The Molecular change has begun.updated 6-09-09 (with Pictures)

[disneyaddicted]

You'd think after all this time I would learn how to multi quote

Mousermom Sci-Fi is the bomb diggity!!! My whole fam damily agreed, that was our favorite TS meal. it doesn't take much to entertain us.

We are in York County, just South of Red Lion

njdisneyfreak wow, you remember me. I have been MIA for a while now.
Yeah, Reese is our little shocker now, aside from the whole band thing it shocked me most when she gave up cheerleading all together, she always talked about cheering for Penn State. She's having way more fun with the band though and no injuries well, except when she sprained both wrists last week, but that had nothing to do with the band.

I totally forgot about Jim hiding his face in every picture, gosh, he's come so far.

Good to see you again too. Thanks for reading and thanks for the ego boost. much obliged

Vacation Lover Thanks for reading. And yes, the internet is great, I found my BFF and the Disboards, both are very dear to me.

shordiebeckaGlad to have you here. I'm happy you liked the story, I don't know if I can wait 9 months to see her though, I am actually thinking about driving down to see her this summer.

 

[disneyaddicted]

I have spent a few hours today scrapbooking my pictures from my December 2007 trip to Disney. It's taking me a long time. I love to relive some good times, but it's also bittersweet.

I took that trip with my DD Reese, my friend and business partner Theresa and her daughter Nicole. And it was fun, I had a blast. but 2 months after we got back from our trip Theresa did something that ruined our friendship and business relationship forever. I won't go into major detail, but it also involved her daughter and basically theresa threw Reese under the bus to make herself look better. She had grown adults, men mind you screaming at my daughter. I think a lot of people really knew the truth but was afraid to speak up since Theresa was their kids cheerleading coach they knew if they did say anything to help Reese it would jeapordize their childs position on the squad, I pulled my daughter off the squad that minute, resigned my position as a cheer coach there, and told Theresa our business relationship and our friendship is done. I haven't spoken to her since. I have since found out that during our 5 years as business partners she was placing side orders for embroidery work, we had always split every job 50/50 whether we did it ourseleves or subbed it out, she had subbed out several jobs and kept the profits. over $1,000 worth in 1 year. Why am I telling you this?...

Theresa and Nicole are in all my Disney pictures. I can't crop them out without ruining the picture or cropping some vital point, like half a characters face, some pics I could crop, but what I ended up doing was using my mickey head punch, I would punch out a mickey head, about the size of a quarter and place it over their face, always color coordinating with the theme of the page. It works great, I have managed to save the memories without the faces. People will look through my album and be like "Whatha?" What can i say?

Ok, moving on. I am already planning pages for my next trip, silly huh? My Disney albums always end up being so big that they fall apart, I really do squeeze too much into those albums, this past trip is going to take 2 albums no lie. So I, (actually it was Bo's idea) am going to minimize my picture taking, instead of taking pics of everything and scrapping it all, I am going to just take picuters of our group experiencing things, ya know, like for example let's say we went on the winnie the Pooh ride, I would snap pictures like crazy, now I plan to get a pic of the ride sign, a pic of us infront of or on the ride and maybe 1 important detail pic, won't know what it is until I see it, then I only have 3 pics of something to deal with as opposed to having to try and cram 20 pics onto a page or 2. then I will journal about the experience. That's my plan.

I also do not plan to bring my video camera this time, too many times I felt obligated to record and missed out on the actual living it, ya know? If I were rich instead of beautiful I would just hire someone to follow us and record it all for me, but since I don't play the lottery, and I base that decison on the fact that I have never won at Bingo, I don't think I'll be rich anytime soon.
I thought maybe if i invented something I could strike it rich, but it seems like all the ideas are taken already, I always say that, then up shows an infomercial and I think dang, I could have invented that, you know that clip that can allow you to wear a normal bra with anytype of shirt? YOu won't have to go out and buy one of those crisscross bras? Well when I was 13 I actually invented that, I did!!!!!! I just used a hair barrett. here I was all embarrased having my bra barretted back cause I couldn't afford a crisscross, who knew I could have made money off that idea? Also when I was a kid, I used to set my hot coco on a heating pad to keep it warm, and what now? some genius invented the mug warmer. I am cramming my brain trying to think of something to invent now.

 

[KathyRN137]

If I were rich instead of beautiful I would just hire someone to follow us and record it all for me

Kathy

 

[Vacation Lover]

I found my BFF and the Disboards,

You mean you met her on these boards? Cool--share that story!

 

[disneyaddicted]

I have set goals for myself for this trip.
First and formost, QUIT SMOKING, I wasn't a smoker on my last 2 trips, well I was but just a social smoker when going out to the club with the girls, then a little over a year ago I started doing the habit a little more around the house till, cough cough, I was up to a pack a day, then for a while 2 packs a day, I 've cut back a bit. I actually even quit for almost 2 months, cold turkey too, set them down and walked away. So when I started up again I was thinking I'd be able to quit super easy again, I have since learned that that was my 1 free get out of jail card, I just really want to quit and my will power is the size of a pea, a very small pea.

Lose weight, I'd like to drop 40 pounds by the trip, but really I'd be happy if I could drop the 4 I gained over Easter. I have actually lost 10 since I started smoking, I'm a little nervous about gaining weight if I quit. That my friends is a double edged sword and it cuts deep.

Save enough money to buy what I want and not suffer from the guilt troll. I hate the guilt troll, he constantly whispers in my ear, "Ty, did you really need those new shoes." I answer the troll, out loud half the time and end up getting wierd looks from people. "Yes you stupid troll, I need them for work."

Troll: You already have shoes for work
Ty: not brown ones.
Troll: Gas prices have gone up
Ty: well since I got new shoes I can walk to work then
Troll: 22 miles, sure, you can barely walk to the mailbox without panting
Ty: Then I will just quit smoking
Troll: You'll gain back all the weight
Ty: I really like these shoes, they're comfy without being dressy, I need them
Troll: You'll never wear them
Ty: I will tomorrow
Troll: Doesn't Reese need money for a new bathing suit, didn't Jim say he needs guitar strings?

So I put the shoes back. I always do that.

One of the reasons we booked for January is it's after Christmas, so christmas shopping will be done. What's up next? Valentines Day? I'll get the kids a gift while at Disney. This is totally doable.

Is a shopping plan considered a goal, cause my goal is to buy stuff for the trip? I want the crocs with the wool lining, and I want the Buxton bag, it has 16 compartments and an extention zipper, a place to hold your cell phone and water bottel, black leather, matches anything, comfortable over the shoulder strap, it's not just a bag, it's a way of life!

I am also thinking about ordering from garden grocer again, I need my vitamin water every day, and granola bites, I could probably pack the granola bites though, I suppose I could go without the vitamin water since I will have the refillable mug I'm afraid I won't get my moneys worth out of it if I'm sucking down vitamin water, ok, no garden grocer, strike that from the list.

I normally have a notebook going with all my plans, I haven't done that this time, I am working it all out right here, live, infront of a computer audience this isn't reality, it's webality

 

[disneyaddicted]

Kathy

It's true ya know! If I had money I could buy the looks, but whatever!

 

[disneyaddicted]

You mean you met her on these boards? Cool--share that story!

No, I meant I found the disboards and then later found my BFF, I don't think Marz even knows about the Disboards. I found her through myspace.

I was just researching disney one day and happened across these boards. I ended up writing a trip report from my 2006 trip and then starting a pretrip for my 2007 trip, The Disboards is the greatest thing since arch support socks. It's really the only reason I even keep the internet, where I live all that is available is molasses slow dial up. But I need my Disney fix so I just suffer through.

 

[disneyaddicted]

I love luggage, I love compartments and organizing doo dads. I purchased my Buxton Bag, I plan to "save" it for Disney, I don't want to wear it out before the trip. I'm super excited to use it. I might practice organizing it, ya know, do a dry run. There's so many compartments I need to memorize where I will put everything.

I had major bag trouble on my last Disney trip, each time I went into my bag for something it cost me precious Disney minutes, most the time it was for my cell phone I was looking for.

I used a messenger bag. Never Ever again!!!!! At one point I just dumped my bag out on the ground looking for my phone, that's when I realized "compartments" life would have been so much sweeter if I hadn't had all of my agenda swimming around in one big pool of a purse. All of my trinkets need their own personal space, they derserve it for serving me so well.

I needed my phone every 10 minutes because my DD Reese kept taking off on me, and once I found the phone and called it was too late, she was either on a ride or talking to a boy and just couldn't answer her phone. At first I thought about putting an idiot string on my phone so I could just fish it out of the bag when I needed it, but then I thought it would work better to just put Reese on an idiot string, those things work! I never lost a pair of mittens once as a child thanks to Mom's crochetted idiot strings.

So back to luggage. I bought a new luggage set for my last disney trip, red with black trim, 5 piece, it was nice, it did the job. But I need new luggage now. I took a trip to Michigan for Christmas, flew out of Harrisburg had a layover in detroit, was supposed to travel on to......CARP! I can't recall the name of the city, oh well, moving on, my Harrisburgh flight was delayed so I missed the connecting flight, next one didn't leave for 5 hours, my sister was only an hour and a half drive away, so she came to get me while my luggage waited for the next flight, I finally got it that night about 9PM, The lady at the desk asked me if there was anything defining about my luggage, apparently a lot of red luggage with black trim was traveling alone that day, so I said yes, it has a Disney castle address tag on it, it's really cool, if you shimmy it you'll see fireworks, it took her quite some time to come back with it, I thing she was playing with it. Anywho, luggage was there, all in one piece, just a little wet and dirty, poor luggage was probably wondering around lost, cold and scared till someone found it and brought it in from the cold.

The visit goes great, time to go home, pack up the suitcase with all my Christmas loot from the fam damily and head to the Airport, the first flight was fast, 20 minutes, no lie, up and then down.

Don't you hate getting on a plane and somebody is in your seat and you have to say, uummm I think you're in my seat, and they look at you like you're nuts, so you check your boarding pass and sure enough, you are not nuts, so you say again, no, it's mine 12 A , so they look at their boarding pass which is in their bag in the overhead compartment and they have to crawl across the person next to them to get to it, mean while everybody behind you is still trying to move forward, I was felt up by a computer laptop and it was not consentual. plus the guys breath was so hot it caused my hair to frizz. She finally get's out her boarding pass and realizes she is one row too early, so you make the deal, you stay there I'll take your seat since it's still a window, and she says "I don't mind moving." She grabs up all her stuff and we all have to back up to let her out, she goes to the next row behind me and some smart guy a few people back say's "Oh, she just had to have that seat." I got blamed for the hold up when it wasn't my fault." That totally gripes my hind end, I offered to keep it all the same. Yeah, it happened on the next flight too, Am I the only one who memorizes their seat assignment? I study it like I'm going to be tested and graded on it. Do these people not now the anarchy they cause when they don't know their seat assignment? That's like one of the first things they teach you in kindergarden, it stayed with me, it's one of those useful knowledge things. Alright so I am in my seat assignment now, which wasn't easy to get to because 6 foot Herman Monster next to me did not get up so I could slide in, he thought just moving his legs to the side would be enough, but he moved them inwards, to the direction I was going in, you can never gracefully crawl across someone, I got pretty intimate with the seat infront of me in order to not have my fanny intimate with his face. Then I just kind of fall into the seat, he had to untangle his legs from mine and then it was all good, except I had my winter coat on, normally I freeze on planes so having my coat on was not a problem, but on this day it was super hot hot on the plane. The airline attendant comes on the overhead. "We apologize for the stifling air, our on ground ventilation system is not working, but once we are in the air it will cool down in here." Should I leave my coat on? I was so hot I was feeling sick, but to take it off would cause this big scene. I leave it on and just open it little.

Now, there is a hippie infront of me, a crunchy one if you know what I mean. He pulls out this disgusting looking bag and when he opens it the stench hit me, Dang? Does he have decaying body parts in there? Cause that's what it smells like, he reaches into the bag, I'm expecting him to pull out a human head in it's shrinking stages, it's just a sanwhich, I think it's gotta be rotten and he is just going to throw it away, but no he eats it. I hear a woman behind me? "What's that smell, did you fart?" A man answers "NO!" all through out the plane I can hear grunts and groans, crunchy man is oblivious to all this, I turn to my neighbor, "Smells like butt in here." only I didn't say butt, my sailor language comes out in frustrating moments. The guy looks at me like I just killed his dog, I shrug, "All I'm saying is somebody ordered the poo poo plater." Finally an attendant approcahes crunchy dude and tells him he is going to have to put his butt sandwhich away it's making some of the customers sick. no she didn't really say butt sanwhich, I could tell she wanted to. He didn't put it away though, he shoved the whole butt in his mouth, then he pulled out a drink, I pray "oh dear Lord, please don't let that be urine."

The rest of the flight goes off without a hitch, we land on time, DH Kent is waiting for me in baggage claim, (oh yeah, we didn't spend Christmas together, the kids were with their Bio Dad and Kent had to work, so mom and BO bought me a ticket to hang with them) I hug him and he wrinkles his nose, "Smellin a little ripe there dear." That butt sanwhich odor had imbedded itself in my hoody, my Disney hoody none the less, ( I always wear my Disney hoody, I need to represent ya know), I take off the hoody and can't wait to get my suitcase so I can squirt a whole bottle of body spray on me, (mom had gotten me some for Christmas, did she know I would be traveling with a butt sandwhich eating crunchy man?)
I see my luggage, Kent my hero, swoops in and grabs it up, I get into it right there, grab my body spray and a new hoody, close up the bag and we are on our way, and here is why I need new luggage, the wheels had been broken off on mine. What the Quad? (quad is in place of a 4 letter word, get it?) how could this have happened? Did they have trouble with their own wheels and needed my luggage wheels to land the plane? it was a rather bumpy landing. Kent and I discussed this all the way to Applebee's, I came to the conclusion that there was not enough room on the plane for everyones luggage and mine was the lucky suitcase that got chosesn to fly outside the plane connected by an idiot string.

 

[disneyaddicted]

Hello Hello hello hello....Is there anybody out there? there? there?there?

Seriously, did I kill this thread?

 

[tink1957]

Butt sandwich...you're killing me, but you didn't kill your thread.

 

[disneyaddicted]

Butt sandwich...you're killing me, but you didn't kill your thread.

I kid you not, it had to be the butt of a skunk that ate a fully loaded burrito right before getting run over on the road and left to rot in it's own juices for a while, mix in a little garlic and onions some parmesean cheese and there you go, BUTT SANDWHICH!

 

[Vacation Lover]

Literally laughing out loud. DH thinks I'm crazy.

 

[Microcell]

Aww haven't lived in the same state as my BFF since we were 16.. though we kept in touch.. she was determined, some people would call her obsessed... she wrote me 300 letters in two years and dressed in black to mourn the loss of me. Think I will email her this link and make fun of her some more!

I am in, love me some butt jokes and a tearful reunion (which I get the sneaking suspicion you will have). Jennifer and I cry every time we see each other and at most it is just a couple of years that go by where we don't see each other!

 

[disneyaddicted]

Literally laughing out loud. DH thinks I'm crazy.

I guess your DH has never experienced the Butt Sandwhich
I mean sure we can all laugh at it now, some harder and louder than others. But you share my pain right?

 

[disneyaddicted]

Aww haven't lived in the same state as my BFF since we were 16.. though we kept in touch.. she was determined, some people would call her obsessed... she wrote me 300 letters in two years and dressed in black to mourn the loss of me. Think I will email her this link and make fun of her some more!

I am in, love me some butt jokes and a tearful reunion (which I get the sneaking suspicion you will have). Jennifer and I cry every time we see each other and at most it is just a couple of years that go by where we don't see each other!

Wow, I don't think Marz wore balck to mourn me, maybe cause it was summer in El Paso. But she did save everything I ever gave her.

If you like butt jokes you have come to the right place, I was really trying not to go there, but alas I am my mothers daughter.

Thank you for reading.

 

[disneyaddicted]

One of my favorite Pre Disney planning escapades was when Reese and I took a trip to Home Depot for a limy hiest, I plan to do another Limey hiest this summer with Mom and J, and even though Bo isn't going on the trip she said she would love to participate, I don't know if it's safe to return to my HD so this will take place in Mi. until then I thought I would post how my hiest went down with Reese, she really is a great partner in crimeless crimes.



[/SIZE]Let's talk about the Alien Green Mickey Head Paint Chips, or the AGMHPC's or LGMH's
I don't remember seeing people carrying these on their bodies or posted on their doors during my trip in 06' but then again, I was a beginner and clueless of the whole Dis'er thing so I was not on the look out for any either.

Now I am thinking, (which isn't always a good idea) that I would like to partake of the whole LGMH's thing. How cool would it be to spot a fellow Dis'er, or cooler yet, be spotted by a fellow Dis'er, I would welcome the paprazzi It's in my mind that I need to visit my local Home Depot, or HD. (I should get paid for the free publicity I am about to give them)

I had no plan, no set date for the hiest. Just one day Kent had gone with me to one of Reese's physical therapy appts. When we left I realized we were right down the street from the HD. I tell Kent I need to stop and grab something from there. He didn't ask too many questions, he knows I like HD and Lowe's and go there looking for cool ways to improve my craft room. He obliges me and we pull into the parking lot, I tell him to leave the engine running, I won't be long and Reese and I head in.

I had never been in this particular HD. It was pretty new, up until a few years ago it and everything around it was unplowed farm land.

When I walked in I could see the paint chips from where I stood. I felt a little panicky anxiety go through me, this looked way too easy. I had read about swiping LGMH's on the boards, I knew it wasn't illegal to take a few, but the question in my mind was, how much is too much? is taking 10 ok but taking 20 be actual theft. Do they know that LGMH's are a hot commodity and because of it have secret survelance set up to nab the Disney Freaks who keep taking all their samples of Alien Green?

I head over to the PC's and look at different brands saying louder than normal to Reese, "This color could pass for water." I give her a wink. We sometimes share brain waves and this was one of those times. She nodded and knew to go along with it. "Mommy, Look they actually have Disney colors here, these are the ones for Nemo." So I casually walk over still looking at other brands along the way, pretending as if it didn't matter if the color I pick was a Disney brand or not.

There were people around and we didn't want to sound so obvious why we were really there. So Reese and I kept up the pretense of looking for "water" we were talking about repainting her brothers room in a Nemo theme. I think we were awfully convincing. These people had no idea that her brother was actually 15 and in high school and he wanted a Nemo themed room no more than he would want a Princess themed room. And actually it wasn't a complete lie, I am repainting Jim's room this summer in an alley street theme, faux brick with graffitti on it for one of the walls 2 of them are gray but covered in posters and the 4th wall will be painted with chalkboard paint and white tab lines for writing his music. Anyway back to the matter at hand. We kept up the Nemo banter for a bit then I said "hey, maybe he'd like an alien room with Buzz lightyear instead." I think he'd love it said Reese, and our focus shifted from blue to green. I couldn't help but notice the people next to us turn abruptly and look at us. I thought maybe they were Dis'ers and there playing the same game as us and we were on the verge of foiling thier plans to take every last LGMH. Reese interupted my thoughts. "Mommy they even have a color called alien green." This girl is good, I love how she eased into the whole alien green thing while maintaining her innocent look.

There were plenty of them. Should I be greedy and take them all? maybe I should be 50% greedy? I settled on 25% and Reese took 25% which some would say that is 50% still, but it's all in how you look at it. With stash in hand we walked out of the store. Once in the truck I yelled to Kent to floor it. He drove away like grandparents out for a Sunday drive. I didn't breathe until we were miles away from there. I looked back to make sure that an employee had not jumped onto a fork lift and followed us, when I didn't see any orange flashing lights I knew we had pulled this one off. I did my best evil laugh and sneered, "You'll never get me copper!" Kent just rolled his eyes.

I made quite a few tags for all of us who are headed down to Disney in Dec. Then I got an idea for something I could make and give to my fellow Dis'ers if I see any while at WDW. (that should be incentive to seek me out) anyway I would need more LGMH's so Reese and I went back a few weeks later, this time under the guise of repainting Reese's room in a Tinkerbell theme. Honestly, I wouldn't mind redoing her room, right now it looks like pepto bysmol exploded all over it.

The mission was the same as before, snag as many LGMH's as possible. I was nervous this time. What if they were just waiting for me to come back, what if they started a new program forthe sole purpose of catching the Limey Swipers? HDSP (Home Depot Secret Police) HDSP employees sitting a few aisles up on a fork lift eating donuts. "We got the perp in sight." I could see myself getting busted. Orange is not my favorite color. Could I handle an orange prison jumper for 6 months? (I assume 6 months is what you get for a limey hiest ) What if the judge wanted to make an example of me and give me 12 months. How would I explain this unfortunate incarceration to my friends and family? Would the judge let me out early to take my trip to Disney in Dec? Probably not, so now I am planning my prison escape . I will need to escape in December so I thought Reese could bring me a candy cane and I could suck it down to a point to use as a weapon, but really I would prefer to not use violence. Then I think this is where I can bring out all the nasty fruitcakes I have received over the years and tried to regift them but they always seem to come back to me, I swear I have a fruitcake that is at least 15 years old. Kent could bring me a fruitcake a week, in the mean time I could be digging the morter away from each brick with my pointy sharp candy cane and replace it with a fruitcake brick until I have done enough to have created an entire fake wall. I think this could work. But what if they put 2 and 2 together and figure out I ran away to WDW and they come looking for me and find me at MVMCP dancing on main street with Goofy and catching snowflakes on my tongue? Reese brings me back to reality. "Mommy c'mon."
I am sweating as I head over to the paint chips. Is it just me or is that guy following me. We find our alien green. Reese wastes no time in grabbing all of them but one, she turns and walks away. I lingered back a bit, I hate to say this but I even thought of letting her take the fall, after all she was holding the evidence, I could play the mortified Mom, "how dare you steal? I raised you better than that, it's peer pressure causing you to do this right?" They would go easy on Reese, she's so cute and such a charmer. But no!! I refuse to let her go down over my addiction. So I catch up to her and tell her to hand over the chips. She said "Chillax Mommy! I got this." we make it out of the store and halfway to the car I look back to see if we're alone, and we are. I breathe a bit easier but don't fully relax until we are at home.

2 weeks ago Reese tells me we need to go back to HD for more LGMHs. I tell her it's too risky, I am sure they have pictures of us posted at every Home Depot within a 160 mile radius, I aint going near one for a long time, they know what I look like, they have the make and model of my car. I am sure our phone is tapped, and I am pretty sure there are HDSP agents staked out down the road from our house as we speak. "c'mon Mommy, you never back down from a challenge." This is true ya know. So I get to thinking again. plotting and planning all night in the morning I tell Reese I have a secure plan and give her the details we will go in disguise we could be in and out of there and they won't have a clue.

So we put on our disguises, the key is to be as inconspicuos as possible

They will be looking for my blonde hair, not dread locks.

Here is Reese outside of the targeted HD.
we walk in all casual, I feel good knowing that I am cleverly disguised. We walk right over to the PC's no fear at all cause we are smart, they are looking for someone else, we might as well be invisible.

Reese grabbed up the LGMH's, there were just a few. I think there might be another Dis'er in this area, where are all the LGMH's? Gosh I hope that woman or man is smart enough to go in disguise and not get caught.

I have heard that sometimes they keep some PC's in the drawers below, so we checked the drawer and SCORE! tons and tons of that gorgeous alien green color. Reese grabbed them and we took off running out of there

really there wasn't a need to run, we had out smarted the HDSP agents. like I said before "You'll never get me coppers."

Reese had to do a pose on the carts, it's an in your face, we're too smart for you, don't even try to catch us cause you can't, pose.
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[tink1957]

You killed me two times.

I thought I was bad enough when I sent DD to Home Depot in Sept to get my paint chips, but you are really bad (in a good way).

 

[Mousermom]

You've got me cracking up again!!

I live literally a block away from HD. A friend of mine went with me a few times and all she can do is shake her head and roll her eyes in disgust!

My friend is NOT a Diser...she doesn't understand.

 

[disneyaddicted]

You killed me two times.

I thought I was bad enough when I sent DD to Home Depot in Sept to get my paint chips, but you are really bad (in a good way).

If I sent DH to Hd to get me paint chips he would come home with some useless man appliance. I had to make sure it gone done right.

 

[disneyaddicted]

You've got me cracking up again!!

I live literally a block away from HD. A friend of mine went with me a few times and all she can do is shake her head and roll her eyes in disgust!

My friend is NOT a Diser...she doesn't understand.

All we can do is educate the non Diser's

Mom isn't a Diser only because she has yet to move into this century and get a puter. she still does all her letter writing on paper. But she is up for any Diser acticvty I give her. I am trying to figure out how to work her into a limey hiest. I have proven that disguises work, just what to disguise her as has me stumped, I can't have her drive the get away car cause she is a Sunday driver every day of the week. I've got my work cut out for me.