…and came across these pics of my great grandma, Nana, at DisneyLand circa 1976:

Where are they standing with the Matterhron in the back? And is that a boy in a poncho?

Where are the crowds exactly?

Again...what is this day on the crowd calender? A negative 3? Len? Anyone?

Smee is like the only person there....

so trying to incorporate the whole widget thing into the weight loss challenge is kind of stupid on my part. Trace and i took a bye on weighing in last week in that i was in texas and didn’t want to weigh on a different scale. that and the fact that we had an entire cow for dinner the night before.

in any event, trace is winning, the bastard!!! he has lost 6 pounds. i have lost a whole 1.4! total. including the first week. so, yeah, basically i am thrilled. short of sending cupcakes to traces house thru the mail, i’d better step up my game… PRONTO!

it’s not like its new or unusual for people to do “fitness challenge” type thing – there’s the biggest loser, a million and one make-over/reality shows and many pals in the Disney Digeratti even that have set various fitness challenges for themselves – so it ain’t re-inventing the wheel.

on that note, my disney dude and i have set ourselves up a little challenge. if you ever read this, or my other blog, you know i had surgery over a year ago on my neck. my return to full fledged jock-like activity has been slow and slug like, but i am feeling much MUCH better now.  in the mean time though, i’ve been being a slug, eating like i am still ms. jockette, and kind of being a little more home bound since my sweetie lives several states away. both of us, in fact, have turned to a bit of comfort eating as a little extra way to soothe ourselves and as a result, we’ve both packed on a little extra pre-winter insulation.

well enough, we say! we’ve made a bet! and though i am not publishing exact numbers and what not, i will whip up some sort of widget to track our progress. i want to lose #15 and fit into all my jeans by the cruise. he wants to drop #26. random number, i know. but we are going to give it a go and see who can meet their goal by 12/5/09 – the day we meet in WDW for our “Not MF-er” cruise…

at stake:

• i win: he has to get a massage on the cruise (i know this doesn’t really seem like a punishment. but, like a lot of poor, misguided men, he has some kind of aversion to the massage. and my friend donna suggested a pedicure, but he seemed WAYYYYY to into that)
• he wins: i must purchase him some kind of vinylmation thing on steroids. i am generally not a fan of those vinylmation characters, trace likes them. to make me BUY him one, is kind of a torture indeed.
• we both fail: punishment must exist but we’ve yet to agree on a punishment. there are many tantalizing plans that would be a serious downer if we have to cancel. maybe cancel dinner at california grill during the xmas fireworks?
• we both succeed: well, our inherent hotness is really its own reward….

so, we will weigh in each sunday – and i will post a +/- total in a widget. i want to “score” a -15, trace a -26.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

great video posted by HoloProject on youtube.com and forwarded to me via one of the DisneyRoyalLadies - i think the best part may be the shots with guests’ mickey ears obscuing the view….

from a favorite, jezebel.com:

David Mamet, Disney and Anne Frank are things that shouldn’t be in the same sentence, let alone movie. But the latest, mouse-funded version of the Diary of a Young Girl is written and helmed by the profanity-lovin’ playwright

If you can find this blog at all, you know I am a co-host on “Those Darn Cats”, a Disney podcast I produce every week with my BFF. It’s super fun and a really enjoyable and sometimes very time consuming hobby. It’s been a great ride, from our slightly weird and humble beginnings on another show, to our rebirth as a completely weird, yet still humble, podcast that we produce all by ourselves.

Back in the day, I would have near hypervenilatory fits each Sunday morning when our segment contributions “might” appear. How would I sound? What crazy thing did I say? Slowly, gradually, you get used to hearing your freakish voice coming out of the interwebs and every show you do and produce, you learn more and more.

Well, on this week’s TDC, I got to interview Miss Devon Dawson, a Western music performer, aficionado and, really, caretaker, of the genre. She is the voice of Jessie on the companion album to Toy Story 2, called Woody’s Round Up. The interview was great! She is so awesome, and, as I think the best interviews go, she had way more places to take me and tell me about than i even expected!!

In any event, despite all the wonderfulness, I am now wallowing in podcasters guilt about my editing capabilities and sound mixing skills. Ug. I truly hope folks will listen in and hear the cool stories and Texas Heritage Music knowledge she drops. And there’s yodeling!!

in spite of the fact that D23 can’t seem to tell that mine and my boyfriend’s (so far) addresses are different and that we are, in fact, two separate people…. well, i’ve been enjoying it.

so… what to say when i decide to open up the 2 issues of the latest D23 mag (cause trace and i have the same address, right?) that came to my house today…

is that supposed to say MONORAIL? is this some long gone ride of yore that combined MONORAIL and MATTERHORN? am i just delirious after 12 hours of work? WTF??