NaBloPoMo February 2010

Since I did so well in November I Figured why not participate for February since it is a short Month! The theme is Ties.... not sure how this will play out but We shall see!!!!

VoluntEARing Disney 2010 Marathon Weekend Day 1&2 Pictures

These pictures arent in any special order because it is KILLING me to post them right now! Blogger has been VERY bitchy to me about posting pictures for the past few days and I dont have time to sit here and put them in magical order!! LOL... Sorry!!!

This is what Disney consideres as a "Breakfast"! Trail Mix, Water, String Cheese, Crackers, Peanuts and 2 snickers bars..... honestly yall.... a muffin wouldnt have killed you ;) Snickers at 3 am is energizing but not healthy!!!!

I got this post card in the mail about a month before the Marathon confirming my voluntEAR status!! It is so cute!!! This is Disney's "Lunch/Dinner" Box! Sammie, Chips, Cookie and an apple! Always good and filling! Even if the cheese always sticks to the bread *ick*
There is always a choice of Roast Beef, Turkey or Veggie.
This was my crudentials for the Marathon! I felt so very important! What they would do was hole punch when you check in for your shift and give you your jacket, Hole Punch when yo got your lunch and then hole punch when you checked out of your shift when they would give you your free ticket!
The 2010 Full Marathon Collectors Pin :) I may have gotten away with 1 or 2!!

Working the Check in booths on Day 1! I LOVED our shirts~~~~
AHH!!! 3am at Epcot getting Hot cocoa!!! It was SO GOD DAMN FUCKING COLD! It was in the 20's with the wind chill!!!
It was a SEA of voluntears!!

Our Spiffy Orange Jackets!! While they wernt warm they were cute with a big pocket for our "breakfast" stuff!!!

Frumpy LOVE!!!!! This was us waiting on the bus to head to Epcot :)

Smile in Your Sleep- Silverstein

I am obsessed with this song right now. A very amazing new friend turned me on to it! Not for everyone but the lyrics are just perfect!!!! xxoo

When I'm lying in your bed play the motions through my head
you know that I'm thinking, I'm thinking...
that I have reasons to believe that I'm not the only
one you spend this time with, but I'll stay...
[Chorus]
You say...your weak,
you wont let me down [x2]
you lie through your teeth
you smile in your sleep [x2]
When we met you said we were the same, you know
that we're different, we're different,
and all the times you promised me that everything would
work out in the end, you were gravely mistaken
[Chorus]
You lie [x4], you lie through your teeth
you wont let me down, and you lie
I deserve better than this
I dream of steel.
Maroon and warm, your end, your end..
You gasp for air. I'll see this through,
I'll see through you, your pale, your pale, your pale blue eyes.
when you're lying in your bed, your eulogy's been read
you know that it's fitting, you lie
[Chorus]
You smile [x4] I deserve better than this.

VoluntEARing at the Disney 2010 Marathon Weekend Day 1 and Day 2

It has been a little over 3 weeks since we came home from the marathon but oh my GOD did we have fun!! We have been VoluntEARing with Disney for a few years. We started out doing the Special Olympics Events and enjoyed it so much that we have signed up for other events! This was our first marathon though and we can not wait to do another one!

The deal is for most of the events it is based on a points system. For every hour you work you get a point and for every 16 hours you work you get a free one day one park Disney ticket. BUT for some of the bigger events like Marathons you usually get a ticket for each shift you work! For this particular Marathon you got a ticket per marathon shift you worked (Maximum of 2) BUT if you worked a third shift at the Expo then you got the hour credits AND you got a water park ticket!! FABU!!!! Gotta Love that!!

So on the 8th we head out to Disney’s Wide World Of Sports Complex. This place is PACKED!! Our shifts were to work at the Expo from 2-830pm. We went to check in and they give us our boxed lunch and our nametag and T-shirts! They gave us about 20 minutes to  eat and then we headed out onto the Floor. Lunch was your choice of Sammie (Turkey, Roast Beef or Veggie), bag of chips, an apple and a HUGE chocolate chip cookie. James and I were working Packet Pickup. We were giving out bibs and D Tags(electronic tracking) to Full Marathon athletes! We were checking in the ELITE runners! The first 1500 runners! The Shift right before us checked in the #1 Guy who has won the Marathon the past 6 years in a row (including his win this year) It was really fun to meet the runners and their kids and find out where they were from and stuff like that! the Shift went very fast and soon it was time to check into our hotel.

We didn't book in time to stay on property so we stayed just off property in a Comfort In right off of Apopka Vineland. For 60 bucks a night we were good! We checked in around 9 and James went RIGHT to bed seeing as we had left the house to head to Wide World when he got home from work and the poor thing had NO sleep! He was ZONKED! We had to be back at WWoS at 2am for our half marathon shift. I had EVER intention of going to be at a decent time but I got sucked in to Celebrity Rehab and got maybe 1 hour of sleep ;) LOL!oh well!Who needs Sleep??

I NEEDED SLEEP!!! It was SO dismal when we woke up at 1am! It was COLD and I mean in the 20’s in Orlando. We dressed in layers upon layers upon layers with hats, gloves and hoodies and jackets! It wasn't raining yet but it was brewing! We arrived to the Tents at the WWoS and we get our credentials punched, our jacket, our lunch and herded on a bus to EPCOT. We got Super BRIGHT Orange Jackets with the Half Marathon Logos on them and box breakfasts… lol. Well.. they were strange but we were glad we had them. They included 2 snickers bars, a bag of peanuts, an apple, a chocolate chip cookie and a bag of trail mix and a small bottle of water! We tucked the snacks into our front pockets of our windbreakers and sat back to enjoy the warm ride to Epcot. We were scheduled to work the Baggage tents for this Half portion of the Marathon. James and I decided that instead of handling the bags we would stand outside and direct people where to go….. why we decided this in the 20 degree weather with rain and snow coming I have NO idea but we did! And we had so much fun! OMFG we were SO COLD and numb most of the time but We had so much fun! It was chaos and crazy and loud and busy but the only thing I would have changed was the temperatures! It was FREEZING!!!! It Sleeted and Rained and Hailed and Snowed! All in a 4 hour time slot!!! IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA!! You all know how I feel about snow….. not my friend! 21 years of New Hampshire winters were PLENTY for this chubby girl! But we soldiered through it! We were freezing cold and dancing to keep warm but we had a BLAST! I got to meet so many people. I got to meet Katie because she was running! She prolly thought I was a crazy lady because I ran up to her and yelled KATIE!!! LOL.. she looked at me funny and I said “ I’m Rora from twitter” Thank God she smiled because if it wasn't her I would have felt like a HUGE jackass! LOL! She looked adorable in her running gear and pig tails and I hugged her and wished her luck! It was BUSY as BANANAS for a good 2 hours with the sea of the Half Marathon runners going thru to their corrals! But I danced and laughed and made the most of it! Once the Racers were all thru the corrals we just hung around talking. We made it over to the runners tent to watch the race on the big screen for a half hour or so until our bus came to pick us up at 630 AM to head back to Wide World of Sports. We tried to steal a bagel or orange but the Nazi's in the tent wouldn't let us even though a TON of other people were doing it but… oh well :) Around 615 we went back to our area and got debriefed by our Team Leader whose name I can not remember but I called him Adam because he reminded me of Adam from that show Half & Half LOL…. I actually called him Adam once and felt REALLY bad but it wasn't in a mean way! We got on the NICE WARM bus for the 5 minute trip to Wide World of Sports. We checked out of our shift and received Sports Enthusiast Pins, Toy Story T-shirts, Little Blue Drawstring backpacks, another”breakfast” bag and our one day one park tickets! WE LOVE free swag :D We headed back to our hotel in the FREEZING cold and went RIGHT TO BED!! lol… we both passed the hell out! Good Hard WARM sleep since we turned the heat on to 90 ;) Hell… we didn't have to pay the heating bill…LOL

We slept till about 5 and headed out to grab some Pizza at Cici’s and ended up talking with a family who was running the full the next day and were asking questions about VoluntEARing and how the half went. It was really fun! We headed back and went to sleep because we had the 6am shift the next day for the Full!

~Pictures in the Next Entry~

I am a bad blogger

I am such a bad blogger. I am behind on my posts but haven't really been in the mood to blog. I have 3 entries started on Windows Live Writer that need to be finished and uploaded to blogger so I can add pictures but…. my writing just isn't flowing….. I PROMISE by the end of the weekend I will have something done!!!

Happy Birthday To Me :)

Sometimes you just need to Shout out to yourself because its your BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!




I was awoken with Breakfast in bed by my Lovebug Husband and he got me 4 cards :) Adore that! We are having an early dinner since he has to work but we are heading down to Disney on monday for a few days to play in the parks!!! :) LOVE IT!!!!

16 Word Wednesdays

if anyone wants to send him as a birthday present I will be READY AND WAITING

Almost The Birthday Princess

Yep.... this friday I will be the Birthday Princess! I am turning 31 years old on the 22nd of January. And I am not excited. My30th year was NOT fantastic! I lost a LOT last year and I know I should be looking ahead and trying to make my 31st year better but.. that is hard for me to do. I am trying my hardest but it is SO slow coming and I am doing my best. Nothing can be as bad as 2009 was for me!
BUT I am still a kiddo at heart so I have decided to make a birthday list :) Just because! It is my blog and I am almost the birthday Princess so I do what I want!!!
~Uggs
I used to have a pair of Slip on Clogs that I LOVED but working in an ice skating area KILLED them and I had a huge hole in the bottom and Hubs made me toss them away! AND that was 3 years ago so time for a replacement! I want either (or both) the Classic Short Boot in Light Brown or the Brown or Lavender Moccasins.



~IHome Alarm Clock
I am sick of using my blackberry and I need a place to put my ipod so I dont lose it which I tend to do a whole lot in the house ;) since it is a 2nd Generation 1gig little thing I tend to put it down and poof!

~Disney Annual Pass

This is a want not a need.....*sigh* We have a lot of family visiting this year which means trips to the parks and to be able to just hop on down there on a random tuesday with James would make me super duper happy!!!

~Bare Minerals
I LOVE my Bare Minerals. I have worn nothing but BE for the past 5 years!! Their formula works AMAZINGLY with my hyperhydrosis and My face hardly ever breaks out (except when I eat entire bags of mini recees cups but we wont talk about that *lastweek*) and my pores say THANK YOU for not using liquid foundation! lol!

~Old Navy, Bed Bath and Beyond, Barnes & Noble Ross, Marshalls, Target Gift Cards

I love me some gift cards and shopping!!! I am one of those people who does not mind getting gft cards because it shows me that you want me to get what I want!

So For now... these items top my list!

A Friends Giveaway

My SUPER fabu Friend DisneyDean is doing a GREAT giveaway on his personal Blog and since I LOVE him to death and I got a bunch of responses about my giveaway winnings I figured that I would push some of you towards him!!! Take a peak and click on the word Blog Above to go to his site!!!!
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I am so excited to announce my first-ever contest! The idea came from my friend Allison on twitter. You can find her at WDWFan, and the TERRIFIC Destinations in Florida.

She offered to give me a set of 4 limited edition Disney Parks lithographs to offer as a prize, and of COURSE I took her up on it! That was actually a few months ago, but I've just been trying to figure out the perfect contest to be able to offer them as a prize. The set of 4 lithographs is valued at $75 (although it can be found cheaper on some online sites). I thought and I thought, but could not think of ANYTHING. Then, I posted the question on twitter, and got lots of great responses. I received one suggestion (still trying to remember who suggested it - ooops) to give it away as a prize for the most creative photo of a Disney Park. I thought this would be pretty cool, and it would allow us to see some really interesting photos.

The catch is that it has to be a CREATIVE, and IMAGINATIVE photo. Photos of folks standing in front of Cinderella Castle, or any standard issue photo will not be accepted. It MUST be a creative and imaginative photo to be accepted (I'm so tough, aren't I?) :)

For a peek at the lithographs, you can click this link to see a photo of all four lithographs.

You can submit your CREATIVE and IMAGINATIVE (think DIFFERENT!) photos to DisneyDean at mickeysites@gmail.com through January 31, 2010. After that, there will be a 2 week window where people will be able to rank the photos. The photo ranked most creative wins!

Only one submission per person, please. Thank you so much for your interest in this! I'm so excited!

--- DisneyDean

Lady Luck!

As of late (well since summer) I have been a contest winning MACHINE! LOL! I can’t find a job but I can win contests from Twitter and Blogland! LOL! I don't enter ever contest I see ( and there are a WHOLE LOT OUT THERE) I just enter contests for stuff I want or things that are fun! Here are some of my winnings from the past few months. I have a few other things I am waiting for to come in the mail so I will do another post on those items!

RPatz Vanity Fair Magazine- This was a giveaway done by RobstenLovers . There were a bunch of magazines up for grabs and yes they were all Twilight Centric! Imagine my surprise when I found this good lookin fella in my mailbox ;)

MEOW! Now while I find myself a Team Jacob Fan for the movies I do think that this tussled hair young man is very delish looking! Something about a guy who does not have perfect hair, does not shave every day and lives in T-shirts! YUMMY!!!




Defining New Moon Book- This was a giveaway done by PeaceLoveTwilightBlog. Now I haven't read Defining Twilight but after seeing this book by Brian Leaf I am excited to get my hands on it! It breaks down each chapter like a study guide for a standardized test like ACT or SAT with vocab and mini tests and discussion topics! VERY COOL BOOK!!! I plan on grabbing Defining Twilight soon and Defining Eclipse when it comes out!
LOVE IT!!!! I still haven't read it but plan on reading it in the new year!

Christmas Carol IMAX 3-D Poster- one of my favorite people of all time @ZannaLand . She hosted a Twitter/Blog Party and I won this HUGE and cool poster! We want to get it framed to hang in our Guest Room!! It is so Big that we couldn't even get a full picture of it!! LOL~ It is the size of the posters that they hang up at the movies!

Sunshine Prunes Bag This contest was Funny! You head over to Robyn's blog and read about Prunes and then you had to leave her a fun fact that you learned about Prunes! I learned that 4 Prunes are 100 Calories! FUN!!!! I love a good reusable shopping bag (when I remember to bring them with me) and am excited to use the Free Coupon for one prune product that came with it!!!


Disney Lithographs: I won this set of Disney Litho set from a Disney Chat that I do a few times a month on Chat Roll all about Disney hosted by an AMAZING Travel Company Called Destinations In Florida! I always have a blast when I chat with folks planning their Disney Vacations! Brings me back to my first times visiting with the Mouse!!! And they always do a giveaway of some sort and I won! These arrived a few days after!

ARENT THEY GREAT!!! They will get matted and hung with the Christmas Carol Poster One Day for the Spare Bed Room!!!!!

Canadian Firefighter Calendar and Leah Braemel Swag: One of my favorite Authors Leah Braemel held a killer contest on her Blog! It was a find the differences between the two pictures contest! I LOVE those! I actually have a book of them and I always play that game on the touch screen machines! Come to find out her Son made the picture on Photo Shop! He did SUCH a good job because I had a hard as hell time finding all the differences but it paid off because I won a 2010 Canadian Firefighter Calendar and a BUNCH of Leah’s Book Swag!!!

I LOVE me some Firefighters....... this goes WAY back for me and having a whole calender of them is just perfection!!! Oh Yeah!!!!
See the Super Cool Ribbon Thong Book Mark? That was made by Hockey Vampiress and I have been using it since!!! I am a book mark nerd and tend to use and lose them often but I haven't lost this one yet!

Men In Blue by Devyn Quinn: I am a HUGE HUGE HUGE Devyn Quinn fan and when I my choice of one of her books I almost peed my pants! She emailed me and asked what my choice was and I gave her 2 options since I love a good surprise but secretly I REALLY wanted Men In Blue and when it arrived I was BEYOND Happy!!! Men in Uniform and Sexy Time is exactly what melts my butter! (name the movie)~~ and LOOK!!! SHE AUTOGRAPHED IT !!!!!!!

I do have a few moore prizes that I am waiting to arrive in the mail including an Astroglide Giftpack, a Blood Coven Swag Set, a Starbucks Giftcard from Astroglide and a few other books!!! Dont ask me how I win because I have NO idea....I just do....