Originally Posted By jodiefra I have to agree with a lot of you -- the only way I can shake the blues is to plan the next trip. When I don't have a trip on the calendar, I usually avoid most Disney things because it's almost too painful!! Fortunately we have been able to take about one trip a year, and I can stretch out the trip planning for a LONG time! I start by looking at the calendar on Disneyland.com as soon as it's available for when I'm going, then I make an itinerary that will change fifty times before I actually leave. As the months close in, I work on packing lists. Like I said I can drag the planning on for months and it definitely helps the blues : )
Originally Posted By mater4 I have been planning my next trip since Feb when we returned from DL. 159 days to go. I also watch our home movies of past trips. I have also browsed around the disney store and maybe buy something.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer This is really sad, it almost makes me feel ashamed of myself for being jealous of the LP'ers who live so much closer than I do. I live about 6 hours away and my DW and I average about 2 months between trips and visit for appoximately a week each time. We always start a 60 day count down as soon as we get back and usually manage a few impromtu visits as well. It never really hit me that some of us might only be able to visit every 2-3 years. I do admit to feeling withdrawal pangs after 30 days and I would go crazy if I was just limited to 1 trip a year. I now have a new appreciation for how hard it must be for some of our LP family that lives so much farther away.
Originally Posted By kari12177 I actually have gone cold turkey except for this site. No music, movies,or the disney channel. Out of sight, out of mind. It really helped me last year doing it, before we went in jan, we haven't gond to DL in 4 years. So I missed even more. Cold turkey really helps.
Originally Posted By ssturgeo I'm with MollyMom...planning even a trip in the distant future, or a "hoped for" trip is the only thing that helps me. I spend time finding new info to update my DL/trip binder, visit this GREAT board, and of course check every day for new pictures from DarkBeer!! And...dream of living closer and working there when I retire!!
Originally Posted By 73baloo I'm with MollyMom also. The cure is to know when the next visit will be. I also have a couple of Disneyland pictures at work...always makes me smile. This board is a big help. DarkBeer's pictures are great...I also look at the view from HoJo every so often.
Originally Posted By 73baloo I'm with MollyMom also. The cure is to know when the next visit will be. I also have a couple of Disneyland pictures at work...always makes me smile. This board is a big help. DarkBeer's pictures are great...I also look at the view from HoJo every so often.
Originally Posted By ssturgeo DL pictures at work...my cubicle is plastered with them, my computer background is my brother and I at DL, I have Nemo fish swiming across my screen, a MouseTrack countdown up in the corner, and my trip countdown (copied from LP each day, copied, transferred to Disney font, and posted!!! A sign that says "I'd rather be at Disneyland"...a sign with the milage from here to DL, and a sign with Walt's opening day speech! Oh, and a small collection of little Disney character toys!! Everyone here knows where I REALLY am each day!!!
Originally Posted By 73baloo ssturgeo Wow, you have us all beat. Forgot about mousetracker, I used to do that but changed laptops...got the link? Thank you.
Originally Posted By ssturgeo Here is the link for Mouse Track <a href="http://www.pocketdisney.com/disney/web/mousebar.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pocketdisney.com/di sney/web/mousebar.asp</a>
Originally Posted By Disneyma "one of the others" lmao! I am so glad I married one of us! He is always telling me we need to go back! << very thankful for DH right now
Originally Posted By disneymamaof3 ssturgeo ~ You've mentioned your DL/trip binder before. What is it like? What do you put in it? Our APs are blocked out for the summer, I'd love to spend the time putting together some type of trip guide. Any tips?
Originally Posted By ssturgeo disneymamaof3 - my dl binder started out as a manila trip folder and has grown the last couple of trips. I have sections for DL, DCA, Holidays at the Park. DL and DCA are divided into each land, with info about each ride, etc. Have DL phone numbers, dining info, menus for the restaurants, shops, characters, etc.
Originally Posted By Main Street Dad <<Cold turkey really helps.>> I've tried this too, but it only worked until the first time something smelled a little damp like in Pirates.
Originally Posted By grammy954 I also feel lucky that we can go every few months for at least a long weekend. And yes, the planning keeps me from really missing everything. I usually have a new trip in planning before the upcoming trip. We will be there next week and I just can't wait. My 14 yr old's friend from back east is coming with us and she has never been. I am taking my grandson in late July, so I have 2 trips planned out. Looking at October for the next...
Originally Posted By 73baloo ssturgeo Thank you for the link. Use to use it all the time. My oldest granddaughter is only 2 1/2 but she has gone once. She was dressed as Tink at the 50th if any of you saw her. She had a lot of pictures taken. Anyway, when I am visiting her, she lives in Vegas, she always wants me to pull up the pictures of her at Disneyland and we play on Disney website all of the time. She is so cute. She is already one of us.
Originally Posted By dzy76 Oh do I understand this thread. But I'd never be able to give up Disney cold turkey. It would kill me. I wake up thinking of Disney and go to bed thinking of Disney. I can't help it. And only people on here understand it. I watch movies, listen to disney live365 stations. I read books on Disney. I download and listen to about 10 disney podcasts a week. I constantly plan a disney trip (even if I can't afford it). I listen to my disney cd's. I go to disney movies at the theaters. Currently I'm trying to talk myself into a trip to DL in Dec. and planning a trip sept. 08' to WDW. It's what keeps me going.
Originally Posted By RAM1984 >>With apologies to Eddie Cochran:<< That song was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this topic. "There ain't no cure for the Disneyland Blues." And I get 'em bad. Only 16 days to go and I am Jones'n. >>or (shudder) an inferior NoCal amusement park<< It was a fun day. But Disneyland it wasn't. I mean we did not even wait to get thrown out. I could never go cold turkey. I am the wallow in it kind of junkie. I have a "shrine" on my desk. I have the fireworks, F!, and many rides on DVD. I listen to Disney in the car and am perpetually planning more trips. But I always miss it. One of my fondest trip memories is when our son was stationed at Pendleton and scheduled to leave for Iraq. We went down for two weeks but could only see him on weekends. So during the week we went to Disneyland. (We went on the weekends with our son as well.) But this was in March and there were 0 crowds and we got to do everything without worrying about time tables. Even then I was sad to leave.
Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 I thought I was the only one with this problem!!! Haha. I should've known! I was going to post this topic a week ago! I just got home from a beautiful relaxing trip up north and what is the first thing that pops into my head when I get home...when can I go to Disneyland! They had one of those large brouchere displays at the hotel check-in. I found a Disneyland brochere! And looked at it for an hour before I went to bed! My family just laughed at me. I MISS DISNEYLAND AND I WANT/NEED TO GO BACK AKA HOOOMMME!!!
Originally Posted By MadAboutMickey Me and my family refer to the Disney Blues as "Post Disney Deppression", or PDD. I believe that there is no cure for PDD, but eventually one gets over it. Depending on the love the victim feels for Disney, PDD can take from one day to up to the next trip to cure. The only true, real, fully functional cure is to get a job at Disneyland permanently.
