Weekend!
We’re going to Disneyland.
The tickets were purchased before the outbreak, you see. The plans were made *YEARS* ago. We were going to go to Disneyland with the niece and we’d have the job of saying stuff like “okay, you can get an ice cream” and “okay, you can get a balloon” or “okay, you can get a princess tiara” or “nah, you go on the ride, we’ll sit on the bench and hold your tiara, balloon, and ice cream”.
“What happened to my ice cream?”
“Um… it might have melted.”
People keep asking me if I’m excited to be going on vacation and all I’m thinking about is how I’d rather be sitting quietly in the basement with one of my kitties in the comfy chair and not getting poked/prodded by a TSA agent or getting the measles.
Beyond that, yeah, I guess I’m excited. I’m really looking forward to the fireworks show. (Years ago, when I took Maribou to get “It’s a Small World” stuck in her head, the fireworks shows that closed the park down were breathtaking and, if you ask me, worth the price of admission by themselves.) I’m looking forward to seeing the relations. I’m looking forward to going to Disneyland with a little kid. I’ve never done that before.
I suppose one of the best things about being on vacation is how your chores are, by necessity, kicked forward by a handful of days and I’m very, very much looking forward to *THAT*.
So… what’s on your docket?
(Photo is “Footrace finish line, 1925” from the Seattle Municipal Archives, used under a creative commons license)
Yah, so a bit late, but some wise advice from a former boss of mine who went to disneyworld with his family of 3 daughters:
They rented a place outside the park with a pool and alternated one day at the parks and one day at the house by the pool. Allows for parental and child recovery I guess. His wife also bought princess costumes at the disney store where they live after xmas during the sales. The deal was “if you are good and behave, a fairly princess will deliver you a new outfit each night while we’re in the park. If you are bad, no presents”. He said it was the best idea everrrrrrrrrrrrr. I have no evidence to support that claim.
Food for thought. Enjoy :pReport
Oh, we aren’t going to visit a Princess Makeover Salon. I hope.
Those places are worse than Build-A-Bear when it comes to extras.Report
The princess makeover salon is scheduled for *after* you and I leave town, honey. Rest easy.Report
they didn’t either. I do think they had breakfast with the princesses though.Report
The first time we took the kids to Disneyworld we went with my in-laws. My father-in-law believes that a yogurt and an apple are should be a sufficient breakfast to make it until lunchtime. So that was what he fed our girls every morning. By 10am they were asking when we could get lunch and it was miserable. I swore never again. So my advice I give for anyone traveling with kids ages 0-20…feed them a huge breakfast. If you’re (ideally) staying somewhere with a free breakfast, make them eat until they pop and then steal a few bananas or something you can take for a snack. It makes the day go much better.Report
We are fortunate in that while it is our first time at the park, it is our niece’s 3rd? 4th? So sister and brother-in-law have things down pat.Report
I have an old friend/roommate coming to visit. Flying today, after seeing a fantastic show last night. Got to meet Mike Schilling, Aaron David and Saul DeGraw face to face for beers on Wednesday.
Saul called me the least political person on the site, and I wasn’t sure if that was an insult or a compliment. I’m going with the latter.Report
Dude! Awesome!Report
@jaybird – I’m going to be in Denver next weekend (we fly in on Thrusday to catch the Sleater-Kinney show). I think you are not in the city, but if you and Maribou get in there, we could maybe get a beer. I think next Saturday, weather permitting, we might go for a little hike at Garden of the Gods, if that’s any closer to y’all…Report
DUDE! TOTES!
We live a couple of miles from Garden of the Gods! (And I’ll talk to Maribou about what our next Saturday plans are! I think we’re free!)Report
@jaybird – another option might be dinner/drinks that day in Old Colorado City, you know any good places there?…I’ll shoot you a mail.Report
I might know a couple of places in Old Colorado City. Maribou says “THUNDER AND BUTTONS! WE CAN HAVE ELK CHILI!!!” so we’ll do that, if’n that’s cool.
http://www.thunderandbuttons.com/menu/
They haven’t served us a bad (or even mediocre) meal yet.Report
@jaybird – That looks pretty, pretty, prettay good to me. Lemme talk to the missus and I’ll be in touch.Report
Did Schilling talk in one-liners?
What was the fantastic show?Report
Lloyd Cole. If I get time I might do a little post on it.Report
Man I would have killed to be in that group. It must have been a riot.Report
I’m flattered but I don’t think I am worth 20 to life. Maybe 5 to 10 but not 20 to life.Report
This is my first weekend that I will not have to get up at 6am since November, so I am pretty excited to sleep in until 8am or so. Lots of chores to accomplish. Weird that i am actually looking forward to them.
We have a spaghetti dinner fund raiser to attend on Saturday. A Louisville women’s basketball game on Sunday (Go Cards!) Tonight I am trying to correct a terrible injustice. The wife has never seen Godfather. This cannot stand. So we’ll watch it tonight and if she likes, maybe Godfather II next weekend.
Oh – Walking Dead is back on Sunday!Report
And if you and your wife get in a fight for any reason, you can make her watch Godfather III.Report
Well we got through Godfather and her exact words were, “That didn’t do much for me.” *sigh* I really think it is more of a dude movie.
I’m actually a fan of Godfather III. I know everyone hates it but I think the story makes a lot of sense as a close to the trilogy. I also love the way it ties in with the Vatican.Report
I’m going to the opening of my wife’s show tonight, then to a meditation retreat on the weekend. For this, I have not had a beer in two weeks. I recognize that my energy levels are higher and whatnot, and I’m certainly looking forward to the retreat. But I’m also looking forward to sabotaging my energy levels with beer next week .Report
I was just reading this earlier:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811914010702
Abstract:
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Now I’m wondering what “self-hypnosis” would look like under an EEG…
(Self-hypnosis into doing mindless tasks accurately that one would not be able to do otherwise…).Report
This weekend started off on a bad foot, as Lain declined to eat until she was starving, and then she was too angry to eat, and then she got even angrier when instead of doing what she wanted, I kept trying to feed her.
She got so angry that when I was trying to take a picture to send to Clancy, she tried to swipe the phone out of my hand. Failing that, she tried to kick it out of my hand. She was sitting on my lap at the time, which meant that she flipped backwards. I caught her with no damage, but the trauma made her even angrier.Report
In other news, we’re officially trying for #2. That’s always fun!
We’re months behind from when we planned to start because we had a dickins of a time getting my wife’s IUD out. One canceled appointment pushed us back one month before they could see us again. Then on the second appointment they changed the date and time without notifying us, which meant another 6-8 weeks before she could see them.
No joke, she managed to take it out herself. Despite that injury which still has her on crutches.Report
“No joke, she managed to take it out herself.”
And now I fully understand why you post under an alias.Report
No joke, she managed to take it out herself.
Dude.
This is one of those “bad ass” things that she can tell people around a war stories table. “I caught a bullet in the shoulder.” “I caught a bullet in the gut.” “I had a building collapse on me.”
“I took out my own IUD.”
and everyone around the table shuddersReport
Good luck (also, ouch).Report
I am running around having one of those weeks where every time I start to feel like I’m making my paces and will eventually cross the finish line, life goes “Oh, there’s just one more thing,” and I say “WHAT NO MORE ONE THINGS!!” and life doesn’t listen.
Fibromyalgia has officially been added to the list of things that are wrong with Maribou.
I have 28 things on my to-do- list for today, or rather, not my to-do list, but the list of things that, among all the other things I am getting done, MUST be done because if I forget them I will be mildly to extremely hosed. So far I have completed 14 of them (6/11 of the work related ones, in about an hour of being at work).
All that to say I cannot farking WAIT for the point in the weekend in which I look up, look around, and realize “Hey, I’m ON VACATION NOW!!!!!” I’m hoping for Saturday evening (which we will spend with dear friends) but will cheerfully settle for Sunday afternoon once we are in our hotel.Report
Ugh. Hope the vacation is relaxing.
Also, my son’s little brother (6) is obsessed with volcanoes, and Vesuvius in particular. As a result, he knows a lot about Pompeii, so when he heard the song “Pompeii,” and I told him the title, it instantly became his second favorite (after that song from Frozen). He hums it all the time now.
Thought you might get a kick outta that.Report
That must be an age thing because my six year old boy is obsessed with volcanoes right now too. Whenever we discuss a state* or country or locale, the first thing he wants to know is, ‘does it have volcanoes?’ (he feels we should not travel to Hawaii). He’s watched a bunch of eruptions etc. on YouTube.
*the library at his school has a rug with a huge US map on it, and each state has an icon representing that state: a peach for Georgia, corn for Iowa, etc. We had to pretty much go through it with him state by state identifying the ones without volcanoes (that is…almost all of them).Report
Netflix is filled with volcano shows, of you’re looking for some.
He’s here right now, and in the other room watching something about super volcanoes.Report
Prettin incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yja2VmZOfdA&feature=youtu.be
I just want ya’ll to notice just how many of those cars are oil cars. This remains the reason I support Keystone. The only reason.Report
Wow!Report
I saw an economist who consults for the state give a talk a few years ago on horizontal drilling, and he said more than once, “buy rail stock!”Report