I'm so far behind. So here's a short-version catch-up of several topics over the last couple days.
The Cup
We got there a little after 6pm. It was there from 4pm-8pm. Good thing we got there when we did because about ten or fifteen minutes after we arrived, they closed the line to new people. We waited almost two hours but it really didn't feel like it. Everyone was nice, friendly, excited about being there and easy to converse with. It was my Love, my friend Rand, myself and our friend Tommy showed up to hang out with us. We all got our pictures taken and all really agreed it was a great time.
The Weekend
Saturday we went with our friend Rand out to WDW. He has a couple more days on his Play 4 Days Pass that has to be used before June 4th. This time we wanted to hit MGM as he had never been there before. In the end, we hit MGM until about 6:30ish, then went over to Epcot until about 9:15pm (took some pics of the cool Flower and Garden Festival which I'll have some photos put up soon) and then finished our night out at Magic Kingdom (which was open until 11pm). We got to see the Wishes fireworks show in MK at 10pm (amazing every time I see it) and caught Haunted Mansion and Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin. Not bad. Three parks in one day. We were beat but we had a really good time. The only disappointing thing was the "backlot tour" thing at MGM which was just dumb. I got to take Pal Mickey to MGM and Epcot for the first time (he worked perfect and knew just where he was) but forgot to take pics. Though I DID get my pic taken with Mike and Sulley from Monster's Inc. at MGM so that was cool. :)
Sunday my poor Love had to get up early to meet his folks for breakfast. It was too early for me - especially after having been up late the night before. (We didn't even get home until like 1:30am) My own mom was sick with a cold so I just called her.
Monday
Got two very lovely birthday cards in the mail. One from Dawna and one from felinevamp. How sweet of them! Dawna's had an adorable mermaid on it. Felinevamp's had flowers and she even included some giftcards so my Love and I can have dinner and a movie out! What a dear! Thank you!
How lovely!
Work started on my building. So things got noisy and stayed that way. What a awful thing to be stuck in a building that they're doing not only construction, but demolition on!
Tuesday
Started off with a bang. Literally. From a sledgehammer. Ugh. The noise went from bad to worse. I didn't know things could be that miserable. So, when you're exhausted and your head it killing you from the constant pounding, what do you do? Oh, I know. You come across a bottle of a temp hair color and decide to use it. It's one of those month things - not perm so I thought, eh, no harm. It's definately redder but it's darker then it was, more reddish plum or something. It's ok, but I'm glad it's not permanent. I don't like it that much. I'd rather it be a lighter, brighter shade of red then this. Like I said though, no biggie either way since it'll wash out. Here's what it looks like:
before
after
Wednesday
Ah, beautiful peace and quiet. The workers aren't on property at all today so I slept blissfully in until almost 11am. Ah.... I so needed that. I'm working on some domain stuff right now - updates and what not. I'm trying to better organize (or at least track) where things are so people can find them. I made a subdomain specifically for my ever-growing collection of Disney related pages so it can function as a one-stop gateway. www.disney.giveneyestosee.com. That way people can find my Disney photo galleries, my 20K Leagues Tribute, my Pin pages, my Pal Mickey pics, etc. all from one page. Makes sense to me.
And on the lovely birthday news, dear Luka has offered to install and configure MT for me as a birthday present! *grins* Very cool. Many of you know I've just been terrified of doing it myself for, oh...about a year now. I know she knows her stuff because she also does design work with templates and such for MT. (You guys should go have her make a layout for you! She's got some lovely stuff plus she can make skins and all that for you as well!) It's also her birthday as well this month - just one day after mine. Anyway, Luka, thank you! I can't wait to figure out how to use it and getting everything all fixed up. Most likely, I'll change the journal to a subdomain though this link will always work (no one will get lost!) with a redirect or such. I'll keep you guys apprised of the changes. :)
Hrm....what else....
The rest of the week & weekend
Well, tomorrow we're going to go have dinner (fire up the grill!) and watch some playoff hockey at our friend Rand's house (which will be nice since he has a widescreen HDTV). Before that though, I'll be having lunch with my Mom and my Nanny (my grandmother - mom's mom - though no one calls her that) for my birthday. Saturday and Sunday we're going to head out to WDW and stay over Saturday night to make a weekend out of it. We couldn't get any rooms on-property (all the FL resident specials were booked leaving the rooms in the $230+ a night catagory - no thank you!) but I think I found a really nice one only about a mile or two away for about $77. Not bad at all and it's worth it to have a get-away out of it since we're not really doing anything else for my birthday. It should be fun. I've only ever stayed over there like once (back in Aug 03 we stayed at the Wilderness Lodge with one of the resident specials that we couldn't get this weekend) and that was really cool so this should be cool too. We might meander down to Downtown Disney and/or Pleasure Island as well to give ourselves something else different to do that night. I'm looking forward to it either way though.
Well, I think that's it for now. I've pretty much been rambling so I think I caught up on what I wanted to write about. *chuckles* I'm sure I'll think of something else eventually, but we'll call it done for now. Take care everyone!
~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 5/12/2004 02:07:08 PM ~
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