Something About Nothing ... #12

[kohlby]

LOL, yes I really am tiny. and I dance. I'm only 4'8'' on a good day. Even with my wedges I don't reach 5ft. I often get passed over in lines and such because they think I'm a kid. (and apparently thats acceptable.) Many times they'll skip me thinking I'm with the adult in front of me.... When I get carded I guess they're expecting to see the closest year to being 21, but they always say 1990, wow. Thanks guys....

Just a heads up to anyone planning a hollywood studios trip. My sister and I did tower of terror, toy story mania x2, beauty and the beast, muppets, star tours, great movie ride, and ate in ~4hours. We got there around 12:20 and just got back to the unit to chill out for a few hours before fantasmic. We did rockin roller coaster yesterday and we did not stop to watch any of the star wars things. Though, we did get stopped by the storm troopers several times. Expect traffic jams in front of GMR due to dark forces.


Also, it's very quiet in here. Is everyone in orlando?! geez

Now I really want to see you in the parks and stand next to you. I'm 5'1" and feel short a lot of the time. (And sometimes get carded despite being more than twice over 21. I do have laugh line wrinkles so I blame it on their bad eyes or really good lighting).




I just redid my fast passes for our AK//HS day. Turns out I thought we were going on Wednesday and husband thought we were going on Thursday and had planned his background check thing for work Wednesday morning. Luckily, there were still plenty left when I changed it to Thursday. I'm a 60 days out person normally - like a do it right after the time changes at 60 days even. So this type of planning is a bit unsettling. It's working out though.

It's officially Friday now. Hubby's last day of work at Bridgestone is today. We leave in 4 days for Disney/Universal/Misc adulting stuff.

 

[tinydancer09]

Now I really want to see you in the parks and stand next to you. I'm 5'1" and feel short a lot of the time. (And sometimes get carded despite being more than twice over 21. I do have laugh line wrinkles so I blame it on their bad eyes or really good lighting).




I just redid my fast passes for our AK//HS day. Turns out I thought we were going on Wednesday and husband thought we were going on Thursday and had planned his background check thing for work Wednesday morning. Luckily, there were still plenty left when I changed it to Thursday. I'm a 60 days out person normally - like a do it right after the time changes at 60 days even. So this type of planning is a bit unsettling. It's working out though.

It's officially Friday now. Hubby's last day of work at Bridgestone is today. We leave in 4 days for Disney/Universal/Misc adulting stuff.

Make sure you take advantage of the picking new fast passes on your phone now. As soon as you use your third fast pass you can pick a new. Every time I used my 4+ I was able to select a new one before I got on the current ride. (While waiting in the line to ride) that's how I got DHS done so quickly. Plus TSM had a 30 minute wait most the time anyways

 

[Lynne G]

Well, it's official. If you happen to be in my neighborhood, watch out for a smiling teen driving. He's growing up. Sometimes I remark I don't like to drive in the dark as much, well, the other day, he said he now knows why I say that. The cracks have started. Mom is beginning to know more than him. LOL

Yes it is, and

, so hope Robo and Mac, and all the coffee drinking homies are sharing right now.

Good morning all! The sun is shining, we're going to be hot (not quite boiling) today.

Robo, you're a good grams, that's all I have to say. Bit of a road trip for ya, so safe travels this week-end and have a great time at the party.

Tink, sounds like you and Trey and Robbie are enjoying mouse time. AK is one of my favorite parks. There's so much to just stop and see.

TinyD, I shop in the petite department too. I was always mistaken as a teenager well past my teen years. And my DD is tiny too, so you'll be in good company.

9 more days.......

 

[kohlby]

Make sure you take advantage of the picking new fast passes on your phone now. As soon as you use your third fast pass you can pick a new. Every time I used my 4+ I was able to select a new one before I got on the current ride. (While waiting in the line to ride) that's how I got DHS done so quickly. Plus TSM had a 30 minute wait most the time anyways

I don't have a cell phone yet. I've never had one but will be getting one soon. I might just get a basic one as I've been fine going this long without. However, I did use the kiosks to do the 4th FP on our last trip to Disney two years ago. We have two days we are hopping into DHS because I have one kid who loves toy story and another kid who loves Rockin roller coaster who doesn't want to miss toy story either. (And a third kid whose favorite park was DHS as of two years ago who thinks he is finally ready to give RRC a try). So, I planned afternoon fastpasses there both times.

Lynne - I'm a bit nervous about when my kids start driving. On one hand, it would be nice to not have to drive my kids all over the place. My 13 year old constantly needs me to drive him places especially. (Though, I have to go get my 10 year from a friend's house half an hour away later this morning). I used to encourage my kids to wait until they were 18 to drive. But now that I'm driving all over the place, I've stopped that. Teens driving scares me but I'm tired of driving them everywhere and have many more years of that.

 

[Robo56]

Morning Lynne have my coffee mug full.

Congrats Lynne on your new driver. Will help with his independence.

Tinyd you win the tiny prize at 4"8' I'am the giant of the girls in my family at 5"6'. The rest of the girls are about 5" to 5"1'.

 

[Lynne G]

Yep Kohlby, teens driving does scare me, but at least he can now help me with errands. He's 18, so I think being a boy that took some time to mature, being older was a better time for him to learn. DD, on the other hand, will be 16 next year, and I well know I will probably be teaching her then. Let's just say, I don't have enough gray hair yet. LOL Oh, and hopefully, not put the nail marks in the door than I did with DS. Nervous at times for sure. You'll be fine. It will make life easier when they take themselves to where they need to be. Congrats on putting the sales sign out. I hope the sale goes fast, and does not have any speed bumps. Guess you'll be house hunting soon. Good luck. And wahoo, DH will be done with his current job shortly. Busy times for the family!

 

[macraven]

Lynne

Paint the car red so all will see son



My grandpa did that to his car
after he was hit a few times



Good Friday morning
Hotel coffee stinks

 

[tink1957]

Good morning

I'm enjoying my coffee with my half of the big pink donut we bought last night...life is good.

Safe travels tomorrow Robo...see you on Sunday.

Lynne, sorry we will miss each other again this year...maybe next time although Trey said he wanted to go earlier next time so his AP would still be good. Good luck with your new driver...mine is responsible for most of the gray hair I cover up, he's really a good driver but he has a lead foot

@kohlby hope your move goes smoothly. Good luck with the house hunting and have fun in the parks. I resisted getting a smart phone for years and now I can't live without it. I think you're going to like the convenience of being able to keep in touch especially in an emergency.

I'm one of the tallest in the shorty club at 5'2"...ha, never thought I would be that.

Hotel coffee does stink mac...I miss my grinder.

Have a great Friday everyone...off to the parks again.

 

[keishashadow]

Crap Andy, just caught what you posted. Not sure if it's more insensitive or rotten timing. Fingers crossed a good job finds you. Nothing you can do at this point other than maybe put out some feelers in Orlando while there.

Between hair & GD school function gone from house for 9 hours yesterday...good park training lol. Stylist forgot (yes, I said forgot) to put in a lowlight. Instead went with 3 blonde shades. When i pointed it out to her at the big reveal, her face just dropped, thought she was going to cry. Didn't have the heart to growl at her, she's very young. told her next time she can toss in some lowlights to tone it down. Naturally, the mr loves it, who knows it might grow on me.

More running around today, early dismal at school. Don't quite the get the wisdom of why so many in their calendar but cynic in me thinking the time off doesn't count against the # of mandatory school days.

Mac - trip sounds like a nice warmup for you! Found out the mr should be done with work week next Friday am. Naturally, the first thing I did was start running numbers to come down 1 or 2 days early haha. Still on the da fence, trying to control my nasty travel habit lol.

PS I gladly relinquish my "shrimp" title, shall feel like a giant amongst the teeny gals here.

This is literally the only picture I have.
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This was after the parade was over and we'll it was about 9000 degrees outside.

GOOD NEWS! The margarita stand is NOT open.. HOWEVER, if you go in the little taco place they have the same 11 margaritas. I was tipsy and happy by America. Also had an apple ice wine, moscato sparkling wine, and baked ziti. I would have tried more but with my sisters allergies I felt supppppper guilty having things she'd want but can't have. Fun fact... She can't have thre caramel popcorn in Germany anymore. Werthers has Wheat in it.

Need to find a new Epcot buddy. She doesn't like it anywyas. Made her go on all the educational things... Ellen's energy adventure... Her face after
And then directly to living with the land.

Somebody else likes Ellen ride besides me? Cool

Meh re taco stand it's usually swamped, not to mention I am so put off by smell of Mexican food , just not my thing

Thatt is a

Good morning,

A quick hello before I'm off to the parks...getting a late start since it's our first HHN night of the trip.

I'll say hello to Krampus for you

 

[kohlby]

Keisha - I like Ellen too. It's not a repeat ride but it is an every trip ride. It is overdue for an update, but I still enjoy it.

Tink - I'm impressed your donut made it until morning. Someone - or several someones - polish them off too quickly in our group.

Mac - Hope the coffee does its job so some good comes out of drinking it!

Lynne - We already decided - my husband will be teaching the kids to drive, not me. He is a calmer person than I am and that's what new drivers need in the car with them. I learned to drive through the drivers Ed people though. So that could be another option depending on what the state requires. I only had driven for 8 hours total before I got my liscense. (Massachusetts, though maybe that explains a lot about the reputation of Massachusetts drivers). My friends in GA tell me about a crazy number of hours needed though. I have no idea what FL requires.

Robo - Have a safe trip!


For those who have done HHN, is it really scary? I don't like the idea of people jumping out at me but am quite fine with excessive gore and creepy characters. I don't think I'll get a chance to go this year unless I decide the kids are fine in the hotel room with us. But, I am hoping to go next year if it isn't a lot people trying startle me.

 

[schumigirl]

Kohlby.........I do get spooked easily, but enjoy it in a fun way...........but, I seem to have a magnet on me for SA this year.......they've creeped up on me so many times and I get such a fright........think the scare zone outside the Mummy area was the best last night.........they were tag teaming me it seemed......lol.......its when they creep up behind you and whisper loudly in your ear.......so funny!

It's scary, but fun scary.......except Michael Myers........he is truly scary ..............well, for me anyway!!



Hotter than hades again today ..........been in parks this morning........Doom still isn't working........back to room to change before heading out somewhere for lunch, then HHN again tonight......made it to almost midnight last night.......

So disappointed in Chance house.........she deserves a full house on her own, a bit like psychoscareapy from a few years ago........that could have been brilliant! But the 3D houses are not my favourite.

Favourite house is absolutely Halloween............

Catch youse yinz later.......having just the best time here again!

 

[tinydancer09]

I don't have a cell phone yet. I've never had one but will be getting one soon. I might just get a basic one as I've been fine going this long without. However, I did use the kiosks to do the 4th FP on our last trip to Disney two years ago. We have two days we are hopping into DHS because I have one kid who loves toy story and another kid who loves Rockin roller coaster who doesn't want to miss toy story either. (And a third kid whose favorite park was DHS as of two years ago who thinks he is finally ready to give RRC a try). So, I planned afternoon fastpasses there both times.

Lynne - I'm a bit nervous about when my kids start driving. On one hand, it would be nice to not have to drive my kids all over the place. My 13 year old constantly needs me to drive him places especially. (Though, I have to go get my 10 year from a friend's house half an hour away later this morning). I used to encourage my kids to wait until they were 18 to drive. But now that I'm driving all over the place, I've stopped that. Teens driving scares me but I'm tired of driving them everywhere and have many more years of that.

look up the kiosks. I'm not sure if they still exist. They may have just cut down on the amount of them. I simply did not notice any this trip and I did notice a few of them with the machines completely covered. Actually, before the mickey party that's where the wrist band pick up was.

Forgot when I posted that you're not into cell phones.

 

[keishashadow]

Kohlby.........I do get spooked easily, but enjoy it in a fun way...........but, I seem to have a magnet on me for SA this year.......they've creeped up on me so many times and I get such a fright........think the scare zone outside the Mummy area was the best last night.........they were tag teaming me it seemed......lol.......its when they creep up behind you and whisper loudly in your ear.......so funny!

It's scary, but fun scary.......except Michael Myers........he is truly scary ..............well, for me anyway!!



Hotter than hades again today ..........been in parks this morning........Doom still isn't working........back to room to change before heading out somewhere for lunch, then HHN again tonight......made it to almost midnight last night.......

So disappointed in Chance house.........she deserves a full house on her own, a bit like psychoscareapy from a few years ago........that could have been brilliant! But the 3D houses are not my favourite.

Favourite house is absolutely Halloween............

Catch youse yinz later.......having just the best time here again!

You said "Yinz" yea! Lol

So surprised to read the dismal reviews of the icon house. I do enjoy the 3-D ones, since I have vision issues think it tends to mess with me more than most.

Still teetering on fence as to coming down on next Sat instead of Sun. Had thought to just take a late afternoon flight & then hit up DTD or Citiwalk. Ha - No room @ the U inn, nor the doubletree arrgh. Disney pretty well filled up too that night. Going to thmink it over dinner @ Longhorne. Jr was told to use up some of his vacation days and he suggested dinner out...works for me

Believe both have 5 day cancellation policies...might just book something to have a place to sleep before the airfare jumps & then stalk both websites and hope to get lucky and snag something.

 

[SharkyGoddess]

Spending the night in Roanoke tonight

Thinking back to hhn when they had a house about it .....

I'm sure my nights stay will be nothing like that house

Little by little the homies are gathering at the darkside

If I was at Roanoke,I would have to go exploring!

 

[Robo56]

Robo - Have a safe trip!

Thank you. Good luck with the move and house hunting. Have a great time at the parks.

Keisha hope you are able to get a room for Saturday. It's nice to add a day to vacation anytime . Have a good trip into Orlando.

Schumi glad to hear you are having a great time at HHN I'am so looking forward to it.

Tink see you Sunday.

One wake up then on the road .

 

[keishashadow]

Thank you. Good luck with the move and house hunting. Have a great time at the parks.

Keisha hope you are able to get a room for Saturday. It's nice to add a day to vacation anytime . Have a good trip into Orlando.

Schumi glad to hear you are having a great time at HHN I'am so looking forward to it.

Tink see you Sunday.

One wake up then on the road .

Happy trails! Believe we'll be seeing you on Sunday the 2nd...says she who is hanging onto mac/Carole's tails that night

 

[macraven]

If I was at Roanoke,I would have to go exploring!

home now and have to say, nothing spooky happened at roanoke last night....


glad to be home.
thought it would be by midnight but was able to make it home earllier.


now i need to play ketchup on what i have missed here.


yes, some meet ups on sunday oct 2nd for hhn
and meet up on sunday oct 9th.
for that date, during the day and could have some before hhn that evening.

 

[schumigirl]

Are you going to blonder than me Janet????? I imagine we'll have a few blonde moments between us.....lol

Think I'm going to be the tallest lady of us all then................I'm 5 7"...................more 5 6" really but officially I'm 5 7"


Sitting by the pool at RPR right now.....waiting for laundry to finish, sit for a couple of hours then off somewhere for the afternoon........no parks today.

HHN was fabulous last night.....had many Michael Myers moments as we did the house twice............and met up with Metro and spent some time with him too........was nice to catch up with him again......

Didn't eat in Toothsome as the wait was over an hour for a table........nah.......looks a lovely place though.......will try again though.........

Have a great Saturday............

 

[keishashadow]

Well, I managed to move the car rental back a day without penalty, found decent flight mid day, still don't have a room for Saturday. we have a full size car, I called the back seat

Cannot remember the on sites @ U ever filling up so early and having zippo availability these dates. Same for WDW where they say crowd levels have really dropped off...ha, we shall see.

Something will pop up, the mr (he of little faith in mummy/pixie dust) will likely insist I book something cancellable if it doesn't

Turning colder here, almost 20 degree drop in temps overnight. Have I mentioned that I detest fall?

Carole - a rare todd sighting? Cool. Maybe better luck midweek with toothsome.

 

[macraven]

have spent the last two hours trying to find threads, emails and pms that have been sent to me.

i have not received any alerts from the disboards for 13 days.
pm's included

finally found the issue and there were 224 messages which included pm and emails that were sent to me.
there were in a section of spam that i was not aware of.
used the google links to lead me to them.

also was able to put the watched threads back in the system so i get alerts on them.


talked to janet and she gave me a suggetion on how to find missing mail.


it worked and after much time of marking each one not spam and opening them up, think i have solved the problems.

if i missed any messages from any of you, i will work on contacting you.


my iphone has technical issues and i never did make it to the store in Tn to have the techs work on it.
my local sprint store said i have an issue with the phone itself and it will be a free exchange for a new one once tech support checks it out.
with little time left before i leave, it might not get exchanged until after i return from orlando.
so just a heads up if you are trying to reach me and can't, post on this thread and i will contact you.


with so many going to orlando and want to meet up, janet will do a thread here (or talk about it here) to get us organized on dates.

i know oct 2 and 9 are definite dates but we need a time period and place for it.


i will make a list and send to janet of any posts that are made at this time of your UO dates for when you are available to be at the darkside.

mine are
sept 27-oct 2 motherland
oct 2 -15 darkside