Something About Nothing ... #12

[keishashadow]

Never met a camel I didn't like. Still have box stuffed somewhere with tons of the old Joe Camel stuff before they decided he wasn't appropriate.

They say a cold front came thru last night, must've missed it, still feels sticky to me. Today supposed to be playground day w/GD, wheee. Figure she'll last an hour.

Had to laugh, received one of those bogus, threatening phone calls just now. Identifies as IRS, yadda yadda, at the end they say, call us back quickly before we take action & then say "take care". Funny enough but feel for elderly who tend to be taken in by these scammers. Seems everytime we travel (and provide our home # to hotels/tour operators etc.) our info is sold and the solicitations begin anew. You block them and then another rash comes thru. Arrgh Considering cutting the land line entirely, rarely use it. Grandfathered into old contract with ATT on cells, hate to bump up the minutes and lose the data. Hmmm

Lynne yes so weird that isolated storm, likely tornados. Hunker down, we're supposed to get awful storms tomorrow. Not sure why but your comment "I don't mind eating most animals" gave me giggles.

Marci looking forward to your thots on Frozen. Maelstrom was a fav, so kitschy. Figure it will just be a new overlay. Why it takes Disney so long as to constructiing anything is ridiculous compared to other parks.

BagO - as early as able, booked Frozen FP for August. Earliest time 4:55 pm. Um ok, that just means we can do MK first. PM EMH, Epcot is always hot, worse in summer, might as well delay arriving until late afternoon as far as I'm concerned. Soarin thus far seems to be a distant 2nd in the tier one arena there. Next time somebody questions the merits of FOTL or Express Pass @ Universal they need to do a like comparison.

TinyD - good luck with the haircut, unless donated to locks of love, anything over 6 six inches is wasted. That's the 'cut off' here. Very picky locally, will not take any chemically treated hair hmmph, leaves me out. Post a pic of your new 'do.

Mac - 4 cups of Java & killing time in a car is a big roll of the dice, eek.

Good day all

 

[macraven]

Tiny D that's a really nice thing to do, donate your hair. It's lovely. I know what you mean about not wanting to give up long hair.

Ummmmm so much talk about food. You know I've never tried any of those places during my trips to the states. Popeyes, Chik fil a, never been. I always see the TV ads in the hotel room tho.

I can't believe a 5 hour queue for Frozen in Epcot. OMG. And it was out in the sun, just the odd sun umbrella dotted along the line. Hot hot hot! I could make some bad joke about queueing in that heat when the ride is called frozen but... you know.

Well, I've never seen frozen or interested in it so I have no idea why that line is so long
Having 4 boys we did nothing with Disney princesses but always did Snow White ride at mk

 

[macraven]

Janet never heard that before
I have donated to locks of love since the 1970's
And have hair colored
In the shop up north took chemically colored hair
Maybe it is a regional thing in your area?

Lynne I feel your pain of doing post, emails, text on cell phones
I can't colorize my ramblings on the cell either
Love using a regular keyboard on my iMac
And it has auto correct
Hope the shop saves your iPad

 

[schumigirl]

Gall bladder free here too......best thing I ever had done.......got my life back.......

Never got Frozen here either.........wouldn't wait 5 hours for anything.......crazy.

Janet, scammers are a nuisance here too.......yep, feel for the older peeps who have no clue. We do still get the obvious ones where an Indian guy called "John" or "Matt" from "the Internet" says I have a virus on my computer and he needs my passwords and bank details to fix it.........lol.........the nasty part of me sometimes plays along so far..........act all concerned........then laugh...........they never call back funnily enough

Dh still not better, maybe a little.........but not great. Will be home all week I think.

So far today, had heat and clouds.........humid and dull........hoping for a thunderstorm to clear the air.......but the sea is so calm looking. Don't think we will.....

Wanting to head to mac's for BBQ food now..........we all having chicken stir fried in teriyaki sauce and noodles......but want BBQ now........

 

[cam757]

Hello All, I just wanted to come from the shadows and say hello. I have been lurking for a while and enjoy reading this thread. USO has become a favorite of ours. Although, we only go every other year we really do enjoy USO and have made RPR our home away from home. Thankfully, we will have a nice visit in August. We will spend 2 nights at AKL and then 7 nights at RPR. Our longest vacation yet....I am the planner of our family so I have a few surprises in store for my DH, DS and DN (nephew). I did have to let DH in on our stay at AKL as he is not a fan of Disney so I wanted to prepare him. He does love nature and animals so I think AKL will be okay. I am also planning a side trip to Tampa to watch the Rays play the Red Sox. Our first MLB game. I would love to do a TR but I recognize my limitations and being organized enough to put that together would certainly test me. We will see. Anyway, I enjoy this thread and all the great information that has been provided on the other Universal threads. I have learned a great deal. Whenever any of my friends tell me they are visiting WDW or USO, DIS is the first place I send them. Thanks to everyone that has spent the time to put all that great information together!

 

[BagOLaughs]

Hello Cam!!! Nice you came out of the shadows

 

[Lynne G]

Cam! Stay awhile. There's always something about nothing we chat about. All of us love USO. Though the Portofino is my favorite hotel, my budget usually puts us at RPR, so we like that hotel a lot too. Happy planning!

 

[tinydancer09]

Thanks for the hair support. I've done it before. This time I think I'm going to donate to Pantene. Off to get it all clean and ready to be cut.
Think I'm going to follow in mac's shoes and start doing it every 4 years or so. I like long hair... so if I start growing it out every time I chop it off I'll only be with short hair for a year... And hopefully I'm helping someone out. They do say about 70-80% of hair that's donated can't be used though. Really hope I'm one that can. Hair dresser says my hair is healthy enough.

 

[macraven]

A big to our
Newest homie


cam757

Love having you join us
Once you have posted here, you are one of us
I love adding homies to the family

 

[Lynne G]

Yep, TinyD, DD gets it short, and now it's been about a year and a half since she donated 12 inches, and it's down to her waist. I don't know if her hair's been used before, but the one place our hairdresser sends the hair to, only makes kids' wigs. I am sure wherever your hair will go, they will appreciate the donation. It's nice of Mac to do donations too.

Bad thing with my DD's hair being long, all the soccer girls, including her, pony tail it during games. So many girls have the same pony tail and hair color, I have to look at the jersey number and cleats to see who is who.

It's been cloudy then sunny, and now just muggy hot.

 

[marciemi]

From what I'm reading, not much optimism for getting on Frozen today. Latest reports are that they evacuated everyone and are draining the ride. Guess we'll see! Heading to the airport to pick up a kiddo first.

 

[schumigirl]

I know how that dog feels.........it is muggy here.......so hot! Not complaining though.......never complain about heat as we don't get this very often..........


To cam757.......... Nice to have you join us and nice to know the threads on here have been helpful to you..........

You should try a trip report.......we love seeing new folks write them......saves reading the same old faces........lol I include myself in that pile.......



Trying to cool down.......ended up with salad for dinner as it was too hot to even stir fry.........so popped out and bought some fresh salads, shrimp and smoked salmon.......BBQ chicken for Kyle........nice.

Dh is at least moving a little tonight...........he got a real nasty cold this time........he is not really a "manflu" type of guy.......when he's ill, he's ill.

More football tonight as it's the European championships......not really football fans in this house, but this and the World Cup are about it.........may have a glass of wine to help me get through it........

 

[Lynne G]

From what I'm reading, not much optimism for getting on Frozen today. Latest reports are that they evacuated everyone and are draining the ride. Guess we'll see! Heading to the airport to pick up a kiddo first.

Seems like it won't stand up to the summer crowds. What an annoyance, after the huge line, only to see the ride not working right. Safe trip to the airport. Always nice to retrieve a kid.

 

[SharkyGoddess]

From what I'm reading, not much optimism for getting on Frozen today. Latest reports are that they evacuated everyone and are draining the ride. Guess we'll see! Heading to the airport to pick up a kiddo first.

Wonder what's going on?

 

[Robo56]

Cam757

 

[marciemi]

Unfortunately we haven't had internet all day here at home and our cable idiots are telling us it'll be a week before they have anyone out here. If we unplug both the router and the modem, wait a minute, and then replug in we sometimes get a minute or two of Internet. Per Summit "it's an intermittent signal". Yeah, if you mean it works 1 out of every 100 minutes. So I'm stuck on a phone here.

We did get on Frozen! 30 minute wait almost exactly, even with a FPP. It was enjoyable - certainly comparable to say Pooh at MK. I was never a huge Maelstrom fan so think it was an improvement but not a "Wow, can't miss it!" ride going forward. We have 2 more FPP's for it later this week while 2 of the boys are home then probably won't bother with it again until our oldest comes home (if we can get a FPP) or if someone visits with young Frozen fans!

 

[macraven]

i'll wait awhile for cam to post more as i don't want to say right now the nickname i thought for her.

i know many of you are talking about the hot weather you are having.

i just love hot and humid weather so this is my type of climate to be in georgia.

today it was 97 and at 10:30 pm we were down to 89
temps will hold for the next 2 days and another chance of rain on the weekend.
HA! they said that before and it has missed my part of where i am at.

last week the showers stopped a block from our house.
so, i have had to water the flowers frequently.

Frozen?
the only thing i know about it is two sisters, one good and one not as good.
sounds like my type of friend.....lol

other than that, i'm clueless but you don't have to fill me in as i could google it.

it won't be one of the FP i will be trying for when i can book mine.

still no word from St L
guess that means he is having a great time at the darkside.


TinyD, i always donate to Locks of Love.
the shop i was going to has a rep that picks up the donated hair regularly.
this salon does free haircuts in the month of february for Locks of Love.

i never went during the free time as my stylist did only works on appointments and no walk ins.

got caught up today in and out of the house on errands.
one of these days i will clean the house......

 

[Monykalyn]

@schumigirl - hope the DH feels better soon!

Yay for Frozen report @marciemi !
We aren't huge Frozen fans here either but I did snag a FP+ in 2014 for our planned late MK night-my son provided one of the funniest moments ever when he very loudly announced (in line and right in front of the Princesses) that "I am NOT a princess fan". He was 9. The Princesses and CM's handled it wonderfully and and even got him to smile. Star Wars is more his speed-Darth Goofy sleeps on his bed every night.

@tinydancer09 -Oldest DD is going next week to chop her waist length curly hair off. She wants it cut to above her shoulders but I am encouraging to at least go to middle of shoulder blades. She has had long hair for so long I don't want her to regret a drastic change.

Planning on taking middle DD to Silver Dollar City for a few hours tomorrow for some mom and middle child time She is my thrill junky so we will hit all the coasters. Need to remember to take the Chill pads so we don't completely melt.

May be going to St Louis this weekend. DH is delivering our old oven to a friend and picking up a riding lawn mower from his dad. We realized as we were talking that this may be the only free weekend all summer to get to St Louis. My mom has been sick-fighting lymphoma-so with poor blood counts we haven't been able to see her (risk of infection). She is now a couple months post chemo and doing great-latest scan showed cancer free! So we'd like to take them out to celebrate as she has been housebound for months.

@macraven - one advantage to having kids at home and off all summer is they have more chores to do-house is usually clean and they start laundry. I still do bathrooms though as otherwise they don't get clean like I like them clean.

@Lynne G we are hot muggy and melting here too!

 

[tinydancer09]

For now I like it. We'll see how I feel after I wash and style it on my own. Will probably hate it for a couple weeks and then get used to it.

Now to find some dinner (at 11:30pm...) and then catch up on the PC

 

[macraven]

you are beautiful !!

the cut is good, you wear it well.

still have the length and it hangs nicely.

you will start loving the new look by morning...or the day after....maybe two days, but you will like it.


my hair was past my butt when i got it cut in November.
i had no problem adjusting to it, i felt free for the first time in 4 years.
no longer did i have to braid my hair in order to sleep once it was whacked off.

i hated it when my hair would get caught under my arm when i was sleeping.
i turned in my sleep and would wake up when the hair did not move with me...

anyhoot, you will get used to it and well, hair grows....