Catching up...

Man, I feel SOO behind! There's so much to share, and I still haven't told you guys anything about the Kids' Bahama trip or my Disney trip! OK, so I guess this will have to be the speed version in order to get you all caught up and get me feeling like I'm not a horse's behind...oops I mean a plain old behind. No- still not right, well, you get my drift. I hope.

The kids had a blast in the Bahamas! All went well with the exception of a few travel snafus. Beginning with Donna and Monica's luggage being randomly chosen to be taken off their plane and sent along on a later flight. That resulted in Donna being bag-less for 24 hours and Monica for 48. Let's just say they had one VERY unhappy teenager on their hands for a few days, and leave it at that. Then there was the "Tower of Terror". The REAL life one! Apparently the first elevator they boarded at Atlantis had a glitch? Because once they all piled onto it, luggage and all (minus Donna and Monica's, of course) the thing lost power and even dropped a little before the safety kicked in. They were stuck in the dark with an elevator filled to the brim with screeching kids, when the power finally came back on the thing SLOWLY descended to the ground floor. Once freed from their box o' death, they were told, "Oh, that's nothing. It was just a little power outage. It happens all the time on the island." Well, I'm told the kids refused to get back on that particular elevator again for the entire week. Good thing there were others, huh? They had a dolphin encounter where they got to get into the water with a dolphin and interact and pose for pictures. They turned out pretty cute, especially the ones of Chris kissing the big guy! Most of the rest of their time was spent on the beach or beside the AMAZING pool. From what I can tell from the stories and the pictures, they had a great time, Mon!

OK, Disney....Well Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot. I had never been to Animal Kingdom, either had Yvette, and she had never been to Epcot, so we were really excited to be going on this "roomie" trip together! Three parks in 2 days was ambitious, but we had extended hours in the parks because we stayed in one of their resorts. It was fun staying out in the Magic Kingdom until 2:30 AM. Fun, but not for the faint of heart. I think their may have been more people there at night than in the day! But it was FUN! BTW: Thunder Mountain becomes a very scary ride after dark! I so don't remember that ride being that intense!

We, that is- Yvette and I, had a "Magical Time" at Disney. In case you're wondering...that's both a good and bad thing. Good in the respect that we had a ton of fun! Bad because every time you turned around SOMEBODY was telling you to have a "magical day". Cute concept when you think about it. That being Disney and all, but THREE DAYS of being told to have a magical day really got to be too much. I understand that these good people were just doing as they had been threatened, er, instructed to, but it was irritating none the less! Here's how it went...

Me: "Excuse me?"

Them: ""yes?"

Me: " Could you please tell me where to find guest relations?"

Them: "Certainly! It's that giant blue building right in front of you that has 'GUEST RELATIONS' spelled out on top of it."

Me: "Oh- Thank you!"

Them: " My pleasure! Have a Magical day!"

Now- that's cute, right? Sure it is! But imagine EVERY conversation you had with a Disney employee ending with "Have a Magical Day!" It got old quick! I even had one lady tell me to have Magical Day THREE times in the same 30 second conversation! I told Yvette that the first person that worked for Disney that DIDN'T tell me to have a Magical Day was going to get a sincere Thank You for me and a GREAGT BIG HUG! Well, I never had the chance. It never happened. Having a Magical day became the running joke on the trip. For example:

-Tired and standing in line for 95 minutes to ride a 5 min ride: "Are you having a Magical day?"

-We're starving and reach the "Place your orders here" window just as they make the announcement that they are all out of the item you were going to order after standing in line for 28 minutes: "Sorry we are all out of that item, but 'Have a Magical Day'!

-Exhausted and blistered, we wait in yet another line for 30 minutes for a shuttle that will take us back to our resort, this would be a great time to turn to one another and sing together, "Have a Magical Day!" You know, just to remind yourself that your ARE in Disney! You aren't allowed to have anything short of a Magical Day!

I've decided that while we had copious amounts of fun, that Walt Disney World really should be renamed "Wait in Line Word"! You spend a great portion of your time waiting in those magically long lines!

All joking and complaining aside- we DID have a Magical time, and we are looking forward to going back when it's a lot cooler and using our third day. This time I'm going to be ready with my response to "Have a Magical Day!" I think it should be something along the lines of "Bah! Humbug!" Just kidding. Just kidding! I'll show you the Memory Book if- I mean after I finish compiling it online and have it printed. Until then, here are a few picts of the weekend!

Well, I'm going to sign off for now. Hope you feel a little more caught up. I do. A little.

God Bless and be good! Oh and.......

Have a MAGICAL DAY!!!

Vacation from the vacation?

Time to bring you all up to speed. I'll go into details in other posts so this doesn't become a marathon post!

As of Friday of last week I was on my vacation. Or as the kids call it "va-ca" (pronouncing both "a"s long!) Friday was a nice, laid back day, spent chilling at the condo. Oh, and I went to see one of my teens in a local production of "OZ". She was great and I was glad I made the trip to see her perform. Saturday was a little more interesting seeing as it was Alexis' Dance recital. She was great, of course! She has really developed as a dancer this past year! Her poise and grace has greatly improved, and I hear that she has moved up to the next level of dance! She was so proud of herself. She had more flowers than she knew what to do with! That's nothing to sneeze at!

Sunday Yvette and I left for Disney. I'll tell you all the details in my next post. We had a great time! And we were ready to come home, it was a long two days!

Tuesday and Wednesday were kind of a recovery time for me, what little time I had between running errands and filling orders for Shananagins Bags. I most definitely need a vacation to recover from my va-ca!

From what I can gather the Willimas Family had a blast, in between the natural disasters, real life Tower of Terror, and the lost luggage, that is! Again, I'll save the details for another post, but it would appear that they too need a Vacation from their vacation!


Today the long awaited HOT TUB was delivered! Woo-Hoo!!!! After four hours of instillation "the Monster" as it's currently referred to, is up and running. Just in time for the Fourth! PARTAY on!

Until next time, my friends...

Be good and God bless!

Taylor Mason and his puppet Paquito on Bananas Comedy

Nasty Bugs and Talking Pigs...

WOW! Sorry about not having posted in so long! I have been battling the nasty bug that has been going around! If you've had it, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't had it, you will! No, I'm not being mean, just realistic. EVERYONE I know has had it. I have even heard people I don't know talking about how sick they have been with it. It lasted about two weeks from start to finish, with the last few days being the worst. I won't give you all the gory details, believe me, you DON'T want them! The last I will say on the topic is this: If you have this bug presently, I pray you have a speedy recovery! Drinks lots of fluids, and get lots of sleep! If you haven't had it: I pray that you don't catch it, but just in case, go buy a couple gallons of Gatorade and LOTS of toilet paper. You'll be glad you did when you don't have to go out to buy it!





Yvette and I went to see one of our favorite comedians; Taylor Mason. He does family friendly comedy and puppets are a big part of his act. If you catch him on T.V., then stop EVERYTHING and watch him! He is hilarious! You can order his DVDs off the Internet as well, I think you can even see him on You Tube and God Tube (the Christian form of You Tube). Well, he has lots of puppets, my two favorites are the pigs, (I have a slight "thing" for pigs. Ahem, Penny, Ahem!) They're names are Paco and Pacito. After having seen him live, I have developed a burning desire to own my own Paco and Pacito. I have no talent for vantriloquism, nor any desire to try it, I just WANT THE PIGS! I can't explain it. I won't even try. I just know that I am scouring the Internet trying to find these puppets so I can buy my own. I've found Paco, but Pacito is eluding me. But, read my lips: I WILL FIND HIM! He Will be MINE! Ha. Ha. I'm OK now. Really. I'm fine. I do have to go, though. I have a pig to track!



Be good and God bless!

Leapster

My roomie has a plausible explanation for today's unusual behavior. She doesn't seem to think that it was a Twilight Zone thing at all, but rather a LEAP YEAR thing, today being February 29th, and all. So does this mean that one day out of every FOUR years the house will be this quiet? If so, I eagerly await the year 2012!

God bless and be good!

Goons and goombas

Hey, everyone. I hope that you are having a blessed week. I had oodles of things I could have written about tonight, but my roomie, Yvette mentioned something to me in passing. This simple comment got my thoughts a flame.





I started this blog simply to connect with my family and friends, and because I was encouraged to do so. It never occurred to me that people that I don't know might even think to read these paltry musings of a simple Floridian gal. Well, that naivete it long gone.





Vette tells me tonight, rather proudly, that she has caught up on all my blogs. Yahoo! She referred to a few things in the blog, then said something about a "horrible comment". It took a second to register, I had no CLUE that there was a horrible comment on my blog! I went to check it out, and sure enough, there it was. A horrible comment. Well, not as horrible as it could have been, but it's pretty obvious the spirit in which the comment was left. To quote Mister or Miss Anonymous :"This is dumb! You are a corney goon!" (spelling mistakes were his/her's, NOT mine!) AllRightyThen! Now I could respond any number of ways to Anonymous. I choose this as my response:





As I mentioned before, this blog was intended for my family and friends; people who are abundantly aware of my flair for corniness. In fact, they happen to like it. Most of the time. I think. (? ) I make no excuses for my silliness. It is who I am, and I like that part of me. Now ask me how I feel about my thighs, and you will definitely get a different response! But as for me being corny? That's just me. Deal with it, or don't read the posts.





As for the "dumb" part. This leaves me wondering if a 13 year old boy left this comment. I draw this conclusion for a few key reasons. (I was channeling Colombo there!) First, who leaves anonymous comments but 13 year old boys? Come on! What adult that you know does goomba things like post anonymous comments on people's blogs that they don't even know? Second, who uses "dumb" to describe anything? OK, maybe if you were trying to be politically incorrect about someone who couldn't speak, maybe. (dumb=mute, as in deaf and dumb) But I doubt it. This may have upset me if someone wrote a comment about me being a terrible person, or even called me out on my spelling. Calling my blog dumb. That was just, well...DUMB! I mean, come on, dude! Did you not know that I have control over which comments stay and which ones get zapped out into outer space? Ph-lease!!! By the way this comment HAS been zapped.





All kidding aside. I never considered that any negative comments might be left because I would never dream of leaving such a comment on another person's blog. I haven't mentioned the fact that I am deeply effected by the beliefs I hold firmly to. I didn't think I would have to. It looks now like I should.





Briefly; I am a Roman Catholic, devoutly committed to the Magisterium of Mother Church, and it is my great joy to say that I am a daughter of God. To love one's neighbor as thyself is something I strive to do each day. So tonight as I close this post, it is my sincere prayer that Anonymous might learn to live the two greatest Commandments: To love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole strength. And, love your neighbor as yourself.





Anonymous, I hope that you have moved onto greener pastures, and more entertaining blogs. And I'd like to thank you for giving me a topic for this post!





Until next time...





Be good and God Bless!