Two doctors and their less-educated friend PTR

[Tinkerbellarella]

Yes, I know. Staying at a non-Disney-resort is our (well my, at least) secret shame. Only not so secret anymore, since I'm posting about it for people to review and become horrified by. Parents, please cover the eyes of young children. Maybe fire up Radio Disney as well, and sing along with "The Circle of Life" very loudly to distract them.

No shame, my friend because at least you still get to visit the World.

My tax refund went toward purchasing a new TV after my old one, inherited from my parents and nearly 15 years old, lost sound.

My parents had their original Sony floorset TV for almost 20 years! The green color tube went somewhere around Year 15 and so our programs were always tinted green.

My all-encompassing guilt, however, tells me that it would be a Very Bad Idea for me to ever go to one of those non-Disney timeshare spiels that offer you free tickets for attending a "brief" presentation on why it's great to have an Orlando timeshare.

The horror stories I have heard. Trust your gut. Ignore Michael Jordan and Nike. DON'T DO IT.

Let us discuss food.

You have me hanging on your every word.

My DFs acquiesced to my unassailable logic.

It's a skill.

All this is a change from the way DFs and I ate and shopped when we roomed together in college.

That's because 'Bad Eating 101: Have A Side of Sugar with Your Trans-Fat Feast' is a requirement in college.

And sorry for the length of this not-incredibly-entertaining post. Usually I try to keep the depressing ones short.

No apologies necessary. Wow! I've got great admiration for you. Staring down the taste of temptation rather than snatching a Dole Whip and running away, laughing maniacally into the wind.

I hear Disney does great things to work around food allergies, so you might want to call in to Disney Dining and ask. I don't know if your sensitivity is technically an allergy, but they still might be able to help.

Also, on the AllEars website, they have the recipes for lots of different Disney dishes. You should check it out and see if you can make them at home with ingredients your body likes. That way you don't even need to wait for the trip to indulge AND you can indulge post-trip!

*Yes, I am aware these are not real words, and I don't care. Don't care with me!

I see we haven't met. I'm the Queen of Making Up Her Own Words. My friends and I actually have our own dictionary which we keep adding to. My current favorite is:

Stuperbly (adv.): the state of being superly, stupidly and superbly anything
Example: I was stuperbly busy this morning with work from my boss this morning.

 

[willwriteforears]

Do you know if the tshirts have arrived yet?

I checked the USPS site with my tracking number from work today, and evidently they arrived yesterday! I'd checked the site yesterday and that status then was that it had left the Denver processing facility. Usually once it hits Denver it still has to come to my local post office, which is why I thought it hadn't arrived yet. So I'll have to check my mail when I get home--I should have a notice telling me to pick up a package at my apartment complex office!

I am currently battling a rash on my lower legs and ankles. They think it is stress eczema, but I don't have much faith in their diagnonsis. I get flare ups every few months, last time they diagnosed it as poison ivy. Ugh. They were so wrong. I really do think it is stress related. I am trying not to freak out because I have a tea length wedding dress and I hope hope hope that it will be cleared up before the wedding. Again, trying not to stress...

Skin problems are really a [non-DIS-appropriate word here] aren't they? I've also discovered that chemical-y lotions don't work for me, not even Aveeno. Have you heard of/tried neem oil? I also sometimes get eczema on the inside bend of my elbows; I use neem there and it helps. And also on the flakies I get on my face. As for trying not to stress, that's always hard. Hot baths with epsom salts help me relax. Breathing exercises, too, but I admit I often feel like I'm "wasting time" doing them. But I'm sure you'll look and feel beautiful for the wedding no matter what's going on with your ankles.

I am really enjoying your writing and can't wait to hear all about your trip. I can't remember if I read or not, but are you going to take food pics and do reviews?

Thanks! I look forward to writing about it. No official plans yet about taking food pix and doing reviews, but I may give it a shot! I've never tried writing about food before, so it'd be a new challenge.

 

[willwriteforears]

My parents had their original Sony floorset TV for almost 20 years! The green color tube went somewhere around Year 15 and so our programs were always tinted green.

Ah, like my old computer monitor at work. It'd go back to normal if I hit it a couple of times, but now I have a ginormous flat screen monitor that tech pilfered for me from the cube of a person who'd left. The DIS comes in sharp and clear and green-free (since I set my specs to blue instead of lime green)

That's because 'Bad Eating 101: Have A Side of Sugar with Your Trans-Fat Feast' is a requirement in college.

Too true. I did manage to avoid the freshman 15, though. Instead I went for the summer-before-junior-year 15, then lost it junior year when my DFs decided we should all join a gym. No enthusiasm on my part at the time, but now I bless them. ::bless:: ::bless::

No apologies necessary. Wow! I've got great admiration for you. Staring down the taste of temptation rather than snatching a Dole Whip and running away, laughing maniacally into the wind.

Oh, there will at least be a Dole Whip. I can probably pass up the Mickey bar, but a Dole Whip I shall have.

I hear Disney does great things to work around food allergies, so you might want to call in to Disney Dining and ask. I don't know if your sensitivity is technically an allergy, but they still might be able to help.

Also, on the AllEars website, they have the recipes for lots of different Disney dishes. You should check it out and see if you can make them at home with ingredients your body likes. That way you don't even need to wait for the trip to indulge AND you can indulge post-trip!

No, I don't think I'm technically allergic, but I can give that a shot. Thanks! And !!!! re: recipes. I have to check that out. An excuse to play in the kitchen, bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Stuperbly (adv.): the state of being superly, stupidly and superbly anything
Example: I was stuperbly busy this morning with work from my boss this morning.

I'm so going to work that into a sentence.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

And !!!! re: recipes. I have to check that out. An excuse to play in the kitchen, bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Click HERE.

I'm so going to work that into a sentence.

We have a whole big list of them but they aren't all DIS-friendly.

 

[willwriteforears]

Okay, bad pun on my part. If I were brilliant all the time, my head would explode. Non-brilliantness is like a pressure release valve.

Anyway, I have my shirts!

Please excuse the background of the couch cushion. I am loved for reasons other than my fashion photography.

DF1's shirt:

DF2's shirt:

My shirt:

On the whole, I'm pleased with them. No, they're not lime green, but I designed them before I really knew about the DIS-lime green thing. Though admittedly I probably wouldn't have picked lime green anyway. Not my favoritest color. I do plan on picking up some lime-green ribbon or something, though, and attaching it to my sling bag.

Now, to see if I can wrest my SD card out of my laptop. At least I have 8 days to get it out!

 

[willwriteforears]

Click HERE.

Bookmarked. I must get a dish towel with which to wipe the drool off my keyboard.

 

[Lady Lallie]

The t-shirts are great!

 

[willwriteforears]

Just received this email from DF2 (Melneth).

Hey girls!
I'm getting so, so excited. I started packing today. I was wondering...
1. Are one of y'all bringing a big thing of sunscreen?
2. Does our hotel have a hair dryer?
3. Are y'all bringing anything dressy?
4. What are y'all doing for water bottles, cheapy ones from grocery store thrown in bag?
5. Are y'all bringing any little portable fans?
6. Jiri are you bringing your computer?
7. Would y'all be willing to be seen with me with a big floppy straw hat or a visor?

She started packing before I did! It just makes me happy. Maybe I'll be able to convert her to the DIS. But not until after the big T-shirt reveal. [Becoming uber-sad that there's no :shhh: smilie.]

But what I truly love is number 7, the tongue-in-cheek visor question. We all have a sort of understated, MST3K-style sense of humor. I've found it's a rare breed and has made me treasure my two DFs all the more.

Though not enough to move out to Texas, with the heat and the rampant "y'alls" (which I forgive of DF2 because I love her). Or Oklahoma, where DF2 is moving. (DF1 hopes to remain in TX. I forgive her that, too.) But still, these two are really my true BFFs, and I'm just so happy that despite the distance, we've remained close since college. There's no one else I'd rather take this trip with.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

[Becoming uber-sad that there's no :shhh: smilie.]

This one could pass for it:

And holy CARP! Your trip is in a week! Who's more excited than me?

Well...

Probably you.

I'm just sayin'. Yay you.

 

[willwriteforears]

This one could pass for it:

Eegads! I missed it! Thanks!

And holy CARP! Your trip is in a week! Who's more excited than me?

Well...

Probably you.

I'm just sayin'. Yay you.

And thanks again! Adjusting for the time change, at this time a week from now hopefully I'll be at the baggage claim (again, no Magical Express for me ) retrieving baggage. With a big, dopey grin on my face that could cause people to think I've recently ingested some happy drugs, and said grin will likely not depart until approximately two weeks from this time, when I'll be at the airport waiting for my flight home. Alas.

But the time between those two points is gonna be AWESOME!

 

[willwriteforears]

Well, I don't think we'll be in any of the parks for just three hours. But I couldn't think of any other tour-related title.

Before I get into the touring bit, a side note: I just realized that the dances on my home computer, but not the work computer. It's a still life at work. Guess I can't blame it. I don't feel like dancing at work, either.

Anyway.

Our trip bible is The Unofficial Guide. Or at least it's my trip bible. I bought it at Barnes and Noble before I even knew the trip was a sure thing, back when I was thinking that I could do a solo trip, maybe. My two DFs, though they are kind and never said anything, must have tired of the numerous e-mails and phone calls in which I tossed in According to the Unofficial Guide... and But the Unofficial Guide says... Honestly, maybe it's best that we live in separate states. It means they couldn't pelt me with beanbags or other items more likely to come to hand, such as hefty medical- and vet-school textbooks.

So The Unofficial Guide is my current bestest buddy, book-wise. Since it's been a while for all of us since we've been to the World, we're going to follow the touring plans. Or at least I say we're going to follow the touring plans; it is YOMAD. I know that should a CM sidle up to us while we're on our way to Kilimanjaro Safaris and tell us that we'd really be better off heading to the restrooms that are due east, turn widdershins thrice once thence, and then cluck like a chicken, we ought to listen.

Okay, okay. Turning widdershins and clucking probably wouldn't be involved. But I do know that it's a good idea to pay attention to the CMs. Only I'm a strange mixture of OCD Type A and devil-may-care fancy free. I think it's largely my hormones that dictate what side of the fence I'll fall on at any given mo.

Side note again: The banana in my little smilies list stopped dancing! Why? Whhyyyy??? Please, little personified fruit, gyrate once more.

[crickets chirping]

Sigh. Maybe it's upset I put it in this post.

Anyway part deux.

So we're going to attempt to follow the touring plans to maximize our time. But I also enjoy the little things, like people-watching, and Disney has so much detail to it that I'd love to have some time to just, you know, be at the World. So I'm hoping my hormones will level out and enable me to not become a touring Nazi, to pause every so often and appreciate what sets the World apart from other amusement parks. We have a Six Flags in Denver. If it were just about thrill rides, I could head there and save myself a whole lot of cash. Disney is a World apart. I guess it's the people who don't understand that who don't want to go back.

[Commencing pensiveness disengagement. . . NOW]

********
[More crickets]

C'mon. Please? Just a brief little jig? Something? Anything?

[Crickets chirping for the original crickets]

Aw, nuts.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Before I get into the touring bit, a side note: I just realized that the dances on my home computer, but not the work computer. It's a still life at work. Guess I can't blame it. I don't feel like dancing at work, either.

Side note again: The banana in my little smilies list stopped dancing! Why? Whhyyyy??? Please, little personified fruit, gyrate once more.

[crickets chirping]

Sigh. Maybe it's upset I put it in this post.

[More crickets]

C'mon. Please? Just a brief little jig? Something? Anything?

[Crickets chirping for the original crickets]

Aw, nuts.

My Banana Guy stops dancing after awhile too. I think he gets tired if it takes us too long to post....that's my theory anyways.

I have never actually followed the touring plans but I had developed my own version of touring before I even found the holy grail of the Unofficial Guide. I think you will be just fine, but take it easy, don't go park commando...the whole trip at least. I know I will have my moments.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I know that should a CM sidle up to us while we're on our way to Kilimanjaro Safaris and tell us that we'd really be better off heading to the restrooms that are due east, turn widdershins thrice once thence, and then cluck like a chicken, we ought to listen.

There might be some booty-shakin' involved also. I'm just sayin'.

Only I'm a strange mixture of OCD Type A and devil-may-care fancy free. I think it's largely my hormones that dictate what side of the fence I'll fall on at any given mo.

You sound strangely like a clone of myself.

Please, little personified fruit, gyrate once more.

I'd like to try to use this tatement in normal conversation today.

[crickets chirping]

Did you know that this year in New England (where I live) it's supposed to be the worst cicada (i.e. cricket/grasshopper) year? I guess every seven years the population comes up from the ground in record numbers to serenade us as never before (or at least not since 7 years past). Then they retreat back into the ground for another 7.

Perhaps New Kids on the Block are just cleverly costumed cicadas? Because WTH are they thinking?

Anywho.

 

[willwriteforears]

My Banana Guy stops dancing after awhile too. I think he gets tired if it takes us too long to post....that's my theory anyways.

Ahh. Perhaps that's it!

I have never actually followed the touring plans but I had developed my own version of touring before I even found the holy grail of the Unofficial Guide. I think you will be just fine, but take it easy, don't go park commando...the whole trip at least. I know I will have my moments.

Yeah, I hope I don't go commando. The point of a Disney trip is to have fun, of course, but I think going commando in order to seek out fun is counterintuitive.

You sound strangely like a clone of myself.

Ah ha! I have achieved my life's goal.

I'd like to try to use this tatement in normal conversation today.

Ooh, let me know how that goes for you!

Did you know that this year in New England (where I live) it's supposed to be the worst cicada (i.e. cricket/grasshopper) year? I guess every seven years the population comes up from the ground in record numbers to serenade us as never before (or at least not since 7 years past). Then they retreat back into the ground for another 7.

My alma mater had similar cricket problems every fall. The sides of entire buildings were just one seething mass of annoyingly chipper black insects. If Jiminy had been there, I am sure he would have denounced his brethren.

Perhaps New Kids on the Block are just cleverly costumed cicadas? Because WTH are they thinking?

I think I mentioned somewhere--probably on your thread--that I used to have a set of NKOTB towels. Yes, I used their faces to bathe and dry my body. Which, if your cicada theory is correct, means I wiped myself with images of insects. Eww.

All your bananas are dancing, BTW. I guess they don't realize we're at work.

6 days!

 

[If U Had Wings]

Enjoying your pre-trippie. You must be so excited to be leaving so soon! I don't leave until August for my trip (3 months from today exactly!). It feels like it's never going to get here.

I too let my imagination wander to the Disneymoon to the man I haven't met yet. (I also plan lovely engagements and weddings in my head). I shudder to think what will happen if I met "the guy" and he hated Disney. Horrors! When I have all these plans made already!

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

I shudder to think what will happen if I met "the guy" and he hated Disney. Horrors! When I have all these plans made already!

It's not pretty. Trust me. I deal with it every day. BF often says how Disney "steals" me from him.

Sometimes I just want to tie him up, ship him down to the World with me and once we arrive say, "Here's a Dole Whip. Eat it. Enjoy Disney World with me or lose me forever. Jerk."

 

[Lady Lallie]

It's not pretty. Trust me. I deal with it every day. BF often says how Disney "steals" me from him.

Sometimes I just want to tie him up, ship him down to the World with me and once we arrive say, "Here's a Dole Whip. Eat it. Enjoy Disney World with me or lose me forever. Jerk."

I think what makes that whole phrase is the "Jerk." at the end. Luckily the DF is at least willing to try Disney as an adult, when I start talking about next year's trip he gets a little grumpy.
Has your BF been as an adult? I can't remember.

 

[Tinkerbellarella]

Has your BF been as an adult? I can't remember.

Yup. And he's just not 'feelin' it'.

If I had a quarter for all the times I've heard, "Babe, it's just not my thing," I'd be a DVC owner by now.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Yup. And he's just not 'feelin' it'.

If I had a quarter for all the times I've heard, "Babe, it's just not my thing," I'd be a DVC owner by now.

You should start charging him, then AT LEAST you would be a DVC owner. Has he been with you?

 

[willwriteforears]

Enjoying your pre-trippie. You must be so excited to be leaving so soon! I don't leave until August for my trip (3 months from today exactly!). It feels like it's never going to get here.

Thanks for stopping by! And yes, I'm sotally toked. Not that kind of toked. The kind where I make a spoonerism. Ha. Ha ha heh.

*Cough*

I too let my imagination wander to the Disneymoon to the man I haven't met yet. (I also plan lovely engagements and weddings in my head). I shudder to think what will happen if I met "the guy" and he hated Disney. Horrors! When I have all these plans made already!

I probably wouldn't do a Disney wedding since I think I'd want more people there than would comfortably be able to make a trip out. But if the un-met DFi couldn't stomach a Disneymoon, I think I'd have to bump up my plans of making a brainwashing device.

BF often says how Disney "steals" me from him.

Have you tried telling him how Disney has helped shape you into the woman he loves? He should at least appreciate it simply for that.

(Note: For some reason, I kept wanting to put "ipso facto" in there: "Ipso facto, he should at least appreciate it simply for that." And, thanks to my DF m-w.com, I see why--I was right! "by that very fact or act" Props to the English major! )