The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
We are!! It's not going quite the way we planned it, and we're not using any of our fast passes, but the kid is having a really great time, so that's what matters!!

Well there are good and bad points about it not going as planned but if you are all enjoying yourself then it is all GOOD!:)

My husband is insisting we use Disney transportation after the fireworks tomorrow night instead of catching an Uber.

How much am I going to hate my life? Are there any tips or tricks I should know about getting in the bus with 60k of my closest friends?

Which park will you be at MK? If at MK stand near the end of Main Street if you want to be out quick, same works with Hollywood Studios. Or you can grab a snack and wait about 20-30 minutes and watch the crowds flow and clear out a bit.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
Well there are good and bad points about it not going as planned but if you are all enjoying yourself then it is all GOOD!:)



Which park will you be at MK? If at MK stand near the end of Main Street if you want to be out quick, same works with Hollywood Studios. Or you can grab a snack and wait about 20-30 minutes and watch the crowds flow and clear out a bit.

Oh, yeah, that would have been helpful!

We'll be in the garden dessert party area at MK
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
It still like that here, freak'n arctic blast. Bright Side: At least we are not Erie Pennsylvania. Blessed.

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This was like we had in 2011


That is too much snow. We are in the negative temps until tomorrow afternoon. In the afternoon it will warm up to maybe double digits and on Thursday morning we are supposed to get snow about 3 or more inches. It looks like it will cover most of the 94/90 corridor from Minneapolis to Madison, so if we had gone to Chicago I would have been driving back in that. Icky.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
I forgot to post yesterday's beer so I will do yesterday and today

Day four: Shiner Holiday Cheer, this was so good. It was brewed with roasted pecans and peaches. It smelled so good. I had gotten my brother in law (my sisters husband) a 6 pack and it had this beer in it and he loved it too. When we were at the grocery store I bought a six pack of it. I also thought of @donaldtoo as I was drinking it because it is a Texas beer. So if you haven't tried it yet @donaldtoo you should!
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Day five: New Glarus Snowshoe. It is brewers in New Glarus Wisconsin and they don't sell outside of Wisconsin. It was good but really dark, it reminded me a little of Guinness.
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I've heard really great things about SB holiday cheer!! Glad you liked it! Might try it next year!
 

Goofyernmost

Well-Known Member
I exited out of the "chrome" app....used the Tripadvisor app successfully...came back to the chrome app....it loaded and the warning filled the screen again...my wife and I tinkered with it but it seemed like the real deal. Now it is 48 hours later I can't remember the wording or more specific details. Sorry.
That is something that has been happening a lot lately. It happens on Chrome, Firefox and Microsofts own, have those situations lately. Some require shutting down the computer to exit them. So far they don't seem to do any problem that is long lasting. It will stop everything and make the announcement that they are Microsoft and have detected a virus and we are supposed to call them immediately. They also say if we try to shut down the computer they will be forced to block any internet activity from my computer. I mutter a few specific names and then shut down the computer. I start it back up and everything is back to normal.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
Also, PSA: they serve Dole whips at Pop now. Or maybe they always have. I've never seen it mentioned in a trip report, but they're there. You can get the Dole whip float there too!

Very cool, I haven't seen that posted before either. I am more of a citrus swirl fan but I do enjoy the pineapple Dole whips as well.

Oh, yeah, that would have been helpful!

We'll be in the garden dessert party area at MK

Oh, you'll be pretty much closed in with the crowd leaving. I would just stay in the garden area for awhile, maybe take a dessert or two with you (wrap them in a napkin and put in your bag if need be) and just relax in the garden. If your little girl can handle it maybe make a fast pass for something like Jingle Cruise or something close to that area then by the time you are done with that the big rush will have cleared out. Or just brave the crowd and realize you might have to stand on the bus.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
Very cool, I haven't seen that posted before either. I am more of a citrus swirl fan but I do enjoy the pineapple Dole whips as well.



Oh, you'll be pretty much closed in with the crowd leaving. I would just stay in the garden area for awhile, maybe take a dessert or two with you (wrap them in a napkin and put in your bag if need be) and just relax in the garden. If your little girl can handle it maybe make a fast pass for something like Jingle Cruise or something close to that area then by the time you are done with that the big rush will have cleared out. Or just brave the crowd and realize you might have to stand on the bus.

I think we're probably going to just brave it. I'm hoping they'll open the bypass and that will help. And if we have to stand in the bus, I'll just loudly say to my husband "YOU SHOULD ASK THAT GUY TO STAND SO I CAN SIT. HE'S CLEARLY A MILLENNIAL."

The buses have run really smoothly so far. We've been fairly impressed!
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I love The Gilmore Girls and am a fan of the writer of the show, very insightful woman. Likely why I liked the TV series so much.

Here was a cut from one episode on thinking about the meaning of a Christmas Gift. Lane Kim cracks me up.

RORY: Ok, I really need to talk about something else now.

LANE: You went shopping.

RORY: Yes I did. I got a moo-ing cow shaped timer for Sookie, some cardio-salsa tapes for Michel, a book for Dean -

LANE: You got Dean a book?

RORY: Yeah. ‘Metamorphosis’.

LANE: ‘Metamorphosis.’

RORY: It’s Kafta.

LANE: Very romantic.

RORY: I think it is romantic.

LANE: I know I’ve always dreamed that some day a guy would get me a really confusing Czechoslovakian novel.

RORY: I think he’ll appreciate it.

LANE: A book sends the wrong message.

RORY: What are you talking about?

LANE: You have to look at what a gift says to the other person, not to you. Remember two years ago, I got my mom that perfume?

RORY: Yeah.

LANE: Ok, to me that said, ‘Hey mom, you work hard, you deserve something fancy’. Now to my mother, it said ‘Hey mom, here’s some smelly sex juice, the kind I use to lure boys with’ and resulted in me being sent to bible camp all summer.

RORY: Yeah but -

LANE: Just imaging that you actually gave Dean something really romantic, and he gave you a football. Your hypothetical romantic present is saying that you really, really like him. And his present is saying ‘Hey man, let’s just be friends’.

RORY: And you’re saying that this book is -

LORELAI: Is a Czechoslovakian football, yes.

RORY: So then what do I get him?

LANE: What you should do is find out what he’s getting you and gage your gift accordingly.

RORY: But doesn’t that kinda take the fun out of it?

LANE: Gift giving is serious business. If you don’t believe me try spending a month at Korean bible camp.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
As you chit chatters know, there was some family drama with hubs and I not attending his family's Christmas this year. Here's an update...

So tomorrow is the big family gathering. Today hub got an email from his uncle, there was another email attached it was from his twin sister (who lives in the Chicago area) to the uncle. In that email hub's sister told the uncle the time for the meal and informed him that we wouldn't be at Christmas this year because these are her words..."Brad's wife is unwilling to drive him and they are unwilling to fly." Nothing about them being unwilling to come up here, ever. Now hubs had not been included on that email but his uncle must have thought that he should see it as he included him in the reply to the sister. I don't think the uncle was trying to make any trouble because he is well aware of his nieces' personalities as he has had to miss gatherings to care for his wife that has MS. So hubs replied to his uncle and emailed another uncle and both were supportive of our situation and understand why were aren't going to come this year.

But those words just made me see red, combined with the fact that hub's older sister (the one who thinks she runs the family) did not respond to my husband's Merry Christmas text yesterday! She posted pictures of her kids on Facebook but couldn't return a simple text. Her husband and their kids texted him back even his twin sister at least texted back a simple Merry Christmas. So when today when hubs read that email to me I just exploded because to me they are just treating him like dirt and have for years. It was my tipping point. I told hubs that I'm done with them and honestly if I see his sisters and either one of them make some sort of comment about it in the future I don't think I can hold back. I'm pretty easy going and I've put up with their slights for years because I know they mean something to hubs but they just treated him poorly one too many times for me. I get very protective of people who mean a lot to me, so maybe I won't be seeing them in the future. Ugh!

Oh and a little bit ago hubs got a text from the one sister's husband that he mailed my present out today (I guess he had my name for Christmas). My first inclination is to send the present back because I really don't want anything from those people. However, it is probably a Disney book I've been wanting to read for months, the new one about the Ink and Paint Department. So what to do?

Oh thanks again for listening/reading, sorry. :(Again, you all are the best! :inlove:
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
I think we're probably going to just brave it. I'm hoping they'll open the bypass and that will help. And if we have to stand in the bus, I'll just loudly say to my husband "YOU SHOULD ASK THAT GUY TO STAND SO I CAN SIT. HE'S CLEARLY A MILLENNIAL."

The buses have run really smoothly so far. We've been fairly impressed!

Why stop at singling out the millennials?! Why not the little old grandma's and grandpas? They clearly don't need those seats!:joyfull::)

(I hope my sarcasm came through:cool:...)
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
As you chit chatters know, there was some family drama with hubs and I not attending his family's Christmas this year. Here's an update...

So tomorrow is the big family gathering. Today hub got an email from his uncle, there was another email attached it was from his twin sister (who lives in the Chicago area) to the uncle. In that email hub's sister told the uncle the time for the meal and informed him that we wouldn't be at Christmas this year because these are her words..."Brad's wife is unwilling to drive him and they are unwilling to fly." Nothing about them being unwilling to come up here, ever. Now hubs had not been included on that email but his uncle must have thought that he should see it as he included him in the reply to the sister. I don't think the uncle was trying to make any trouble because he is well aware of his nieces' personalities as he has had to miss gatherings to care for his wife that has MS. So hubs replied to his uncle and emailed another uncle and both were supportive of our situation and understand why were aren't going to come this year.

But those words just made me see red, combined with the fact that hub's older sister (the one who thinks she runs the family) did not respond to my husband's Merry Christmas text yesterday! She posted pictures of her kids on Facebook but couldn't return a simple text. Her husband and their kids texted him back even his twin sister at least texted back a simple Merry Christmas. So when today when hubs read that email to me I just exploded because to me they are just treating him like dirt and have for years. It was my tipping point. I told hubs that I'm done with them and honestly if I see his sisters and either one of them make some sort of comment about it in the future I don't think I can hold back. I'm pretty easy going and I've put up with their slights for years because I know they mean something to hubs but they just treated him poorly one too many times for me. I get very protective of people who mean a lot to me, so maybe I won't be seeing them in the future. Ugh!

Oh and a little bit ago hubs got a text from the one sister's husband that he mailed my present out today (I guess he had my name for Christmas). My first inclination is to send the present back because I really don't want anything from those people. However, it is probably a Disney book I've been wanting to read for months, the new one about the Ink and Paint Department. So what to do?

Oh thanks again for listening/reading, sorry. :(Again, you all are the best! :inlove:

I'm so sorry!! That's infuriating!! I'd have hit reply all and burned a couple Bridges, so it's a good thing you have more tact than I do!

Why stop at singling out the millennials?! Why not the little old grandma's and grandpas? They clearly don't need those seats!:joyfull::)

(I hope my sarcasm came through:cool:...)

Don't forget the other children.... They should stand up so my daughter can sit because I paid good money for this trip!!
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Yep...my husband even manages to miss it in texts!! Tonight was DD's school Christmas dinner. It's basically a pot luck. You drop them off at 5 with whatever food you made, and pick them back up at 6:30. So I told DH that there wasn't enough time to drop her off, come home, cook dinner, eat, and get back to pick her up. I asked what he wanted to do for dinner...he says to ask DS. I said I didn't need to ask...I knew what he would want, because whenever you ask him what he wants, he says the same thing...fries and chicken nuggets. And if you give him a choice, he will choose McDonalds. DH was like ":hungover:" so I suggested we drop DD off, go to McD's for DS, then pick DD up and go get REAL food. He said great. So we're getting ready to go and then he was like "I think we should go through the drive through so he can eat at home and we can go get our food." I was like...there's NO way we have enough time...by the time we get his stuff, and then order our stuff, we'll need to pick DD up before our food even gets there. He's like..."Are we waiting until AFTER we pick her up to go to Daily Taste?" UM, YES!!! How in the world did he miss that??

Ugh.

But intrigue....what kind of restaurant is the Daily Taste??? :hungry:
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
It's almost a dare, you know? Like "Go ahead...make a big deal out of how you didn't get what everyone else did." Because everyone knows of course it's the thought that's supposed to count, so you aren't supposed let on that you aren't happy with a gift, so you can't really say anything without looking ungrateful in front of the whole family...meanwhile everyone can see that it wasn't nearly as nice as what everyone else got. And what it says to the person who receives the gift is "I don't give a carp about you, but I am obligated to give you a gift or it would look really bad. But it will look equally bad if you call me out on it, so I don't have to bother with getting anything nice because you can't say anything about it anyway." It's really appalling. I would have been so hurt.

Nope. There is no recovery from that.

Be fun if that family did a White Elephant exchange and wrapped it up next year as her White Elephant gift.
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I am happy to report that my oldest son did make our Christmas Eve celebration last night. He went into work the other day and complained about being scheduled for Christmas Eve from 3 p.m. to midnight. The boss then rescheduled him for the morning shift, and he was at my house by 4 p.m. Plenty of time to eat Turkey dinner, and see every one of his family members. It was a wonderful party, and we got lots of great pics. One of our best nights ever.

Awesome. At times some bosses are more fair when they see things that have gone wrong either on purpose or accident. So happy you had a wondrous Christmas. Is this Son the Dad to your Grandson that lives with ya?
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I like this Toyota Camry they gave me so much that I'm thinking about buying one. I drove a Hyundai out in California, and there were little thing I didn't like about it. Not with this car. Going to go test drive a bunch of cars when I get home. But really thinking about it, especially since my grandma told me she found out that there's no interest on Toyotas. She hates interest. Unless she's the one getting it. Will have to look into it to see if that's the case.

The AutoShows should be hitting the circuit real soon. Nice way to get a good look at all the similar models. My DS bought a
Chevy Cruze a mid sized sedan and loves it. Handles nicely and fits 3 adults well in the back and the trunk is large.

Auto Shows:
http://www.asna-atae.com/schedule.asp
 

Gabe1

Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
I'm definitely bringing him with me. I know nothing about cars. I bring him with me just like I expect he'll bring me when he gets a new computer.

Yep. I hand my DD my credit card when it is a tech purchase for me. My next purchase will need to be a new iPhone. I will sit quietly and she does what she does. I'm never disappointed.
 

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