How could I forget...

THE HONEYMOONERS NEXT DOOR! What a "fun" addition to the trip they were! When the headboard wasn't banging against the wall at all hours, they were out on our shared balcony smoking! Leave it to me to have the only shared balcony on the entire complex and my neighbors be smokers! I wish Disney would clarify this rule better and enforce it...a balcony is NOT a designated smoking area!! Sure, they are outside and not in their room, but there is this little thing called wind direction that almost guarantees within two minutes of them lighting up, I will be able to smell it in my room. As an extreme asthmatic, it's a very serious issue for me. For the three days we shared a wall, I struggled with whether or not I should call the front desk and complain, but after reading numerous "neighbors turn nasty" threads on the DisBoards, I opted against it. I just made sure the heavy blinds were pulled and I slept in the first bed (although my preferred bed when I go with Am, definitely not when I go solo, I prefer to have the bed next to the balcony so that I can see the entire room).

Granted, their headboarding (as I've now started calling it...like it was a sport or something), lasted less than 3 minutes a pop (wonder if she knew that BEFORE she married him?), but I am a very light sleeper and documented no less than 15 wake ups (even during afternoon naps) in those three wonderful days. Can't imagine spending all that money going to Disney World only to spend the entire trip boinking in the room. That's more of an island vacation with a never changing beach landscape that you can see any old time...not an expensive Disney trip.

Luckily, they did leave the day before I did, so I managed some quality balcony time myself as well as at least one uninterrupted night (apparently, they didn't fill the room back up when my "friends" left...probably had patchwork to do on the walls).

NOTE TO SELF: If I ever get married again and we plan to not ever leave the room...don't got to Disney World! Yes, I know I'm a prude, but I think I would have trouble doing it in Disney anyway...kind of like having sex in a church or school or your parents house with your entire family present...UGH!

Happy 13th Blogoversary to the worst blogger ever!

Yep, I'm still here. This is the first time I've touched any blog in months. My focus has been in the "me" world. I have a new therapist and it's still early days, but I'm doing much better both mentally and physically. Work always sucks, so that's already a dead horse. And both pups are still hangin in there. My last post was probably the last time I stitched or at least my last Instragram post was. Maleficent still isn't framed, she's still in her ziploc baggie on the kitchen table. Bad me all around. I'm getting worse at this whole social media thing, what little I do. My job is tech burnout, so by the time I get home, the only tech I touch is my TV. The thought of creating a blog post or human communication in any way is just too much. I do have two vacations coming up, so that's exciting, right? I haven't felt like sharing, so very few people around me know about these. The first is a birthday trip to Boulder, j...

A to Z Challenge - B

PART 1 - JANE AUSTEN ALPHABET-COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BRANDON A much better hero than Edward Ferrars in my opinion PART 2 - MY DISNEY COLLECTION-BOOKS Obviously the age limit on books means very little to me: Do magazines count as books? Well, they are on the book row and they are Disney related, so there you go! There are several more shelves of these and they get more movement than anything else because their weight tends to kill bookshelves rather quickly. It helps to shuffle them around upon occasion to give the poor shelves a breather.

A to Z Reflections Post

I'm going to try not to be as wordy as previous years (but no promises). I did two challenges this year, my Jane Austen Alphabet Cross Stitch project, which is now complete: I haven't gotten it framed yet...heck, I still haven't gotten last year's framed either, so there is no telling when it will get done. Thanks to my friend Tiff for her suggestion of the blue fabric over the brown...she made the right choice I think! There is really nothing more to add on my second challenge, My Disney Collection, other than I have realized that my OCD apparently isn't strong enough to focus me in one particular direction. I like to think I have a Duck Room and a Princess/Villains room, but it's more like a Duck/Stitch/Parks room, a Mickey Bathroom, a Disney-themed kitchen, a living room filled with various objects, and a Princess and Villains bedroom. I don't think as a whole, they look so bad, it just looked a bit hoarderish when I divided them up into categori...

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