OCT 16 2010......7 Night Western.... "BRING BACK THE MAGIC"!

[pinkygirl]

I'm still here. Seems like everyone's been busy with the holiday weekend. Kinda quiet here for the last few days!

busy here too! but I finally got my Christmas shopping done today!!!!!!! Now I have to do my Christmas cards and send them before Friday!

 

[pinkygirl]

well I better get some chores done.......hope you all have a great day!

 

[dizzi]

busy here too! but I finally got my Christmas shopping done today!!!!!!! Now I have to do my Christmas cards and send them before Friday!

WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT!!!????

Christmas shopping done??

Oh lordy i havn't even started.......

I have strted to make a pic book for my mom which i do every year on kodak.com But the kids wont be getting alot. They got a airline ticket to there grannys.

 

[DizzylandDeb]

We have TWO birthdays in December. I can never seem to get into Christmas mode until those are done and out of the way.

Some people are so organized! Wish a little would rub off on me

 

[dizzi]

My Birthday is in Dec. Dec 12th......this year my life is probally half over i dont foresee living longer than 80......
I think i am taking this 40 thing pretty hard.

 

[dizzi]

Luckily since the kids big ticket item this year is a TICKET to grannys they are not getting much they both asked for new pillows abd DD wants a body pillow.

ALmost made me feel like a bad mom that my kiddos had to ask for a new pillow for christmas

 

[DizzylandDeb]

My Birthday is in Dec. Dec 12th......this year my life is probally half over i dont foresee living longer than 80......
I think i am taking this 40 thing pretty hard.

Awww Lynn . . .40's nothing!!!!
OMG... I must be getting old to have said that

 

[dizzi]

Awww Lynn . . .40's nothing!!!!
OMG... I must be getting old to have said that

yeah for real....

But then i again, i told my part time baker yesterday basically the best years of his life were already over and he said he just turned 25.....

Really put a downer on his day!!!!!!!!

 

[captaincrash]

Hey Crash....we are in the valley, North Hollywood. Bought our home here 19 years ago and have stuck with it. You guys, Westlake Village is beautiful. I like everything out there off the 101. Very nice!!!! Randy

Hey!

We're virtual neighbors!... considering the boundless nature of the web?!

Sorry to have not responded sooner... I've been busy doing all manner of chore and so forth.

Did you know YESTERDAY was the 1st day you could begin making on line camp ground reservations for JUNE of 2009 on the Reserve America system. http://www.reserveamerica.com/campi...undMap&map=PARK&parkId=120075&contractCode=CA I've rarely gone camping in my time - and as a kid we never went on vacations as my family ran a business near 365 days a year for many years... with me in it behind the cash register and horse trading with customers when I was older. Other kids at school occasionally spoke of camping and I used to muse ... "gee, those kids were soooo lucky to go camping!"

As such, travel and the simple pleasure of camping with good friends and family has been an enjoyable diversion for us. and don't get me wrong.... I enjoy the comfort of conventional travel just as much.

At any rate here's a great web site with several beaches of Santa Barbara county. Select one and click on the various numbered points to bring up a cool 360 degree view that you can rotate through. http://www.santabarbara.com/virtual_tour/beaches/

There were a few camp sites still available on some weekends! And if you or anyone else were interested in making reservations for the summer of 2009 .. you can still plan a gathering for July of 2009 as those dates will not be released until January 1st of 2009 (8AM sharp). Just bear in mind that the prime camp sites were all gone within about 90 seconds of 8AM yesterday .. IE, the best ocean view sites at our choosen beach or the friday / sat in June. Within an hour only 4 sites were left - and late last nite it dwindled down to 2 sites adjacent to the rest rooms... which are probably among the least desired camp sites imaginable in some ways. Then again, who really cares when you're on the sand in the summer, eh?

At any rate, we're all set to camp on the beach in Santa Barbara next June now... we have 7 families with 24 people spread among 3 camp sites. We plan on doing roasted marshmellos and hot dogs ... out door movies with an LCD projector for the kids and I hope to capture some good sunset / sunrise / beachgoing photos of merit. One other family is joining us too but they're gonna stay at a hotel instead - as they want to join in the rustic fun without giving up some civilized modern comforts. Sigh!

 

[DizzylandDeb]

DH used the "reserveamerica" website to reserve campsites for our vacation last year. It's amazing how quickly the campsites are snatched up! You have to know when and where you want to camp so you can hopefully get what you want.

It's as bad as when DCL releases new dates

So crash . . .are you with us? I'll add you to the roll call if you are.

 

[pinkygirl]

WWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT!!!????

Christmas shopping done??

Oh lordy i havn't even started.......

I have strted to make a pic book for my mom which i do every year on kodak.com But the kids wont be getting alot. They got a airline ticket to there grannys.

I'm usually not done either, but this year I just forced myself to get it done and I did. LOL

 

[pinkygirl]

We have TWO birthdays in December. I can never seem to get into Christmas mode until those are done and out of the way.

Some people are so organized! Wish a little would rub off on me

LOL .......if I could rub some off I would.....

 

[pinkygirl]

see you all in a bit, it's lunchtime!

 

[captaincrash]

DH used the "reserveamerica" website to reserve campsites for our vacation last year. It's amazing how quickly the campsites are snatched up! You have to know when and where you want to camp so you can hopefully get what you want.

It's as bad as when DCL releases new dates

So crash . . .are you with us? I'll add you to the roll call if you are.

Kristen knows our family almost always sails at precisely this time of year ... however we are currently booked to sail the Magic families (blood family)
in July. Seriously, I don't expect this date & plan to be finalized since we've priced that trip at near 30K.... which is sort of A LOT. Some of the family has expressed they'd rather sail non-Disney to northern Europe - or to another region to save a little money. There really are so many different places we've all not seen yet. So if this gets cancelled then we have to rebook something on Disney in 2010 and - this is probably one of our favorite times of year to go with the Mouse. We do have interest in the April 2010 East bound repo though ... but whether we go on that or not depends upon what our family group decides to do as a group vacation.

There really are a lot of moving parts in planning for 2010 - and so I can't honestly say "yes" yet. wE GOT TOO MANY COOKS IN THE KITCHEN OVER HERE.

 

[DizzylandDeb]

OK.
We'll put you down as "tenative" and wait and see!
Glad to have you with us here

 

[DizzylandDeb]

Good evening everyone!

 

[dizzi]

Is any one trying to accomplish anything before the cruise?

Like i have 3 things i am trying to do before the cruise.

1. loose 20 pounds.

2. Be able to run 5k

3. Grow my hair at least to my shoulders. AS it is just at the bottom of my ears right now, but i tend to cut it on a whim so i have to keep the scissors AWAY!!

My real goal was to be able to put it in a pony tail by the time i was 40 BUT that isnt going to happen but i feel good with my to the ear accomplishment asi started out with my head shaved!!!


ANY ONE ELSE WITH SOME BRING BACK THE MAGIC GOALS??

 

[DizzylandDeb]

Is any one trying to accomplish anything before the cruise?

Like i have 3 things i am trying to do before the cruise.

1. loose 20 pounds.

2. Be able to run 5k

3. Grow my hair at least to my shoulders. AS it is just at the bottom of my ears right now, but i tend to cut it on a whim so i have to keep the scissors AWAY!!

My real goal was to be able to put it in a pony tail by the time i was 40 BUT that isnt going to happen but i feel good with my to the ear accomplishment asi started out with my head shaved!!!


ANY ONE ELSE WITH SOME BRING BACK THE MAGIC GOALS??

GOALS . . .lets see

Loose 20 is a good one for me too.

Make our FE.

Try to recruit a couple more family members to join us (friends too)

Continue to make friends on the DIS board . Maybe even know half the people on the ship before we sail!!

 

[pinkygirl]

HI everyone!! hope you all have a great one!!

 

[dizzi]

I spent a couple hours this morning looking up cruises to do for my bday. We could o a 3 day to nassua from miami for $89 and if we book wiht a master card we get a $100 on board credit.

I am really thinking about doing this.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!