The Wazowski Report ! HalloweenTime TR Day 1 DONE & Day 2 Started !! Added 12/26!

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Yay for birthday!!!! I'll be there 2 weeks before you! May birthdays ROCK!!!!

WOOO !!! Oh yeah So you're going for your birthday too ?

Yay for all of our May birthdays.

OH yes !!! May ladies rock

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

The beginning of the Pre-TR!

So I'm a little bored here in one of my classes and I've decided to start talking about my trip for my birthday. My parents normally try to do something big for my birthday because it used to be kind of boring for me. When I was younger I used to share my birthday with my grandmother and there used to be nothing but elderly people at the party (woo fun for me ).

So since, they always try to give me fun parties and stuff to compensate. This year I REALLY wanna go for my birthday. We've gone twice for Kaycee's and I want my turn! SOOO, we are officially doing it. For sure I know that none of my cousins can make it because of school and money. Eric can't make it because he's planning on going to visit his family in Mexico.

Its pretty much going to be my mom, dad, an uncle and me. I really don't mind because I think we're only going on Saturday and Sunday. I don't plan on pre-registering for my fun card for my birthday because Kaycee went to the ticketing booths and had no problem getting hers. My only concern is it taking a while (we are limited to 2 days of DLR, which I am not too keen on, but its what we can do).

I would like to show pics of everyone who is going, so I'll pull some from the previous trip.

The Cast:

Me & my dad

Pics of my uncle & my mom coming soon!

 

[kaoden39]

The beginning of the Pre-TR!

So I'm a little bored here in one of my classes and I've decided to start talking about my trip for my birthday. My parents normally try to do something big for my birthday because it used to be kind of boring for me. When I was younger I used to share my birthday with my grandmother and there used to be nothing but elderly people at the party (woo fun for me ).

So since, they always try to give me fun parties and stuff to compensate. This year I REALLY wanna go for my birthday. We've gone twice for Kaycee's and I want my turn! SOOO, we are officially doing it. For sure I know that none of my cousins can make it because of school and money. Eric can't make it because he's planning on going to visit his family in Mexico.

Its pretty much going to be my mom, dad, an uncle and me. I really don't mind because I think we're only going on Saturday and Sunday. I don't plan on pre-registering for my fun card for my birthday because Kaycee went to the ticketing booths and had no problem getting hers. My only concern is it taking a while (we are limited to 2 days of DLR, which I am not too keen on, but its what we can do).

I would like to show pics of everyone who is going, so I'll pull some from the previous trip.

The Cast:

Me & my dad

Pics of my uncle & my mom coming soon!

My oldest daughter Kacy by the way shares her Grandma's birthday. It has always been more about her. My Dad used to always try to convince me that I should throw them combined parties but I was a bad girl. I figured it just wouldn't be fair to her if she had to share her party. And so has my Mom always for that matter. How exciting even if it is a short trip it's better than no trip.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

My oldest daughter Kacy by the way shares her Grandma's birthday. It has always been more about her. My Dad used to always try to convince me that I should throw them combined parties but I was a bad girl. I figured it just wouldn't be fair to her if she had to share her party. And so has my Mom always for that matter. How exciting even if it is a short trip it's better than no trip.

Thanks Michele !! I agree !

I always did kind of resent that our birthday parties were together because I didn't have fun half of the time. I guess thats my fault though for not being more understanding about the situation. How nice though that you have a separate birthday for your daughter! Thats fantastic.

I know its a short trip, but I'm glad I'll be able to squeeze one in during school because I wanted to break up the semester by having a good time (even though it will be a week before finals!)

I really appreciate you taking the time to read my TRs ! You're such a sweetheart

 

[Disneygrl36]

I am so glad you get to go back for you bday! I am also jealous that you get to go so often!

 

[kaoden39]

Thanks Michele !! I agree !

I always did kind of resent that our birthday parties were together because I didn't have fun half of the time. I guess thats my fault though for not being more understanding about the situation. How nice though that you have a separate birthday for your daughter! Thats fantastic.

I know its a short trip, but I'm glad I'll be able to squeeze one in during school because I wanted to break up the semester by having a good time (even though it will be a week before finals!)

I really appreciate you taking the time to read my TRs ! You're such a sweetheart

I love reading your trip reports. I keep trying to do the math and figure out how to do the trip without the kids out of school.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

I am so glad you get to go back for you bday! I am also jealous that you get to go so often!

I knowww !! I'm so happy I do get to go so often My parents rock for taking me for my birthday!

I love reading your trip reports. I keep trying to do the math and figure out how to do the trip without the kids out of school.

Thanks

I know, thats always hard. I know its kind of soon, but do they get winter break in February ?

 

[kaoden39]

I knowww !! I'm so happy I do get to go so often My parents rock for taking me for my birthday!



Thanks

I know, thats always hard. I know its kind of soon, but do they get winter break in February ?

No, they are in high school and middle school. As a matter of fact my son Loren goes to school with Pixiewings DD.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

No, they are in high school and middle school. As a matter of fact my son Loren goes to school with Pixiewings DD.

How cool is that !!!!

I bet they don't have winter break now huh ? BOO!

Thats gonna be hard to work around. My mom used to do this a lot (which is not always a good idea), but she would bring me to DL Saturday and call me in sick on Monday. It wasn't so good to do, but it sure was fun to skip school for DL !!! Its DEFINITELY harder though when your kids are not in elementary school anymore.

 

[kaoden39]

How cool is that !!!!

I bet they don't have winter break now huh ? BOO!

Thats gonna be hard to work around. My mom used to do this a lot (which is not always a good idea), but she would bring me to DL Saturday and call me in sick on Monday. It wasn't so good to do, but it sure was fun to skip school for DL !!! Its DEFINITELY harder though when your kids are not in elementary school anymore.

Oh I am a bad Mom. We have done the home school for a week to go to Disneyland. It is harder with highschool, especially since my girls are both in honors classes at the highschool. My son was telling me that he and Kerri's DD were dance partners in PE recently. They talk about Disneyland with each other. A quick giggle for you. Loren is getting into photography and he wants a camera for his birthday. I am cool with this I love all of the photos but he asked for the Nikon D40 like I believe you said you have. Mind you he's 12.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Oh I am a bad Mom. We have done the home school for a week to go to Disneyland. It is harder with highschool, especially since my girls are both in honors classes at the highschool. My son was telling me that he and Kerri's DD were dance partners in PE recently. They talk about Disneyland with each other. A quick giggle for you. Loren is getting into photography and he wants a camera for his birthday. I am cool with this I love all of the photos but he asked for the Nikon D40 like I believe you said you have. Mind you he's 12.

Oh no!!! Haha

Well thats definitely a decision for you to make I'm glad to hear that he is getting interested in art because they really aren't nurturing it as much in school anymore with all these cutbacks everywhere. Its crazy. Whenever I see on the news that they've decided to cut art and music I get so angry because those two things (I think) are essential to educating a child!

 

[kaoden39]

Oh no!!! Haha

Well thats definitely a decision for you to make I'm glad to hear that he is getting interested in art because they really aren't nurturing it as much in school anymore with all these cutbacks everywhere. Its crazy. Whenever I see on the news that they've decided to cut art and music I get so angry because those two things (I think) are essential to educating a child!

We are lucky so far. Our schools are full of art still. He is in advanced band and the jazz band right now too. The art really helps to make all of the skills click. Music really helps with the math skills.

 

[Tasscrapper]

thats realy realy cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

We are lucky so far. Our schools are full of art still. He is in advanced band and the jazz band right now too. The art really helps to make all of the skills click. Music really helps with the math skills.

I agree 100%

I don't get it when schools cut music programs saying that the benefits are not enough to keep them in. Its really sad. How wonderful that your son is in advanced band and jazz band! I've always loooved watching bands perform.

thats realy realy cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks !!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

So I've noticed on the general disneyland california thread that they're going to open up the bbq at Big Thunder Ranch and I REAAALLLLLY wanna eat there on my birthday. SO it is official! On that Saturday, we're going to eat at Woody's Roundup Cookout for lunch!

http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/parks/entertainment/detail?name=CelebrationRoundupEntertainmentPage

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

SORRRRRY!

I'm so angry with photobucket, but apparently I've exceeded the 25 MB of bandwidth for the month so ALLL of my images will be disabled until the 4th of February. Its so annoying! GRRRRR !!!

So any of you who are trying to read my TRs, I'm sorry the pics aren't showing up!

 

[Sherry E]

SORRRRRY!

I'm so angry with photobucket, but apparently I've exceeded the 25 MB of bandwidth for the month so ALLL of my images will be disabled until the 4th of February. Its so annoying! GRRRRR !!!

So any of you who are trying to read my TRs, I'm sorry the pics aren't showing up!

Jasmine, I am curious about the dreaded Photobucket bandwidth issue. I have a few questions. It seems like I recall that sometime recently Travelmel was having a similar problem (I THINK it was Travelmel; could be wrong) with Photobucket. Seeing that I use Photobucket too (though will probably start loading a bunch of other pictures onto Shutterfly), I need to be prepared. The problem that I usually have with them is that they are slow loading and combined with my slow computer, it is a nightmare trying to do anything with pictures.

But about the bandwidth issue, because I am confused - first of all, is it a monthly limit of 25 MB bandwidth on Photobucket or is it an overall account limit of 25 MB? I remember you said you took over 500 pictures on the DLR trip earlier this month, so did those exceed the limit? Would the bandwidth limit increase if you upgraded from the free Photobucket service to the paid service (which I was considering doing so I could create MORE than 10 online albums, but I may not if I go to another service)? Is there any way you have of knowing when you are uploading photos that you are reaching the limit, or do you not find out until it's too late? Like do they give you a warning ('you are reaching your limit', etc.)? And what is the purpose disabling the images until February 4th? It seems like they would just tell you to delete some pictures, right?

I certainly uploaded a bunch of pictures from my last couple of DLR trips recently (definitely 500 or more), including 300 PhotoPass pictures and other older DLR pictures, so I was getting worried. But when I thought about it just now, I realized that I uploaded all those pictures from my film rolls (like the black and white ones, etc.) in December. There were a BUNCH. The PhotoPass shots, along with all the Bret Michaels/Poison pictures I have recently posted, etc., were uploaded in January - just in the last few weeks. So maybe I avoided the bandwidth issue unknowingly because I did it in two separate months. I had been planning on uploading a bunch more older DLR pictures to post on here in my TR, but maybe I will wait until tomorrow to start, since it's the first day of February!!!! I have already reached the 10 album limit that the Free service allows. So I can either pay Photobucket and get more albums, or start putting a bunch of other pictures on another site. Mariezp was using Webshots, but has begun to put a bunch of her stuff on Shutterfly. Do you know of any other good (free) image hosting sites, Jasmine? Snapfish and Flick'r are no good.

I just want to know how anyone knows they are reaching the Photobucket bandwidth limit before they disable all of your images!!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Jasmine, I am curious about the dreaded Photobucket bandwidth issue. I have a few questions. It seems like I recall that sometime recently Travelmel was having a similar problem (I THINK it was Travelmel; could be wrong) with Photobucket. Seeing that I use Photobucket too (though will probably start loading a bunch of other pictures onto Shutterfly), I need to be prepared. The problem that I usually have with them is that they are slow loading and combined with my slow computer, it is a nightmare trying to do anything with pictures.

But about the bandwidth issue, because I am confused - first of all, is it a monthly limit of 25 MB bandwidth on Photobucket or is it an overall account limit of 25 MB? I remember you said you took over 500 pictures on the DLR trip earlier this month, so did those exceed the limit? Would the bandwidth limit increase if you upgraded from the free Photobucket service to the paid service (which I was considering doing so I could create MORE than 10 online albums, but I may not if I go to another service)? Is there any way you have of knowing when you are uploading photos that you are reaching the limit, or do you not find out until it's too late? Like do they give you a warning ('you are reaching your limit', etc.)? And what is the purpose disabling the images until February 4th? It seems like they would just tell you to delete some pictures, right?

I certainly uploaded a bunch of pictures from my last couple of DLR trips recently (definitely 500 or more), including 300 PhotoPass pictures and other older DLR pictures, so I was getting worried. But when I thought about it just now, I realized that I uploaded all those pictures from my film rolls (like the black and white ones, etc.) in December. There were a BUNCH. The PhotoPass shots, along with all the Bret Michaels/Poison pictures I have recently posted, etc., were uploaded in January - just in the last few weeks. So maybe I avoided the bandwidth issue unknowingly because I did it in two separate months. I had been planning on uploading a bunch more older DLR pictures to post on here in my TR, but maybe I will wait until tomorrow to start, since it's the first day of February!!!! I have already reached the 10 album limit that the Free service allows. So I can either pay Photobucket and get more albums, or start putting a bunch of other pictures on another site. Mariezp was using Webshots, but has begun to put a bunch of her stuff on Shutterfly. Do you know of any other good (free) image hosting sites, Jasmine? Snapfish and Flick'r are no good.

I just want to know how anyone knows they are reaching the Photobucket bandwidth limit before they disable all of your images!!

So I was getting emails recently and I kept deleting images from my photobucket saying that I was reaching my 25 MB of Bandwidth for the month, but I guess deleting images did NOT help at all because, alas, my photos are taken off. I started another photobucket account as a back up so that I can do both (soo bad, I know). The only other places I know of that host images that are good, cost money and I'm definitely not going to pay for it! So I guess the only solution is watching how much you upload per month. BOO !

 

[Sherry E]

So I was getting emails recently and I kept deleting images from my photobucket saying that I was reaching my 25 MB of Bandwidth for the month, but I guess deleting images did NOT help at all because, alas, my photos are taken off. I started another photobucket account as a back up so that I can do both (soo bad, I know). The only other places I know of that host images that are good, cost money and I'm definitely not going to pay for it! So I guess the only solution is watching how much you upload per month. BOO !

So they were giving you warnings and yet they disabled your images temporarily anyway (until February 4). That makes no sense. I never knew that there was any bandwidth limit per month. I only knew that with the free Photobucket service, I was allowed to create 10 albums, and within each of those albums I can store up to 250 images. If I pay and upgrade the service, I can get more albums and more images. I wouldn't mind paying the $40 or whatever it is as long as it was not such a slooooooow process to upload and edit the photos, and as long as I could store a BUNCH of pictures.

I haven't heard whether or not Webshots charges to store images, but Snapfish and Flick'r definitely were going to charge, so I abandoned them. I am curious about Shutterfly, though. Mariezp said that Shutterfly is the only one she found that will make you a CD of your images (for a lofty fee, I imagine), but I think the actual storage of the photos is free. When I briefly looked on the Shutterfly website a couple of weeks ago, it seemed like they were claiming to be the ONLY photo/image hosting site that didn't have any limitations and yet they were still free. (I was in a rush, so I didn't look for the 'fine print' with asterisks and what not!) I would like to get all of my older photos on CDs at some point. So I would either have to send all the negatives out somewhere and have some service transfer everything to a CD, OR I would have to scan everything (and I have a LOT to scan), and then transfer it over electronically to a place that will make a CD. (This computer is old and own't burn CD's/DVD's). But this computer would not be able to handle storing all of my pictures after I have scanned them - there are just too many. So I would have to do it in groups. Scan some pictures, upload them to an image-hosting site, delete them from the computer, then start again with a new group of pictures.

Ahhh......the joys of backing-up, storing, editing and managing your photos, eh? It is so rewarding and fun when everything is working like clockwork, but such a nuisance when it's not! I would bet you are not the only one with TWO Photobucket accounts if other folks have had that same bandwidth issue. I assume you just use a different e-mail address to open the account?

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Jasmine!! Are you going to go for your birthday AND Memorial Day?? Omg. Lucky!