May 10, 2008 New Ship Of Thieves...May 2008 Repo Thread...Part 4

[LisaG520]

Oh man!! You have had a tough week! You do not need to loose weight unless you are at a weight that is unhealthy, or keeps you from doing things you want to do. My pet peeve, you are not loveable unless you fit a certain mold. NOT!! We have a DD that gets comments that she is too thin! No, she isn't, she is built that way, straight as a stick no...um, no need for a bra I guess is the DIS way to say it, but she eats alot, has no eating disorder. We are built the way we are and we are all beautiful!! Sorry, off my soapbox now.

Well said!

 

[Jhalkias]

John....
Work is going to get me a macbook Pro... So how many songs can I possibly download before I blow the thing up???

How big is the hard drive? I have 2,466 songs on my Macbook.

Actually the freeways less than 15 miles from us are closed due to heavy snow. San Diego county is strange I live in the desert but can see mountains from our parking lot. And we can see the snow covering them but I've yet to meet anyone who remembers it actually snow where I live.

I keep forgetting about that . . . I was in LA in November, my first time in California, and was really shocked at how close the mountains were to the the coast. A friend of mine who has been living in LA for about 20 years told me how you could ski and surf in the same day.

 

[scillacc]

Hi Everybody,
We paid our trip off, and I was just wondering. When was the final payment due? Also, if people don't pay their remaining payments, what happens to their rooms?

We are a gty cat 12, and i know I asked this before, but someone please remind me (I keep praying to Walt in Heaven) nobody gets upgraded, right?

 

[MrsMork]

A friend of mine who has been living in LA for about 20 years told me how you could ski and surf in the same day.

While in theory this is true....even 20 years ago when we lived in Southern Cal the lift lines were so long that it was near impossible to even SKI in one day!!

 

[JLSE50]

Anyone have info on rental car options in California now that I am ready to deal with that?

Jan

 

[Tink rules]

are people off Monday? My sis gets Monday off...in fact she gets 12 holidays without having to use PTO. I am going to have to check what we get.

DId I tell you guys what a rock star I feel like with my new phone? I KNEW I should not have gotten John one. DO YOU KNOW how much he has called me in a day and a half? Unreal. At work use your work phone! although phone to phone is free......

no I tried to convince him of pink but he got a silver one....

real men wear pink!!! (and use pink phones!)

I LOVE a guy in a PINK shirt!! I think it looks so good!!!

Just as long as they don't make us walk the plank! No I already called and they said there was nothing about poker or gambling at all so I should bring them.

Just don't bet the quarters for the wash and you'll be ok all around...

You can only have one tea, brunch and dinner per person.

I just want 1... any of them... just 1 (I'm a 75 dayer...

There you go, insulting DrHug. Good thing he is not on and probably won't catch up for awhile.

& by then... it won't matter because we'll be on another thread...

No patty fingers if you please.

BARTOWEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes but if you're bringing drinks then shouldn't they be your own nonalcoholic/alcoholic refreshments? otherwise you're just giving disney more money

I'll try to remember to snag some of those little bottles off the plane...

Well, next time I'm calling them! I just got pizza delivered by Cottage Inn (very yummy Hawaiian plus jalapenos) and it took 50 minutes! I was so hungry by the time it arrived, I almost chewed through the box to get to it!

More fiber in your diet!!!

Hi Michele,
I sympathise with your situation. My family was supportive and loving for the most part, but I have lost my Mom, Dad, brother and sister over the past many years, so I am basically alone (with the exception of my wonderful husband). Sometimes, when I would wish for family, I would look around at others and their relationships with their blood family, and realize that many times, depending on the relationship,I was glad they weren't related to me! Sometimes friends are there for you more than family. I still envy people like so many of those on this board who have loving families, but now know that being "family" is much more than being related by blood, and my friends(and DH) are my family now. This also lookslike a god place for "family". Sorry for all your pain. So, rant to all your friends here..Vicki

Thanks for letting me rant... I have made good friends and one of them may even come with me if I have to go... I was the one left behind and hurt the most... different experiences for all 4 kids... I wonder sometimes if the pain ever goes away...

ok, where in texas are your twins? (and you?)

I don't know where the twins are... but I'm visiting in Clear Lake for a few days...

This may be a dumb question....but would you have to go to the service when his time comes ??

I am so sorry...this must be very difficult.

I've thought of that. It is a possiblility especially (and I don't want this to sound calous...) if it happens when I am overseas for business which I will be in the next coming months or when we take our cruise. My father chose his life 29 years ago - the work I am doing will basically get me set up financially for my future. I have to make my own life now.

However... funeral at sea with fruity drinks... (I know - I'm bad but I need to laugh a bit...)

 

[LisaG520]

Hi Everybody,
We paid our trip off, and I was just wondering. When was the final payment due? Also, if people don't pay their remaining payments, what happens to their rooms?

We are a gty cat 12, and i know I asked this before, but someone please remind me (I keep praying to Walt in Heaven) nobody gets upgraded, right?

Feb 10th was the due date. Not sure what they do if people haven't paid in full.

We actually got a cabin assignment when we booked so not expecting any upgrade for us.

 

[MrsMork]

Hi Everybody,
We paid our trip off, and I was just wondering. When was the final payment due? Also, if people don't pay their remaining payments, what happens to their rooms?

We are a gty cat 12, and i know I asked this before, but someone please remind me (I keep praying to Walt in Heaven) nobody gets upgraded, right?

Final payment was due on the 10th. If they don't pay the rooms are given to someone else. From a 12 GTY it is quite likely that you will get upgraded to an 11 at least. Only difference in an 11 and a 12 is location. There are very few 12s. You might get lucky and get a 10 or 9, but likely an 11.

 

[Jhalkias]

Hi Everybody,
We paid our trip off, and I was just wondering. When was the final payment due? Also, if people don't pay their remaining payments, what happens to their rooms?

We are a gty cat 12, and i know I asked this before, but someone please remind me (I keep praying to Walt in Heaven) nobody gets upgraded, right?

Upgrades are possible, but don't count on it. This cruise will probably be pretty full. We have been upgraded once, from an 8 to a 4, but the cruise was not sold out.

 

[scillacc]

Feb 10th was the due date. Not sure what they do if people haven't paid in full.

We actually got a cabin assignment when we booked so not expecting any upgrade for us.

We were given a cabin assignment, so I guess that "sticks". I would love a room with a window, but I can deal without it.

Thanks all

 

[nskjerven]

Does anyone else DH decide he is ready for bed and turn of the tv, lays the remote across the room and leaves. Leaving me sittin here staring at a blank tv?

no, but I'm the keeper of the remote, so when I'm done I click it off and DH follows me to bed. If I waited for him, we've go too early or too late

 

[lbgraves]

We were given a cabin assignment, so I guess that "sticks". I would love a room with a window, but I can deal without it.

Thanks all

Not necessarily. Both times that we have been upgraded we had a room that we picked out when we booked the cruise.

 

[Jhalkias]

Not necessarily. Both times that we have been upgraded we had a room that we picked out when we booked the cruise.

Lurking Lisa . . .

Hey Lisa!

 

[nskjerven]

What would be the point of poker without money?

(This is sad we are typing to each other when you are upstairs.)

And on Valentine's Day!

he's getting something ready for ya

 

[nskjerven]

Wow, I 've just turned on the news. DH graduated from NIU, I worked at Kishwaukee Community Hospital. What a shock!

what was the news?

 

[nskjerven]

There was another shooting. 6 dead including the shooter. 16 wounded

so sad

 

[lbgraves]

Forgive me if I am too punchy here, but it took me 2 days to get home from Florida. My Ft Myers flight was delayed because of freezing rain in Atlanta and I missed my connecting flight to SLC, the last one of the night. Everyone on the flight missed thier connections and there was a lot of yelling at the flight attendants and even more yelling at the gate agents. I went to the crown room, and no joke, burst into tears. I wanted to go home so bad! I think because I was the first person not to yell, they were so nice! There was no need for yelling, it is an act of god. Anyway, they forced me on to the first flight out at six fifty, it was overbooked and had a waitlist of over 40. Then they gave me a free hotel night and a tshirt to sleep in. My only question is. why doesn't anyone sell saline solution? Seriously, no one with contacts has ever been layed over in an airport?

Anyway, the morning flight was delay another 1 1/2 in the morning while we were sitting on the ground with no heat, due to mechanical problems. I wore the same yicky clothes for 2 days and my contact is glued to my eyeball and I wanted to kiss the ground when I finally got to my car.

what a day...

Goodness girl!!! Sending you a big ole cyber hug!!! Get some sleep...and give that little girl a hug from Kaitlyn. She keeps asking about her.

 

[JLSE50]

Interesting time this morning. Tyler's dad had to leave the psychologist appt. after only a few minutes, so it was just me with stepmom while Tyler played in another room. Turns out the Dr. didn't want him to come because she feels all of what needs to be done is give us parenting advice on how to deal with him and that his treatment will be with the occupational therapist. Surprisingly, and I didn't notice this until on my way home, I didn't get nervous or grumpy while being alone with stepmom. A bit of a confrontation in the parking lot, but nothing major. She wants us all to sit down over dinner some night and work out some sort of schedule for what to do when the school is closed for snow days. I told her, "No reason to have a sit down discussion over that, when school closes when he's with me, it's my problem, when school closes when he's at his dad's, that's his problem". After all, they only have 2 school days a week to worry about. Well, she didn't like that answer because they can't just miss work like my employer lets me, and she wants us all to discuss together what to do with him on those days. "No, it's not my responsibility to figure out what to do with him when he's at your house" was my response. That didn't go over well because I'm "not being a team player", etc. Whatever. Schools close in bad winter weather and parents have to suck it up and deal with it. Employers know that. Life goes on. So she told me she's going to have him call me and try to talk some sense into me. Allrighty then!

Then I asked Tyler if he'd like to go out for a special valentine's day lunch with me before school. He agreed....on the way there, I asked, "Tyler, will you be my valentine?" He told me "Never!" and then I told him I can't give special valentine treats or do valentine lunch with somebody who won't be my valentine. He didn't care and just wanted to get to school. Then when we passed Arby's he cried and asked why we weren't stopping. I actually had accidentally missed my turn and was in the process of turning back around, but with tears rolling down his face, he said, "I'm so, so sorry mom, I WANT to be your valentine now and spend special time with you!" I assured him we were turning back and everything was fine. Good grief! I thought only girls were supposed to be drama queens! All was fine, he loved his valentine gift, ate lunch, and fell asleep on the way to school. We actually had an hour to burn, so I drove around that whole time to let him get the rest he probably needs from being sick. Sleepy little guy.

Came home, watched some shows online, caught up here, and now I'm off to sleep for the rest of the day hopefully.

Having been so sick for so long, his emotions were on the surface.

You are such a good Mom to drive around and let him sleep. Being upright in his booster probably helped the sinuses continue to drain so no stuffy head like he would have had from lying down.

Best wishes as you work this all out with the psychologist and the other parts of the parenting team. I hope they focus on what is in Tyler's best interest like you do.

Jan

 

[Jhalkias]

what was the news?

Another school shooting. Several people dead.

Apparently the violently disturbed have decided this is a good idea - several this week. How sad.

 

[lbgraves]

There was another shooting. 6 dead including the shooter. 16 wounded

I hadn't seen the news since the 6:30 report when it was still pretry recent and only the shooter was dead. I was afraid that with all the head injuries they reported there would be more fatalities.