The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

Yep, ultimately, I really don't care for the most part, as we've never been to a Disney water park (our trips are only a week, and we have enough of them close enough to us here). know they need to always be evaluating processes, methods, etc. for all operations to try to make things as efficient as possible for all, involved, but, woof!...they sure can bollocks it up too much of the time.

Oh yay! Yet another upcharge...!!!!!

Like I said Disney tried this exact thing a few years ago and it was a FAIL. It is still a FAIL. If they are to ask guests to transfer, they need to have something to transfer to. Almost 2 hours to go round trip to a waterpark is beyond insane.

Upside Disney has reached out of the box to hire a master long term planner to fix their transportation system. Glimmer of hope they realize it no longer works and guests all driving to the parks and resorts is Pandora's box. Just shifting from the left foot to the right congestion.

They know the monorail is no longer a means of reliable affordable transportation. They know buses as they are now are not a long term viable option. Bringing in the new Gondolas for multiple resorts and parks is certainly could be a viable option, it works elsewhere.

Every trip we have had hiccups that were beyond aggrivating with transportation but it wasn't repeatedly. We never experienced the transportation issues we did from boats to buses to monorails that we did in 2016. It was if Disney stopped giving a rip. Our last full day we were heading to Epcot. First full day of Food & Wine. We waited an hour. We had bus loads before us. Freak'n insane. It had also poured late afternoon and all evening the day before and there was EMH at Epcot that pouring night. So many reasons for too many to be heading to EPCOT and it was in the 90s early in the morning with dew points beyond icky. We finally walked away with no relief from Disney in sight. We took an Uber to Epcot. Prompt. Unfortunately the queue into the 'turnstiles' were 45 minutes plus. Heat, humidity, long commutes made for very miserable guests not yet even into the parks.

They have got to fix the transportation thing. The Monorails service, the car guests and the resort transportation guests ride Disney transportation, once the perk of hoppers. I am glad they looked outside the inner box for solutions. Now lets hope the budget cuts don't undermined the fix.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Problem is, with some people, another plate of spaghetti could go elsewhere..

Wherever it goes will be wrinkle free.

 

[Gabe1]

Yep, ultimately, I really don't care for the most part, as we've never been to a Disney water park (our trips are only a week, and we have enough of them close enough to us here).
!

And on this different note We have been to waterparks everywhere. I love the thrill as does my family. We are a water family. From ships to parks I've never seen any waterpark pull off what Disney has and I've been to many waterparks in so many states. If you ever have a day I would highly recommend hopping between the two. I genuinely love them (once you can get to them via transportation) And on that note my waterpark of choice this year will not be Disney. It will be volcano bay. Looks awesome.

 

[Gabe1]

Done!

Thank you. Miss her.

 

[Gabe1]

Wherever it goes will be wrinkle free.

I looked at this post between you and @Cesar R M and know I missed something, so lost.

 

[Gabe1]

And, we haven't had a "baby" in HS (no, not Hollywood Studios ) in well over 4 years...!
Just think...that much closer to him payin' his own food bills...!

Touche. My Baby graduated college at the semester year end of 2013. Seems like yesterday.

 

[Gabe1]

Oh yes, I definitely know about Nathan's, have just never had one.
The ones I used to cook and serve at all those UT football, basketball, concert, etc., concessions back in the day had superior flavor to anything we ever got in a grocery store at the time. And, the sausages for the wraps were even better...!!!!!
All I need is one dog on a fresh bun, and one sausage on a fresh tortilla right now...!!!

Yes, yes and yes.

 

[Gabe1]

Yep, our 1lb. 4oz. "Miracle Matthew" DS had 2 operations for those eye muscles (plus the premature retinopathy while he was still in the NICU). He still needs to wear a specialty prescription, but, fortunately, can read very well and comprehend most of what he reads.

He is awesome. Following him all these years now and seeing what your son has progressed is beyond awesome.

Eyes are so often an overlooked cause of cognitive development. If eyes don't work together its all out of whack. Eye charts have patients looking independent of each other. Cover left, cover right. Why oh why is that the standard school test? So many times it isn't the kid struggling to understand the material, it is struggling to see the material. A pair of specialty eye glasses a simple cure. Frustrating. I use to do student read to an a parent once a week in early elementary. Caught 3 kids with the same issues my kids had, as did I. I wish this was part of education of new teachers. So not their fault, but could help so many students.

Many years back my friend slowly died of cancer, her youngest I'd watch before he went to school. dad understandably overwhelmed went to work. I'd pack him a lunch and put him on the bus. One day he looked at me in the morning over breakfast and told me his teacher was always mad at him. But he could not read the white board. Broke my heart. Dad was already overwhelmed with 3 kids on his own basically. I called school. They said he passed eye test. I called his Grandma in Florida. She came up and took him to an ophthalmologist and he was fitted with glasses that fit his issues. He, in 4th grade was so happy to be able to see things he couldn't before. These generic eye tests don't do justice to all those issues out there.

 

[Songbird76]

My day! While I am extremely aware of how much worse things can be, let me share my day so far. It started last night really, I was working and during my lunch break I had a Granola Bar.. Healthy stuff right? From now on anything even remotely healthy will be avoided.

Anyway I bite into it and hear this cracking sound and a little pain. Didn't think much of it, it thought that whatever I bit is what made the noise, but as the rest of the evening progressed my mouth started to ache. By the time I got home, it took some heavy duty meds to even get a little sleep. So this morning instead of calling for an appointment I went to my Dentists office. They took me right in. Result of that healthy granola bar was a split tooth front to back and all the way into the root. End result of that was another tooth extraction (I'm starting to become a stereotypical redneck) and a bone graft in the event I want an implant. It's another molar as well, so soon, pudding will be the main course for me.

Speaking of Meds., I was given Oxycontin for something else, and they said I could use it for this as well. Sorry, but, I have no idea why it is such a controlled drug. I hate the way it makes me feel. I feel like I'm in a drunken stuper. I don't want to walk, I just want to sit in a chair and stare ahead. It isn't a good feeling, just a helpless one. I hate that feeling, so as of tonight I am off the hard stuff and sticking with the less potent stuff like Aleve. Haven't even had any of that yet. I just lost the matching molar on the other side last January.

That doesn't sound fun! But why couldn't they give you prescription grade ibuprofen or something? Those meds sound horrible!

 

[Figgy1]

Oh I love that!! Is that a picture you took? Is that from your house??

NO! It's just something I saw on the web and thought she'd enjoy

 

[Figgy1]

We did the Harry Potter Escape Room today for an early Father's Day gift. It was so much fun. Last week, DH and I did an Indiana Jones themed one, and it was so much fun, but we didn't make it out because it was just the 2 of us, and you really need to have more people so you can kind of split things up. So today, we did the HP one with the kids and we made it through with 27 seconds to spare! We could have made it through a bit faster...for one, there was a part where you had to stick your arm through holes on the side of a cabinet to move something from the bottom to the top, even though the doors wouldn't open...my arm got stuck, so DD ended up doing that part herself. Then there was a puzzle that was like a 2D rubic puzzle...you had to move the squares around to form a picture. While I was working on that, Hubby and DD were working on a Metro Map thing and they were plotting points on the map. I ended up switching places with Hubs and he had the rubic thing done really fast and I had to start the Metro Map over because you were supposed to follow the entire journey, not just plot the points. If you drew the routes on the map, it drew numbers that you needed for a combination lock...that was the last bit we got done and I didn't even have to do the last one...we knew the first 2 numbers, so they just tried all the different ones for the third until it opened. That thing contained the last piece of the puzzle. So had DH started with the rubic and I with the Metro, we would have been done sooner. DS cracked me up. He's color blind, and yet he figured out this thing...there was a display case with wands in different colors. There was a secret room that opened up when you solved one of the puzzles and in that room was a light panel with different sliders. As you moved the slider up or down, it changed color and you had to put them in order. So DS figured that out, but he couldn't see the colors so he couldn't do it...finally he says "Mommy, can you help me? What color is this?" He thought it was supposed to be yellow and it was actually green. So sweet. He so wanted to be able to do it himself. But he did solve several things by himself and he had the time of his life...he LOVES stuff like that. DD had not wanted to do an escape room at all and only agreed to because it was HP themed. She had so much fun that now she wants to do more of them, even if they aren't HP. I guess you can't get much higher praise than that. And apparently only 40% make it through the room. We got a picture of us holding a sign and it gives our end time. If you like puzzles and logic games, I highly recommend escape rooms.

THNX for sharing. Now I have to find one and then try and find time when we all have nothing scheduled.

 

[Figgy1]

I remember you told the story...but my DD asked and I can't remember. How did you manage to pull off keeping the DH out of your kitchen. I don't remember the story but I seem to remember him having a remote coffee pot.

I put a microwave cart in my dining room. It has a couple of shelves and a nice sized drawer so he can keep his keurig(sp?), espresso maker and all their gadgets plus his coffee I do not like out of my way He makes his coffee and sandwiches in that area and that area ONLY

 

[Figgy1]

My day! While I am extremely aware of how much worse things can be, let me share my day so far. It started last night really, I was working and during my lunch break I had a Granola Bar.. Healthy stuff right? From now on anything even remotely healthy will be avoided.

Anyway I bite into it and hear this cracking sound and a little pain. Didn't think much of it, it thought that whatever I bit is what made the noise, but as the rest of the evening progressed my mouth started to ache. By the time I got home, it took some heavy duty meds to even get a little sleep. So this morning instead of calling for an appointment I went to my Dentists office. They took me right in. Result of that healthy granola bar was a split tooth front to back and all the way into the root. End result of that was another tooth extraction (I'm starting to become a stereotypical redneck) and a bone graft in the event I want an implant. It's another molar as well, so soon, pudding will be the main course for me.

Speaking of Meds., I was given Oxycontin for something else, and they said I could use it for this as well. Sorry, but, I have no idea why it is such a controlled drug. I hate the way it makes me feel. I feel like I'm in a drunken stuper. I don't want to walk, I just want to sit in a chair and stare ahead. It isn't a good feeling, just a helpless one. I hate that feeling, so as of tonight I am off the hard stuff and sticking with the less potent stuff like Aleve. Haven't even had any of that yet. I just lost the matching molar on the other side last January.

Sympathy like but they are not healthy! Granola bars for the most part are full of sticky sugar, sometimes even HFCS so it's no wonder they caused a problem. Kale is your friend

 

[Figgy1]

I got Copper.

I can see that, he'd fit right in at your house

 

[Figgy1]

Problem is, with some people, another plate of spaghetti could go elsewhere..

Especially in the case of my boys or my dh but that's another story

 

[Figgy1]

Good morning and I'm really going to enjoy it. Our next school year starts tonight with the first band meeting or is it chorus. All I know is I have to be at the high school tonight with James

 

[MinnieM123]

By the way, if you are an AP holder at Disney you can now opt to buy a 60 day internal loop bus pass to shuttle from behind stage park to park. Only $59.99 upcharge

That's depressing to me (not referring to the AP holders, just the "news" above).

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Sympathy like but they are not healthy! Granola bars for the most part are full of sticky sugar, sometimes even HFCS so it's no wonder they caused a problem. Kale is horrible and should be avoided at all costs

FTFY

 

[MinnieM123]

Hello everyone. Please bear with me. I thought that I would just update you guys on our precious Chloe. We had to make the gut-wrenching decision to put her down last Thursday. She was not responding to the iv fluids or eating or drinking water. She just wasn't the same kitty as she had once been. Her kidney disease finally got her. I will spare you the details because it is very hard for me to sit here and type them. She pretty much gave up and knew it was time to leave us. We brought her back home and DH buried her in our woods under a birdbath since she loved birds.
This has been one of the most difficult decisions and times in our lives. If you own a pet, you know what I mean. Our lives will be constantly changed. DH has a hard time walking past "her" room without breaking down. I figured out that we haven't been by ourselves since 1985 when our DD was born. It feels really surreal to me. Too quiet. We will get another cat in the future, but not right now.
A big thank you and hug from me and Bob to the following: @Mr Ferret 88 , @figmentfan423, @betty rose, @Songbird76, @ajrwdwgirl, @MinnieM123, and @StarWarsGirl !!! Without your thoughts and support, we could not make it through this time.
I will be back sometime soon to put up a TR about our trip. I picked up a bad cold and cough while there, so still trying to get over it.
Thanks guys!! Love you so much!

Many of us can empathize with your loss of a beloved pet. They are so much a part of our family, and there's an emptiness that we feel when they're gone. Try to take some comfort in the fact that you gave Chloe a good life, which benefited both her and your family as well.

 

[Cesar R M]

I looked at this post between you and @Cesar R M and know I missed something, so lost.

We're talking about greasy and fattening food and wrinkles.