In Search of My Body - Not the One I Ate, VOL 7! Princesses? Nope, just us Goddesses!

[DisneyGalUK]

Kelly - I used whilst - you see that?

I noticed - well used!

I'm back! My computer is among the living again and it only cost me a case of beer. I can't wait to catch up. Be back soon!

Welcome back! How did you get your computer fixed for a case of beer? I need to get a deal like that!

 

[lisaviolet]

Wednesday--EPCOT

So today was different from how we normally park tour. It is rope drop for us, as you know. And really, this isn’t a challenge. We are all up and going by 8, so to be at a park by 9 is not a challenge. But this year Jeff was at his conference till noon, plus we wanted to do F&W and that is an afternoon/evening event. So the plan was to sleep in,Yeah! What fun! head to breakfast, pick Jeff up at his conference at noon and head over then.

For breakfast, the kids and I had 10:00 (see? LATE) Late. Oh Erika you crack me up. Try eleven and I'll give that word. ADRs for 1900 Park Fair. Kelly is a Pooh fanatic. Fell in love with him at first sight (really) She looks like she loves him that pictures.at her first trip to the parks at age 18 months. And it has been a love affair ever since. Every time she has to have a surgery or more testing, she says “Poohy will get me through it.” Kills me. OMG But I am off topic. Normally we do the character meal at Crystal Palace. But I didn’t want to do it again this year, and knowing we had a free morning, this seemed like a better option. Turned out great! The food over at the Grand Floridian is always good (lobster benedict, for crying out loud!). We saw Mary Poppins, Alice, Mad Hatter, Tigger and Pooh. Look at the picture on this child’s face!I know. I know. Precious.

Overall, we all really liked the breakfast. My kids love, love, love character interaction. I will be sad if they ever feel that they have outgrown it.
Off to pick up Jeff for the rest of the day. Got to Epcot at 12-ish and we were pleasantly surprised that it was not as crowded as we had feared. Had to get FPs for Soarin, of course, so we did that first. Then while Jeff got something to eat the kids and I did the Figment ride (NOT lame and don’t make fun of me! I ADORE Figment).And Figment loves you I'm sure. Then over to the Seas with Nemo, then Spaceship Earth…I really do love the changes they have made to that ride. We basically walked on to all 3 rides.Nice!!!

Jeff joined us at this point and we had to watch the Jammitors. A trip to Epcot is not complete for my drummer boys without hanging with the Jammitors. We have seen them so many times that they KNOW us—by name!Shaking my head with a smile. ]

Then decided we would at least check out the line for the new thrill ride, “The Sum of All Thrills.” OMG. I had no idea. HOw could I have no idea? I totally expected it to be over an hour since it just opened the week before. Surprise! 15 minute wait. They are not advertising it AT ALL, so I think that really helped. Sadly, Kelly didn’t meet the height requirements. So Riley, Cammie, and I did it will Jeff and Kel went and explored the rest of Innoventions. OMG, SO FUN. This is going to be a hit. It needs some tweaking, if you ask me, but they are definitely on to something. The kids liked it so much that we switched…Jeff took them again while Kelly and I got FPs for Test Track and then went and did the new money/piggy bank thing. SO CUTE. She adored it. Did it twice, in fact.

What is it Erika? This SOAT?

Plus we played with all of the other stuff in Innoventions (except the recycling thing…she was totally uninterested). But seriously, they have totally redone everything in those sections and it is great for younger kids. Kind of like a hands-on Children’s Museum, but Disneyfied.

Next, we decided to try another new thing…the Kim Possible experience where we do a scavenger hunt around World Showcase in order to save the world. Interesting. The kids REALLY wanted to do this. So we signed up, got our “Kimmunicator” and were told to be in Norway at 2pm. Since it was a bit before 2, we decided to catch Honey I Shrunk the Audience. This was new for the kids because we always thought it might be too much (the whole snake thing, you know…). And you know, it WOULD have been fine. But there were two 13-ish girls sitting directly behind us who screamed and screamed and screamed bloody murder through the scene with the mice, the lion, and the snake. They really freaked Kelly out—pissed me off to no end. First time at HISTA? What fun. Jean adores that. Did they like it?

Finally, it was time to head to WS and get down to business at F&W. The plan was to have the kids do the Kim Possible thing while Jeff and I strolled WS. This way, they had something to do while we hopped from kiosk to kiosk. Sadly, the Kim Possible thing isn’t quite what we expected. While the kids LOVED it (and we would do it again under different circumstances), it all takes place in just ONE country. Then you can go and do other countries after you finish the first one. So we spent a half hour in Norway doing the hunt—and again, it was cute—but it also meant that we were stuck in Norway and we couldn’t really do F&W. Jeff was NOT happy. The only thing he really wanted from this trip was to do F&W and it wasn’t working out how he had envisioned it.

Finally, we saved Norway from the bad guys and Jeff and I could go drinking. Which we did. And Jeff started to bounce back and get rid of his ugly mood. Overall, though, I would say that this year’s F&W is not as good as years past.

After walking WS three times,

COLOR="darkorchid"]I think I spotted Canada!! Yeah. [/COLOR]

and enjoying about 7 wines as well as some Sake in Japan (and yes, we got the sake glasses with our names written on them in Japanese), we decided we would head out by way of Soarin and Test Track, since we had FPs for both. Neither one disappointed, as always. I always love this Hidden Mickey in TT (or as Jeff calls it—a blatantly obvious Mickey Funny!![/COLOR])—

One of these pics is so cute of Riley!

Back to SSR for a movie and bed.

No pool today! Shocking!

Thanks Erika!

 

[lisaviolet]

Total Night Owl. Hate the morning. Hardest part of my day. Well second hardest part. The first hardest part is trying to figure out what's for dinner!

Yes I too want to know about the piggy bank.

Of course you're a night owl. I'm slow. I knew you weren't a morning person. Voila two and two equal four Lisa.

AND....the lovely role model that she is, apparently has been taking her 15 y.o. sister out PARTYING. Yep. Way to go, Lindsey. Rehab taught you a lot.



So true.

(Ok - totally OT. There's a guy on tv right now, on our local news. Looks exactly like Fred Flinstone. Poor guy )





ugh. Me too. HATE figuring out what to make for dinner. Don't mind the actually cooking part, but I get so.sick. of being the one who has to decide the menu every night.



Erika - Welcome home! Lovely weather to return to Love the TR. So - was the whole "stuck in Norway without drinks" the Wednesday drama that you had previously elluded to?

Fred Flintstone. I alway thought my father was FF. Because my mother is - well she's finaly grey - a redhead. It just so fit for my young head.

Morning all!

Laundry today and then a Dis Meet at the Mall of America I organized. Last night had dinner with a couple from the cities and it was a great time. Really nice people and they will be at the MOA today also so looking forward to seeing them again.

They each have lost over 60 pounds by changing eating and walking so it is good to connect with another couple who is like minded.

Dan is back but leaves Tuesday again for 4-5 days then he is done with traveling.

I am off to find a dryer this weekend and oother than that - not a whole lot else!

Actually giddy about the Y on Monday but I will tell ya my arms are sore today!

Thanks for saying the price is fair - I will do the first three for sure and see what I can do about adding more. Money is a huge factor in that and it needs to be figured in if I can.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Love the bold Dawn. Love it.

For me consistency is everything. To me - the life changer.

Lyz - thanks for the offer. I will write more about what is going on in my head once things calm down a bit with the work stuff. (two days and counting until the big presentation and then I should be able to breathe again) I felt bad because I totally unloaded on Jesse yesterday during my workout. He was a bit taken aback because he is not used to seeing me lose it, but god love em, Jesse just took it all in and actually offered some useful advice. I went through the various rings of hell that I feel like I am in at the moment (work cr@p, weight loss cr@p, love life cr@p, etc) so we'll see how that plays out though.

I promise, I'll explain more if people are interested, but I need to get back to work on this presentation. Yes, it is 2:30 on a Saturday afternoon and I am in my office (can I just say how creepy the Capitol is when it is empty) and will be here for the better part of the day. Oh well...

On the plus side, got my long walk in on the treadmill today and totally rocked it. 3.6 miles in 55 minutes at a low incline. Whew...

I am interested Paula. I feel kind of sh!tty because I feel like my questioning unearthed some of it. What I'm saying is I hope that's a good thing!!!!!!

to you.

And Jesse. Of course he should listen and give good advice. I think you've been listening to a lot from him, yes?

I'm back! My computer is among the living again and it only cost me a case of beer. I can't wait to catch up. Be back soon!

Missed you Amiee.

I'm here to vent about the neighborhood kids. Bear with me. Maybe I just need to get this out of my system.

I love kids. I'm impressed that the ones I'm going to complain about are playing in the yard and not calcifying on a sofa somewhere. We moved to this house a bit over two years ago. One of our first projects was to fence the back yard. It was already fenced on two sides (neighbor's fences). We want to be able to open the back door and send the dogs out.

I approached the neighbor to the west and said we can put ours up right next to yours or remove yours (chain link) and put up ours (six foot cedar). He said take it out. There were old chain link posts on the north side of the lot. Those neighbors have an elevated fort right on the property line. I went to him and said, we're pulling out the old posts. Where the fort prevents us from putting the pretty side out, we'll put the pretty side in. Somewhere down the road we can flip that section if we need to.

We have a shed that sits in the corner opposite their fort. It's a couple feet from the east line. We put up a narrow gate. The fence that borders our driveway is four foot picket.

This is an old neighborhood. The lots are small. The west side yard is only a few feet wide. There is no east side yard. That's where the driveway is. The kid to the west plays basketball in the driveway. The goal is right near the line. We found basketballs in the yard all the time. He has about five. No big deal. He'd come over and get them. We told him that was fine. Just be sure to latch the gate next to the garage.

Last spring Sue let the pups out before bed. Stretch the dachshund wasn't waiting at the door. She went to the yard. The gate was open and he was ambling down the driveway. We considered a lock, but the balls were going to keep coming over. I talked to the west neighbors and told them we're putting up a net. Cool with them. I'm really proud of our net, BTW.

The kids to the north play all manner of sports. They launch balls in the yard. They also shoot each other with airsoft guns. They climb over the fence. They come through the small, narrow gate and leave it open. There's an extra wide gate at the end of the drive way. They leave it open. We put caribiner clips in the latches. Either they disappear or I find them in the yard.

I've found all of them open this week. Yesterday when I came home two were scrambling back over the fence. Sue had to tell them to get off the roof of our shed this summer - great sniper nest don't you know.

I could put a net up to the north. I could put padlocks on all the gates. I could talk to the kids. I could talk to the parents.

What makes me SO MAD is that I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING! I don't like confrontation. I don't want to worry about these hooligans for the next ten years. I don't need the trouble.

If you've made it this far suggestions would be appreciated. Commiseration would be okay, too.

I feel some better.

Ronda

So laughed on the bolded. Which is not a great help I know. I was imagining the fun of that at your expense.

I like the talking to the parents and seeing how that goes. Honestly, I would just express nonchalantly to the parents about the gates - like "can you tell the kids to shut the gates? Thanks". Simple always works best. Short and simple. That is not a confrontation at all. It's not.

 

[adsrtw]

Missed you too Lisa!

Kelly ~ I cashed in a favor, so computer repair was cheap!

I had to work this morning, so I missed Ryan's first basketball practice. My aunt reported that he is crushing on a little girl who played on his team last spring. She is now taller than him, lol.

 

[goofyfan-12]

I am interested Paula. I feel kind of sh!tty because I feel like my questioning unearthed some of it. What I'm saying is I hope that's a good thing!!!!!!

to you.

And Jesse. Of course he should listen and give good advice. I think you've been listening to a lot from him, yes?

Lisa - this is not your fault and your questions are not bringing up anything more than what is already in my head so no worries there. I am off to Saratoga for a NAWIC event and then it is training tomorrow and presentation prep all afternoon. I should have time to explain everything tomorrow night. I'll need the break from the presentation cr@p by then.

Later...

 

[adsrtw]

Oh Paula! Once again, I want to hitch a ride with you to the Springs!

 

[lisaviolet]

Lisa - this is not your fault and your questions are not bringing up anything more than what is already in my head so no worries there. I am off to Saratoga for a NAWIC event and then it is training tomorrow and presentation prep all afternoon. I should have time to explain everything tomorrow night. I'll need the break from the presentation cr@p by then.

Later...

Have fun Paula! And thanks. I did/do think it is a good thing. I was just insecure that you might not share my opinion on that for yourself.

 

[lisaviolet]

Oh Paula! Once again, I want to hitch a ride with you to the Springs!

Me too. Saturday night and I'm doing nada.

Amiee - sweetheart - picture. I so have to get my hair cut. It was time weeks and weeks ago.

 

[adsrtw]

Pictures are coming right up Lisa!

Oh, did I share with everybody that my staff was dressing me as a clown??? It was for a casual day competition during Ops Appreciation Week. We won (I'm not competitive at all, lol). Would everybody like to see that pic too? I know clowns can be scary.

 

[adsrtw]

Side view with my nose sticking out:

Ride side:

Back:

I hope the red shows up! I will have a good phone one of these days (more like 40 days from now)!

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Amiee!!!! Love the hair!

But I am counting--only 3 more dinners to cook till J leaves for Asia. SO sad!

Bwahahahaha

Paula--yes, unload. Whatever you need. Awesome job on the TM! Is there a reason you are training on the TM instead of walking outside? What do you listen to when walking? I have loads of suggestions.

Lyz--are you walking to B&B still?

Well, I haven't since Tuesday. Wednesday got away from me then Thursday and Friday I was working. I plan to tonight. We shall see. But I'm not listeneing to it unless I'm working out. That's the deal.

What makes me SO MAD is that I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING! I don't like confrontation. I don't want to worry about these hooligans for the next ten years. I don't need the trouble.

Wow. That situation sucks. You're darned if you do and darned if you don't. I don't know the answer. If I had neighbors and they were being inconsiderate, we wouldn't hesistate to be the crochety old meanies. I mean your pup could get run over. Not acceptable and you sound like a great neighbor.

 

[adsrtw]

Is it bad that I am drinking Mascato from a hurricane glass that holds 1/2 a bottle of wine? Cheers!

 

[lisaviolet]

Side view with my nose sticking out:

Ride side:

Back:

I hope the red shows up! I will have a good phone one of these days (more like 40 days from now)!

Nice Amiee. The lowlights make such a difference, eh? I really like it! I love the dimension - especially on the first shot. You look so cute.

I don't see any red though. Lowlights or highlights?

I just took the kitchen scissors and cut a good three inches or more off mine.

It was about your length - and now straightned it's right at my shoulders.

Amiee - does your hair grow quickly? It's quite a bit longer. I wish mine could be like yours but my hair is so fine.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I just took the kitchen scissors and cut a good three inches or more off mine.

Lisa!!!!You are insane!!!! Jean must just be so laid back. I'm freaking out that you cut your own hair, I can't imagine if I lived with you.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

I'm in a foul mood tonight. I snapped at Bob. I snapped at Molli. It was funny, Maddi - who is usually attached to my side driving me insane - saw me holler at Molli and said, "Ok - night" and headed directly to her room. Bob is having all these fake emergencies - like *gasp* he couldn't see the time on the vcr - so he called me to the bedroom to move his wallet 3 inches to the left! OMG!!!! If that doesn't make you snap, I don't know what will, right. He's sick and acting like it's his last 24 hours on earth. It might very well be.

 

[lisaviolet]

Lisa!!!!You are insane!!!! Jean must just be so laid back. I'm freaking out that you cut your own hair, I can't imagine if I lived with you.

I used to cut my own hair all the time - when we were broke. All the time. My hair is not straight so mistakes are not a big deal and it grows. See I'm not insane - I believe that makes ME laid back.

And Lord knows I've had some awful cuts sometimes with professionals. (And some great ones of course). Part of the reason I couldn't get a comb through it was some mistake a hairdresser made years ago that just now grew down to the ends. She put filler throughout my hair to cover highlights instead of just on the highlights.

Jean cuts her own hair too.

And it's fine. I took a pic of myself. In my bra. But I think you'll all survive. Hopefully. Laughing.

 

[lisaviolet]

I'm in a foul mood tonight. I snapped at Bob. I snapped at Molli. It was funny, Maddi - who is usually attached to my side driving me insane - saw me holler at Molli and said, "Ok - night" and headed directly to her room. Bob is having all these fake emergencies - like *gasp* he couldn't see the time on the vcr - so he called me to the bedroom to move his wallet 3 inches to the left! OMG!!!! If that doesn't make you snap, I don't know what will, right. He's sick and acting like it's his last 24 hours on earth. It might very well be.

OMG on the purple.

I don't know what to say. I don't think I could be a wife.

But to you.

 

[lisaviolet]

And the reason I took the kitchen scissors to it. The Devil Wears Prada. Emily Blunt's character was making me laugh to no end. So funny. And I went "oooh nice hair - so blunt" and chop chop. Mine's much too damaged to look like hers - FOR NOW.

I actually did it in commercial and went back to the movie.

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Lisa, too funny. We are really using the boards as our own little chat tonight aren't we, lol.

Your hair wasn't traumatized I see!!!! Your smile is by far the best.

I'm in a cleaning frenzy this weekend. Off to clean the crown molding on the kitchen cabinets, then to bed.

 

[DisneyGalUK]

Good Morning Everyone!

Im home alone today! DH has gone down to London with his dad and brother to watch New England Patriots against Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley! He loves American Football, always has, and New England are his team so he left the house this morning practically dancing!

Bob is having all these fake emergencies - like *gasp* he couldn't see the time on the vcr - so he called me to the bedroom to move his wallet 3 inches to the left! OMG!!!! If that doesn't make you snap, I don't know what will, right. He's sick and acting like it's his last 24 hours on earth. It might very well be.

Oh that made me laugh out loud! Sorry! He sounds like my DH - as soon as he gets ill he turns into a child! Actually thats a bit hard on children - sometimes they can do things for themselves!

Aimee - Love the hair! It seems so much longer since the last picture you posted! I love it
I like when you can cash in favours, a case of beer for your computer fixing is excellent!

LisaV - You crack me up I love that you cut your own hair in the adverts of a film! It looks great though! I once cut my own fringe. The less said about that the better

Dawn - Im excited for you starting your new exercise plan! I started Aqua Aerobics last week too, I was most surprised at how much I ached afterwards!

Everyone

Im off to clean the house now, so the rest of my home alone day and night is my own!

Have a great day everyone!