Claire&TheBoys
The Queen of the Castle!
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Another week down, another week off the countdown! 
I've been pretty busy this weekend and haven't had much time for DIS planning. I have been checking the Disney website for an ADR at 50's Prime Time for NYE and right now, just the 4:15 one is left. I'm arguing with myself about whether I should snag it.
If we stick with our original plan of not leaving home until the morning of the 31st, we probably won't arrive on property until 4:00. I'm kind of planning to leave a day early, however Dale doesn't know that yet.
My niece is actually starting college in Gainesville in January. Her parents, my brother and SIL, will be getting her set up in an apt over there sometime between Christmas and New Year's. My plan is to leave home on the 30th and drive as far as G'ville to spend the night - see my niece's apt, have dinner. Then, get up and drive the rest of the way to Disney on the 31st and be there by lunchtime. I am a little concerned that traffic might be pretty heavy on the 31st, so I'd like to get through it early. I don't think it'll be a hard sell. 
I had thought we might try to get away next month for Columbus Day, but Dale came home yesterday and said that he needs to do some Army duty the first of October, so he'll be gone all that week. I know him well enough to know that he won't want to take any extra personal days off, so I doubt we'll go anywhere. On the bright side, though, I texted with my BFF yesterday and we may all meet up for our alma mater's homecoming in November, so I can look forward to that.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
I've been pretty busy this weekend and haven't had much time for DIS planning. I have been checking the Disney website for an ADR at 50's Prime Time for NYE and right now, just the 4:15 one is left. I'm arguing with myself about whether I should snag it.
If we stick with our original plan of not leaving home until the morning of the 31st, we probably won't arrive on property until 4:00. I'm kind of planning to leave a day early, however Dale doesn't know that yet.
My niece is actually starting college in Gainesville in January. Her parents, my brother and SIL, will be getting her set up in an apt over there sometime between Christmas and New Year's. My plan is to leave home on the 30th and drive as far as G'ville to spend the night - see my niece's apt, have dinner. Then, get up and drive the rest of the way to Disney on the 31st and be there by lunchtime. I am a little concerned that traffic might be pretty heavy on the 31st, so I'd like to get through it early. I don't think it'll be a hard sell. I had thought we might try to get away next month for Columbus Day, but Dale came home yesterday and said that he needs to do some Army duty the first of October, so he'll be gone all that week. I know him well enough to know that he won't want to take any extra personal days off, so I doubt we'll go anywhere. On the bright side, though, I texted with my BFF yesterday and we may all meet up for our alma mater's homecoming in November, so I can look forward to that.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Tomorrow I will start my Christmas shopping list.
That seals the deal for me and I'm going to plan for us to go to DHS on NYE. I saw a post last week on the Theme Parks board saying that the Osborne Lights usually turn on about 5:30-5:45, but on our other DHS day, we'll be headed to Pioneer Hall for the Hoop Dee Doo by then. If we don't see the OL on our arrival day, we won't get to. And that would make me sad, and since it's my birthday trip, I'm not allowed to be sad! 
I keep thinking about changing my birthday dinner to Garden Grill instead of Via Napoli. It's a lot more money, though. I just think it would be fun to celebrate my birthday with Mickey, Pluto, Chip & Dale.
I try not to hit the countdown app on my phone EVERY day... when I do that, it almost seems like the time goes by TOO quickly, if that's possible! 
Anyway, it's showing 80 as of yesterday, I think, so I'll hold out as long as I can before I update it.
-- and we'll just enjoy a girls' day out. 
The boys are so excited. We had a big Fall Fest at our church this past Saturday, so they've already had quite a bit of candy. We have friends coming over for dinner and to go trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.
crazy person trying to get it all done.
To try to ease the burden, I told him we can push it and come home early from the trip to the football game so he doesn't have to miss that day of work, but we'll see.
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I spent all morning shopping today and bought 2 Christmas ornaments to give to the ladies who help me with kids' choir at church on Wednesday nights.
I looked at the shipping invoice, though, and it said "satisfaction guaranteed" and gave the CS link. I checked it out and it said I could return it at my expense (which I was fine with) and they'd send me a new one. I sent in the request for the return authorization and this morning I had an email asking for more information on how I wanted to resolve the issue. I said that I wanted to re-order in a size large, same graphic, same shirt. I just got home and checked my email and had a message saying that they do normally ask for the item to be returned, but they're making an exception and are just going to send me a new one. I'm free to donate or discard the first one. 
