*Sept 10th 2011 WB Transatlantic* - From Spain to Space Mountain - Part 6

[birkner]

Noel, you have such patience!!!! Can we provide you with combat pay in the form of a drink????? You deserve more than one!!

Thank you for your kind words!! At this point all I can do is say Que Sera!!

 

[GatorMomInNC]

I'm downstairs in the office, just heard my 4 year old get out of bed and go in the bonus room and ask my husband "Daddy, when are we going on the cruise ship?"

 

[PFlamingo]

ATTENTION

Tasting dates have been announced.

Works perfectly for us!

Thanks for organizing this. Excellent work!

Ok, I am taking deep breaths so I calm down and tell you the latest saga in the lanyard fiasco.

Since the first company totally screwed up the order and is being very unhelpful in locating the shipment, I decided to go to a backup plan and order more lanyards from another recommended company. I told the first company that am contesting my credit card charge and not to expect to be able to keep my money


So, I order the LIME Green two sided lanyards with the badge holders to be shipped to me by today. Sounds good right?

Well, yes they come at 3:45 PM but guess what? They are 1/2 the size I ordered, baby blue, printed on one side only, wrong font and NO BADGE holders!! I feel jinxed!!

Of course today is the day before the start of a 3 day weekend here in America. I get the sales guy on the phone as I am messaging him a picture of the lanyard laid on last years badges which had sent him as a sample before I placed the order!

He says he will try to sorted it out by Tuesday and shipped overnight!! Lesson learned by me is to order badges two months early instead of one month! I should have had the original badges more than 3 weeks ago!

Back to working on the DIS Navigator!!

Oh my goodness, Noel. How frustrating after all your hard work! So much for quality control and customer service. What does the first company think, you're just going to go away and forget about their mistakes and your money?? And the second company - instead of saying they might get it sorted by Tuesday, they should be working through the weekend to fix it to go out first thing Tuesday morning.

Give 'em heck. They don't know who they're dealing with, do they? (From one "don't mess with me" woman to another. )

Thanks for your perseverance in getting the lanyards for us, and for creating the Navigator. You are awesome!!

Oh, and while I think about it, do you need any info about the FE Exchange? Let me know if you do. I can't think of anything that hasn't been covered already, but you never know.

 

[LindaBabe]

who was the person who likes Capt Morgan? My room mate Eilean is concerned she won't have anyone to share Cocktails with, Since her room mates don't, for the most part , indulge.

 

[Namsupak]

Ok, I am taking deep breaths so I calm down and tell you the latest saga in the lanyard fiasco.

Thank you so much for working on this so hard. Sorry to hear that the second company messed it up again.

 

[birkner]

Oh my goodness, Noel. How frustrating after all your hard work! So much for quality control and customer service. What does the first company think, you're just going to go away and forget about their mistakes and your money?? And the second company - instead of saying they might get it sorted by Tuesday, they should be working through the weekend to fix it to go out first thing Tuesday morning.

Give 'em heck. They don't know who they're dealing with, do they? (From one "don't mess with me" woman to another. )

Thanks for your perseverance in getting the lanyards for us, and for creating the Navigator. You are awesome!!

Oh, and while I think about it, do you need any info about the FE Exchange? Let me know if you do. I can't think of anything that hasn't been covered already, but you never know.

Thank you for your kind words! I am afraid that like so many companies everyone is gone for the weekend. What I feel like my small order is peanuts to these companies and they could care less!!

The original company told me as much as they usually do much larger orders. You almost feel they think they are doing them a favor giving them money!!

If it comes together, hooray!! If not, I have learned to allow a much larger lead time if I do this again. My biggest mistake was believing that a month ahead of the cruise was plenty of time to get the lanyards in hand!!

Don't need anything more on the FE as i am putting in the daily part of the Navigator that FE's will go up on embarkation day and the last gifts should be put in FE before noon on the last sea day. Does that work for you?

 

[TxMermaid1]

This is very funny ... I certainly hear some strange comments in relation to childbirth in my job ... including one guy whose partner was in the second stage of labour on a night shift, when he looked at me with a look of total fear on his face and asked me where exactly the baby was going to come out from. it took all of my concentration to keep a straight face on that occasion.

Ok .. This is a true story and my son in law will never live it down.
My daughter was in optometry school when she got married. She would come home and tell her husband about her day at school. How she was doing eye exams, dilating eyes and all.... Anyway in her last year of school she became pregnant. They had a couple of small dogs and 1 of them was also pregnant. When my daughter was about 8 months along the dog went into labor..... after the dog had given birth to a couple puppies her husband got down on the floor and put the dogs face in his hands and was just looking at her eyes.... My daughter said... "Jeff, what are you doing?" Jeff said... " I am checking to see if she is dilated and going to have any more puppies"... My daughter enrolled them in a Lamaze class the next day!

 

[PFlamingo]

If it comes together, hooray!! If not, I have learned to allow a much larger lead time if I do this again. My biggest mistake was believing that a month ahead of the cruise was plenty of time to get the lanyards in hand!!

I would have thought that would be a reasonable amount of lead time, too.

It's unfortunate that they would take that sort of attitude. I think I'd have said something like, "well, since you don't really need my pitiful little order, you won't have a problem with refunding my money" - right after I finished screaming and punching the wall.

Pixie dust to you that both companies make it right, and big fat raspberries to them for their lousy business sense.

Don't need anything more on the FE as i am putting in the daily part of the Navigator that FE's will go up on embarkation day and the last gifts should be put in FE before noon on the last sea day. Does that work for you?

Sounds perfect!

 

[Donaldcp98]

Noel,

So sorry for all of your problems with the lanyards. It seems like all of us need a vacation from all this stress around us. It has been such a stressful week for us and bad timing for some of our friends that are going through some really tough times right now. One has a mother-in-law in the hospital after a bad car accident, another has a father that is not expected to make it through the week and another has a not even week old baby who has had to undergo emergency heart surgery! Not to mention all of the craziness of getting my office prepared for my departure. The blessing and curse of being the only one who does my job. But on the upside, my DH is on the last character to be added to our magnet. Once he finishes we can put the last couple of characters on the background and we can print it and be finished. Now on to packing.

 

[giraffe104]

Here's the bright spot, Noel... We'll be all together on a cruise! If we have lanyards, great! If we don't, great! I'm sure after a few drinks, several of you out there won't be able to read them anyways Oh, burn!!! Just kidding, folks.
So I tried printing on my magnet today... the ink came out spotty and wet. Instead, i printed the roaming magnet on stock paper, taped it to thicker paper, and stapled it to magnet strips... not great BUT IT WORKS!

I also printed my daily "morning reports" for my door ;-) just a few more things to make/print... and I'll be completely done! I wish I was this efficient in college.

 

[middleofamerica]

So happy to see that the pre-cruise weather in Barcelona is looking very nice. Lower 80s (upper 20s C) and sunshine if the current projections hold true.

Most of what we're wanting to see and do in Barcelona is outdoors walking through different neighborhoods, etc. That would be a lot more fun if it's not storming!

Couple that with Castaway Cay being open for business and the two main things I wanted on the cruise are panning out. Now if I can just get started on packing! I usually don't decide to pack more than a day before, but I think I might do some of it this weekend.

 

[3canadianslovedisney]

Ok, I am taking deep breaths so I calm down and tell you the latest saga in the lanyard fiasco.

Since the first company totally screwed up the order and is being very unhelpful in locating the shipment, I decided to go to a backup plan and order more lanyards from another recommended company. I told the first company that am contesting my credit card charge and not to expect to be able to keep my money


So, I order the LIME Green two sided lanyards with the badge holders to be shipped to me by today. Sounds good right?

Well, yes they come at 3:45 PM but guess what? They are 1/2 the size I ordered, baby blue, printed on one side only, wrong font and NO BADGE holders!! I feel jinxed!!

Of course today is the day before the start of a 3 day weekend here in America. I get the sales guy on the phone as I am messaging him a picture of the lanyard laid on last years badges which had sent him as a sample before I placed the order!

He says he will try to sorted it out by Tuesday and shipped overnight!! Lesson learned by me is to order badges two months early instead of one month! I should have had the original badges more than 3 weeks ago!

Back to working on the DIS Navigator!!

Good grief! Sending you TONS of pixie dust!
Hope everything works out and if it doesn't we all understand.

 

[Pinky166]

That sounds like something I would say. Hope you got him under control with minimal damage

Well let's just say he lived to tell the tale but he has a huge To Do list that i'm about to give him for this weekend.

Noel,

So sorry for all of your problems with the lanyards. It seems like all of us need a vacation from all this stress around us. It has been such a stressful week for us and bad timing for some of our friends that are going through some really tough times right now. One has a mother-in-law in the hospital after a bad car accident, another has a father that is not expected to make it through the week and another has a not even week old baby who has had to undergo emergency heart surgery! Not to mention all of the craziness of getting my office prepared for my departure. The blessing and curse of being the only one who does my job. But on the upside, my DH is on the last character to be added to our magnet. Once he finishes we can put the last couple of characters on the background and we can print it and be finished. Now on to packing.

to you, you must be worrying about leaving your friends when they are going through so much. I hope everything goes ok for them all.




Noel - Huge hugs, you have much more patience than me....I would have told them where to stick the lanyards by now!

If you don't get them in time then I am sure we will all be able to recognise each other with the inserts you've made, we can still use those in our DCL lanyards. Please don't stress over it.

 

[Pinky166]

Ok folks, this is the list of all those coming to the DIS Farewell lunch, please check you are on the list, if you want to come & are missing please let me know asap.


Thursday 22nd Sept at 12.15pm at Lumiere's.



Claire & Lee (pinky166)
Susie & John (Susie2)
Michelle & Neil (Squitty)
Noel & John (Birkner)
Liesbeth (Liesbeth) & possibly Son?
Pat & Dennis (PFlamingo)
Sarah & Tony (TotallyAngellic)
Karen & Gary (Karentan)
Lorraine & Paul (Chirpee)
Lauren, James & Lorelei (Namsupak)
Jill + 1 (TxMermaid1)
Dan & Bruce (Cliffy97)
Warren & Abby (Steamboat Will)
Chris & Jeremy (Chris&Jeremy)
Crystal & Trent (Disneyfan_SD)
Pat, Larry, Jess, Grandma Pat & Anna (Jessicasmom)
Mandy, Curt & 2 DD's (Mandygirl)
Sue, Paul & Vickie (sue l)
Paul, Helen & Grace (Tubbsteruk)
Mary (m_kasch)
Debra & Rick (Dgentrysim)
Norman & Margaret (Grumpy1234)
Karen & Ed (poohluv2u)
Brenda, Paul, DD Georgia (diszneycrazee)
Sarah, Brian, DD Beth, DD Ellie (Binkytell)
Sandy & Tony (Goofprincess)
Lynne (Auntlynne)
Karen & Stan (Rubyblue)
Leanne, Ken DH, Morgan DD, Dorothy DM, Ted DF (3canadianslovedisney)
Amanda & Jared (Fontabel)
Julie (Julie2009)
Damian & MIL Jimmie (ThePicketts)
Evelyn (fly4free2)
Carole, Mike and Jenny (CaroleRWO)
Hazel & AnneMarie (HazelandAnnie)
Mary & Stevie (Todd&Copper)
Krisann, Ashley, DD & DS (KrisannB)
Matthew, Hanneke & Arwen (KiwiMatt)
Dawn & Steve (Seraphine)
Kim & Royce (Berries97)
Danae, Phyllis, Jonas & Carter (GatorMomInNC)
Josh (Giraffe104)
Sandy (Yogitxtx)
Caroline (Lovingthemouse)
Linda (LindaBabe)
Eilean (MomE)
Mic & Sarah (Seamour)
Chris & Chuck (christannj)
Taina (Sinnika)
Kris & Larry (*flower*)
Lisa & JoAnna (stlucielady)
Liz (Beauty & the Best)
Charlie & Jean (Iansgran)
Filippa & Jenny (CruisingSwedes)
Richard & Sue (Babydiver)
Heather & Erik (HeatherLOVESMickey)
Mel, Paris, Chanelle & Ethan (Melonz)
Nancy (Lionessa)
Sue & Richard (Babydiver)
Paul, Michelle, Finn, Martin & Hayley (Ziggybaby)
KJ & Alfie (disneymamakj)
Karen & Jeff (KJ_Connections)
Keri & Andrew (Pixie Dust For Me!)
Graeme & Margaret (Cartmeller)
Sonja, DS & DD (sonjaleigh)

(147 so far!)

 

[Pinky166]

This is the FINAL list for the Champagne Girls, looking forward to seeing you all in your PINK Boas & Tiaras!



CONFIRMED!!!


Claire - Pinky166
Mary - Tod&Copper
Krystyne - KrystyneB
Angeline (No DIS id)
Jenny - CruisingSwedes
Margaret - Magic123
Carole - CaroleRWO
Hazel - HazelandAnnie
AnneMarie - HazelandAnnie
Michelle - Squitty
Taina - Sinnika
Sue - Susie2
Brenda - Dizneycrazee
Kris - *Flower*
Debra - Dgentrysim
Dawn - Seraphine
Sarah - Binkytell
Sarah - TotallyAngelic
Pat - PFlamingo
Jill - TXMermaid1
Jana - TXMermaid's Cousin
Evelyn - Fly4free2
Melanie - Melonz
Jean - IansGran
Peggy - Ga-yaya
Sue - Sue L
Vickie - Sue L's Daughter
Kim - Berries97
Noel - Birkner
Michelle - (No DIS id)
Hayley - (No DIS id)
Elisabeth - Liesbeth1012
Judy - MissJudit
Lynne - AuntLynne
Cindy - Disneynut64
Pam (No DIS id)
Julie - Julie2009
Bev - Dylan'smom
Mary - m_kasch
Tito - Witchety slammer
Monica - WilliamK99's Wife
Lisa - STLUCIELADY
JoAnna - (No DIS id)
Abby - (No DIS id)
Katie Jane - disneymamakj
Natasha - Sorcerer-Mickey

Total = 46

 

[squitty]

Thank you - I have noted the times, etc. The only thing that concerns me is that it may conflict if my kids get invited to a "Tea Party" but I will just have to cross that bridge when I come to it. If that happens and I can't make it for some reason I understand I am out the $20.

Thanks again for persevering and getting this done for us.

Danae

That's great Danae

These work for us. Two questions, though -

Will this be in the DIS navigator, Noel? I don't know how I am going to keep track of all of this. Maybe I need to bring my planner?

Jeremy is not signed up for mojitos, just me. if he decided to come would they be able to accommodate or no? he doesn't like mojitos normally but I could see him changing his mind!

I have emailed Noel to add the dates to the Navigator, so hopefully they will be added soon.
I don't know the answer the last one, I'm assuming no. Do you want me to add his name to the Mojito one? You have till Monday

This is great...thanks for making the arrangements .

Thanks Pat

Ok, I am taking deep breaths so I calm down and tell you the latest saga in the lanyard fiasco.

Since the first company totally screwed up the order and is being very unhelpful in locating the shipment, I decided to go to a backup plan and order more lanyards from another recommended company. I told the first company that am contesting my credit card charge and not to expect to be able to keep my money


So, I order the LIME Green two sided lanyards with the badge holders to be shipped to me by today. Sounds good right?

Well, yes they come at 3:45 PM but guess what? They are 1/2 the size I ordered, baby blue, printed on one side only, wrong font and NO BADGE holders!! I feel jinxed!!

Of course today is the day before the start of a 3 day weekend here in America. I get the sales guy on the phone as I am messaging him a picture of the lanyard laid on last years badges which had sent him as a sample before I placed the order!

He says he will try to sorted it out by Tuesday and shipped overnight!! Lesson learned by me is to order badges two months early instead of one month! I should have had the original badges more than 3 weeks ago!

Back to working on the DIS Navigator!!

Oh no Noel

Works perfectly for us!

Thanks for organizing this. Excellent work!

Thanks Pat

 

[Pinky166]

Cove Cafe Scrapbook coffee & chat:

Hey ladies, now that we have the dates for all the DIS organised events, I propose we meet on the 19th at 10am for our scrapbook chat.

I am sure that this time won't suit everyone but I am hoping it will suit the majority. Please let me know if you are still able to attend, anyone else want to join us for an hour or so?


Attending so far:

Claire (Pinky166)
Mary (Tod&copper)
Pat (Pflamingo)
Lauren (Namsupak)
Linda, Caroline & Eilean (Lindababe)
Tabitha (Donaldcp98)
Hazel (Hazelandannie)
Karen (Poohluv2u)
Deb (Dgentrysim)
Sarah (TotallyAngelic)
Heather (HeatherLOVESMickey)
Noel (Birkner)

 

[granmaz]

Noel, sorry about the lanyard mess.

Ok .. This is a true story and my son in law will never live it down.
My daughter was in optometry school when she got married. She would come home and tell her husband about her day at school. How she was doing eye exams, dilating eyes and all.... Anyway in her last year of school she became pregnant. They had a couple of small dogs and 1 of them was also pregnant. When my daughter was about 8 months along the dog went into labor..... after the dog had given birth to a couple puppies her husband got down on the floor and put the dogs face in his hands and was just looking at her eyes.... My daughter said... "Jeff, what are you doing?" Jeff said... " I am checking to see if she is dilated and going to have any more puppies"... My daughter enrolled them in a Lamaze class the next day!

OK folk. 1 week, that is 7 days.

 

[TotallyAngelic]

Lol no he doesn't but he is about to discover a tropical storm called Claire in a minute....i am getting annoyed with him as he is still working upstairs in our office at 11.15pm on a Friday night. i may just have to go and pull the fuse out.

Hope you sorted him out Claire ... I had similar words with DH yesterday as he sat there on some XBox game while yours truly is stressing about preparing for the cruise, sorting out all the paperwork, packing, making FE gifts, sorting out banking, last minute shopping etc etc etc etc

Ok, I am taking deep breaths so I calm down and tell you the latest saga in the lanyard fiasco.

Since the first company totally screwed up the order and is being very unhelpful in locating the shipment, I decided to go to a backup plan and order more lanyards from another recommended company. I told the first company that am contesting my credit card charge and not to expect to be able to keep my money


So, I order the LIME Green two sided lanyards with the badge holders to be shipped to me by today. Sounds good right?

Well, yes they come at 3:45 PM but guess what? They are 1/2 the size I ordered, baby blue, printed on one side only, wrong font and NO BADGE holders!! I feel jinxed!!

Of course today is the day before the start of a 3 day weekend here in America. I get the sales guy on the phone as I am messaging him a picture of the lanyard laid on last years badges which had sent him as a sample before I placed the order!

He says he will try to sorted it out by Tuesday and shipped overnight!! Lesson learned by me is to order badges two months early instead of one month! I should have had the original badges more than 3 weeks ago!

Back to working on the DIS Navigator!!

Oh Noel how damn frustrating and beyond annoying this is for you. Please don't stress too much over it. If it get sorted all well and good, but if not don't worry .. worse things happen at sea. We will have lanyards from DCL and will just have to use them. If they don't come through I will bring 2 spare CC lanyards for first timers. Sending you and lots of

Ok .. This is a true story and my son in law will never live it down.
My daughter was in optometry school when she got married. She would come home and tell her husband about her day at school. How she was doing eye exams, dilating eyes and all.... Anyway in her last year of school she became pregnant. They had a couple of small dogs and 1 of them was also pregnant. When my daughter was about 8 months along the dog went into labor..... after the dog had given birth to a couple puppies her husband got down on the floor and put the dogs face in his hands and was just looking at her eyes.... My daughter said... "Jeff, what are you doing?" Jeff said... " I am checking to see if she is dilated and going to have any more puppies"... My daughter enrolled them in a Lamaze class the next day!

Noel,

So sorry for all of your problems with the lanyards. It seems like all of us need a vacation from all this stress around us. It has been such a stressful week for us and bad timing for some of our friends that are going through some really tough times right now. One has a mother-in-law in the hospital after a bad car accident, another has a father that is not expected to make it through the week and another has a not even week old baby who has had to undergo emergency heart surgery! Not to mention all of the craziness of getting my office prepared for my departure. The blessing and curse of being the only one who does my job. But on the upside, my DH is on the last character to be added to our magnet. Once he finishes we can put the last couple of characters on the background and we can print it and be finished. Now on to packing.

This must be a difficult time for you and your poor friends. I hope things start to improve and the baby recovers from surgery

Noel - Huge hugs, you have much more patience than me....I would have told them where to stick the lanyards by now!

DITTO !! I would also have had to obtain a prescription for valium by now

Cove Cafe Scrapbook coffee & chat:

Hey ladies, now that we have the dates for all the DIS organised events, I propose we meet on the 19th at 10am for our scrapbook chat.

I am sure that this time won't suit everyone but I am hoping it will suit the majority. Please let me know if you are still able to attend, anyone else want to join us for an hour or so?


Attending so far:

Claire (Pinky166)
Mary (Tod&copper)
Pat (Pflamingo)
Lauren (Namsupak)
Linda, Caroline & Eilean (Lindababe)
Tabitha (Donaldcp98)
Hazel (Hazelandannie)
Karen (Poohluv2u)
Deb (Dgentrysim)
Sarah (TotallyAngelic)
Heather (HeatherLOVESMickey)
Noel (Birkner)

Sounds great. Look forward to it.

 

[auntlynne]

While at Tesco yesterday, I saw tea for hard water and remembered somebody wanted some so I bought a box.

Just checked the boards and saw that Claire was going to pick up some for Mary.

If anybody wants some tea bags, just let me know.