Something About Nothing..........#5

[tlinus]

Morning all....

Sharon - I am so sorry to hear about your loss. Your family is in my thoughts and prayers.

It's been sleep over central here this weekend - place is trashed and I don't feel like cleaning it all up. Plus my BFF had a minor surgery on her lower back on Wednesday so I have been helping by changing her bandages (she and my DH's BFF are married and live across the street).

Need to call SIL and find out what exactly "I will come early and get the boys" means. I have been listening to a 6, 5 and 4 year old set of boys arguing and running through the house since 7:45AM.

Is it too early for a shot with my coffee???

Talk to you all later - have a great sunday!

here's the coffee:

 

[macraven]

Hey, Homies!

I've been MIA for awhile. Jonathan decided to spit Propel all over my laptop early this week, and it's now DEAD. He's lucky he isn't.

I've had no time for fun with limited computer access and a big fat to-do list for homeschool.

My brilliant hubby hooked an extra monitor and keyboard up to a mini pocket sized computer, so now I have internet access and MS Office in the main area of the house on the kitchen table. That's pretty much what I need. I just can't take all this STUFF on trips in a suitcase.

Going to bed so I can get up in time to make food for a potluck and get everyone ready for church. I'll ketchup tomorrow unless I need an all day nap.

((((((((((((HUGS))))))))))))

I've missed you!

and you said your son to live to see tomorrow?
wow..............

sounds like you have a keeper of a husband...


catch you all later, going to church. will have your backs covered for the week.


tutu, i wondered where you were. figured you were doing as most here and getting ready for when that skool bell rings again.

 

[tlinus]

DM - so what are the new dates for the move? If you don't mind sharing?

Hope it all works out, and enjoy SC!!!

 

[macraven]

tracie, you know how much i love bunn coffee makers...

tanks homie....

 

[RAPstar]

morning. why am I awake?

 

[jillybeene71]

morning

 

[roseprincess]

*77 will turn on automatic call rejection for calls set to private
* 87 will turn it back on if you want

both are free from your phone company--we love *77 (teens think pranking is great fun--until they have to go to court--which my stupid 14 year old did this past spring--encouraged by another parent to make the calls--aargh--a hang up at that, but the uber police didn't care--aargh--learned a very good lesson though--cell phones can be traced)

Not friends with those people any more

Minniejack, I didn't know about *77 and *87 before. Thanks for the info
Sorry to hear about your 14 yr old Hope everything went well in court.

 

[roseprincess]

Good Sunday morning homies-
Went to church last night. Got your backs. Excellent worship last night! Message was really good. I really needed to hear that message. We had Dr. Henry Cloud over at our church this weekend (christian psychologist). He was excellent!



Sharon- so sorry to hear the loss of your MIL


Hi to all the wonderful homies here

 

[the Dark Marauder]

DM: Hope everything is being sorted out


Post 999.....

When will I hit the 1000??

It will be all Figured Out, one way or another.

And you hitting 1000? After I get my 5%.

DM - so what are the new dates for the move? If you don't mind sharing?

Hope it all works out, and enjoy SC!!!

The new dates for the move? 2009.

SC should be fun. It's a whole bunch of us from the same online forum that brought you the RPR trippie.

 

[bubba's mom]

Hey everyone

On/off rain and WIND today Spent the morning with the kids and playing Wii.... off to the boardwalk for some pizza now....

Talk about a relaxing day....geez......

oh...and saw on the news it's raining at home too.....no matter where I'd be, it be raining

oh well....least i'm not working!

 

[Tinker-tude]

and you said your son to live to see tomorrow?
wow..............

Well, I didn't catch him in the act. DS7 started yelling at the top of his lungs, "HE JUST SPIT ON YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!" I ran across the room and found the culprit looking at me with a totally innocent expression. I turned the laptop upsidedown on the couch, hoping that I had gotten there in time to keep the liquid out of the inside of the computer. No such luck. DS2 is just REALLY lucky he's so cute.

sounds like you have a keeper of a husband...

Yes, he just happened to stop needing an OQO at work a few months ago, and he knows I need a computer for everything I'm involved in. He saves my butt all the time like that. There's nothing he can't do, no problem he can't solve.

tutu, i wondered where you were. figured you were doing as most here and getting ready for when that skool bell rings again.

Thanks, Mac. That would have been part of it! We start online classes for Jared tomorrow, and hope to get all of his books soon in the mail. Then I'll have NOOOOOO free time anymore.


I see a few newbies here. WELCOME to the really fun thread with the really crazy people!

 

[marciemi]

Boy is it quiet around here! Must be a lazy Sunday! Well, we made it home! So many stories to tell. Unfortunately, not so many pics to share. I did take pics of our car loaded up with the bikes and roof rack, but they're on the cell phone so I'm not sure how to get them on here. I'll try that later. Although we brought the digital camera, we didn't actually pull it out once so no pics!

Um, where to start?! Well, for one thing, as I read through these pages, it's great to see so many old faces again! Saw Tricia, Penny, Sharon, Tink and I know I'm missing others that I've missed recently. Sharon, I'm so sorry to hear about your MIL. I hope the stress between that and DS leaving for college isn't getting to be too much. I know I'd be going crazy. Lots of pixie dust AND mummy dust for you! Wish James the best from all of us!

Janet - we did stay at CP at some of those "needing to be refurbished but under $200" rooms you mentioned and they weren't too bad. If you can afford Kalahari, everyone I know who's gone there thought it was awesome, but when we're at CP, we're focusing more on the rides. My kids aren't as big on water rides (we go to Soak City and float in the lazy rivers and wave pools, but that's about it), so it never seemed worth the money for those if we were doing CP as well. Unfortunately Kalahari is one that rarely has any real discounts. We've done Castaway Bay (the CP indoor waterpark) and Great Wolf down there and gotten them each for $99 a night and I'd never want to pay more.

Anyways, my point was that the rooms weren't that bad. Yes, the decor was really tired, but the beds/sheets/towels/showers, etc. were all fine. It was just tacky wallpaper and no elevators. There was no way I'd pay twice as much for the "tower" rooms in order to get an elevator and new furnishings. If they ever do remodel, we'll never be able to afford anything. But we paid $156 for the night, got 2 early entries, plus saved $20 in parking, so I think it was worth it. Plus got to buy discounted tickets (we bought 2 day ride and slides for $63, versus the $69 best I found anywhere else - so that was another $30, which basically brought our cost down to $100. You can't find much better than that around the CP area).

Let's see. I found the iphone to be fine - it's really nice for keeping up with email which it does really well and quickly. I had no trouble reading and following this thread, but just can't type well enough on the tiny keyboard. And unlike most phones, you can't buy say a stylus for the iphone because it's "heat" sensitive, not "touch". I could type much faster and more accurately with a stylus instead of hitting the wrong keys with my fingers all the time. At home I type about 80 wpm; on the iphone it's more like 2!

More to follow, but it's already getting too long. I missed my keyboard!

 

[marciemi]

I've tried numerous times to get an ADR for Le Cellier, but everytime I call I'm told Le Cellier is full for the entire time we are down and can't get an ADR there at all ... I'm hoping for a cancellation

We didn't have any trouble getting it last summer (late July) for our trip. I booked a dinner about 5 months out, then after reading the boards, decided we'd be better off with lunch and booked that about 2 months out without a problem. Of course we ended up cancelling both of them because we decided it just cost too much (and we'd probably be as happy spending 1/3 as much at Texas Roadhouse at home - we don't have discerning palates ). The agent each time I canceled asked me if I was SURE I wanted to because there was no way we were getting it back. So probably made someone's day!

 

[marciemi]

Okay, the pic of the overloaded minivan - complete with 5 bikes and a full roof rack. Luckily it only rained on the way out, not on the way back! The bikes were IMPOSSIBLE to get on and off, and on the way home we stayed in 3 different hotels (en route to CP, at CP and en route home) and there was no way the bikes were coming off. So all packing and unpacking (involving 3 duffle bags) was done from the side door. Yes, it was a challenge!

 

[keishashadow]

drive by

sharon - so sorry for your loss

marci - thanks for the review unfortunately, Castaway Bay & Great Wolf are both over $200 night our date . Going to book Kalahari if military rate still available otherwise, maybe i'll get lucky with the Super 8 $8.88 room promo (keep getting shut out, think it's a scam...why wyndham has associated themselves/rewards program with them is beyond me )guess we could sleep on the beach if the gulls don't mind

off to watch more olympics

 

[RAPstar]

I just had yummy yummy fajitas at my aunt's house. Man were they good. Now just vegging in front of the glow of my monitor. woo.

 

[marciemi]

Janet - I wasn't saying that Castaway Bay or Great Wolf were better than Kalahari - from what I've heard Kalahari is the best. I was just saying that I'd never found any discounts there, unlike the other places. But we've only gone during the winter when there wasn't other stuff to do as well so it was fun to go to a nice warm indoor waterpark.

 

[coastermom]

Hello all


Sharon .. Sorry for the loss of your MIL . Sending big hugs your way .


Marcie and Janet we have stayed at CP . Once at Breakers Express which when we went was $99 a night . It was just fine . Then we went for broke and stayed at Castaway Bay because it was new and had a package . Well it wasn't that great and I don't see us returning there . If and when we go back to the point I would like to try the Lighthouse cabins or the sandcastle suites . We will see though my DS needs to grow for me to make that trip again . BTW Mini-van packed with lots of stuff looks like our vacation ..


Ok I am going to try to start my Trippie but I have been so exhausted and have been doing so much that I haven't had time to even think of a trippie.

Also looking for anyone who may have purhased a Disney Photopass CD. I wanted to know if the photos are as good as they look on-line? I took my new camera on vacation and some of my pictures came out really crummy so we are really looking at getting the CD because there are some great photos on there .

Going to start a trippie see eveyone later .

 

[macraven]

mary, i did buy the disney photo pass cd 2 years ago.
at that time it was under $100 for it and worth it.
i had over 250 pics on it.

pics are very clear.

 

[macraven]

marci, mr mac got tickets for opening game in sept 8 for the packers.

got them in a lottery.
well,his friend got them and mr mac is going now