I love the big D

Disney Movies

I love Disney. I love Disney World, Disney Land, ABC, Disney movies, and just talking about Disney.  I even went to the College of Disney Knowledge when I was a travel agent years ago.

I remember once when I went down to Disney World on a business trip, I was walking along in the park by myself minding my business, observing the things, when a character came out (it was either the Chipmunks-Chip & Dale,  or Donald Duck, I can't remember which.)  I watched kids all around turn on a dime and run over to the character to get their autographs and photos.  But right near me was a grown woman in her early 50's and who 5 minutes previous was a normal, sane person turn into a sobbing, blubbering mess.  She was so excited to see this character who was a part of her childhood.  In some way, the probably-20-ish year old sweating inside of a gigantic costume disappeared and turned into a rush of warm, happy memories; a piece of her.  In that moment, although all I could do was watch and smile, I was in awe at how powerful the Disney product is.

I'm actually pretty embarrassed about my ignorance about many Disney movies.  If you know me personally, you will be shocked to learn that I have never seen (or at least can't remember) the following Disney staples:

 

Okay, I'm actually too embarrassed to go on.  Even just looking at the list of Disney movies just now was overwhelming, Someone invite me over and force-feed me Disney movies.

By-the-by, why did I just see whilst scrolling through the list of Disney movies sequels to Beauty & The Beast?

I'm sorry, what?! 

What the actual heck?  Does he (Prince ADAM, btw, in case you didn't know...) turn BACK into a beast in some sort of horrible turn of fate?????  WHY ARE WE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS AND TEACHING IT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALONG WITH THE WITCH TRIALS AND THE DEPRESSION AND OTHER HISTORICAL TRAGEDIES?!

While we're on the topic of Disney movie flaws, I know that there are several websites that call out the inconsistencies and flaws in Disney movies, but I have a couple of questions of my own.

1) Since we were just talking about B&B, remember the back story in Beauty & The Beast?

Rose sheds last petal at age 21 + in "Be Our Guest" Lumiere says they've spend the past 10 years rusting, needing so much more than dusting = 11 years old when cursed.

Why were such high expectations put upon an 11 year old?  When I was 11, I would have slammed the door on some ugly witch asking to stay at my house in the middle of a stormy night, too.  The better questions are where were his parents, and why is an 11 year old answering the door of his fully-staffed gigantic castle?

2) In Tangled, Rapunzel is enchanted by the magical floating lanterns that come out on her birthday each year.  Her curiosity about the floating lanterns leads to the entire adventure in the movie about her breaking out of her tower and going to the kingdom and ultimately discovering that she is the lost princess.

Um.... why didn't Mother Gothel just lie about her birthday... and change her name?  So much drama could have been saved if Rapunzel thought the lanterns came out on any other day, like whatever the kingdom's version of Independence Day would be, or Christmas or something.

3) And the final Disney flaw I'll waste your time on is the poor parenting choices in Frozen.  Now, this is something which has been addressed before, but I think about it probably more than I should.  I just agree with this video so much, it sums up exactly how I feel.  

Favorites

I am totally behind in the times on all things mass-media related, and I have seen very few recently-made movies, and the only TV I watch is 90's - early 2000's sitcoms, namely The Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond, plus a few more.  I've never watched reality shows, but if there's a good light-hearted show coming out, let me know so that I can try to catch up on recent seasons.  I also recently watched every episode of Once Upon A Time, so if you are a fan, too, let me know so that we can go to each others' houses on Sundays.

Do you have those movies you could (and probably have) watch a thousand times?  What are they?  I think it says a lot about you.  I have my favorite top few movies in rotation on a weekly basis basically before I go to bed. They are: You've Got Mail, Pride & Prejudice, Anchorman, the entire series of Friends, and anything with Tom Hanks.

Don't you love New York in the fall?  It makes me want to buy school supplies.  I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.  -You've Got Mail

Who wants to go to NYC soon?

South Carolina Trip and Other Shenanigans

I feel like we have not talked in FOREVER!!!

Since I have so many things to tell you, I’ll just have to tell you in small doses, since I don’t want to overwhelm you, and because I have a hot date in a couple of hours.

I have two happy things to report.

Number one, I have finished writing the MD Archery Guide!  Hoorayyy!!  I was staying at work till 9 PM 4 nights a week the past few weeks to write the darn thing.  (Okay, sometimes I left at 8.)  (And sometimes I went to happy hour and had a few beers, and then came back to work, so hopefully that made for an interesting guide.)

Number two, I changed desks at work, so now I am so far away from chewing and clicking.  It is wonderful.  Others are envious and sometimes just come and stand at my desk, because they are going through withdrawal.  And I get lots of e-mails.

12:34 PM  Colleague

hello

if you're interested in hearing food being chewed

please drop by 

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From: Miglin, Veronica 

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:44 AM

To: Same Colleague

Subject: Hello.

Do you want to join Leo and me for lunch at Brio?  We are leaving in like 15.  Hello.

From: Same Colleague 

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:45 AM

To: Miglin, Veronica 

Subject: RE: Hello.

No, I’m poor.

And I want to listen to food get macerated here.

Hello.

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Also the temp that used to be here misses me, too.  Sometimes he just IMs me random yelling.  They all have a weird way of showing it, but the boys miss me when I am no longer available.

9:45 AM Temp

Ugh [[ new temp ]]  got an internet posting of his arrival

I ONLY GET A WELCOME BREAKFAST

you guys really rolled out the red carpet huh

9:46 AM Miglin, Veronica

You are ridiculous

9:46 AM Temp

I see how it is

9:47 AM Miglin, Veronica

you are lucky you got a welcome breakfast

I don’t think he got a welcome breakfast

9:47 AM Temp

On my first day, I got asked if my family was in the Salem witch trials.

I hope you know I’m kidding.

My bagel was delicious.

9:49 AM Miglin, Veronica

btw, WERE your ancestors in the Salem witch trials?

9:49 AM Temp

We’re done here

9:49 AM Miglin, Veronica

still never got a solid answer on that

I went to South Carolina.

I saw on my handy-dandy custom-made-by-Kake calendar that Melissa’s birthday was coming up, and so I asked her what she was doing for her birthday.  She said she was watching TV and working.  Realizing that this was a milestone birthday, I found this to be completely unacceptable, so I rounded up some Maryland folks, and we went down to South Carolina to surprise her.  It went off really well, and it was really awesome of the other Maryland folks to take the time/money to fly down to see her, and to The Boyfriend for helping coordinate. 

Kate and I drove down from Maryland.  It took about 10 hours and it was a beautiful drive, complete with a stop at The Apple House and a beautiful sunset.

Not to mention, a definite vocal workout due to having Pandora set to Disney songs for 6 hours straight. 

It turned out that all of us, the drivers and the flyers, arrived at the same time.  Kake and I picked up the friends from the airport and went right to Melissa’s and it was awesome.  We went out to dinner, and had a great visit.

  

Kake and I did some exploring while we were there, and ran into a little town that has my alias’s namesake.  

We found a park called Paris Mountain, and did some light hiking.  And selfie-ing.

 As we were driving down Paris Mountain, repeatedly singing “Colors of the Wind,” (naturally,) there was a very Kate & Veronica moment.  We were mid-word in the song, (I believe it was right after, “how high does the sycamore grow, if you cut it down, then you’ll never know, and you’ll nev…..”) and we both turned into Twilight vampires when at the same exact moment, we both caught a waft of a campfire fire. 

Then we laughed and we laughed and we laughed.

When Melissa got off of work, we went out for dinner and I will bless your eyes with the sights of our food, you're welcome

Definetly a better way to spend your birthday than on the sofa watching TV.

And then we finished the evening by playing a bunch of rounds of Cards Against Humanity, which btw is hilarious.  I believe Kate went home and ordered her own set immediately.

I will say that the popcorn game is real in South Carolina.  They have a couple of popcorn stores who sell every flavor of popcorn you can think of: watermelon, sour cream & chive, jalapeno, cotton candy, birthday cake, and on and on.  I walked away with some pizza popcorn, and it made the boys at work very happy.

It was a very nice little weekend road trip, fueled by the largest cups of coffee Sheetz sold.  I think we each had a cup of coffee in our hands all of the waking hours.  Well, coffee or beer.  You know how it goes.

Here’s my conclusion:

I do not want to move to Greenville, South Carolina.  There are lots of reasons, but it’s enough that there is no alcohol served on Sundays.  

It's okay for a short visit, but we were ready to get back to Maryland.

The ride home was just as beautiful, paired with hours of praise and worship and Britney Spears and Disney.   Alas, home is where the Smidgen is. This land feels like home to me.

So does Washington State.  And a few other places.  But not SC.    

I have not received your text messages, and I am sorry.

I don't know how long this has been going on, but my suspcian is that it has been at least a month and a half.  My phone has been receiving about half of the messages that people have sent to me.  I am so mad about it that I just want to scream and punch things.  I also am missing calls, and people are being sent directly to voicemail.

I tried to do a hard reset while I was in South Carolina, because I was missing important texts from the people I was with in SC.  

So, I lost all of my contacts, for naught, as it were, because it did not help at all.  I just got a ton of text message notifications at the same time that said this:

I am allegedly getting the replacement phone in the mail today, and my hope and prayer is that all of the messages that I have not received are still alive in cyberspace, and they will all be delivered to my new phone.  I know it won't happen, but I can dream.  After all, I am now on bad terms with a lot of people, and it's possible that it is all over not having received some important communications.  

Therefore, if you have sent me a text in the past two months, and I did not respond, it's because I never got your message.  Please try again.  

On the ride back, Kake and I discovered that this song should be my Tinder tagline.

Btw, as Melissa's birthday present, I reactivated my Tinder, and let her play on it for a while.  NEVER AGAIN.  :-x

But there will be more Tinder episodes on this blog in the future, based off of your feedback of wanting more.  :-)

Until next time... take care of yourself.  <3

Tinder Part III, Photos, Disney

Hello.  I'm just going to jump right into the treasures I have found on Tinder lately.

What happens more often than not is that I totally forget to Tinder, especially when I am OUT, like, that whole trip to the west I just took.  I bet I could have found some real gems in Vegas.  Alas, I never remember.

Oh man, that phone, tho.  He is obviously wealthy and an amazing catch, made clear by the new technology and his P bling, etc.

There are an astounding number of photos posted like these two: 

See what they did there?  I'm pretty mad about Brandon though, because he has about 4 other photos like that, except I accidently zoomed out and swiped left, and once you left-swipe someone, you can never get them back.  Believe me, I tried on this one.

And then there are the guys who have these ridiculous fitness photos:

This is the best:

Women can not relate to these photos, unless you are the chick in the above photo, second from left.

Do you know what kind of profile to which women CAN relate?

Pizzacake.  That's who.

This may just be personal preference, but I swipe left to car selfies.

Especially people who are clearly DRIVING AND CAR SELFIE-ING:

And then there are a lot of guys who post who are clearly married.  With almost all of them, I swipe left so quickly because I have never understood their angle (or, perhaps, I understand it all too well.)  However, on this one, I decided to swipe right, to see exactly the game plan here.

Meet Rob:

Okay, so far, I would have been looking for an explaination of, "girl in pic is my sister," or something. That happens a lot.  But then...

Ummmmm....

But wait, there's more!...

  

That's it.  Those are all of Rob's photos.  So, I swipe right.

Within seconds, he's chatting with me:

This went on for another few minutes... just meaningless nothing conversation.  But then, I got distracted, and forgot to check for a few hours, and by the time I came back to Tinder, he was gone.  Sorry, you guys.  :-(

Well, that's all the Tinder there is for now.

And now to clear out my phone of other photos:

Remember how I told you about my step dad wanting a thermal engineer thing for Christmas?  I forgot to show you this picture.  After he unwrapped it, he was pointing it at stuff to take temperatures of things, including my cats.  It turned into just playing with the red laser dot.  This was very entertaining for him.

I had lunch the other day with some ex-colleagues.  One of them, every time I see him, he tells me that he loves his office.  Pimping out his office was one of the final projects I took on before leaving that job (part of my job was facilities.)  Because our ongoing jokes there were all Anchorman related, I pimped out his new office in mahogany furnishings, since he was becoming a big deal (moving from a cube to an office.)  I mean, I really pimped out his office.  Mahogany-lined white board, desk furnishings, paperclip holder, everything.  Now, every time we have lunch or whatever, he says, "No, like, legit - I love lamp.  I love, love lamp.  I love carpet, I love lamp, I love chair, I love everything."  It's very funny.

Food

First of all, is this real life?  People feed children this garbage?? 

Next, if you don't already know, I come from a group of folks whom share everything at the table.  If you are ordering a meal, and you actually want to eat it, you need to literally throw your body over top of it, otherwise, other forks are going to land in your food.  Especially if Sue is there.  I'm telling you this in the interest of warning you, however, many of you probably already know this.  Feel free to share your stories and sad tales (Meg.)

 

This is my favorite thing I make for myself: mini bagel covered in veggi creamcheese, an inch of spinach, over-medium egg, salt & pepper.  Just FYI. 

Okay, I'll have actual stuff to talk to you about next time, not just a bunch of random photos. Maybe.

Also, I have not seen the following Disney movies, and I am ashamed:

• Pocahontas
• Sleeping Beauty
• Peter Pan
• Robin Hood

Okay, laters babe.

I left work 10 minutes early yesterday to make sure I caught this sunset.  When I told my colleague this, she scoffed.  Well... some people just don't understand the important things in life.