As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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Just curious to know what gets under your skin and drives you crazy! For me, it's little things that prove a person to be irresponsible for their actions; like not closing cabinet doors after they've been opened or putting the toilet paper on the floor next to the toilet, rather than taking the extra 30 seconds to put it on the roller. Today at the gym, a woman threw her towel over the top of the shower stall wall and it covered my things - it really bothered me at the time. But then again, it did give me the idea for this post - so it can't have been all bad!!
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There are lots of things that bother me but the two biggest are 1) people who don't use turn signals and 2) spelling the words a lot as one word.....it's two.
ME TOO! That's one I forgot. Or people who blow through a stop sign to hurry up and get ahead of you - only to go UNDER the speed limit. Ugh!
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Oh . . . I have a lot. Off the top of my head, the number one thing is people who don't know the title and/or lyrics to a song. I don't know why it bugs me so, but I get rubbed the wrong way everytime!
Other pet peeves include: improper punctuation, spelling and grammar, people who drive with their turn signals on for miles and miles, people who get in the "10 items or less" express lane at the store with 52 things in their carts, people who cut me off in traffic . . . and my neighbor. But that's a WHOLE other story altogether.
Maybe because I'm really laid back, I don't really have any pet peeves. I figure that there are probably things that I do that bug other people, so I try to be forgiving of perceived annoyances in others. The things that people consider pet peeves are usually trivial things that other people don't even notice. If they did notice, they probably would quit doing them or perhaps it is something out of their control. At any rate, I try not to get bothered by the small stuff~after all life is too short!
Ignorant people are my biggest pet peeve i.e. people who cut in line, or run to the front of the line when the new check out lane opens instead of letting the person who is NEXT in line go over there first, people who while in the drop off lane at school dangerously pull around the car line while other people's kids are getting out of their cars just because their kid is already safely in the schoolyard and they are in a hurry - that aggravates me every morning. I actually stepped in front of someone today to stop her from coming around my car while my girls were getting out :angry: that really drives me crazy!!! That and the people who pick up their kids at the schoolyard and start pulling out to leave while hundreds of kids are still walking to their cars - like I said ignorant people!!
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There are quite a few little things that I find bothersome.
Sometimes, depending on the person, just breathing in my vicinity is enough to get me ticked.
1) People who know my husband's name, but not mine (we just got an invitation in the mail for the graduation of the daughter of some of our old neighbors. They lived across the street from us for 10 years. The card was addressed to Ron and Kathy.)
2) Improper speech. I can put up with bad spelling, although I don't like it, but improper speech just upsets me. An example: I was watching the television a few days ago, and the newscaster said "And we'll be right back to hear about the ideals ______ has for fixing the streets." Uh, ideas, not ideals!!
3) People driving over the speed limit in a SCHOOL ZONE! I speed, but I have NEVER sped through a school zone. AND -the worst offenders near DDs' school are the parents and teachers.
4) Parents who seem unable to remove their screaming child from the restaurant or movie theater. I always took my kids out if they were doing something that could disturb others, I expect others to be just as curteous.
Invisible fences, they are not safe and I have heard one too many stories of a dog blowing through them and getting hit by a car.
"Buddy" parenting, I see it all the time in Disney Store, kids need discipline and boundaries...not buddies.
People that drive across the spaces in parking lots. UGH...that is why there are lanes!
When I go to a restaurant alone and I say, "Table for one" and they look at me like I have two heads. Single people need to eat too!
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When I go to a restaurant alone and I say, "Table for one" and they look at me like I have two heads. Single people need to eat too!
This is why I don't eat out alone. I tried it once and was ignored, while a table of four near me had a server at it all the time! I know that was a lot of years ago, but it just really affected me. I have eaten out alone occassionally since then, but I don't make a habit of it. Thank goodness for delivery, take-out, and good friends to eat out with!
Biggest pet peeve is when people don't use their turn signal while driving. Not sure why, but it drives me nuts. Second - when someone (i.e., husband) takes something out or gets something out and then does not put it back where he found it!!
Right now my computer is my pet peeve. I think I've got spyware from something because it's running so slow that I can't even listen to Live365 anymore. And it's raining out so my internet is running slower than normal too (it always runs slower when the humidity is super-high) and it's taking AdAware forever to run.
My DH snoring. OK maybe I can't use that. I'll have to go with helicopter parenting. Teaching pre-k I see this all the time. Yes, Mrs. So & So I know Johnny did not do anything today. How could he when you were looking in the window for 2 hrs. and he was watching YOU!
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but the two biggest are 1) people who don't use turn signals and 2) spelling the words a lot as one word.....it's two.
UGH...that is why there are lanes!
Single people need to eat too! 
OK maybe I can't use that. I'll have to go with helicopter parenting. Teaching pre-k I see this all the time. Yes, Mrs. So & So I know Johnny did not do anything today. How could he when you were looking in the window for 2 hrs. and he was watching YOU!
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