Wild Turkeys and Dancing Banana Heads Cruise 11/25/06

[pgfour]

DWTS Sara should go home tonight,
Wendy

I'm with you, girl!

Cheri

 

[Dixielady908]

Evening all....

Ok my 2 cents worth.....

At our work xmas party...what we do is an ornament exchange...either nice or not....(nice or ugly ornament) our office staff strives for the ugly ones it keeps things going. Then whoever brings a gift, picks a number.So if 20 people bring one, number 1-20. Then we start with #1..they pick a gift. # 2 goes...they can either take a "new" one from the pile or take someone elses...if they take someone elses...the person who's ornament was taken, takes a new one from the pile. (i hope I explained that good enough). Its a lot of fun and a lot of laughs....I then take all my work ornaments and hang them on a house plant for christmas. Maybe we can do ornaments. xmas decorations are out now.... just a thought.

Lets see who gets voted off...I think Sara was better last night, but she still is not as good as some of the other couples.

Later
Denise

 

[pgfour]

Denise,

What you described about "taking" from others is what I had in mind when I incorrectly called it Yankee Swap.

Anyway, the more I think of it, the more I like the idea of getting something "generic" so we don't have to worry about someone coordinating who has whose name and keeping everything secret. So either an ornament or something regional would be a great idea.

DWtS -- poor Willa! I thought she had been doing quite well. Just don't quite see how Sara has made it so far. Of course, DH is chiming in with how popular country music is, yaddy yaddy yadda! At least Jerry (Springer) is good for comic relief!

Have a great evening everyone! Time to get DD in bed!!!!

Cheri

 

[LindaBabe]

Yes, "Taking" is what happens at the tagrel meet, all the names go in the hat. 1st pick draws 2nd name and so forth. We limit it to one swap per person - that is if someone steals your gift, you have to pick from the pile not steal someone elses, due to the amount of time it would take to steal steal steal.. Time will be the limiting factor if we choose 3 pm on embarkation day, because of muster. Of course we probably won't have 40 people either. (Kids in our gathering had their own swap earlier. This was just for the adults)

Sleep well, Friends.

 

[Dixielady908]

Good nite all....

youz guyz decide and i'm easy (and I have an easy button to prove it) ...just let me know what we are doing...or need to buy.....

Denise

 

[pgfour]

Good nite all....

youz guyz decide and i'm easy (and I have an easy button to prove it) ...just let me know what we are doing...or need to buy.....

Denise

I second that!

Night, night!

 

[runa00]

thanks michelle for the email! yes dave and i are still on the cruise! i would love to coordinate the secret cruiser. please email me at reneecalhoun@gmail.com and i will put that list together. i had only 2 takers the last time. glad to know people are interested. also when you email me put your ideas about limits, how many times blah blah blah. after i get everyones ideas ill put them together and sent out one email. id like to have it wrapped up by the 31st so please email me.

things are extremely busy right now. basically 2 full time jobs just one i get paid for. go in to work at 10pm and leave at 8 am then hour drive home in bed by 9 and up by 1 for internship. no sleep and beginning to feel it physically and emotionally. i would love to keep up with the boards but you guys are a fiesty bunch and post like crazy so i can't keep up!

hope all is well. once again, email me so i can set up the secret cruiser!

renee

 

[runa00]

ok i just read back about bring one get one and i like that idea esp 10 limit from local area. honestly, less work i have to do at a time i can't find time for myself..... that sounds good to me.

michelle- if possible could you email me before we leave with the meets and all and the plans so i dont miss them? i just dont have the time to check the boards. id really appreciate that!

 

[TIGGER41681]

Good Morning All ,
Wow I beat Kathy this morning!! Well it's gloomy and rainy day!! I am going to dust and clean so I don't have to do this weekend!! My dad is a retired NYPD so he got a loss prevention job at Sephora so everytime I go to Mall in Rockland I go and say Hi. Well yesterday DS was soooooo happy to see his Grandpa that it made his day. He even called me and thanked me for being him to say Hi!! I thought that was nice !!! Well last night I went to bed at 9 because I was sooooooooo tired and DH stayed up for Lost. Well talk to you later!!

I think Denise's idea with the oranment exchange and you try in Linda's idea and try to get one from your state to give. I think that would be cool!! Well that is my idea!!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Yep, Lynn you beat me!!

I have been on line for quite awhile but I had 24 e-mails to go through before I posted here this morning.

I like the idea that people have said about bring a gift, take a gift. $10 limit, and either an ornament or something from your region. That would really be easy and quick to do since we only have a short time to do this.

I think as busy as Runa is, that i would be selfish of us to ask her to put together names and such. Lets just keep it easy for everyone with bring one, take one. That makes it easy for anyone who doesnt want to exchange a gift too.

lets hear from everyone today about this because majority rules.

I dont want to put anymore pressure on Runa, she needs to be able to do her work and relax and enjoy the cruise.

Kathy

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Pat,
our nice cool weather is gone!!!

It is already sticky out at 7 a.m.
suppose to be upper 80's too.

I hope that cold front gets here quickly!!! I love opening up the windows the past few mornings!!!


Hope your foot is better,

kathy

 

[feenie]

I love the idea of some sort of gift exchange during our 3:00 meet!
If we decide to to the regional gift exchange, I hope that we DIScourage people from bringing some of those "tasty" regional treats that we have been talking about recently

One of the doctors I work with is from Bulgaria, and we are allways having to explain our New Englandisms to him. (we spent a good 10 minutes in a meeting explaining to him how someone could "wrench" their back. "wicked" was another one that took him off gaurd)

40 days till DH and I leave for Orlando! (but who is counting!!)
Have a great day everyone!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi athene,
good to hear from you again!! It has been awhile.
For those of you who dont know, Athene is doing back to back 7 day cruises!!! She will be waving bye bye to us and smiling a we leave the ship!!!
Or thumbing her nose at us

No she wouldnt really do this, I have met her and she and her DH are very niice people. But I would do it if I were still going

I know this because originally we were going to be doing this with her!!But had to change one week.


I wanted to let any Florida residents know they have posted Florida resident discounts for our cruise now!!!
I dont know how long they will keep them posted, so dont wait to check it out.
If you booked through a TA I dont know if you can get the discount or as big a discount a sif you booked directly through disney. It may interfere with the TA's money they make from the booking. So call and ask.

DH is calling about ours this morning. Looks like we will save about $2400.00 total for 2 rooms we have booked.
That will pay off our 3 day cruise next year and some of another cruise we have booked. What a blessing for us!!!!

Pat, call your TA and ask about it today if you can. I dont remember if anyone besides Pat and her family is from Florida, but I wanted to pass the word, just in case.

Kathy

 

[LindaBabe]

I think there are three or four families from Florida, but several are related, so that probably covers it, Kathy.

Yesterday, I started a master calendar of everything I have to do between now and Christmas. I';ll put "acquire two gifts" on it. Actually, in the airport, seems to be a good place to get inexpensive regional gifts, so that should be WAY easy.

Happy Day, All!

 

[woogal]

Good morning Banana Heads

Here's my proposal that hopefully incorporates everything we've mentioned here:

Every family buys one $10ish regional gift (can be a regional ornament) and brings it to the Promenade at 3 p.m. If you brought a gift, you put your name in a "hat", each person pulls from the hat to see which one they take home. People that live in the same area can re-pick (is that a word? ) if they get similar (e.g. Cheri and Denise, or Kathy and Pat).

Now remember that we're all going to be chatting up a storm and enjoying meeting everyone, so it's going to be a busy time, plus, like Linda pointed out, it's limited due to muster. Therefore, I'm not sure that we'd have time for the white elephant (or whatever you call it in your region!!!).

To support Athene's comment ... NO red-eye gravy, NO turkey privates allowed as "gifts"

What do you think? Does it need tweeked?

 

[woogal]

michelle- if possible could you email me before we leave with the meets and all and the plans so i dont miss them? i just dont have the time to check the boards. id really appreciate that!

Renee: I will be happy to keep you abreast of everything that's going on! Thanks so much for letting us know you're still out there! You're gonna need this vacation more than the rest of us. Here, have a banana, you probably need the potassium

 

[woogal]

DWtS -- poor Willa! I thought she had been doing quite well. Just don't quite see how Sara has made it so far. Of course, DH is chiming in with how popular country music is, yaddy yaddy yadda! At least Jerry (Springer) is good for comic relief!

I say again ... Who IS this Sara girl and WHO is voting for her????

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

Hey Hey Nanas. Just checking in on a dreary Thursday. But...on a better note, it IS Thursday and that's only 1 day away from Friday. So, YIPPEE!

And, here are some bananas for the count.

Now that I can't bring any scrapple for the gift exchange, I'm going to have to think hard on what I can bring for the exchange.

 

[fourfoxesinpa]

I say again ... Who IS this Sara girl and WHO is voting for her????

I have no clue who she is either.

 

[disneediva]

Shell, I'm with ya, I love country music and vaguely remember her name . I liked Willa she and her partner had great chemistry. Its not fair that Sara and Jerry get to keep going on.

I like the idea about the hat draw that should work in the limited amount of time we have.


Wendy