The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

I really like the fabric on the stools - very pretty!!

Thanks. Her first apartment, she stayed in a dorm all 4 years of college. Her apartment has a great room, the living room is transitioned from a long galley kitchen on the wall and on the flip side divided by 15 foot counter. It has cabinets on the galley kitchen side beneath and on the living room side of the counter it has an overhang for bar stools depending on size could fit at least 7 or so. Sadly for me she has double the cabinet space that I do. She has these and 3 Black leather bar stools which match the woods in the living room. The kitchen has greenish tones (for her tractor collection, not sure if you were here for her love of John Deer Tractor stories) and living room blues so these will help transition the colors from kitchen to living room. Her bedroom had triple the closet/shelf space than my master bedroom does.

I got to help pick the shades of colors as my DD is somewhat color blind, she sees color but not really shades of color, neither does her Dad. (Many a time I sent him back to change clothes as I have with my DD. My DD in college would send me photos to see if she matched.) We were picking out area rugs for her living room and bed room and she'd find a rug design she liked but I'd be like eeek so not teal that is aqua. This apartment is so freak'n amazing, with vaulted ceilings and a huge shelf 20 feet above the living room which we have found large artwork of Florida beaches and 'Mine Mine Mine' knickknacks to put up there. Fortunately the landlord has a honk'n big ladder we are allowed to borrow. Great 'ole man I've know for years our town historian. The building has been restored but is over 100 years old.

 

[donaldtoo]

OK gang, I'm out...
Sweet dreams to all...!
Laterrrrrrr...!!!

 

[Gabe1]

I really like this T-shirt.

 

[Gabe1]

I'm becoming such a fan of Disney Tokyo. They seem to take the best of WDW and make it even better and repeat.

Mitchel

 

[King Racoon 77]

So I'm curious--overseas, do you have any similar types of big stores like Target or Walmart?

There are big chains on the mainland like IKEA and TK-max which are similar to target but not quite the same.But for me that is still 40 minutes away by plane , or 3 hrs by ferry.heck we don't have a Mcdonalds,BK or Pizza Hut and even Starbucks never opened here even though they have been intending to for the last 8-12 months(they even got as far as having an "opening soon" storefront )

 

[Gabe1]

There are big chains on the mainland like IKEA and TK-max which are similar to target but not quite the same.But for me that is still 40 minutes away by plane , or 3 hrs by ferry.heck we don't have a Mcdonalds,BK or Pizza Hut and even Starbucks never opened here even though they have been intending to for the last 8-12 months(they even got as far as having an "opening soon" storefront )

I feel your pain. I don't have to travel though by plane or ferry tough. I enjoy multiple times a year going by train into Chicago for major shopping. My Little Hamlet doesn't have any retail nor does it even have a grocery store though we do have a 7/11 and several gas stations, only because we have an interstate that intersects our town. Because of the interstate I can get to other areas that have retail without major time devotion but it is annoying to realize your need something you forgot from the grocery store and have to leave town.

It is our towns fault though. This Little Hamlet is stuck in a time warp. Most families here for many generations and stuck between wanting to develop and wanting to remain Mayberry. I've been here for 30 years and I am still an outsider. The Mayberry is what most of us embrace. Our little Hamlet was a very nice place to raise children though, I know everyone and everyone knows us. No chance of the Mom not knowing what their children were up to. Zero privacy in Hamlet.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

7 days until Labor Day.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Don't mind at all! We just didn't think she'd enjoy Matterhorn, as we pushed our luck with Big Thunder. She's simply not ready for big thrill rides yet (at least I'm hoping that's the reason). She did enjoy 7DMT, and she loves Test Track/Radiator Springs, so it seems those are her current limits. We did get her on TOT once - you should see the ride photo, though, as it's obvious she was not enjoying herself. But we were proud of her for going on it at least once.

And while we were able to get her on POTC before, once she saw the movies, she refused to go on the ride again. I wonder why?
Yes, definitely questionable parenting on our part letting her watch them, but she did really love them once she got over the initial scariness (we'd tell her when to close her eyes at some parts). But I think Davy Jones started freaking her out as she grew older and the difference between reality and fantasy became blurred.

By age 7 mine had the lines for POTC Curse of the Black Pearl memorized. That was just her movie for about two months. Her all-time favorite movies are the Indiana Jones series.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

I can't believe flobbledeeflee is actually in the urban dictionary.

I can't believe a lot of stuff that's in urban dictionary. Actually I can't believe how much stuff I know in the urban dictionary.

 

[King Racoon 77]

Happy Monday Y'all
@figmentfan423 Snow watch day 14
Still no snow Just "thunder and lightning,very very frightening"

 

[Cesar R M]

In all seriousness, Cesar, the Monorails have had a peculiar smell since the day they started running the rail. I would be more then surprised if it were really the smell of urine, however, the material or cleaning materials that they use on them is strong and acid smelling, but I don't think it is the pee that everyone thinks it is. The odor has been the same in every sections of the trains that I have ridden for 32 years now. It has been a noticeable odor that I identify with the monorails. Might even be an odor coming up from the electric motors under each car. I don't know, but, I have no doubt in my mind that it isn't human based. So, I smell something too, I just don't identify it with urine and I've had my share of exposure to that as well after 14 years of running a level 4 nursing home.

I can tell you that its definitively urine like smell. one also smelled like poopy diapers.
of all the times I rode the monorail.. around 50% of them were fine, the other were smelling bad. (and it was mostly in the later hours)

 

[Cesar R M]

I always think that the monorail small like a barn (a mixture of hay and manure). Growing up my friend lived on a farm and I spent some time on the farm and in the barn. It is the same to me in all the monorails, usually more of the smell in the afternoon/night, so if it is cleaning chemicals or something with the motor I think it activates more with heat.

definitively it smells more in the afternoon.

 

[Cesar R M]

Either I've lost my sense of smell, or am I the only one who has not smelled anything wrong on the monorail??!! And this has been since my first trip back in 1985 up to May of this year (think I've been approx. 22 times).

the pixie dust as destroyed your nose

Minnie.. I told you that thing is dangerous to snort!

 

[Figgy1]

Have you ever been to Uni to the WWoHP? I'll be interested to hear your experience when you get back. I was going to add a day there for our trip, but day tickets there with the park hopper are SOOOOO expensive and there's not much the kids would be able to do, so it's not worth it yet. But someday I want to see the Diagon Alley section and ride the Hogwarts Express. I just introduced my kids to HP this year, to the first 3 books/movies. They LOVE it, but it will be a few years before they get to read the later books, so we'll plan a trip when they are older and can appreciate more.

Next year will be our first trip over to UNI. The one day tickets are wicked expensive, but the AP's are less than double the price for one day park to park.. That's for the power pass with blackout dates. The next level up from that is not more than that (still only about double 1 day park to park) and with that one we get free parking and discounts on food and shopping. My boys have both read all the books and we have all the movies so they can't wait to go.

 

[Figgy1]

Count me as a freak

I always have!

 

[Cesar R M]

I've had teachers like that. I had a teacher in high school who gave me a zero on a piece of homework because SHE gave me the wrong assignment. I had a speech tournament on the weekend, so I got all my assignments before I left, turned it in and she said I did the wrong assignment. I had the sticky note she wrote with the assignment on it and she said even though it was her writing, it was still the wrong assignment and she wouldn't accept it, nor would she give me extra time to complete the correct one. My mom went in to talk to her and she wouldn't back down. It was disrespectful of me to argue with her. I had 100% in that class anyway, so it didn't even affect my grade, but it was the principle of the thing.
Then I had a GA in college for a math class who didn't even know that .15 is a decimal presentation of 15% and therefore the same.
.15 =15%. He argued with the entire class insisting it wasn't the same. And he gave me a zero on a bar graph because he wanted the bars to go vertical, but he wanted the x-axis values across the bottom. I told him that's impossible, it won't work that way, that if he wanted the x-axis values across the bottom, the bars had to go left to right. I asked math and science teachers and everyone I knew and they all said he was nuts. He was a social work grad student who wanted a GA position and the only thing they had available was a math class. He wasn't qualified to teach. My husband and I were dating at the time, but he was in the Netherlands and I was in the US...he was studying to be an engineer, so obviously a strong mathematical background. He tutored me in that class over the phone every night or I'd never have passed it. I don't think I learned a single thing from that teacher.

I 've had teachers like that as well. Its a pain in the .
Worse when they are close friends or with " friendships" of the school or university council.
So even if you complain to the dean.. they will do nothing to fix the issue. D:

 

[Cesar R M]

I don't have a target :-(

You can always buy one of these.. so you know where you're heading

http://www.red5.co.uk/media/catalog...d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/c/r/crossbow-target_1.jpg

(ps, I know Target as in the store)

 

[Cesar R M]

I never noticed anything funky unless it was another guest.

ohhh, pretty sure in this case.. its the guests..
worse when they leave a dirty diaper in a corner of the monorail and they "forget" to pick it up once they reach the destination.

 

[Cesar R M]

To sleep, perchance to dream?

50% chance to dream lately.. my brain is telling me something.

" Cesar.. you're totally nutz"

 

[Cesar R M]

DL's Space Mountain is really smooth. Matterhorn and WDW's Space Mountain are rougher. Matterhorn especially. That thing beats me up. I've been on wooden roller coasters in Hershey Park that are smoother than that thing. I'm almost too old for Matterhorn at the age of 20.

can you imagine a guest bringing pillows so he can ride matterhorn with no issue?
Imagine a guest carrying 5 pillows on the entire queue