Reality has absolutely no place in our world...a colorful TR update 2/27/07

[blue_river]

Poppinspal!

I'm glad you're feeling better girl

 

[poppinspal]

Poppinspal!

I'm glad you're feeling better girl

Thank you and thank you for your PM. It definitely cheered me up some to hear from you!

 

[momoftriplets]

Hey, Sweetie! We miss you. Hope everything is OK. Hurry Back!

 

[blue_river]

You've been awfully quiet. I hope we here from you this week!

Missing your installments

 

[A&A'sGrammy]

Poppinspal,

We really miss you.

Is every thing OK? I'm starting to worry.

Hope you come back soon as I really love your TR.

 

[blue_river]

Poppinspal,

We really miss you.

Is every thing OK? I'm starting to worry.

Hope you come back soon as I really love your TR.

I'm with you A&A'sGrammy. She's just disappeared. I hope everything is okay in her world.

 

[A&A'sGrammy]

I don't want to be a pest but HELLO..... Are you there. Do you know how long it's been? Now you really have me concerned. Do you think you could just post to let us know what's going on?

 

[svalencia1]

I agree with the others. Although I am really missing your TR I am more worried about you. Just want to make sure everything is okay with you. It's been about a month since we last heard from you.

 

[daisy_77]

Hi, poppinspal!

Just wanted to pop in to see if there were any updates! I hope that you are doing well! We miss ya! Please post soon!

 

[poppinspal]

Can I say I'm touched that you were all worried about me. First I'm going to have a update up soon, I think today or tomorrow depending on work stuff. But I do owe you all a little explination as to where I've been. My mom and I have always been close(I'm close with my whole family really). But we've had some problems recently and I won't lie, I didn't handle it well. Then I had my share of work stuff crop up as well. (I am stuck in a job where I have no room to grow and I've been here for four years. It's a hard situation for me to be in because I want a change but I'm not gaining skills to make any great changes.) I also haven't been doing well health wise. Nothing serious but just an on going with problem with my stomach that has had me annoyed. So I was not in the mood to really write and I kind of hid away from the world for awhile. Add to that my birthday, my boyfriends birthday and then the Thanksgiving holiday and I've been crazy.

BUT!!!! last night I sat in my room and was looking at my Disney pins hanging up and thinking of how great my trip was in October. I felt horrible for neglecting my trip report because I knew people were reading and I hate when writers don't finish. Plus I enjoy writing about my trip and reliving one of the most amazing weeks. I also want to get to the end so I can share more happy things that have been discussed between my boyfriend and I lately. (Ha I'm adding suspense even when I'm not writing about the actual trip.) So for those of you still leaving messages here watch for another update soon.

So how are you all doing?

 

[blue_river]

I hope you were able to patch things up with your mother. Family is very important *hugs*

Sorry to hear about your tummy troubles and health issues. Take care of yourself girl!

Have you thought about going back to school?? It might be the change you've been looking for.

Very glad to see you are okay and that you're back. We missed ya.

 

[poppinspal]

Things are still a little tender but there's been a big improvement lately. For so many years my life was focused on my family and it was a hard transition when I finally found a guy who I'm settling down with.

The tummy issues are horrible but I'm being extra aware of what I eat and what things are affecting me. Hopefully it's under control.

Right now I'm going to school at night but I think it might be time to consider full time with a part time job.

I missed you all too believe it or not. I kept saying I needed to get back on here.

 

[daisy_77]

Yay! You are back!

I am sorry to hear about your tummy problems...I hope that things get better for you.

I think a lot of us women have had transition issues with our mothers/families when we become adults and more independent. I did with my mother. I am now 29 and we are closer than ever. Things will work out.

 

[momoftriplets]

YOU'RE BACK!!!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!! WE WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU!!!!! I don't mean to yell, but we were getting concerned. Hope things get better for you soon.
Barb

 

[svalencia1]

Glad to hear from you again and to know that you are okay. Please just don't disappear on us again! Hope everything gets better for you. i finally decided this last semester to focus on my family and going back to school full time. I too was going very part time to school and feeling very frusterated. I am glad that i have a great boyfriend who allowed me the privledge to quit work and finish up school. I am getting my AA this summer and am very happy. It is a big step to consider scaling back work for school, but it's one that I think is worth it.

 

[A&A'sGrammy]

Hi Poppinspal,

I'm just checking in after a few days off myself and I'm so relieved to see your back!!!!!

When people know they are going no where at work, usually that's what pushes them to make changes. Your are half way there.

Hope the belly thing gets better.

Sometimes Mom issues never completly go away. Mine were tough early years but as I got older I decided to forgive and try to forget. I also decided to be a very different mother. That has helped me, knowing how close my daughter and I are. Hope you find ways to be happy!!!!

I also think your little hint about your boyfriend sounds like a move in the right direction!!!!

 

[disgram]

Great report, Poppinspal! I can sympathize about the fish fear. My DGD is terrified of the Living Seas. She was so scared that when we got her outside, she was just shaking!! It is a terrible thing to have such a fear. I am hoping that when we go again, next year, that we will be able to get her in there so that she can see Crush and maybe the new ride there. Of course, the "clam shells" travel close to the fish so that might not happen!! She also cannot get near fish tanks. I had to get rid of mine for her.

Am waiting to read the rest of your report..it is great!!!!

 

[OhMari]

So, can we find out your surprise with your bf.

 

[poppinspal]

I hope you'll forgive me for the third time for just up and leaving you wonderful people. The holidays were not a great time for me but I've come out relatively okay. I'm still trying to tiddy up a few major headaches that sprung up but the good news is I haven't cried in three days! (Laugh people I know I am.) He will never read this but major credit goes to my boyfriend who was my rock the past few weeks. So without further ado... an actual update to my trip report. (Oh but without pictures and limited details till I can get my pictures reloaded on here because my computer crashed!!!)

Now when last I left you I had delt(barely) with my fear of fish and we were headed towards the World Showcase. When I started planning this trip I had lots of reading to do because my family had never done the Food and Wine Festival. This was a whole new part of WDW for me to explore. So I tried to read up on using snack credits for snacks there and what types of food were sold there. We had decided not to do any of the extra things they offer because there was so much to do on our first trip together that we wanted to stick with the basics. So we head over to the WS(I am browsing my handy little book they give you at the gate. Who knew Disney had so much to say about food?) First up on the map is Canada, I don't know why but this has never been a huge favorite of mine. I couldn't tell you what it is but it just doesn't do it for me. So we poke around and when we get to the display of Roots stuff I tell Brandon about how I've taken a few trips to Canada and I buy every person in my family at least one thing from the Roots store. I don't know why I do it but it's funny. Brandon shakes his head at me, see even now we're still in that stage where you're learning about the other person's life before you were in it. I like knowing we'll always have this stories to share. Then we head into the United Kingdom(or really England as I call it) and do more poking around. We ooooh and ahhhh over the soccer(football) stuff, I stare longingly at all the cool Beatles things and think for the thousandith time that a trip to Disney is not the time to get Beatles things and Brandon checks out the area where they tell you the history of your last name. We head over to the toy area and make our way to where you can often find Winnie the Pooh or one of those characters. I tell Brandon about how last year this is where my sister and I found Tigger and Eeyore. This get's him excited because those are his guys, his main men. But I know he secretly hopes that Pooh will be the one we catch. Pooh is his favorite and it's his goal to meet him on this trip. But sadly this was not the time and the room stood empty no characters in sight. So out we go back into the Florida sunshine.

I will stop here and take you back to my trip that happened right around this time a year ago. I am by nature an out going person and I am also a person who loves to laugh. I also don't suffer from stage fright. I hate giving presentations for class but loved preforming for Shakespeare day in high school, go figure. So on this trip with my family(mom, dad, bro and sis) last Christmas season I begged my family to stop to watch the show that the World Showcase players were doing, it was three English guys preforming their version of A Christmas Carol. For those of you who have never seen them or this show exactly you have to think Monty Python type take on Christmas Carol but done with very few props as they do this right out in the street. (Street used loosely here as we know that no cars drive around this world.) Oh and they also pull members out of the auidence to help so it adds an element of surprise for the actors and they do some on the spot stuff. So this show is making me crack up because I happen to find this type of humor absolutely wonderful, British humor especially Python type stuff is my weakness. So I'm definitely liking one of the actors better then the others because his jokes are just that much sharper then the others. Maybe it was also the way he was delivering his lines as well. So then he's playing Tiny Tim and it's time for him to say God Bless us everyone for the first of many times and what does he say instead.... "Fruit cake is people" I literally cracked up laughing and got so embarassed cause so many people looked at me. But how often do you hear a Soylent Green refrence in life and how many people would know that movie? I mean that was just so great. (I will admit I'm not nearly old enough to have seen Soylent Green when it came out but I'm a movie person so I know these horrible movies. I was born about 8 years after this was made.) For those who have also never seen this movie here's the quick plot from IMDB:In the year 2022, earth's face has completely changed. New York's population, for example, has grown to 40 million mouths to feed. The greenhouse effect has risen the temperature into nearly unbearable regions, and the people are kept in the cities by law. The rich live in separated luxury apartments (with women as part of the rented furniture) but also experience the lack of natural food. Strawberries are at $150 for a glass of them. Police Detective Thorn investigates a strange murdering case of an official from the Soylent corporation, which feeds the masses with a palette of their creations: Soylent red, yellow, or, even more nutritious, green. (My little note so you get the joke... Soylent Green ends up being made from people.)

So then the whole show goes on and it really was funny. I was laughing almost the entire time. Then when the show was over the three guys where packing up their props when the Soylent Green refrencing guy comes up to me. Now really you could have knocked me over with a pin I was so shocked. He said he wanted to thank me for how much I enjoyed the show. He said my reaction was the best one they'd ever had and it was the best response he's gotten to that line. I told him how embarassed I was about how much I laughed and how I thought I was one of the few people to understand the humor in that line. He said he only used that one because "You damned dirty ape" really wouldn't work in a family type enviornment. (Planet of the Apes refrence there and that also made me laugh a lot.)I said that I thought his Soylent Green line worked just as well and that it gave me a good laugh. Then some young girls came up asking to take a picture with him. I told him I had to be going because my group was leaving. He hollered "Cheers love" as I walked away and I swear I was smiling for hours. His accent, the whole conversation.... I swear I was ready to marry him right there and then. I swear I will remember this story for the rest of my life. It's one time when my cheerful nature and my movie obsession worked in my favor.

Now what was the point of me sharing this with all of you? Well two reasons, one I love this story and will always love it. I came home and told every single person this story when they asked about my trip. Another reason is that when I walked in the area of the UK pavilion that this happened at I smiled for no other reason then I was brought back to that time and how happy I'd felt. Stories like this are what makes WDW what it is. I had told Brandon this story prior to going so I felt no need to share again, over kill isn't a good thing. We headed past the International Gateway and I explained to Brandon where it went. I told him all about my family's past stays at the Beach Club. I know it wasn't his type of place he'd want to stay so there was no way I could get him to poke down to see it. So we continued on and made our way over to France.

Sadly this story took me much longer then I thought it would and it's time for me to head out of work. Tonight I will try to get some pictures in my computer and pull out my reciepts so I tell things the way they happened. But for now this is my come back. I'll fix my typos and respond to you all either late tonight or tomorrow morning.

Coming up next: Part 15 in which we really find out whats extra extra large and we finally get to the loop.

 

[daisy_77]

Hey, poppinspal! I am glad to see you are back! Thank you so much for the update!