Jmee
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Oct 13, 2007
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- 215
Where to begin? I guess with the fact that this is really a faux pre-trip report.
I mean I am planning a trip, and if a miracle should ever happen then we would certainly do it – but this is a dream for me, and for my kids. We love Disney, and are unable to plan a real trip for now, so we have been planning this. Disney is supposed to be about dreams isn’t it?
So here’s the concept: the biggest, baddest, most outrageous trip I can think of. Paid for? By winning the lottery of course!
And not just any puny little lottery either, but I think it would have to be a big one on powerball or megamillions. Do I count on this happening? Certainly not. Do I buy the occasional lottery ticket? You bet your bippy. But the realization is not really the point…
See I love Disney (don’t we all???).
And I loved loved loved planning our “big trip”. Would be planning another now, but it’s just not possible, and I’ve no idea when it will be. So I get the fun of planning a trip, and getting to do it no holds barred…all dreams and wishes possible. So what if it never happens. Don’t get me wrong…I would be on the phone making ressies in 2 seconds if we won, but I am really enjoying the dreaming and fantasizing of the process. So what’s wrong with that? Perhaps I am delusional, and full of rationalizations, but we all need a few flaws don’t we?
I’ve always been a lurker on the boards, sworn a few times I would speak up, but really never have for long. I’ve never done a trip report, or a pre-trip report. I guess I’ve always felt that someone else knew more, or could express it better than me. Things get taken the wrong way here sometimes, and I’m not much into controversy, so I just keep quiet and lurk. I do visit most every day, and check out the POTD board, and a few trip reports and “characters” I find fascinating. I guess I owe them apologies for not posting on their threads while getting so much enjoyment out of them. Sorry.
There, I said it. And meant it. Does it mean I will get any better? Probably not. Might try. We’ll consider it a work in progress and see.
So if I don’t post much why on earth am I starting my own thread here – and a FAKE one at that? Mostly I’ve kept all of this to myself. And my kids. DH just doesn’t get it. The kids do, and are into it, but I suppose I want to see if I’m really crazy (most likely) or if anyone might get it. I figured if anyone else on earth might understand it they might be here on these boards too. Maybe just as quiet as me, or maybe one of the “rock stars”.
Lotta truth out there, I guess it’s time to see if I can face it.
I’m hoping maybe someone else will join me and add to the dream in ways I hadn’t thought of, or maybe start their own dream trip and share it here.
Maybe I’ll just get heckled for being nuts though, or for being boring. I can take it. Either way I’ll get the catharsis of getting it all out there, bit by bit. I’ll try not to be too boring,
though I’ll state up front that writing is not my strength. I’ll try to include pics as much as possible to keep it interesting, and you might find a movie quote or two as I’m a bit nutty about that as well.
Thanks for reading this far, and for bearing with my blathering on. I hope I haven’t wasted too much of your time, and that I can waste some more of it soon.
I mean I am planning a trip, and if a miracle should ever happen then we would certainly do it – but this is a dream for me, and for my kids. We love Disney, and are unable to plan a real trip for now, so we have been planning this. Disney is supposed to be about dreams isn’t it?
So here’s the concept: the biggest, baddest, most outrageous trip I can think of. Paid for? By winning the lottery of course!
And not just any puny little lottery either, but I think it would have to be a big one on powerball or megamillions. Do I count on this happening? Certainly not. Do I buy the occasional lottery ticket? You bet your bippy. But the realization is not really the point…
See I love Disney (don’t we all???).
And I loved loved loved planning our “big trip”. Would be planning another now, but it’s just not possible, and I’ve no idea when it will be. So I get the fun of planning a trip, and getting to do it no holds barred…all dreams and wishes possible. So what if it never happens. Don’t get me wrong…I would be on the phone making ressies in 2 seconds if we won, but I am really enjoying the dreaming and fantasizing of the process. So what’s wrong with that? Perhaps I am delusional, and full of rationalizations, but we all need a few flaws don’t we?
I’ve always been a lurker on the boards, sworn a few times I would speak up, but really never have for long. I’ve never done a trip report, or a pre-trip report. I guess I’ve always felt that someone else knew more, or could express it better than me. Things get taken the wrong way here sometimes, and I’m not much into controversy, so I just keep quiet and lurk. I do visit most every day, and check out the POTD board, and a few trip reports and “characters” I find fascinating. I guess I owe them apologies for not posting on their threads while getting so much enjoyment out of them. Sorry.
There, I said it. And meant it. Does it mean I will get any better? Probably not. Might try. We’ll consider it a work in progress and see.
So if I don’t post much why on earth am I starting my own thread here – and a FAKE one at that? Mostly I’ve kept all of this to myself. And my kids. DH just doesn’t get it. The kids do, and are into it, but I suppose I want to see if I’m really crazy (most likely) or if anyone might get it. I figured if anyone else on earth might understand it they might be here on these boards too. Maybe just as quiet as me, or maybe one of the “rock stars”.
Lotta truth out there, I guess it’s time to see if I can face it.
I’m hoping maybe someone else will join me and add to the dream in ways I hadn’t thought of, or maybe start their own dream trip and share it here.
Maybe I’ll just get heckled for being nuts though, or for being boring. I can take it. Either way I’ll get the catharsis of getting it all out there, bit by bit. I’ll try not to be too boring,
though I’ll state up front that writing is not my strength. I’ll try to include pics as much as possible to keep it interesting, and you might find a movie quote or two as I’m a bit nutty about that as well.
Thanks for reading this far, and for bearing with my blathering on. I hope I haven’t wasted too much of your time, and that I can waste some more of it soon.
