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

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What are the charms you are selling ? I want to see them !!!
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they are cell charms :) just click on my blog link in my siggie and somewhere on my blog you will see a link to check out my site. All the way at the bottom of the page it says something like SITE just click on it!
 
Hi all,
Mrfdny is checking in,i'm still here!!!.I just broke a record!!!! I have been awake for over 30 hours straight!!!! I'm about to fall on my face,but awake i shall fall!!! Actually I just got in from work, i did a special 2 day training thing at the FDNY academy which was yesterday and today(tuesday and wednesday)from 7am to 3pm,then i went in to the fire house for a little overtime.I just got home and boy i am beat!!!!!!So how is everyone doing,i did some really cool things at the fire academy today.I got to repel off a 14 story building,then They take you and put you in a dark house,its basicly a real house in the pitch black dark,you can't see a single thing,not even the hand in front of your face.As you enter room to room you have to use your sense of feeling to figure out what room your in and try to get into the next room and out of the house(bedroom,batroom,closet,etc) remember in a fire or black out there might be no light and you would have to use this for real,maybe your flashlight might not work or die,I could figure out every room but one.I spent a long time in thier,but gave up.Everything i felt i had no idea what it was,It turned ouit that this room was being used in this simulation house as a meth lab.

Then while in the house,remember this is with all your gear on,including you scuba gear/mask,fresh pure air,they light the room on fire and clog it with thick black smoke.The fire is literaly only 6 to 12 inches above your head and you do this on your hands and knees.Next the smoke will turn different cloros,certain colored smoke,means that certain materials are burning,you have to tell them what you think is on fire from the color of the smoke.There were a lot more,but one thing that amazed me is the fact that i was trained like macgyver would do.Then put me on a real nyc mta subway car in a tunnel and cut the power off of the subway car,you can't change cars and are told you have to get out using the subway car doors with out breaking thru them or causing any damage to the door.Well i learned how to esacaped a subway car,many different ways.One way was to open the subway door control box,locatied in every subway car and use my portable radio's battery and hot wire it to the subways car door controls and use the power from it to open the door as if the subway car had power.We did this on real nyc trains and it really does work!I can even tell you where every train car's emergency door release is in any model of train in nyc.Anyway thats all and i'm gonna call it a night and go pass out have a great day all!!
 
:faint: :faint: :faint: OMG! congrats on getting through all that! now get to bed! :hug: we feel so loved that you checked into the DIS before falling flat on your face :)
 
:badpc: :badpc: OMG my dsl line went POOF yesterday morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow what a day! I had soooooooo many things I needed the computer for!

yikes!!!

I'm back now!

off to catch up on you guys
 

MrFDNY - holy cow...I have to say you're the only person I know who would call repeling off a 14 story building "really cool":goodvibes

Hope you got lots of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's
 
Creative juices flowing NOW please!

Okay i have the favors for my fathers 50th party..BUT i need some help with a witty saying! the favors are fishing related (his fave thing to do along with all his friendS!!)

SO i need something witty and creative!

Like Dave hooked us from the start
or
Dave is a real catch

get it?? now HELP PLEASE :)

Here's to a REELY great guy! (Get it, fishing reel??)

something with "hook, line and sinker"

I really prefer the "real catch" on you have though
 
I am so not happy right now. I went to view our professional pics. :


How frustrating! but I agree, sometimes people can get carried away with their "art" and I look at it and say yuck! Although I willbe the first to admit I am probably the least left brainish person I know!

good luck on the retakes!
 
Hi DMM, Chris, Cat, Nanu, Antss, Patsfan, MRFDNY, is that all????

I am subbing for first grade today. Please let this go okay...
 
Can you explain the whole silent auction thing to me? I hate the cookie/wrapping paper/junk in pamphlet sales, so it seems like something with quality would work.

It's a whole lot of work....but last time we make $26,000 (which was double our usual wrapping paper thing)

Basically the dinner part is you find somewhere to give you a deal on a dinner/hall (kind of like booking a wedding!)

The silent/live auction - I sent out letters to all out 400 parents, asking them for donations of prizes...either from their own business or their employer. Then I formed a committee of about 25-30 people, went thru our local phone book and gave each person 10-15 business's to call on. They went to those business's (resteraunts, stores, etc) with a letter explaining who we were, what the money was to be used for, and a tax status letter proving our non-profit status. I also included places like the fire department, police department, where they agreed to give a "tour" to a group of kids and at the FD it's "tour and pizza" with the guys/gals on duty. Then I took the corporate challenge and sent/wrote 300 letters to corporations all over the country (WDW being just one). Then I went to a staff meeting at school and asked our teachers - they are donating things like artwork, dinner/movie, story time w/ hot cocoa, principal for the day etc..things that kids LOVE. Our principal also let me auction off front row seats at each of the grade level/plays concerts for the year. THEN the art teacher is working with each grade to create a one of a kind piece of artwork.

There's a lot more administrative stuff - ordering bid sheets, writing thank yous, etc...

We have a whole auction committee...If you're really considering it I'd be glad to email you more particulars.
 
I just know January will last forever. It looks so long on the calendar. I wish we could have some sort of swap for Valentine's Day. But that makes no sense. Plus, there are like 3 of us now. :sad1:

oh I know Janurary seems like it lasts FOREVER! It always has for me...my bday is the 26th...and I remember thinking as a kid that it was sooooooolong between Christmas and my birthday! Last year I spent by bday weekend in Vegas with 4 friends celebrating my big 4-0 .....this year I think I may just stay in bed:lmao:
 
MrFDNY - Congrats on the class that is great news.

Julsmom - I don't venture onto the community board too often. It moves so fast and some of the people get a little intimidating - LOL I hate just jumping into a thread !!

I go on the Community Board quite often. There's just a lot of negative people on here... and loads of bullies, too. :confused3

A lot of people have some serious do-dads when theyre behind a monitor. :laughing:
 
I go on the Community Board quite often. There's just a lot of negative people on here... and loads of bullies, too. :confused3

A lot of people have some serious do-dads when theyre behind a monitor. :laughing:

Yeah - no kidding...I don't venture in that board a whole lot & when I do it's usually to lurk...it seems every time I've said anything...i've been whipped like a wet noodle!!! :rotfl:
 
Did you guys see these???? I was looking to laughing place.com to see what was new...

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Are those sold at the park? :scratchin


THREE FREAKING WEEKS! :banana:
 
I'm here!!!

Scrappinmom--that does sound cool, how does the actual "auction" thing happen? How do people bid on them?

MRFDNY--Wow, sounds like fun/scary! I repelled when I was in the army, and it was fun, except when I looked down from the top of the wavery in the wind tower. I'm pretty sure it was only 6 or 8 stories high. I can't imagine 14!
 
Here's to a REELY great guy! (Get it, fishing reel??)

something with "hook, line and sinker"

I really prefer the "real catch" on you have though


Thanks! how did i know that it would be the Scrappin Queen that would answer first!! :hug:
 
Hi DMM, Chris, Cat, Nanu, Antss, Patsfan, MRFDNY, is that all????

I am subbing for first grade today. Please let this go okay...
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GOOD LUCK!!!!!!! :hug: let us know how it goes!!!
 
Scrappinmom--that does sound cool, how does the actual "auction" thing happen? How do people bid on them?

i meant to take a stab at the question yesterday..not sure if this is how it truly goes though, but at the Ronal McDonalds Childrens Charities Dinner and on the DCL, this is what i did! haha!

There are items lined up on tables or easels or whatever and in front of each item is a sheet of paper. The paper has a bunch of line on it and at the top a description of the item, who donated it and a starting bid...

Then as people walk past they put their name down and a bid if they are interested in an item..

at the things i have done, if you reallllly wanted it, you had to keep checking every few minutes as people would bid under you! it's addicting, but i did eventually get that autographed Justin Timberlake Mcdonalds CD! :laughing: i was a huuuge NSync fan!! actually i still am! :blush:

sooo Chris am i close??
 
oh I know Janurary seems like it lasts FOREVER! It always has for me...my bday is the 26th...and I remember thinking as a kid that it was sooooooolong between Christmas and my birthday! Last year I spent by bday weekend in Vegas with 4 friends celebrating my big 4-0 .....this year I think I may just stay in bed


WOWIE! you don't look any where near 40! you were so cute and perky when i met you in WDW! HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!
 
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