off that day so I'm not sure what we'll be doing. At least I'm not sure during the day. At night I know we'll be watching the fireworks on the Strip.




Hi Stacie: I cannot wait to see those pics!
Lucky you heading out of the heat. I'm jealous. I hate watching the weather report because all across the board it's over 100. I think it will be for the next 3 months or more.
Sounds like you have lots of fun celebrating to do. Can't wait to hear all about it when you get back. Think you will make it to Traverse City for the Cherry Festival?

Oh, and I loved that Disney quote. So true.



Hi Molly: I like your plans for the 4th. Sounds nice and that's great your DH is off and can spend the time with you all.
Now get busy decorating your balcony!! LOL





Hi Callie: Thanks for the anniversary wishes. I'm so glad to hear you liked Wall-E!! The theater near our house actually had a showing at midnight. LOL I can't wait to go. I'll let you know how we like it. (pretend that's a movie screen)

 

[mommaU4]

Hi, Ladies!
I'm posting this here because I feel more comfortable since I know most of you.

My dad talked to us last night and said that according to his doctor, he might need to go through radiation to completely kill of his thryoid.

This is most prevention because they found cancer in part of his thyroid (which they took out) when he had surgery a couple weeks ago. The doctors just don't want to take any chances. The hard part is that he went to get his T4 levels measured and they are still pretty high. T4 levels is a hormone your thyroid produces and even though most of his thyroid is gone, whatever was in the reserves is still working. The Doctors say they have to wait until it completely finishes before they can decide if radiation is the proper treatment. Which means that my father has to get worse before he can get better. And they say medicine is advanced nowadays.

What this means for us is that he will become more irritable and have practically no energy. He can't eat anything with iodine (no red things, salt, etc) so he will be eating organic foods for about a month. Because his thyroid controls his metabolism and the thyroid is pretty much non-existant, his metabolism will slow down dramatically causing higher blood pressure and he could possibly gain a lot of weight.


Sorry for being so and a downer but we really need your prayers. Thank you girls!

Oh no Cristabel, I am so sorry to hear that. My thoughts and prayers will definitely be with your dad. And you. And don't apologize, you know we can all come to each other for support.

 

[disney-inspired]

Oh no Cristabel, I am so sorry to hear that. My thoughts and prayers will definitely be with your dad. And you. And don't apologize, you know we can all come to each other for support.

Thank you, Beth.
Happy Anniversary!

 

[wendylady36]

Hopefully you are all out enjoying your summer. Today is my 15 year wedding anniversary.

Happy Anniversary Beth! Congratulations on 15 years together!

What is everyone doing for the Fourth of July? Big plans?

Everyone have a great weekend! I may go to DL on Sunday if I can get up the energy!

I'm going up to Lake Tahoe. My family always has a big get together at our place up there. Unfortunately I've been kicked out of my bedroom this year, so it looks like I'll be sleeping on the sofa.

Get the energy to go to Disneyland and have a churro and lots of fun for me!

I've already had the colonoscopy done

We're going to Michigan for 2 weeks, we have a cabin in Northern Michigan, where it's about 75-80 degrees right now. Much better than here, "Hotter than Hell" as DM calls it, where it's been 105-110 for the past 2 weeks, maybe 3!! My youngest DD's birthday is July 4, and my (usually D)H is July 7, and my brothers is July 16, so lots of celebrating to do, especially since my DD will be 13!!! I will officially be the parent of 3 teenagers!!

I just read this quote online, "Visiting every Disney theme park in the world may seem like an odd life goal for a child-free 30-something, but a wise person once said 'for those who understand, no explanation is necessary; for those who don't, none will do.'" Is that not completely true!!! Just change "child-free 30-something" to "parent-of-3-teenagers 40-something" and it makes even more sense!!! Would love for that to be my new tag -- Tag Fairy, where are you???

I took my mom to her first colonoscopy. I felt so bad for her. I don't know why, but she wanted to go to lunch right after. I told her it wouldn't be a good idea, but she wanted too. After we ate I had to drive like a crazy woman to get my mom home.

Have fun in Michigan! Sounds like you have a lot of celebrating to do.

I love that Disney quote.

Hey toochy.

This 4th, not only will hubby be off, but he also has the 6th and 7th off (his weekend)! Very exciting, with just that one day of pesky work in between. We've just moved closer to Commencement Bay, and we will have a lovely view of the parade of tall ships on the 3rd, going right past our window (if you ignore the street, ravine, and more street and another street between us and the waterway, LOL) to the spot for the Tall Ships Festival.

However, before that, we have to get *something* on our balcony. We live in a condo community that is mainly retirees, and they are brimming with patriotism and community spirit, and each condo is required to show the red white and blue. We have nothing on the balcony right now - we don't even go out there, as the railings are not to code and Eamon doesn't quite understand the concept of "accidentally falling to your death"...seems to think he won't HAVE an accident, even though we've been to the ER twice in just over the last year.

I got my 20 page Shutterfly photobook that I made. I called it (stupidly but honestly) "our pretty disney", and it's like a walk through the park, only seeing the pretty bits. It's VERY colorful and just full of photos; only one page has writing on it, to commemorate Eamon riding TOT on our last trip. I just love doing photobooks like that; I'm not into the wordy scrapbooks that are more like journals, but I like doing *something* extra to go next to my plain and simple photo albums, and making little books like that is perfect.

Have fun at the Tall ships festival!

One year we put up red, white and blue lights for 4th of July around our deck, and we were all sitting out there and a couple walked by and the man loudly (and rudely) said, "Look at them! They still have their Christmas lights up!" the wife was so embarrassed, she whispered to him, "I think those are 4th of July lights." That made him be quiet.

I love making Shutterfly photobooks! They are the best and always turn out so great. Yours sounds like a lot of fun, your giving me ideas now!

We just got back from seeing Wall-E. We went to the first show of the day. It was very, very good. Really amazing animation and very emotion filled. I was super impressed, but then again, Pixar is really my favorite animation studio ever. Lasseter is just simply a genius! Oh and the new Pixar short is one of the funniest ever.

Hope you all enjoy it as much as my family did.

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it and that it is good! I'm hoping to take my niece when I get off of work.

When I rode the Lilly Bell last November, the CM that was in there with us told us that Lasseter had been on it the week before. I thought that was so exciting.

Hi, Ladies!
I'm posting this here because I feel more comfortable since I know most of you.

My dad talked to us last night and said that according to his doctor, he might need to go through radiation to completely kill of his thryoid.

This is most prevention because they found cancer in part of his thyroid (which they took out) when he had surgery a couple weeks ago. The doctors just don't want to take any chances. The hard part is that he went to get his T4 levels measured and they are still pretty high. T4 levels is a hormone your thyroid produces and even though most of his thyroid is gone, whatever was in the reserves is still working. The Doctors say they have to wait until it completely finishes before they can decide if radiation is the proper treatment. Which means that my father has to get worse before he can get better. And they say medicine is advanced nowadays.

What this means for us is that he will become more irritable and have practically no energy. He can't eat anything with iodine (no red things, salt, etc) so he will be eating organic foods for about a month. Because his thyroid controls his metabolism and the thyroid is pretty much non-existant, his metabolism will slow down dramatically causing higher blood pressure and he could possibly gain a lot of weight.


Sorry for being so and a downer but we really need your prayers. Thank you girls!

I know I don't really know you, but I know what it's like to have family members with medical conditions and how hard it can be on everyone. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

I love your avatar!




...And in other news:
I can't for the life of me find a copy of Mario Kart Wii. I've looked, called and have asked EVERYWHERE!

Ihope evryone has a great weekend. The air is all smokey for me, so I can't go swimming like I was planning on. I guess it's a good thing though, I don't need to subject people to my big, blindingly white self.

 

[bumbershoot]

wendylady36, what a great idea about the lights! The Tall Ships will be coming by during the day so we'll have to get some sort of other stuff, but that would be fun for the evenings over the weekend. Oh darn, a trip to Target is needed.

The book was just an 8x8, I got an offer by email for a FREE book, so I just paid shipping and tax, and it was mine. The cover is glossy and I made things really really BRIGHT and colorful (hubby was worried about it when I shared it online with him, but he likes the end results...he grew up with very bright colors, since his mom is Korean and they use BRIGHT colors there, so it was good once he saw the actual book) and different on every page, but trying to match the feel of everything.

Several months ago I got another free photobook offer, for one of the bigger ones, and I made a different sort of book, but I think I like the glossy covered one better!


disney-inspired, that's rough! Friend of mine had simply suspected thyroid cancer, and they decided to take it out (turns out it was NOT cancer, but that's a whole other story), and while in there they nicked her parathyroid, which I guess caused them to take THAT out, too. She is not good at not eating things she wants to, and the long-standing eating things with her combined with no thyroid or parathyroid caused her to put on a ton of weight.

BUT a few months after she had a baby, she got really serious about her diet and exercise, and she was able to lose almost all of the baby AND the no-thyroid weight. So even if your dad starts to gain, with that healthy diet he's going to be eating it might balance it all out.

Also, have they specified no salt at all? Or just no added-iodide salt? Because he can get high end salts, if he is allowed ANY salt, that don't have iodide added to it. I have a sea salt from Trader Joes with nothing added to it, and it was pretty cheap!

 

[disney-inspired]

I know I don't really know you, but I know what it's like to have family members with medical conditions and how hard it can be on everyone. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

I love your avatar!

...And in other news:
I can't for the life of me find a copy of Mario Kart Wii. I've looked, called and have asked EVERYWHERE!

Ihope evryone has a great weekend. The air is all smokey for me, so I can't go swimming like I was planning on. I guess it's a good thing though, I don't need to subject people to my big, blindingly white self.

Thank you! We'll meet on the next Girls' Only Trip, most definitely!
I've seen Mario Kart Wii at Wal-mart. Have you tried buying it online?

 

[disney-inspired]

disney-inspired, that's rough! Friend of mine had simply suspected thyroid cancer, and they decided to take it out (turns out it was NOT cancer, but that's a whole other story), and while in there they nicked her parathyroid, which I guess caused them to take THAT out, too. She is not good at not eating things she wants to, and the long-standing eating things with her combined with no thyroid or parathyroid caused her to put on a ton of weight.

BUT a few months after she had a baby, she got really serious about her diet and exercise, and she was able to lose almost all of the baby AND the no-thyroid weight. So even if your dad starts to gain, with that healthy diet he's going to be eating it might balance it all out.

Also, have they specified no salt at all? Or just no added-iodide salt? Because he can get high end salts, if he is allowed ANY salt, that don't have iodide added to it. I have a sea salt from Trader Joes with nothing added to it, and it was pretty cheap!

Yeah, I'm worried about him putting more weight on. He's not healthy as it is but this diet will force him to constantly eat, and eat the correct things. Because he will have very little energy, he will probably become my walking buddy. We're going to have to talk to his work buddies so they can keep him on track.
Thanks!

They said he can only have sea salt. But he can't have any fish or other things with iodine (I can't think of any off the top of my head). Which works out for me because I really can't stand fish, cooked that is but I love me some sushi.

Oh, Bumber you are really great. You have so much knowledge and information that it's really great to talk to you.