A random favorite movie line:
Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things I never knew were
there before, birds chirping, morning dew on a newly formed leaf, ,,, stoplights.
ok,,,, that's the kind of thing that cracks me up,,,,who said it?
From where?
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I believe we left off on an early Monday evening, with me holding my ears to keep the hearing aids from falling out
on RRC.
I considered doing TOT, Diane is always willing to walk me through it, but it's still work for me,, even when the doors open to get in the car it's pretty big in there and I can't see a thing in there either,,,, the last time I rode it I needed help like an old lady crossing the street, not only to find my seat but also to find my seat BELT, couldn't see where that was either. So we skipped it and found ourselves back near our old smoking area by Echo Lake, deciding what to do.
It was quarter to 7, and the answer was obvious, time to catch the last showing of American Idol, where all the days previous winners face off to see which one gets a golden ticket to front of the line for a REAL Idol audition.
As far as I know, there are two hosts that do the show,, We like them both and the beginning of the shows are pretty clever and funny.
What I don't like is when they ask too much audience participation,,,, no,,, I'm NOT going to dance in front of my chair and make a fool out of my self, I just want to watch the show,, besides,, I promised them at Monster's Inc. I would only do that for their show.
Diane has tried to get me to audition myself for Disney Idol since I like to sing karaoke,,,but I'm afraid I'm not that outgoing,,, besides,, what would be the point,, even if I did win,,, I"m only about 23 years past the age limit.
We got good seats up front,, I ended up sitting next to a Florida cop who also didn't like to be told to jump around and act stupid, so the two of us were are little stoic island, just standing there.
This time the winners that met up this night were all pretty young, no old farts snuck in like I've seen in the past do, and I got a picture of them all sitting on the stage together.
The last time Smidgy and I did this, it was also the finals show like tonight, and I nailed the winner.
During the day there are only 3 contestants,,, but for the 7 o'clock final there are 5.
I nailed it with the winner last time, and tonight we both picked the correct winner, I'm 2 for 2 in the finals picking.
In the picture, it's the guy on the far right, I think, have to see when the picture is bigger after posting.
After Idol, we then walked over to see the Osbourne Lights one last time,,,,,
just checking
No, what we did do,, even though it is EMH night here,,, there was nothing we wanted to do anymore,,,, believe me,
if they had another showing of Beauty and the Beast we would have been there again,,,, but no such luck, we left the park and went down to the boat dock.
With there being EMH at DHS, our SOP was now heading out to the Swan for karaoke, ASAP. Sorry, I'll stop now.
No, this is a great time because we don't need a car, so we can have drinks not worrying about driving,,, you see the boat will take us to the Swan and back to DHS and the busses will still be running because the EMH keeps the park open so late.
But for some reason,,,, the boat dock to the Epcot resorts wasn't just crowded,,, it was packed! Not sure why, never ever seen it this way before, I'm thinking maybe the last boat hit an Iceberg and now the Carpathia and the Baltic are picking up the survivors at the DHS boat dock.
Finally, a boat pulled up,,, and I could see there was no way we were all going to fit on it. You DO know what's coming, right? And it's not, "I HAVE A CHILD!"
I turned to Diane and said, "We're gonna need a bigger boat!"
However, another boat was only about 7 minutes or so behind this one, so that wasn't bad, we rode it to the Swan and Dolphin, got off and went into the Swan.
Karaoke girl said it will be 15 minutes or so before she starts, I looked around and the "crowd" looked promising.
You don't want it packed, and you don't want to feel like you may as well be singing in the shower to yourself either, you wan't a nice, smattering of people, hopefully your own age and enthusiastic about hearing some oldies.
We went back outside to not have a couple of cigarettes while we waited.
I had the feeling we weren't going to be here long tonight, and when we came back in, I didn't want to run a tab with a waitress, so went and directly ordered and paid at the bar for a couple of beers, then we went and got a table.
THis is our fourth time here,,, we've had fun twice before in here, but one time we came in and it was like it was devoted to children,,,, with about 15 to 20 of them all sitting on the stage. After 15 minutes we walked out.
One other time was funny cuz I got up and sang stupid songs thinking "hey, nobody knows me down here anyway, I can be as stupid as I want" ,, and turned out a guy with a group at the next table lived 3 blocks from where we live,,,
yeah,, that put the "Banana Boat Song" in a new light.
And yes,,, I have to say again,,, sorry,,, the time I finished singing and the KJ told me to stay there while Smidgy came and joined me in a duet,,,and a guy yelled out I should be in American Idol,,,and trying to be clever, killing time while Smidgy got on the stage I said,,, "right, maybe American Midol" just in time for Smidgy to take the mike in front of her and say,,, "Steve, I think you may be thinking of Geritol,,,,Midol? You don't want to go there."
Oh yeah,,,, she brought down the house with that one,
by the time we got back to our table we were each doubled up on beers.
Tonight wasn't going to work out for us though, not at all,
and I was really sad about that.
We both put in songs to do,,, and I thought it would be great trip report stuff now that I've found I can take mini videos with this little camera,,,
They called Smidgy up first,,,, I started filming it and recording it,,,heck,,, I really just want the voice,,, and as she is singing,,,,, 20,000 Conventioners all came in at the same time. I moved around a bit, trying to get them our of the mic's earshot,, but it was hard, and I cut her off short.
They were just overpowering in noise.
Of course,,, what happens next? I get called up.
Smidgy still doesn't know how to do this with the camera, i get it started I thought with her,,,, but she missed most of it which is just as well,,,,the conventioners are now lining up yelling and can't wait to get up and sing for each other.
Anyway,,, I thought Smidgy sounded pretty good for the distractions going on around her:
remember boys and girls, this is a video,,, you have to click on it,,,
What you didn't get to hear was also just as well,, because this KJ running the show has not updated anything since we came here the first time 6 years ago.
I chose "This Magic Moment" to do,, but she still had a crappy disk of a re-creation of the song by a garage band, I think.
We finished our beers and waited for our ride by the boat dock.
Back at the Studios we caught a bus back to AKL, just like clockwork.
right
It can be really frustrating when there are only 6 of you sitting on the bus, all staying in Jambo House,,,, and have the bus go right past it in order to get to Kidani Village, first. Sometimes you get the guy or girl willing to do what makes sense, think on their own if you will, then other times you get the Barney Fife, you will NOT win against a Barney Fife!
Even though we went right past where we needed to get off, it was still almost another 15 minutes before we got back there,,, only this time,,, LEGALLY,,,,yes,, all it takes is one
ECV to put the delay of game into effect then,,,,,what I can't figure out,,, is it's 40 minutes now until official closing at DHS, where is this person in the ECV going to,,,,,and why?
In the room, it was pretty late now, Diane made us each a sandwich from the remaining bread and baloney, then she asked if I minded if she watched Soapnet,,,she only had a couple of months before her One Life to Live is all gone like All My Children went gone, I told her fine, of course, go ahead, I don't care.
Now, gentlemen, all you men reading out there, do you see the fatal flaw in what I had just said?
I doubt that you do!
It is in those last three words,,, "I don't care".
To me, those words mean,, "Yeah, Honey, go ahead, watch whatever you want to, nothing I wan't to see on tv anyway unless Stacey if finally playing strip fastpasses ,no, go ahead, it's fine by me whatever you watch, and I know that your favorite show is going off the air.
Uh uh,, ain't a gonna work, it's the "I don't care" that sticks out, I guess.
So,, what we have done right now is "Mine" the field.
No, nothing has been detonated yet, but the landmines are now activated, and all it is going to take is one,,,,
small.... move,,, off the safe, the well known, the beaten path,,,,one small step off,,, and it's Kabluey.
Now, to me, this isn't fair!
I can't walk straight totally sober to save my, or any body else's life,,,,, I had no chance, in a horror movie spoof I would have the "dead meat" arrow pointing at my head.
I was getting ready for bed, you know, the usual routine we all go through before bedtime,,,,, changed into my Army of Darkness Jammies,,, brushed my tooth,
did my 50 sit ups and 30 push ups,,Threw up,,,,but it was while I was taking care of all these things and not saying a word, I was listening to what was on the Soapnet Channel whe was watching.
And I felt like I was set up.
From what I heard, there was no way in the world I would be able to stay on the safe, beaten path. You might as well have had me parachuted right into the heart of the minefield and said "Follow the Yellow Brick Road out."
I know that many of the actors are truly incredible that do the soaps every day,,,,I can't believe they have never made it to the Silver Screen,,,,
but once in a while I will hear something on the soaps,,,,and maybe, to be fair,,,, Im not exactly paying attention and paying enough needed attention to make sense of everything I'm hearing,,,,,, but,,,, toninght,,, I heard something that just "Threw" me into the landmine field I had already set for myself, but there was no way,, nope, no way I could keep this to myself and not comment.
I busted up laughing when I heard the line delivered,,,
(not good), then I ran for my little notebook to write it down,,,, EVEn as I am responding in my own dumb ad lib fashion to the original comment, (this was even worse than "not good".)
Female voice: "I'd feel a whole lot better if I knew there were no more 9 milimeter handguns just lying around the house. "
Maybe it was the voice, maybe it was the bad acting, but it just sounded so ridiculous to me that a huge quick guffaw escaped me and I had to finish her line,,,,,"and I'm tired of picking up after you!"
That would have been bad enough, I'm not only making fun of her show,,, but I am also TALKING in the middle of it!
But I wasn't quite done yet:
My voice: "Hey, that's not my AK-47 sitting on top of the fish tank."
Let's just say that it was a good time to go to sleep.
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Tuesday, September 20,,,, aka,,,, last full day.
When we drive we usually leave early in the morning, not always, but usually. This means we try to plan our last day so it's not a late night, meaning, no fireworks.
One trip recently I thiought it would be different to go to Disney Quest on our last day,,, this is when we got a ten day pass with waterparks and DQ and the no Expiration tacked on.
This pass actually then gives you 10 days of water parks or DQ that also don't expire,,,, for us it seemed like almost a lifet time pass for the water parks,,, we still have 8 days left!
ON our last day we went to DQ and boy, was that a big letdown for your last Disney day,,,,"Gee, oh boy oh boy,,, we spent our last day in Disney playing Q-Bert and Donkey Kong."
But we haven't been back to Magic Kingdom since BLT, over 8 days ago and tonight they have a Halloween Party so the park closes to all the uninvited at 7 o'clock, perfect for our needs.
That morning came and I was up and champing at the bit.
There was no hangover from last night's snarky comments
, a look outside showed yet another picture perfect day.
We will hit rope drop, see the welcome show,, do what we want to till about 11, come back for a last swim and soak up the Florida sunshine,,, head on back mid-afternoon and stay till they kick us out at 7.
But my usual problem has hit me, and this time hit me hard.
I am in no hurry to head on back to reality, especially a new reality that includes huge increases in credit card debt,,,,,, and a huge decrease in Diane's Dad.
I was also in no hurry to get back in the car for a cross country trip, that drive down took a lot out of me,,, and also put a hurtin' on my confidence,,,,, I know storms happen, but I really thought I had taken all precautions with the car,,, only to have the tire trouble BECAUSE I took care of things,,,, and the exhaust falling off BECAUSE the car was recently inspected,,,,,
But this funk has got to go,,,,my painkillers became an endangered species that morning as I plyed my pocket.
For breakfast I finally took one of the Twinkies I bourght for the trip, a box of individually wrapped Twinkies that Diane is not eating. Again, all my fault,,,, for the first time I saw this box that had a chocolate filling in them instead of the mystery white filling, and I bought them.
I might as well have bought cans of herring to have as a snack, in Smidgy's eyes.
I ate it the thing at the bus stop,,,,and, well, she was right, it's not bad, but it's not good either,,, and I'm pretty sure there are still one or two of them sitting on top of the microwave downstairs.
Believe it or not,,, I was tempted to make up a Sunny D,,I know, I know, but I've got last day syndrome going, but in the end I prevailed and just took some vikes with me.
With that I am going to bring this chapter to a close, it
' is too bad the karaoke didn't work out that night, but at least you got the better of us to hear, g'night
see, I'd come home from work late at night. find an interesting thread, read a bit of it. then get tired, so subsribe.. for later.. which never came.
