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[Grumpy's Wife]

I love the wedding pictures. You have a beautiful family.

A little help to get you through the appointment today.

 

[heathers4um]

Nebo, I hope your appt went well, and your rendezvous with Mr Needle was quick and painless.

I enjoyed the side TR of your son's wedding and seeing the pictures I think you ALL looked wonderful!

Smidgy, I have left on curling irons, straightening irons, regular irons...your description of how you remembered that was hilarious, and something I have done in that roundabout way too! When it hits ya, it hits ya!!

Hilarity on the dangling participle...

 

[orangecats2]

no shot...no shot...no shot
just keep chanting...

Real name - Carrie
And yes Nebo, I changed my avatar today, so you don't get confused. :-D

 

[MaryAz]

You guys looked great!!! Congrats on the new DIL! And remembering about the curling iron before the Hyatt burned down.

Hope the appt went well and you are now wearing and doing this

 

[KRIS10420]

Oh my gosh, how exciting!!! I haven't logged into the Dis in weeks and today I thought I'd catch up. To my pleasant surprise the first thing I find is this trip report and I'm only a few days late
CONGRATULATIONS to the both of you for sticking with the quitting smoking, well done

ok carry on

 

[Backstage_Gal]

I just have to say, I'm so happy to have another Nebo and Smidgy report to read and have so many old readers here again too.

Smidgy, your hair looked great, and I hear you on the hassle of the curler.
What a horrible distraction at the wedding though to think of the hair curlers, yikes!! Glad it worked out ok.

 

[nebo]

Ok, I'm a bit dialated still but Carrie's chanting helped,,,NO SHOT!

I am an enigma to the doc though, he's not sure how or what is the best way to either fix the left eye, and/or, prevent the same thing from happening to my right eye.
The symptoms and results are the same as someone with macular degeneration, wet type and dry, but that's not exactly the case with me, for one thing I'm too young, that doesn't set in until age 65.
My situation is caused from the extreme length of my eyeball, which caused the extreme myopia but now the retina is too stretched out and getting brittle.
T he injections only work for the wet type of MD, when blood breaks through the macula but today there was no leakage. He told me he's going to rethink my situation and get back to me next week to see what our next moves should be.

ok, let me hit a few call outs now, I'll be more acknowledging with them once we get the real show on the road here.

Also wanted to say you guys both looked great all dolled up for the wedding. Yes, even you Nebo. (I'm giving out platitudes instead of sympathy. Clever, no?) Smidgy, beautiful as always. (not a platitude, just the truth.)

I quoted this not so much for what he said, but ... oh my, looky loo,,,,,,Ponzi has a ticker going! Congratulations, about time. Where you stayin? Can we come too? You should start a pre-trip report, what's 19 months to killL?

Smidgy and Nebo, looking good! Congrats on the nuptuals!

I'll skip the eye thing, but yikes!

Since you are all a bunch of Dissers here, I thought I'd post this for you to tide you over:

For my DIS friends:
Toured the Disney Laundry facility today (sheets, towels, pillow cases, not restaurant linens or costumes, they have seperate plants).
Some amazing statistics:
- If you were to launder all they do in ONE day 24 hours in your home washer, it would take 52 YEARS!
- The water used in one day would fill 27 swimming home pools
- Sheets in one day would stretch from Orlando to Key West
It's also frigging hot and humid and noisy there, but the engineering is amazing, all about automation, except for towel feeder people that feed machines that fold the sheets and towels, then the stacking into Metro people, the loading to truck people, the delivery drivers, and the guys that unload and sort the dirty linen coming in. (talk about some sucky jobs!!) How would you like to feed towels into a machine at the rate of about 10 or 12 or more per minute for 8 hours? Talk about sore arms!
Amazing operation, and I think the 3rd largest in the world (as in earth, not WDW)

marita, thanks, that's incredible. It's the first stat that got me the most.... 52 years for one day's laundry in one washer!
Although, when our boys were teenagers they tried to come close! Even if they THOUGHT about wearing a shirt and changed their minds, it would go in the hamper.

As you can see by my join date I've been on here a while, but have very few posts. I am the ultimate lurker. I read the boards just about everyday and have read all your reports. You guys are great. We have something in common too. After many years of smoking, I too quit several years back. Wasn't easy, but definitely woth it. I may not comment often, but will follow your trip closely. Have fun. Peanut

Hi Peanut, really glad you joined us, and congrats on the smoking issue too. Feel free to pipe in any time.

Yay! I am so excited to find you again Nebo! What? You don't know me? Well, I confess, I am a lurker. But I have read the past couple of trip reports of yours and they are hilarious. I am looking forward to your next, and I know you are looking forward to your trip as well. We will be going next March so until then, I will be hovering over the boards hoping that will somehow appease me. Hey to Smidgy!

Greetings to you too! I hope you have a good time leading up to your March trip, I love the planning and research when you first make it official.
Before I started writing them, that's when I'd go and find a good trip report to read,,,, heck, I used to print out chapters, I'd be just ravenous for anything Disney.

Steve, I'm touched and honored that you remembered! But how did that tidbit of information slip past all those banana peels?

the peels are just there for interlopers, "Penny for your thoughts?" I know my way around them.

Not gonna comment about the eye thing, and that picture! Not gonna do it, not gonna do it...

Oh, okay.



OK, small world time. The land that the Hyatt Lisle is situated on? Every last square inch (and then some) used to be my uncle's farm. Had lots of fond memories of going there as a kid. He and my aunt used to do a huge corn roast at the end of every summer. He picked the corn about an hour before everyone arrived, and threw the ears into barrels of salted ice water. Then they were roasted in the husk over BBQ pits made from barrels split down the middle. Best corn I ever tasted!

Going back further in time, part of his farm was taken under eminent domain for the East-West Tollway that goes right past there.

Sigh... good memories. OK, sorry for the tangent. We now bring you back to the previously scheduled "Ophthalmic Horror Stories". Enjoy!

-Bob

hey Bob, no kidding about the Hyatt?
That's funny, I had originally just typed Hyatt, then I went back and added in Lisle,,,, not sure why.
I remember the best corn I had was cooked in a huge steel tub over a campfire, and after it had reached boiling and the flames lowered a bit, a ton of butter was added to the tub, when it melted immediately it all floated on the top of the water, so you used the tongs and pulled the ear of corn out slowwwwllly and the butter just impregnated the entire ear. just add salt.
Again, that's what corn is for, right? Just a means of getting buttter and salt into your mouth.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say. Nebo probably has never left a curling iron plugged in. Clothing dryer, oven, stove, clothing iron, oh heck... just about everything else that'll start a fire? Oh sure. But a curling iron? Nahhh...

There was a time a curling iron would have run from me in fear...

but you are correct, I have never left a curling iron on, or regular iron either.

However, I did once leave a 9 iron on.....


the 15th green, and when I went back for it, it was gone.

no shot...no shot...no shot
just keep chanting...

just keep chanting, just keep chanting

Real name - Carrie
And yes Nebo, I changed my avatar today, so you don't get confused. :-D

How often do you have to change your avatar?
Have you considered Depends?

Oh my gosh, how exciting!!! I haven't logged into the Dis in weeks and today I thought I'd catch up. To my pleasant surprise the first thing I find is this trip report and I'm only a few days late
CONGRATULATIONS to the both of you for sticking with the quitting smoking, well done

ok carry on

Hi Kris, welcome back!
I'm pretty sure Kris goes back to my original trippy, when I had a total of maybe 12 readers.

 

[buzz1121]

I am so glad there was no shotintheeye today! I hope your appointment next week goes well. You and Smidgy deserve some Disney relaxation.

I have a somewhat odd aspect to my right eye. My ophthalmologist gets a real kick out of it. I have a pie shaped wedge of blue color that goes into the pupil. I call it my cat eye and DH says it gives me perceptive powers. It's really weird and interesting at the same time. DH jokes that my avatar should be my right eye. It would be a tribute to Mike from Monsters, Inc.

 

[pkondz]

Had a chuckle. At the bottom of the page was an ad for a flat iron.

I quoted this not so much for what he said, but ... oh my, looky loo,,,,,,Ponzi has a ticker going! Congratulations, about time. Where you stayin? Can we come too? You should start a pre-trip report, what's 19 months to killL?

Hey! Somebody noticed the ticker. Yes we have a trip in the works. DD14 came up to us just a few days ago and said, "Mom, Dad, you know what I'd like for my 16th birthday?" My heart stopped and my mind just kept repeating, "Don't say car. Don't say car. Don't say car." Then she says, "I'd like to go back to WDW." Brought a tear to my eye.

As for you coming. Yes. Although I don't think our respective DWs would survive the barrage of bad puns and cheap one liners... but that's their problem.

Where we stayin? Still crunching numbers. Just know it'll be onsite for sure (see siggie). Thinking of ASMu family suite, POR, WL bunk bed. We'll see.

Pre-trippie? Nope. Unless I do it like you and start it a few days/weeks ahead. Do you really want to read about me whining for that long??? Didn't think so. Heck you're probably thinking right now, "Why'd I ask and when will he stop typing?!?!?"

I remember the best corn I had was cooked in a huge steel tub over a campfire, and after it had reached boiling and the flames lowered a bit, a ton of butter was added to the tub, when it melted immediately it all floated on the top of the water, so you used the tongs and pulled the ear of corn out slowwwwllly and the butter just impregnated the entire ear. just add salt.
Again, that's what corn is for, right? Just a means of getting buttter and salt into your mouth.

Man that sounds good! Gotta love corn, nature's laxative.

There was a time a curling iron would have run from me in fear...

I did remember that pic. I just figured it was so far back in the mists of time that perhaps you'd forgotten a time when hair was there.

but you are correct, I have never left a curling iron on, or regular iron either.

However, I did once leave a 9 iron on.....


the 15th green, and when I went back for it, it was gone.

Was it near the woods? The one with the monastery? Those guys will pick up anything you leave behind. Slice one in the woods? There's a guy in a robe runnning to steal your ball. Leave a cart unattended near the trees? An expert at chanting drives off with it. Whenever I golf there I always bring my friend Hugh. Just like his name sounds, he's huge! Very intimidating. Nobody messes with us when he's around. And as everyone knows...

wait for it...

Hugh, and only Hugh can stop forest friars.

 

[njtinkmom]

So glad there was no needle for you!! Kind of like the soup nazi but with a needle instead... Anyway hopefully they will have a great solution to your issues that will be a permanent fix!!

Not sure that I have convinced hubby that seeing a man with a red eye is reason enough to go back already (really it is the wallet that is calling the shots now - I hate that Mr. Wallet !) but we are looking at maybe March or April, which is really close to our usual July family trip - so I am not sure what is gonna happen. We are the last minute let's go to Disney type - so really anything is possible!

Love the wedding pics, you both looked great! I hate when I think I left something on (iron, toaster...) and go back home to find it OFF!! I guess better safe than sorry. Maybe installing a front desk in my house to handle my second guessing myself would be a useful concept .

BTW my name is Gina not JOISEY!!

 

[Heluvsme]

No needle! Great news!!



Now I gotta go, for some reason I'm craving corn on the cob, hmmm go figure.




~Dawn

 

[mmeb144]

Was it near the woods? The one with the monastery? Those guys will pick up anything you leave behind. Slice one in the woods? There's a guy in a robe runnning to steal your ball. Leave a cart unattended near the trees? An expert at chanting drives off with it. Whenever I golf there I always bring my friend Hugh. Just like his name sounds, he's huge! Very intimidating. Nobody messes with us when he's around. And as everyone knows...

wait for it...

Hugh, and only Hugh can stop forest friars.

(Can't do too many of those, it will go to your head.) I knew it would be bad, but I couldn't help myself, I had to keep reading...

 

[GrandBob]

Ok, I'm a bit dialated still but Carrie's chanting helped,,,NO SHOT!

hey Bob, no kidding about the Hyatt?
That's funny, I had originally just typed Hyatt, then I went back and added in Lisle,,,, not sure why.
I remember the best corn I had was cooked in a huge steel tub over a campfire, and after it had reached boiling and the flames lowered a bit, a ton of butter was added to the tub, when it melted immediately it all floated on the top of the water, so you used the tongs and pulled the ear of corn out slowwwwllly and the butter just impregnated the entire ear. just add salt.
Again, that's what corn is for, right? Just a means of getting buttter and salt into your mouth.

No kidding. Uncle Pete and Aunt Tracy, may they RIP. Uncle Pete was a big bear of a man. When he hugged us kids, we were afraid of being squeezed to death. And yeah, that corn was so good, we'd by pass the BBQ ribs and just load up on the corn. Yum!

No needle! Great news!!

Now I gotta go, for some reason I'm craving corn on the cob, hmmm go figure.

~Dawn

Funny, me too! Let's all get together somewhere and have a corn roast! Anybody want to come out to the left coast?

-Bob

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Glad there was noneedleintheeye, Nebo!

 

[heathers4um]

Happy that your doc visit was a non-needle type

 

[burly]

inahurryandgottagobutwantedtosaywoottononeedleintheeye....


KIM

 

[orangecats2]

So glad that my chanting worked. Let's hope it keeps working for next week and forever.

I thought you were going with me next year in Sept!
Geez, just because ponzi is more funny!

 

[Heluvsme]

Stop forest friars??





And corn roast??? I'M THERE!!!!!!!

Forest friars, sheesh!

 

[pkondz]

I thought you were going with me next year in Sept!
Geez, just because ponzi is more funny!

No reason why he can't do both. You're going in Sept 2012 and we're going (fingers crossed) in March 2013 a whole 6 months later. Don't you think they shoud do both? Think two more TRs!

And when you say funny... you mean annoying, right? Thought so.

 

[KRIS10420]

Hi Kris, welcome back!
I'm pretty sure Kris goes back to my original trippy, when I had a total of maybe 12 readers.

That would be me and I have enjoyed every trip report immensely