The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[StarWarsGirl]

I just want to give Carrie Fisher's daughter a great big hug. Unimaginable to lose your mom one day and your grandmother the next.

 

[Cesar R M]

I just want to give Carrie Fisher's daughter a great big hug. Unimaginable to lose your mom one day and your grandmother the next.

Agree, what a horrible way to say goodbye to 2016 :/

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Agree, what a horrible way to say goodbye to 2016 :/

I'm to the point where if I see a celebrity trending on Facebook I think to myself, "I hope this person didn't die too!"

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Yea tomorrow is my last extra early morning until at least next Wednesday

You mean I'll be up before you on Tuesday?

 

[Gabe1]

How can something so pretty taste so awful?

 

[Gabe1]

He didn't have a good night, he is feeling ickyier than yesterday. So today is supposed to be the family outing with the in-laws into the city and he isn't going to go. So I'm stuck alone with the in-laws.

I am holding a 'pity party' in your honor.

And when he is strong and healthy again...he owes you big time. Your gut of wishing Doc's said don't travel seemed to be more than wishful thinking.

 

[Gabe1]

Yah, let's rename him Jake--I'll see if he behaves better than his present name, Jack?!

Ha! That's what I get from posting in bed from my phone. lol

 

[Gabe1]

Bedtime snack. Shrimp Cocktail on steroids. Any thoughts on the weird dreams I'll be having tonight?

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Ouch . . . well, I hope you're back now with him at the hotel--I know I'd play the "husband is ill, and I don't want to leave him for too long" card at the family outing . . .

I am holding a 'pity party' in your honor.

And when he is strong and healthy again...he owes you big time. Your gut of wishing Doc's said don't travel seemed to be more than wishful thinking.

Thanks to both of you and hubby definitely does owe me big time. The time downtown wasn't too bad, there were fun moments. It was hubby's two sisters, one bro in law, the oldest niece and me. The other bro in law stayed back with the younger kids (ages 10-14) and took them to laser tag.

Hubs and I were planning to spend the 29, in the city over night on our own. As I was heading back today with his family hubby texted me and said he still wasn't any better and would I mind if I cancelled the hotel for the 29th. Well if he wasn't feeling better staying in downtown Chicago wouldn't be any fun so I cancelled the hotel.

So here comes the part where I get mad.....
After being back at his sisters house tonight they decide that all the adults should go out to dinner. Fine, hubs is even coming along. So when we get back hubby and I go down to the basement to change into our pajamas. The basement is where we have been allocated to sleep (for years) on air mattresses or a saggy pull out. But I put up with it because he wants to be with his family. This is also where the kids hang out. So I go to where I had neatly piled my blankets and pillows and they are all strewn about and hubby says that they were playing with my pillows earlier and he had to tell them to stop. That makes me mad and it happens frequently but it is just my pillows.

Here is the kicker. So I after changing into pjs after dinner I again I neatly arrange my pillows blankets and the clothes I had worn today on the bed I will be sleeping on. It isn't even in their play/hang out area really. They have no reason to be near it. I even hid my undergarments inside my pants and shirt.

Before we came to bed the kids went to bed and said they were taking funny videos in the basement. Well when we came down to go to bed everything I had neatly put on the air mattress was flung all over it! I do NOT like people touching my stuff without permission. So I point it out to hubby and he says I shouldn't talk to him about it but to the kids parents. He didn't think it was a big deal. WHAT? Can't he stand up for me? So with my undergarments strewn about now I'm wondering what funny videos they were making. Can't these kids respect other people's property? They didn't do it to hubby's stuff.I am super mad. I think it is a big deal but I don't want to look like the witchy one nor do I want to cause trouble. I think if I visit his family again I will be staying in a hotel or not at all. I don't think our ride back home tomorrow is going to be a fun one. Sorry for the ramble it is just upsetting and I needed to vent. But yeah, hubby definitely owes me big time.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

At least the good part of going home early is my cuddle time with the dog!

 

[Gabe1]

Thanks to both of you and hubby definitely does owe me big time. The time downtown wasn't too bad, there were fun moments. It was hubby's two sisters, one bro in law, the oldest niece and me. The other bro in law stayed back with the younger kids (ages 10-14) and took them to laser tag.

Hubs and I were planning to spend the 29, in the city over night on our own. As I was heading back today with his family hubby texted me and said he still wasn't any better and would I mind if I cancelled the hotel for the 29th. Well if he wasn't feeling better staying in downtown Chicago wouldn't be any fun so I cancelled the hotel.

So here comes the part where I get mad.....
After being back at his sisters house tonight they decide that all the adults should go out to dinner. Fine, hubs is even coming along. So when we get back hubby and I go down to the basement to change into our pajamas. The basement is where we have been allocated to sleep (for years) on air mattresses or a saggy pull out. But I put up with it because he wants to be with his family. This is also where the kids hang out. So I go to where I had neatly piled my blankets and pillows and they are all strewn about and hubby says that they were playing with my pillows earlier and he had to tell them to stop. That makes me mad and it happens frequently but it is just my pillows.

Here is the kicker. So I after changing into pjs after dinner I again I neatly arrange my pillows blankets and the clothes I had worn today on the bed I will be sleeping on. It isn't even in their play/hang out area really. They have no reason to be near it. I even hid my undergarments inside my pants and shirt.

Before we came to bed the kids went to bed and said they were taking funny videos in the basement. Well when we came down to go to bed everything I had neatly put on the air mattress was flung all over it! I do NOT like people touching my stuff without permission. So I point it out to hubby and he says I shouldn't talk to him about it but to the kids parents. He didn't think it was a big deal. WHAT? Can't he stand up for me? So with my undergarments strewn about now I'm wondering what funny videos they were making. Can't these kids respect other people's property? They didn't do it to hubby's stuff.I am super mad. I think it is a big deal but I don't want to look like the witchy one nor do I want to cause trouble. I think if I visit his family again I will be staying in a hotel or not at all. I don't think our ride back home tomorrow is going to be a fun one. Sorry for the ramble it is just upsetting and I needed to vent. But yeah, hubby definitely owes me big time.

Owes you big time doesn't cover it. I'm sorry for you and can't wrap my brain around making excuses for children that old already. How would they feel if someone did that to them?

But since one chunk of my DH nieces and nephews had zero boundaries I can unfortunately relate. The only part I agree with your husband with is talking to the parents vs children. 'Talk'n to' other people's kids is beyond dicey especially when it is family and the adults are clueless to what had been going down. But you have a perfect slide into the hotel in the future. Nicely but matter of factly my advice would be to outline what transpired multiple times. What is done is done but obviously the nieces and nephews treat me differently and do things to me and my stuff that they do not do to others or their parents. So next year we look forward to visiting once again but will stay in a hotel and we won't have these issues any longer.

Plus who needs to be sleeping on an air mattress on your holiday break. I admire your putting up with that this long being 'with' family or not. I'm hoping your hubby gets it when he is feeling better.

 

[Gabe1]

At least the good part of going home early is my cuddle time with the dog!

Amen sister friend!

I look forward to being able to do that again, hopefully sooner over later.

 

[Gabe1]

Even better - wait for cable.

Just finally saw Inside Out - meh.
and The Good Dinosaur - loved.

Meh, for Inside Out isn't strong enough for me. More disappointed and restless with this one than I was trying to sit through Winnie the Pooh a few years ago, Dear Lord that was painful even with how short it was and I love Pooh and Friends and that was better than Inside Out.

 

[Gabe1]

Please, 2016 can't end soon enough. I need to go to bed, pull the covers over my head and get up sometime next week.

I can relate. Sure hopes 2017 ends better for us all that this one seems to be going out.

 

[Gabe1]

I just want to give Carrie Fisher's daughter a great big hug. Unimaginable to lose your mom one day and your grandmother the next.

I feel for Todd too. A Mom and a Sister...bad week for both of them doesn't seem to cover it.

 

[Gabe1]

Don't shoot the messenger but in addition to being a leap year we also get an extra second tacked onto the 31st

Wow! Leap year. Wonder if Disney will pull an All Nighter for Leap Year again, how it all started originally.

Then again, Disney would likely now upcharge the heck out of it.

 

[Gabe1]

Had to pop up to N&R to see what you and Figgy were writing about. Ugh. I just read the thread about this--sad. To me, that show "is" the Magic Kingdom -- hate to see that delightful welcome show get scrapped. Little by little, the older, charming shows of the Magic Kingdom are being taken away. So I guess they'll have a new show up at the castle. That's not the same. There's just something about the old trains and the CMs dressed up in period costumes--this is a big loss for many of us.

Yeah, been hearing the rumblings and rumor bin on this for a while. From what my kid had been telling me it has a lot more to do with the 'fix' to security, the time to get guests through and the holding pen needing to be bigger than the cut of that particular show.

This time I'll cut Disney some slack on the need to revise the needs of security over the almighty dollar. But opening the stores early and eateries will pay for the security upgrades many times over.

 

[Gabe1]

View attachment 181699 You must never have did this dance as a kid?

Priceless!

 

[Gabe1]

I may have found something good about it being too cold to go outside not to mention a few darling "angels" needing supervision. I was productive today. I made enough waffles to feed the boys and freeze enough for about 8 more meals. I got a simple princess seamed dress assembled and altered, now I just have to add facings and hem, I got my steps in and I have a pot of chili on the stove simmering and cornbread in the oven. That doesn't mean I have to be happy about it, I'd rather be by a pool with a good book or even just some good music. More cold and snow tomorrow Is it wine time yet?

Cheers!

It has been that kinda year. By the way, I'm having the Riesling. My hot cocoa of choice tonight.

 

[Gabe1]

I'm not so sure Disney would be willing to give up an hour of cash registers ringing every morning

It is rare thing when Disney bites the Social Media bullet to bring anything back again. My templet for Stupid was the Adventurers Club. Wildly popular, still would have fit nicely into the New Vision for Disney Springs or even the original Wharf. They were not going back there....