Once Upon a Christmastime! A Nov. 2010 PTR! *Update 12/12, Disney Blues, pg 61! :( *

[Nermel9]

Honestly, I like both of the rooms. We're planning on staying at POR next year (unless we get a great discount and can afford WL), actually

And that file is beautiful!

Yeah I like both of the rooms too, but I wanted to be in the mansions section for something different! When I stayed there when I was a kid, back when it was Dixie Landings, we were in an AB room and I didn't even know there was a mansions section, I thought the whole place was just AB!

I hope I can go next year! I don't even care if I have to stay in a value, I'll be happy at Pop, but I'd really like to try Coronado Springs! Or...if there is a really great discount...the Poly or AKL! But I'm getting ahead of myself, I have to get Brandon to commit to next year first before I start planning it!

Thanks, I love my filing folder. I have a feeling it will be coming with me this year!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Yeah I like both of the rooms too, but I wanted to be in the mansions section for something different! When I stayed there when I was a kid, back when it was Dixie Landings, we were in an AB room and I didn't even know there was a mansions section, I thought the whole place was just AB!

I hope I can go next year! I don't even care if I have to stay in a value, I'll be happy at Pop, but I'd really like to try Coronado Springs! Or...if there is a really great discount...the Poly or AKL! But I'm getting ahead of myself, I have to get Brandon to commit to next year first before I start planning it!

Thanks, I love my filing folder. I have a feeling it will be coming with me this year!

I never went as a kid, so the first time I ever stayed was at Pop with my parents after my first CP

If you guys do end up going next year, let me know when! If you'll be there around the time we will be, we'll have to set up a meet

I worked on a notebook for my stuff, but I can't post pictures at the moment Stupid computer.

 

[Nermel9]

I never went as a kid, so the first time I ever stayed was at Pop with my parents after my first CP

If you guys do end up going next year, let me know when! If you'll be there around the time we will be, we'll have to set up a meet

I worked on a notebook for my stuff, but I can't post pictures at the moment Stupid computer.

I went I think 4 times with my family, but the only time we stayed onsite was our last trip right after I graduated high school, when we stayed at Dixie Landings. I barely remember it, but I do remember being in an AB room!

I really want to go next year! I want go at the end of October sometime, I don't know which week, but close to Halloween! Aren't you arriving on Halloween? I wish we could meet up somehow, that would be fun!

LOL, that's so annoying what happened to your computer! I'd love to see your notebook! I love seeing how everyone else organizes everything!

 

[therussells08]

I missed so much this week! But I'm all caught up now!

CONGRATULATIONS on being paid in full!

I am so far from that point it is not even funny.

Oooh, okay your binder pretty much just blew my binder out of the water. I have a lot of work to do! I love the cover and all the pictures you have on the dividers!

I love the mansion rooms at POR! Those are gorgeous! I want to stay there someday!

I can't believe how close your trip is!! That is so exciting!!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I went I think 4 times with my family, but the only time we stayed onsite was our last trip right after I graduated high school, when we stayed at Dixie Landings. I barely remember it, but I do remember being in an AB room!

I really want to go next year! I want go at the end of October sometime, I don't know which week, but close to Halloween! Aren't you arriving on Halloween? I wish we could meet up somehow, that would be fun!

LOL, that's so annoying what happened to your computer! I'd love to see your notebook! I love seeing how everyone else organizes everything!

We usually went to Six Flags Great America and Wisconsin for our family trips. My parents never had the money for Disney. Wisconsin was easy because my grandparents lived there. Great America was a day trip.

We're arriving on Halloween, yes We're planning on staying until November 10 and are hoping that the MVMCPs will start before we leave, since we want to double dip the holidays. It'd be awesome if we could meet up if you guys make it down!

When I get home in the morning, I'll take a picture of it and try to post it It's a simple thing, but I just printed out a picture from the creative board and taped it on the cover

 

[Nermel9]

I missed so much this week! But I'm all caught up now!

CONGRATULATIONS on being paid in full!

I am so far from that point it is not even funny.

Oooh, okay your binder pretty much just blew my binder out of the water. I have a lot of work to do! I love the cover and all the pictures you have on the dividers!

I love the mansion rooms at POR! Those are gorgeous! I want to stay there someday!

I can't believe how close your trip is!! That is so exciting!!

Thanks!!! Don't worry, your time to pay in full will get here sooner than you think! I swear, once I hit double digits, time just started flying by!

LOL, I'm sure your binder is great! It's honestly really easy to do what I did, you just have to search for Disney clip art and Disney font and download the font into whatever word processing program you use.

I can't wait to see POR in person...well, the mansion area at least! It looks so pretty in the pictures, it must be 10x more beautiful in real life!

I can't believe my trip is so close...September seriously flew by! Thank god, because September is turning into a bad month for me, last year it was the worst time of my life, and then this year Brandon's grandmother passed away, so I'm happy to see it end next week!

We usually went to Six Flags Great America and Wisconsin for our family trips. My parents never had the money for Disney. Wisconsin was easy because my grandparents lived there. Great America was a day trip.

We're arriving on Halloween, yes We're planning on staying until November 10 and are hoping that the MVMCPs will start before we leave, since we want to double dip the holidays. It'd be awesome if we could meet up if you guys make it down!

When I get home in the morning, I'll take a picture of it and try to post it It's a simple thing, but I just printed out a picture from the creative board and taped it on the cover

Six Flags is a fun place to go for a vacation, there's nothing wrong with that! And a majority of my vacations were camping in Vermont, when I think of family vacations, that's what I think of, not Disney World! We did go a few times, but we always stayed in cheap hotels on International Drive and we only flew down once, the rest of the times we drove! I'm so grateful to have been able to go all those times when I was younger, it must have been hard for my parents, my mom stayed at home and didn't work so it was all up to my dad. Disney World reminds me of him a lot.

I remembered you wanted to do both parties next year! That sounds like fun! Although I think I want to go a little earlier next year, maybe the week before Halloween week. I'm not sure, it's still so far away! I wish I could go during value season again but I don't want to go in September anymore since it's so hot! But it we end up being there for Halloween or go in November for a 3rd year in a row, we will definitely find a way to meet up! Joni (therussells08) and I were actually talking about a bunch of us that follow each other PTR's/TR's finding a weekend next year to go to Disney and meet up, wouldn't that be so much fun! Probably would never happen, but it's nice to dream at least!

Can't wait to see your notebook! I don't get the creative boards...I try to look on there all the time and never find anything, I don't think I'm looking in the right place or something!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Six Flags is a fun place to go for a vacation, there's nothing wrong with that! And a majority of my vacations were camping in Vermont, when I think of family vacations, that's what I think of, not Disney World! We did go a few times, but we always stayed in cheap hotels on International Drive and we only flew down once, the rest of the times we drove! I'm so grateful to have been able to go all those times when I was younger, it must have been hard for my parents, my mom stayed at home and didn't work so it was all up to my dad. Disney World reminds me of him a lot.

I remembered you wanted to do both parties next year! That sounds like fun! Although I think I want to go a little earlier next year, maybe the week before Halloween week. I'm not sure, it's still so far away! I wish I could go during value season again but I don't want to go in September anymore since it's so hot! But it we end up being there for Halloween or go in November for a 3rd year in a row, we will definitely find a way to meet up! Joni (therussells08) and I were actually talking about a bunch of us that follow each other PTR's/TR's finding a weekend next year to go to Disney and meet up, wouldn't that be so much fun! Probably would never happen, but it's nice to dream at least!

Can't wait to see your notebook! I don't get the creative boards...I try to look on there all the time and never find anything, I don't think I'm looking in the right place or something!

That would be so awesome if everyone could get together I don't think it would happen either, but you never know

Basically, what I did with the creative boards was just look at peoples' Photobuckets and 4 Shared accounts until I found something I liked. Then I printed it out. I didn't bother going through the threads.

 

[Nermel9]

That would be so awesome if everyone could get together I don't think it would happen either, but you never know

Basically, what I did with the creative boards was just look at peoples' Photobuckets and 4 Shared accounts until I found something I liked. Then I printed it out. I didn't bother going through the threads.

Yeah it would be fun! I know a lot of other people on here meet up in Disney! It would just have to be a random weekend where we are all free! And during a value season!

Oh...I didn't even know you could look at other people's photobucket! I'll have to do that, I want to do something different for my mousekeeping envelopes this year, usually I just decorate them with stickers but I was thinking I wanted to maybe print them out with pictures on them or something!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Yeah it would be fun! I know a lot of other people on here meet up in Disney! It would just have to be a random weekend where we are all free! And during a value season!

Oh...I didn't even know you could look at other people's photobucket! I'll have to do that, I want to do something different for my mousekeeping envelopes this year, usually I just decorate them with stickers but I was thinking I wanted to maybe print them out with pictures on them or something!

That would take some mega planning I'm sure if we all wanted to, we could do it

As long as the photobucket is public, you can look through it. I have mine marked as private, but that's just because I don't want pictures showing up in the photobucket search. But yeah, there are some cute things on there!

 

[laashley]

I'm hoping we don't have to wait a long time to be seated since our ADR is at 5! I think that's when dinner starts so hopefully it won't be a problem! We will just have to rush through our dinner if they take a long time and run out of there when we are finished! I'll just have Brandon get sushi another day,maybe on an MK day we can take a walk over there or something! I know he won't be happy if he doesn't have sushi at the Poly!

I wouldn't think that you would have to wait to long for a 5p ADR there. Yep, will have to get Brandon his sushi!

 

[Nermel9]

Hi everyone, I have a quick question-

I want to submit 2 really old pictures to the Disney memories campaign, one is from my first trip, and one is from my second trip. I scanned them to Iphoto and tried to upload them to photobucket, but it won't let me upload them because it's saying that the pictures are a video! Ugggghhhh!!! So does anyone know how to change that? I'm not really good with scanning pictures, but I have done it before and it's never been a problem, so I don't get what I'm doing wrong!

 

[shelbys mommy]

I didn't upload anything to photobucket to submit, if you want I can send you my number & I can walk you through it!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

I have no idea I'm not familiar with iPhoto, and my scanner itself is acting screwy.

 

[Nermel9]

I didn't upload anything to photobucket to submit, if you want I can send you my number & I can walk you through it!

Oh really, you don't need photobucket? I just assumed you did, I haven't tried to submit anything yet, I was just preparing! I'll try it, but send me your # anyway, just in case I get stuck! Although my DH just got out of the shower so my computer time is pretty much over for the night, I'll probably have to try to submit them tomorrow.

I have no idea I'm not familiar with iPhoto, and my scanner itself is acting screwy.

IPhoto is just where you store pictures on a Mac, usually I put all my pics there and then upload them onto photobucket and it's fine, never have a problem! I don't get why photobucket thinks they are a movie! I really don't like scanners, I've never been good with them, when something actually scans and I see it on my computer screen, I'm actually surprised that it worked!

 

[shelbys mommy]

Oh really, you don't need photobucket? I just assumed you did, I haven't tried to submit anything yet, I was just preparing! I'll try it, but send me your # anyway, just in case I get stuck! Although my DH just got out of the shower so my computer time is pretty much over for the night, I'll probably have to try to submit them tomorrow.

All my pics are saved to my computer, so I uploaded from there. But I will send you my number!

 

[Nermel9]

All my pics are saved to my computer, so I uploaded from there. But I will send you my number!

Thanks, I got it and replied!

I figured out what I was doing wrong...the scanner was automatically saving the pictures as Tiff files and they needed to be Jpeg...which you can change before you scan them! Oops! So I submitted my 2 memories, and I will probably submit 2 more tomorrow of Brandon and I, I just have to decide which ones! I hope something I submit gets picked!

 

[shelbys mommy]

Thanks, I got it and replied!

I figured out what I was doing wrong...the scanner was automatically saving the pictures as Tiff files and they needed to be Jpeg...which you can change before you scan them! Oops! So I submitted my 2 memories, and I will probably submit 2 more tomorrow of Brandon and I, I just have to decide which ones! I hope something I submit gets picked!

The kiss with Thumper!!!!!!!!

 

[Nermel9]

The kiss with Thumper!!!!!!!!

That's what I was thinking! I want to do one from our Disneymoon and one from our first trip!

 

[Nermel9]

Good morning!

Just some random updates about my trip, and then another countdown!

Hmmm...I lost 2 pounds this week! I don't know how, I didn't diet, didn't exercise...whatever, I'm not going to question it! I would really love to lose 16 pounds before Disney! We'll see what happens!

I also tried to make a spreadsheet for my itinerary last night...I put in all my info, it looked great, then I tried to print it out, and it was too big, it would have been spread out over 4 pages! Even when I made it as small as it would go, it was still too big! Grrrrr!!! So I guess I'll be using a handwritten itinerary again!

Anyway, on to my countdown for the week! I have less than 7 weeks to go now, so I was going to do a top 7, but why not just do top 10?

My top 10 favorite attractions at WDW! (none of these pics are mine, btw, got them all off of google images!)

10. It's a tie between TTA and Winnie the Pooh!

9. Another tie: Space Mountain and Rock N Rollercoaster! How can you decide between these 2 rides? RNRC is obviously more fun, but SM is a classic!

Love this old picture of SM, by the way, it was taken in 1979!

8. Spaceship Earth-I love it, another classic!

7. Mission Space-sooooo much fun!

6. Maelstrom. I know a lot of people think this ride is lame, but I love it! It's so ridiculous, which makes it awesome!

5. Expedition Everest

4. Pirates! Either this or the next attraction on my countdown will be my the first place I run to when I get into MK this November!

3. Splash Mountain...it will be tough deciding what to go on first, this or Pirates! I think I love them both equally!

2. Soarin! I love everything about Soarin, the waiting area, the movie they make you watch before the ride, and of course, the ride itself! Perfect Disney attraction!

And for my number 1 most favorite ride in all of WDW...if you guys know me at all you will know that it is...

Tower of Terror! Rides just don't get any better than this!

Hope you enjoyed my latest countdown! I still have a few more to go until my trip!!! Then once I run out of countdown ideas, just expect a lot of nonsense ramblings from me about how excited I am and can't wait to leave for WDW!

 

[therussells08]

Great list! I am waiting until I hit the 10 week mark and I might start doing this too because it's a lot of fun to read yours!

That picture of ToT.... I want to ride it so badly right now it literally hurts!!