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Figgy1

Figgy1

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Good morning NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want really shouldn't go outside because I'd fly away like Mary Poppins or the Flying Nun:angelic:. Top top the wind off it's getting cold and a winter weather thingy has been posted:mad::mad::mad::mad: Please no more ice and come to think of it no snow is welcome either!!!!!! Tonight's dinner groundhog paella with sangria:D
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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Gabe1 said:
When my DD gets a new car she plans on getting the black and white polka dot version of these car covers.

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Your DD has exquisite taste. :inlove: :inlove:
 
MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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StarWarsGirl said:
First day at my new job was today. A lot of training. My supervisor gave me an overview of everything first. She's a really sweet, soft spoken manager. I think she's about my dad's age. After she threw a bunch of information at me (and I showed her how to add people to favorites on Skype for Business) we took a break, and I got my desk set up the way I like it. I thought being new to the workplace that I would have no preferences about my desk setup. Turns out I'm rather picky about where the phone is. Then I had two other trainings on Microsoft office programs. I already knew most of what the training talked about, but it was still helpful. And then the person who was in the position before me (who got promoted) gave me another overview. So basically, I walked around the building in heels a good bit for the tours, and then around again trying to remember where everything was. Tomorrow I'm wearing flats. There's casual Friday at the office. I'm not sure anyone is looking forward to it more than me.

I was expecting I would be in a cubicle, but all of the midlevel managers on my floor have their own offices, so instead, I have a nice big desk right outside their offices and a computer with a two monitor setup.

Overall, it's so much better than my old job. Although I'm falling asleep already.
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Congratulations on your first day completion!! :) Welcome to the rest of your (work) life--it's all downhill from here on. (LOL . . . just kidding . . . :hilarious: )

Funny, I could relate to your own surprise about how particular you can be. about your own desk setup. As you know, I began a new job at the beginning of January (after over 13 years in another location). I spent a bit of time the first day rearranging stuff to "Minnie style" efficiency! :D
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Gabe1 said:
They used Joe way to much as a front man, making excuses. A waste of his talent. Did you see they tomorrow morning have 3 different shows on ABC talking up Avatarland. Good Morning America on the main attraction. The VIEW on the boat ride thing and CHEW talking about one of the food options in the new land. With Avatar being so long ago already and many not being sold on Avatar ever as an expansion land over Beastly Kingdom and 6 years from announcement to finish I guess Disney needs to be their own best cheerleaders and sadly that means pushing Joe out in front of a camera to be one of the cheerleaders. o_O
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Saw that. I don't watch any of those shows. Still don't plan on watching them just because of a preview of Pandora.I cannot wait to see it for myself though, not because I am a fan of Avatar but because I am a fan of Disney and see it as another Disney land. Yes, it sure took long enough to build it.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Gabe1 said:
I'd like to pause a moment...to ask...if I may....can you explain your avatar? Pretty Please???
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Ha ha! Sure. I took this picture of my current 6 year old last May at EPCOT in the UK. It is in the maze area. Apparently there is or was maybe(since it has been almost a year), a spot where there is a literal hole in the bushes. My little one found it and to quickly catch her other siblings ran through it. I just thought it was so funny that I got a picture of her climbing through it.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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donaldtoo said:
We did quite a bit when I was pretty young, but, then mom and pop bought something like this...

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The truck looks pretty much exactly like this, and pop still has it, and the camper was very similar, although long gone, now.

When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I started doing a lot of backpacking and tent camping trips again. Some of the best times of my young life...!!! :happy:
I am so comfortable in the outdoors.
There were also several times when we just took sleeping bags and a pillow and slept out in the pasture on warm summer nights at my grandparents farms. The stars and the Milky Way are beyond amazing away from all the city/suburb light clutter. :happy:
Really need to try to do a coupla' local weekend trips again in the next few years...if I can talk DWifey into it... :oops: ;)
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The camper pictured is almost exactly what my dad bought a couple years into his camping craziness. The difference was our pickup was baby blue and he being a person of detail, had painted the stripes on the camper to match. Relatively recently I wrote a mini-novel to give to my family entitled "What is a Queue, and why do I have to stand in it." The title is a little misleading because most of it didn't include a queue, but, did outline our mis-adventures in camping (i.e. vacationing) through the years. It is way to long to post the whole thing, but, I will put in a few small sections of the pickup camper from hell to give you an idea, albeit a small one, as to my unabashed hatred of camping. The title of this chapter is:

Florida in July
Or is it possible to have your underwear actually melt and become part of your skin?

"My sister and I were relegated to the camper for the long awaited trip. We had a view of everything on the right hand side of it. That’s the only side with windows. We also could climb up in the bunk that overhung the pickup cab and lie on our bellies and look out the front, bug splattered, window to see actually where we were going, instead of just what we were along side of. One of the modern conveniences in the mansion on wheels was an intercom system that connected us with our parents in the front of us. My sister took this opportunity to whine constantly in an effort to get me in trouble and also score herself a place in the cab of the pickup.

We drove endlessly through the rest of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. We did, or at least I, managed to see a lot of the right side of the states. We drove through mountain roads that I doubt anyone had been on since they built them as part of the New Deal. I have no recollection of where we spent the first night, but it would have had to be a pull off on the highway because it seems like I remember being terrified that someone would break into our little house and kill us all in the night.

It is probably time to discuss another miscalculation. Heat! We were from the north and our imagination of what southern heat was like was off by a very long way. Our blood was thick as tar and it was hot enough to melt tar. Turn on the AC you say? OK, but there wasn’t any. While on the road we could crack the windows a little and get a little breeze to hit us on the face, but at night all we had for the four of us was a 6 inch stationary fan pretty much pointed at Dad. That was only if we were able to plug into a 110 volt outlet someplace. I don’t think I need to be descriptive about just how grumpy four people in a small room with the heat in the 90’s and nothing more than a 6 inch fan to keep us feeling fresh can become.

Driving through Georgia pre-interstate highway time, was also a never ending trek. I do remember stopping at a roadside stand and Dad bought us a fresh Watermelon that we absorbed directly through our skin in an effort to re-hydrate. Finally after what seemed like we were following Moses through the desert for 40 years, we crossed into Florida. The most pleasant part of the trip started there at the Florida Welcome Station where they had cold, fresh Orange Juice that they gave to all of us happy little tourists. Man, I can still taste it. I have never had any Orange Juice that good since then.

I have very vivid memories of stopping at Silver Springs and riding the Glass Bottom Boats, crossing over the Swanee River as in way down upon the, fame, but the sequence escapes me. I do remember finding a campground somewhere not too far from Silver Springs, I think. It was mostly sand and palm trees and it was along side a lake. I couldn’t wait to get into that lake and cool off. My mother, however, had a different idea of what would be a good time considering that there was always the possibility of Alligators living in any lake in Florida and she wanted to return to the North with the same number of complete children that she left with.

While fueling up at a small gas station in Florida some old timers were sitting out front and talking about how this was the hottest they could remember it being. Of course that could just have been a way to scare tourist away, but we had no reason to doubt it. It was Hot. How hot? As Robin Williams said in “Good Morning, Vietnam”… Damn Hot! Our little 6 inch fan was working overtime but still not able to produce enough airflow to alter the flight path of a Gnat."

And if you think this was long, you should see the whole essay. The outcome of that trip was we never made it to Key West which was our original target. This took place in 1962 long before WDW even existed. We got as far as Daytona Beach before my parents came to their collective senses and pointed the thing north for a fast trip back to breathable air. This was just one of many adventures that almost never came out good if the word "camping" could be associated with it.
 
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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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Gabe1 said:
So glad you didn't get stuck or diverted somewhere else. Long night for you guys though.

At our intermediate level building there is a psycho principal IMO ;) Every professional must 'turn in' their lesson plans 2 weeks in advance along with a mirrored adjusted sub plan to the principal for her to sign off on. (she often will scribble in and alter them for her teachers too. :rolleyes:)
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I wouldn't like that lesson plan thing. I have my unit outlines, but my daily lessons change so much based on comprehension and other factors. Sometimes I even come up with a better lesson the. I had planned.
 

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