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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.
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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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12-31-2003, 10:25 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
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How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
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12-31-2003, 10:36 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
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Location: Orlando, Florida
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
You look so beautiful! You must be getting so excited. <font color="red"> </font> Now take that off before you get something on it! 
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12-31-2003, 10:44 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA , USA
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
I think that is a grand and glorious way to spend your last single NYE - and you look stunning! Your DF is one lucky guy!  |
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12-31-2003, 10:51 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Oh my gosh, Rachel, you are too funny. And that is so not pathetic, at least you're doing something. My kids are in bed and I'm just sitting here online. PARTY!!
Your dress looks very pretty. Your little comments just had me crackin' up. It is nice to put a face to a name, though.  |
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12-31-2003, 11:02 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
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Location: Peoria IL
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
You look beautiful. But I agree with Wish, take it off before you get something on it! LOL Hope DF was not anywhere near to sneak a peek at you!
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01-01-2004, 12:38 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Oh Rachel, you look fa-bu-lous!!! And that is not a pathetic way to ring in the new year. The dress is very flattering. Are you still adding the tartan to it? Is that the tiara? Your big day is getting so close, are you just dying for it to be here?
I hope you know that there will be a Passporter outcry if we don't see wedding photos when you get back from the honeymoon!
Love ya Chic-o!
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01-01-2004, 01:19 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: May 2003
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
I agree with everyone else, Rachel, you're beautiful, and the dress is nice, too! Don't let your DF anywhere near Passporter now, though, just in case he sees this!
BTW, a pathetic New Year's Eve is spending the evening as the only single person in a room full of your parents friends, watching vacation videos of their trip to the Grand Canyon!  Did I mention I was home by 12:39 a.m.? |
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01-01-2004, 01:40 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
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Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Rachel, you are gorgeous dahling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not pathetic in any way,shape or form! You silly girl!!!
I am sorry that you are lonely tonight though. I wish your df could be there with you...
Hmmm, arent we all pretty pathetic?!LOL!! My dh fell asleep SNORING loudly on the couch w/one leg over the top of the couch and one leg dangling down in the middle of Pirates of the Carribean. My children kept laughing at dad, so I sent him to bed until just before 12 and then I PARTIED w/my 12 and 9 year old!LOL!!
At 11pm, we got dissed AGAIN, because for some reason central time zones dont get delayed Dick Clark! No, we get it live at 11pm and have to pretend that we still have alot to look forward to when our 12am comes around!LOL!!
Send the children downstairs to watch a new episode of "Raven" on Disney Channel until its almost 12. At a quarter till 12, I am washing out ice cream bowls(because we are pigs and could not wait till midnight to have our sundaes!LOL!!) and stacking them in teh dishwasher in my pj's and flannel robe, when my 9 year old son comes upstairs in his superman thermal pj's, 2 davy crocket guns from WDW strapped to his body and announces that he is "weasel boy" and then goes to wake up dad.
At 1 min till midnight, our local news cuts in to countdown the ice sculpture countdown. At midnight, we then toast w/NASTY sparkling grape juice, finish loading the dishwasher, give the cat his antibiotics and send the kids down to bed.
dh is now comatose again in bed, kids are watching starwars in their beds on Canadian tv and I just switched over the whites to the dryer.
I have a hangover now!LOL!! Wanna come party. I know that most people are envious of my busy party social life, but what is a diva to do?
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01-01-2004, 04:37 AM
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Rachel, I think that's a truly beautiful way to spend NYE -and talking of truly beautiful, you are going to knock DF for six when he sees you in your dress - it looks wonderful.  I can't wait to see the photos of the big day - I hope you're going to share them with us!  |
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01-01-2004, 09:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Aw...you guys are too sweet. Even though I still think it was a *little* pathetic (on the other side of that mirror I could hear my neighbor/ex-boyfriend hosting a party with a crowd of people clearly excited to ring in the New Year. I felt like that Friends episode...with the wedding dresses...you know which one.) But it turned out to be a good thing that DF's out of town b/c I needed to try that thing on to make sure it still fit after all of my holiday eating.  If anything, those pictures show what I need to work on, and that I must tone my upper arms. 
Amy...I don't know if you can see on the right-hand post of the mirror, but there hangs a small collection of tiaras, none of which are suitable for my wedding tiara. This dern tiara business has been such a fiasco, it's ridiculous...I'm even trying to return one for the VERY HIGH PRICE I paid for it, but last night I received an aggrivating email saying that they won't return it because of the "nature of the event." 
Anyways, I think I have a new plan under control with the help of my dad. If anyone wants to send some tiara pixie my way, I'd appreciate it.
As for the tartan...no, it hasn't been added yet. My aunt is coming up from North Carolina on the 15th to put together my MoH's dress, DF and his BM's vests, and work on my dress. She may even make a plaid shawl-like garment for me...which would be nice b/c it would hide my upper arms! She and I are gonna have to play around with what will work best. I'd really love to have a big sash around my lower torso/stomach ending in a big bow in the back, but we'll see. There's a 3-inch white border on the bottom of the dress that we may cover in plaid instead. My aunt's pretty talented and I'm honored to have her come all this way to work so hard for li'l ol' me.
You all can definitely count on me posting wedding photos here. Why do you think I'm going through all kinds of dental hell--for the fun of it? No! I want my teeth to look nice so I can post photos! (The dentist said that professional whitening makes teeth extremely sensitive, and that I have to get some work done on my teeth or else I'd be in severe agony for the two weeks that they whiten.) Plus, I'm making DF get me a new scanner for my wedding present b/c our old one is on its last legs and our photographer only works in 35mm. Besides, I'm milkin' this event for all that it's worth!
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01-01-2004, 11:33 AM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Oh Rachel, I LOVED seeing you, your dress, and hey! You looked fantastic! We spent the evening playing a game involving M & M's, straws and dice...lots of laughs, but kinda silly, eh?
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01-01-2004, 05:12 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Katy, Texas
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Rachel your dress is beautiful!! I think trying on your wedding dress is an exciting thing to do on New Year's Eve! Mark actually let me talk about our wedding last night - he had made a "rule" that we weren't going to talk about the wedding until after the holidays so we could avoid the stress. Like planning for our wedding is stressful!?!?!??!?!
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01-01-2004, 07:52 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
Have you ever known me to be shy about just offering my opinion? Of course not!
#1. That was definitely NOT pathetic. I have an active imagination and it is always working overtime. My mind is constantly working. I look at your evening as an exercise in fantasizing about a very special day.
#2. Your wedding dress is great! My taste in all things follows the maxim KISS: Keep it simple stupid! Your dress is beautifully simple and shows off what it is supposed to: YOU.
#3. I really like the idea of using tartan as a wrap. Which is what I think you were referring to when you mentioned the shawl. The dress is so pretty being so simple having a bow in back might be a bit much. But as you and I discussed, you do whatever the heck you want because it is YOUR wedding! You'll look great whatever you decide.
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01-01-2004, 08:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
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The dress is so pretty being so simple having a bow in back might be a bit much.
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You know Doug, you're right. As I was typing "big bow" I was wondering why was I typing that?? I want it to look "stately" but not Gone-with-the-Windy. I love the idea of having plaid across my middle, but I don't know how to bring it together in the back. I also love the dress for the reasons that you said: it's simple. However whenever I look at myself in it, I never see a "bride," I always see either a giant ballerina or a First Communioner, which is another reason why I want some plaid on it. I think I need to get rid of the border on the veil too. Check it out (but do me a favor and ignore the mess in the background ):
Is it just me, or does that veil say "Hi, I'm an 8 year old!" rather than "Hello, I'm an adult."
Just tonight I ordered this set:
  
The tiara is still far from my dream tiara, but I love trinity knots, and this was the best and most affordable set I could manage. I've been cursed with bad tiara luck, but I like the thought of everything matching (and tiaraless nuptials are a NON-OPTION, which kisses your KISS philosophy goodbye!) I'm coming out of a "wedding funk" where I was really doubting some of the choices I made, but now I'm coming back full-throttle into Wedding Girl mode. It's more fun this way!
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01-01-2004, 09:07 PM
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Re: How\'s THIS for a Pathetic New Year\'s Eve?
<font color="blue">You look so beautiful! I love the Tari and Neckless set very nice. You be the prettest bride I've evern know. well todate any how. </font> |
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