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Thanks Cam! I know, I can't believe it's so close!
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Originally Posted by ilovedisney247
Getting really close now! I'm sure everything will get done by the time it is time to leave!
I know I will get it done, but I will be working my bum off right before. Surprising my DD makes it so I have to wait to do some things that I would have gotten started on earlier. Alas, I have to wait for her to be in school for a bunch of things. Once that 10 day mark hits, I will be busting butt!
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I agree! I am being driven crazy now!! 19 days today!! In the teens now.
Btw, I love your new siggy pic. It's awesome! It is also just how I picture you, personality wise, from reading your posts.
Um, thank you but that really is my everyday look. Lately, I've been using wax to twirl the mustache into handlebars but the sombrero is still the same.
ps, is it wrong to have my packing list hidden under my keyboard at work?
Um, thank you but that really is my everyday look. Lately, I've been using wax to twirl the mustache into handlebars but the sombrero is still the same.
ps, is it wrong to have my packing list hidden under my keyboard at work?
That's what I am talking about! You crack me up!
PS...I don't see anything wrong with it! We are all a little mad!...or in my case a lot!
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Um, thank you but that really is my everyday look. Lately, I've been using wax to twirl the mustache into handlebars but the sombrero is still the same.
ps, is it wrong to have my packing list hidden under my keyboard at work?
The mustache is so you! And I keep my lists on a small spiral notebook in my back pocket.
Yes, the spiral bound notebook. Got one of them in my bag. We are not alone.
Oh yes! I have the spiral notebooks everywhere! LOL
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Originally Posted by OhToodles!
So close! One DD is in school it will be here before you know it!
I have so many excel spreadsheets it's not even funny.
I would probably have them too, if I could understand excel in the least! LOL I know less than a week till school, and then let the mad dash to get ready commence. I actually look forward to it!
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Originally Posted by mommy4allkids
totally!! and the little drinking smiley too definately!!! Can you tell I am too lazy to look up that symbol and don't know it by heart?
I am officially at 14 days today! 2 Tuesdays from now, I will be parking my car to get on to the airplane at this very time! I can hardly contain myself!! DH last night said "Guess what?" I said "What?" "14 and a half days!" he said. I looked at him and said, "I know! My stomach feels funny because I am so excited." He says, "Like butterflies! I know!" I guess he is just as excited! That makes me very happy, because his first trip was in 2005 and this will be his 3rd trip. DH is just not who you would necessarily picture as a WDW fan, but he it too!
I have been working on my to do list....here it is thus far....
Any time…..
Print charts, tables, lists (must do when DD is at school)
Print out ADR’s from WDW website Empty memory cards
Directions for cats for DBro
Mousekeeping & DME envelopes (must do while DD is at school) Buy 2 disposable litter pans or aluminum trays
Buy travel shaving cream Buy cold meds for me & DH
Buy earplugs for DD
Buy 2 pair cheap (Job Lot) sunglasses for DH
Buy batteries for camera Haircuts DD Dress straps shortened
As you can see, I have gotten a few things marked off my list. I have started to empty off the memory cards, haven't finished, but I will in the next couple days. There was lots of pics on them, and I have to make sure that I don't delete any that aren't on my puter. So I have to compare back and forth whether they are there and if I want them. They use to be my Gram's cards so I have to delete a bunch that were hers. In some ways it's sad, but in other ways I don't need 200 pics of flowers in my Grams yard, or pics of people I don't know. My goal is to get them down to a minium amount on one card, that I will leave home.
I only posted the first half, because nothing else can be done yet from the second half.
So I have a somewhat busy week ahead of me. Tomorrow, I have a date with my fave horse Freckle Face...I hope. Then DD and I are getting haircuts at my DSis house, as well as DSis shortening DD sundress straps on dresses for WDW.
School was cancelled for the start this week due to Irene. It willnow start next Tues the day after Labor Day. That is my I shouldn't be so face, so I am trying to hide my disappointment. It would have worked had I not explained it...right? The walk through for the school was postponed till this Thurs. so 530-630 we will go visit DD new 2nd grade classroom. This is a big deal in her school because the Pre-K, K, and 1st grade are on the lower level. The 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms are on the upper level, upstairs. That is a big deal! That means your one of the older kids in the school, very exciting!
Friday, is my doing bills day. Which also means I will have a much, much better idea on where we stand with the vacation funds. Exciting, but nerve wracking at the same time. Will I have enough? What will we do if not? Do we cancel things? I am almost positive we will be fine, but until it's done, I will not rest easy about it. Irene did not help, blowing into town, disrupting landscaping work! ugh......
Saturday is my 10 day check in mark!!! So close!!! Then I will figure out what we need at the grocery store so I am prepared for grocery shopping on Sunday.
Then my final week begins, and the somewhat madness..while still trying to rest up. With my illness, I need to not overdo it, as not to get sick...but it's hard when you have to get ready! Luckily, all I really need to do that week...is get suitcases and pack, fill out the school vacation papers, turn in my change, bring bottles back, deposit any last monies in the bank and make the final credit card payment before we leave.
Of course I will be back with an update at 1 week-7 days!! Let you know what is going on and where I am at!
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I agree! I am being driven crazy now!!
19 days today!! In the teens now.
That's what I am talking about! You crack me up!
We are all a little mad!...or in my case a lot!
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totally!! 
2 weeks! 2 weeks! 14 days!!!!!
it too! 
That is my I shouldn't be so 
face, so I am trying to hide my disappointment. It would have worked had I not explained it...right? 
The walk through for the school was postponed till this Thurs. so 530-630 we will go visit DD new 2nd grade classroom. This is a big deal in her school because the Pre-K, K, and 1st grade are on the lower level. The 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms are on the upper level, upstairs
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