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There are people on the net that have nothing better to do with their time
then be nasty to other people online. They post rude comments, spend hours
a day talking about sites they hate so much, that they well, spend hours a
day talking about them. (lame) They mock the owners and posters for their
opinions and their right to free speech. They expect everyone to fit into
their narrow-minded little world view or else they throw a temper tantrum.
To these people I say grow up.
Here's a bit of info people...the web is
a HUGE place. If you don't like what I say here, or who I am, or what I
do, or talk about, or what I look like, or the color of my hair, or
whatever asinine thing you dwell on, go somewhere else. It's
really, really easy. Honest. You just click the little "x" in
the corner of your browser and *poof* the offending, big, mean and nasty
site has disappeared.
I pay for this site. It's mine. That
means I can use it for whatever the hell I want to. Don't like it if I'm
bitching about something in my life? Oh fucking well. Go somewhere else.
Think I'm stupid for expressing my thoughts? Too fucking bad, don't read
them. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot this simple fact: Live
and let live Don't like me, cool, fine, whatever, I don't care.
This journal is NOT for you. It's for me. I'm not in it for popularity or
fame or anything stupid like that. I write it because I need to write and
express myself and get things out of my head sometimes. So read or don't,
it doesn't matter, but don't waste my time (or yours) bitching about it.
*gets off soapbox*
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Sunday, January 02, 2005
New Year's Eve - Disney Style
So, what do you do when you're broke but really, really sick of not doing anything on New Year's Eve? When you've never managed to do anything, well, ever for NYE? And when everything is lame and overpriced - like spending $100 a person for a smokey club for two hours? Why, you go to Disney World of course! The large-ticket item (a Disney Monorail) I was going to get for my Love for xmas with money I saved up from from penguin sales and jewelry sales and such fell through. Mainly because they were sold out of them. (Bastards.) What better unbelievably frivolous way to spend that money then just spend it going to Magic Kingdom for the day. (Food? Nah. It's over-rated.) It's actually not a bad value all things considered. You get an entire day, rides, four parades and two firework shows for the regular admission price. Beats overpaying for some lame club. The only catch? A hundred thousand other people or so think it's a good idea too. Which means you have to get there early. The park reaches capacity within a few hours of opening. Didn't make it in? Sorry, gates are closed. Woke up in the morning. Sick as all hell. Couldn't sleep the night before. So I spent about four hours laying awake in bed. No idea why. Stomach decided it hated me when I got up. So did my nose. It was running and I was sneezing non-stop. I felt like absolute crap. But I did not want to miss out on going to Disney, so I pulled myself together as best as possible and we headed over to our friend Rand's house. On the road about 8:30am, I tried to lay down in the back of Rand's Jeep to rest which only served to make me more nauseous. But we made amazing time and got there by 10am. Crawled in with all the other cars and parked way back at the end of the lot. Caught a tram and rode to the Transportation and Ticket center. Got in line and waited to get our tickets. After that, we still had to get to the Magic Kingdom. See, it's parking lot, then TTC, then either monorail or ferry boat over to MK. You're still a mile and a half away from MK when you're at the ticket center. You still have to get to the other side of Bay Lake. Thankfully, due to the massive volume for the day, they had buses running as well. We lucked out and caught one of those easily. Big charter busses. Next came the slow shuffle to the main gates. You have to go through a bag check before you even hit the turnstyles. So, in the trend for the day, we just had to wait to get through it. Finally, about 11:15am, we were actually into the park itself. Ah, there's nothing like those first moments when it washes over you that you're in Disney. No matter how many times I go, that feeling - a tingly, buzzy excitement - is always there. Then again, it could have been the overwhelming press of people. Nah, it's Disney magic. I'm sure of it. Mostly.  Walking down Main Street towards Cinderella's Castle. That was just the start of it. In all, we were there for about fourteen hours. In that time, we managed to hit Buzz Lightyear, Haunted Mansion, Carousel of Progress, Timekeeper, Philharmagic, Pirates of the Caribbean, the PeopleMover ("Tomorrowland Transit Authority" these days) and the Mickey's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Show. That's it. We would have added my favorite, Big Thunder Mountain, to the list, but when we showed up with our FastPasses, the ride had broken down. We did stop to eat and snack throughout the day - and I got a Dole Whip! Oh joy of joys! - but the place was so packed that everything had two hour or more wait times. Mainly, we just took it easy and took in the atmosphere. And snacked. Did I mention the snacking? Heh.  It's just a smidge crowded in Frontierland. We picked up our free noise makers and NYE hats around 5:3pm. Everyone was wearing them and honking the noisemakers all evening long. We also got to see both fireworks shows. Wishes was on at 8:30pm and of course we had midnight fireworks and the Fantasy in the Sky show.  Make a wish and do as dreamers do.... For midnight, they did a countdown from ten with fireworks going off every second and then a massive 360-degree launching around the entire park. You were literally encircled with fireworks.  A screen-captured shot of video I took with my digital camera. They had cameras set up on big boom cranes and large flood lights. Turns out they were cutting live to the Magic Kingdom during the Rockin' New Year's Eve show. (You know, the Dick Clark one?) Which stinks because I completely forgot to set the DVR to catch it. I'd have loved to see it when we got home on tv. Oh well. It was damned cool to actually be standing there, watching them turn on the flood lights, seeing the camera pan over the crowd and say, "We're actually somewhere that they're cutting to live. We're at a place millions of people are watching and envying." How freakin' cool is that? It was a long day though. Looooong day. A long, crowded, by-the-end-you-were-damned-sick-of-people kind of crowded. Sick of being stepped on, sick of being rammed into with strollers, sick of people being rude and pushing in front of you...just sick of crowds. I did enjoy myself and I'm glad we went, but I don't know that I'd want to do Disney at maximum capacity again any time soon.  Love and I in front of the "Partners" statue which is right in front of Cinderella's Castle After the midnight fireworks, we were beat. And called it a night. The park was actually open for another hour but we weren't sure we were even going to make it until midnight. But we did. Whoo hoo! Lucked out on the way back as well. No one knew they were doing the busses - heck, we weren't sure they were going to do it again at night because there were no signs - but we walked over that way anyway. Sure enough, right onto a bus and right back to the ticket center. Right onto a tram and right back to the car. And away we went. Home by about 3am when all was said and done. Quick shower and then the loveliness that is your bed after a long, tiring day. So check out the New Year's Eve 2004 Gallery for more shots of everything. I took 256 megs of photos and video. My entire card was full down to the last shot. Hee hee. The video unfortunatly is far too large in file size for me to share - some clips coming in at like 30+ megs - and I still lack Quciktime Pro to edit it in anyway, but I did take screen captures of my fireworks video to share. If I can ever get it edited down, I'll share the video I took too. Hope everyone had a great, safe and fun New Year and that 2005 is a wonderful year for us all! Me? I think I'm going to go back to recouping on the couch until 2006. Hee hee.
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