The Maelstromers... a FASTPASS!

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Afternoon! And props to all you peeps! Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Laaaaaaaaaaaaa, GeorgiaA, maxiesmom, babyhorsepony, SNAP, Pongo sweet Pongo, ZZUB, Freckles, tinkinadrink, AshClan, Eeyore... WHEW!!!! Hope I'm not missing anyone? Hey to the new kids. All that. If I forgot anyone... sorry... my memory is taxed. Today. I'm tired. Still woozy. From The General's April Fools Assault.

BABYHORSEPONY ~ thanks for such a GREAT description of EE in your TR. Now I'm not going to try and try to convince Beth to go unless she really wants to. It sounds too scary for her. I think.

Lil' Grumpy... did you say "Melstorm"? I think you did. You did. Didn't you? Don't be making any MORE work for Javamom now. Okay?

And, just for the record, I don't think that new kid named buzzton really IS ZZUB. I thought so earlier but now I'm not so sure. I don't think even snarky 'ol ZZUBie himself would stoop so low as to make up a fake persona. Don't worry... buzzton... I'm not mentally unbalanced and I WON'T stalk YOU. You're not witty enough. Heh, heh.

Well... April Fools Day was great fun. For everyone but ME. This is what happened:

Bright and early, it was still dark outside, Beth came into our bedroom and asked if she could crawl in the bed to snuggle. I moved over and let her in. I was half asleep. She started chatting and chatting and I kept asking her to go back to sleep so I could some more. She didn't. Then she sat up and screamed, "MOMMY! There's a spider on your shoulder!!!!". Well, I wasn't biting so I said, "Yeah, yeah. I realize what day it is Missy. Good try. Let me sleep some more." Well, she kept it up and seemed, to me, to be genuinely freaked out. But what do I know? I was still asleep. Mostly. So I sat up and looked down. There was a black spider on the edge of my pillow. "Ha, ha... good plant!" I said. But. THEN. It moved!!!! It ran across the pillow.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I REALLY HATE SPIDERS!!! So I dove off of the other side of the bed, over Mellyman, with such form and style that even Greg Louganis would have been impressed. I rolled away from the bed like I had just bailed from a moving car, jumped up and did my dance I call "I'm-Indiana-Jones-and-there-are-big-spiders-all-over-MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!". That one. I HATE that dance. While swatting at my body parts with my hands. And squealling. Like DH. And listening to everyone laugh madly. At me. 'Cause the stupid spider was on an almost invisible string and being pulled by sweet Lil' Calvie who was hiding under the bed. He must have slipped into the room like a commando because I swear I only heard Beth come in. Geez!!!! Very funny. So funny that I developed an instant piercing headache. From diving off of the bed and jumping up so fast. Bloodflow issues to the brain and all that. I slunk back into bed... hating all o

 

[Loubon]

Don't think for one minute that by creating aliases that you'll get a second entry in the Yearbook!

 

[pongoperdigirl]

I'm not even in there yet....hint hint

 

[HaleyB]

How many pages would I have to back-track in order to understand this page?

Oh, by the way....

Maelstrom!

Is a Fastpass?!??!!

Understanding is over-rated.

Mel too funny about the spider. I 'd do the same dance. ick.

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

Ahhh, the antics. Sorry Mel HappyHaunt that the great day upon which to play evil jokes on unsuspecting friends and family didn't go better, will, for you anyway. Sounds like it went great for others, hey, hey!

 

[GeorgiaAristocat]

Darn it! I forgot to even say what I came here to say - I'm looking for sympathy. I was happily (okay, not quite happily) headed back to work after lunch today, and stopped and got my mail. What should I find in the mail (besides the offers for credit cards and diaper coupons), but a letter from my friendly parole board informing me that the drugged-out maniac who attacked my husband 3 1/2 yrs ago, tried to take his gun, and was going to shoot him is being paroled next week.

Fabulous.

One less reason to go out in public, One more person to watch out for.

Think I can use this as a justification to go to Disney? Picture me telling my husband "but Honey, he won't think to look for us at Disney. We'll be safe there!"

 

[skent10]

I have given up on trying to catch up on this thread. Out of town for a few days and there's an explosion of messages!

I just wanted to say that my child is officially a crackhead now too, and while in Canada no less!

We were in the country for less than 6 hours (at my parents for less than 2) when 5 year old DS falls backward into the coffee table and splits the back of his head open (it was an oval coffee table with NO CORNERS! That takes skill!)

So off to the ER we go, on a Saturday evening. Where I have to explain to the lovely admittance clerk three times that I cannot give her his OHIP card because he doesn't have one because we live in the States! So I had to fork over $290 Cdn before we even see a doctor to determine if medical treatment is necessary at all! At least we didn't have to wait the 6 hours like Mel did--we were whisked right through in only 2 hours.

DS ended up with 2 staples in the back of his head--that would be $145 Cdn per staple, thank you very much. They were kind enough to give me the staple remover to take to a regular doctor's office to get them removed after seven days. HAH! My dad used to be an orderly in a hospital, and yanked those staples out free of charge on day six. How I love socialized medicine!

To boot, on the way back this weekend, about half an hour from finally getting home, same said DS gets his finger stuck in the VCR while trying to remove the movie they'd been watching in the back of the van. Picture me driving (well, as best you can since you don't know what I look like) in downtown Chicago at 70 mph with one hand on the wheel and the other hand trying to reach back and rip DS' finger out of the machine while he screams bloody murder. I threw a Kleenex at him to stem the flow of blood and booked it home (there is NO safe place to pull over on the interstate in Chicago). I let DH take a look at the finger and decide if it warrants another trip to the ER and it's iffy. So we erred on the side of laziness and self-preservation (two trips to the ER in one week? We really didn't want to have to explain ourselves to DCS) and lathered the finger with some Polysporin and a Spiderman bandaid.

We think the finger will actually be okay, but he'll definitely have a distinctive fingerprint that will make petty larceny a little more difficult for him when he grows up.

And did I reall miss a DIS meet at Square One?! Man, I was just there last week. Which scaffolding did you meet at?

 

[Frickles]

Mel it is too bad you got sick...but just look at your weekend of sickness as a step closer to the size 4 bikini....

GaAristocat... I'm nervous b/c I am in the same state as this freak.

 

[LaLa]

Melly Mel Mel....

That was too funny. I read it as one of my coworkers was talking to me. Then I started laughing out loud. Had to scramble to cover for that one. Shhh...He's still talking to me right now.

As we speak.

Or you know, as I type. I just keep shaking my head and saying "Uh huh...yeah...hmmmm...."

Little Calvin. Good one. You know what I say...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[maxiesmom]

Oh for Land a goshin'- would you people stop with the anonymous'eses! It is going to get all schizo around here and I will feel like I am at work.

That is too true!!

If I don't stop laughing at the computer, my family is going to think I am up to no good. Which I'm not. I'm not not up to no good. Right this minute anyways.

 

[Princessprissypie]

Not sure who this Zzub character is that everyone is confusing me for. I saw his trip report on the Trip Report Board but I couldn't get through it. It was just so . . . long. Tedious. Too much information, really. You love your wife, you love your daughter, you love Disney. Blah, Blah, Blah. We get it already. Move on.

We were thinking about going back to Disney World but now with this Free Dinning Plan everything is messed up. I hate when they run deals like this. I'd just rather pay full rack rate and not have as many bargain hunters running around.

We'll probably now go in July and just go to our favorite park, Epcot. I think we could spend a week there and never grow tired of it.

Does anyone know how to make the "ignore" function work? I keep seeing posts from some clearly unbalanced person who thinks she's a ghost. Also, her and her husband evidently have the same name. Weird. Is she her own husband?!

Hi there Buzzton!

I have to say that I absolutely agree with you about Epcot.

It's also MY favourite park!

But, you know, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

You should be nicer to ZZUB and Mel.

Hey everyone!!!! How're you all enjoying your wonderful day?



See you later! Maelstrom!!!!!!

 

[tink38]

Okay, I'm about to leave work to pick up my juvy son, but I just wanted y'all to know that there is a TEN page thread on someone who pierced her DS8's ear!

See y'all in a little bit!

Maelstrom!

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Don't think for one minute that by creating aliases that you'll get a second entry in the Yearbook!

Hey Loubon! You tell 'em!!!!!! Tear it up!

BTW... I checked out MY entry in the Yearbook. It rocks!!!! It's way cool!

I LOVELOVELOVE it. Thanks so much!

Cheers, Mel.

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Darn it! I forgot to even say what I came here to say - I'm looking for sympathy. I was happily (okay, not quite happily) headed back to work after lunch today, and stopped and got my mail. What should I find in the mail (besides the offers for credit cards and diaper coupons), but a letter from my friendly parole board informing me that the drugged-out maniac who attacked my husband 3 1/2 yrs ago, tried to take his gun, and was going to shoot him is being paroled next week.

Fabulous.

One less reason to go out in public, One more person to watch out for.

Think I can use this as a justification to go to Disney? Picture me telling my husband "but Honey, he won't think to look for us at Disney. We'll be safe there!"

That's awful!!!! I think policeofficers (there!) should get paid WAY more for what they do. Way more. But... I'd use it to get outta Dodge too. To WDW!

 

[Loubon]

I'm not even in there yet....hint hint

Ahem.....Page 214.

 

[J and R's mom]

See y'all in a little bit!

Maelstrom!

...IS A FASTPASS?!

....What should I find in the mail (besides the offers for credit cards and diaper coupons), but a letter from my friendly parole board informing me that the drugged-out maniac who attacked my husband 3 1/2 yrs ago, tried to take his gun, and was going to shoot him is being paroled next week....

Yikes! That's got to be VERY nerve-wracking. I'd say WDW would definitely be in order!

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

2 hours is NOTHING!!!!!

You're so lucky.

It's probably because you paid CASH.

OHIP SCHMOHIP.

I missed the Dismeet. I was at Westpoint.

Mel.

 

[Yzma and Kronk]

So off to the ER we go, on a Saturday evening. Where I have to explain to the lovely admittance clerk three times that I cannot give her his OHIP card because he doesn't have one because we live in the States! So I had to fork over $290 Cdn before we even see a doctor to determine if medical treatment is necessary at all! At least we didn't have to wait the 6 hours like Mel did--we were whisked right through in only 2 hours.

DD got sick in Georgia a few weeks back, and I only got charged $50. to see the Doc there.

Two hours in ER.........wow, paying customers truly do get great service!

ER......is a fastpass........when there is cash exchanged!

 

[1000thhappyhaunt]

Didn't know I had any hoobbies.

La La... I've been meaning to ask you all day... but I keep forgettin':

What on God's green earth is a "hoobbie"?

Is it anything like a "bee hoos"?

 

[PrincessAurora]

WOW! Gone for 4 days and there are 40 more pages. I will try to plow through all the wonderful ramblings tomorrow but wanted to give a MAELSTROM shout out.

What does suck is driving for 4 hours up I-5 (which is in the central valley of california and is all cows and fields and not a Crackerbarrel in sight) and it is all dark and I am tired from drinking too much sake and working and dressing up like a freak all weekeend and when I FINALLY see a Starbucks out in the middle of the God foridden wastelands of Kettleman City, it is closed. Closed at 10pm. It was 10:30 and I didn't get to Oakland from LA until midnight. NO CAFFINE. Those dogs sucked.