PHM 2015-In Pursuit of Cupcakes While Running in Glass Slippers

[BernardandMissBianca]

Me too!!!

Do you have your credit card handy?!?!? I've had mine out for an hour!

 

[STILLWISHING]

Have all my info out and my office door closed. Let's go 12:00!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

LOL just hung up on my BFF.
Is that mean???

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

This is worse than waiting for the 24 hour Southwest window to open!!!

 

[STILLWISHING]

This is worse than waiting for the 24 hour Southwest window to open!!!

ha! Did that this morning too! B group...grrr.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

LOL B isn't to bad!

 

[STILLWISHING]

The page is dead!! No!!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

refresh refresh!!!!!!!!

reenter the address

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I'm in!!!!
Now I'm doing the 5K registration.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

OMG It keep kicking me back because of my proof of time. I finally was able to dig up my 10K time from last year and submitted it. Hopefully it works!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

OK, I'm in for all 3.

That was stressful!!!!!

Gotta go get DS18 now, then head to the bank. We bought him a car!

 

[AJollyHoliday]

Hi ladies! Sorry I have been MIA for awhile! I was submitting my research paper before we left for Disney. We were in the parks from July 5th to the 9th, then we went to Vero Beach for 3 days. That place is AMAZING!!! While in the park on the 9th, I was able to register for the GSC so I am all set! I am so excited. I just texted my friend though because the GSC is 70% full and it has only been open 1 hr!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

GSC is sold out, 1/2 is at 80% and the 10K is at 85%

 

[xlsm]

I hope everyone got signed up!!!

I'm still so sad to be missing out, but we are almost completely moved in to our new house, and have been living here since Saturday.

We are exactly three weeks away from Disney World right now. In fact, three weeks from this moment, I will be performing CPR on my kids as they recover from ToT while we get in the FP line for RnR.

The kids are going to be away next week so I hope to get some good runs in

 

[smola09's mom]

It took about an hour and 10 minutes for me to get registered at noon. Hope everyone else got in that wanted, Happy Training Everyone!
More training equals more booze or cupcakes for us all!

 

[Patsydust]

Wooo! Registered! So excited to be running with all you fine folks!! So I signed up for the PHM and the Race Retreat!! First time doing the PHM and first time doing a half marathon at all!!!

Any tips or advice on getting a good hotel (closest vs $?) or on getting park tickets etc? I feel like I'm a little lost amongst all this awesomeness!

Thanks everyone!! 218 days!

 

[shocky5]

What a registration day! Was able to register for the PHM and 5k within an hour of registration opening so I'm thankful for that. So excited though to officially begin the countdown!

 

[momabaarjo]

Life's not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away​

Today was full of moments that took my breath away…some not so great, but others totally amazing. Today was the day we have had circled on our calendars for months, the day of Princess Registration. The last few days the cupcakes have all been stressing (okay not so much our AP & DVC holders), practicing logging onto active, refreshing, trying to calm each other’s nerves with funny messages and counting down the seconds until 12:00 pm EST. Let’s recap the events as they unfolded…

This morning I awoke to Nicole’s message that she wanted to know where the stress cupcakes were…Today found me at work training a group of teachers for a new intervention program that they would being using on their respective campus. I arranged with them that lunch would be early…like at 10:45 am so that I could get on the computer and refresh to my hearts delight…or much to my hearts beating and pounding. Before training began I logged my computer in my office onto RunDisney and Active so I would be set once I rushed my teachers out the door to lunch. All through the morning I would periodically get a text from a cupcake double checking our plans, seeing how we were holding up, and sending something to calm the nerves. It was so hard to focus on the content I was delivering…finally the time to push my teachers out the door and I raced to my office while at the same time loading my phone with Active and RunDisney…flipping on the lights, I sat down to my computer and found…

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SERIOUSLY…the IT department had decided that this day and this moment they will update my operating system….ARE YOU FRICKIN KIDDING ME. Quickly I snapped a picture to share and went in search of another computer that was working at 10:58 I was set on a new computer, whew 2 minutes to spare and I started refreshing both my computer and phone…and yep, the computer freezes, but I have the phone working and get the message at 11:04 that I am now in line to enter the site, I did a happy dance right there as I waited…little did I know the drama was really going to begin. I wanted so bad to check in with the cupcakes and see how it was going…but I was on my phone and no way to check in. Promptly that 11:07 I got the green light and clicked PHM registration…it then took 5 refreshes to get off the darn agreement page but I made it…but none of my form was filled with my active registration so then I sat out plucking in my information on my phone…submit, error, fix, submit, error, error, error, error, fix, submit, error, error, error TEARS, error, error, fix, submit, error…well you get the picture…at that moment I felt so alone and wondering if I was going to be the only one not to get in and cussing like a sailor (which is not me)…about that time the computer unfroze and I went about trying to get the 5K done on it…so now I am working 2 submit, error situations…finally at 11:57 I was able to get into PHM with confirmation…but I was still in the endless cycle of error, fix, submit for the 5K…but a little less stressed because I got into PHM. Finally, around 12:15 I finished my registration and was able to start checking in with my cupcakes. And what I found took my breath away and made me proud to call these new ladies in my life friends…what I found was everyone was helping each other get registered…those that got in where now using their computers to get others registered…totally amazing how a group of ladies can come together without any drama to support each other. This time happy tears were in order, as well as breaking out the cupcakes and booze!

Carol found this shirt for us…I think there needs to be some cuss words on it!

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And Andreah and her computer talents made each of us this for surviving the registration process.

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Here is my celebration…

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A picked up a cupcake at my local cupcake shop…their signature cupcake, Ruffle Truffle…a chocolate cupcake with a dark chocolate truffle center, topped with a buttercream icing that has a hint of peppermint. Tonight, I am going to see what booze I can round up…LOL.

Thanks Cupcake Ladies for taking my breath away today! You are an amazing group of ladies who have now moved into the friend category with full membership! I don’t give my friendship away too easily…I can’t wait to peruse those cupcakes with you in February!

 

[momabaarjo]

OK, I'm in for all 3.

That was stressful!!!!!

Gotta go get DS18 now, then head to the bank. We bought him a car!

BUFFY...your going. I am so happy!

 

[momabaarjo]

Hi ladies! Sorry I have been MIA for awhile! I was submitting my research paper before we left for Disney. We were in the parks from July 5th to the 9th, then we went to Vero Beach for 3 days. That place is AMAZING!!! While in the park on the 9th, I was able to register for the GSC so I am all set! I am so excited. I just texted my friend though because the GSC is 70% full and it has only been open 1 hr!

YAY Jenn...your in! Hope your friend got in!