For those of us with a 1yr + wait...

JMishy · Mar 19, 2006

...how do we keep from going crazy??? :hammer: :brick: :cry:

We're currently pregnant with #3 and have some debt we'd like to pay off, so we won't be going for another two years or so!! I'm so depressed and it's not just the pregnancy hormones. How do y'all pass the time?

nighttimewisher · Mar 19, 2006

spend a lot of time on here!

Jodi's Dad · Mar 19, 2006

I dont know what I am going to do. Wife says she is "Disneyed out" and we got to wait tell the twins are 5 they are turning 1 in a week. My 7 year old and I having said we are going to take a weekend trip alone in Dec. I dont know how that is going to fly over.

mickhyperion · Mar 19, 2006

JMishy,

Sadly, this is where all the photos and video you may have taken on your trip will have to get you by for a while, along with your visits here.

Shooting video on a trip can be a pain in the butt, but I force myself to do it because it's invaluable to be able to watch it during the times when I can't get to the parks. The more pictures and video (and don't forget Disney music!) the better, just to ease the withdrawals.

One video trick I like to do while I'm visiting is to pick a favorite scenic spot (sometimes just sitting on a bench somewhere), set the camera on a railing or trash can as a makeshift tripod, and just let it go sitting stationary and quiet for about 10 min or so. Later, when I'm home, I can take that piece of footage and make it into a movie clip or chapter on a dvd, then hit repeat and let it play over and over. Kind of like an ambient window looking at parts of WDW as if I'm watching a full screen webcam. Similiar to those silly videotapes people play at Christmas of a fireplace so they can pretend they have one.

Hope that gives you some ideas!

Scooter · Mar 19, 2006

JMishy said:
...how do we keep from going crazy??? :hammer: :brick:

We're currently pregnant with #3 and have some debt we'd like to pay off, so we won't be going for another two years or so!! I'm so depressed and it's not just the pregnancy hormones. How do y'all pass the time?

Let's see...you're 29, and pregnant with your 3rd child?

We pretty much know how YOU pass the time.

:lol:

No...seriously...we buy Disney trivia books, watch Disney Home movies, and Listen to Live 365 Disney internet radio to keep in touch with our Disney side when we can't actually go to the parks.

We also keep a countdown calender when we get within a year of our Disney vacations.

We order a Disney Planning video every year and watch it over and over.
It's like Christmas morning when it arrives in the mail.:sohappy:

Disnut · Mar 19, 2006

I dream and cry alot. Right now it is soo difficult to save money. So I am on here quite a bit lately also

Merlin · Mar 19, 2006

JMishy said:
...how do we keep from going crazy??? :hammer: :brick:

For starters, don't put too much stock in the handful of reviews touting Everest to be such a spectacular mind blowing experience. You'll be left thinking that you're somehow missing out on something really incredible and that will no doubt make the waiting and anticipation all the more agonizing.

Videoteck · Mar 19, 2006

These forums keep me from going crazy lol.

100th POST!!!!

kodiak5bears · Mar 20, 2006

Scooter said:
Let's see...you're 29, and pregnant with your 3rd child?

quo

I too am a Mom of 3 kids... I am here to tell you... "IT'S TOO LATE"!! You already are crazy!! :hammer: tee hee!!

JMishy · Mar 20, 2006

Scooter said:
Let's see...you're 29, and pregnant with your 3rd child?

We pretty much know how YOU pass the time. :lol:

LOL I blame it on the Disney honeymoon. I guess the "magic" continued for the next five years and four pregnancies.

:lol:

kodiac5bears said:
I too am a Mom of 3 kids... I am here to tell you... "IT'S TOO LATE"!! You already are crazy!! tee hee!!

So true!!! It's good to see that someone else is just as crazy as me!

Seriously though...sometimes I think the solution is to get away from the forums since I get so terribly homesick for WDW and am positively green with envy seeing those "I'm going to WDW tomorrow for 10 days!!!!". But, then, I try to stay away and don't last very long. :lol: Oh well, at least I'm in good company.

Thanks for the cheering up and helpful replies!

kodiak5bears · Mar 20, 2006

I know that waiting is not easy... (ESPECIALLY for me!!)

A couple of months ago I started a scrapbook from last years trip including pictures, tickets, fastpasses, and souveniers to pass time till this years trip. OK, so I only did about 4 pages before thinking "I should just WAIT and do this with THIS years stuff"!! So I quit.

This past weekend I let my kids make a "chain" out of construction paper. One link for every day till you leave. The kids love it!!

IS there REALLY any way of making time fly till your next trip?? Probably not!

P.S. I know you don't want to hear this, but... I leave in 10 days FOR 10 whole days in WDW!! This last 10 days is KILLING me!!

MR. DISNEY · Mar 20, 2006

We make a Disney theme night. For Valentines Day I made dinner for mw wife and 5-year-old little girl. I made t-shirts with the DVC logo from the computer, and Hot dogs just like Casey’s (We start and end every vacation at Casey’s) than we ate in the living room watching a tape of the parade from Magic Kingdom from years ago. It was great and they loved it. It was just fun in February.

Nemo14 · Mar 20, 2006

Do you have a local Disney store? I know it helped me when my kids were little to just visit for a little of the Magic!
Also, if any of the Disney on Ice shows are touring your way, it's a great way to immerse yourself in the magic.

Mecha Figment · Mar 20, 2006

I don't know if i should be intreeged or just plain out horified at this thread.

mom2boysiadore · Mar 20, 2006

I know how you feel. I really want to go back again. But we too have to pay off debts and get our bathroom totally redone. I hope to go back next year, unless we hit the lottery. Just look at old pictures and watch disney movies

72,74,76,78,80,84,91 as a kid.

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lebeau · Mar 20, 2006

I have noticed that a lot of people on these boards can't relate to those of us who don't get to go every year or even every other year. It's tough to constantly see poepl who are struggling through a wait that can be counted in weeks or even months when your next trip is so far off in the distance.

Personally, I run hot and cold. Sometimes, I won't do anything Disney related for a while. Then, I'll hit the forums hard, watch vidoes, listen to music, etc. My brother recently went on a trip and I spent my spare time putting toghether a travel guide for him. I look forward to seeing his pictures next time we get together. Basically, I went on the trip vicariously.

The good news is the wait should make the trip that much sweeter when you get to take it.

William Marsden · Mar 20, 2006

I have a long wait too. I pass the time by singing Disney attraction songs like "Imagination", "Golden Dreams" and "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" (probably not "Small World". I'm crazy but I'm not NUTS!:lol: ). Sometimes I think about all the stuff that will be new when I get there. Not only have I not rode EE yet, I haven't experienced Missions Space or Mickey's Philharmagic (we rode "Soarin" at California Adventure). By the time I go they'll have the new "Finding Nemo" show at AK and maybe the "Monsters Inc" ride will be operating. I read a rumor on this website that Disney may be doing a "Incredibles" ride. So I like to think about all the new stuff I haven't seen yet and how great it's gonna be.
I think the most important thing to do is use your imagination. After all, that's kind of what Disney is all about. Now this may sound really wierd but I'll tell anyway. I'm the company pianist for a ballet troupe. Everyday I have to play for company class. It's an hour and a half and sometimes it's really boring. I've already planned our itinerary. Sometimes to get through class by spending five minutes in my mind on an attraction. So from 9:15 to 9:20 a.m., I ride Space Mountain in my mind. Then from 9:20 to 9:25 I move onto Buzz Lightyear. By the time 10:45 roles around, I've gone on 18 attractions in my head. The next day, I might go to Epcot, then MGM or AK after that. Okay, my secrets out. Does this sound really crazy? Sometimes my wife thinks I need to be commited.

aeillill · Mar 20, 2006

You should have a disney movie-a-thon. I don't mean to watch all the movies in one night but just start at Snow White up til this last one Home on the Range. Most of the movies are still available so there shouldn't be that many movies you'd have to miss. This idea takes a while to go through believe me, I started a while ago and am currently stuck somewhere near Fantasia.

shoppingnut · Mar 20, 2006

Jodi's Dad said:
I dont know what I am going to do. Wife says she is "Disneyed out" and we got to wait tell the twins are 5 they are turning 1 in a week. My 7 year old and I having said we are going to take a weekend trip alone in Dec. I dont know how that is going to fly over.

Actually taking the 7 yr old by yourself would not be such a crazy idea. It would be quality one on one time with dad. It would be something special just for him/her, since I'm sure since the twins arrived everything has been about them.

DisneyFanLS · Mar 20, 2006

Aside from living vicariously through folks on these boards (who are going sooner than I am), I listen to the Disney internet radio stations on Radio365 (like Park Hopper radio or Mouseworld radio), and playing all my CD's (like Fantasmic soundtrack, or Illuminations soundtrack or my WEALTH of other park CD's), and PLAN our next trip!!! We haven't been since September of 2004, so it HAS been a while for us as well!! But we go back this November !! WOO HOO!!! :sohappy:

I DEFINITELY feel your PAIN!!!!

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