A Croc in the World October 2007

This is very overdue. I should have posted these in about November. But being me, I am a little late! Flower is a DIS boards croc. She is passed from family to family and makes trips to the Disney parks. If you are not a DISer, please bear with us and enjoy the pics. If you are a DISer, I am sorry I am such a slowpoke.

We picked up Flower from the desk at SSR, where Jason had left her for me. We almost had an incident, as they could not find her at first. Somehow, her box ended up in the Fed Ex pickup pile. But the great ladies at SSR searched until they found her. They rock!

Johnnie and Flower do a dance to celebrate!

Riding the Mickey bus!

We took the monorail over to the Poly. We reminded Flower to "Please stand clear of the doors!"

Flower helps Gainey pick some pressed pennies while we wait for our table at O'Hana:

Waiting, waiting, waiting......

Yay!! Our turn!

Flower enjoys the Pineapple Bread. YUM!

One of many rides on Small World (note DH's look of joy):

Riding the People Mover. Not the TTA. The PEOPLE MOVER. =oD Mr. Morrow, Mr. Tom Morrow, your party has arrived from Saturn.....

Johnnie and Flower taking a break in Adventureland.

Time for the Barnstormer!

There it is Flower, the famous Haunted Mansion!!! (insert dog howl here)

Patiently awaiting Spectromagic, our favorite parade:

Flower and Johnnie enjoy a yummy breakfast at Crystal Palace.

A group shot near the Tusker House:

Waiting patiently for the bird show to begin at AK:

We get ready to go on the Safari and see some crocodiles!!! But they were not out that day. Poor Flower.

Flower checks on where she wants to go next:

Flower had a picture with a long-forgotten ancestor. Or maybe not, I am not all that knowledgeable about the dinosaurs.

Johnnie decided to get in on the act:

Of course, we had to ride Small World again. Flower was on that many, many times. If we scarred her in any way, we apologize.

Well, that is our picture montage. I did have some more, but I had my camera set on "bad picture, but battery saving" mode, so they came out too dark or just bad. Fortunately, we will have Flower again in May, and I promise to make sure I have the camera set correctly!

Buffalo sucks and I work too much.

So anyway, it is freezing here. It snowed on the first day of spring. Isn't that nice??

I ended up taking the job at the hospital. I have been training and will be training for the next month plus, since they are cross training me for 3 departments. Needless to say, I am doing 40 hours at my full time job and 25-30 training. Per week.

I am normally a pretty mellow person. Working 75-80 hours a week makes me a bitch. Just a little FYI. My blog posts, if I even get to make any, may be a bit on the rant and rave crabby asshole side until about the end of May.

One bright spot: VACATION!!! We leave May 4th for a week, so I do have a break in there. I won't think about the fact that I am taking the laptop and possibly a few hours at job #1 with me. Of course, I take it every time and usually end up not doing any hours. So I am not completely insane.

I am going to make a feeble attempt to start a pre-trip/trip report on here to let you all share in the joy of getting ready to take everyone to Florida while working like a dog.

Our May trip is going to be me, John, Gainey, Johnnie, and my mother. Tom is on the fence, since he brought me home a lovely 21 in English. And not because he is bad at it, but because he would rather do anything other than homework. If his report card is better, he goes. Otherwise, he stays here with his dad and waits until October to vacation, since I can't pull the kid out of school when he has a 21. Ugh.

We are hoping that he steps up, though and gets his work made up and his grade up. He is really good with the little ones and we really like to hang out with him. He is a great kid...I am biased, of course, but he truly is.

Court has decided to give living with her dad a try. I okayed this experiment against my better judgement, because they both wanted it and Jerry IS her dad and he is a good dad, so he deserves a chance.

So she is not attending the May trip this year. She IS, however, going in October, even if I have to drag her ass there. LoL

As we progress over the next 40-ish days, I will make every attempt to entertain you all with a pre-trip/new job report. Then I will try to do a "live" trip report from Disney, as I will have the laptop with me. Get ready...I am sure it will be gripping.

And lastly...my strange story for the day:
I had a call on my cell phone from work (the transcription company I work for). I listened to my VM to see what the hell they wanted. It was someone I don't know, asking for a lady named Nancy. But it was MY employer. I just thought it was quite a coincidence that they called the cell phone of an employee looking for someone else. Especially since corporate is in New Jersey.

Now time to finish working job #1 and get to bed so I can get up, go to job #2, come home, and work job #1 again!!!

I am off Wednesday. Lucky for me, Courtney dropped off her laundry so I won't get bored.