Something About Nothing ... #12

[BagOLaughs]

bago - how did i miss you will soon be a blushing bride! when is the big day? what style dress do are you leaning towards? since you're in the chocolate biz, have you ever been to Epcot during F&W, the Ghiradelli chocolate sculputures are amazing...as is the candy. Always have an emergency bag of it on hand lol.

I saw those chocolate sculptures for the 1st time last year, they were inspiring!!! I especially loved the Star Wars one. wow Also their chocolate is really yummy, so good! We purchased one of the selection boxes/tub thingys with the small squares in as a gift.

Yes I know marriage haha. My partner and I have been together for 7 years so it was about time I guess. I'm getting married 8th October this year. I really love the princess style dresses because when in your life are you acceptably allowed to wear a poofy dress? But we'll see which ones look good as I'm not too set on a particular style.

And, since it's still cold here:

forgot to say, blooming love this! I may have laughed audibly in my office when eating my lunch!

Shumi, happy birthday to your lad! I forgot to say. Another year older and, no doubt due to the university, another year wiser.

 

[keishashadow]

BagO- used to be u could dress full blown princess @ MK during MNSSHP and not a soul would bat an eye. too bad that ship has sailed. Am I smelling a Disney wedding?

#3 today, celine dion's DH passed too

 

[schumigirl]

Thanks for my boys birthday wishes.......he did well! Rachel......strangely he's always been wise beyond his years.......too sensible for his own good at times......but he's a good un.........

Janet.....I loved certain soups on a winters day......but now because I can't have onions, garlic or leeks.....I tend not to bother....I tried butternut squash soup without them.......no. Didn't work very well........had to add a whole load of salt and double cream to make it taste.....not plain....but, didn't think that was a great idea........lol......


Our internet has been dodgy all night......so annoying.......ended up not going out the door today.......rain, then snow, then heavier snow......was glad when everyone came in tonight. My friend dropped in to give Kyle his card around 7 tonight, and her car was covered in snow......its off here now though......but forecast through next few days........

I hate the cold.

 

[schumigirl]

Celine Dion's husband died today?? Wow. They do come in 3's.

 

[BagOLaughs]

Awww, so sad. I think it's the time of year isn't it. People hold on until Christmas and then let themselves go.

keisha, yes I've seen they've changed the rules on that. Quite a bummer, maybe the rules will relax by September. Our wedding is definitely going to have some Disney/pop culture references for fun!

More snow today but just a small sprinkling. Already had a phone call this morning saying they can't get in... their TT can't get up the hill where they live

 

[schumigirl]

Sad to also see the wonderful actor David Margulies died this week too........well known for playing the Mayor in the fantastic Ghostbusters movies. Many other roles of course, but I do think of him in these movies above all others.


Just bloomin freezing here today......bitter wind straight from Siberia aiming straight for me.......or maybe I'm imagining that....... But sun is shining........sky is blue.........but roads are full of black ice.....horrible driving conditions. Heating is turned up high......so, nice and warm in here.......

Not doing much today........grocery shopping later....always a joy........need to make some plans for the weekend...or maybe just have a quiet one I think.

Have a good Friday.......

 

[Robo56]

Good morning all having my cup of coffee checking out the dis .

Lynne and Keisha feeling better thank you for thinking of me. It's nice to be back home in Florida. It's supposed to be in 70's today, but it's raining pretty hard . This is supposed to be our dry season, but El Niño is playing havoc with the weather they say.

BagOLaughs have fun on the wedding dress shopping.

Schumi that is a old saying they go in threes. Seems true this week. I know your son had a great birthday yesterday. He has a loving, nice mom who I bet had lots of nice surprises for his birthday.

Mac hope your unpacking and delivery's are getting done. Fire ants are no fun. There is a reason they call them fire ants. When they bite that's what it feels like. Have been the recipient of a few bites. Won't forget it soon.
When the ant hills are disturbed they will swarm out and attack. Then go build the hill somewhere else. They can latch on and bite multiple times. That was not very nice of the previous home owners not to have taken care of the fire ants in the yard before the closing.

Moving south has its definite advantages, but along with that comes the little beasties. Fire ants, coral snakes, eastern diamond back rattle snakes, bobcats, wild pigs, alligators and buzzards. Have seen the wild pigs, buzzards, gators and had personal welcoming by the ants, but no snakes and bobcats or gators up close yet thank the Lord.


Have a great Friday all.

 

[keishashadow]

Robo - that's quite the list of pests, don't forget to add clueless tourists to it

carole - is garlic still on the menu? perhaps subbing the powdered form in might help.

Today i need to accomlish all the errands i've been putting off for a week, wheee.

Good weekend to all. Not doing much but watching football. Finding out that Antonio Brown is still concussed and no confirmation on our quarterback Big Ben playing, has most of in Pittsburgh hoping we don't get trounced by the Broncos on Sunday. Rootin for Seattle too, maybe they'll squeek by. Anybody else still have a dog in the fight?

 

[Lynne G]

Yeah right Keisha. We didn't even make the play offs. We can't even seem to get a likeable coach. When the suggested pick was announced, news reported all that were booing that decision. Well, at least my town is known for also booing Santa. I just like to watch a good football game. So, a game or two will be on the TV this week-end. And, the with the rain we'll be getting, staying in is ok with me.

Robo, quite the list indeed. I hate snakes, no matter venomous or not. We have issues with carpenter ants. The bite, but not sting, but they are big and "crunch" when killed. Don't like many insects either.

And:

That's right, and a holiday Monday for some of us, so a wahooo is in order. Take care all, and enjoy this next to last January week -end.

And in honor of Robo's coffee this morning:

well, ok just afternoon for me.

 

[BagOLaughs]

Anybody else still have a dog in the fight?

I don't know the 1st thing about football, American or UK. Here's hoping your team does well tho! I saw the Disney 10k looked like a bit of a wash out too. L

Moving south has its definite advantages, but along with that comes the little beasties. Fire ants, coral snakes, eastern diamond back rattle snakes and bobcats, wild pigs and buzzards. Have seen the wild pigs, buzzards and had personal welcoming by the ants, but no snakes and bobcats yet thank the Lord.

I find that all so exciting! Except the fire ants... eiw. I wish I lived in a country with slightly more exciting wildlife. The worst think we have in the UK is a slightly venomous adder or a big angry wasp. Lol.

Have a terrific weekend everyone! Unfortunately I decided last min that actually I really did need to go into work so I'll be up again tomorrow which I really dont want to do. Oh well.

 

[Lynne G]

 

[Lynne G]

Oh bummer BagO. I was just saying to my DH this morning, as I was leaving a good hour before the sunrise, that I can actually sleep in tomorrow, as no sports or other on Saturday. Hope your work goes fast, so you can enjoy the rest of the week-end.

Oh, and Robo, glad to hear you are feeling better and at home now. Visiting is always fun, but home again is always good too.

 

[schumigirl]

carole - is garlic still on the menu? perhaps subbing the powdered form in might help.

Today i need to accomlish all the errands i've been putting off for a week, wheee.

Good weekend to all. Not doing much but watching football. Finding out that Antonio Brown is still concussed and no confirmation on our quarterback Big Ben playing, has most of in Pittsburgh hoping we don't get trounced by the Broncos on Sunday. Rootin for Seattle too, maybe they'll squeek by. Anybody else still have a dog in the fight?

Enjoy that football Janet.......like Rachel.....I have no clue.......if it doesn't involve motor sport.....I'm quite ignorant! Nope.....no garlic either.......but I have found I can seem to be quite tolerant to things that include onion and garlic "seasonings" just the raw product seems to affect me.....don't miss it though now.....

Enjoy those errands..........I have a few over the weekend too.........

Have a terrific weekend everyone! Unfortunately I decided last min that actually I really did need to go into work so I'll be up again tomorrow which I really dont want to do. Oh well.

Don't work too hard Rachel........wrap up well, it's to be a cold one! Weather man said temps to plummet tonight.......


Making home made pizza for us tonight..........dough is nearly ready to top and bake.........folk think ours isn't really pizza cos we like BBQ sauce base on all of ours..........Kyle is having just mozzarella cheese.....we are having spicy chicken, pepperoni and jalapeños...........lush!

Then watching a couple of movies I think.......it's freezing already here!

Watched Insidious 3 last week........jumped out of my skin so many times and screamed out loud DS came down to see what on earth we were watching.........lots of real jump moments!!! So going to look for another good one on the digi box tonight.......

 

[schumigirl]

It is a gorgeous day......but freezing! Drove to wholesale butchers and roads inland are bad. Living right beside the sea we never get it as bad usually.

Now we're in and staying put all day........having Indian Takeout tonight, Chinese for DS.........watched The Vatican Tapes last night........what a croc ending!! Wasn't a bad movie, seen better, but hate bad endings. Was telling my friend this morning and she reminded me I'm very hard to please with movies......I was the one who wouldn't watch The Exorcist for years.......then watched it and thought it was biggest pile of garbage I ever saw........was more funny than scary!

Hope it's a good weekend.........

 

[keishashadow]

lynne i was reading thru here waiting for 2nd game to pick up the action and realized i missed your post. You know it's a tough crowd when they boo santa.

read something on another thread that U is now bridging tickets ala WDW? news to me. I've been asking for years (even checked last May) to upgrade old 7 day park to park tix i bought thru AAA to AP renewal but only offered purchase price of under $70. Figured i'd hold onto them until family member needs tickets for more than a few days.

anybody here have any luck with bridging?

 

[macraven]

i saw that thread where they posted that about the bridging.

if UO is doing that now, it isn't well advertised.
didn't find anything on the CSW site and they are very up to date on those type of things.
checked a few more orlando websites and came up with nothing

maybe some newbie was able to switch their 3 day hoppers of UO to a basic ap and called it bridging??

if UO is going in the same direction as the mouse for that ticketing process, we will be seeing more of those type of posts.



found my passport and was able to get a GA drivers license this week.
did the plates and title transfer also in the same day.
it only took 5 hours of our time but we got it done finally.

now i'm legit to drive .......

in the short time i have lived in the South, finding out all the different rules down here.
i'm taking baby steps figuring out the new life style and enjoying it more each day.

went down to atlanta area last saturday.
almost made the turn to go to Peach Tree off the highway.
will hit that town later next month.....

who wants to go with?
we will check out hilltop colony

i'm so far behind in this thread, think i will start over with what is going on starting with keisha's above post.

moving isn't a hard thing to do but if you have been in one house for 30 years plus, it's tough.

when we were moving every 2 years while we lived in chicago, it was a piece of cake.
didn't have that much more accumulated except another baby to tote with.

but only living in one house for a long time, well, you collect a lot of crap that is sooner or later shoved into a closet or basement.
then you start the process of packing for a long haul move and realize where you left those kiddie toys (in the basement.)
the ones you bought 2 months in advance for christmas and hid them in the basement so the rug rats wouldn't snoop and find them.

i donated them all before we left illinois......

 

[damo]

lynne i was reading thru here waiting for 2nd game to pick up the action and realized i missed your post. You know it's a tough crowd when they boo santa.

read something on another thread that U is now bridging tickets ala WDW? news to me. I've been asking for years (even checked last May) to upgrade old 7 day park to park tix i bought thru AAA to AP renewal but only offered purchase price of under $70. Figured i'd hold onto them until family member needs tickets for more than a few days.

anybody here have any luck with bridging?

We bridged a bunch of Undercover Tourist and loyalty tickets in the fall of 2014. They gave us gate equivalents for them and we just paid the difference to upgrade to power passes. Not sure how it would work with the old 7 days tickets because there is no gate equivalent. I think they've been doing this since 2014, at least.

 

[macraven]

We bridged a bunch of Undercover Tourist and loyalty tickets in the fall of 2014. They gave us gate equivalents for them. Not sure how it would work with the old 7 days tickets because there is no gate equivalent.

i know UO does that but when i think of bridging, i thought it meant getting the ap and the bridged amount was applied to a new ap.

i traded in one of my 7 day tickets for son year before last (14) and had to go thru inside guest services.
i came out way ahead that way.
i took them in single day tickets as hoppers.

don't think they process them the same way now.
i hear it is the 4 day passes they are issuing when exchanging the older UO passes that no longer exist in the system.

 

[damo]

i know UO does that but when i think of bridging, i thought it meant getting the ap and the bridged amount was applied to a new ap.

i traded in one of my 7 day tickets for son year before last (14) and had to go thru inside guest services.
i came out way ahead that way.
i took them in single day tickets as hoppers.

don't think they process them the same way now.
i hear it is the 4 day passes they are issuing when exchanging the older UO passes that no longer exist in the system.

We had 3 and 4 day tickets from UT and Air Miles and we were given gate value for them and applied that to an AP. That's what I thought bridging was.

 

[keishashadow]

I'm of the mind that bridging was paying discounted price for a ticket, using it and then getting the value for the standard ticket non-discounted ticket price when upgrading it.

mac - I'd take a 4 day park to park ticket if it were upgradeable. I plan to take it along for the ride next trip and ask @ GS outside the park if they will exchange it for 'something'. My thought being not to necessarily use the ticket for entry then, but to have in a more convenient format for future usage...hmmm.