Look...it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Express Jet

Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

TQ - I am glad I wasn't the only lurker to this Soap Opera. I can't imagine 14 hrs on a plane. Such dedication to DL. Have a good day at w**k. I'm just leaving that place and thought I would check in before I left. Neener neener <g>

Yes, MM, you are pretty smart. I too can't believe what is happening out there in Southern CA right now. The only family I have left in CA is in San Jose so they aren't affected by this. My prayers go out to the ones that are.

Yep, the secret is out about you guys and your crazy happy group has gotten a little crazier.

 

Originally Posted By MOLLYSMOM

TQ...14 hours??? I could never handle it. I am not a happy flyer by any means. Even though I completely enjoyed my flight to San Diego a couple of weeks ago, it was only 2 1/2 hours and 2 beers away. What's the time difference there? Your seasons are opposite of ours too, correct? I remember reading that somewhere.

TX, I am so glad to hear that family and friends of yours are not in harm's way. The pictures I have seen on the news are so unbelievable. I can't imagine 500,000 having to evacuate. Where the heck would you go? With several roads closed it must be difficult for some to get out. For those that will return to destroyed homes...well, I can't fathom it.

Glad you two saw fit to say the oath. We're not a bad lot, and our rules are quite simple to follow. Just don't slip up and say the "W" word around here. I did that once and was "flamed" mercilessly for it.

Speaking of "W", I've got 25 minutes to go and I'm out of here. I have GOT to winterize my pool tonight. Weatherman says that we're supposed to get below freezing tomorrow night. It's been a beautiful day today, so now's the time to get it done before it's too cold for me to offer to help DH. Tink...you get your pool done? Crud, weren't you still swimming a couple of weeks ago?

 

Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains

Okay quick update here - the kid's need the internet so I only have 10 minutes...
I pick up DD today and she tells me she had talked to HD today and that HD said it was HD's decision to send back the gifts. And it was my fault I am mad, because I didn't tell them I was going to pack stuff up while they went to the park the last day!!
HELLO we did have to check out and I guess she figured I should have sat there all morning waiting for them to come back from having fun in the parks then try and pack when they didn't even get back to the hotel until 10:59 with an 11 checkout time!!
Now we all know that isn't even what aggravated me about the whole trip...My DD doesn't know really anything about why I made the decision about this friendship with HER other than me being upset over missing AGS with DD. Frankly DD is 9 and shouldn't be included in these topics or problems - she should be busy being a little girl and having fun - not being told adult issues!! That is what I explained to DD when she told me what HD said. I also told DD I had absolutely no problem with DD being friends with HD at school and what was going on was between HER and me (again)... We will see how things go from here.

HER seems to think HD should be her complete confidant and includes her in way too many issues not appropriate for a young girl - HER was suppose to marry some young guy last summer - she started planning the wedding near the end of the 06 summer and included HD in all of it from the very start of the relationship all the while still living with HD father and having HD keep it a secret from him...all while she was just 8 years old!! HER seems to forget the age of HD - we found some pictures HD was posing in and while in DL she was doing the same pose - she looked like a miniature Anna Nicole Smith or Jessica Rabbit with her chest and behind sticking out!!! She looked like she was 25 not 9 (that comment was from DS18) it is really sad that she is not allowed to just be a little girl!!

Well I am being nagged for the computer - probably won't get back until tomorrow!!

 

Originally Posted By mater4

TQ it will be fun having an aussie in our group. I have always wanted to go to Australia but after hearing about your 14 hour flight we will have to see.
TX my DH is a fan of Texas since he lived there for a short time in his younger days. (he's a longhorns fan) He often talks about moving back to Texas or the midwest. I want to move to DL.
MM I agree that those fires that are destroying peoples homes is awful. I will keep those families in my prayers. I read this morning that there is a Santa Clarita fire and Magic Mt. was in danger. My DH not being a fan of Magic Mt. said if it burns maybe Disney can buy it and make another type of DL park.
Villians you are so correct not to include your DD. Because HD is being involved with this I am sure she will continue trying to inform your DD of the garbage HER is saying to HD. Since SHE is confiding in HD I wonder if HD is aware of the big picture. SHE still owes you money. Not to mention the lack of respect and integrity.
On a good note I have booked my trip. Yipee! 32 days and 10 hours.

 

Originally Posted By mickeynewe

Geez Louise, I'm gone for the morning and look what I come back to--- 15 posts!

Well, WELCOME everyone! Glad you decided to join the group. I hope you have your wits about you with this crowd...because I warn you...you have to watch out for THEM. Now, me on the other hand, I'm just the quiet little one that gets caught in the crossfire. *giggle*

Again, welcome!

*waves frantically*

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

Oh, fine! I guess I will jump in as well.

I am MerryMouseWife (duh, y'all can read my name! lol) and I have been married to my sweetie DH for nearly 21 years. We have 3 DDs, 17, 15, and 13. The oldest DD is a senior and will be graduating and heading to ASU or UofA in the fall. Ackk! Soon to have another driver in the family. Double Ackkk! Third DD is a dancer who wants to be either a dancer, a CSI officer, or a fashion designer. Hey, she is 13.

We live in AZ, 2 steps from He!!, in Scottsdale, but not North Scottsdale. I am a medical transcriptionist, but hardly ever w**k. I am whispering it very quietly. Don't want to upset the apple cart my first visit from lurkdom.

DH and I have a trip planned to celebrate our 20th anniversary that was last February. We will be at DL November 27-29.

I am happy to meet you all.

Villians, just tell your DD that she just needs to trust you with regard to HER and HD.

MM I was mistaken for being my own children's grandmother when I was 37 because I had salt-and-pepper hair. I started coloring it the next day. Good for you for looking like their mom!

Everyone else, it has been a quite long day and I am going to sit with my DH for a little bit before he has to leave for a meeting at church.

Once again, I am happy to have come out of lurkdom. See you all in the morning.

 

Originally Posted By mickeynewe

Welcome, welcome! Glad we were able to lure you out of the darkness! Its much more fun out here in the midst of things!

 

Originally Posted By rtjl72

good evening or good night wherever you may be in the world! i'm really late tonight! my husband has this brainiac idea that he would like to retire. my gosh, he's only 56! he pretty much drug me to a financial planner tonight. it was our 4th meeting. all info i don't really care to think about. give me something much more important-like planning a dl vacation! the oath is good. i said it standing in front of my 30th year dl birthday party poster. and surrounded by all my planning papers for my vacation 2008. i am in the nursing field and am an ibclc. anybody have a clue what that is? i'm not telling, but i bet you can up with some pretty nifty meanings for those initials. the tv news just came on. how horrible for the fire victims. is there an end in site? at least i know when the tornados are coming and can hide in the basement. we blew away once when we were first married and lived in an apartment. it was bad, but not overwhelmingly devastating at least for us. god bless all of those in the fire areas and the firefighters trying to protect them. hey, is anybody else going to be at dl 7.28.08 through 8.2.08?

 

Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819

ibclc~“International Board Certified Lactation Consultant�????
Does whoever gets it right first win a prize?
Oh, I'm so excited about all of our new members! I can't even believe it! I am going to get a chart started to keep all of our newbies straight. MM will have it down right away and start yelling at me for not being able to keep up. I want to show off.

MerryMousewife, MMW, for short, You are going to be there the same time that Mater, Villains and I are ! O~M~G!!! MM is going to be fuming tomorrow! Your story about being asked accused of being your DD's grandma reminded me of a story involving my DH. He was playing in the ocean with my youngest DS when he was 2. A little kid came up and said how cute DS was. Then the kid asked DH "Are you his father or his grandfather." Oh, I about died laughing. I'm sure I wouldn't have been laughing if they asked me. (But, then he's 10 years older than me. So they'd better not!)

Villains story is getting more and more bizarre. I was reading it with my jaw dropped down to my chest. I want to hear more about the wedding planning from the first date. And asking your 8 year old DD to keep it a secret. How crazy is that? I guess it fell through.

Mater, where are you staying? (I didn't realize your trip wasn't booked yet. Don't tell MM that, though. She'll accuse me of not paying attn. again.)

 

Originally Posted By rtjl72

well, that did no take very long. i bet you looked that up somewhere. you really couldn't have just known that. nobody just knows that unless they recently had a baby. for the life of me, i too will have to make a chart to keep everyone straight. tink, there sure is a prize! how about a traveling dga(disney goddess award). you keep it until you can bestow it upon the next worthy blogger. no fair! 3 of you at the park at one time! need to go to sleep now. that financial planning stuff tired my brain. careful, i heard all that laughing.

 

Originally Posted By rtjl72

oops, i had to eat dinner before i could go to bed. i hate eating late. villians should be careful. there are crazy people out there. i think she went to dl with one. the ring thing is a hoot! what a goof that hm must be. and pathetic! her poor daughter. those are the kind of girls i see at a local placement facility for teen moms. all are under 18 and have babies or are expecting. all those young girls want to do is go home. i feel so sad for them. they haven't had a chance to even grow up or have any good role models. heck a couple of them have had their mothers boyfriends end up being the father of their babies. but they only want to go home. no matter how dysfunctional it was and that the courts have removed them from the home, it's where they want to go. dorothy was right there is no place like home. unless it's dl! so anyway villians-be careful- that chick knows to much about you and your family and if she is involved with drugs she could get unpredictable. i don't mean to scare you, but would just want you to be cautious.

 

Originally Posted By travellerandquilter

Just poking my nose back in.
The time difference is it is 4.25 am wed in LA and it is 9.25 pm wed in aust.
Our day light saving comes in this weekend to it will be then 10.25pm at your 4.25 am. Also we are in spring just on our way into summer. I live about 1 hour from the snow fields in New South Wales. Yes we really do have snow here. My DH skied 26 days this season.
Thanks villians for the next instalment in your on going saga. It is hard to believe that people like that actually exist and can be sooooo insensitive and down right stupid.
Have to go to bed now after a day at w**k. I am a medcial receptionist in a medcial practice that DH is a doctor in.
You also meet some very interesting (not) people there.
Good night and can't wait to see what has been written in the morning.

 

Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819

Rt, I had no idea what that stood for, 2 seconds later, my friend google told me what it was.
I am trying to determine the time difference here in PA (EST) to TQ in Aust. If it's 9pm there it's 7AM here, I think...like I said before, when I travel to DL, I have a hard time with the long flight and the time change, you must have a heck of a time adjusting to a 7 or 8 hour time change! And again when you get home! Yikes!
I'll see everybody later, I am headed to the supermarket and to a school meeting. No big paying j#%bs today! Hey, yesterday I made $45! Maybe I could get us 2 'ritas! I sent an inv. for $40 for the hospital j$B and some guy stopped by to get something notarized and I got another $5! Cool beans! I'm in the money...I'm rollin' in dough...

 

Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

Rt - I had no idea what that stood for and I even had a baby last year.

Villians - I feel so sorry for HD being drug into all of HER drama.

I'm glad another lurker was pulled in. Welcome MMW.

Well, I better get to -you know what-. I'm an Accountant and the end of the month is coming up so I better get busy.

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

I knew what it meant, but Tink beat me to it. In my w***, I deal with tons of acronyms and abbreviations.

Would love to meet everyone who will be there on November 27-29. Just can't spend a long time. DH might get jealous because this is supposed to be our 2nd honeymoon. Good thing our hotel is close. giggle

Sigh. Unfortunately, I do have a j** and am currently avoiding w*** but I really do need to get started before they come looking for me. Fortunately, I w*** at home and do not have anyone looking over my shoulder. Unfortunately, this is my longer day to w***, 10 hours, so I better get cracking. I will check in later.

Happy Morning Everyone!

 

Originally Posted By MOLLYSMOM

Whoa...you guys were very busy last night.

A hearty welcome to MMW! I, too, have a 13 yr old. We'll be able to share horror stories during the next several years. My BIL lives in Mesa...is that far from you? It didn't escape my notice that you made no mention of saying the sacred oath. We'll cut you a break for now. Once you take that oath, you are stuck with us for life, so I understand that you may want to be sure of your committment before you proceed.

Ok...so practically ALL of you will be in Disneyland together?!??!?!?!!? NO FLIPPING WAY??!?!?!?!? I guess it was fate that we all hook up here. I am soooooo bent that I will miss the gathering. On a positive note...I'm gonna love the picture of you all toasting my wonderfullness at Rita's. Good thing you made more money yesterday, tink...this is gonna take quite a few ritas to get to know each other.

tink...right you are about making a list. It's gonna look more like a flow chart when I'm through. We got screen names, shortened screen names, DH, DD, DS, w**k, state of residency, next trip to DL...there is a lot to keep straight. SOME of us had a hard enough time before we got new friends. I won't mention any names so I don't make tink feel like a goober. Hey...we also need to know where our new friends stand on the christmas shopping/wrapping issue. Maybe you can pick up another one for your side, tink. You need it, because mickey and I are kicking tail in that department.

So...we have 2 of our new friends in the medical field...RT and TQ. This could come in handy. mickey has her deal, tink has early onset of Alzheimer's, villains has the ankle thingy...I guess we should add "medical issues" to our chart as well.

We're gonna have to stay on our toes with TQ, gals. We have the time diffrence to deal with, the opposite seasons, and then there's the fact that she talks funny. I guess we should have a place on our chart listing time zones as well. We get pretty testy with those of us that don't check in when we think they should. Remember how we squawked at mater??? Well, she kinda deserved it...something about her DH needing his beauty sleep or some darn thing.

I saw the 20/20 show last night, too. I cannot comprehend that much devestation no matter how many times I see it. DH and I were talking this a.m. on the way to w**k, and he mentioned that they are reporting 1500 or so homes burnt, but how do they REALLY know for sure until people can start returning to their homes. I'm afraid that it will be much worse than they anticipate. Reading the boards, we have a lot of LP family members that are in harm's way, or have relatives that are. So awful for them.

villains...your situation lately reads like a sick, twisted sit-com. If it wasn't for your DD getting drug into it, it would be completely hysterrical. RT is right. This woman sounds pretty scary when it comes right down to it. It makes me wonder about her ex-DH. Does he seem odd, too? If not, I can't help but think that between her drug issues and total lack of responsibility why he hasn't gone for custody of HD. If YOU have seen how she is, HE must have as well. You can't live with that and be TOTALLY in the dark. Besides, they got divorced, right? Something was "off" then. Her DD is too young and too impressionable to be exposed to this type of thing.

villains...you still owe us the horror story of your trip home. You keep us dangling on purpose, don't you?

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

I swear I took the oath last night before I posted. I did forget to mention it. I shall self-flagellate with a wet noodle after w**k for forgetting to mention it.

I have my Christmas fund ready, but like to do my shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. It is a thing with my oldest daughter and I.

 

Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

I think I am going to have to create a spreadsheet to keep everything straight so I don't get into trouble with anyone for forgetting things which I am prone to do.

I forgot to tell Mater earlier, how smart I think her husband sounds. Hook 'em horns. <g>

I also forgot that Villians does still owe us the horror story of her trip home. I guess I was distracted by all the crazy stories about HER.

I think it is so cool to have an internet friend from Down Under. That is a place I would love to visit someday.

I am jealous so many of you will be at DL the same time. I am going in March 2008. Anybody else going to be there then?

 

Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD

MMW - I too am a Black Friday shopper. My Mom, sisters, and I always go shopping that day. However, the last five years or so, I hit the stores at 5 AM and just meet them later as they are not really early birds. Last year I shopped for 12 hours that day and had 95% of my shopping done after that.

 

Originally Posted By MerryMouseWife

That's what I do, TX. I try to get it all done if possible because I like it to be done. Then I can wrap up the gifts and they will be under the tree when we get it and put it up.

I will save some of the shopping for our trip. I like getting Christmas ornaments for our extended family and then also give to their favorite charity. This way it does not break the bank. I am looking forward to getting Disney ornaments for gifts this year. As well as replacing a couple that our darling cat, Norman, knocked off last year's tree and they shattered on our tile floor. Waaahhhh!