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LOST - My Patience. Can you help me find it?

So my countdown is 240 days from today, but I'm ready to go NOW!!!! So how do I find my lost patience? Any tips?

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I listen to Sorcerer Radio endlessly and it gives me the fix I need...I'm listening to them now in fact.

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Well, from the spazoid who made a 250-day countdown calendar because he can't stand to wait.....it kinda helped to have baby-step milestones to the big day. Hitting 199 days, Christmas, the first day of each month. If I have some kind of milestone or two (or six) every 30 days or less, it seems to help me. 60 days is Feb 26; Joe's birthday is March 1; our anniversary is March 10; 30 days is March 27; then Easter is April 8!

And since it's a rainy crappy day here, I am going to get out the 5 Easter decorations I have! I rationalize that I can do it and not look quite as weird because alot of the stores have moved beyond Valentines and St.Patrick's day and have their Easter stuff out too!

So in my mind, if Easter is now close enough to get that stuff out, our trip is right around the corner!!

There you have it - inside the brain of the obsessed. It's hell in there.....

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Kris, I'm right there with ya! I'm driving my family members nuts! I even have a disney countdown on my phone. I recently started a Disney blog to help pass the time...plus endless planning/researching always helps haha!

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Thanks, guys! It helps to know I'm not alone! I'm just so excited that sometimes I swear time is standing still!! I do have another trip planned that is much closer....a BFF's trip to Jamaica. We're leaving the hubbies at home and heading to the tropics on March 1st. I'm super excited, but it still no Disney!

Jeff C. You crack me up....I think you need to beef up your Easter decorations though....only 5?

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Joe says it is impossible to make one more chart, matrix, spreadsheet modification and/or list (I think the "Must Try Snacks" list with pictures and the 4-page Cupcake Crawl map (also with pictures) may have been a little much...I think I just will not show him any more things I come up with for a few weeks)

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One of my co-workers is going in December and he asked if I would give him some information to help his family plan their trip. I'm up to four pages so far. That is helping me pass the time.

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I only have 8 days to my trip... so I can't help you because I am REALLY jonesing for Disney!!!

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Chuckers wrote:
I only have 8 days to my trip... so I can't help you because I am REALLY jonesing for Disney!!!

SO JEALOUS! Write a good trip report when you get back, and that will help!

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What's odd for me is that time really drags until we get to about 20ish days out and then all the sudden it flies. eek

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Kris1971 wrote:
So my countdown is 240 days from today, but I'm ready to go NOW!!!! So how do I find my lost patience? Any tips?

You need too make some video's you can watch over, and over , and over , and over.............................................

Or just go on youtube and watch other peoples!

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Uh, I have 340 days left - and I already have a countdown timer on my phone...
I keep looking at menus of places and trying to decide what I want to eat a year from now Smile But I try to use that as a kind of inspiration for dinner that night so I can pretend I'm deciding on and ADR

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MrHub, That's awesome! Maybe I should do that with some of the pictures I took this past October! It would certainly give me something "Disney" to do!

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Man... im not too far behind you now. I think were sitting at 278? Or something like that... my little badge at the bottom will give the correct number.

As for your question.. the Disney Channel always works for me. Because when were there.... thats the channel thats always on. And if were really itching... we will watch these:

http://www.amazon.com/Disney-Parks-Disneyland-Ultimate-Undiscovered/dp/B0036K9CM8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329744687&sr=8-1

Disney Parks! They are also on Netflix. But my daughter will want to watch one of these every so often, plus they have some good tips in them as well. Not as good as this place.... but can give you a little taste of certain things that you may not have known about.

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Awesome! Thanks, Mase!

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This time I am counting down Mondays. I always dread Mondays and the end of the weekend. So this time instead of counting down days till our next trip, I am counting Mondays. First of all it is a much smaller number and it gives me something to look forward on Mondays. By the way, after today we are down to 12 more Mondays.

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scrappy wrote:
This time I am counting down Mondays. I always dread Mondays and the end of the weekend. So this time instead of counting down days till our next trip, I am counting Mondays. First of all it is a much smaller number and it gives me something to look forward on Mondays. By the way, after today we are down to 12 more Mondays.

Scrappy, that is a very creative way to do a countdown. I love it! I can't believe your next trip is so close!

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Scrappy I love that Idea! How fun it that!
I don't know how to find some patience, if I weren't leaving in a day and a half I would be losing my mind about now. You could start a Countdown to Disney Blog and post something new every day that you're looking forward too!

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I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

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Jess wrote:
I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

Oh Jess do I know that feeling. I'm so jealous of all the folks who have the short countdowns on their posts! Of course I'm happy for them too!

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You're only 99 days before you make your ADRs and other 180 day reservations. Are you ready yet? mickey You could count down by making a new Disney Recipe once a week until you hit that date.

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Jess wrote:
I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

A co-worker of mine that I got hooked on Disney is leaving on Friday. He told me he will face time me everyday from somewhere in Disney when I'm at work, pay backs are a B&**H!

Speaking of Disney recipes, I tried making an Adult Grilled Cheese like the one from Captain Hooks.
I did a little twist with the cheeses. I used a Multi Grain bread and the cheeses were America, Blue Cheese & a Lightly Smoked Gouda instead of Cheddar, Swiss & Blue Cheese. I thought it was very very good though. Also put a new tomatoe on it called a brown tomatoe. Its very sweet. If anyone else tries it, just don't put a lot of Blue cheese on it, it will over power the sandwich. Oh and I did not put any Frisee on it.

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I'm starving at the moment and seeing that did not help! Oh my gosh... hungry!

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oh gosh.. I know I felt the SAME way that you did a few months ago.. I feel like we just started planning yesterday though... I filled up the majority of my time with reading anything Disney I could get my hands on... books, blogs, websites, message boards....planning our ADR's, looking at Touring plans to plan where we would spend the majority of our days.. stuff like that!

Looking back it really did fly by, but now we are 10 days out and I swear time is moving slower every second!

Good Luck! I know it will fly by for you!!

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Jess wrote:
I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

Well the good thing is we are now at 250 days...and it just felt like it was yesterday when I posted that thing about it being 279 days so that must mean time is flying by Smile

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Jess, you're right...30 days has gone by relatively quickly. Thanks for the happy reminder!!!! yay

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Jess wrote:
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I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

Well the good thing is we are now at 250 days...and it just felt like it was yesterday when I posted that thing about it being 279 days so that must mean time is flying by Smile

Just remember - Like Mase taught me - there is reason for joy. Be happy!!!! It will get here, it will it will it will!

yeah yeah yeah

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Ollie wrote:
Jess wrote:
Jess wrote:
I'm going crazy to...like mase said....we are at 279 days....we had to groups of friends that just got back and I have another friend who is getting ready to go so that makes it hard.

Well the good thing is we are now at 250 days...and it just felt like it was yesterday when I posted that thing about it being 279 days so that must mean time is flying by Smile

Just remember - Like Mase taught me - there is reason for joy. Be happy!!!! It will get here, it will it will it will!

yeah yeah yeah

yay yay yay

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