The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

Just a heads up there are new security measures in the parks. There will be metal detectors and more serious bag searches, no costumes for those over 14 and no toy guns not even water guns.

I read that! I also read that it's not just the Disney parks, but Seaworld, Universal, etc...so it might be government mandated or something because all the big parks added this stuff overnight.

 

[Songbird76]

No it's been in the works since Paris. I'm a bit upset about not being able to go Disney bounding

What is Disney Bounding and why can't you do it?

 

[Songbird76]

If I remember correctly, from back in the days when I traveled to Canada more often, a U.S. gallon is approximately 5 litres.

I think it's actually 3.72 liters to a gallon, so almost 4. My husband would know for sure, but he's sleeeeeeeeeeeping.

 

[Songbird76]

They have had a no adult costume rule for a longtime though, no?

That's what I thought, too, but my friend in Kissimmee said she was pretty sure they had been told they could let adults in in costume now, as long as they didn't have the hair and makeup of a specific character that they would be mistaken for cast members. My friend worked as a greeter for a little bit. So it sounds like they relaxed that for a while and now it's stricter again?

OK, time for me to correct myself (I know it's shocking when we realize that I have an imperfection), however, I was thinking incorrectly. When I used to buy gas in Canada it was an Imperial Gallon. The comparison was that the Imperial Gallon was the equivalent of 5 American quarts. The American Gallon, was then and is now, 4 quarts per gallon. Sorry, I guess I didn't help and I am so, so ashamed of myself. There are 3.7854118 litres in a gallon for comparison so if you paid 93 cents per litre that would be the same as $3.52 per gallon. (american)

Oh, I was close...you can disregard my post.

 

[Songbird76]

NO! to all of the above. If anything I could have gone after the park district as a patron's actions injured her by kicking the rock.

Actually the Dad likely didn't mean to cause harm, just kicked like a little kid. That outdoor pool (we were the visiting team) had rocks about the size of a giant gumball in their landscaping. Rocks tended to spill out onto the sidewalk frequently. Still he was a grown-up and you'd think he could curb the little boy in himself and not kick the freak'n rock. Most of us big people scootched them back where they belonged when we saw them. Our outdoor pool doesn't use rocks cause stupid tends to happen with rocks but they need little refreshing each year after snow. Our Park District and the Park District my kids worked at used bark which has different issues around a pool when there is a huge rain. No perfect solution.

Oh, I thought you meant he kicked the rock at her to injure her on purpose...take out the competition. Accidents happen, though it does sound like he was a bit immature, but if he had pulled a Tonya Harding, then I would hope they disqualified them.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm so sorry, do you have the flu?

I've got something...don't know what. The fever is gone, but I still have very little voice, I'm coughing a lot, etc. But it's going in the right direction now.

 

[Songbird76]

So sorry you are going through this. Flying is bad enough , without the pre drama. We have trouble almost every time we fly. We book seats together, but we end up not sitting together. We check every flight to get this fixed. Such a mess. Do you remember the Seinfeld episode about "you can take the reservations, but you can't keep the reservations"? So true, and funny for the show

We have the same problem. When we went in 2010, they had us booked in 4 different rows. Both of our kids, 2 and 4 at the time, were in a row without either parent. And the flights were always full, so we kept having to beg people to switch with us so both kids had at least one of us with them. Seriously...you can see their ages in the system. WHY would you put toddlers in a row with strangers and no parent?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

2 days until Christmas!

 

[Songbird76]

Sympathy like. I mix lemon garlic and honey together when that happens. Get well soon.

Thanks. I've been drinking tea with honey...I hate tea, but it does help the throat. Also lots of OJ, and I've been taking zinc tablets. I'm hoping to be better by Sunday now because we have a choir competition.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Maybe I should have stayed gone JUST a bit longer....a Ferret with a Halo isn't something you see every day!

Once you have seen it you can't un-see it though . . .

 

[Songbird76]

I hope you didn't pay a dime and sued him for any money you put into the place

I paid until the lease was up because I was legally bound to and didn't have money to go to court, too. But it was only a few months and I refused to pay the last month and told him to take it out of the deposit. He tried to tell me that we agreed to both pay because neither of us could afford it by ourselves. I said I agreed with that, but we had ALSO agreed that we would both live there...when he kicked me out, that agreement was nullified in my mind. He said he had moved out before, so I told him 3 days didn't count as him moving out, besides all his stuff was still there, where I had to move mine out. AND it was HIS choice to stay with friends for those 3 days, unlike my moving out because he told me I had to. HE broke the agreement, not me, so he could wait and get his money from the deposit because I wasn't paying for his rent. He had thrown out the last bits of my stuff that I had missed when I moved, so he owed me anyway. I seriously dodged a bullet in breaking off that engagement. Best move I ever made. It was worth a few hundred dollars to be shot of him.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm pretty sure anything he does now is emotionally-based, even though he says he's not. If it wasn't, then the tone would be completely different, not demanding, controlling, or downright rude. Plus, he would be amenable to a fair settlement, but he wants it all. So how is he not being emotional in all this? Also, he claims he's only looking out for our daughter's best interest, but everything he does really only serves his own. And he has no clue that he's doing this. I've done a lot of reading on divorce websites and his behavior could be construed as alienating, which is a form of abuse. He thinks he's going to win in court, but I think he's in for a very rude awakening.

From what I understand, courts generally sympathize more with the mother than the father unless the mother is incompetent. Since it sounds like HE is the one with money issues and no stable environment, and his sole piece of evidence of your "incompetence" is your daughter having caught a cold, I'd say you're right and he's in for a rude awakening. The courts won't look kindly on the fact that he has no home, that he has a history of overspending, or that he says things about you in front of your daughter. Do you know when you have to go to court?

 

[Songbird76]

I saw Star Wars on Thursday night and when I went to work a bunch of my students asked me how it was. Before I had a chance to answer a kid (who surprisingly was in class, as I have only had him in class a total of 4 times this quarter and we are in week six of it) blurted out one of the big surprises of the movie. The other kids looked shocked and crushed all at the same time. I was so TICKED off at that kid, as the others still wanted to discover it for themselves. They asked me if it was true, so I asked the spoiler kid if he saw the movie and he said no but he had read the plot details on the internet. So I just said that you can't believe everything you read on the internet and that I wouldn't confirm or deny. I felt like throttling the kid but later I took him aside and told him it was a jerk move to try to ruin things for people especially when he didn't have first hand information to even know if it was true. I kind of felt like a mom trying to keep up the ruse of Santa Claus for the other kids.

Oh that's so sad. What did he say about it when you took him aside?

 

[Songbird76]

Actually in this case, you are wrong. (And being in a mixed family I see both sides, that's why I originally said I wouldn't comment further.) But seeing as this topic keeps coming up...I cut this from a partial interview of Harvey Fierstein (brilliant man) who rewrote The Wiz for The Wiz Live, which will be going to Broadway next year. This explains why he changed their name. Now we can finally put this debate to rest.

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That's the same article that I read and the reason I said it WAS about being PC.

 

[Songbird76]

Insurance in Mexico is worse than in the USA, they pretty much give you the finger on most of the stuff.
my loss is still considered "preexisting condition". since I have been deaf since I was 10 years old.
so yeah, no insurance help on my implant and other stuff.. all needs to be from and by my pocket.
I swear with the money that I and my father spent on my deafness stuff..I would have bought 3 luxury houses and a few cars.

Oh the US is just as bad about that. Or at least some companies are. My mom had health coverage...it should have covered all her treatments and tests. But we lived in Wyoming, the least populated state in the country. My mother needed a bone scan....there was only one hospital in the state with a bone scan machine. They cost so much and not enough people need scans, so they charge a lot more for a scan than most places in the country. The insurance company refused to pay for the scan, even though it was necessary to treatment and the doctor asked for it. They said she could get the same can done in California for a lot cheaper....yeah....that would help...if she lived in California. They basically wanted her to pay to fly to California and stay there for a few days to get the scan and then fly home. The cost of the scan was still cheaper than flights and hotel expenses would have been. But the insurance company doesn't care about that, they only want to pay the minimum of what they have to pay, so if they can find a reason to refuse, they will.

 

[Songbird76]

My DD and I tend to get out of the way of twits trying to squish us. We are both small and we always get clobbered. I had one woman push through a clump of people at a craft fair and I had just opened a soda which went up in the air and onto the floor. No sorry, excuse me, let me help you clean that up. She did look back and I wished her a Merry Christmas.

Did she at least look ashamed? I tend to ignore rudeness like that, too. We were walking through the city center once and a woman was walking, but was turned away, talking to someone further back down the street and not looking where she was going, PLOWED into my 8 year old daughter, who started crying in pain and she looked down at my daughter in tears and walked off without saying a word as though she hadn't just creamed a kid. SO rude. If it would have done any good to say something, I would have, but a person who can do that and NOT apologize or show any kind of remorse has no consideration for others anyway and it would be lost on them.

 

[donaldtoo]

No problem we may need a designated driver.

Then we need my DWifey. She drinks the equivalent of about 4 glasses of wine a year.
I may, or may not, take up her slack.....and then some...

 

[catmom46]

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I love the Tangled ornament.

 

[Songbird76]

Of course. Would you like strawberry or cherry? I still haven't decided what to top the cheesecake with for Christmas.

Either one as long as I get cheesecake!!

 

[Songbird76]

What is paracetamol?

It's a pain reliever...I THINK it might be the same as tylenol, but I'm not sure.