The New Kinder, Gentler Me - The Rubber Chicken is Loose!! Pg 19/#283!!!

[PrincessV]

Hello? May I please speak with Lauralee?


No, not the "kindler, gentler" version, the regular one. What's that, the "meaner, tougher" one? Yeah - is she there?




What do you mean "No"????

WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER???!!!!!

 

[sorul82?]

I was telling my DD's all about your's and Tracy's fuzzy math today. We bought some doughnut's (Krispy Kreme have finally made there way to the UK ) and you know they're expensive to buy 4 (1 each) and it's not much more to buy a dozen so I was explaining this was fuzzy math and Ellie turns round and says no it's not it's yummy math Sorry just had to share whilst I'm patiently waiting for more, come on Lauralee before I eat the whole dozen

Yummy math.

 

[sorul82?]

Your ESPN must be on HIGH girl!!

He's threatening to do just that!!

More on that story later!!

DH "threatened" to to put a block in the dis. I told him what I was going to block!

 

[bawsmom]

 

[medicgirl911]

OMG I just read all of your trippie.........I don't even know what to say. It's like reading a soap opera. Things are going all warm and fuzzy, watchin birds in the morning, afternoon nappin, and then WHAM!!!! Your husband breaks his neck and thinks you are leaving him for a mouse or something
Seriously though your DS is adorable and you have hilarious writing style.

You must share your powers of persuasion with me...you see there is something called the DVC that I have been dropping hints to my DH about....now how I actually get him to the DVC tour without him realizing it is the tricky part .....can I pass a DVC van off as a new ride?? I think the oppurtune moment may be just after he gets finished with his Richard Petty Driving Experience...he may still be pretty giddy, happy, and oh so spoiled after that. I also must learn this Disney Fuzzy Math in order to make this successful.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

DH "threatened" to to put a block in the dis. I told him what I was going to block!

OMG!!!

 

[Lauralee131]

Hello? May I please speak with Lauralee?


No, not the "kindler, gentler" version, the regular one. What's that, the "meaner, tougher" one? Yeah - is she there?




What do you mean "No"????

WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER???!!!!!

I'm baaack!!! I stuffed the kinder, gentler Lauralee up in the chimney to give her time to think about what she's done to me...errr...us...

or to wait for Santa Claus...whichever comes first...

 

[Lauralee131]

DH "threatened" to to put a block in the dis. I told him what I was going to block!

You are my IDOL S'late!!!

 

[DisneyJo]

Lauralee's back......... Now finish this TR

 

[Lauralee131]

OMG I just read all of your trippie.........I don't even know what to say. It's like reading a soap opera. Things are going all warm and fuzzy, watchin birds in the morning, afternoon nappin, and then WHAM!!!! Your husband breaks his neck and thinks you are leaving him for a mouse or something
Seriously though your DS is adorable and you have hilarious writing style.

You must share your powers of persuasion with me...you see there is something called the DVC that I have been dropping hints to my DH about....now how I actually get him to the DVC tour without him realizing it is the tricky part .....can I pass a DVC van off as a new ride?? I think the oppurtune moment may be just after he gets finished with his Richard Petty Driving Experience...he may still be pretty giddy, happy, and oh so spoiled after that. I also must learn this Disney Fuzzy Math in order to make this successful.

Thanks a lot! You may be able to pass of the DVC van ride... It's worth a shot! I'm going to try and book the Richard Petty thing for my DH for our January trip and give it to him as a Christmas present...but his attitude better improve first!!

Actually DH wasn't hard to convince after we went on the DVC/SSR tour...at least I don't recall him putting a fight...Maybe I tuned him out?

The place really sells itself, so I think your battle will just be to get him there...sell him on the free ice cream, money and family photo and the rest will take care of itself!

Good luck!!

 

[Lauralee131]

Ok, so I have no pictures...again, but when we last left off, we had met Disney-Super-Mom, had breakfast at Artist's Palette, and hit the road - heading back to Sanford Airport.

It was a beautiful day. I hated to leave. As usual.

It was a quick ride to the airport....much quicker than I thought it'd be so we arrived at the airport in no time and had a while to kill before our flight. We dropped the rental car off and I left the boys outside on the patio whilst (that's for you Jo!) I returned the keys. There's a cute little patio area outside so we would hang outside there a bit before going in. And the Allegiant counter wasn't even open yet...yeah, we were early. I kept running the "coulda shoulda woulda's" through my head.

I coulda gone to MK.
I shoulda went to DTD to try and find a lunch box for Michael.
I woulda done ANYTHING if I knew I'd have 2 hours to kill...

My little man wore his pirate Mickey ears all the way...

Nope. They weren't coming off. I wondered how this would play out later when going thru Security.

After turning in the keys to my rent-a-beat, I joined the boys outside on the patio. Michael had made new friends. A nice unsuspecting couple who probably had no idea what they were getting into when they sat down.

By the time I arrived, they knew Michael's name, that we lived in North Carolina and that we were going home from Disney World.
They knew his favorite ride is BTMR.
And that Daddy has a cold.
And that SSR has a "really cool" slide at the pool.
And that he's in Kindergarten.
And his room is blue.
Yada yada yada...

The lady told me that she has a 5 year old daughter at home who's just as chatty....the man looked exhausted from just listening to Michael. The woman continued to have a conversation with him. Bless her little heart.

Finally the Allegiant counter was going to be opened so we went and got in line behind this lovely older woman. She was a little bitty thing...a good wind would blow her to Iowa. But what a sweetheart. She didn't even know what airport she was flying to.

I'm sorry - WHAT?!?!

She explained that her son is a veterinarian in Wilson, NC and his office manager quit so he needed his wife to work in his office so she was going to stay at the house with her grandchild while her son got his "stuff" straightened out.

Someone dropped her off at the airport. She assumed she was flying Allegiant. But had no ticket. She thought her son was buying one.

Another nice lady from NC got in line and we spent a while chatting with this lovely woman. She was as chatty and forthcoming as Michael. She explained she's got a house on a lake that she paid $32,000 for years and years ago and this man keeps showing up offering her money for it. He came back yesterday and offered her $400,000! I immediately thought of Father of the Bride II...

Anyway, who ever had dropped her off, must've just done that...she had a big bag...could have fit a body in it and it weighed just as much that I went and carried up to the counter area for her. No wheels. It was an OOOOLD suitcase. And she carried one of those old train cases with her makeup, etc. in it.

The other woman (I'll call her Kinston) and I asked if she'd be checking the train case. No - it's important. My medications are in there, she said. It stays with me. Are there any liquids in it? No.

I will call the older lady Wilson. She told us that she used to be a stewardess for American Airlines, back in the day and told us of her travels. She really was a sweetie.

Kinston and I decided that since she was traveling alone, she'd check in with Wilson so she could keep an eye on her and have a seat next to her. We couldn't leave her alone. Wilson was way too fraile. And hasn't traveled in years...we wondered how'd she'd get along alone.

When time to check in came, Kinston helped Wilson check in and they went up the stairs to go thru security. We checked our bags and decided to head back outside again to get our last bit of Florida sunshine before having to go thru security.

Michael's new friends were out there. Still. The man looked frightened to see us. The woman looked delighted. I didn't know what to think of them. I felt sorry for them in a way, but it was her fault. As long as she engaged Michael in conversation, he kept talking. She brought it all on herself.

We sat outside for quite a while with them. And finally I looked up and recognized that rain was coming. It was early in the day for those Florida showers, but the sky looked the same.

I warned the boys...let's go get inside. It's gonna rain.

But mooooommmmm...it's a beautiful day.
Yeah, yeah, it is...it's going to start pouring in a few minutes Bud. Let's go inside. We'll get a snack or something.

We bid goodbye to Michael's new friends.

Good bye Michael!!
Have a good flight Michael!!

(Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey...)

We went up to go through security. The place was DEAD. Maybe, just maybe there were a dozen passengers in the airport. I love this place.

We got to security and all the TSA people...several of them, had a ball with Michael. Really, really fun. They loved his pirate ears and let him keep them on through security and had a ball listening to him tell them about his trip.

He told them he went to Disney World. Ah, good thing. I'm sure they were wondering where in the world (no pun intended) he got those pirate ears from!

He continued to chat...whether or not they were listening.
His name is Michael.
He's five years old.
He's in Kindergarten.
He told them Daddy was sick.
He and Mommy got REAL, LIVE PIXIE DUST!!!!
And our hotel had a really cool pool slide.
He's going to go to first grade soon.
He's going to be 6 soon.
And a pirate's favorite letter is Arrrrrrrrr....

And we bid good-bye to these new friends too...

"Bye Michael! Have a good flight! We'll see you again soon!!"

Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey....

Up next...

Lessons in Airport Streaking....




Note to self...re-enforce to Michael that he shouldn't really be so chatty with total strangers...

 

[princessjv]

Poor Grannie! I hope she made it to her destination okay!

Michael is a doll! Maybe he will be Politician or salesman or better yet, have his own talk show about Disney!

 

[medicgirl911]

Airport streaking?!?!?!?! ....Oh sure leave it on that note... the possibilities to this one are to immense and my imagination is going at full speed......did the little old woman have alzheimers??? Did your DH become delerious with a fever from his cold?? Were you drinking jack and coke out there on that patio?? I hope you can post soon!!!

 

[DisneyJo]

I left the boys outside on the patio whilst (that's for you Jo!)

It's just such a good word isn't it it just rolls off your tongue! I went under a digital road sign today and started giggling because I thought of you guys, I so wish I'd had my camera. It said Don't phone whilst driving I know it's daft but I really did think of you all!

By the time I arrived, they knew Michael's name, that we lived in North Carolina and that we were going home from Disney World.
They knew his favorite ride is BTMR.
And that Daddy has a cold.
And that SSR has a "really cool" slide at the pool.
And that he's in Kindergarten.
And his room is blue.
Yada yada yada...

She was a little bitty thing...a good wind would blow her to Iowa. But what a sweetheart. She didn't even know what airport she was flying to.

I'm sorry - WHAT?!?!

Kinston and I decided that since she was traveling alone, she'd check in with Wilson so she could keep an eye on her and have a seat next to her. We couldn't leave her alone. Wilson was way too fraile. And hasn't traveled in years...we wondered how'd she'd get along alone.

What she'd just been dumped at the airport You and Kinston were so kind

He continued to chat...whether or not they were listening.
His name is Michael.
He's five years old.
He's in Kindergarten.
He told them Daddy was sick.
He and Mommy got REAL, LIVE PIXIE DUST!!!!
And our hotel had a really cool pool slide.
He's going to go to first grade soon.
He's going to be 6 soon.
And a pirate's favorite letter is Arrrrrrrrr....

And we bid good-bye to these new friends too...

"Bye Michael! Have a good flight! We'll see you again soon!!"

Now I know I've never met you (yet) but I'm just guessing he might get his talkative skills from well maybe you!

Up next...

Lessons in Airport Streaking....

What, now come on Lauralee you'd better not leave us all hanging for weeks this time!

Airport streaking?!?!?!?! ....Oh sure leave it on that note... the possibilities to this one are to immense and my imagination is going at full speed......did the little old woman have alzheimers??? Did your DH become delerious with a fever from his cold?? Were you drinking jack and coke out there on that patio?? I hope you can post soon!!!

 

[disney-super-mom]

Up next...

Lessons in Airport Streaking....

AIRPORT STREAKING?! OH YEAH, BAAAAAAABY - NOW YOU'RE TALKING! WHOOO HOOOO!

 

[sorul82?]

Airport streaking you say? Was she short and wearing a Viking helmet???

 

[sorul82?]

LL, I'm from Wilson!

My children tell all and talk non stop.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

I'm too scared to tell him!!! I tried...I told him I love him...he immediately asked "What do you want?" and when I said "nothing", he yelled "What did you do?!?!?!"

Luckily, Michael interrupted...

I'll try again another day!!

Oh. My. Gawd. Girl!

I am sooo upset I didn't find you earlier!!!

I read all the way up to page 10 today and have to comment before I finish. You ARE good! If you haven't already filled the position of who's gonna tell DH I'll do it! (only cause I'll be nowhere near him when articles start-a-flyin )

I've actually been quite busy with work and planning my DL trip and helping put together the great northeast Magicmeet that I totally missed your January trip...I will be caught up before going home tonight at 8, I can guarantee ya that

LYMI!

c.

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

Ok, so I have no pictures...again, but when we last left off, we had met Disney-Super-Mom, had breakfast at Artist's Palette, and hit the road - heading back to Sanford Airport.

I find that hard to believe... you mean they didn't have Photopass at Sanford??

I coulda gone to MK.
I shoulda went to DTD to try and find a lunch box for Michael.
I woulda done ANYTHING if I knew I'd have 2 hours to kill...

Yeah, that 2 hours sitting in the airport wasting Disney time just kills me!

By the time I arrived, they knew Michael's name, that we lived in North Carolina and that we were going home from Disney World.
They knew his favorite ride is BTMR.
And that Daddy has a cold.
And that SSR has a "really cool" slide at the pool.
And that he's in Kindergarten.
And his room is blue.
Yada yada yada...

Clearly a 5 year old thing. Maddie makes "friends" with anyone who'll listen.

Finally the Allegiant counter was going to be opened so we went and got in line behind this lovely older woman. She was a little bitty thing...a good wind would blow her to Iowa. But what a sweetheart. She didn't even know what airport she was flying to.

You're kidding, me. Who would do such a thing.

She explained that her son is a veterinarian in Wilson, NC and his office manager quit so he needed his wife to work in his office so she was going to stay at the house with her grandchild while her son got his "stuff" straightened out.

S'late? Are you the culprit??

Michael's new friends were out there. Still. The man looked frightened to see us. The woman looked delighted. I didn't know what to think of them. I felt sorry for them in a way, but it was her fault. As long as she engaged Michael in conversation, he kept talking. She brought it all on herself.

He continued to chat...whether or not they were listening.
His name is Michael.
He's five years old.
He's in Kindergarten.
He told them Daddy was sick.
He and Mommy got REAL, LIVE PIXIE DUST!!!!
And our hotel had a really cool pool slide.
He's going to go to first grade soon.
He's going to be 6 soon.
And a pirate's favorite letter is Arrrrrrrrr....

And we bid good-bye to these new friends too...

"Bye Michael! Have a good flight! We'll see you again soon!!"

Jeffrey, Jeffrey, Jeffrey....

Awww... how cute!

Lessons in Airport Streaking....

Alright!!! WHoo hoo!!

Airport streaking you say? Was she short and wearing a Viking helmet???

That is the funniest remark ever!!

I totally just spit on the monitor!

 

[Lauralee131]

Oh. My. Gawd. Girl!

I am sooo upset I didn't find you earlier!!!

I read all the way up to page 10 today and have to comment before I finish. You ARE good! If you haven't already filled the position of who's gonna tell DH I'll do it! (only cause I'll be nowhere near him when articles start-a-flyin )

I've actually been quite busy with work and planning my DL trip and helping put together the great northeast Magicmeet that I totally missed your January trip...I will be caught up before going home tonight at 8, I can guarantee ya that

LYMI!

c.

C!!! How ARE you?!?!?? Good to see ya!!

I've been lurking over on your Pre-Trip sweetie!! Sucking the DL knowledge/tips/hints/plans all in, baby!

Keep reading...keep reading...more to come and I still have to start a real Pre-Trip for August!!!