Gnomes Gnomes on the Range!

[julezdisney]

I bow down to your thread starting greatness!! WOW what a great intro!! FABULOUSLY done P!!!!!

Here's to many more years of great friendship and sisterhood!!

Love my Gnomies!

Hear Hear! And agreed, great song, P!

woohoo!!

Thanks! I'm not usually verbally creative (visual creativity is my thing!)..... but once in a while even a blind pig finds a truffle

So do you think we should be bad and chatter... and make everyone else start on page 2... since they are all apparently in dreamland already????

You are all still so evil. Love it!

Hi Julez!!! I've soooo missed your crazy antics around here!!!!

Thanks for the prayers and warm thoughts
Whatever it is... it is. I'm not going to stress about it. But that said... I'm glad you gals are here for me to vent to, cause I am not telling any of my family anything unless I really need to. They all have enough stress without worrying about what 'MAY' or 'MAY NOT' be going on with me!

Anyone planing a WDW trip say...March 31-April 6??? Anyone WANT to????

I WANT! And I don't have a husband to tell me no! LOL

 

[jenjolt]

Hey Julez!!! Glad to see you back around!!!

P...will be keeping you in my prayers! Hopefully it will be nothing!! And of course we are always here for you to vent too!!!!

 

[MegansMom]

C...sorry I missed your send-off, but I know you are having fun right this minute! Okay.....maybe not RIGHT this minute, you might be sleeping, but you know what I mean!

P....will be saying some prayers for you! Vent away my dear!

Julez...so glad to hear back from you! Hoping you are doing okay! We are here whenever you need us!


Okay gals, it looks like Tom really is serious about me checking into prices to try to escape either Thanksgiving break or right after Christmas....yes, we know we are crazy, but I think we all need a Disney fix so bad we are okay with the craziness! I just can't seem to get my engine running with all the Disney math. It is giving me SUCH a headache right now! YIKES! Cross your fingers that I can get this all figured out REALLY soon!

 

[Lady Lallie]

Hi Julez!!! It's so nice to see you again.

Paula, I think that is the way to handle this. You will be just fine, I know it.

Jen (MM), I don't think you are crazy at all! You will be just fine with the crowds. I went over Thanksgiving when I was younger and I just remember the magic, not the crowds.

Anyone have fun plans for this weekend??

 

[kschafer]

It's so nice to see so many gnomies stopping by! (welcome back Julez )

P, I think it's good to not tell too many people before you know what it is but know we are are always here!! I would love to join you but I don't think a trip is in the works for me for another year or so

I had a message on FB from my brother. He wrote a program to analyze the crowd calendar on touringplans to determine the optimal week and park each day to find the ideal plan. What a geek (I called him a Disney dork...like I'm one to talk!) In case you are curious, the last week of september next year is ideal. Sorry MM, the worst is the week between christmas and new years

I got a couple texts from C last night, she had dinner around the world and ended up in the Ditch...lucky girl!!

 

[julezdisney]

Hi Julez!!! It's so nice to see you again.

Paula, I think that is the way to handle this. You will be just fine, I know it.

Jen (MM), I don't think you are crazy at all! You will be just fine with the crowds. I went over Thanksgiving when I was younger and I just remember the magic, not the crowds.

Anyone have fun plans for this weekend??

Thanks LL! Checkin' in on my lunch break!

Paula, don't know what's goin' on buy you always have my prayers! All of you do!

The weekend...it's my weekend "off" but I'm pretty broke so looks like I'll be my friend Cherry's DD for tommorow night. A friend turns 33 today and is having dinner at a local japanese restraunt. If Ray's dad makes good on his Friday, then I'll meet up with her group for a minute, just to make an appearance. I'd love to see Secretariat with Rachael on Sunday! How about you?

It's so nice to see so many gnomies stopping by! (welcome back Julez )

P, I think it's good to not tell too many people before you know what it is but know we are are always here!! I would love to join you but I don't think a trip is in the works for me for another year or so

I had a message on FB from my brother. He wrote a program to analyze the crowd calendar on touringplans to determine the optimal week and park each day to find the ideal plan. What a geek (I called him a Disney dork...like I'm one to talk!) In case you are curious, the last week of september next year is ideal. Sorry MM, the worst is the week between christmas and new years

I got a couple texts from C last night, she had dinner around the world and ended up in the Ditch...lucky girl!!

What's that mean? What'd I miss? The Ditch??

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Thanks for the welcome back, girls! Man, I missed you! And I miss Disney! And I miss our chats! And I MISS HAVING THE FREAKING INTERNET!!

I might finally start on my Trip Report from last May though. I'm no longer friends with the girl that went with me and Rachael though, so that'll be interesting. LOL. Our friendship went quickly south after that trip. Travelling with a friend who is non-Disney TO Disney is sure a way to see someone in a whole new light, I'll say that!

 

[julezdisney]

Oh hey! Anyone planning any of the marathons or half-marathons? I remember we all toyed with the ideas....

 

[Lady Lallie]

No plans for me except the gym and shopping for jeans. I have one pair left and they are practically falling apart and falling off when I walk, I need some news really soon!

I have no definite plans for any of the 1/2s or even the 5ks but they are in the back of my mind, I just have so much going on that I don't know when i will fit everything in!

 

[ILuvCrush]

I was a very bad girl today and looked up my labwork

My TSH is within the traditional 'normal' range (0.45-4.5).... but most endocrinologists are now looking for levels between 0.3-3.0 Mine's 3.1 ....which isn't nearly as bad as it could be!! I'm not as anxious about my appt monday and getting the ultrasound results back now!! I don't know what my level was last year... hopefully its not much of a change!!

I got a text from C today... she sounds like she's having fun... and she found my F&W cookbook

 

[Roxychica7]

Wooo..so glad there's good news so far P! Still thinking lots about you!

I'm taking my dog to the vet tomorrow, hopefully I'm over-reacting, but she's had a bump on her back for the past few weeks. I thought it was an infected hair or something, but it's not going away. I'm taking her tomorrow to have it looked at, it's just one of those things that I need to find out what it is now. Wish us luck..

Blake went on travel this week to Memphis, TN, I'm picking him up from the airport tonight. We may be looking at a new place on sunday too, since our lease ends in December. It's crazy how much a month rent goes up if you switch to a month to month!

Have a fun one girls!

 

[Roxychica7]

As I'm trying to plan out some more meals, I've been browsing the food boards lately. Has anyone seen this ladies report yet?
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2565061

They went to Disney for 30, yes 30 days!! She just started, but holy heck look at her line-up for meals!!

 

[kschafer]

Oh girls, I'm suddenly very antsy to plan a trip! I was hoping I could satisfy my need by thinking about our family vacation next summer (looks like we will most likely head to Colorado and Utah for a couple weeks but we might choose Wyoming and Montana instead) but when I tried to discuss it with Greg, he said he wouldn't be ready talk about it until after basketball season is over in March

So either I will go crazy for the next 5 months or I will end up planning it without any input from him which sounds OK but if it doesn't meet his expectations (how am I supposed to know what those are ) then he will get entirely pissy about it! AAAAAACK!!!

 

[ILuvCrush]

We took a road trip yesterday to see the PA wild elk.....
I did a very mini TR on my blog if anyone wants to see some pictures!! I posted some in the DIS photog boards too... I'll probably get cut up there though...I really needed a tripod, cause the photos have a little blur to them!

 

[ILuvCrush]

Do any of you ladies have any photos of the shops (windows/merchandise/signs anything) at the Grand Floridian?? I love to shop there... but I have absolutely NO photos!!!

I have to design a couple "shopping" themed scrapbook pages this week... and I'm at a loss as to what to do! Everyone is doing DTD... so I want to do something different.

Can anyone help a gnomie out??

 

[Lady Lallie]

Do any of you ladies have any photos of the shops (windows/merchandise/signs anything) at the Grand Floridian?? I love to shop there... but I have absolutely NO photos!!!

I have to design a couple "shopping" themed scrapbook pages this week... and I'm at a loss as to what to do! Everyone is doing DTD... so I want to do something different.

Can anyone help a gnomie out??

I have exactly TWO photos, Paula.

I hope that helps!

Katie, that would frustrate me!!! Why can't men just help? I want to go to Utah so badly!! I'm jealous.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Jackie!!


Have you seen the cover for the next Pink Carnation book? The description sounds fabulous too!! I'm so excited, too bad we have to wait until January! Good thing we have the Mistletoe book coming out next week to keep us entertained.

 

[jenjolt]

I'm on my second Pink Carnation book..woot woot! Maybe by January I will be all caught up!!!

Love your picture of the elk Paula...so cute!! I'll look through my photos and see what I can find for you!!!!

Katie have fun planning!!!!

Leslie, Phillip said if I bought him that shirt he would wear it so I could take a picture and post it on here....that's almost worth it to me LOL!

 

[ILuvCrush]

Thanks Jen! And Thanks for checking on the photos!!!

I think its a given that you HAVE to buy that shirt for him now!

Well I got my results from he dr today.... My ultrasound was good
My TSH level has doubled in the past year but since it's 'borderline' she decided to wait and redo my bloodwork in 6 months before doing anything

 

[jenjolt]

YAY for great news from the doctor!!! Glad your ultrasound came back normal!!!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

Paula, so glad to hear the ultrasound came back okay!

Jen, hurray for being on the second Pink Carnation book!

LL, I had to go look at the cover after reading your comment! Love it! Remember how you told me about The Tea Rose? The author has a new book out called Revolution that sounds really good! I read a review of it in Chelsea's Teen Vogue and didn't even realize it was the same author until I looked it up on Amazon. Also, our book club's book sounds like one you would like, too. It's called The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent -- it's about the Salem Witch Trials.