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Made me tired just reading your plans, but they do sound great! I hope you do get to go to Rafiki's one morning. I wish my trip had been planned for a week later so I could have gone to at least one day of the competition. One of the vet techs at Rafiki's, Liz, is very excited about going to the show. She's taking some days off work so she can do all the days.
Thanks! I'm looking forward to going and I really, REALLY hope I get a chance to go to Rafiki's. I'll be trying my best!
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Your plans are looking good!
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Great plans!
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Plans look good - wishing you a safe trip and the best of luck at the show.
Thank you!!
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I just found you report. I love the title as that is what I always say - dogs and Disney my 2 favorite things. I'm in awe when I see the agility training. I can't even get my dog to sit so I know how much time and effort goes into training a dog.
Good luck with it all. I'd loved to be able to take my dogs with me on vacation so think of it as a little added bonus. They get to have their competition and you get to have Disney
Thank you!! I pass through Marlton on almost all of our trips to a competition. The most common one in the area is in Swedesboro, and there's one there almost every weekend.
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Now, Lisa is considering driving straight through without the overnight stop in South Carolina. That was my original plan and I hope it works out. But since it STILL isn't 100% decided, I'm getting a little anxious about it. I'd prefer to do it all at once. Between the two of us driving, it'll be fine. (Famous last words )
Good news : I ordered the MVMCP tickets!! Now we're officially going there.
I still have lots to do, and lots of things to buy. Some of my Kohl's cash expires tonight so I'll be going after work and looking for a nice outfit for our Cali Grill dinner. I'll update more on the to-do list soon!
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Things are creeping along -- actually, they're moving really fast!
A lot of stuff is coming together for the trip.
I finally ordered our MVMCP tickets
Our Disney pins came in the mail. I usually order a bunch on eBay because most of the time they send crappy ones that you don't mind trading.
I'm getting some spending money together so I'm not living like a hobo this trip
I found two possible outfits for our Cali Grill dinner
I bought a new pair of sneakers at Kohls - after a gift card and some Kohls cash they only cost $4.99!
I tracked down Layla's special collar/leash I ordered. I wanted something special to commemorate the occasion and found a lady that makes AWESOME leashes. Once she makes it, I'll upload a pic, but it'll have the logo for the Invitational, then Layla's name, and the leash part is a fuzzy tug braid. It's hard to describe but it really looks snazzy. Except the woman wasn't answering my emails! I contacted her over a month ago telling her when I would need it by. She said no problem. But I still hadn't heard from her. She finally sent me an email asking if I got the Paypal invoice. I hadn't. She didn't write back for a day or two AGAIN. Finally I looked at the running order for the competition (they publish the order that you're running in so you can plan how early to get there - if there are 100+ people in your height and you're #99, you don't need to get ready asap) and I saw that she was listed, so she was going to be there too. Hmmmm! So I sent her one last email telling her that I see that she's listed on the running order and she can just bring the leash/collar with her to the show. Yes, a little stalker-ish, butttttt....she replied less than 10 minutes later INCLUDING my Paypal invoice. Surprise surprise! Maybe she just needed more time to do it, but then SAY so before you take the order. Whatever - as long as I get it!
I was having an issue with my drivers license and got that all resolved yesterday, so I can *legally* drive now
But, there's still a lot I need to do!
Pack
Laundry, so I have clean clothes TO pack
Find a large duffel bag (Lisa and I decided to skip suitcases and go for squishable duffel bags to add more room in her car)
Get my eyebrows waxed
Give myself a pedi (I'd go and get one done but my feet will be out and about for just one week in Florida before they're trapped back in winter shoes up here, and it just isn't worth the money for one week of toe exposure)
Decorate the house for Christmas
Send out all my Christmas cards
Print out the info for the competition, plus the ADR #'s, the Will-Call confirmations for both MVMCP and my park tickets (Lisa & Mary are buying their park tickets at the gate)
Cash some checks and cash in all the loose change I've been collecting
I'm sure there's a ton more but I can't think of the stuff yet.
I feel like I'm getting a bit of a cold so I'm taking massive amounts of vitamin C to try and cut it off.
One week from this minute I'll be at MVMCP! Only two more days of work (Friday & Monday) before I'm on vacation too. I CAN'T WAIT!
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Just found this. How exciting, and exhausting. Can't wait to see how ya'll do in the competion Also, I'm very impressed by your choice of breed for the event. Malamutes can be a beautiful, stubborn handful And you do Obedience as well? Awesome.
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What a pain that the leash lady was so unresponsive. I hope she has the leash with her at the show.
to ward off the cold! I've got one now, and it's no fun being sick at Disney!
Thank you! I took a massive amount of Vitamin C and that seems to have helped. GNC sells these delicious, addictive vitamin C chews and I just can't stop eating them. I feel better today though so hopefully that helped! If not, at least they were yummy That lady better have the leash with her It's not even an issue of the money (well, not much of an issue) but the fact is that I wanted this as a special memento. I didn't get to order any souvenirs (you need to pre-order shirts and things and frankly I didn't have the money when the order was due) so this is my big souvenir for the competition, and she better not have ruined it for me!
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Congrats on all you've gotten done and loads of with the to do list!
Thank you! I'm slowly knocking things off the to-do list.
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Just found this. How exciting, and exhausting. Can't wait to see how ya'll do in the competion Also, I'm very impressed by your choice of breed for the event. Malamutes can be a beautiful, stubborn handful And you do Obedience as well? Awesome.
Thank you!! Yes a lot of people think I'm insane for doing it all with a malamute I love their stubborn personality though - it matches mine pretty well!
I have a lot to do tomorrow, unfortunately. I'm working 9 hours right in the middle of the day which interferes with a lot of plans, since stores will be open only while I'm at work.
I'm having a surprisingly hard time cashing checks. I have four checks to cash for spending money. I do have my own checking account but it's overdrawn. If I deposit the checks into my account I'll lose about $100 (the amount I'm overdrawn).
Actually as a side story, I'm a little annoyed by something else. My bank has one of those coin counting machines where they give you cash for your coin. For a few months I've been saving spare change. Not a whole lot, but a good enough amount. I went to the bank the other day to cash it in (and my checks) and they said since my account is overdrawn they couldn't give me the cash for the coin. I said fine, I'll just save the ticket. And they said they couldn't do that either because they need to count down the machine every night. UGH! I understand it's my fault for being overdrawn and the policy does make sense, but if they had that policy posted I could've taken the money to a public machine, paid $1.99 and gotten most of it back rather than having been forced into depositing it into my account! So that saved money is gone. It's not "wasted" since it'll all even out in the end but I really wanted the cash before my direct deposit goes in next Friday.
Anyway, I decided to keep the checks. $100 is a big amount to "lose". So I went to a check cashing business. I've never been to one before. They wouldn't accept two of the checks because they're personal checks, and the other is a business check and they wanted "documentation" with it to prove the reason it's given to me. Forget it!! So annoying.
Besides not being able to cross that off my to-do list, I did manage to buy some things I needed for the trip. Boring things like deodorant, contact solution, etc. I found a nice pair of shorts too (I don't have many pairs and it's supposed to be quite hot while we're there) but I don't care much for the colors on it. There were hardly any medium sizes left so I didn't have much of an option, so now after work tomorrow I'll have to stop at a store near my work and see if they have different colors. Plus tomorrow I'm getting my eyebrows done, doing massive amounts of laundry and starting to pack.
I'm meeting at Lisa's house at 8 pm Tuesday. We'll hopefully leave by 9 pm. I plan on sleeping most of the day Tuesday to be more rested for the overnight drive. We'll see how that goes! I don't know how I'll be able to sleep at all, let alone sleep during the day before we go.
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so I'm taking massive amounts of vitamin C to try and cut it off.
And you do Obedience as well? Awesome.
That lady better have the leash with her 
It's not even an issue of the money (well, not much of an issue) but the fact is that I wanted this as a special memento. I didn't get to order any souvenirs (you need to pre-order shirts and things and frankly I didn't have the money when the order was due) so this is my big souvenir for the competition, and she better not have ruined it for me!
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