Something About Nothing..........# 9

[RAPstar]

Good afternoon. Just another boring, slow day at AAA. I swear I didn't mean that to rhyme. Can October get here a little more quickly please?

 

[macraven]

happy birthday to the Stealth child.........

 

[macraven]

Good afternoon. Just another boring, slow day at AAA. I swear I didn't mean that to rhyme. Can October get here a little more quickly please?

write a book of poetry.
make sure you have a poem about moi........

 

[macraven]

thank you Carole.
i call my parents my parental units.



but really, they are more like my children.
they still have temper tantrums..........

spent from 8:ish to 10:50 at the hospital with the parental units.
when one goes somewhere with me, the other tags along.....

took them to 3 stores and then to walmart.
they decided they now hate walmart so i guess it will have to be Kmart for our next shopping outing for toothpaste.

we had a very late lunch/early dinner at the local cafe in town.
they HAD to have chicken fried steak dinner.

i don't know why.
it's so blooming hot here and that plate they had was steaming.


now it is my time for a bit.
when the next shift is up for food, i'll be back in the kitchen.

catch youse all later tonight.

 

[donaldduck352]

Dropping in to say hellow homies.

 

[KStarfish82]

Happy Monday all!

 

[macraven]

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is the new WWE champ!!!!

 

[KStarfish82]

J
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is the new WWE champ!!!!

I haven't watch wrestling in a while, but isn't it John Cena?

 

[macraven]

I haven't watch wrestling in a while, but isn't it John Cena?

ok smarty pants who teaches health and not english..........

i fixed my error.



i was so excited.........my fingers slipped on the keyboard.
that's my story and i'm sticking to it.....

 

[RAPstar]

I'm so glad I woke up on time this morning. I either forgot to turn the alarm on or turned it off in my sleep. I woke up at 7:07 instead of 7. Usually it would be 8:45 and I have to be at work at 9, and it takes 30 minutes to get there. So yay me!

 

[macraven]

woohoo.
the early bird (almost) caught the worm...


and he got to work on time.

yaa, andy....

 

[RAPstar]

Yes I did make it on time.....now if only it was time to go already.

 

[Melanie230]

Seriously...I have no idea why DH and I are so fired up over this trip. We try to surprise the kids with our trips, but didn't last year when we went to Disney. We really have them believing that there is NO TRIP this year since we got a new puppy in January. I can not WAIT to get them this year.

 

[macraven]

welcome back homie family of melanie.....

keep it a secret.

that is one of the kewl things about making the trip fun for kids.

then if they whine that it's not the motherland you are going to, i have no reply to that one....


if your kids trick or treat in october, buy them halloween costumes with universal characters.

give it to them the morning you leave and keep them wondering, what the heck does this mean......???

tell them that is their one clue for the trip destination.


but, don't pack the costumes.
takes up too much luggage space and limits shopping at UO and city walk.

 

[Melanie230]

What is hilarious is we only did Disney the last couple of years because of the FD. When we left Disney last year the kids said...We are done with Disney...can we go to Universal next time? We gave them a trip to the Great Wolf Lodge last year for Christmas. About 2 weeks before we left our beloved 14 yr old Golden Retriever PJ suddenly got sick and we had to put him to sleep. We were devastated. We got a new puppy, and told the kids no October trip this year due to the new puppy. (and we meant it...at the time ) I sell Thirty One bags and I had a promotion bonus coming up...I told the kids IF I got my bonus I would buy annual passes for Universal. I hit my $1000 promotion bonus and bought the passes. I then started looking at hotel rates. We decided to go IF we could get grandma to come and watch our new puppy and our other Golden. She agreed and I bought her a ticket to fly up just before we leave. So we have been working on the surprise....what to do what to do. So I decided to take the train this year. SO CHEAP!!! So I am having a posterboard sign made with the US/IOA logo and the Hogwarts train below it and it will say ALL ABOARD!!! My dad is taking us to the train station so he will arrive on Sunday evening and stand outside holding the sign. When he rings the doorbell, I will have the kids go to the door and he will be standing there with the sign. They will FREAK! In case you guys haven't seen our surprise two years ago...here is the link. It was fabulous! We had them thinking that we were driving to Grandma's house in Georgia. We decided to tell them just before breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Everyone was watching and applauded when they saw what we did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OW3KaUFVNo

 

[macraven]

awesome !!

 

[RAPstar]

I stupidly just made a big mistake. In trying to pinch pennies for this trip, I was checking Hotwire to see what I could find. I saw one that was $34/night, and it was a condo. I looked a Trip advisor and tried to narrow down to what I thought it would be, and came up with 2 that seemed the most likely to be the hotel, and they both seemed pretty nice too. So I took the bait and........nope neither of the 2. It was one I didn't even see on Trip Advisor while searching based on amenities/ratings and such. I found it on TA.....its horrible. The first 10 reveiws are all negative and even the positive ones aren't all that positive. So now I'm stuck at this horrible hotel, and on top of that I have the hotel for days I don't need cause I put the wrong check out date (which is still cheaper than the other hotel). Now I'm even more depressed than I have been. Oh well.

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

I stupidly just made a big mistake. In trying to pinch pennies for this trip, I was checking Hotwire to see what I could find. I saw one that was $34/night, and it was a condo. I looked a Trip advisor and tried to narrow down to what I thought it would be, and came up with 2 that seemed the most likely to be the hotel, and they both seemed pretty nice too. So I took the bait and........nope neither of the 2. It was one I didn't even see on Trip Advisor while searching based on amenities/ratings and such. I found it on TA.....its horrible. The first 10 reveiws are all negative and even the positive ones aren't all that positive. So now I'm stuck at this horrible hotel, and on top of that I have the hotel for days I don't need cause I put the wrong check out date (which is still cheaper than the other hotel). Now I'm even more depressed than I have been. Oh well.

... did you already give up your Holiday Inn ressie???

 

[RAPstar]

... did you already give up your Holiday Inn ressie???

I had to. You have to prepay with Hotwire, and its non-refundable. And there's no way in heck I can come up with money to pay for both.

 

[Melanie230]

Just take a BIG can of Lysol, and lots of Clorox wipes! That is the only bad part about Hotwire. Sorry...but just remember...SLEEP AND SHOWER!