DIS Dads The DIS Dad's Club VI - Man's Room

[5stljayhawks]

Hi all,

Think I may have a new criteria, when at least 50% of your tee shirts are Disney!

Oh yah there is the MM winter hat, shorts, golf bag tag, mini MM pack pack clip on.

20 days and counting. Ummmnnnnn. I can just hear main street and smell the park.

We're sitting her watching Beauty and the Beast with the two youngest. Prepping for the trip is so hard.....

 

[AirGoofy]

What restaurant are you going to?

Nothing good. Longhorn. One of my relatives is in the psychotic stage of life, and traveling more than a few blocks results in hysteria.

She asked me what I thought would be a good Thanksgiving drink and the only response I could come up with was Wild Turkey.

That's good thinking. Technically, any alcohol drink in the presence of relatives is a good Thanksgiving drink.

she drinks maybe 3 times a year and i drink once a year, it dont take much to take the edge off. if you ever watched everybody loves raymond, my mother in law is marie barone!!!

Unfortunately, my body mass needs more to get the edge off, and I am happy to accomplish that. My MIL is not Marie, but certainly has some qualities, and lives about 3 miles away. I can tolerate her, but the other in-laws .... Last year, I started drinking at 9:00 AM.

 

[AJRitz]

Hi all,

Think I may have a new criteria, when at least 50% of your tee shirts are Disney!

Oh yah there is the MM winter hat, shorts, golf bag tag, mini MM pack pack clip on.

20 days and counting. Ummmnnnnn. I can just hear main street and smell the park.

We're sitting her watching Beauty and the Beast with the two youngest. Prepping for the trip is so hard.....

Always room for a fellow Jayhawk!

 

[JJ721]

Hi all,

Think I may have a new criteria, when at least 50% of your tee shirts are Disney!

Oh yah there is the MM winter hat, shorts, golf bag tag, mini MM pack pack clip on.

20 days and counting. Ummmnnnnn. I can just hear main street and smell the park.

We're sitting her watching Beauty and the Beast with the two youngest. Prepping for the trip is so hard.....

Ok, that's a coinicidence - we are watching Beauty and the Beast right now as well...

 

[FreezinRafiki]

I believe that the Monsters of the Midway are 7-3 right now, tied with that team in Wisconsin...

As for my choice of baseball teams, I catch a lot of grief from my friends for having the Cubs and WDW as my passions...something about living in a fantasy world??

Welcome from another Cubs fan! However, I live north of the cheese curtain, so my football loyalties lie firmly with the Packers.

Ah, I remember the pregnancy hormones. So what did you do to make her take the sledge hammer to the cabinets?

She hated those things since the day we bought this house. And I can't blame her. Original 1926 kitchen - 2 upper cabinets, 2 lower. Huge (yet very shallow) cast iron sink, and about 15 total square feet of counter space.

At 7 months pregnant with with child number 2, we decided that was the best time to remodel. She demanded the first swing!

And here's the "after" picture. The window trim still had to be put on, but we tore that room to the studs, re-insulated, new plumbing, new electric, new cabinets & counter top.

Hi all,

Think I may have a new criteria, when at least 50% of your tee shirts are Disney!

 

[middlepat]

In any event, glad to be part of this group, and I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

I'm sorry, we don't have room for Cubs fans.

Just kidding... sort of. Welcome to the club, glad to have you, make yourself at home.

Always room for one more Cubs fan. <kicking afwdwfan off his chair> Here's a free seat.

 

[JJ721]

Welcome from another Cubs fan! However, I live north of the cheese curtain, so my football loyalties lie firmly with the Packers.



And here's the "after" picture. The window trim still had to be put on, but we tore that room to the studs, re-insulated, new plumbing, new electric, new cabinets & counter top.

So we have one thing in common - we're both happy that the Vikings are struggling! Congrats on the kitchen - it looks great.

 

[JJ721]

Always room for one more Cubs fan. <kicking afwdwfan off his chair> Here's a free seat.

Excellent! Next year is our year (maybe...)

 

[FreezinRafiki]

Excellent! Next year is our year (maybe...)

Yup, Middlepat - he's one of us. He has the rallying cry down pat!

 

[Disney Commando]

All new Dads

Hope everyone has a HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Who's going to watch the parades on TV

 

[BigTex71]

Happy Thankgiving, all.

I have my turkey brining in an apple cider-based brine, then I will put the bird in the smoker in the morning - using a mixture of hickory and apple wood. I did that last year it was was a huge hit. I love me some smoked turkey! Maybe I'll upload some food porn to the thread tomorrow or Friday.

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

Happy Thanksgiving Dads!

 

[billybobblockhead]

My wife and I were in the grocery store last night and ended up in the liquor aisle. She gets the idea to get margarita mix and tequila for Thanksgiving. I was trying to give her a hard time and said that I didn't really consider margaritas to be a Thanksgiving type drink. She asked me what I thought would be a good Thanksgiving drink and the only response I could come up with was Wild Turkey.

Turkey daiquiris?????

I've been enjoying the conversation/banter on this thread, so I decided to join (#540). I'm like many of you in that I have a nutty obsession with WDW that isn't totally comprehended by my friends, so its great to hear from other guys who deal with the same thing. Don't get me wrong - my friends totally respect my obsession and some have even enjoyed time with our respective families together in WDW. It's just that when they stand in World Showcase and look around, they think "OK, that's cool". For me, it is so much more than that....

Thankfully, I have a DW and three DDs who are almost as crazy as I am, and we enjoy sharing the obsession with each other (although none of them are quite at my level). However, they are all ...uh...female, and they have varying levels of interest in things that I like to do or talk about re: WDW. For example, I can pretty much tell you where there are adult beverages sold in just about any part of WDW. I also like to talk about golfing at Disney courses (so far I've been able to try the Palm and Magnolia), as well as the Disney endurance races.

In any event, glad to be part of this group, and I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Welcome.

Need to vent and ask advice (all disclaimers noted!!)
So my wife calls me tears yesterday. She's been on FMLA since October, due to go back the first week in January. All proper paperwork filled out with her employer, etc. She works as a Day care provider, and has worked there for about 10 years. When she returns to work, she plans on taking our daughter with her, as we get a discount on the daycare rates, or so we thought. The original deal was 75% of the rate up to 18 months, then free after that for children of employees. Yesterday she got a call from her boss saying that the policy has changed. Whatever rate the employee is receiving is the rate that the child will receive for the entire time they're enrolled there. IE, no more Free daycare after 18months. But that's NOT the kicker. She was told that if she DOESN'T return to work on Dec 1 (4 weeks early for her leave), she will NOT even get the discount. Mind you, she's off on FMLA. I would think that she's protected from practices like this. She was offered to come back part-time for the remainder, then full time once her FMLA is up. I told her to tell them to take their discount and beverly it . The extra $200 a month we'll have to pay isn't worth it for her to go back to work early, and besides, I think they're dead wrong on this issue and if we push it with a labor attorney, the tune might change...but I might be wrong. This place is too much agravation for an $11/hr job!!
Feel free to advise away, LOL. I'm not a legal expert but from what I've read FMLA is designed to protect workers from losing jobs and benefits, even from policies that are enacted while the worker is off on FMLA! I'm shaking my head over this one. Ugh.

I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but something there just doesn't sound right. Not just the legal end of it but, in my opinion only, there is something that is not morally or ethically correct about what they are doing either. Hope that the folks that made that decision can sleep at night, because I know that if it was me that made the decision, I'm not sure that I could sleep with a clear conscience.

welcome jj721!!! i lost my balls at the buena vista course a few years ago. we had fun!

Sounds like a personal problem to me Hope that you found them

wdw site has the june park hours up if anyone is going in june. ill be there from the 18th till the 26th.

Hey, we're there that week (18th - 25th, IIRC). Maybe we can meet up somewhere along the way.

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving. I'm headed off here in a few to run a 5K Turkey Trot. First time that I've ever done a race on Thanksgiving, but since DW had to work last night and DD and DS spent the night with their nana last night, I decided that this could easily be done.

 

[dvczerfs]

Welcome from another Cubs fan! However, I live north of the cheese curtain, so my football loyalties lie firmly with the Packers.



She hated those things since the day we bought this house. And I can't blame her. Original 1926 kitchen - 2 upper cabinets, 2 lower. Huge (yet very shallow) cast iron sink, and about 15 total square feet of counter space.

At 7 months pregnant with with child number 2, we decided that was the best time to remodel. She demanded the first swing!

And here's the "after" picture. The window trim still had to be put on, but we tore that room to the studs, re-insulated, new plumbing, new electric, new cabinets & counter top.

nothing like a women with a sledge hammer!!! around our area, people pay about 400 bucks for those old ci sinks if there in good shape.

in case anybody was wondering, DW got passed the first interview and will be flying out to Indianapolis Sunday night for a Monday morning 'second' interview.

On a different note, last night we had dinner at the Grand Floridian for Cinderella's Happily Ever After Dinner, and I probably ate about $150 worth of food, at least that's how it felt afterwards. The girls loved it, and I'll say it was 'ok', I prefer Cinderella's Royal Table when it comes to the Royal themed dining, so did the girls. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving, we will be celebrating inside of MK and, as the news above will lead you to believe, we will be quite Thankful for this new opportunity. We know it's not in the bag yet, but asking her to fly out there for a second interview only one day after her first interview is pretty telling.

Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow with your families, I know I will.

Always room for one more Cubs fan. <kicking afwdwfan off his chair> Here's a free seat.

Turkey daiquiris?????



Welcome.



I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but something there just doesn't sound right. Not just the legal end of it but, in my opinion only, there is something that is not morally or ethically correct about what they are doing either. Hope that the folks that made that decision can sleep at night, because I know that if it was me that made the decision, I'm not sure that I could sleep with a clear conscience.



Sounds like a personal problem to me Hope that you found them



Hey, we're there that week (18th - 25th, IIRC). Maybe we can meet up somewhere along the way.

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving. I'm headed off here in a few to run a 5K Turkey Trot. First time that I've ever done a race on Thanksgiving, but since DW had to work last night and DD and DS spent the night with their nana last night, I decided that this could easily be done.

most of them are in the 9 million acres of water that is on that course.

 

[dvczerfs]

Turkey daiquiris?????



Welcome.



I'm not a lawyer, and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but something there just doesn't sound right. Not just the legal end of it but, in my opinion only, there is something that is not morally or ethically correct about what they are doing either. Hope that the folks that made that decision can sleep at night, because I know that if it was me that made the decision, I'm not sure that I could sleep with a clear conscience.



Sounds like a personal problem to me Hope that you found them



Hey, we're there that week (18th - 25th, IIRC). Maybe we can meet up somewhere along the way.

Everyone have a great Thanksgiving. I'm headed off here in a few to run a 5K Turkey Trot. First time that I've ever done a race on Thanksgiving, but since DW had to work last night and DD and DS spent the night with their nana last night, I decided that this could easily be done.

we have to meet up!!!

 

[dvczerfs]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE AND WELCOME NEW DADS!!

 

[stopher1]

Happy Thanksgiving Guys!!

 

[FreezinRafiki]

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! One of the things I'm thankful for is...


The Single Digits Dance! 9 days to go!






Hey, what the peanut butter is that clown doing in there?!?

 

[afwdwfan]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

in case anybody was wondering, DW got passed the first interview and will be flying out to Indianapolis Sunday night for a Monday morning 'second' interview.

On a different note, last night we had dinner at the Grand Floridian for Cinderella's Happily Ever After Dinner, and I probably ate about $150 worth of food, at least that's how it felt afterwards. The girls loved it, and I'll say it was 'ok', I prefer Cinderella's Royal Table when it comes to the Royal themed dining, so did the girls. Tomorrow, Thanksgiving, we will be celebrating inside of MK and, as the news above will lead you to believe, we will be quite Thankful for this new opportunity. We know it's not in the bag yet, but asking her to fly out there for a second interview only one day after her first interview is pretty telling.

Hope you guys have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow with your families, I know I will.

Congratulations to you and your wife! Hope Monday goes well for her!

Hi all,

Think I may have a new criteria, when at least 50% of your tee shirts are Disney!

Oh yah there is the MM winter hat, shorts, golf bag tag, mini MM pack pack clip on.

20 days and counting. Ummmnnnnn. I can just hear main street and smell the park.

We're sitting her watching Beauty and the Beast with the two youngest. Prepping for the trip is so hard.....

Welcome to the club, good to have you. I think that would make a good addition to the list of criteria!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Happy Thanksgivin’ Y’all

I’m thankful for many things in this life, and oddly enough, one of them is this little group.
Hug your families and have a great day.