Squeak, Squeaker, Squeakin'.....October 2014 PTR

[annegirl]

I love how the shirts turned out! Great job!

 

[ZehnJahren]

Congrats on 6 years together.

The shirts are all great! They all look perfect! I especially like the bat one. Those tiny little teeth.

I saw a different time for 7DMT come up when I was looking too, but it was earlier than my current 1:40 - 2:40 and I wanted it later. I hope you get the time you're looking for; I think it's very, very possible you will!

 

[MidnightParade]

Love how the shirts came out! Birthday shirt is awesome!! Too cool

Yay for 7DMT, but boo on being tight on time! I'd keep checking like you said for a later time, or move the taxi up if you don't get one...

Getting closer!!

I think the birthday t-shirt is my favorite! I hope he likes it!!

As much as I hate getting up early for our first MK I'm thinking it will be the best bet. But I'm hopeful a later will come up later on. I would take just an hour later!

I love how the shirts turned out! Great job!

Thank you! I'm pretty excited about them!

Congrats on 6 years together.

The shirts are all great! They all look perfect! I especially like the bat one. Those tiny little teeth.

I saw a different time for 7DMT come up when I was looking too, but it was earlier than my current 1:40 - 2:40 and I wanted it later. I hope you get the time you're looking for; I think it's very, very possible you will!

Thank you! I feel pretty lucky to get those 6 years!

The bat is pretty cute! They had a Minnie version but I liked Mickey.

Makes me feel better that you have seen different times come up aswell. its hard cause I don't want to obsess about sitting here and hitting refresh all the time but I really want a later time!

 

[Chicago Mo]

The shirts are ADORABLE!!!! You did a great job!!!!

Love SURPRISES!!!

 

[MidnightParade]

The shirts are ADORABLE!!!! You did a great job!!!!

Love SURPRISES!!!

Thank you!

I was so nervous they would wrinkle or not stick but they turned out okay! I seriously can't wait to get there wear them!!

 

[ChanFO]

Love the shirts!

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Happy belated Anniversary!!

I like the romantic "goober" stuff lol I think along those same lines a lot too - DH and I have been together for 8.5 years now, and it seems to have gone so fast, yet I can't believe it's almost 10 years.

I love your t-shirts! They turned out so nice

 

[MidnightParade]

Love the shirts!

Thank you!! I'm pretty excited about them!

Happy belated Anniversary!!

I like the romantic "goober" stuff lol I think along those same lines a lot too - DH and I have been together for 8.5 years now, and it seems to have gone so fast, yet I can't believe it's almost 10 years.

I love your t-shirts! They turned out so nice

Aww thank you!! I could have probably gone on and on and with the goober stuff but I was able to restrain myself lol. Happy to know others feel the same way! Wow almost 10 years thats fantastic! It is nice to have boys around after all!! !

I'm really looking forward to getting to try out the shirts! (must resist the temptation to make more though!)

 

[AAshleySEG]

Not sure how I missed the shirt post...but anyway I just now noticed it

They look great!!! You did such a good job on them, they are going to be totally awesome when you two are wearing them together!!

Yay for Anniversary!! I hope we all make it to that next 60 years together mark!!

Woohoo Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Fastpass for the first day!! I know it isn't an ideal time for you, but maybe you will find a better one if you keep looking. I always wake up super early when I am on vacation so changing that time to 7:30 for me would be easy... If only I could sleep later on vacation like a normal person!

P.S.

I am Groot.

 

[MidnightParade]

Not sure how I missed the shirt post...but anyway I just now noticed it

They look great!!! You did such a good job on them, they are going to be totally awesome when you two are wearing them together!!

Yay for Anniversary!! I hope we all make it to that next 60 years together mark!!

Woohoo Seven Dwarfs Mine Train Fastpass for the first day!! I know it isn't an ideal time for you, but maybe you will find a better one if you keep looking. I always wake up super early when I am on vacation so changing that time to 7:30 for me would be easy... If only I could sleep later on vacation like a normal person!

P.S.

I am Groot.

Aww thanks, I think they turned out pretty awesome!! I'm just excited that Andy is not only okay but seems genuinely looking forward to wearing them together!

I wish I could get up earlier. I thought that the older you get the less sleep you need! But nope I'm dragging myself out of bed every morning. Its sooo annoying.

P.S.

WE are Groot!

 

[AAshleySEG]

P.S.

WE are Groot!

 

[khaleesi]

My Facebook post after seeing "Guardians" was something along the lines of... "For anyone who questions that Marvel owns the universe, I am officially in love with a tree."



I did the flip-flop thing with an ADR I had made too. Booked Le Cellier, canceled, questioned my sanity, considered rebooking it and never did. And it was definitely the right decision!

I LOVE your shirts!!!!!!! And YAY for getting the 7DMT FP!!

Happy belated anniversary

 

[MidnightParade]

My Facebook post after seeing "Guardians" was something along the lines of... "For anyone who questions that Marvel owns the universe, I am officially in love with a tree."



I did the flip-flop thing with an ADR I had made too. Booked Le Cellier, canceled, questioned my sanity, considered rebooking it and never did. And it was definitely the right decision!

I LOVE your shirts!!!!!!! And YAY for getting the 7DMT FP!!

Happy belated anniversary

I definitely want a dancing baby Groot now! I was honestly pretty nervous about James Gunn directing. He's done some good films and I like him but I wasn't sure if he could handle this really big epic comic to film adventure. But he did well! I mean there are some things I wasn't crazy about like the bad guy, just seemed to rely to much on the title of bad guy instead of showing us why he was a bad guy I think(or something like that!). Although Thanos was pretty epic and I can't wait to see him in future Marvel movies!

I think at Disney less is more. Rushing and trying to cram ADR's creates more stress. But if you don't have them I don't think you really notice cause there are still great places to eat! So need to remind myself to balance!!!

Happy to see you out and about!

 

[MidnightParade]

I'm back! Apologies for my absence, I was taking an unintentional break from the interwebz. Been a little busy and its just nice to not worry about logging in to the email and needing to send this or do that! So lots, possibly, to write about!

Firstly, its now September 1st, you know what that means? Next month we go to Disney!!

Wooo! Plus I can totally pull out the luggage now and start prepacking! Actually I'm surprised I haven't done it yet today!

So not to get off the Disney topic but hit a milestone for myself and I'm pretty proud and excited. I finally reached 5K straight jogging! I know for some this is easy peasey but for me its pretty awesome. We did a Couch to 5K program(app) last summer and got to 30 minutes straight but it was around 3.8K. This summer when we started up again(we don't run in the winter) we were in better shape. Andy was doing 5K before he talked me back into hitting the pavement again. He can do it in 32-34 minutes. I'm doing 5K in 37-39 minutes. Still, I'm happy and kinda not looking forward to the winter months and being chased back inside. I'll probably try to keep in running shape on the treadmill but its not the same.

So yes, if you think that there is no way you can do it, I'm telling you you can. Might not be for a few months but you put the work in and you'll get there! I used to tell Andy there was no way I can jog for 5 minutes!! Then it was 15 minutes and then no way, not a chance I can go 25 minutes straight! And while I am gross and sweaty afterwards I feel awesome! So yes, you can feel gross and awesome too!!

Okay back to Disney!

Umm, you guys, I got Mickey Mail! Before when I got "Mickey" mail it was my Undercover Tourist Tickets, or Disney decals or something not from Disney but for our trip. But last week we got honest to god, Pixie Dusted, Mickey Mail!!

I was not expecting this at all! Since we are renting DVC and it was booked back in the winter and came after FP+ was booked too. It was a very happy and sqee-ful surprise though! We got the Dumbo magnet, it just has our check in date but still fun. I LOVE this booklet and that its personalized, and not just with our resort but my name is in pictures and they knew we had Memory Maker already and they mentioned Andy's birthday celebration!

How awesome is that?! I made Andy read through it as well. He doesn't get excited until a few days out but I thought I would try! lol. He did get interested in it though and thought it was pretty awesome.

We also talked about the 7DMT I have booked for our first morning. He said he doesn't want to change our plans(taxi pick up) around and rush for just a ride. And I agree with him, especially as we have it booked for later in the trip as well(And Andy knows itsgoing to stress me out and doesn't want me to deal with that). So I think I may just keep it incase things go smoothly and we get to the park in plenty of time to get there without rushing. And if we don't I can still rebook something else. Although it might be hard for me to not want to rush when we get there especially if its so close to the cut off time, so it might be better to just cancel and book something else before hand. Not really sure what to do. I'll keep checking for a better time to open up but I'm not holding my breathe.

Also I finally got the Kronk t-shirt I ordered for Andy. Its not as nice as I was expecting. The lettering is not a solid bold black and seems like their "printer" was running out of ink. He thought it was fun though but honestly, I'll be okay/fine if he ends up not wearing it.

So here is the Kronk shirt and the 'Walt Disney' or as I like to all it Heisenberg Mickey shirt.

So we are now set for clothing and our t-shirts. I'm sure I'll have to try everything on before we go though to make sure it all fits.

Some money saving news! Thanks to the Dis I found out about a deal at the Buffalo hotel we are staying at and we're saving $50 now!! How awesome is that?! Although I was honestly very very close to changing hotels as there have been mixed reviews on it lately and apparently one of the elevators hasn't worked for a few weeks creating a line to use the working one or people having to take the stairs. I could have changed hotels for the same price but now will be staying put thanks to the discount. We'll be there for less then 12hrs and just think of the extra Mickey Bars we can buy with $50!!

Well I hope everyone has had a great long weekend!!



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[ZehnJahren]

I was wondering how your trip planning was going! Glad to see you back!

Congrats on the running milestone!

I still LOVE the Kronk shirt!!

 

[AAshleySEG]

Its so great that you are jogging the full 5k!! How fantastic!! I remember when we first started running I thought to myself...oh my gosh, 3 miles...I am expected to run 3 miles!!!! Now I look back at that after doing the Goofy challenge, which was 39.3 miles over two days, and think how far we have come since then! I can't wait to get started training for the Princess Half, we have not done any "race" running since 2012 so I need to get back into it! I did map out my schedule though and have us starting our training in November!

Next month!! WOOHOO! Andy and I being birthday twins!! I know you guys are going to have a great time, and don't stress too much about SDMT! You will definitely be riding it later on in your trip! Where you live winter running has to be crazy, where we live Fall/Winter running is the best!! I can get like an ocean breeze and it still be like 50 degrees + outside, so I am really looking forward to that! Plus, since we live in an area where it is touristy in the summer, it is nice for everyone to just GO AWAY during the fall and winter and I can run in peace without having someone try to run me off the road with their car!

Yay Mickey Mail!!!! Actual Mickey Mail!!! That just makes it official! You are totally going to Disney World next month!!

You can use that $50 to buy Mickey Bars!!, I would use it at the Food & Wine Festival..LOL I am still dreaming and drooling about all of the food, and I finally get to taste some of it in 17 days! Hopefully I will get to that part of my TR before we leave for the October trips that way you can see what some of the food looked like, or what we liked and such!! This is all just getting too exciting!!

 

[annegirl]

I can't see anything wrong with the ink on the shirt through the pictures. That is frustrating when something isn't exactly what you expect it to be. But the shirts look so cool. I love them.
Mickey Mail is so much fun!
And way to go on the 5K. That's the farthest I have ever run. My mom runs marathons and I used to try running with her. But... I just hate running. Hate it. So I did a couple 5K's but never farther than that.

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Be proud of your running! 5K is awesome, and the fact that you are doing it at all is what is important.

Your trip is next month! It is coming so fast. I can't believe it is September already.

I LOVE that Heisenberg Mickey shirt!!

Can you pass on the info about the Buffalo hotel deal? Sometimes we head that way so I'm sure it could be beneficial at some point!

 

[MidnightParade]

I was wondering how your trip planning was going! Glad to see you back!

Congrats on the running milestone!

I still LOVE the Kronk shirt!!

Happy to be back although the break was nice too! lol

The Kronk shirt is still pretty cool. I guess it was just more vibrant in the picture! I do hope Andy wears it cause I think people will get a kick out of it, but I won't be devastated if he doesn't.

Its so great that you are jogging the full 5k!! How fantastic!! I remember when we first started running I thought to myself...oh my gosh, 3 miles...I am expected to run 3 miles!!!! Now I look back at that after doing the Goofy challenge, which was 39.3 miles over two days, and think how far we have come since then! I can't wait to get started training for the Princess Half, we have not done any "race" running since 2012 so I need to get back into it! I did map out my schedule though and have us starting our training in November!

Next month!! WOOHOO! Andy and I being birthday twins!! I know you guys are going to have a great time, and don't stress too much about SDMT! You will definitely be riding it later on in your trip! Where you live winter running has to be crazy, where we live Fall/Winter running is the best!! I can get like an ocean breeze and it still be like 50 degrees + outside, so I am really looking forward to that! Plus, since we live in an area where it is touristy in the summer, it is nice for everyone to just GO AWAY during the fall and winter and I can run in peace without having someone try to run me off the road with their car!

Yay Mickey Mail!!!! Actual Mickey Mail!!! That just makes it official! You are totally going to Disney World next month!!

You can use that $50 to buy Mickey Bars!!, I would use it at the Food & Wine Festival..LOL I am still dreaming and drooling about all of the food, and I finally get to taste some of it in 17 days! Hopefully I will get to that part of my TR before we leave for the October trips that way you can see what some of the food looked like, or what we liked and such!! This is all just getting too exciting!!

39.3miles?!!! I can't even imagine. Huge props to you doing it and surviving!! lol Winter running here is NOT fun. especially this past winter. I know you can get the spike thingys for the shoes but Andy hasn't been interested in them and I just don't like running in the cold. I'm a pansy!! It must be fantastic to get to run in your corner of the continent! especially in the fall with the colors! (We get colors too but I always think you guys get it nicer ever since I watched the first season of October Road.)

I can't wait to see how you liked F&W festival! Although its nice to think about when you are posting about the eats I will be actually eating them!! Nomnomnomnom!! lol

Oh, and I'm not stressing about 7DMT anymore. Dundundunnnnn!! You'll have to wait till my next update though! muahahahah!!

 

[MidnightParade]

I can't see anything wrong with the ink on the shirt through the pictures. That is frustrating when something isn't exactly what you expect it to be. But the shirts look so cool. I love them.
Mickey Mail is so much fun!
And way to go on the 5K. That's the farthest I have ever run. My mom runs marathons and I used to try running with her. But... I just hate running. Hate it. So I did a couple 5K's but never farther than that.

You have to see it up close I guess but the lettering is not a solid continuous black. As if someone put tape over it and ripped it off and took some black specs off the shirt. While I am a little disappointed in it I'm not going to raise a stink with the company.

I'm pretty happy about the 5K. I don't love running at all, but it leaves me with an accomplished feeling which is nice! Although I don't think I will ever be in marathon shape.

Be proud of your running! 5K is awesome, and the fact that you are doing it at all is what is important.

Your trip is next month! It is coming so fast. I can't believe it is September already.

I LOVE that Heisenberg Mickey shirt!!

Can you pass on the info about the Buffalo hotel deal? Sometimes we head that way so I'm sure it could be beneficial at some point!

Trip is next month! And just think, the closer my trip is the closer your trip is!!

I'm proud of the 5K! Well I keep reminding myself to be!

Heisenberg Mickey is the best!!!!

I only learned about the deal through the Canadian forums on the Dis. The deal was through Peace Bridge Duty Free here. We went with the Days Inn. Basically they are just trying to get you to stop in the Duty Free shop and shop. I've heard you don't need to pick up the package though and we don't plan on it right now. Although if I keep hearing bad things I may be tempted to change over to the Sleep Inn. We will see!!