P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

[jcc0621]

Your pictures are really making me rethink renting DVC points and staying at CBR in August.

 

[jakeybake]

Great update!

During my last solo conference I shot over to the Caribbean Beach to take a pic of our honeymoon room (Aruba 5444 and only the outside as I didn't want to end up in jail) as a surprise for my wife. Actually she could kind of care less and I'm Mr. Sentimental (it's a curse) so I really did it for me.

While I was there I walked over to Old Port Royale for a peek and I was very impressed with the new pool area. They really did a lot, including the kids area, but kept the basic theme the same as it's always been. The food court, on the other hand, hadn't changed one bit. The only difference I saw was across from the food areas. Waaaaaaay back in '91 there was an upper level table area on the left and a lounge on the right, which we frequented each night. Even had some sorry excuse for a Jimmy Buffet wannabe playing live each night.

Dixie Landings (it will always be Dixie Landings to me) will always be my favorite moderate but Caribbean Beach is a very close second.

And I knew that free spirited, playful Nebo wasn't long for this world and I have to say I'm happy about it. These reports are just so much more fun with the old Nebo taking the starring role!!

Jay

 

[nowellsl]

"I see bed people"



I LOVE that line

 

[IheartDDuck]

I hope you found that guy that stole all of your pencils.....but you're blind, so that might be a little bit difficult.

Seriously, are you waiting for coffee? Ummmmm, yeah!

You had me cracking up, I tell you. But also I am very much looking forward to staying at Caribbean Beach next month! Love your pictures.

 

[nebo]

Ok, bear with me here, I'm doing this with one eye tied behind my back again.

I got the full monty treatment agian today and I'm still all blurry and squinty from the extra strength ACME dialation. Oh yes, it was Joy to th max all day. " I got to do the OCT which is teh Occular Coherence Tomography scan, which they can't get to work well on my eyes due to the long shape I have, thne I got the Optical Canon treatment, (tm. GrandBob), on both eyes, then I got to endure him looking for a vein to run the dye through and tatke the pictures agin.
This all culminated with another injection of Avastin in my left eye. Then he gave me the good news, This is going to probably happen to my right eye as well, and maybe we should start injections before it get's too bad.
Then I got the cout de tat, the piece dela resistance', this guy see no reason to prescibe pain killers, so I can't even lie on the couch and just relax and think nice thoughts for awhile since I ca't see tv, or read, that's why i'm sitting here now.

Ok, nuff whining. Lets see if I can take on a few comments from the press:

Your pictures are really making me rethink renting DVC points and staying at CBR in August.

Hey Janet, got more CBR pics coming up, and there's a chance we may be back there at CBR next Auggie if teh long awaited trip with the kids comes to pass.
Depending on where they choose to stay.
That's funny now that I think of it, with diane and I such hardened Didney vets, when it comes to picking a resort to stay at, I really have no clear cut favorites, we like them all, with maybe one exception,,,, which will be coming up, soon.

Great update!

During my last solo conference I shot over to the Caribbean Beach to take a pic of our honeymoon room (Aruba 5444 and only the outside as I didn't want to end up in jail) as a surprise for my wife. Actually she could kind of care less and I'm Mr. Sentimental (it's a curse) so I really did it for me.

Jay, you sound like my alter ego talking. I think we also stayed in buildigg 54, we've stayed in Aruba twice, building 52 for sure and I think 54, both of our rooms faced the lake.

While I was there I walked over to Old Port Royale for a peek and I was very impressed with the new pool area. They really did a lot, including the kids area, but kept the basic theme the same as it's always been. The food court, on the other hand, hadn't changed one bit. The only difference I saw was across from the food areas. Waaaaaaay back in '91 there was an upper level table area on the left and a lounge on the right, which we frequented each night. Even had some sorry excuse for a Jimmy Buffet wannabe playing live each night.

Ah, great memories. OUr first trip and on two or three nights we'd let the kids watch tv and we'd go down to that lounge foo on the right where the gift shop is now.
It was called Captain's Tavern, the Mai Tai's were only 4.50 then and two of them had me walking funny on the way back to the room. No entertainment though when we were there.



Dixie Landings (it will always be Dixie Landings to me) will always be my favorite moderate but Caribbean Beach is a very close second.

Dixie was our SECOND trip to the World n 94.
Stayed in building 18, good building but the shape of those buildings and where our room was we could never find our room straight the first time, didn'[t matte which one of us lead. No, I still preferred CBR back then to dixie. I'm a sucker to bright bvibrant colors.

And I knew that free spirited, playful Nebo wasn't long for this world and I have to say I'm happy about it. These reports are just so much more fun with the old Nebo taking the starring role!!

Jay

Just for the sake of honesty, no, I didn't actually kie in the sand and make sand angels, and the girl behind the counter did bring out the wrong paper, but when I pointed ti out she said, "Sorry", and went and got the right one.
Just so I'm not portraying the CBR cast members as being jerks.
Yeah, I know, us writers, we take journalistic liberties to liven up a story a bit.

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

Zoinks! Lucy...You have a lot of catching up to do!

Wow, that was perfect. I have to admit, I haven't heard that song in 25 years but it all came back to me. Boy, who woulda thunk it from the guy who made the theme song form Midnight Cowboy, "Everybody's Talkin'", and the great song, "Without You", everybody knows that one, too.
MY favorite is also one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time, that nobody ever thinks of. Way, way, better than Sweet Child O' Mine that always gets voted in the top ten riffs. This would be, "Jump into the Fire", also comes with a really cool drum solo you can play on the dashboard when you are cruising down the highway.

The bad part about looking it up and listening to it, was that DH absolutely LOVED it and played it enough to have it stuck in my head all afternoon.

Regarding "Jump Into The Fire", Forgive me if I'm wrong, Its been forever since I've seen the movie, and I will have to go look it up after I type this to make sure, but wasn't that song in Goodfellas?

Ok, sorry, you felll a step behind, my fault. We started out talking the lime and coconut song but I brought up this one wondering if anybody ever heard it before, and THumper found it on Utube, or someplace, then he found, along with his wife Mrs. Thumper, The actual recording of said song, "YOur breaking my heart", and the three of them listened to it.
Meanwhile, aunt Martha, while still recovering from her hernia operation,,,,

I appreciate you giving me some credit to this, however it was all T-Man! I just yelled at him from the kitchen to check YouTube. Which he was already in the process of doing while i was yelling...

ha hah hah ha ha

See Marie what happens when you follow the Nebo down the path of destruction? You let it all hang loose, at least for a half hour or so, and then the "what have I done came crashing in on you.
That's ok, it's a cool song, folks won't need the link, anyway. you make me laugh

Follow the Nebo road...
Follow the Nebo road....
Follow, Follow Follow Follow,
Follow the Nebo road...

Just watch out for the lions, and tigers and bears (Oh My!).

Being the strange person I am, sometimes some minute details of a trip will seem important to me.

Then I will forget them.

When we stayed at the Knight's Inn in Murfreesboro, it was in room 126.

At the Great Inn in Perry Georgia,,, room 126.

Coincidence?

Yeah, I guess so.

And you didn't head straight for a lottery ticket?! I would have. I could have used those numbers at the Sports book in Vegas.

Ok, we can talk hurricanes if you're talking about the drink.

"Pour me somethin' tall and strong
Make it a hurricane before I go insane
It's only half past twelve, but I don't care
It's five o'clock somewhere"

Oh...Sorry...Did i miss Karaoke? Always a day late and a dollar short.

It felt like morning though to me but this is strange, that means I pretty much slept through the night.
Wow, I must really have needed it.

After the trip you had just getting there, I would be surprised if you didn't sleep like a log. Now can you tell me what that's like? I don't have the funds to be making a Disney trip just for one full night of sleep.

I then did a great job slipping into the bathroom silently, the key word here being "silently", a very important word when you are dealing with "She who must not be Distoibed".
(that's the New Jersey version)

Shhhh...be vewwy vewwy quiet. She's hunting Disney Dreams.

I then closed the "blockoff" curtains that seperate the vanity from irate people still under covers, and yes, it would be "curtains" if I didn't use them especially when "I see bed people."

Why is it that after reading that I got a picture of the Queen of hearts from Alice in Wonderland stuck in my head and I can vaguely hear "Off with his head" in the background? Nevermind. It may have to do with the lack of sleep...

Since I'm going to the food court for a newspaper anyway, we did not set up the coffee maker last night, but I did set up everything else I would need early this morning.
I laid out all my clothes... suit, shorts, took out the dollar bill and one dime I'm going to need for the newspaper, room key, Uncle John, sunglasses, hat,,,, and yes, it still felt funny that my smokes are not included, nor the lighter.

Darn it!
I was doing much bet ter at home than I am here.
I didn't mess around either concerning pills, I automatically put some in my pocket.
A big problem with the smokes is also a practical problem, as well.


What make this important is that this is always where I kept my room key card whenever we went to the pool,
I could carefully slide it in between the cellophane and the box on the back side of the pack. It also gave the added benefit of forcing the pack really shut tight from it's interference where it hinges open. This was beneficial in a wet pool environment.

Wouldn't it be easy for you to have Uncle John hold the key while you are at the pool? I'm sure he wouldn't mind, being that you were so kind to bring him to Disney with you anyway.

Now, I never know just what to do with the damn room key now. It's like the hearing aids. If I remember to take the card out of my pocket before I go in the water I just stick it in my book as a bookmark.

See...Told you he wouldn't mind.

I was just skipping along on the way to the food court.
"Oh look, butterflies!"
I skipped along with the butterflies.

I even turned around and took a picture of the building I just passed because who ever stops and turns around and takes a picture of a building they have just passed?

Nebo does.

A few steps further and I had gotten to the beach area, and I lied down and made a few "Sand Angels".

There was a tall, teenage girl sitting in the sand just off the main path on my right with a bag of popcorn feeding about 20 ducks when I skipped up.
Her family was trying to reason with her but she wanted no part of any reasoning this morning, she woke up with the pouty face on and just wanted to sit in all the duck dung and feed them and make more dung.

Being the free-spirit, playfull guy that I am now, I dropped down into a squat and duck walked with the other ducks over to her making my best Quack, quack, noise.

For some reason, what her parents had been trying to get through to her did just then, because she jumped up and ran after them. Well, the ducks started lookinig at me like it's my fault their food source just ran away and started to move in on me.

Was that the real reason they were looking at you?

With the new me waiting outside, it's the "old" me that the clerk has to work with now.

One of these things is not like the other...

I guess one guy thought I was in a special line or something, and he asked me, " You waiting for coffee?"

"No, I'm blind and I'm trying to find the guy that just stole all my pencils, YES I'm looking for coffee!"

I was willing to bet that the new me wasn't still out there waiting.

The guy stepped back for an instant, I thought he might smack me one, then laughed and seemed to grasp the situation and said, "C'mon, I'll help."
and he proceeded to show me where everything was.

If I were the guy I would have asked how you knew it was a guy who took the pencils if you were blind...Good thing I wasn't the guy...

One guy looked at me from far away and just slowly shook his head.
The open 24 hours a day pool is closed! probably until 10.

You were doing the duck walk earlier...It would have come in handy now.

I couldn't believe it, my perfect morning, ruined, the "new me" was in the car honking the horn!

Only because you left the door open so he could get in...Otherwise he would have been right beside you trying to cheer you up.

I had no choice but to go up and disturb, the She.

I then tried to tell Diane about the new me who was here earlier, honest, I was making sand angels and chasing butterflies and everything, and, "didn't you see my sand angel on the way here?", she just nodded, looked at me strangely and went to get some tea.

Now Smidgy is probably thinking you're overdoing the vikes here...or that your under doing them and is just hoping they start working soon.

It was time now to take some pics before it get's too crowded and I'm stuck with ugly people in all my pics.
(yes, the new me is still apparently in the witless protection program)

There's now a cool kids area next to the Main Pool.

And I'm packing baby, got both the cameras with me.
I just don't know now which ones which.

I'm not sure from the little picture on my page, but I think this is when the bucket fills up and dumps.

On the way back,, took this one:

I think this is basically the same one I took at night


and,,,

I have to admit that I love seeing your pics of the pools...DH and I have never stayed onsite and so I live vicariously through your pictures.

On our way back up the stairs 5 little kids passed us up. (tee hee, that Smidgy is such a slowpoke)

Did Nebo just tee hee?

When we got back to our spot, we were ready to sit in the lounge chairs and a woman came up to us:

"Excuse me, we have been sitting at a table, and were wondering if it's ok to also take some lounge chairs too, while keeping the table. I've noticed that whoever has the table behind you hasn't been back for quite a while and most of the chairs are empty so I'd think it would be allright, what do you think?"

At first there was the possibility that she was being incredibly sarcastic, but no, she was just a newby trying to do what's right.

For being about noon now, it really was very empty for a main pool, Diane and I looked back at the table this young woman just referred to, OUR table, then we looked at each other and shrugged:

" You know," I said, " I don't think anyone will mind in the slightest if you keep the table and use some lounge chairs."

She responded, "Oh, thank you," and walked away to the table next to us.

With that, I walked over to our table and took my hat off of it and put it on, then went and sat in the lounge chair with my book.
I glanced back over at her and she's now got her hand in front of her mouth, shaking her head and wagging her finger at me in a "shame shame" manner, " You got me."

I took off my hat and held it up in the air briefly, then put it back on.

Yeah, this morning turned out better than I thought it would the way it started.

At least the day got better...See, *new* Nebo was around somewhere.

Great update Nebo! Hopefully i can keep up now without having to play catch up.

Ya know, your post couldn't've come at a better time. Lousy weekend with a capitol L. First my football team loses miserably and falls out of 1st. My hockey team loses and is 0-3. Then I watch my favorite sport where one of my favorite athletes is vying for a share in a $5 million prize. His name? Dan Wheldon. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. Needless to say, pretty bummed. Came on here and saw a Nebo post and had my first smile in a while. Thanks. I needed it.

Sounds like you need one of these Hope your week is better than your weekend.

Hands in the air everybody who thought, "Nebo skipping? Ah! Here comes our first Nebo injury of the TR."

 

[nebo]

Ya know, your post couldn't've come at a better time. Lousy weekend with a capitol L. First my football team loses miserably and falls out of 1st. My hockey team loses and is 0-3. Then I watch my favorite sport where one of my favorite athletes is vying for a share in a $5 million prize. His name? Dan Wheldon. Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about. Needless to say, pretty bummed. Came on here and saw a Nebo post and had my first smile in a while. Thanks. I needed it.

Ponzi, I too have always admired Dan Wheldon, him and Will Power were always my favorites, and no, I'm not really a Danica fan, not sure why though, she just rubs me the wrong way, I guess. What a shame about Dan, glad you got a few laughs from the chapter. I always do when you post too.


Only Nebo would find it more convenient to lug a book around rather than just shove the key in a pocket.

Ok, wise guy, you have the key shoved in your pocket, and now you are going to go down the pool slide. You leave it there? Getting soaked and maybe ruined? There's no joy like the joy that comes when you get to the Magic Kingdom and yoiur card is rejected.

Welcome, to another edition of Goofus and Gallant.

Goofus.... leaves his room card with tickets and dining plan in his pocket when he goes swimming.

Gallant,,,,,,puts this room and ticket card in his book for safekeeping till he returns.

They used to say to stick a pencil in the front grill, so the car woudn't choke on a fan belt. Now they say just make the car comfortable 'til the fit passes. (Honda Fit, of course.)

Now that there right there was good stuff!

Hands in the air everybody who thought, "Nebo skipping? Ah! Here comes our first Nebo injury of the TR."



geesh, so sorry to disappoint you.


Okay, are you just having fun with us here or did she really try to switch papers on you? I realize you were pretty much at her mercy, but I think I would've been pretty ticked!

Yeah, I 'xplained earlier, she did gibe me the wrong paper, but she wasn't as mean as I made her out to be.

AKA the lost treasure of the sierra madres.

Pennies? We don't need no stinkin pennies!"




You mean she lounged forward?

"Well ain't you a daisy."

Sorry, dude. Didn't even see the asterisk... or the obelisk, first time I read it. Had to go back up and check after I got to the bottom.

With or without hearing aids in?

Without, I got to throwing the HA case in the book bag always when we left for the pool.


I did know that... or knew, as I'd forgotten. Had you mentioned that before? Great update Nebo!

I don't think I've mentioned it before, I think I read it in an Unofficial guide.

 

[nebo]

Allrighty now!
Since I wasn't allowed any painkillers, I'm taking care of that all on my own, with manhattans.
Funny thing thgouth, the dilation should be starting to werar off and things are still blurry, wonder why.

I was nodding my head as I was reading. Of course the KTTW card goes between the box and the cellophane! Had there been a code brown in the main pool?

Ok Shan, you a guy or a chick? No girl puts the key card there. And no, I don't think there was a code brown at that time,,,, but,,, hmmm,,,,who knows when families go swimming late at night and maybe it wasn't noticed until this morning,,,, never thkought about that possibility.

Thank you for such a fun post Nebo. The thought of you skipping and playing chase with a butterfly gave me a good, warm, fuzzy chuckle. I'm proud of you for not smoking even when you wanted to, it's a tough thing to give up. I gave it up almost 7-8 years ago and I'm thankful everyday that I did. I gave up coffee along with it, you tell me if I was fun to live with for a while? I actually stopped on my husbands birthday, although I don't think he was happy about it at the time. Later? Yes. At the time? NO.
I feel like this last post was similar to Dorthy coming out of the poppy fields.

Millie:
"We're out of the woods, we're out of the woods, 'we're out of the woods.. Closer,,,, closer"
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Like the white rabbit...I"m late!! I'm Late!!

and no, I'm not announcing a pregnancy...

Hi Cheri! There was a time when Winkers was my wingman, my goombah, my kemosabe and it was all we could do to keep from getting kicked off the boards, totally, but this was back in olden days before she went and found,,,,, um,,,, what again was it you found, Winkers?
ANd your Mother in law doesn't count.

Omigosh, side story alert!
When it first came out I had the opportunity to see that movie "The Sixth Sense" before my wife, loved it and convinced her to watch it (and I got to see it again), unfortunately I snapped about half way through it and ruined the plot for her... still to this day I dare not bring it up - even if someone else brings it up it get her boiling and I tuck my tail between my legs and hide til the moment passes.

Anywho, as you were...

Shawn, that is a movie that has absolutely no replay value once you've seen it, you will only want to watch it again if you can see it with somebody who hasn't.
Then, you will watch it another ten times!

Yes, my friend if you let it get out,,,,,, the ending,,,,, you blew it,,,,,, in that boring movie the ending is everything. Now, care to explain the director"s not quite so shining moment to me, "The Happening". ?

 

[GrandBob]

Ok, bear with me here, I'm doing this with one eye tied behind my back again.

I got the full monty treatment agian today and I'm still all blurry and squinty from the extra strength ACME dialation. Oh yes, it was Joy to th max all day. " I got to do the OCT which is teh Occular Coherence Tomography scan, which they can't get to work well on my eyes due to the long shape I have, thne I got the Optical Canon treatment, (tm. GrandBob), on both eyes, then I got to endure him looking for a vein to run the dye through and tatke the pictures agin.
This all culminated with another injection of Avastin in my left eye. Then he gave me the good news, This is going to probably happen to my right eye as well, and maybe we should start injections before it get's too bad.
Then I got the cout de tat, the piece dela resistance', this guy see no reason to prescibe pain killers, so I can't even lie on the couch and just relax and think nice thoughts for awhile since I ca't see tv, or read, that's why i'm sitting here now.

OUCH, Nebo!!! So sorry!

BTW, in case anyone's wondering about the reference to the Optical Canon, here's the post where I coined the term. And oh by the way Nebo, while you were gone, I got PVD in my right eye this time, so I too got the Optical Canon (tm) treatment again. I can't hold a candle (or eyeball) to what you've been through, but I feel your pain, bro.

-Bob

 

[winkers]

Hi Cheri! There was a time when Winkers was my wingman, my goombah, my kemosabe and it was all we could do to keep from getting kicked off the boards, totally, but this was back in olden days before she went and found,,,,, um,,,, what again was it you found, Winkers?
ANd your Mother in law doesn't count.

I'm still lost and not sure what I'm looking for.....ok, I have a crazy mix of amazing grace and the u2 song I still haven't found what I'm looking for, running through my mind!

I've missed you and smidgy too!

and the mil is still in the basement

 

[shan23877]

Of course girls keep card in the cigarette box. Not necessarily everyday, but at the pool or anywhere else you don't want to carry a purse. Silly Nebo.

 

[Sandy Mouse]

"Mayday, mayday, we have a CODE BLUE here at the Caribbean Beach main pool, does anybody know how to rescusitate this man's wallet?" " At least, for the love of God, someone save his Keys to the World card, it has charging privelages on it!"[/B]



Great, now I"m hearing the Singing Nebo in my ears..
"Mart-in - ique, Kanique kanique,,,,,

Yes, that's what it feels like - please, rescusitate my wallet!

I have to correct you here... it's Mart-in - ique, An-ique, An-ique.

I'm back from Vegas and only have about 5 pages to read to catch up! (visiting Mom and Dad and NOT the casinos).

Sandy

 

[jcc0621]

Hey Janet, got more CBR pics coming up, and there's a chance we may be back there at CBR next Auggie if teh long awaited trip with the kids comes to pass. [/QUOTE}

Well then, you know that will factor in my decision then if you are there at the same time we are

 

[Thumper_Man]

Glad to read that you had a pleasant day after the horrible trip. Hopefully its only on the up and up from here.

 

[nebo]

I hope you found that guy that stole all of your pencils.....but you're blind, so that might be a little bit difficult.

Seriously, are you waiting for coffee? Ummmmm, yeah!

You had me cracking up, I tell you. But also I am very much looking forward to staying at Caribbean Beach next month! Love your pictures.

YOu should love CBR, and you'll have plenty of time to see a lot of it, those Pirate rooms are abojut as far away as yiou can get from the food court.

Zoinks! Lucy...You have a lot of catching up to do!




The bad part about looking it up and listening to it, was that DH absolutely LOVED it and played it enough to have it stuck in my head all afternoon.

Hey, I haven't heard that song in over 20 years and it's stuck back in my head not too just from listening to it one time on Utube.

Regarding "Jump Into The Fire", Forgive me if I'm wrong, Its been forever since I've seen the movie, and I will have to go look it up after I type this to make sure, but wasn't that song in Goodfellas?

This I didn't know either, gonna have to check that out too.




And you didn't head straight for a lottery ticket?! I would have. I could have used those numbers at the Sports book in Vegas.

It wouuld have been freaky if we got room 126 at CBR, too, cuz they don't have any 3 digit rooms!


"Pour me somethin' tall and strong
Make it a hurricane before I go insane
It's only half past twelve, but I don't care
It's five o'clock somewhere"

Oh...Sorry...Did i miss Karaoke? Always a day late and a dollar short.

I do "Come Monday" for karaoke, myself.




Shhhh...be vewwy vewwy quiet. She's hunting Disney Dreams.


There was a "Humor in Uniform" story once in the Reader's Digest:
they were practicing field maneuvers at sea with destroyers and submarines, when, a guy saie into an open microphone pertaining to another voice on the radio, "Gee, that guy sounds just like Elmer Fudd."

And everybody that wasn't supposed to hear the comment, heard it.
The next voice you hear on the radio: "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet, we are hunting submarines here."
Cracked me up.


Wouldn't it be easy for you to have Uncle John hold the key while you are at the pool? I'm sure he wouldn't mind, being that you were so kind to bring him to Disney with you anyway.

Your right, he's been there almost as much as I have.


















Was that the real reason they were looking at you?

Only because you left the door open so he could get in...Otherwise he would have been right beside you trying to cheer you up.


Na, you can't cheer up what you can't see.


I have to admit that I love seeing your pics of the pools...DH and I have never stayed onsite and so I live vicariously through your pictures.


Please stay on site, you have to try it, itj's the best feeling, when you leave the parks, you're still in Disney!

Did Nebo just tee hee?

No, ugly typo.

Great post Mrs. T!

OUCH, Nebo!!! So sorry!

BTW, in case anyone's wondering about the reference to the Optical Canon, here's the post where I coined the term. And oh by the way Nebo, while you were gone, I got PVD in my right eye this time, so I too got the Optical Canon (tm) treatment again. I can't hold a candle (or eyeball) to what you've been through, but I feel your pain, bro.

-Bob

Hey Bob, sorry to hear about the eye, now remeber, don't lift anything heavy and avoid constipation. I always loved that advice.

I'm still lost and not sure what I'm looking for.....ok, I have a crazy mix of amazing grace and the u2 song I still haven't found what I'm looking for, running through my mind!

I've missed you and smidgy too!

and the mil is still in the basement

Kinda sounds like you have her chained up down there.

 

[nebo]

Of course girls keep card in the cigarette box. Not necessarily everyday, but at the pool or anywhere else you don't want to carry a purse. Silly Nebo.

A thousand apologies, my bad.

Yes, that's what it feels like - please, rescusitate my wallet!

I have to correct you here... it's Mart-in - ique, An-ique, An-ique.

I'm back from Vegas and only have about 5 pages to read to catch up! (visiting Mom and Dad and NOT the casinos).

Sandy

Remember, you don't want to do 5 pages all in one sitting, it becomes toxic! Great, now I have, You're breaking my heart, and Dominique running through my head at teh same time.

Hey Janet, got more CBR pics coming up, and there's a chance we may be back there at CBR next Auggie if teh long awaited trip with the kids comes to pass. [/QUOTE}

Well then, you know that will factor in my decision then if you are there at the same time we are

Are you sure you want to risk a nice happy trip bieng ruined by staying at the same resort as us?

Glad to read that you had a pleasant day after the horrible trip. Hopefully its only on the up and up from here.

Right. Up and up. Right.

 

[fsmith2845]

Ok, bear with me here, I'm doing this with one eye tied behind my back again.

I got the full monty treatment agian today and I'm still all blurry and squinty from the extra strength ACME dialation. Oh yes, it was Joy to th max all day. " I got to do the OCT which is teh Occular Coherence Tomography scan, which they can't get to work well on my eyes due to the long shape I have, thne I got the Optical Canon treatment, (tm. GrandBob), on both eyes, then I got to endure him looking for a vein to run the dye through and tatke the pictures agin.
This all culminated with another injection of Avastin in my left eye. Then he gave me the good news, This is going to probably happen to my right eye as well, and maybe we should start injections before it get's too bad.
Then I got the cout de tat, the piece dela resistance', this guy see no reason to prescibe pain killers, so I can't even lie on the couch and just relax and think nice thoughts for awhile since I ca't see tv, or read, that's why i'm sitting here now.

Ok, nuff whining. Lets see if I can take on a few comments from the press:

YIKEESSSSS!! Steve. after all that.. i'd say you have every reason in the world to WHINE!! Hate that you're having to go through all that. hopefully all the pain and discomfort will pay off and your eyes will at least stabilize!! 20/20 vision would be way too much to ask.. i mean.. what would you have to write about in your TR's if you were able to see perfectly therefore no Nebo falls in the world..

The bad eyes certainly haven't affected your ability to take some great pictures though.. amazing pictures by the pool.. makes me wish i was lounging by the pool right now with a Pina Colava.. or maybe a Cap'n and Coke!!

Just for the sake of honesty, no, I didn't actually kie in the sand and make sand angels, and the girl behind the counter did bring out the wrong paper, but when I pointed ti out she said, "Sorry", and went and got the right one.
Just so I'm not portraying the CBR cast members as being jerks.
Yeah, I know, us writers, we take journalistic liberties to liven up a story a bit.

Man.. you just spoiled my vision.. Nebo rolling in the sand with a formation of Sand Angels ther on the beach.. with a teenage girl looking on in horror and disgust! Hey at least they were just journalistic liberties and not any other types.. or this TR could have been taking an ugly turn.. The beast would strike again!!! Have a Manhattan on me (yes i still remember i owe you one if we ever run into each other in the world)..

 

[IheartDDuck]

YOu should love CBR, and you'll have plenty of time to see a lot of it, those Pirate rooms are abojut as far away as yiou can get from the food court.

Yeah, that wasn't necessarily by choice.....I used our DVC points and no DVC rooms were available, so I exchanged to use them at a moderate resort. And the only thing available? Pirate Room at CBR. I figured, I just wanted a room at this point!

Love CBR, just not so sure how I feel about the Pirate Room and it's distance...

 

[winkers]

Ok, I'm a bit dialated still[/COLOR]

Ok, I promised myself I'd be good.....and I wasn't going to post untill I'd caught up on everything.....but you're making it impossible!

that statement sounds like something from a delivery room!

 

[winkers]

All caught up!

I made a list of things I wanted to comment on hopefully it will make some sense.

first congratulations on quiting somking!

Your eye!! Holy crap-balls. I think I may have nightmares of that eye just staring at me from the screen.

I love the old time photo! Smidgy looks the same but you are slightly less furry...

I have another word to add to the disionary....Squench.....verb....a combination of squeezing and clenching the buttocks as you waddle to your room and bathroom after a bad experience at the Rose & Brown.


When I tried to think of a character to compare you to, my first thought was Mr. Bean.

I love that you made a mixed tape for yourself! I do the same thing for any road trip

I seriously think you two should star in your own reality show!