POPpers are back from POP 9/29-10/6 and made GREAT friends!Chat until next trip!! Part 2

[scrappinmom]

Mornign Poppers!~

Hope you all had a great Turkey Day! I was exhausted!!!!!! Cooking for 16 people and then i got up at 4am and was out the door to shop by 4:20!!! I got almost everything I wanted yesterday!!!!

Today it's time to put up the tree & the rest of the decorations!!!!!

Timmy - I'm so happy for you! That's so awesome!!!

I'm in for an all girls trip!!! How fun would that be???

MrFDNY - you can rent the villa next to us

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

[ANTSS2001]

Mornign Poppers!~

Hope you all had a great Turkey Day! I was exhausted!!!!!! Cooking for 16 people and then i got up at 4am and was out the door to shop by 4:20!!! I got almost everything I wanted yesterday!!!!

Today it's time to put up the tree & the rest of the decorations!!!!!

Timmy - I'm so happy for you! That's so awesome!!!

I'm in for an all girls trip!!! How fun would that be???

MrFDNY - you can rent the villa next to us

Have a great weekend everyone!!

signing from NC!!! hope all is well with everybody!!!

 

[mrFDNY]

Hi gang!!!
Ok so i had the last 3 days off, And i'm bored to death!! Ds has a dentist appt tomorrow , all is well just a regular dentist check up. he said something to my wife and she told me and well its so cute i thought. My birthday is comming up in 2 weeks and he knows so he went to dw and asked her if he could borrow some money and take daddy to disney world for his birthday. Dw told me and i thought how cute that was! Anyway i have this advanced hazardous materials training class thats 3 days long starting on wednesday that i'm not really looking foward too all that much. I live in brooklyn and have to be at the FDNY training academy at 6 am in the bronx, which means i will have to be ready to leave my house at 4 am, Oh what fun! Anyway i have to take a written test on dec 9th for this advanced class i'm trying to get in to in march. My chief told me that the other day his phone rang and it was the captain in charge of training and teaching this 9 month class and they were asking a ton of questions about the applicants from his division which is only me, he told me that he told them that well if anyone he knows is worthy of this class its me. So all i have to do is pass the written test and hopefully i'm in, maybe!!!!

tried the whole black friday shopping thing, NEVER AGAIN!! Me and dw got up at 3 am and hit a local shopping strip in brooklyn that opened all its doors at 5. Well we had to wait on a 2 hour line, several fist fights broke out, none with us of course. I swear it looked like the local hospital PHYSICRATIC ward had let all of its patients go shopping for the day.I mean there were people cursing and yelling and pushing and shoving, fist fights, people falling over stuff in the aisles.I asked dw if somehow we were still sleeping and dreaming all of this, she had me pinch her to make sure. Not to worry keeping up like the rest of the crowd instead of pinching her, i turned and slugged her square in the nose ,then dropped her to the floor and began to kick her in the gut over and over, ok thats a joke. I was amazed how some of these so called adults were acting, one lady had 3 kids with her with the oldest no more that 5 and she was f**k this and F that and Tushhole this and mother F er that. I was horrified. Other than that all went smooth, and we were back in bed by 10am. Turkey day went well had the whole family of in laws over, yay what fun! remind me next year to put sedatives in all thier drinking water next time.

 

[Nanu57v]

Wow, I wouldn't do black friday in NYC, that's for sure!

 

[dreamergirl78]

Hey hope evryone had a nice weekend. We dropped Terry off this morning to be shipped back to Texas. I came back to the hosue and went to sleep. I was beat.
Our weekend was wonderful. It was great to have him around for a few days. Good news is he gets a 2 week break in December for X-Mas!!! YAY! Then on the 2nd of Jan is his "official" send off.
I did not do one bit of holiday shopping. Other than laundry soap from Target. OH I did get cute stcking holders that were on sale. This is the first year we have had a fire place so I actually get to hang my stockings by the chimeny with care. I am such a nerd.
I feel pretty sad right now, but I know is just a few weeks I get to see him again. But then I don't want that to come because that means he is going off to the big sand box. Oh well, such is life.

PJ - I am with you buddy about NO shopping on black Friday. I considered it, but when people were lined up at midnight to go to Wal-Mart, I knew I would not be joining them.

Chris - Glad you got your shopping done! I will mail you out what we talked about on Monday ok? I got a little sidetracked these past 4 days.

Timmy - that recipe sounds yummy! Ryan won't eat good stuff like that which makes me crazy because I usually miss out on some good eats!

Alright, I might want to go get a shower or something now. But I am just not motivated. We'll see how it goes!

Everyone, I missed you all this weekend. Am I nuts or what?

 

[IDoBelieveinFairies!]

My nephew brought up POP, maybe for his birthday which is July 3rd, guess I need to work out a budget

 

[dreamergirl78]

My nephew brought up POP, maybe for his birthday which is July 3rd, guess I need to work out a budget

Have you stayed at POP before? If not you will love it! We had such a wonderful time there. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I can also give you my TA's address. She is AWESOME and will be of much assistance.
Welcome to the thread!!!

 

[CathrynRose]

Good Morning!

I hope everyone had a nice looooooooong weekend!!!

Ill tell ya, I didnt want to get up at ALL this morning. Like one of those mornings you think "do I have any sick days left.... what could I call in with, this morning? "

I finally sucked it up and rolled outta bed. And was moving like MOLASSES! Jimmy looked at me and said "Y'know - youre gonna be late!" So I shot him the evil eye and he didnt say another word to me all morning.

I braved the crowds Friday morning. 300 people waiting out front Circuit City at opening for $100 laptops. All I wanted was some DVD's! I got those - went to the Disney Store, got an ADORABLE jacket for Danny...like a fleece thing. Went to Hot Topic, got some Tee's - went to JCPenney's and got some clothes for the boys & man in my house.

I got home - stone cold broke.

And Saturday - all i wanted to do was sleep and eat. I think I was pre-hybernating.

GOOD MORNING!

 

[Nanu57v]

Aw man! $100 laptops! How'd I miss that? I would've lined up at midnight!

 

[Tinkerbell_Girl]

Aw man! $100 laptops! How'd I miss that? I would've lined up at midnight!

Me too!

On the radio this morning, they talked to a woman who waited in line at Best Buy at 5pm on Thanksgiving!!!!!

 

[dreamergirl78]

Morning everyone!
I called Ryan in from school today. He was miserable tired and I thinkw ould have been very difficult had I made him go. So I let him sleep and he woke up at 11!
So I told him since he is home today he gets to help me clean! Yeah he wasn't thrilled.
Anyway, that's it I guess. Talk to you later!

 

[ANTSS2001]

Hello Peeps! just got back this morning from NC and went straight to work.. a bit busy so cant catch up yet... promise to read through lster when I get home. I missed reading your post this past weekend...

BRB later

 

[Msslaydbug]

How are all my favorite Popers ?

Things have been crazy around this house but what else is new ? My best friend has taken care of her grandmother for 6 years and she dies on Thanksgiving. I went out for a few days to lend moral support and help out. It was so hard. I 've never been close to a person who was in the process of dying. It was emotionally and physically draining. I even started having night mares about Dan (DH) and Austin (DS) dying terrible horribles deaths. Her Gram died peacefully on Thanksgiving about 4:30 in the evening and was surrounded by family (she died at home). It was sad but it was also her time. She had been through enough suffering. Her services are later this week so I am still busy trying to keep the best friend busy and occupied to make sure everything will be done for the services. I am worried about her afterwards. She really doesn't know how to do anything else but take care of Gram. None of her family ever helped her and her DH is in the military so quite often gone.
On top of all that Ella got a chest cold that turned into bronchitis and gave it all to us. Ugh !!
Actual Thanksgiving day was good we spent it with my inlaws and my parents. Half and half.
We were some of the brave sould who braved Black Friday. We were up at 4 am and out the door by 4:30. Standing in line at Target by 4:50am. We were 4th in line. The manager came out and talked to us before opening and said they have 500+ people in line !!! OMG !! We got in a got 2 digital picture frames, 1 video game chair, 1 ipod system, and gloves. I think we were in line checking out before all the people were in the door.
Then I headed to Michaels, Best Buy, Gymboree, Bath and Body Works, Dan had to stop by Gamestop, and the military BX. We were home and like CR stone cold broke !! But got lots of good deals. We got home around 10:30am and took a nap !!
Makes me tired just thinking about it again !!

 

[CathrynRose]

MssLadyBug: I was there when my mom died. My mom's story is a little goofy...she had diabetes, and had gone 'downhill' pretty quick, but she was still -okay-. Legally blind and on dialysis - but -okay-, none the less.

On Tuesday January 24th this year, she was on her dialysis machine, and started to choke on something. No nurses or whatever were around, and other patients had to call for help (and of course, everyone was hooked up, so no one could do anything)

And (trying to make this as short as possible) By the time someone got to her, unhooked her and did whatever is it they do, she was without oxygen for (somewhere in the neighborhood of) 14 - 24 minutes. Nice.

So, her heart stopped - and they restarted it (Im not making this real short, am I???) ICU for 4 days.... on Saturday ...dang it was so weird..... ummm, her heart rate was just slowly going down, down, down.... and at that point I decided no more pounding on her chest (her heart stopped like 2 other times, too) She had a living will asking such AND I remember when Terry Schiavo was going through that mess, she said to me "I swear to God, if I ever end up like that you take me in a field and shoot me" and she was serious.

I realized 24 minutes with no air - if she DID gain conciousness, it probably wouldnt be very good.

Sooooo - I tried to keep this short, I swear, so - Her heart rate was just dropping, dropping, dropping last I looked (something) was at 37, heart or BP, I dont know - and I left the room and I called my Gramma, and My mom's best friend, Barb, since 3rd grade was in there too - she called my Uncle's. Everyone was mad at me for making that decision, except Barb. It was ridiculous.



So, I get back to the room and it's still at 37 - and I tell her she can go. She can go be with her Father and I'd be okay and I'd take care of the boys, and I'd see her later and she can go. And as weird and strange as this sounds it just started going back down - after holding steady - until I told her, "Alright, Adios" and she was gone.

But it was this big weight gone I felt. Like I felt where she was going, but only a pin-prick's worth. But I felt it and it felt so GOOD. I was totally okay with her being gone for that instant cuz it was really, really, really good!!!

So, my whole point of this was, was this. I also have that fear of my kids dying, and me dying and Jimmy dying - now, more than ever. But what I realized, and what I told my kids (and HELL was THAT hard having to tell them - cuz I lived with her up until about 5 years ago!!!)I told my kids, it's not THEM who suffer, it's us. The ones left behind. Theyre fine... and we'll see them again. And if THAT is an eternity, then for THEM theyre just gonna turn around one day and *poof* there we will be. It will feel like barely any time passed, for them.

And - another point of all this: http://www.near-death.com/index.html I came across this website probably around this time, last year. I feel, now, it was preparing me for my mom's death. I was obsessed with reading it. But it was kinda comforting, after the fact.

And yes - still stone cold broke. Waiting until Wednesday i.e. with bated breath!!!

 

[dreamergirl78]

Lori, I am sorry about your friend. It is never easy to go through something like that. I am glad you could be there for her! I am also happy to hear Turkey day was good although you all are now sick. YUCK! I heardon the news that CO is supposed to get DUMPED on with snow. Should be fun!

Cat - You made the right decision. Not an easy one, but the right one for YOUR Mom. I am glad you were able to be brave, which is not always easy to do in those situations.

I printed off pictures today of our WDW trip and I need to put them in the photo album I bought there. I got really sad looking at those pics. I wanna go back! I looked into DL packages and they are insanely expensive. I am hoping int he next few months I can take Ryan for a short weekend visit.

K, I am gonna go now. Talk to you soon. Our thread is getting pretty sad isn't it?

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Hi everyone!! sorry to hear of your friend Lori. Cat, what a tough thing to go through

Turkey day was fab until the day after when we get a call on our cell (YIKES!! forgot to tell everyone that has our number that Sals work took back the cells and swapped them around to others and we have a new number!!) that some kids at Turkey day had PNEUMONIA!?!??!?! soooo now Autumn has been sick for the past 2 days grrr..sooo i'm pretty busy!~

i did want to say hi right quick!

Hugs and Love POPpers!!!

i'm off to go and give ANOTHER bath to my princess!!

 

[scrappinmom]

Hey everyone

Michelle - SORRY! being sick at the holiday time is so poopy! I hope Autumn feels better soon & NO ONE else in the family gets sick!!!

CR - What a tough thing to do. I can totally see how it made you see things differently. When my grandma died 7 1/2 years ago, I was the executor of her living will. I went in to say goodbye, we talked, she told me the baby I was pregnant with would be just fine (my son had died 15 months earlier, & I had no idea I was pregnant)....I thought she was losing her mind. She would fade in and out...she told me my Patrick was fine, and she would take care of him until I got there. She died peacefully 20 minutes later. I found out 2 weeks later that I was pregnant with the infamous Miss Grace - who btw is exactly like my stubborn, orney, grandma!

mslaydbug - glad you were able to be there for your friend

Tia - that's it? Those are ALL the details we get????? No way man we wanna see you through your words



SOOOOOOO whacha got left to do for xmas? I think I'm going to bake a huge bunch of fudge this week

Timmy - Any mail recently?????? I'm getting worried cause you haven't said anything???????

 

[Nanu57v]

Michelle-Yeah, we figured something was up when the voicemail at the end of your phone line was not a man named Sal.

 

[ANTSS2001]

Timmy - Any mail recently?????? I'm getting worried cause you haven't said anything???????

mail ???

Lori I am so sorry about your friend but it is nice that you were there for moral support.

Michelle... hope Autumn is doing better as we speak...

Ok am at work, and today was the 1st time I drove by myself. It was a bit scary... gotta run.. I am catching up with the phase here at work....

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Anyone know the legend of the pickle ornament?? and does anyone do it on their tree??? thanks!!!