Delusional Rants...

Disney + fireproof apartments

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:23:27 -0700

So our 2fer ticket was going to expire during the week, which meant go to Disney CA Adventure this weekend or let it go to waste. This kind of felt like a waste either way because well... if you haven't been there CA adventure SUCKS. Despite having the Disney name it's really just a fair. There's like one ride we like, some over hyped rides, a coaster I haven't braved due to my MS / messed up senses, a Muppet show I LOVE that's hidden in a corner that never seems popular but if you were raised on Muppets like I was well it rocks, and... that's it really. The new Toy Story ride we were excited about isn't opening until the 17th but we decided to go anyway. Good thing we did, they had a sneak preview unannounced before tomorrow's media day and Tuesday's official opening of the ride! The line said 50 minute wait time but between the line and the ride itself we were in and out in about 30. I liked it so much better than the version at Disneyland, it rocked.

BUT.. there was some bad at the park too :( The car ride that makes Brian a bit ill, I had put my purse in the mesh bag they give you for bags so they don't fall out (there's lots of hats etc down in the bottom of the ride). We get out of the ride, walk down the stairs, and I notice the zipper on my purse is just shattered and my Go Forward Superman / Christopher Reeve tag is gone :( Brian went up and that car was just coming back around and the tag was still in the mesh bag so we saved that, YaY! But the zipper on my purse is toasted. Not sure how it got caught on a mesh bag and torn apart when it was a metal piece that's held up for years and I didn't notice. Meh. So we joked that Ed Norton owes me a latte and Disney owes me a purse.

Also... WTF makes a building FIREPROOF? Isn't that like saying HEY ARSONISTS TRY US? Brian thinks it's kind of like the Titanic and their we're the unsinkable ship line. Sadly I saw it on the freeway when we were going 60 mph and I only had my phone can so I stole a pic from Google. I mean, what? Because the building looks as old as LA and is still standing it's fireproof?

Young Apartments

I'm worn out. Brian got a Wall-E toy that's the most annoying thing EVER it's super loud with no volume control. I got a how to draw Mickey Mouse booklet. I'm worn out. It's been a busy month for MS + amusement parks.

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Disney is fun BUT... wtf?

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:07 -0700

We went on everything we wanted to except Indiana Jones (when we went by I guess it had broken down and the chick out front said an hour + at least), The subs (the lines there are basically always an hour + and I couldn't stand out there long), and Splash Mountain (same, hour + lines and stairs = nope was in too much pain for that).

BUT, in addition to the usual won't miss rides (Star Tours, Pirates, Haunted Mansion, etc). this time we did a lot of rides I'd think are where you head with the kids. Ok if my grandparents (who took me to Disney when I was a kid) were still alive I'd be placing phone a call today...Asking if they put me through that! It's been so long since I went on the rides I'd always assumed were kiddie rides (except the Pooh Bear one, went on it the last few times I was there) that I figured why bother, just kid rides... Boy was I wrong.

Holy... Ok Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - What? What? What? uhh... Did the ride end with us in HELL? I think it did!

Alice in Wonderland... Snow White... Man the kid rides are scary, drug induced, WTF? moments if ever I saw them. I'm glad we didn't have time for that part of the park when Keegan was here. Sure Splash Mountain upset him a bit because his "tummy dropped" but these rides would probably have given him nightmares he'd still be having :P I hadn't been on the "kid" stuff since I was a kid... I didn't realize Disney was so scary. Am surprised kids are so happy there. Peter Pan was cool though!

Saw Eeyore this time but we were in line while he was walking around playing drums on garbage cans. Brian "run over there and pull his tail off for me"... !!! I told him to be nice to Eeyore :(

I accidentally made a joke that caused Brian to announce "Too soon". Brian wanted to go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad well for those of you who don't know, heat affects MS, Anaheim is HOT. At first I thought he was said he wanted to go on the train, that's how with it I was as we'd been talking about riding the train. And I've never been on Big Thunder before. Now as we get near it, I'm asking him what it's like as some of the coaster rides had me a bit jolted ( in fact it was after Big Thunder we hit the Kiddie rides as my body was done with coasters, my shoulder popped in it from being thrown around). So we get there and there's a sign that says something like boomtown and population and numbers and they're crossed off with the numbers getting smaller and smaller. Brian said he wondered what happened to them all. I TOTALLY FORGOT that in 2003 someone died on that ride and said "They went on the ride and never made it out". Brian "too soon". Then something in my brain recalled... "Oh crap, someone died on this one didn't they, I'm about to go on a ride that killed someone and just told that joke, great, I didn't know, I'm sorry". Seriously I'm not a heartless bitch, next time I go there I should check the list on wikipedia first. I was sure the karma gods were gonna get me for that as we got on the ride. I truly felt horrible. Eeek. Just, you don't think of DISNEYLAND as a place where people die.

Brian made the mistake of calling me a doorknob... forgot what HE thought he was saying, but he never heard the "everyone gets a turn" joke and couldn't figure out why I was glaring at him. He felt like a dumbass when I explained it to him..

Now, I'm in a LOT of a pain, everything hurts. I'd still be asleep but Dutchie woke me up when Brian's alarm went off... so I'm gonna curl up in bed and watch tv while I try to recover. I was walking and talking like a drunk... without the alcohol yesterday... ugh.

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Nick Hogan in jail, my brain aliens holding me prisoner

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:45:49 -0700

News:
Nick Bollea aka Nick Hogan was sentenced to 8 months in jail + 5 years probation + lost his license for 3 years for the accident that left his friend John Graziano brain damaged. Good. He's lucky he didn't kill him or himself. Hopefully he learns something and stops driving like he's on the track when on the road.

Sleep:
Couldn't sleep until 1. Slept til 8 which is good I guess. Hate though hours for sleep but nice amount since I haven't been sleeping straight through and it's only been 5 or 6 hours tops lately. Lister was laying on my chest when I was falling asleep and I pissed him off because my head was some mutant form of pain alien just stabbing in pain almost causing me to twitch when I reacted he looked at me like stop it, I'm trying to sleep here. Rude cat :P

Brian/Plans:
Brian was talking about picking up dinner after work, then after we eat going to a 10 o'clock show of Iron Man. I'm not usually a comic book super hero kind of girl believe it or not. Just ther Superman ones and now SuperGirl and Batman. Still haven't seen Spiderman, Fantastic 4, etc and no interest But Iron Man looks good and well Robert Downey Jr. can usually make even the worst role seem good. But it's 9:40 and Brian still not home from work with dinner so think that will be tomorrow.

We had talked about Disneyland this weekend as they have the 2fer deal going on and it's only good if you use one by the 22nd and Brian wants to force me to see the Whoopi California thing before they remove it for the park makeover (if it's not gone already). So I suspect we'll go next weekend maybe because I'm pretty sure we'll never pay for CA Adventure (unless the makeover is really good, but that will be years from now). And with the 2fer specials we pay for Disneyland and then during the next month can go to CA Adventure once for free.

Hmm so that means this weekend is dentist (1 filling scheduled, still gotta figure out the others), Fry's, Iron Man, refill Topamax, and really finish Misi's mail I hope.

Dunno why my brain aliens are so busy lately. The one that controls sleep is a mess. Pain alien a mess. General brain alien too my thoughts keep getting all muddled up and I type wrong words and yeah... argh.

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

gov't spending + KeeKee story...

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:21:37 -0700

Postage is spendy but not THAT spendy:
Pentagon paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers. We trust these people to run our country :P Brian's not surprised, he says they make bigger rounding areas ;) I'd like to be paid 20 mil over 6 years to ship minor parts please, I just don't want the jail time that goes along with it.

Me and Keegan's Disney Ghost:

Ahh I almost forgot to post one of my favoriet KeeKee moments from when they were here. Now I'd been worried that Haunted Mansion might scare him, it didn't. I was also worried he'd try to outrun us all, instead he stayed near me most of the time holding my hand walking my speed. When we went on Haunted Mansion he informed his mom he'd be in the buggy with me so she could ride with Brian. At the end of the ride, in a mirror you see a "ghost" right after they warn you to be careful about hitchhiking ghosts as one may follow you home. As we left Keegan told me he wasn't sure if it'd really follow us home and if it did, he wasn't sure if it would just follow us to my house or if it would follow him home when he left my house. Well... awhile later while in another line he must have been thinking about it because he turned to me and said something like "Hey aunt Ramie, do you remember when we went on the haunted mansion and had a ghost with us?" I told him I did. With a very serious look on his face he announced "I think our ghost was Abraham Lincoln". I asked him why he thought that. He informed me that our ghost was skinny and kind of dressed like him and had a hat like his so maybe it was Abraham Lincoln. He then went on to tell me his mom and Brian just got some fat ghost, which made his mom laugh and he wasn't sure why she'd find a fat ghost THAT funny.

hmm, I wonder if he's tried the smart test on his friends yet;)

Health:
Sinus stuff has improved a bit, cough is still evil though. I shall need to stock up on cough drops for Saturday. Couldn't sleep today til almost 2 pm and woke up at 6 pm... I need to sleep more than that today as I am worn out... majorly worn out.

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Tinkerbell for Keegan...

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:34:26 -0700

Ok so it's nowhere near great, but this is my first attempt at drawing something known and really the first time I tried to draw something by hand with just a reference photo (as opposed to just winging it making my own cartoon'y chicks). Inspired by Keegan's love of all things Disney now that's experienced Disneyland, I bring you my first attempt of Tinkerbell. As I said not great but with my lack of drawing skills, it's probably pretty damn good for a 1st attempt.

1st-tinkerbell

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Disney = celeb sightings

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:08:14 -0700

Disney was just me, Brian, KeeKee (he told me that I still get to call him that, then asked me why I started to call him KeeKee instead of Keegan when he was a baby, heh).

So worn out. Even Keegan was in pain and tired, as in on the tram back to the car he asked me if I knew what the best part of walking all day until your feet hurt was... I did not know. He told me it's when you get to sit down, duh silly me I knew that.

I'll update properly when I am at my own computer again, but will say that I've lived in LA for a year and a half and have seen exactly 0 celebs, my sister is here one day and she pointed out TWO who were in the same haunted mansion elevator/ride as us... and then we saw them both 2 more times, later in the day, at the same rides as us.

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

almost here!!!

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:12:20 -0700

Brian is on his way to pick them up! w0000t! The other day Keegan had been singing We're going to Cali, We're singing all of the way (or something like that). While talking to mom on the phone, I found out he did NOT sing all of the way, instead he played cars and hit on teenage girls... lol. Tomorrow is the day we make Sir Keegan the happiest kid alive with the trip to Disneyland! His first amusement park. I still say he's gonna be so excited that we may need a leash to keep him from wandering off.

The cats know something is up. Lister I am not worried about, he's quite social. Dutchie however has a favoriet pastime of sitting at the window hissing at people who dare to walk by her apartment. She also runs and hides if someone so much as knocks on the door. Granted she lived with them as a baby but I'm still worried she's gonna go hide who knows where for awhile. She is a good stealth hider!

So excited!!! Oh we have jello shots, black cherry vodka, and mudslides to welcome them to Cali with ;)

w0000000t!

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Disneyland Maynard?

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:21:00 -0700

Now that it's getting closer to the family being here, I'm getting all excited about going to Disney again, especially since my little guy will be with me, so I was looking at different websites and everywhere I went people were posting about how excited they were as they had finally found Maynard. Tons of sites... Maynard's name was everywhere, but no mention of why finding Maynard was such a big deal. So, thanks to google, I know now. Seems he's a Disneyland "Cast Member" that is known and loved all over the world. Apparently, he goes out of his way to entertain people, does voices, has characters, etc. I have never seen Maynard, but it seems he's so popular they've posted tips for how to find Maynard on a fan website. And then I thought as cool as he sounds, I almost hope we don't meet Maynard... someone so goofy that people post videos of him on YouTube, a 6 year old, and Brian... together... that could spell trouble ;)

In other news, I am addicted to yogurt at the moment. And I still feel like the walking dead when it comes to energy levels. That is all...

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Vox Hunt: Tiki, Tiki

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:11:50 -0700

Show us something tiki-themed.

Because my mom mentioned we HAVE to see it at Disneyland....

Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room

Accccccck it's stuck in my head now!
Almost as bad as when you hear Yo Ho Yo Ho A pirate's Life For Me!
In fact in case you need to get the Tiki song out of your head... this should do it.

A Pirate's Life for Me {Original Version}

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Pic heavy post.

nobody@vox.com(DelusionalAngel) — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:53:16 -0700

So at Disneyland CA Adventure I learned something. I'm old. I no longer have patience for teenagers who think to have fun you have to scream instead of talk and/or who think you have to run and push past people or nearly push your friends into others. I was, by no means, a perfect teenager. But, I wasn't a complete rude ass either.

And now, for some pics, since I'm too lazy and sore and out of it still to write a proper entry. My Niece, the sunwheel made me think of mom, the painted street at Disney CA Adventure, Clock (best pic I could get from camera phone during the light parade), Brian trying on a Monsters Inc. hat, and Brian's finger at the giant fire extinguisher (clearly what he thinks of having his pic taken is the same as what I think of it), me with short messy blonde hair, and me with short messy purple hair (more purple than the pic but not like BRIGHT purple).

My niece, Maddy-4months

♥ Ik hou van jullie allemaal ♥

Read and post comments | Send to a friend