len testa is responsible???

photo credit: www.brokehoedown.com 

i dare say it is widely understood that my bff jennifer and i have a love/hate relationship with lumbar packs. she loves, them i hate them. ok, hate is too strong a word really, as even i had a modified thing on my person for the half marathon and i can understand, in my lizard brain, the basic idea of it all. not to be snobby, but i prefer the backpack for utilitarianism and a nice michael kors bag goes quite far in the functionality and style point category. this morning, i read this in jennifer’s “jentasmic!” column (matt has a fondness for punctuation) at studios central:

..The one Disneyphile source I’d picked up was the Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World (ding!), so I did have a few tricks up my sleeve. I bought a lumbar pack and two water bottles, plus I knew we needed an afternoon break every day. Both were excellent advice…

i should boycott the unofficial guide - but we all know that ain’t happening. perhaps, actually, it is reassuring that the lumbar pack thing was an outside influence, not something that bubbled up from deep within her - jennifer, i hardly knew ye…  in any event CHECK OUT her wonderful column today about solo parent traveling in the world (link above) – its really wonderful!

and have a happy sadie hawkins day!

words seem so useless here

shag, marry, kill?*

ariel, mulan, snow white?

pirates of the caribbean, haunted mansion, splash mountain?

dole whip float, churro, turkey leg?

disneyseas, disneyland, disneyworld?

dvc, on property, off property?

maleficent, scar, jafar?

donald, mickey, goofy?

blue fairy, tinkerbell, fairy godmother?

ratatouille, meet the robinsons, toy story?

imaginerding, broke hoedown, life on the wdw d-list?

john lassiter, walt disney, michael eisner?

chip, dale, pluto?

victoria’s & albert’s, spoodles, whispering canyon?

pirates & princess’ party, wishes, illuminations?

*ok ok, smooch, hold hands, banish?? heh! anways, my lovely ladies over at lipgloss & laptops reminded me of this silly game! and in case you are wondering, my order is the clue to my answers…

kittychan? mongello? ack!

thanks to kenny the pirate over at the windows to the magic forums:

 13 of the 20 have been discovered thus far!
Amanda http://dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-FDF18A9DD135F821B7F450BA9779826D
Andy http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-9E89822605E9ED8EEE40DA0D9E614367
Daisy http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-66020FE96AFA161E77F26ECFBBFEF369
David http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-95D10A5DEFF838EB3859C88B1697B96C
Eric http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-5EB698A2B8A70EEE17FFC88EAC8C9CA0
Justin http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-AF81492613C19149383ED3ED2298F7F4
Karrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Mh2-ahNvY
Meggin http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-C96AA18D30725A3FAC44DD64A58B732D
Michael http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-A0C6D83E3ABD8BC65DE230B7EE0DE66B
Nicole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCUT56Nouk#pwNlr-jcq-0
Patrick http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-E3F15DA18DA6BB6C04A5D80949FB4D41
Peter http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-C9F5328C296369B82F12DBEBBB22E33D
Tripp http://www.dreamcmo.com/view-dream-cmo-applicant.php?CMODID=CMO-FEA3DB869D51BCAB1782944635A751A7

everyday in everyway i am getting better and better

from dishippy.com -another COOL logo! – now i made mine, but dan! made the “those darn cats!” one – which, honestly now, completely rocks! i CAN make a logo (see above), however, i can’t make it rock! in any event, a cool site with cool pics! the LFS* says “check it out!” (could someday let dan! or jeff know about the logo need???..) 

*note to self: try proofreading before you upload from blogdesk the post you have been writing and extemporaneously rewriting on, oh, about 7 hours sleep over the last 3 days, plus cold medicine - as you may have, oh, i don’t know, like 13 sentences from 13 directions accidentally blobbed into one. yikes!

how can there be so many cool sites i haven’t even found yet?

good thing i was on call yesterday and didn’t have to go in (much). from this week’s “All About the Mouseguest Weekly” episode show notes on the AATM site, came this link to mousetimes – i LOVE this video. how awesome is it to see so many FRIENDS on this??!!

now i have to go check out their very recent DL resort pics post…

CMO info keeps on coming

jennifer is out of town, so i will also post this link that provides a recent list of the 10 known semi-finalists thus far. check out the WTTM forums for links to each video! i don’t see lou  or jennifer YET – but there is still time!!

better than crates?

so, if you follow this blog at all, i’m betting you really follow the major players out there amongst the disratti, and thus you are well familiar with the crate appreciation society. though i too love the fantastic minutiae and attention to detail that sets disney parks apart, the thing i have started searching for in the parks is not crates, but outlets!

on my most recent WDW trip, i was more plugged in than i had been in the past – i mean, i’ve got my super annoying “smart” phone and potentially the equally annoying bluetooth earpiece, my digital camera, my ipod and of course the laptop. on most normal days, i don’t need to cart things around with me but last time i was spending the morning at the park and catching disney’s magical express in the afternoon to catch my flight home. it’s my beloved ipod mini that soonest can run out of power and one never can be sure how much time one might have at the airport etc.. to recharge for the flight home as well. and, truth be told, i had been walking main street that morning listening to the lou, so it goes without saying that the ipod batteries would be completely drained after a morning at the park…

in any event, as i was wandering, i started wondering – are there any places in the park that one can conveniently “recharge”? well, as you can see from the photos below, i can happily answer yes!

i did my snooping at the magic kingdom, as you can see. perhaps the best recharge spot i found was at pecos bill’s - you can grab a lunch and sit somewhere and recharge – literally and figuratively!

on future trips, i’ll be assessing the availability of these outlets, as well as the potential theming associated with the outlets. we all know those imagineers love attention to detail, so i know the outlets around wdw are going to be extra fantastic! if YOU have a favorite “recharge” spot – let me know!!

adverts

i came across this ad in this month’s GQ magazine (so i like fashion tips for men – or is it the male models zoolandering-ing out on the pages). that rachel bilson chick is so super skinny! geez. obviously, it MUST be disney related or why would i be posting it, right? but i flipped right over some ads in the mag ’till i noticed a certain familiar face (i think she ran the half marathon right next to me) and the gloved hand (no, not michael jackson). i had to go back through it then and – honestly now! – it’s kind of awesome, isn’t it?

golf and race cars with usher!

hunt for the elusive albino mongello!

cherry tomatoes + sweater vest = crazy delicious!

get your fez on!

i know it isn’t going to make hipsters go to disney more, i guess, but the way they emphasize the “adult” things to do, i found it appealing. along the same lines as the leibowitz photos - i guess i just like seeing an ad for disney NOT aimed at soccer moms and mini-vans full of small children (ouch. sorry, i know).  of course, i guess these various players are supposed to add up to families, but the kids are more like accessories here. and the “girlfriend” or wife whatever – she looks like the mom here at the end, right??

what do you think? besides that matt has those same sunglasses.