May 10, 2008 Ship of Thieves! Stealing the Magic..AGAIN!!! Panama Canal FL to CA!!! Part 2

[calmom]

Ok, Folks I am a sad Canadian, went to find some Buffet on itunes (Canada) and there is one, yes one song!

I love his music, but have not added any because i was hoping itunes would have some I could buy by the song, no luck!

Maybe when they add movies and shows they will add on to the library of music as well.

We will have to have some share time on the ship! It is easy to transfer songs to your IPOD and we have tons of Buffet!
Lisa

 

[HollyTyler]

I've been dying to know about Cat. 1 - I am wondering if it is some DCL high exec or maybe one of the performers if they got someone really big?? Wouldn't that be fun! "Josh Groban now playing in the Walt Disney Theater"

The past couple of times I've cruised, it was just an ordinary family. Last time it was a husband & wife with 3 kids (oldest kid was 6) and our DISmeet was in their suite. Can't remember if it was the Walt or Roy, but it wasn't as large as I'd thought it would be. Nice though! The verandah was about the length of 4 regular verandahs. LOVED that!

 

[pjpoohbear]

I was 12 and to earn pocket money, I would walk the driving range at the local country club and collect the golf balls in the spring and fall, when the grass was too wet for the cart to do the job. We did this after the range closed, so it was cold and dark. But we earned $8.00 hour at age 12, not bad.

 

[HollyTyler]

We have one dog and three cats. Goldie is half Golden and half Sharpei (The real wrinkley dogs.) She is so cute...She looks just like a lion. We rescued her. All week we have been dealing with Goldie. She had 3 tumors growing very quickly on her neck. The vet tested them a while ago and said non-cancerous...take them out when you are ready. Well they kept growing se we decided to have them removed. She was in the hospital for 4 days this week I missed her like crazy!! The vet said the one tumor was the largest she has ever removed in 20 years. It weighed 2 pounds.
She has 50 stiches. When the vet got in to look the tumor had overtaken the neck muscles. She had remove a lot of her muscle. She is home now, but still bleeding a lot (vet says this is good). She is wearing this blue "sweater" and I have to put all the dressing inside the sweater to capture the blood. She gets 10 pills a day. I can't wait for her to be all better.

Poor Goldie! I hope she's better soon! Sounds like she's getting lots of TLC!

 

[pjpoohbear]

Can you add this stuff while you are here in the States from someone's laptop?

I don't know about that, lol.

BTW, got Lisa set up with her ipod/itunes tonight and even got some music and playlists on it. Taught her what buttons to press, volume control and how to turn the ipod off. .

 

[MrsMork]

OK....to give John1 a break from coming up with a new topic, what was everybody's first job and at what age?

Me: Age 14 (1984) -- worked in the cafeteria of a tiny college serving meals to the students. It was called Nazereth College, was primarily a nursing school, and was only a mile down the road from my mom's house so I walked. It had one main building for classrooms and the cafeteria, and one dorm wing attached. Another part of my job was to serve at banquets they also held there on weekends, then clean up afterwards and do dishes.

Yeah, really exciting....I know. Just another topic starter!

My first job was 7 years old, picking fruit in Colorado. I made enough money by picking cherries in June/July, plums and peaches in Aug/Sept and pears and apples in Oct/Nov to buy my own school clothes, buy Christmas gifts for my family, have spending money to last thru the winter and still put a few dollars in savings. Did that until I was 13 when we moved to California. Could not work again until 16, did a short stent in retail then did clerical work half day in a high school office (not my school) when I was 17.

 

[calmom]

We have one dog and three cats. Goldie is half Golden and half Sharpei (The real wrinkley dogs.) She is so cute...She looks just like a lion. We rescued her. All week we have been dealing with Goldie...I can't wait for her to be all better.

Hope Goldie gets better soon!
Lisa

 

[HollyTyler]

Oh, my. I think i would spend all day every day in the WDT just to seek him.

I guess I should be embarrassed to admit I've never heard of him.

 

[pjpoohbear]

Holly, his voice is awesome. And to hear him sing in french or italian, WOW!

My favorite song is Hymme a L'amour. sigh!

 

[MrsMork]

I guess I should be embarrassed to admit I've never heard of him.

Me either, but I'm old, don't go to many movies or watch much current TV. Seinfeld and Fraiser reruns and HGTV are mostly what I watch. Editing....so this is a singer I should hear, not an actor.

 

[calmom]

The past couple of times I've cruised, it was just an ordinary family. Last time it was a husband & wife with 3 kids (oldest kid was 6) and our DISmeet was in their suite. Can't remember if it was the Walt or Roy, but it wasn't as large as I'd thought it would be. Nice though! The verandah was about the length of 4 regular verandahs. LOVED that!

We were lucky enough to snag the Roy suite back in January. And Noel gets the Walt for this New Year's! How great is that! I was thinking maybe because it is a special cruise, and no DISer has come up to claim it (and we are all that exists right??) that perhaps some big wig has it. I had though Roy Junior was on it for the last WB? But don't' know if he stayed in the Roy suite! Lisa

 

[HollyTyler]

I was 12 and to earn pocket money, I would walk the driving range at the local country club and collect the golf balls in the spring and fall, when the grass was too wet for the cart to do the job. We did this after the range closed, so it was cold and dark. But we earned $8.00 hour at age 12, not bad.

Wow! That's great money for a 12 year old!

The common job in our area was corn husking. When you mention that dreaded job, everybody cringes! Parents strongly encouraged their kids to do it and kids did it because they didn't think it could possibly be as bad as all the other kids said. People came into the schools to recruit kids and made it sound like such an easy way to earn lots of money over the summer. Fortunately, I never had to do that. Kids I know who did it told about bleeding fingers, long hot days in the sun, up before dawn, sore backs and other muscles from all the bending over all day. Awful job.

 

[disneylover5]

OK....to give John1 a break from coming up with a new topic, what was everybody's first job and at what age?

Me: Age 14 (1984) -- worked in the cafeteria of a tiny college serving meals to the students. It was called Nazereth College, was primarily a nursing school, and was only a mile down the road from my mom's house so I walked. It had one main building for classrooms and the cafeteria, and one dorm wing attached. Another part of my job was to serve at banquets they also held there on weekends, then clean up afterwards and do dishes.

Yeah, really exciting....I know. Just another topic starter!

Besides babysitting.....I worked as a lifeguard at a pool and then when fall rolled around and I lost my job I went to work at Sears and Roebuck....fitting BRAS!! Like me...a flat chested 16 year old knew anything at all about bras!! I stayed with that job for a long time because I was making such much more money than my friends!! I was making $2.05 per hour and I thought I had hit the jackpot!! My pool job had paid $1 per hour and babysitting was .25 cents per hour. I must be so old......

 

[HollyTyler]

My first job was 7 years old, picking fruit in Colorado. I made enough money by picking cherries in June/July, plums and peaches in Aug/Sept and pears and apples in Oct/Nov to buy my own school clothes, buy Christmas gifts for my family, have spending money to last thru the winter and still put a few dollars in savings. Did that until I was 13 when we moved to California. Could not work again until 16, did a short stent in retail then did clerical work half day in a high school office (not my school) when I was 17.

HOLY COW! What a hard worker you were! And probably still are, with that background of perseverence. Hats off to you!

 

[pjpoohbear]

Me either, but I'm old, don't go to many movies or watch much current TV. Seinfeld and Fraiser reruns and HGTV are mostly what I watch. Editing....so this is a singer I should hear, not an actor.

Angie search him on itunes and listen to the clips of his music, that is what I am doing right now, sigh! I have $10 left of a gift that was sent to me on itunes and now I know what I am spending it on.

 

[MrsMork]

Besides babysitting.....I worked as a lifeguard at a pool and then when fall rolled around and I lost my job I went to work at Sears and Roebuck....fitting BRAS!! Like me...a flat chested 16 year old knew anything at all about bras!! I stayed with that job for a long time because I was making such much more money than my friends!! I was making $2.05 per hour and I thought I had hit the jackpot!! My pool job had paid $1 per hour and babysitting was .25 cents per hour. I must be so old......

I must be old too! My clerical job at the school paid $1.10 an hour and I thought I had hit the big time! Then I met and married DrHug and I knew I had then! Funny, we were homeless for a bit after he returned from VietNam, but they didn't have a name for it back then, we just didn't have a place to live or a job. Life got much better!

 

[HollyTyler]

Besides babysitting.....I worked as a lifeguard at a pool and then when fall rolled around and I lost my job I went to work at Sears and Roebuck....fitting BRAS!! Like me...a flat chested 16 year old knew anything at all about bras!! I stayed with that job for a long time because I was making such much more money than my friends!! I was making $2.05 per hour and I thought I had hit the jackpot!! My pool job had paid $1 per hour and babysitting was .25 cents per hour. I must be so old......

Flat chested teen doing bra fittings!!!!! Sort of reminds me of when I worked at a Subway restaurant for a few years, and it was right next door to a hair salon. The girls who worked there would come in to Subway all day for pop refills, cookies, etc. They all had hair that looked like it was about to fall out because it was so brittle and damaged from being bleached SO blonde SO often.....I always wondered why anybody would feel comfortable having their hair done by them with the way their hair looked! Umm....no thanks!

 

[MrsMork]

HOLY COW! What a hard worker you were! And probably still are, with that background of perseverence. Hats off to you!

Yes, my mother taught me good work ethics! She would tell us that these farmers would not hire children usually (and that was true) and that we were very lucky to have a job and so we had to work very hard to show appreciation for that job AND go to school and get good grades so we would not have to do this for the rest of our lives. My mother is 81 and still is very active, does her own yard work and keeps busy constantly in her house or helping my neice with her baby or doing laundry for my sister. She is really amazing.

 

[HollyTyler]

Yes, my mother taught me good work ethics! She would tell us that these farmers would not hire children usually (and that was true) and that we were very lucky to have a job and so we had to work very hard to show appreciation for that job AND go to school and get good grades so we would not have to do this for the rest of our lives. My mother is 81 and still is very active, does her own yard work and keeps busy constantly in her house or helping my neice with her baby or doing laundry for my sister. She is really amazing.

She really does sound incredible! I love hearing about people who are still active at that age. I think I mentioned on here before that one of the lawyers I work for is 80. Well, he also does his own yard work, and one day when he was late, another secretary commented that he must have had to shovel first. I asked him when he came in and I was amazed to hear he does his own shovelling too. He and his wife also go to the gym to work out almost every day after work. Wow!

 

[disneylover5]

How are you going to face them on the way back East? Will they throw you off the ship as a double-agent?

I am thinking af dying my hair!!

Wait a minute....they have no idea what I look like anyway!!