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OMG, we are 23 days out and I am just a mixed bag of emotions right now. DH and I went away for the weekend and it was a disaster.

I am glad to be home, but we aren't really speaking right this minute. He leaves on Saturday morning for 2 weeks and his parents will be here in 17 days. I have so much to do and I just want to crawl on a hole.

I don't want them to come now, and I don't want to go to Disney either...ughhhh :furious:

Sorry to hear things didn't go well on your weekend trip :worried:

I dont have great words of advice but hopefully things will simmer down and things will get worked over before he goes on AT. Just take a deep breath and know u always have your DIS friends thinking of you. :hug:
 
This is my first adult trip and I saw a lot of people said they had paid off their balance, I guess my question is, is it better to pay it off before or pay when you check in because that is what I was planning to do. I mean I can pay it off now, it's not really a not have the money issue, I just wasn't sure which was easier, if it will prolong my amount of time checking in I will just pay it off now. TIA
 
OMG, we are 23 days out and I am just a mixed bag of emotions right now. DH and I went away for the weekend and it was a disaster.

I am glad to be home, but we aren't really speaking right this minute. He leaves on Saturday morning for 2 weeks and his parents will be here in 17 days. I have so much to do and I just want to crawl on a hole.

I don't want them to come now, and I don't want to go to Disney either...ughhhh :furious:

I am so sorry you had such a bad weekend. I think your in the same boat as I am. I told my DH that if life ever stops being as stressful as it is now (or really since we got pregnant with our first DS) that would be my first sign I was dead.:lmao:

You could always try what makes me feel better when DH and I are in a fight. I fix one of my favorite meals that I haven't had in a while, which will depend on my mood at the time. Then as I'm watching "Love Actually", "Beauty and the Beast", "Super Trooper", and "Galaxy Quest" eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream.


This is my first adult trip and I saw a lot of people said they had paid off their balance, I guess my question is, is it better to pay it off before or pay when you check in because that is what I was planning to do. I mean I can pay it off now, it's not really a not have the money issue, I just wasn't sure which was easier, if it will prolong my amount of time checking in I will just pay it off now. TIA

Congrats on your first adult trip!! As to your question, I am totally clueless. I had no idea that you could wait until you checked in to pay off your balance. I thought it had to be paid in full by 45 days out.
 
I am so sorry you had such a bad weekend. I think your in the same boat as I am. I told my DH that if life ever stops being as stressful as it is now (or really since we got pregnant with our first DS) that would be my first sign I was dead.:lmao:

You could always try what makes me feel better when DH and I are in a fight. I fix one of my favorite meals that I haven't had in a while, which will depend on my mood at the time. Then as I'm watching "Love Actually", "Beauty and the Beast", "Super Trooper", and "Galaxy Quest" eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream.




Congrats on your first adult trip!! As to your question, I am totally clueless. I had no idea that you could wait until you checked in to pay off your balance. I thought it had to be paid in full by 45 days out.

Thanks, yes on the phone when I booked back in January I only needed to pay the deposit and the remaining balance was due June 18 which is when I check in and I checked on my page at Disney website and it says balance due June 18,2012, I booked a room only maybe that has something to do with the 45 days if it's a package. I am going to do the online check in in advance so I will probably just pay if off then and that way it's less to worry about with the wedding and then the trip coming up that week.
 

oh, yeah if it's a room-only then you don't have to pay the 45 days out like you would if you had booked a package.
 
Be the bigger person and get things on the mend.:surfweb: for disney sake, I mean for enrichment of your marriage.;). Life is short, don't miss this great visit with your in laws and your great vacation. Hope this helps.:wizard:

Sorry to hear things didn't go well on your weekend trip :worried:

I dont have great words of advice but hopefully things will simmer down and things will get worked over before he goes on AT. Just take a deep breath and know u always have your DIS friends thinking of you. :hug:

I am so sorry you had such a bad weekend. I think your in the same boat as I am. I told my DH that if life ever stops being as stressful as it is now (or really since we got pregnant with our first DS) that would be my first sign I was dead.:lmao:

You could always try what makes me feel better when DH and I are in a fight. I fix one of my favorite meals that I haven't had in a while, which will depend on my mood at the time. Then as I'm watching "Love Actually", "Beauty and the Beast", "Super Trooper", and "Galaxy Quest" eat Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Thanks. I feel a little better after talking to a couple of co-workers. I just called my DH to make sure he was awake and going to pick me up on time today.

I'm just trying to take things an hour at the time. Our house is a disaster and I have 17 days to get it better, it will never be spotless, but I can't have the in-laws coming in with it the way it is. Currently, there is no place for them to sleep.

I know it will all be fine, but I just don't know. We have our 3rd counseling session on Friday afternoon before he leaves, maybe that will help. I was just expecting this weekend to go better. Some of the issues were out of our control, but not all of them.

Maybe I need a break, and have some time to myself. One thing that would help would be if I had a friend that I could hang out with sometimes, but I don't. I have friends at work, but I feel like they have their life outside of work, they have kids, they don't have time for me, so I don't bother. My other friend has only been married a year, she won't hang out, we make tentative plans and then breaks them. Yesterday, being Mother's Day, I missed mine terribly, it's still hard with her being gone and having no children of my own. My self esteem is in the toilet!
 
Thanks. I feel a little better after talking to a couple of co-workers. I just called my DH to make sure he was awake and going to pick me up on time today.

I'm just trying to take things an hour at the time. Our house is a disaster and I have 17 days to get it better, it will never be spotless, but I can't have the in-laws coming in with it the way it is. Currently, there is no place for them to sleep.

I know it will all be fine, but I just don't know. We have our 3rd counseling session on Friday afternoon before he leaves, maybe that will help. I was just expecting this weekend to go better. Some of the issues were out of our control, but not all of them.

Maybe I need a break, and have some time to myself. One thing that would help would be if I had a friend that I could hang out with sometimes, but I don't. I have friends at work, but I feel like they have their life outside of work, they have kids, they don't have time for me, so I don't bother. My other friend has only been married a year, she won't hang out, we make tentative plans and then breaks them. Yesterday, being Mother's Day, I missed mine terribly, it's still hard with her being gone and having no children of my own. My self esteem is in the toilet!

Sometimes all you can do is take it hour by hour. I'm sure the counseling session will help, whatever the issues are.

Honestly, on this last trip to see my mil's mother, one of the reasons that I stayed behind at the hotel was to have some time to myself, which I never get. Plus to be able to just watch whatever I wanted to. I love me some Ghost Adventures and I needed to see me some Zack!! I'm in the same situation as far as friends. I lost touch with all of mine just after high school and with getting married. Plus technology wasn't like it is now, so there was no FB. I do talk to them now on FB, but there is only one of them that I see from time to time. I thought we were having lunch last week, but she never got back to me with her lunch time at work. I'm sure it's b/c Mother's Day is a hard time for her. Her mother died a few years ago from cancer. Right about the time she was going through a divorce, she had to start taking care of her mom 24-7. Her mom was bad enough, that she didn't have it in her to fight for custody of her boys, even though she wanted it. Too bad you aren't closer to us, we could hang out with each other.
 
Sometimes all you can do is take it hour by hour. I'm sure the counseling session will help, whatever the issues are.

Honestly, on this last trip to see my mil's mother, one of the reasons that I stayed behind at the hotel was to have some time to myself, which I never get. Plus to be able to just watch whatever I wanted to. I love me some Ghost Adventures and I needed to see me some Zack!! I'm in the same situation as far as friends. I lost touch with all of mine just after high school and with getting married. Plus technology wasn't like it is now, so there was no FB. I do talk to them now on FB, but there is only one of them that I see from time to time. I thought we were having lunch last week, but she never got back to me with her lunch time at work. I'm sure it's b/c Mother's Day is a hard time for her. Her mother died a few years ago from cancer. Right about the time she was going through a divorce, she had to start taking care of her mom 24-7. Her mom was bad enough, that she didn't have it in her to fight for custody of her boys, even though she wanted it. Too bad you aren't closer to us, we could hang out with each other.


I never had any friends outside of school either, except one and she was killed in a car accident before she could graduate high school.

My in-laws will be staying with us. My husband invited them without asking me. I will have no escape. They will be here alone with me for 2 days before my husband gets home, that will be awkward, I haven't seen them in 5 or 6 years.

Mother's day is hard for me, since my mom passed away in 2008.
 
I just can't see it. Part of it is my own fault. I guess my expectations were too high. I was basically expecting the tv version in movie form. Johnny Depp as a dark, brooding vampire. It has that Tim Burton feel to it, which I think is part of the problem. As much as I love his movies, I just think it was the wrong direction for that material. I'm just super picky about stuff like that though. I still have never seen the 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street. As cute as Mara Wilson was at the time, she is no Natalie Wood.

Totally agree I love that film with Maureen O'Hara and Natelie Wood. I made the mistake of watching the remake and it was not good :sad2:
 
I never had any friends outside of school either, except one and she was killed in a car accident before she could graduate high school.

My in-laws will be staying with us. My husband invited them without asking me. I will have no escape. They will be here alone with me for 2 days before my husband gets home, that will be awkward, I haven't seen them in 5 or 6 years.

Mother's day is hard for me since my mom passed away in 2008.

I know what you mean about Mother's Day. I lost my Mom this past November. I wish I had some magical words to make you feel better but know you are not alone :hug:
 
I never had any friends outside of school either, except one and she was killed in a car accident before she could graduate high school.

My in-laws will be staying with us. My husband invited them without asking me. I will have no escape. They will be here alone with me for 2 days before my husband gets home, that will be awkward, I haven't seen them in 5 or 6 years.

Mother's day is hard for me, since my mom passed away in 2008.

If you make it out of that without being put in a padded room in a mental hospital, I'm putting you up for Saint-hood. :lmao:
 
Suzanne - Sorry about what's going on with your life right now. You do sound like you need a friend to hang out with. I have drifted away from most of mine also but recently reconnected with a woman I used to work with but our schedules don't mesh often. DH can drive me nuts (and does) with his habits and insistence on doing what he wants to all the time; he's retired and he really refuses to take good care of himself so we can do more together in the future.

I think it's really important for you to take care of yourself first! Get yourself packed if you can so that's out of the way!

As to the in-laws, no advice there since mine have been dead for many years. When they were alive they were a true nuisance and very difficult to be around. Mother-in-law was the smothering type since DH was an only child of a second marriage for both his parents. They drove both of us nuts and though we wish DMIL had lived to see her only grandchild I think even DH is somewhat thankful they are not around anymore.

Throw yourself into cleaning the house if that helps and maybe take them out to lunch.

Maybe show them Disney videos, pictures etc. to entertain them. Do you have any of the Samantha Brown shows on tape? My mom likes to view the various Disney pictures I have taken on the web. Perhaps you could pick some of the best and bookmark them for viewing. Even the WDW website has some good things to view since they are first-timers.

And don't forget shopping for last minute trip/travel items with them if needed. That's always a good time killer!

Kathy
 
Ok Im at 24 days now and I still have no mickey mail :( Anybody else not gotten theirs yet that is going in 3 weeks or less? Or anybody get theirs really close to leaving time? I swear last year we got it like a month or more before the trip but who knows. Just makes me nervous, and of course the day I call them I'll probably get it in the mail.
 
Ok Im at 24 days now and I still have no mickey mail :( Anybody else not gotten theirs yet that is going in 3 weeks or less? Or anybody get theirs really close to leaving time? I swear last year we got it like a month or more before the trip but who knows. Just makes me nervous, and of course the day I call them I'll probably get it in the mail.

Did you book a package or room only? I think I remember reading that if it was a room only, you wouldn't get any Mickey Mail.

I hope everyone is having a great day. For me it's been on of those rollercoaster type days. My family of four are big into games. Right now we have monthly subscriptions for 3 World of Warcraft accounts, 2 Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts, and now 2 Diablo III accounts. We have been waiting 12 years for Diablo III to come out, and it finally is. WOO HOO!! :banana: Well it would be if the servers could actually stay up. I mean come on.....the gaming world has been waiting 12 years for this game to come out. You would have thought they would have been better prepared than this.
 
Ok Im at 24 days now and I still have no mickey mail :( Anybody else not gotten theirs yet that is going in 3 weeks or less? Or anybody get theirs really close to leaving time? I swear last year we got it like a month or more before the trip but who knows. Just makes me nervous, and of course the day I call them I'll probably get it in the mail.

We are also at 24 days today. We got out MM one day last week towards the end of the week I think. If you did purchase a package give them a call.
 
If you make it out of that without being put in a padded room in a mental hospital, I'm putting you up for Saint-hood. :lmao:

Well, I just ally don't know how I'm going to deal with them until they get here, I guess.

I really don't know a whole lot about them. It just feels really strange.


Suzanne - Sorry about what's going on with your life right now. You do sound like you need a friend to hang out with. I have drifted away from most of mine also but recently reconnected with a woman I used to work with but our schedules don't mesh often. DH can drive me nuts (and does) with his habits and insistence on doing what he wants to all the time; he's retired and he really refuses to take good care of himself so we can do more together in the future.

I think it's really important for you to take care of yourself first! Get yourself packed if you can so that's out of the way!

As to the in-laws, no advice there since mine have been dead for many years. When they were alive they were a true nuisance and very difficult to be around. Mother-in-law was the smothering type since DH was an only child of a second marriage for both his parents. They drove both of us nuts and though we wish DMIL had lived to see her only grandchild I think even DH is somewhat thankful they are not around anymore.

Throw yourself into cleaning the house if that helps and maybe take them out to lunch.

Maybe show them Disney videos, pictures etc. to entertain them. Do you have any of the Samantha Brown shows on tape? My mom likes to view the various Disney pictures I have taken on the web. Perhaps you could pick some of the best and bookmark them for viewing. Even the WDW website has some good things to view since they are first-timers.

And don't forget shopping for last minute trip/travel items with them if needed. That's always a good time killer!

Kathy

Thanks Kathy.

There has just been too much stress this month. It would have been better if my in-laws had not chosen to come when they are and given us more time to prepare. I feel like it's kind is selfish to come when we have so much going on. They do too, so I don't really understand, why they chose now.

DH did get some stuff done today that I thought he wasn't going to do. I told him that if it wasn't done, he would have to be the one to tell his parents they couldn't stay here, guess he didn't want to do that.

I don't cook very often at all, because I am the only one home at night, so there is no use cooking for myself and DH doesn't eat leftovers. I don't know what I will do for them. I don't want to eat out every evening.

I guess I will do a little more planning when they actually get there. I have a doctors appointment one afternoon, so I don't have to take off work another day, that will take about an hour.

We have one day blocked because we may have to go get our ID cards renewed if DH passes the PT test this time, we have to purchase our WDW tickets and do some shopping for the trip while we are on post.

DH has to work 2 nights after he gets back and we have a dance recital, I can't miss, the night we leave for WDW, but probably only my MIL and I will go.

I think we are going to have a Disney video day, we have a 6 DVD set that we watch over and over again.
 
Ok Im at 24 days now and I still have no mickey mail :( Anybody else not gotten theirs yet that is going in 3 weeks or less? Or anybody get theirs really close to leaving time? I swear last year we got it like a month or more before the trip but who knows. Just makes me nervous, and of course the day I call them I'll probably get it in the mail.

Did you book a package or room only? I think I remember reading that if it was a room only, you wouldn't get any Mickey Mail.

I hope everyone is having a great day. For me it's been on of those rollercoaster type days. My family of four are big into games. Right now we have monthly subscriptions for 3 World of Warcraft accounts, 2 Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts, and now 2 Diablo III accounts. We have been waiting 12 years for Diablo III to come out, and it finally is. WOO HOO!! :banana: Well it would be if the servers could actually stay up. I mean come on.....the gaming world has been waiting 12 years for this game to come out. You would have thought they would have been better prepared than this.

Yes, if you booked a room only, you won't get Mickey Mail.
 
I booked a package and we have magical express set up. So Im not sure where it may be...guess I'll call them now. Why dont my bills get lost in the mail the way good stuff does??
 
I booked a package and we have magical express set up. So Im not sure where it may be...guess I'll call them now. Why dont my bills get lost in the mail the way good stuff does??

:rotfl: I have been checking my mail daily as well :) I asked the Mail Man if he took it ;) He asked why he wasn't coming with me, and if he was, that may help it along, haha! I'm sure it will all work out! Good luck!
 




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