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Birthday Extravaganza 2011

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Hear all about Laura’s adventures with the Berry’s at Disneyland

Pick up our picnic lunches with Yellow Zone World of Color Fast Passes (it’s still early? How did Blue Zone sell out already? 4th of July frenzy?) and feast on breakfast

Blue Sky Cellar with Dad to show him some of the changes that are coming

Check out Goofy’s Sky School and the new garden area (with really awesome band Odyssey) and get Sky School FastPasses

Wander around the boardwalk shops, think about Toy Story Midway Mania and opt to do it later

Get in line for Little Mermaid (only 30 minutes)

Use FastPasses for Sky School

Get frozen lemonades to battle the heat, but save them for later as we head for The Hollywood Tower Hotel

Shopping in the hotel lobby after the ride, picking out a beautiful vintage shirt for Laura (has one of the now demolished posters from the wall separating Hyperion and HTH), and chatting with Debra about the ugly new HTH logo (it’s actually Florida’s) and cheaper sales tax starting July 1st (today!)

Wander over to the Hollywood Backlot Stage to watch the Disney Dance Crew! show (it’s actually really cute and features blinking/talking Mickey busting a move!) with our frozen lemonades

Head inside the Disney Animation building to chill in the lobby for a bit

Explore the Greeting From California shop, purchase amazingly beautiful 4th of July caramel apple

Head back to garden area to eat apple in fans and shade

Enjoy Odyssey

Meet up with family for birthday dinner at Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen

Back into DCA for World of Color

AMAZING PATRIOTIC PRE-SHOW

Fantastic World of Color show (as always)

Lindy-bomb the play-off music for World of Color (as always)

Wander over to Midway Mania for 45-ish minute wait (occasionally catching the double finale of Disneyland’s fireworks through obstructions)

I beat Laura! Or rather she “let me win”. ;-)

Exit halfway through the 2nd showing of World of Color’s patriotic pre-show and end up sitting on the steps near California Screamin’ launchpad to watch the rest of it

Selected to answer questions for guest services about how much we loved the patriotic pre-show

Head into Disneyland and run into The Gilberts and Andy, where we have a lovely talk about why today’s music is over-produced and more about spectacle than quality

Dash into Star Tours, lament about tourist culture (the side/blacklight room that the line goes through was very littered and disgusting), and get to go someplace new! I’ve ridden Star Tours about 5 times now and for all of them my first destination was ALWAYS Tattoine except last night I got to go to Kashyyk! Now I just need Princess Leia and Hoth (I’ve heard there are 2 different Hoth destinations?) and I will have seen all of the different options.

Slowly and exhaustedly walk out of the park after celebrating the best birthday ever (so far!)

Prom Problems

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This time, I’m going to do things right. You see, this weekend is my senior prom. I’m a senior in high school and it’s at the Disneyland Hotel, so I’m pretty excited. But this year is quite different. Let me lay out the way last year’s prom went.

I’m a junior, my girl’s a senior. We have these two friends who are seniors and are thinking about renting a limo. The catch is they want to split the cost with someone. So we hook up and all chip in money to take a limo ride to prom. Dinner’s covered because they guy’s grandpa is a gourmet chef. Next is the tuxedo. My mom takes me to the formal wear at Sear’s where I pick out a zoot suit. I get measured, pay for it, and go home. My dad orders the corsage for me (I mean, I’m just too young for all of this… I’m only 17 years old!) and we pick it up the day of prom. Day before that, we pick up the tux. I try it on and I look snazzy! So Mom (naturally) wants pictures. But today is also Alyssa’s (my sister) day for pictures at our dance studio (Orange County Song & Dance Company). So we head over there and I get dressed and pose for the camera. The nice thing about this guy (the photographer) is that he jokes around with you to no end. It gets just the right kind of smile for the picture. So, now it’s time for prom.

We drive to the friends house, figure out where we are going, then meet at the grandpa’s house. We sit down for an elegant dinner…with our parents hovering around and snapping photos. It’s so weird. So we get dinner and it’s, drum-roll please, gourmet shrimp! This will come in later. We finish dinner and dessert and go out back to take some more pictures. Then the limo arrives. My mom hands me this gift basket that we can enjoy during the ride. Included is candy, soda, and disposable cameras. We had brought videos in hope of watching TV during the ride, but something went wrong and we didn’t. So we grabbed the disposable cameras and had…FLASH WARS!

We get there and get in line to enter. Suddenly, the gourmet shrimp start fighting my lower intestine and I have to go to the bathroom…NOW! I politely excuse myself and head to the bathroom. I had to go twice more during the evening. Apparently gourmet shrimp doesn’t like my biological makeup. I felt like such a jerk leaving my girl and having to go take care of myself. Not only that, I had just shaved before leaving, and my mole was bleeding onto my tux. We’re off to a great start aren’t we. But beyond that, it was a most enjoyable evening. We had planned on going bowling afterwards, but we decided Downtown Disney would be better. Right. The mall was closed for the evening and a cop escorted us back to the limo. So we just went home.

But this year’s going to be different. Tux from Sear’s again, purchased the corsage on my own, and since I have my license now I will be driving my girl to prom…in my mom’s CRV. Well it’s better then taking her in my stick shift Honda Accord, isn’t it? Anyways, it’s not much of a drive since she lives about three miles west of Disneyland. So I’m going to pick her up at about 6:00 PM (the dance starts at 8) and get her to the hotel for our 6:30 reservation at Granville’s Steakhouse. Then it’s on to the dance and then home safely by 12:30, or there abouts. I’m excited! How about you?

Part Alpha

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HURRY, HURRY, HURRY,

 

STEP RIGHT UP!

Ladies und gentlemen, welcome to the North Pole

 

This is where I ramble on and on about life and random things in particular. You never realize how meaningless your life is until you view it in the perspective of a rancid squirrel on heroin. First we’re going to start with a word association game. I’m going to type a word and then I’m going to type the first word that comes to mind. Religion : Methodist. Marital Status : Taken. Style : Hetero. Sex : Yes please, no wait. Mail. No wait, ummm, is this a trick question? N-E-ways I am a very peculiar individual, in that I listen to any type of music except for Latin, because I studied the Spanish language for 2 years now (well, technically it’s two and a half years cuz I failed my second year and had to take a summer course), and it bugged the living crap out of me, and I know this makes me narrow minded and probably stupid, but I DON’T CARE!!!! That’s my perspective, if you don’t like it, you can deal with it. Think of me as a stack of cards. Just waiting to be shuffled. C’mon baby, shuffle me. Oh yeah! [clears throat] Sorry. Now when I say I listen to every type of music, I mean every type, from country to rap to Disney to heavy metal to N*Sync. Another thing about me is that I don’t care what people think about me, what opinions they form about me, I’m me, I can’t change it, I am comfortable with my station in life (You’re a tracer, man!*)(the star means that there’s something at the bottom of the page related to the preceding information). When people ask me where my favorite place is, I answer in a flash. Disneyland. I’ve had an annual pass to Disneyland ever since I can remember, and I have loved Disney from my first Disney film. I love the atmosphere, I love the rides, I love Mickey Mouse (but not in that way, silly sailors). I also love the new Disney’s California Adventure, no matter what people say, but I agree with them when they say that the price is too high for too little adventure, even though it pains my heart to say it. Hopefully the addition of Hollywood Tower of Terror and Flik’s Fun Faire will change people’s minds. I have an annual pass to both parks, so I don’t complain about the price, I just enjoy the atmosphere and the rides. I like lots of movies. But one thing I have noticed is an exciting feeling whenever I recognize someone in one movie from another movie or from a television series or whatever. It’s like putting two and two together and it’s really exciting for me. I obviously don’t know the person, but it’s like I know them, which is almost the same but it isn’t. Some examples are at the gargoyles site. If you don’t know how to get there, you didn’t learn enough good English. Me talk funny? Stupid head. Moving on, I am a logical person. Does anybody know what that means? It means that I think more with my left brain than with my right. This also means that I rock in Math and logically related subjects and I suck in English and philosophically related subjects. This would be bad, considering my parents want straight A’s out of me. PSSH!!! Like that’s possible. I am an actor. Or at least I hope so. I have been training since 7th grade and I really enjoy it, which is probably a good thing. I am more interested in acting, but I enjoy Musical Theatre. And for the last time, I’m Not GAY! GAWD! You guys are so narrow minded. I am also a Boy Scout, have been since 2nd or 3rd grade with cub scouts. I have since received the rank of Eagle and I also got my permit, so driving is becoming part of my life. My dad is very interesting. He owns two corporations, or so he calls them, that both revolve around building/repairing computers and being a computer consultant. He is also a prime piano player that can conduct a musical. Which has benefited me greatly, in that he helps me practice my talent at home. But who cares about stuff like that. Congratulations, you’ve made it to the end of my ramble. Thank you for flying Air Jeremy and please visit again whenever you feel the need. The need for speed. Thank you. Thank you very much. I’m here until Thursday. Try the veal! Ha Ha!

THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN AS A PUBLICATION OF “Jeremy’s Ramble: A Life In Review” WHICH IS SOLE PROPERTY OF YOU AND YOU ONLY. IF YOU DECIDE TO SELL MY LIFE FOR A PENNY, I WILL NOT OBJECT, I WILL JUST ASK THAT YOU GET A SHINY PENNY FOR ME. THANK YOU!

 

*Yea, Kevin Smith! This quote is courtesy of the films of Kevin Smith, who is very talented and very funny. It is used in “Chasing Amy” and in “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”. Go see them. Now. (Kevin Smith’s other films include: “Clerks”, “Mallrats”, “Dogma”, and the up-and-coming “Jersey Girl” starring J-Lo and Ben Affleck. And she’s not pregnant with his kid, dammit!)