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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Its 4:44 and I am wide awake and have been for an hour- I finally have given up and am out of bed- I think I am going to get ready and go to work since I would be getting up in 45 minutes anyway-- UGGG I hate not being able to sleep!
Anyone esle have this problem and anything you do to get back to sleep??
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I wish I could give you great advice but once I wake up (whether its an hour or five hours) I can't ever get back to sleep. Good luck getting the rest you need.
I feel your pain. I haven't been sleeping well in quite a few weeks. Unfortunately, I wake up around 2 and don't feel tired until 5ish. I ususally sleep on the couch until Tyler gets up around 7 for school.
i have periods of insomnia.... where ill go days without sleeping.... and theres nothing ive ever found that will help except to just ride it out. thankfully they are few and far between...but its not fun ill agree.... staring at the ceiling gets old real quick.....
Here is my little secret...shhhh don't tell anyone. When I can't sleep, I go and sit in my DH recliner and put it on the golf channel. This seemed to work for my grandpa when I was a little girl and it works for me. They talk softly and soothing and it makes me sleepy... But don't be offended if you like the golf channel
I have a secret, too. I build myself a little nest of pillows on the couch and turn everything off - no radio, no tv, not even the ceiling fan is on. Just lay there in the dark and bore myself back to sleep. Sometimes it's just nice to lay there and think in the dark with no one jumping on the couch or asking where the *bleep* all the clean towels are.
If I can't sleep I put on my headphones and listen to a book on tape (well on iPod anyway). It's so soothing to have someone read to me. Or if my dh isn't home I'll put on a dvd that I've watched 100 times and just listen to it.
I hate not being able to sleep, especially when my dh is sound asleep beside me. I want to wake him up just to be mean!
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I have had problems with insomnia for several years now and my doctor has given me a prescription. It's not one of the regular sleeping pills; it's just a medicine that allows me to stay asleep once asleep.
The best advice I have ever had is if you can't go back to sleep, get out of bed, don't lay there and fight it, take a pillow and blanket and a book and move to another bed or the couch, get comfortable and read. Not a murder mystery!
The best books I have found for this is Uncle John's Bathroom Readers or any book of lists type book.
I usually am a great sleeper even tho I'm up about every 2 hours for the potty. Occassianally, tho, when something is on my mind, I'm awake. Last night I woke up at 12:30 and was awake until 4 or so. I dozed off and on from 4-5 when it was time to get up and start the day. Ugh!
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I have had problems with insomnia for several years now and my doctor has given me a prescription. It's not one of the regular sleeping pills; it's just a medicine that allows me to stay asleep once asleep.
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