Vacation draws near...

Only 2 Days until we leave for the one...the only....DISNEY CRUISE LINE!!! WOOHOO!!! I sooooo can not wait! Yes its technically just a long weekend, but its getting out of Bend, so if you ask me that is a vacation!!!

I've finished my Door Decorations for my cabin door. Its going to look awesome in case you were wondering. And I'll be sure to post pics, as I'm sure most of you are dying to see how crazy I really am?!?

Then on sunday, yes that would be superbowl Sunday, I'll be heading to the Magic Kingdom, where my poor husband will be with me, and not watching the Superbowl. But that night I will get to have dinner with one Mrs. Kim Thornburg, a friend from work whom I haven't seen in a while. And then its back to the park for extended Magic Hours. Ahhhh gotta love that staying on Disney Property gives you extra hours in the park!

Then on Monday it will be little miss Sarah's birthday. I think she's turning 35...right Sarah? AHahahahahah...just kidding. We'll be heading to the beach with the kids and hanging out in the sun and making sand castles and hopefully the water will be warm enough to dip our toes in.

So thats it, just can't wait! Stinky Bend has like 3 inches of snow...boooo!!!!!

I've become addicted....

Okay so its bad enough that I'm a total Disneyaholic. Well with our cruise coming up quickly I've been trying to get tips and tricks and cool little hints, and I've discovered these Disney Boards online where millions of people post threads about questions and then other users reply...



Well I've become addicted. Its like a drug or something I guess, I can't pull myself away, well except to write this on how much of a no life I have. But actually if you were ever planning any Disney trip, this would be a fantastic place to research! I think I spend a lot of time on there, there are people who post replies to pretty much every thread. Anyway, its insane. And I can't pull myself away, its like I run into the house after work to see what is new on there! What on earth is wrong with me.

So because of this new found addiction of mine, I've discovered that the real Disney fans decorate their cabin door during their cruise!! And no I am not joking, and yes of course I am going to do it!!! So over the last 3 days after work I've gone through 192 pages...yes pages and, I think there are between 10-15 postings per page. (Did I mention this is just ONE of the threads) So this should tell you just how many hours I have spent looking this stuff up. So now I can't stop making posters and personalized pictures for my door. Because lets face it, if I'm going to decorate my door, its got to be the best. None of this amateur crap, mine will look awesome!

I'm pretty sure that if Art didn't already think I was crazy, he sure does now. But hey like he says, it makes me happy, and thats whats important. (Go ahead and barf now if you want to. ) I apparently just like admitting that I'm a total dork, but who cares. So anyways, if you ever want to know anything about Disney and feel like spending countless hours doing pretty much nothing, then you should check that site out. And if you want some cool pics for your cabin door, go make them yourself! I'm exhausted !!! Who knew being creative was so much work!!

Say goodbye to my bottled water... sad....

Okay so yes I know...biggest waste of money ever is....DING DING DING...bottled water. Yes I know, am I an offender of buying it all the time?? Sure am. But on Sunday when I went to costco, and saw that they jacked up the price for my cute little baby sized water like $4, I about died. Then when I went to be rang up, they charged bottle deposits!! What??? When did I move back to Cali?? Effective Jan 1st in Oregon, you have to pay deposits for bottled water. Well that just threw me over the edge. So my cute little waters (you know the like 8 oz size..they're adorable) that used to cost me like $5 for 48 or something, now cost me $12 with deposits!!! That's insane...

I'm going to a tap water drinker now...booohooo for me. I know its so stupid. But I've been drinking my good ole Kirkland brand bottled water for like 5-6 years. Its weird to not buy it. But man am I going to save money! So I went and got myself a new little cute Nalgene bottle (yes i went to five different stores to find the one I wanted) for work, and now I can help save the environment and save money. Yeah for me! :) Thankfully Oregon has great tap water...now if we move back to Cali someday...I might become a bottled water drinker again. Cause their water tastes like poop!! Its sooo gross.... but for now, I'll be going green by not wasting my water bottles.

Oh and another thing....

Okay so while on the subject that the economy sucks...lets explore this mind blowing phobia... (Of how people are afraid to get a common persons job, because they are just too above all of us)

So you're out of work because the economy sucks, I feel for you. Its really hard out there, I get it. I'm thankful each and everyday to have a job, and that art does. Here's who I don't feel bad for. Those people who are out of work, but who refuse to do anything about it. So yeah you lost your job making really good money. But you won't accept any job that pays less than that?? So let me get this straight...when did no money become better than a little money?? You're whining and crying about not having any money, but there are tons of companies hiring. Sure they make only pay $9 an hour, $10 if you're lucky.... but there are FULL time positions paying that...So you'd rather sit around and feel sorry for yourself then get a full time job (sure it doesn't pay what you're used to) and have some sort of income...I do NOT get it!!

I understand people have become accustom to the way they have been living, but sometimes things change and you can't live like that anymore. But I am SOOOOO sick of listening to people cry about it, and then you try and help or let them know about a position. And well that just isn't good enough. Thats what the common people do, they certainly could not be seen in public by their friends doing such a horrific and common person job. Oh get the hell over yourself. If I lost my job (ohhh lord, please no...) but if I did, I wouldn't care where it was I'd take pretty much anything. If I gotta go work at Target, so be it. A job is a job, and money is money. Having some money, even a little, is better than not having any right? So why is it that all these people are complaining about not finding work...can't you find something temporary until you find your dream job. Can't you make something in the meantime instead of nothing? I guess not. Because we all know it is better to cry and wine to everyone about not having anything, than to get off your butt and work any job to make any sort of money....

Oh the stupid people of the world who annoy me. Maybe that's what I should have named my blog. "All the idiots of the world and how they love to make me crazy"

Don't get me wrong, the economy sucks, and I do really really feel bad for anyone who has lost their jobs. I just think people should be more willing to make something than in the hopes of finding a job making exactly what they were making. Because lets face it, in this economy, it ain't gonna happen my friend.

An Adventure to make you laugh...and to warn you do NOT do this!!!

So we love to travel. We go to Sandals Resorts every year. Its our very favorite place. So in April of 2007 we went to Sandals Grande Ocho Rios. HUGE HUGE resort. Beautiful water of course. But this is not a post about the resort...

This is a post about the tours you can take on these vacations. So I'm looking at all the excursions and tours and I see one that is for horseback riding through the countryside, then you get to ride the horses in the ocean too. So cool right?? I'll let you think it's cool now, just wait. So I make sure to ask a million questions, most all regarding to how deep in the ocean you go, since I'm terrified of deep water (thanks for that mom, hahaha) They told me it only goes up to like the horses legs, like the lower part of their body. So I'm thinking oh okay, I can handle this. Then I ask well do they swim through the water, and they told me, no they trot, its very relaxing and beautiful. I know what you're thinking, once in a lifetime thing to do right? Ride a horse through the beautiful Caribbean. Again, I'm going to let you keep thinking this. So we book the tour.

We get there, and they take us out to the horses. I'm like wait, where are the saddles? All they have are these little tiny things on top... (Art says they were english saddles, whatever that means) So I get on the horse. Yeah this is going to really really hurt after 3 hours of riding this thing practically bare back. So away we go with the 8 other people in our group. Art and I stayed in back and chatted with the 2nd tour guide, he was awesome. And told us alot about Jamaica. Alot of sad stories there. Anywho...bla bla bla, we ride through the hillside....Saw a bunch of huge scary spiders, bla bla bla.

So then we get to the beach. (Its not a resort beach, its a normal one, so its kinda dirty) but the water was still gorgeous. We get off the horses and they tell us to change into our swim suites. I do, thinking why did I bring this if we're hardly going to get wet. So we get back up, and get ready to go into the ocean. Our horses go out into the water. Ahhh sooo pretty. Then before we "start" our water adventure, the main guide says, oh and anyone who's horse takes a crap in the water owes us $2. We all laugh, thinking he's so funny and making a joke. Until we notice one of the horses had pooped in water, and then it was gross. But oh well we're thinking. Guess he had to go. Well apparently horses must get an urge while they are in the water. So we start "trotting" along, and every single one of the horses start pooping in the water!!! Did I mention I was in the back????!!!!???? So there is all this poop just floating around, but guess what happens when horses trot, it starts making the waves bigger, and then the poop starts flying around. And yes I'm totally serious! So by this time, I've got 8 horses poop in front and all around me. And we all know horses don't poop just a little amount. So we start going faster, the horse poop is like discinigrating (sp?) and getting chopped up because its flying through the water. Here we are riding our horses , who are RUNNING ... not trotting, and this poop infested water is coming up with the waves and getting all over you. Art and I have our mouthes closed thinking, oh dear lord please do not let me eat any of this crap. Literally!!! And you're not in to your ankles , its like up to your waist. So from waist down, you're flying through horse poop water. The water didn't have that gorgeous blue color anymore. More brown and smelly.

So in addition to worrying about getting poop all over you, you are hauling through the water on your horse on this bare to none thing they call an english saddle. You can barely hold on, and you're about to fall off. I'm pratically in tears by this point. Mostly because I kept thinking, oh my gosh, I'm going to fall off, get my foot stuck in this thing, and drown underneath a horse who is going to trample me to death in POOP water!!! Drowning is bad enough, but in poop water!! So we stop for a second and I tell them I want to go back in, the main guy is totally making fun of me, and I tell him I don't want to drown in poop water. He thinks this is pretty funny...Its not. Luckily the other tour guide who we'd become friends with offered to go really slow with me while everyone else ran through...So he did. I made it back without drowning in the poop water!! HOORAY!!!

The moral of this story, is when you go somewhere tropical and they try to convince you that you should take this wonderful "romantic" horseback ride through the ocean, you should SAY NO!!! Unless you like riding through poop water and getting covered in it. And if you do, then

knock yourself out.