Off-topic randomness - a place to ramble?

[*TrixieBella*]

OK, I may be burning down some cities now!

We just got letters in the mail from the passport office with a returned check because the post office (where we submitted the application for our kids' passports) had us write a check for *too much* money (calculated wrong by the post office lady)! We paid extra for expedited passports just to ENSURE that we would get the passports in time for our trip...that was back on 3/18. It is possible that because of that dimwit at the post office...we might not get their passports in time.

Almost our ENTIRE trip has already been paid for.

OMG, OMG, OMG. I am not one to normally freak out. BUT I AM PRETTY CLOSE HERE!!!!!!!

Kit, hope it works out!! Waiting for an update...

 

[kitashus]

Thanks Be and Bella...

Keep good thoughts for us. We sent the new checks out yesterday via priority mail, so they will have them on Monday. We will just have to keep our fingers crossed that the State Department moves quickly. The other problem is that we are county out here and not city...which means rural route, which means our mail gets screwed up all the time. We will follow up as often as possible. I hope everything falls into place.

I'm TRYING to remain optomistic.

All this because we overpaid by $10 per kid...they could have just kept the extra money as far as I'm concerned!

<Big sigh>

 

[kitashus]

Happy Easter to everyone from me, princessdoodle and piratedash (seen below on his 1st Easter a few yrs ago).

...and if you don't celebrate Easter...then Happy Spring!

 

[BigMike10]

Cow Milk!!

 

[maliboomer]

I'm going to Melbourne in two weeks!
I'll need someone to trade with me all the weekend stuff..

 

[marypops!]

yay look what's coming soon...

URL removed
who can't wait for it?

 

[ScroogesNephew]

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
Kurt Vonnegut

Hmm, think I'll go watch TV.

 

[cat_herder]

> Apparently, this is the most popular screensaver in the US. If he gets stuck, just move him with your cursor.
>
> http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

 

[cat_herder]

Try this quiz! lol It tells you what Disneyland attraction you are lol. I got "It's A Small World" D'oh!

What Disneyland Attraction Are You?

Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin: a wild ride through the back alleys of toontown! The only ride with a PG sense of humour in the G rated world of Disneyland, you are zany, wild, and a little bit of a loose screw. Energetic and colorful, you go at full speed, even though your taxi-car vehicles actually have four flat tires! Despite your older humor, you are a kid at heart and kids most relate to your cartoony world and like you the best. You've been know to make the adults a little queasy and a litte bit dizzy. You leave your visitors dazed, a little confused, but more often, extremely amused. You take us to the places we'd never see in a ride featuring the straight-laced Mickey, but somehow you're still all Disney.

 

[maliboomer]

I have horrible indigestion-that-isn't-indigestion. It's just pain without anything that's yuck.
Stop wishing it's appendicitis!

Oh and I'm Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin .

 

[Maleficent2]

OK, I may be burning down some cities now!

We just got letters in the mail from the passport office with a returned check because the post office (where we submitted the application for our kids' passports) had us write a check for *too much* money (calculated wrong by the post office lady)! We paid extra for expedited passports just to ENSURE that we would get the passports in time for our trip...that was back on 3/18. It is possible that because of that dimwit at the post office...we might not get their passports in time.

Almost our ENTIRE trip has already been paid for.

OMG, OMG, OMG. I am not one to normally freak out. BUT I AM PRETTY CLOSE HERE!!!!!!!

Hi K

YOu need to contact your congressman they can get you an emer passport put through with in a matter of days sometimes hours.

Good Luck

Mal

 

[aeryn]

OK.... am I the ONLY person who hasn't figured out how to get to 'Inner-Space Shop'???
WoW, I am the worst 'Community Leader' ever... I still don't understand half of the 'New' stuff

lol You're not the only one. I'm still trying to finish that silly Inner Space quest. Darned those 30,000 points and Jungle Cruise. Don't they know I'm only *really* good at crashing boats?

sheesh.

 

[aeryn]

My ride is:

Roger Rabbit's Cartoon Spin: a wild ride through the back alleys of toontown! The only ride with a PG sense of humour in the G rated world of Disneyland, you are zany, wild, and a little bit of a loose screw. Energetic and colorful, you go at full speed, even though your taxi-car vehicles actually have four flat tires! Despite your older humor, you are a kid at heart and kids most relate to your cartoony world and like you the best. You've been know to make the adults a little queasy and a litte bit dizzy. You leave your visitors dazed, a little confused, but more often, extremely amused. You take us to the places we'd never see in a ride featuring the straight-laced Mickey, but somehow you're still all Disney.



which isn't surprising. I just went on that ride at DL last week and I *loved* it

 

[JeanJoe]

The trick (for me at least, pathetic at the Jungle Cruise), was to focus NOT on taking pictures, but JUST on making it through the cruise without hitting anything.

Tips, from someone who stinks at Jungle Cruise, and just wanted the 30k:
- never use the move forward fast key
- on the 1st pass through, you barely EVER have to move left or right
- on the 1st pass through, you DON'T need to use the move back key
- bottom line: on the 1st pass through, you barely have to move the boat at all

On subsequent passes through
- use the MINIMUM of left and right to avoid rocks, and don't try to do any fancy moving to get hard-to-reach stuff
- when you DO need to actually move the boat, just tap the movement key (don't press and hold it), so you just move a tiny bit to avoid the rock
- when you get to the right side of the screen, tap the back key to avoid leaving the screen until the animals stop appearing

Avoid hitting things, and you can miss plenty of animal pictures, and still make 30k easily. So don't focus on picture taking, if your only goal is 30k.

lol You're not the only one. I'm still trying to finish that silly Inner Space quest. Darned those 30,000 points and Jungle Cruise. Don't they know I'm only *really* good at crashing boats?

sheesh.

 

[kitashus]

They came yesterday!

I was shocked! I guess I can stop freaking out now. lol

The lady at the state dept dh talked to made it sound like doomsday for us though. Oh, well, we have them now...that's all that matters!

So we're off to London and Paris...

 

[Loves Disney]

Try this quiz! lol It tells you what Disneyland attraction you are lol. I got "It's A Small World" D'oh!

What Disneyland Attraction Are You?

I forgot to add my little passage I got lol. (I took the quiz again just to double check and make sure that I am really that attraction LOL. I am...LOL)


"it's a small world": The happiest cruise that ever sailed! Surreal and silly, or sweat and touching, you are a well intentioned 1960s homage to the world's diversity that unfortunatly inspires feelings of sheer terror in those who can't help but feel something more sinister lays beneath your shiney surface. But most cannot deny your charm, even if they cannot explain it, and leave feeling better than when they entered. Most overlook the fact that because of your unique style and design, courtesy of Disney Legend Mary Blair, you are a true work of art and you deserve to be appreciated. You are both worldy and simplistic, both cosmopolitan and decidedly middle American. You are a splendid candy-coated contradiction with a sugary, sunny song that one never forgets. If the world truely listened to your never-ending optimism, it could be a small world after all.


3173 other people got this result!
This quiz has been taken 295462 times.
1% of people had this result.

 

[Alphacrazydan]

I like chicken i like liver meow mix meow mix plz deliver

 

[Captain Brain]

TheDarkDancer is home and well!!

For those who don't know, DarkDancer, Sarah, had to go to the hospital and was gone for close to two weeks. Now she's home and well! She even got two new tags out of it!!

 

[FlyThenFall]

The Mark Twain: A leisurely paddle steamboat navigating the Rivers of America in the 19th Century! A venerable Disneyland institution, you date to opening day in 1955 and respresent stablity, tradition, and a healthy dose of Americana. You never make your passengers seasick (in part due to the fact that you role along your secret underwater track) and always offer some great panoramic views of a Frontier mining town, New Orleans, and back woods glimpses of wildlife and injuns straight out of a Samuel Clemens tale! Small children and old folks like you best, but that doesn't mean you don't know how to get out and enjoy the nightlife, you play "Steamboat Willie" in the nightly production of the Fantasmic! Spectacular. Just one question, just how is that you are always managing to be headed "down river"?

Heh...I'm included with only 1% percent of the people who take the quiz. Why couldn't I have been an interesting ride?

 

[marypops!]

something i forgot

happy belated birthday Queen Elizabeth II who turned 80 on Friday 21st April