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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.
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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.
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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.
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DD(18) poured herself a nice bowl of cereal this morning, takes a bite and suddenly I hear "Plah! Bleh! Bluck!" So I look up at her knowing the expiry date for the milk is today, and ask if the milk went bad. She dumped it down the garberator and told me to check but she thought it had, and yeah, the milk's turned. Luckily I bought a new gallon last night, so she refilled, and I have milk for my coffee. But I just realized that I checked by sniffing it, put the cap back on and returned it to the fridge for the next victim (DS19). So then I started thinking, I want to hear all your stories about the milk turning bad! Somebody here has to have taken a big ol' swig from the jug and found lumps!
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GEEZ Donna! Gross. I think I just gagged reading this. Lumps in the milk = barf!
That said, I have found many a baby bottle back in the day with lumpy coagulated milk/formula laying under couches, under car seats, etc. I just threw the whole bottle away if they weren't the throw away liner kind. There was no way I was cleaning that out. Sick.
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Ugh, I remember a few years ago, I was having the worst day ever. I came home from work, and wanted to have a bowl of my favorite cereal - Chocolate Lucky Charms. I poured an enormous bowl, and then got out the milk, opened it up, and plop, plop, plop...the milk came out in huge chunks.
I was sooo mad....but in retrospect, I guess it's better that at least I didn't eat the cereal...then I really would've been peeved!
Actually it happened last week, but it was sour cream, not milk! I had just mixed more salad dressing, and I love sour cream, and darn, lets just take a spoonful and down it... yum.... uh... NOT! OMGoodness, my stomach still turns when I think about it! I mean, it was rancid! And it was still a week before it's expiry, and hadn't been opened that long! Our buttermilk had gone bad too! Ewwww.
DJ has a bad habit of stashing his kid cups (with lids and straws) after dinner some nights so he can have a sip AFTER he brushes his teeth. Every once in a while, he'll find it before I do the next morning and it doesn't occur to him that it's last night's leftover milk. He drinks the rest of it, then brings me the empty cup and asks for more. I'm like, "Umm, WHERE did this cup come from?" DJ is so much Walt's son. Walt TASTES milk to see if it's gone bad.
DMIL is another one with bad milk storage habits. She'll leave it out on the counter for hours, put it back in the fridge when she notices it's out, and not check it. Apparently, she's been doing this for years. Walt will not give DJ milk at his mom's house without tasting it first. I'm not that brave. I bring milk for him when we go there to visit.
She does the same thing with juice. She'll pour a cup for DJ from a new bottle and put it back in the pantry. We went two weeks between visits the first time she did that. She brought the SAME bottle back out of the pantry during our next visit and was pouring DJ a cup when I looked at the juice in the bottle. "Patty, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" She's all nonchalant about it. "Pouring him a cup of juice." "Patty, that juice has a fur coat on top!" She looks at the bottle and says WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, "Hmm...we never had to refridgerate juice before. Why did it spoil?" "You left it in the pantry for two weeks, you goober!" Her response, "Well, juice is supposed to be loaded with preservatives. We never refridgerated it when my boys were little." "Patty, organic juice has no preservatives. Even regular juice should be refridgerated after it's opened." DMIL, "Well, how was I supposed to know that?" "Everyone knows that! It says it on the bottle! You own a refridgerator! What did you think it was for? To keep from ice cream from melting?" We buy juice boxes for them to keep in their beer fridge in the dining room now.
Yuck!! I don't have a milk story (I'm usually the "sniffer" and I dump it out as soon as it smells a little off, even if it's before the date) but I have a yogurt one. We were at a work Christmas party at the boss's house, and one of our colleagues is lactose intolerant. He said he really wanted to eat some cheesy potatoes so he was going to eat some yogurt first. He reached into the boss's refrig. and pulled out a yogurt and started eating it. About 1/2 way through, he says "hmmm....this tastes a little weird"....he looks at the date and it was expired 6 months earlier. 6 MONTHS!!! Needless to say, he booked it to the bathroom and proceeded to find out just how expired it was!
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Chunks of milk? I think I just lost my appetite!! Pacific Gas and Electric was nice enought to turn off our power a few months back(they got us confused with somebody who lives across the state). We had to throw out milk and yogurt and etc. I am happy to say that we just got credit for our lost food. They denied the mistake but gave us credit anyway!!! Ok, lie all you want as long as your paying for your mistake!!!
As I'm reading this, I'm drinking a smoothie made with fresh, organic milk and yogurt straight from the farm this PM. I got the milk from this AM's milking!!
It's the first time I've ever bought their milk or yogurt - and I went all out - milk, chocolate milk, yogurt, raspberry yogurt, cottage cheese, and eggs. I have a strong tummy - so not upset about this post at all.
Chrissi - like Walt, my Ron tasts milk to see if it's bad. He's also been known to realize the milk is out after a couple of hours and stuff it on back in there!
Story - Well, DH got it into his head once to buy a TON of milk that was on sale. Now, according to the Dairy Association website, you can freeze the stuff, so off to the freezer it went (he bought 10 gallons - just enough for 2 weeks or less).
So, he won't bring the milk out the milk until the previous gallon is gone. The FROZEN milk won't defrost quickly enough for him - so we're drinking the creamy part of the milk (when it freezes, it seperates, you have to defrost it and shake, then it's good to go)
He gave up, and went to buy NEW milk, and yep - when the NEW gallon was gone, reached into the back and used the (now defrosted and pretty yucky) OLD milk in his coffee. Didn't look at it - just took a giant swig!!
Milk doesn't last long enough around here to go bad. We really should buy DD her own cow!
But I have had to pitch coffee when the half and half turns to little clumps in my mug.
Milk doesn't last long enough around here to go bad. We really should buy DD her own cow!
With 4 teen age kids, 2 parents, a room mate and a Dh I'm lucky to get a glass before it's all gone. I'm lactose intollerant, so when I want a glass, I really want it. I can handle when it's been around long enough to go bad. I hate it when the empty jug is put back in the fridge. UUUGGGHHH!!!
Can you tell that that happens around here a lot?
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DD(18) poured herself a nice bowl of cereal this morning, takes a bite and suddenly I hear "Plah! Bleh! Bluck!" So I look up at her knowing the expiry date for the milk is today, and ask if the milk went bad. 
She dumped it down the garberator and told me to check but she thought it had, and yeah, the milk's turned. Luckily I bought a new gallon last night, so she refilled, and I have milk for my coffee. But I just realized that I checked by sniffing it, put the cap back on and returned it to the fridge for the next victim (DS19). 
So then I started thinking, I want to hear all your stories about the milk turning bad! Somebody here has to have taken a big ol' swig from the jug and found lumps! 
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Every once in a while, he'll find it before I do the next morning and it doesn't occur to him that it's last night's leftover milk. 
DJ is so much Walt's son. Walt TASTES milk to see if it's gone bad. 
"Patty, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" 
Her response, "Well, juice is supposed to be loaded with preservatives. We never refridgerated it when my boys were little." 
With 4 teen age kids, 2 parents, a room mate and a Dh I'm lucky to get a glass before it's all gone. I'm lactose intollerant, so when I want a glass, I really want it. I can handle when it's been around long enough to go bad. I hate it when the empty jug is put back in the fridge. UUUGGGHHH!!!
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