The Battle For My Wallet V: Beyond the Number IV (Chapter Eighteen, p.75, 5/18)

[lisalonglash]

Awesome, just awesome

 

[JKMJ441724]

Welcome to MA. We're wicked cool here.

By "wicked cool" do you mean still shoveling the snow off the walk? It was wicked cool when I visited there - in AUGUST.

We share a coin-op washer/dryer in our tenement. Our second floor neighbors do this all the time. There's only two of them down there, but I swear to you, they have about 10 loads of laundry to do every Monday

She must have kids. Probably a six year old girl and a very-nearly four year old boy. And a husband. After that statement, I feel the need to clarify that I have never met Tinkerbellarella, nor would I leave my ten loads of laundry in her washer. Per se.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

By "wicked cool" do you mean still shoveling the snow off the walk? It was wicked cool when I visited there - in AUGUST.

Don't you know the Massachusetts motto? Don't like the weather? Wait 5 minutes.

She must have kids. Probably a six year old girl and a very-nearly four year old boy. And a husband.

Seriously. Two adults. That's it. TEN loads of clothes. I could scream.

Now back to your regular ZZUB programming.

 

[CampbellScot]

wow! Two chapters in a row was an unexpected blessing!!

yeah...the whole "Gawd Forbid" thing...you hear it a lot around these parts. It's almost like a conversational tic...as well as the asking of highly inappropriate/personal questions...usually at a FOGHORN volume... I was in a small family owned ice cream shop once and I happened to have a "Baby Pottery Barn" catalog with me...the woman at the counter asks/shouts "Oh my GAWD, are you PREGNANT?"...before I can say "NO", this woman reaches across the counter, pats my belly and announces that "skinny as you are you'll be showing in no time!" She then notices my lack of a wedding ring and shouts "You better hurry up and get married!" She then looks at my mother,(who was visiting the East Coast for the first time), gives her a wink and says "Kids today can't wait can they?" My mother was too aghast to speak!

pretty much the entire shop was staring at me...probably contemplating just how long it would in fact take for me to start showing...and perhaps if my mother was embarrassed that her daughter was pregnant out of wedlock...



your wife IS a trooper, she handled that well!

I know what you mean about traveling with friends...not so much my cup of tea either. I want to hang with my family and do what we do without having to deal with anyone else's issues...mine are more than enough for my family to handle! I'm glad your dinner at Epcot was a positive meeting of Disney lovin' folk.

wonderful chapter as usual!!

 

[ZZUB]

That's HOT.

That's funny.

After the rant above, I feel the need to clarify that I have never met ZZUB in his big boy pants and am not Washer Lady.

You say that, but how can we be sure? And they're big boy shorts. Not pants. Big boy pants are something entirely different.

Ok Z (may I call you Z?)

I have been called worse. I don't mind Z.

I've always enjoyed reading about your trips (I've mostly been a lurker) and I have always thought you have done a great job of putting your trips into words that can make us feel like we are really there with you (good times, and not so good times!) But today, I am most grateful to be reading, for you have blessed me. Thank you, and I wish you and your family health and many more trips to Disney!

I sure do appreciate your encouragement. It blesses me to think something I write can pick someone else up.

yeah...the whole "Gawd Forbid" thing...you hear it a lot around these parts. It's almost like a conversational tic...as well as the asking of highly inappropriate/personal questions...usually at a FOGHORN volume... I was in a small family owned ice cream shop once and I happened to have a "Baby Pottery Barn" catalog with me...the woman at the counter asks/shouts "Oh my GAWD, are you PREGNANT?"...before I can say "NO", this woman reaches across the counter, pats my belly and announces that "skinny as you are you'll be showing in no time!" She then notices my lack of a wedding ring and shouts "You better hurry up and get married!" She then looks at my mother,(who was visiting the East Coast for the first time), gives her a wink and says "Kids today can't wait can they?" My mother was too aghast to speak!

That's freakin hilarious! I love people. They kill me.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

And they're big boy shorts. Not pants. Big boy pants are something entirely different.

Gawd forbid a million times I ever call them big boy pants again.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

Thanks for another great chapter, Zzub!!!! I have been in bed witht he flu for the past few days, and have been able to read all of your trip reports on my laptop. Thank you so much for writing these, they are wonderful, uplifting, and truly inspiring!

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Still not falling for it. If you can answer the following question, I MIGHT believe you.
Where is Del working now?

 

[Tanya90210]

I love laundry stories like that.... no matter where the laundry room is... it always happens


Sounds like a great time with your friends, that's always great to hear especially when the kids are getting along so well

 

[DVCTiff]

http://photopost.wdwinfo.com/showphoto.php/photo/30295/sort/3/cat/500/page/1

Sorry Zzub - for the life of me, my programmer husband and I could not get the photo to publish so you'll just have to click the link for proof of the amazingness that is Cady, the dog twin! (A pic with her ears back would really be a match, but I don't have all night)

Geez, I'm exhausted!

I KNOW WHERE DEL'S WORKING!!!!

 

[LISAMWDW]

That is the best laundry story I've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ZZUB]

I have been in bed witht he flu for the past few days, and have been able to read all of your trip reports on my laptop. Thank you so much for writing these, they are wonderful, uplifting, and truly inspiring!

Sorry to hear you've been sick all week. Surely reading my Trip Reports just prolonged the agony. I imagine reading them all together as you did they start to sound the same. Hope you're on the mend soon.

Still not falling for it. If you can answer the following question, I MIGHT believe you.

Just to know you're still wondering makes me all warm and tingly inside. Or that could be the Mexican we had for dinner last night.

Sounds like a great time with your friends, that's always great to hear especially when the kids are getting along so well

It was a lot of fun with them. Of course, if they were the kind of people who wrote Trip Reports (Gawd forbid a million times), who knows what their perspective might be.

Sorry Zzub - for the life of me, my programmer husband and I could not get the photo to publish so you'll just have to click the link for proof of the amazingness that is Cady, the dog twin!

I did click on the link and you are correct, your dog Cady looks A LOT like Schpupin J! He's headed to the vet this afternoon. Shhhh. He thinks he's just going on a big boy wide.

That is the best laundry story I've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This just begs the question, how many laundry stories have you heard? Do you hang out in the laundry? Or have you gone fluff and fold. One day, when I make it big, I'm going fluff and fold.

 

[Montana Disney Fan]

This just begs the question, how many laundry stories have you heard? Do you hang out in the laundry? Or have you gone fluff and fold. One day, when I make it big, I'm going fluff and fold.

I'm in charge of the laundry at our house now that DW is laid up after surgery. I take it to the cleaners.

 

[Crazy Kanga]

Ha, just what I thought!

 

[DVCTiff]

Hey ZZUB - Did you get snow on Friday?

Seems like that would have been a good time to sit around updating a trip report!

Hope Schpuppin J had a nice Big Boy Wide!

 

[Lisa P.]

...dog Cady looks A LOT like Schpupin J! He's headed to the vet this afternoon. Shhhh. He thinks he's just going on a big boy wide.

BTW, Arnie ( <== see my avatar) is wondering, have you ever needed an online (comic) translator for Schpupin J? Yes, there's one, and it's called The Dialectizer. Unfortunately, I don't think they realize Schpupin J is unrelated to Elmer Fudd.

I entered "going on a big boy ride" and it told me that he's "going on a big boy wide" - go figuwe!

 

[MNRMommy]

zzub,

First I would like to say that in the camp of zee zub versus zub (as in ryhmes with tub) i was at first a zee zub pronunciator. However, about the third installment of zzub vs the Disney machine I started pronouncing it zzub as in a revin of my z's much like my seventh grade spanish teacher would have me rev my r's, "zzzzzzzzzzub". It soundled like a car rounding the track right in front of me and sounded much more fitting to the manner of your writing. You are my ferarri.

Next, I would like to say to whomever it was that likened you to James Spader - "YECHHHHHHHH!!!!!" I can only assume they were too young to remember when "Pretty in Pink" came out. If they weren't then they would be totally disgusted with Steff. I can never forgive James Spader for Steff and yes I am dating myself.

However, my true meaning in posting to your trippie tonight is that I have spent the last few weeks disgustingly sick and took this time to read up on the Dis. I found your reports and because I did I saw in your siggy that you had written many, so I started with the first and have made my way slowly to page 20 of this report. No I don't want a cookie as my DH would ask (sorry if this makes no sense). I just wanted to say that tonight I put a lovely little lady of 6 years old to bed in tears because mommy finally did wrong and because of this I thought of you and I had peace.

I have spent my life trying to be a better person, parent and christian. I used to work 80 hour weeks and I truly thought that when I had kids I did so because my husband always wanted them but that they would have little effect on me. Boy was I wrong. I am my childrens mommy 100% and I live to make their lives true and happy. I absolutely cried for hours over your pain and my heart went out to you from one parent to another.

Our early married life was spent having fun and not caring about the future and due to that I had to work way past the point I cared to when the kids were born. But we stuck to it and paid off the "man" and I was able to quit the rat race and be simply mommy as of March of last year. So the reason for the tears tonight is trivial, I admit, but I felt it just the same.

Mommy was sick and forgot to sign DD up for the camp I had told her friends mommy she would attend with her. It was a done deal to everyone. But since mommy was sick and forgot, when I finally got around to it, DD was wiatlisted. This to me is a trivial matter in the greatter world but it hurts the 6yr old DD and so it upsets me but although the little one cries, I thought of you. How weird is that to think of a stranger at random moments of ones life? I thought of the trip that was the opposite of this one and the quest for the bunkbeds despite being hours late. And all I thought was we will get what God wants us to get and I have peace. Bunkbeds, waitlisted, it is all ok, Gods perfect timing to the trivial and the important will give us what we are supposed to have and there is peace. Thank you for your perspective, for sharing your TRUE pain, for letting us see your humanity and your struggle to be true to our God. And by all means please go back so I can keep reading.

 

[blue_river]

Drive By Post - Anyone here been following the CB and recent going-ons?

Crazy stuff!

 

[LaLa]

Drive By Post - Anyone here been following the CB and recent going-ons?

Crazy stuff!

You mean the cat yodeling thread? Yeah, I'd say that's crazy allright.

Where's ZZUB been? Teaching Schpupin how to yodel?

 

[ZZUB]

However, about the third installment of zzub vs the Disney machine I started pronouncing it zzub as in a revin of my z's much like my seventh grade spanish teacher would have me rev my r's, "zzzzzzzzzzub". It soundled like a car rounding the track right in front of me and sounded much more fitting to the manner of your writing. You are my ferarri.

'preace the compliment.

Next, I would like to say to whomever it was that likened you to James Spader - "YECHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

EXACTLY! He was even creepier in Mannequin. Whoever likened me to him has been on ignore ever since.

I found your reports and because I did I saw in your siggy that you had written many, so I started with the first and have made my way slowly to page 20 of this report . . . And all I thought was we will get what God wants us to get and I have peace. Bunkbeds, waitlisted, it is all ok, Gods perfect timing to the trivial and the important will give us what we are supposed to have and there is peace. Thank you for your perspective, for sharing your TRUE pain, for letting us see your humanity and your struggle to be true to our God. And by all means please go back so I can keep reading.

Thank you very much for sharing your story with me. I appreciate your transparency. I am grateful God has used me to be an encouragement to you. He has used your words to be an encouragement to me.

Drive By Post - Anyone here been following the CB and recent going-ons? Crazy stuff!

I confess, it took me a little while to figure out what you were talking about. I am speechless. I am without speech.

Where's ZZUB been? Teaching Schpupin how to yodel?

First of all, you don't teach Schpup anything. HE teaches us. Secondwy, who yodels anymore?! That's so last century. Silence is the new yodeling.