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I know I'll find those cards somewhere. Saturday Katie and I are going to give the house a thorough cleaning (yuk) and they will turn up.
Katie has to get a new cell phone! She dropped hers in the toilet (gross!!). Right now she's using Dave's until he gets her a new one. Teen Trauma!!!
She has 44 days until her once in a lifetime trip to London, Paris and Lucerne.
We have 77 days until our WDW trip.
I feel like I should be making more lists for our trip but I don't want to overplan anything and just want to go with the flow while we are there. I know that we will get to do a boatload of stuff!!!
Dave did decide that he doesn't want to do the sea racers. Instead he wants to go to Disneyquest. We'll do that on our free-day.
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Since Dave likes to prolong my agony...He wants to go to the outlet mall near Universal and BJ's and Walmart before we check into POP. He loves shopping and I hate it. Well this ought to be fun!!! We might go to Walmart before we check in at the Hyatt when we get there. I told him it would be a great idea just to buy suntan lotion, deodorant, etc...you know all that 3oz in a baggy stuff... when we get down there and then dispose of it before we leave so we don't have to go through all that. More room in my carrybag for other kinds of junk instead.
Good luck on finding the card games and with Katie's phone(I have friends who killed/lost their phones in toilets and pools). Good idea getting your toiletries doen there instead of the 3 oz. limit.
I finally found one of the card games I was looking for. It was in Kate's room. Her room is like a magnet!!! She also found her diamond earrings that we gave her for Christmas last year. Maybe her room is more like a black hole!!! Didn't get too much cleaning done except the bathroom. We were painting today. Okay Dave was painting and I was supervising but at least it was getting done. We are doing the whole inside of the house which is going to be a bear because we have cathedral ceilings. Should be interesting by the time we get to the living room and dining room/kitchen.
I have no idea who or what town is blowing off fireworks around here but it sounds like the blitzkreig. Usually I can see them but they are too far away tonight. Standing in my driveway we can usually see fireworks from about 5 towns in the area. It's a beautiful view.
I was messing around with the reservations on WDW and wanted to make a reservation for O'hana for dinner. I got one for 8/19 cuz I was going to change Kona Cafe and move Italy to that day but couldn't get Italy so Katie just told me to leave it alone...Daddy will deal with it. I love that kid!!! I did cancel O'hana so someone else could get it.
I haven't really done anything else for Disney prep since we still have soo much time.
Kate and I went shopping yesterday. Bad idea!!! I was looking for a skirt and top to wear to my niece's grad party and so my mother doesn't think I look like a slouch. After trying on a few skirts I was nearly in tears for the way I let myself go...so as of Tuesday I'm going to open my Biggest Loser game for Wii and start doing something about it instead of crying. I won't lose 4 lbs by this Sunday but at least I'll feel better. Oh I did finally get a skirt and top that didn't look too lumpy so now I can wear that to the party, Kate's graduation, her National Honor Society induction and my friend's bridal shower. I'll just to deal with my mother...It will go something like this:
mom: You are getting fatter. You need to start doing something about it. You are almost 50 years old.
me: Right back at ya MOM.
except for her I can say you are almost 70 years old.
SIGH!!! I'm actually sitting here laughing about that because I know it's going to happen!!!
Well have a great Memorial Day...I must be to work at 4am...Gotta love Home Depot!!!
Congrats on finding the game and the diamond earrings! Glad you found a skirt and top you felt good about! and with your weight loss. I'm actually doing sit ups as I read TRs to flat back out some of my bumps and lumps.
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