MinnieM123
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My Christmas list https://www.brother-usa.com/products/XP1View attachment 300999
Feel free to make it a group gift
But, you already have a sewing machine, and I think you got it for Christmas, maybe 2 years ago?
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But, you already have a sewing machine, and I think you got it for Christmas, maybe 2 years ago?
SteveBrickNJ
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You are not the first one to say that. Am I in the minority? I personally do not want to put down my pencil....pick up the rectangular eraser...use it....then pick my pencil back up again. Yet I go through my favorite pencils fast. Hmmm....maybe I should change my preference????I like the bigger, stand-alone erasers, not the ones on top of pencils. The big one will last me close to a lifetime, as I so rarely make a mistake that I need to erase . . .
21stamps
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I like the bigger, stand-alone erasers, not the ones on top of pencils. The big one will last me close to a lifetime, as I so rarely make a mistake that I need to erase . . .
Several years ago I misplaced my white-out one time at work. Asked a coworker to borrow his.. response “ White-Out? I don’t make mistakes.”
As an elementary school staff member I can take an "educated guess" ( pun intended) Your child's school possibly thinks the pink meaty erasers leave some faint pink smudge and the white ones don't???? Maybe???I never use the separate ones. I just find pencils with working erasers and stick with that.
You’re probably correct, but I think the pink erasers work just fine!
MinnieM123
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MinnieM123
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@Songbird76 , your photo of the DOM cathedral is breathtaking. I love old European architecture.
SteveBrickNJ
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This is what makes this thread so much fun .....silly stuff like erasersI'm laughing out loud over this.
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Songbird76
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We decided Cologne was a bust after DD dumped DH's drink at KFC...this being the 2nd drink she spilled all over that day and she was in tears, so Cologne could not be considered day 1 of our vacation. We got up semi-early the next morning and headed to Phantasialand, which was only about 25 minutes from Cologne.
Really good ice cream here, though I sat for 20 minutes waiting for someone to take my order and it's TINY in there, so there's no way they didn't know I was there.
I know most of you probably don't know what a stroopwaffle is, but it's a cookie with caramel-y goodness inside. This sundae had the richest, most decadent chocolate ice cream ever, and I don't even remember what the other flavor was....it was so good.
This one was happy, too...it involved cherries, marshmallows, chocolate, vanilla, and amarena (cherry) ice creams, plus a waffle cone filled with whipped cream (which I let DD eat because I don't really like whipped cream unless it's on pumpkin pie or in hot chocolate). DD and I shared these both while DH and DS were boring and just got plain ice cream cones. What was ridiculous was that you couldn't get a cone if you sat at a table....there was a window at the side. But you couldn't get the sundaes at the window....only from a table. So we had to get the table, order ours, the boys went to the window to get theirs, and then they came and sat with us.
DD loved this one and went on it a ton of times. DS usually loves these, and he SAID it was because of his cast that he didn't want to go on it, but we brought seran wrap to wrap his cast in and he still didn't want to do it. I think he was afraid because his class went to a carnival and did one of these rides and the guy running the ride would hold onto each kid's chair in turn as it went around so when he let go, they really shot forward and went higher. I got a phone call from the school that day saying DS had had a few incidents that day, one of which was him screaming bloody murder on this ride, and when he got off that ride, he ran off screaming and disappeared for a while to calm down. So I think that traumatized him and he doesn't want to do these rides anymore. Stupid carni guy....DS even told him he didn't want him to do that to him and he did it anyway.
This was just a kiddy ride kind of like Dumbo (or Home Depot, for those of you who read Doc Disney's TRs). We were waiting for DH to get back from a coaster he did and while we waited DD decided to do this, because it was there.
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We also did a ride that I thought was going to be kind of like IASW, but turned out to be more like a very cheap, boat version of The Great Movie Ride. You went through different movie scenes like Wizard of Oz, George of the Jungle, King Kong, and I don't remember all of them, but it was too dark for me to get pictures, having a brand new camera that I hadn't figured out how to use yet. It was fun, but it was a good thing DS freaked out as soon as he saw the Frankenstein poster by the entrance and refused to go on it. It wasn't exactly scary, but it would have freaked him out majorly.
This is another one where he freaked out. From the description on the map, we guessed it was like Buzz Lightyear, but it's a bakery infested with rats and you shoot the rats with icing balls coming out of a pastry bag. So since DS LOVED Buzz, we thought this would be a great one. But the first part of the queue is a bit dark and dusty....it has a bunch of shelves like a storage room, and you hear mice/rats squeaking and breaking jars, etc. DS said it scared him and he wouldn't go on it. That was only the very first room of the queue. After that it was stuff like pictures of bakery employees, shelves of baking pans (including a sheep, which DS is crazy about sheep), framed recipes for German treats, etc. This is taken from above the loading area. And it IS, pretty much like buzz. You get stopped in front of a doorway, it opens, you shoot continuously until the doors close, then you move on to the next room.
When we came out, we explained to DS that it is like Buzz, the queue is only creepy for that first 2 minutes, and then there is a baking pan in the shape of a sheep!!! He decided to try it....and then we went on that ride 50 million times. It's the only thing he wanted to do. So we took turns riding with him while the others did something else. He stopped to say hello to the sheep pan every time we went through the line. There was a haunted mansion meets Carrots type ride that was Chinese themed....it was very dark and I had to use my phone light to navigate the tunnel, some obnoxious kids ran right past us being really loud and cutting us off, and then they spent the WHOLE ride shouting, banging on their carts....there were like 10 kids, no adult to be found until they got off....the adult was right behind DD and I and he never said anything to them. They ruined the entire ride because we couldn't hear anything but their hollering and pounding. The wait time said 5 minutes, so we decided to go again right away as long as the kids did NOT, and they didn't. So we did it again and it was actually very cool.
There were also a few shows, but we only did one. I was worried DS was going to freak out. It was supposed to be artwork coming to life in the museum after hours and the museum manager had to find a spell to get them back into their places. In reality it was a kind of cirque du soleil thing....curtain dancers, tumble monkeys (but not monkeys), roller skating dancers, pole dancers, etc. The singer was SO good. It took me quite a while to even figure out he was singing and that it wasn't a recording, because he started faced away and he was mirroring some other guy's movements, and that guy and a girl then started doing curtain dancing together, so I wasn't paying attention to the singer guy. And there were these two guys who did a kind of comedic routine set to Tequilla that was AMAZING....these guys had MUSCLES. It was kind of like Chinese Acrobats, but way cooler. Everything after them seemed so unimpressive.
Here's an interview with the singer (he's actually American) and it shows some rehearsal moments:
This one is like a trailer for the show:
That's pretty much what we did that day. We wanted to do the water raft ride, but the wait time was SOOOO LONG...like 70 minutes. And DS didn't want to do it, so he'd have had to wait for us for over an hour...no way. And DH wanted to do the mega coaster they have, but same thing, and there just wasn't time. But it was really cool that they have a deal in July and August....you get an extra day free with admission for one day. So we got vouchers to go back for a 2nd day....we'd be back.
And with that, I'm going to bed. I'll pick up here tomorrow.
Really good ice cream here, though I sat for 20 minutes waiting for someone to take my order and it's TINY in there, so there's no way they didn't know I was there.
I know most of you probably don't know what a stroopwaffle is, but it's a cookie with caramel-y goodness inside. This sundae had the richest, most decadent chocolate ice cream ever, and I don't even remember what the other flavor was....it was so good.
This one was happy, too...it involved cherries, marshmallows, chocolate, vanilla, and amarena (cherry) ice creams, plus a waffle cone filled with whipped cream (which I let DD eat because I don't really like whipped cream unless it's on pumpkin pie or in hot chocolate). DD and I shared these both while DH and DS were boring and just got plain ice cream cones. What was ridiculous was that you couldn't get a cone if you sat at a table....there was a window at the side. But you couldn't get the sundaes at the window....only from a table. So we had to get the table, order ours, the boys went to the window to get theirs, and then they came and sat with us.
DD loved this one and went on it a ton of times. DS usually loves these, and he SAID it was because of his cast that he didn't want to go on it, but we brought seran wrap to wrap his cast in and he still didn't want to do it. I think he was afraid because his class went to a carnival and did one of these rides and the guy running the ride would hold onto each kid's chair in turn as it went around so when he let go, they really shot forward and went higher. I got a phone call from the school that day saying DS had had a few incidents that day, one of which was him screaming bloody murder on this ride, and when he got off that ride, he ran off screaming and disappeared for a while to calm down. So I think that traumatized him and he doesn't want to do these rides anymore. Stupid carni guy....DS even told him he didn't want him to do that to him and he did it anyway.
This was just a kiddy ride kind of like Dumbo (or Home Depot, for those of you who read Doc Disney's TRs). We were waiting for DH to get back from a coaster he did and while we waited DD decided to do this, because it was there.
T
We also did a ride that I thought was going to be kind of like IASW, but turned out to be more like a very cheap, boat version of The Great Movie Ride. You went through different movie scenes like Wizard of Oz, George of the Jungle, King Kong, and I don't remember all of them, but it was too dark for me to get pictures, having a brand new camera that I hadn't figured out how to use yet. It was fun, but it was a good thing DS freaked out as soon as he saw the Frankenstein poster by the entrance and refused to go on it. It wasn't exactly scary, but it would have freaked him out majorly.
This is another one where he freaked out. From the description on the map, we guessed it was like Buzz Lightyear, but it's a bakery infested with rats and you shoot the rats with icing balls coming out of a pastry bag. So since DS LOVED Buzz, we thought this would be a great one. But the first part of the queue is a bit dark and dusty....it has a bunch of shelves like a storage room, and you hear mice/rats squeaking and breaking jars, etc. DS said it scared him and he wouldn't go on it. That was only the very first room of the queue. After that it was stuff like pictures of bakery employees, shelves of baking pans (including a sheep, which DS is crazy about sheep), framed recipes for German treats, etc. This is taken from above the loading area. And it IS, pretty much like buzz. You get stopped in front of a doorway, it opens, you shoot continuously until the doors close, then you move on to the next room.
When we came out, we explained to DS that it is like Buzz, the queue is only creepy for that first 2 minutes, and then there is a baking pan in the shape of a sheep!!! He decided to try it....and then we went on that ride 50 million times. It's the only thing he wanted to do. So we took turns riding with him while the others did something else. He stopped to say hello to the sheep pan every time we went through the line. There was a haunted mansion meets Carrots type ride that was Chinese themed....it was very dark and I had to use my phone light to navigate the tunnel, some obnoxious kids ran right past us being really loud and cutting us off, and then they spent the WHOLE ride shouting, banging on their carts....there were like 10 kids, no adult to be found until they got off....the adult was right behind DD and I and he never said anything to them. They ruined the entire ride because we couldn't hear anything but their hollering and pounding. The wait time said 5 minutes, so we decided to go again right away as long as the kids did NOT, and they didn't. So we did it again and it was actually very cool.
There were also a few shows, but we only did one. I was worried DS was going to freak out. It was supposed to be artwork coming to life in the museum after hours and the museum manager had to find a spell to get them back into their places. In reality it was a kind of cirque du soleil thing....curtain dancers, tumble monkeys (but not monkeys), roller skating dancers, pole dancers, etc. The singer was SO good. It took me quite a while to even figure out he was singing and that it wasn't a recording, because he started faced away and he was mirroring some other guy's movements, and that guy and a girl then started doing curtain dancing together, so I wasn't paying attention to the singer guy. And there were these two guys who did a kind of comedic routine set to Tequilla that was AMAZING....these guys had MUSCLES. It was kind of like Chinese Acrobats, but way cooler. Everything after them seemed so unimpressive.
Here's an interview with the singer (he's actually American) and it shows some rehearsal moments:
This one is like a trailer for the show:
That's pretty much what we did that day. We wanted to do the water raft ride, but the wait time was SOOOO LONG...like 70 minutes. And DS didn't want to do it, so he'd have had to wait for us for over an hour...no way. And DH wanted to do the mega coaster they have, but same thing, and there just wasn't time. But it was really cool that they have a deal in July and August....you get an extra day free with admission for one day. So we got vouchers to go back for a 2nd day....we'd be back.
And with that, I'm going to bed. I'll pick up here tomorrow.
Songbird76
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To be honest, we didn't want to, but there wasn't really another option. Nothing else had vacancies, so we'd have had to drive further, which we didn't want to do, because the next day was Phantasialand, which was not even a half hour drive. We didn't want to have to stay further away and then backtrack. And I had stayed at a MUCH worse place in high school on a speech and debate trip, so I just kept telling myself, this is better than Powell! This is better than Powell! This is better than Powell! And after telling the kids about Powell, they agreed this wasn't that bad...but we're definitely going to write a review, adding the pictures, so that no one else is hoodwinked by the picture on the site that is NOT the hotel.
Songbird76
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I LOVE the old buildings....especially churches and castles. But what's cool is that so many of them have been rebuilt after being destroyed in wars. We visited the dom church one other time, years ago...I was pregnant with DS at the time. I know that, because I was in a wheelchair and DH had to push me up a steep hill in that wheelchair and I felt so bad for him. We went in that time, but they were doing some cleaning and you couldn't see most of the inside, so I really wanted to see it this time.
93boomer
Premium Member
He says :
Songbird76
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Figgy would probably tell you it's a hint that you should be feeding him steak instead of dogfood.One thing that drives me nuts about sales tax are the arbitrary guidelines about what they tax. For example, groceries are not taxed. A box of Russell Stover chocolates is not taxed. But a box of Godiva chocolates are--as they are considered a luxury item.
But the one that gets me mad is that they tax dog food!! WHY is my dog's food taxed?!!
93boomer
Premium Member
Awww, thanks bff!
MinnieM123
Premium Member
This is what makes this thread so much fun .....silly stuff like erasers
We all have our "things" . . .
MySmallWorldof4
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One of our first family vacations down South where we had a stopover in Savannah, I had made a reservation for I think a Comfort Inn. It was outside Savannah and not in the historic area. We only had 2 kids at the time and maybe they were 3 and 1? The hotel was not terrible, but the other guests were kind of sketchy themselves. Dh basically told me that no way were we going to stay there with our 2 kids and so I booked the Hyatt in the historic district. Luckily it was just for 2 nights. It was expensive.
Songbird76
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I don't know....I left the planning up to him because it was his Ingress thing and there were specific cities on certain dates and at certain times he needed to be here, or he needed to go there. So rather than making the plans myself, I told him to make the arrangements for the places he wanted to go and we'd fill in the rest as we went. Since Cologne was a mission day, that was his baby. I made him get us a nicer place the next night.
MySmallWorldof4
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What time is it by you? Shouldn’t you be asleep? Or is it too hot to sleep?
Songbird76
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Thank you! I do too! Have you ever been to Europe? So many of the bigger cities have canals and the boat tours are a great way to see a lot of old historic architecture.
MySmallWorldof4
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Maybe it is a luxury to have a dog?One thing that drives me nuts about sales tax are the arbitrary guidelines about what they tax. For example, groceries are not taxed. A box of Russell Stover chocolates is not taxed. But a box of Godiva chocolates are--as they are considered a luxury item.
But the one that gets me mad is that they tax dog food!! WHY is my dog's food taxed?!!
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Ha! My Dog sure thinks so! (He won't move out of the doorway, unless I address him as "His Royal Highness"
Songbird76
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It's 2:22 am. But yes, it's hot and miserable. It's finally starting to cool down a little....I opened all the windows in the house. I'm heading to bed now. I'm only working evenings in the vacation when DH can be home with the kids, so I can sleep in in the morning. I just finished my upteenth bottle of water, so it's bedtime.