The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

Sympathy "like".
Working for ESPN you would have gotten Disney discounts.

Well my DD had a surprise this week. Part of her 'perk' benefits from her job at the University is Disney Discounts and some pretty good % off, food, hotel along with park and waterpark tickets. The tickets is what surprised me the most. Now the CM discount is still better but they are really limiting the weeks, time of the year and resorts available for discounts now.

 

[FutureCEO]

Watched Beauty and the Beast missing my show. But then I was watching a marathon of one my favorite show so I probably wouldn't not watch it anyway. Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King will forever beat Frozen.

 

[FutureCEO]

So for fathers day, we are going to a restaurant. I looked at the menu. How come I always like one of the most expensive things on the menu?

 

[Goofyernmost]

So for fathers day, we are going to a restaurant. I looked at the menu. How come I always like one of the most expensive things on the menu?

Amazing... that's almost exactly the same thing that Fathers always have said when he took the kids out to eat. It was more like "why is it that they always chose the most expensive thing on the menu and then don't eat it?" This is payback time.

 

[Gabe1]

Even though we work an extra hour Mon.-Thurs., it's worth it for the 2.5 day weekends.

There are two shifts where my DD works that are 10 hour days. 4 days, 3 days off. She soooo wants that slot, not happening with her seniority anytime soon.

 

[Gabe1]

its my imagination or the picture shows your garden in almost flood like conditions?

Yep again! The ground is so mushy already. We were getting heavy rains from late afternoon, plus this time we were getting nasty thunderstorms with strong winds. Joy Joy

The rain has just about passed for now and I want to go walk and see what has happened out there. I only stayed in the gazebo until the wind started blowing the rain mist in there and I was out.

The rain was coming out of all the gutters harder than the bath tub facet on high, pools up pretty quickly.

 

[Gabe1]

Watched Beauty and the Beast missing my show. But then I was watching a marathon of one my favorite show so I probably wouldn't not watch it anyway. Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King will forever beat Frozen.

I love Lion King. I think the soundtrack is what did it for me, it fit so well into the storyline. Thinking Frozen will be this generations Lion King. While many adore the soundtrack, me I lean heavily to Lion King. The plots are so similar in all these classic Disney films, they know what works, all the Moms dead, kill off or threaten Dad, leave Dad and the main character(s) falls in love. The End. Sound Track kinda makes it or breaks it.

 

[Gabe1]

that was sad to read.. I mean.. 38 isnt even old by today standards :/

Yes, he left behind a wife and 4 very young children. He was on a roof with a chainsaw fighting a fire, roof gave way.
Sad yes.

The thing about firefighters and police officers too, they take care of their own when tragedy strikes. Firefighters are a unique group of folk, they are genuinely a family. My Dad had worked with his Dad. He started as a mechanic and then was finally accepted into the fire academy, his dream. Being Irish in Chicago that use to put you to the top of the list.

 

[Gabe1]

plum position?

cute!!!!

Yeah and old slang term similar to lemon being something bad. That car was a real lemon meaning a car that just had all sorts of mechanical problems.

Plum, kinda indicates that the job is highly sought after and desirous.

For him it wasn't even on the list of possibilities for college program students. He just came with a great deal of training and experience for that position, the supervisor recognized it and put him over there. He never worked before 8:30 am or past 8:30pm and had all holidays off. He never worked with guests, only for the most part staff or corporate Disney so he never wanted to 'get away' from the parks like some of his friends. When he went in, he went into the parks only for fun. Every once in a while he'd pick up a shift for a parade for overtime money or work a golf outing. Even when he went back initially as a CP when he graduated college he worked a position with a wage plus commission, again pretty isolated from the public, he loved that position too. That supervisor too helped him write his resume to further help him on his way. Worked out very well for him.

My DD on the other hand would not go. She said she shared a dorm room one year in college, she was not doing that ever again, Disney or not.

 

[Gabe1]

That's exactly what it looked like sitting in my dugout waiting for the Lightning to pass so my tourney could keep going

Sorry, I sent you only what we got first. I like to share.

 

[Gabe1]

So for fathers day, we are going to a restaurant. I looked at the menu. How come I always like one of the most expensive things on the menu?

There is nothing wrong with having good taste.

 

[Gabe1]

Geesh, I thought the rain was done, I'm hearing thunder in the distance, again. Betting there were many delayed flights, redirects and cancellations again tonight. Poor travelers this week.

Now I'm hearing rain drops again. Oy.

 

[Gabe1]

why they make it so complex? I still cant decypher the whole cousin removed thing. But I always found it hilarious when they use that as excuse in movies or tv series.

"He's my third second twice removed cousin from my grand father side.. so he's special"

They had to devise something for the elite class to follow so they knew who they could and could not marry, they liked to keep those blood lines close back in the day.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Hey gang! I'm checking in from Paris! Turns out our hotel has free wifi so I thought I'd say bonjour! We got here yesterday and hit the ground running, we went tithe louvre, ate awesome ice cream, macrons, and a regular meal, and did the top of the arc de triumphe. Today is the Eiffel Tower for sure! For some reason my phone is being dumb and not letting me upload pictures so I might have to do that from home. Sorry, but don't worry ihave food pictures! Hope you guys are doing well!

 

[Gabe1]

Oh my. Yep, that's better than Dum Dums.

We have two banks and neither have Dum Dums anymore.

One has stick lolly's

and the other has safety pops. I kinda like these though. Just wish green would be lime again.

Both also offer these in the drive through. Sometimes I go to the bank while walking Walter, we walk up to the drive through window with the drawer that pops out of the wall. He has been clunked in the nose more than once waiting for his treat to show up on the tray.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Morning. Yes, it is morning; it's about 10:30.

Went to bed at 9 pm last night. Woke up at 9 am. I no longer feel like a zombie, and I am on Hawaiian time.

Decided to go for a walk.
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One of the pools.

And they have shops galore here. More than any Disney resort.

Including this:

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And for the second time in my life, I walked in and actually bought something.

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Chai Tea Latte. Yum.

Then, after eating the banana, I walked around a bit more.

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Ducklings.

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Turtles.

There's also poi in there, but I didn't get a good photo.

Now I'm finishing my tea on the balcony

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That looks wonderful, we always stay at the Hilton when we've gone to Hawaii. Make me want to go back!

 

[Gabe1]

Fingers crossed that it's dry for y'all today, and the rest of the weekend...

Thanks. It was another ooops in the weather forecast. At least it was dry until late afternoon Saturday and should be dry by late morning Sunday. Or so say they. I'd like to ride my bike.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Happy Father's Day! (That's a cake. )

 

[MOXOMUMD]

<<<Check out this Disney dad avatar.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Okay @StarWarsGirl95 Work your magic. I'm stuck on two of them.