The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Cesar R M]

I don't bring my pillow(s) when I travel to WDW. I kinda like it when hotels give you 4 pillows on a bed, and I can be fickle and choose whatever ones I want. Excess can be cool you know . . .

Well it depends on the pillows too.
The latest trend seem to be 4 very short and stubby pillows.. Not a fan.
Not to mention most pillows I've seen at most hotels, are the feathery "put your head in, sink like it was just air". Which I dont like. I prefer semi firm ones XD

 

[StarWarsGirl]

yikes, I hope they don't take much to fix!

Well, at least I'll be at work and school tomorrow, so if worse comes to worst, I'll be there most of the day and can stay there to do homework. I'm using my phone as a hot spot right now and my laptop had a full battery, so I could do some homework. I think I'm just going to go to bed now. There's so little light that it's making me tired.

 

[donaldtoo]

There were a lot of stone quarry's in Indiana, that kids swam in. At least one drowning every summer.

I don't remember any drownings that I heard of there, but, of course, that doesn't mean they didn't happen...a few probably did, but, none were kids I knew.

 

[donaldtoo]

@donaldtoo my Kennedy pics are up. I'll tag you in my TR if you want

Thanks, Figgy!
Sorry I haven't hopped over to your TR yet...!
Still behind here...!
Will try to hop over this weekend...!

 

[donaldtoo]

Probably quite a few states have quarries, and they're a magnet for kids to sneak into. One of my brothers used to always go swimming at a quarry that had multiple, No Trespassing signs. Still, he and his chummies used to dive off the rocks. No one he knew, but there was one death, and some other injuries over a period of years. The city finally shut the area down, and not just with signs-they fenced off with barbed wire the circumference. I think some kids feel invincible, and unfortunately, that's how accidents happen.

Yep, no doubt we were a bit stupid. But, when it came to scoping the place out and making sure all our jumping/dive zones (that's part of what the snorkeling was for) were clear, we were very careful. No one wants themselves or a friend to not surface. We kept pretty close track of each other. Yep, still stupid stuff...
Off the top of my head, the two main stones that are quarried in Texas are limstone and granite. Mostly pink granite. Our state Capitol is built of it...!



And y'all remember Enchanted Rock...!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Still no power. It's been 4 1/2 hours apparently. According to the power company's website, ours is the only street affected, and they are investigating and have no timeline for restoring power. Oh, and because we are on a well, no power also means no water.

Parents are home, so I'm going to sleep. Hopefully it'll come back overnight.

Also, the catis greatly confused by all of this. She won't settle down enough to be cuddled. She's laying on the end of my bed looking very alert.

 

[donaldtoo]

Still no power. It's been 4 1/2 hours apparently. According to the power company's website, ours is the only street affected, and they are investigating and have no timeline for restoring power. Oh, and because we are on a well, no power also means no water.

Parents are home, so I'm going to sleep. Hopefully it'll come back overnight.

Also, the catis greatly confused by all of this. She won't settle down enough to be cuddled. She's laying on the end of my bed looking very alert.

Sympathy like. Hope y'alls power is restored soon...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

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

 

[Cesar R M]

Still no power. It's been 4 1/2 hours apparently. According to the power company's website, ours is the only street affected, and they are investigating and have no timeline for restoring power. Oh, and because we are on a well, no power also means no water.

Parents are home, so I'm going to sleep. Hopefully it'll come back overnight.

Also, the catis greatly confused by all of this. She won't settle down enough to be cuddled. She's laying on the end of my bed looking very alert.

What if the cat seen the truth?

 

[Gabe1]

Still no power. It's been 4 1/2 hours apparently. According to the power company's website, ours is the only street affected, and they are investigating and have no timeline for restoring power. Oh, and because we are on a well, no power also means no water.

Parents are home, so I'm going to sleep. Hopefully it'll come back overnight.

Also, the catis greatly confused by all of this. She won't settle down enough to be cuddled. She's laying on the end of my bed looking very alert.

Sorry. The episode of Friends that is on is about power outage.

 

[Gabe1]

My mother said she was zonked out with drugs with all 3 of us boys, but, I think she had an epidural when she had my 12-year-younger sis.
Our oldests birth was induced, because she was already a week late.
DWifey and I took a Lamaze class in the run-up to her birth, but, after about the 6th hour of hard labor, she wanted the pain meds. I can attest she REALLY wanted the meds, as with every contraction (so handily tracked on the fetal monitor) she was getting closer and closer to crushing all the bones in my left hand (fortunately, I'm right-handed ).
Plus, it was a while before the Doc got there to approve the epidural, 'cause he was supposedly doing an emergency bladder surgery.
About an hour later, Doc finally got there and they sent me packin' while the anesthesiologist did his thing. When they let me back in the room she was sitting up comfortably eating some ice chips.
At one point, they were talking about sending us home because she wasn't dilated enough...!
DWifey and I talked, we decided to hold off a little longer. Sure enough about a half hour later the dilation progressed more quickly. Although we had planned to do the whole experience in the LDR, eventually the Doc realized both mom and baby were gettin' tired, and decided to head to an OR and use the "Salad Spoons", as he said.
Fortunately, she was out in seconds, and a perfectly healthy 8lb. 8oz. Little girl...!!!
The forceps only left a small bruise on her right cheek.
Most of y'all know DS had to be taken at 1lb. 4oz. to have any chance of survival, so that was an automatic cesarean birth.
We had planned VBAC for youngest DDs birth, but, Doc vetoed. After a bleeding scare early in the pregnancy, and the potential that she might be miscarried, all settled down for the rest of the pregnancy and youngest DD was born completely healthy at 7lb. 13oz.
Yep, life's a hoot-and-a-half...!!!!!

I waited too long for an epidural with my DS and he was 9#. Labor went very fast but he got stuck at the very end because of his big honk'n head. They told me later the winner of the largest head in the nursery. Anyhoo, his heartrate started to drop and she, my OB decided it was salad spoon time. No epidural, no knocking me out only novocaine in the area of the incision that trust me did nothing in the 60 seconds before she told me don't even consider moving what so ever (and I did not) and she yanked that kid right out. He had already broken my tailbone. That boy caused lots of damage down there. 5 freak'n days in the hospital and only released cause I said I was leaving. A reason my kids are 5 years apart, surprised I ever decided to have a 2nd child. She was 7 1/2# and average sized head. I could have walked out of the hospital that night but she went to the PIC Unit as she decided to inhale fluids she should not have. Guess it is always something.

 

[Gabe1]

And @StarWarsGirl a different episode but another power outage Friends episode. They want me to keep thinking of you. Karma.
Hope it is on in the morning.

 

[Gabe1]

yikes, I hope they dont take much to fix!

It took over 24 hours for our transformer to be repaired. It was so freak'n hot out that year (the year many passed away because of it) that they were blowing right and left. Hotel we did go. The humidity and dew points we so high and the temps were around 105 it was crazy.
So worth the $100 and they took our Pups too.

 

[Gabe1]

Yep, no doubt we were a bit stupid. But, when it came to scoping the place out and making sure all our jumping/dive zones (that's part of what the snorkeling was for) were clear, we were very careful. No one wants themselves or a friend to not surface. We kept pretty close track of each other. Yep, still stupid stuff...
Off the top of my head, the two main stones that are quarried in Texas are limstone and granite. Mostly pink granite. Our state Capitol is built of it...!

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And y'all remember Enchanted Rock...!

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Actually I have no idea what our quarries are stone wise, never gave it any thought. As teens many went skinny dipping there in the wee hours of the morning. Me. I always had that fear of God that my parents would kill me if I ever ventured into anything like quarry swimming. I had a fear of the wrath-my Sis on the other hand never had that fear, actually I think she rather enjoyed the challenge. Oh the fun she had.

Many times I wished for a do-over.

 

[Gabe1]

The two things I always end up missing on vacation are my bed and the cat. If I could have both of those, I would never want to leave WDW.

The sofa beds in the studios are actually pretty comfy, but not like my own bed.

On our flight coming and going was a medium sized service dog. Odd considering we left and came back on a weekday, most don't travel that way to MCO. The Pup had a larger push carrier, netted, similar to one pulled behind a bicycle for children but with a push bar like a grocery cart. I was curious to the disability because the woman was very stable both emotionally and physically. I wondered if the dog that was well trained was a seizure or diabetes type service pup. The carrier went under the plane during the flight and the pup laid peacefully in the bulkhead row.

We only saw her once during our trip at Disney Springs and the Pup was wearing a Minnie Mouse ears hat. The Pup seemed to less than amused. The woman welcomed the interaction with her and the Pup. She was travelling alone. With my love of Pups I really was curious as to what service she performed but would never intrude and ask. We did also see 3 service dogs in training in the parks. I so wanted to play with the retrievers. (I so miss Walter) The local University there has students training service Pups and what better place to train Puppies to be in social environments that WDW. The one Golden Retriever about 5 months old was having Puppy issues, it wanted to play. My DD university also trained service Pups. It was fun to see them evolve.

 

[Gabe1]

Never a pleasant sight on your road in the middle of the night. Emergency equipment ahead of sheriff. Fire fighters and EMTs roaming both sides of the road. This isn't going to be pretty. Wonder what the heck happened.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

In other news ... i feel i'm being watched
http://guernseypress.com/news/2016/...ks-indicates-a-sustainable-ferret-population/

 

[Figgy1]

I'm surprised you don't have a padlock on your pantry. I remember my DS sophomore year when in grew 9 inches during the school year!
Between the food costs and clothing costs it was a rough couple of years. He went from a 5 foot kid to a tall dude in a year. It is hilarious to look at his photo in the yearbook that year taken at the start of the school year to the photo's taken for the yearbook at the end.

Who says I don't. My dh put up shelving in in a "room"(large closet) by where he keeps tools and such so you have to go through a locked door to get into the area. My big chest freezer is in the garage which is also locked and yet some how I never have enough food. There's no way I'm letting the boys watch Macgyver!

 

[Figgy1]

In other news ... i feel i'm being watched
http://guernseypress.com/news/2016/...ks-indicates-a-sustainable-ferret-population/

It's about darn time

 

[Figgy1]

I was out today, due to another bad day of allergies...cold chills, and dry heaves. Hubby has on the air conditioner and I have the fireplace on in the living room.

Sympathy like and get well soon. xoxo