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Thanks everyone for the pixies for my mom. I talked to her just a bit ago and she is a little sore but said she thinks she is pretty much okay. She is planning to see the chiropractor on Monday and then again after the trip, just to make sure everything is well adjusted. But she seems to be fine. She will be dropping her car off to get it fixed on the Friday before we leave (it is still drivable). Thanks for the pixies!
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LOL Getting up at 4:00 AM to book made me laugh out loud. Hope Mom is ok, and you are soon to be in bubble.
Being in the mountain time zone makes ADR's not so fun. I did get up and got everything booked and went back to bed.
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Originally Posted by lauriep
for your Mom! You're right, you often don't really know if you're hurt or not until the next day (or later!). Hope she's ok. Good luck with the ADRs for February. I still haven't done anything about mine for February-- we're almost in sync with these trips, until you changed your cruise!
I got everything I wanted and at the moment until I can talk to Pat I have some technical double bookings (I don't usually do this, but I was able to get BoG and we didn't really have it on our list, but I loved it). It changes 2 of the days and I booked things about 1 1/2 hours apart and once I talk to him to finalize I will cancel the ones we don't need. I know our trips are almost timed the same. Too bad we can't meet in Feb. and you could meet the whole family.
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for your mom feeling okay. That would be awful if she was not feeling well when you go to WDW. Thank goodness it was only a minor accident though too.
Sounds like you got a busy week, starting with a super early morning.
She does use a scooter so that will help some if she does have some residual pain, but it sounds like she is doing pretty good. Just glad it wasn't more serious.
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Pixies for you mom!
Hope you got all the ADRs you wanted this morning to make it worth getting up at 4am! lol
I did get everything we wanted and I booked a couple extras, I need to talk to Pat about possible changes to squeeze in BoG.
I have so much fun posting updates, I'm just going to keep you up-to-date on my pre-trip progress.
Today I got up at 3:45 and drug my butt out of bed and let the puppy out to go potty. I booted up the computer and got on the Disney World site and booked all of my ADR's. I got everything I wanted at the times I was wanting. I was back in bed by 4:30a.
I woke back up at about 8am and realized I hadn't even checked to see if BoG was available. Pat and I decided awhile ago that we didn't want to stress about getting an ADR and we would try somewhere new instead. Well, I couldn't help myself and got out of bed and checked to see if anything was available. Well, the newness must be wearing off because I could pretty much pick any time during our trip that we wanted. I decided to move a few things around and temporarily had ADR's at very close times (like 12/1:30 and 5/6:30) until Pat could get on FB. We discussed it and added BoG. That is all I'm saying about our ADR's until my next PTR.
It was already very hot outside by the time I finished all this and I decided to wait to take the trash to the dump on Tuesday instead. So, I got busy cleaning. I ended up watching The Princess Bride with the kids last night and got nothing done. So today I cleaned, vacuumed and mopped the front room. Cleaned and vacuumed the living room, worked on laundry (which had a huge wrench thrown in more in a minute). I also cleaned and vacuumed the hall.
I thought I had the laundry fairly caught up, when Hunter came out of his room and said he had no pants. This didn't make sense, considering I had the laundry caught up. I knew right away what was going on. Hunter takes the easy way out of chores often and I knew that over the last week, instead of hanging his laundry up, he shoved it under his bed. Went and checked and there is probably two weeks worth of laundry under the bed. It's all wrinkled and you can't tell what's clean or dirty, so I have spent the day re-washing all his clothes. I will sit and watch him hang them up this time.
Shana's room is pretty clean, I will have her vacuum it tomorrow.
Today was a very productive day and I stayed busy. I can't believe that at this time next week I will probably be heading to sleep in my happy place.
Glad you got BOG again for Feb. I'll be trying it for the first time next week! Sounds like you got a lot done around the house, including way too much laundry!
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I'm glad to hear it sounds like your mom is ok. We loved BoG too, so I'm glad you were able to add it on the list for Feb. Good thing you were able to get all the ADRs you wanted considering you have to get up so early to make them. I always forget about the time zone differences, that's a bit of the pits!
Congrats with BoG! Sorry about doing more laundry when you thought you had it done. That is...yuck! One more week!!!!!
Hunter does this every so often where he hides all his clean clothes. It drives me nuts because I do laundry daily so I don't have much to do on the weekends.
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Glad you got BOG again for Feb. I'll be trying it for the first time next week! Sounds like you got a lot done around the house, including way too much laundry!
I was excited, considering I didn't even check until about 10am Eastern time. I hope you like it, we really enjoyed it and felt the portions were perfect! I did get a ton done yesterday, hoping to finish up today.
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Congrats on getting an ADR to BoG
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Congrats on BoG! I love it! Laundry day is always a lousy day for me... it never seems to end!! ughhhh!!!
I usually do laundry on a rotating schedule on a daily basis (darks-Mon, lights-Tues, darks-Wed, lights-Thurs, whites-Fri) I typically strip Shana's bed Monday, Hunter's Wed and ours on Thurs. So normally I have 1-2 loads a day. I hate having to spend a whole day doing laundry. So it was no fun!
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I'm glad to hear it sounds like your mom is ok. We loved BoG too, so I'm glad you were able to add it on the list for Feb. Good thing you were able to get all the ADRs you wanted considering you have to get up so early to make them. I always forget about the time zone differences, that's a bit of the pits!
She seems to be doing okay and should be good to go for the trip. I was thinking we would just try for CS in Feb at BoG, but when I checked and saw we had plenty of options, I looked at what we could move around. I just didn't want all our ADR's to have to work around it. The time difference does stink! But ya gotta do what ya gotta do!
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for your mom feeling okay. That would be awful if she was not feeling well when you go to WDW. Thank goodness it was only a minor accident though too.
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I got everything I wanted and at the moment until I can talk to Pat I have some technical double bookings (I don't usually do this, but I was able to get BoG and we didn't really have it on our list, but I loved it). It changes 2 of the days and I booked things about 1 1/2 hours apart and once I talk to him to finalize I will cancel the ones we don't need. I know our trips are almost timed the same. Too bad we can't meet in Feb. and you could meet the whole family. 
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