Why am I constantly HERE?

[toniosmom]

Here I sit at 2 am on the DIS. I am finding more and more that sharing the joys (and sometimes frustrations) of being a DVC member can be quite cathartic.

I find sheer joy in planning vacations for years to come and it's not enough to just plan my next trip. Until I book, I imagine endless variations of how and where to spend the time. Then after I book, I obsess over whether or not I should remain at my home resort or try to switch out at 7 months and to which resort. Will I need to waitlist? If I waitlist, will I get my 1st choice? 2nd choice? And how about the trip after that one? I have planned trips for the next two years on paper. I can't tell you how many times I have run the points numbers on studios, 1BRs, etc. for each trip.

Is this a sickness? Is there a cure? Do I WANT to find a cure? I don't think so. I'm enjoying this too much!

 

[ChrisMouse]

and you're certainly not alone!

 

[MCSfromWA]

I don't know what you are talking about ...

 

[Tara]

This always seems like a good idea until the alarm goes off in a few hours...

 

[sissy_42]

Here I sit at 2 am on the DIS. I am finding more and more that sharing the joys (and sometimes frustrations) of being a DVC member can be quite cathartic.

I find sheer joy in planning vacations for years to come and it's not enough to just plan my next trip. Until I book, I imagine endless variations of how and where to spend the time. Then after I book, I obsess over whether or not I should remain at my home resort or try to switch out at 7 months and to which resort. Will I need to waitlist? If I waitlist, will I get my 1st choice? 2nd choice? And how about the trip after that one? I have planned trips for the next two years on paper. I can't tell you how many times I have run the points numbers on studios, 1BRs, etc. for each trip.

Is this a sickness? Is there a cure? Do I WANT to find a cure? I don't think so. I'm enjoying this too much!

Are you spying on me?!? Lol. I have been doing the exact same thing.

 

[amystevekai&bump]

Here I sit at 2 am on the DIS. I am finding more and more that sharing the joys (and sometimes frustrations) of being a DVC member can be quite cathartic.

I find sheer joy in planning vacations for years to come and it's not enough to just plan my next trip. Until I book, I imagine endless variations of how and where to spend the time. Then after I book, I obsess over whether or not I should remain at my home resort or try to switch out at 7 months and to which resort. Will I need to waitlist? If I waitlist, will I get my 1st choice? 2nd choice? And how about the trip after that one? I have planned trips for the next two years on paper. I can't tell you how many times I have run the points numbers on studios, 1BRs, etc. for each trip.

Is this a sickness? Is there a cure? Do I WANT to find a cure? I don't think so. I'm enjoying this too much!

I just read this to my DH, and he looked at me and laughed!! I am sat here reading the Dis, and flicking between point charts and my spreadsheet up to 2015, working out what rooms I need and how many points I should add on - and I am in heaven!!

It is definitely an illness - but I don't want to even start to look for a cure!!

 

[omalley1118]

If that is worng, then I don't want to be right!!!!!! Here I am at 8am after just working a 12 hour shift overnite...I am just as bad apparently.

 

[edk35]

and you're certainly not alone!

I slept HORRIBLE last night. I should have joined you. I literally could NOT sleep last night because our July trip is NOT COMPLETELY FIGURED OUT. It kept me up, it woke me up and had me up early this morning. I have a thread on here about my Dis Board addiction. It is an illness but one I don't mind having.

 

[DizGirl20]

Thinking about Disney (and DVC) doesn't keep me up at night, it helps me to relax and fall asleep. When I start to stress about other things going on in my life, I just think about Disney and it's off to Neverland!

 

[sjs314]

and you're certainly not alone!

You mean to tell me I am not the only one ??? Imagine that !!!

 

[nunzia]

I slept HORRIBLE last night. I should have joined you. I literally could NOT sleep last night because our July trip is NOT COMPLETELY FIGURED OUT. It kept me up, it woke me up and had me up early this morning. I have a thread on here about my Dis Board addiction. It is an illness but one I don't mind having.

I think we are all here and as obsessive as we are because this is our 'sickness'. I bet some people are up reading about, I don't know..golf...for all hours and some people play WOW forever and ever. People here 'get it' and make my uberplanning ways look mild
I not only feel better about being a Disney nut here, but I also get tremendous amounts of knowledge and insight.

 

[DenLo]

I think we have the same illness, double, since both DH and I do the same things. Sometimes we have so many spreadsheets going that we can't remember what they are for or why we made them. And we both use the vacation planner on the MS website and have printed copies the results showing how many points it would cost if reserve a studio, a 1BR or 2 BR or even a GV at various resorts on various dates. We also have saved PDF copies of the point charts to our computers, so we double check the figures there. And so far we've only planned through June 2013.

 

[nolanboys]

I'm in the same boat. We passed ROFR for SSR and sent in our closing documents and the waiting is killing me. My husband and I want to run the 1/2 marathon in October and I'm watching the availability at BWV go away! We can stay at a different resort, but since we won't be done with the marathon until very late, we'd like to be close to Epcot. I already have next summer's June vacation planned out with the different point totals for each resort and my 40th birthday trip for New Year's in 2012 planned out. I just want to be able to call MS! My husband is going to call the title company tomorrow and see if the seller got in his documents. We sent in ours last Tuesday, so it's been killing me! Maybe we'll finally be done this week? I can only hope. In the mean time, I keep coming on here to read what everyone else has planned.

 

[DenLo]

My husband and I want to run the 1/2 marathon in October and I'm watching the availability at BWV go away!

Are there three half marathons at WDW? I knew about the Princess one in March and Marathon Weekend in January, but October during Food and Wine?

 

[nolanboys]

It's brand new this year. It's Oct.1. Starts at 10:00 pm at the Wide World of Sports. You run to AK, then to HS, then past BC through the international gateway, up past Canada to the finish line. Then there's a private party until 3:00 am at Epcot. Sounds fun! I figure it is the one way to motivate me to run the 13 or so miles. My DH and I run, but never this far. We've got some training to do. He is turning 40 this fall and we figure if we don't do it now, we never will. As my kids laugh, we're going to burn all the calories, just to eat them all back at F&W!

 

[pwiedower]

On the first day of our non-Disney vacation my DW had me call our guide and add 50pts on at BLT then we spent the entire 5 hour drive home yesterday planning our WDW trips through 2012. This morning I woke up early, after going to bed at 2 am, to book our first Disney Christmas at BLT this year. Now I am running more numbers wondering if we should have gone for 100 pts rather than the 50?!?

Well I am off to design a spreadsheet to keep everything straight, plan our ADRs for Dec and April of next year, then update our itinerary for our Sept trip with DW's brother's family (their first trip; BLT 2 BR MKV)

Whatever the illness is I hope they never find a cure.

 

[bwvBound]

Is this a sickness? Is there a cure? Do I WANT to find a cure? I don't think so. I'm enjoying this too much!

The theme song for this condition is "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross. Snippets from the lyrics:

Ah
If there's a cure for this
I don't want it
Don't want it
If there's a remedy
I'll run from it, From it

Think about it all the time
Never let it out of my mind
'Cause I love you

I've got the sweetest hangover
I don't wanna get over
Sweetest hangover

Yeah, I don't wanna get over
I don't wanna get
I don't wanna get...over

Ooh, I don't need no cure
I don't need no cure
I don't need no cure

 

[kaelarad]

Hi, My name is Kay and I am a disney planner!

This is the first year in a while that we will be making more than one trip. DH was out of work for 18 months and the only thing he wanted to do was go to disney!

That was the plan for Christmas 2009. I left thursday for WDW he was going to drive down sat... AND then the December Blizzard on the east coast. 2 and half feet and 3 days late he arrives. detrailed all my new job celebratory things I had planned...Jump to next month....we will now celebrate his job and how fortunate we are and I have to sneak around. If he knows I am on the DIs, he assumes I am up to something...which I am most of the time.

Now I have evidence that I am not the only one!!

Happy travel all

 

[Gregowa]

Hmmm - interesting! I have been under the impression that our DVC membership just came with terminal Disneyitis - I'll have it till I die, obsessive Dis planner disorder - it NEVER stops, and addonitis - once you have some points the urge is always there to add more - as extra bonuses our guide forgot to mention!

 

[Donna M]

I wish I knew how to do a spreadsheet, it sounds like something I need. I have sheets of paper all over the place with Option I all the way to Option 6so far. Then I have other papers for the different trips. It gets confusing but it sure is fun.