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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 08:45 pm | 176th Post |
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Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!! Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 10:05 pm | 177th Post |
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beachlova wrote: Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!!Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
I'm thinking you mean July 20-24. I'm sure Dan will need an excuse to go to Bourbon St.!
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Selucrey
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 10:31 pm | 178th Post |
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LaVere28 wrote: beachlova wrote: Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!!Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
I'm thinking you mean July 20-24. I'm sure Dan will need an excuse to go to Bourbon St.!
LOL! Yeah, she does. For some reason she has been hung up on June though.
Don't worry, we'll be there! :shottime:
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LaVere28
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 03:23 am | 179th Post |
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I almost have the email list compiled. I have one more email I am waiting for. I just need to get some emails addresses from Amy to have everyone covered that I show has cabins.
Amy I need emails for Patrick or Nancy, Brian, Allison, one of Allisons parents, and your new friends that are supposed to be booking. Plus anyone else you want me to add to the list.
Once I have a list of everyone we think we be going, I am going to release them to Terry. She said she will periodically send out updates to everyone. I don't want to release emails to her just yet because I would like to inform everyone before I do. I think I have some people in my group that I would piss off if I gave out their email addresses without them knowing.  I don't want to make them feel forced into anything.
Have a good night everyone. I'm off to bed! 
Last edited on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 03:23 am by LaVere28
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kelz66
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 12:36 pm | 180th Post |
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Selucrey
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 01:18 pm | 181st Post |
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kelz66 wrote: morning peeps...coffee's on!
Morning....drinking Community Dark-Roast here, a local favorite.
Later on I will be... 
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home sea home
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 04:07 pm | 182nd Post |
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Selucrey wrote: kelz66 wrote: morning peeps...coffee's on!
Morning....drinking Community Dark-Roast here, a local favorite.
Later on I will be...
Ooo my father is a big fan of Community coffee... Though we don't get much here in KS....
You think they'll have it on the ship?
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Selucrey
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 04:19 pm | 183rd Post |
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home sea home wrote: Selucrey wrote: kelz66 wrote: morning peeps...coffee's on!
Morning....drinking Community Dark-Roast here, a local favorite.
Later on I will be...
Ooo my father is a big fan of Community coffee... Though we don't get much here in KS....
You think they'll have it on the ship?
They don't have it on the ship. If you want, I can send some to ya to give to your Dad. We send care-packages to my Son in Jersey all the time.
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home sea home
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 08:08 pm | 184th Post |
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I may just take you up on that offer Dan.
I am getting angry with some of my maybes. I gave them Terry's info to contact her and they are procrastinating! I know I can't wait to book my cruises! I've even told them to check out this site so they can see how much fun we are!
I wonder if I could book their cruises without their knowledge/permission lol. Probably not, right? Though it would end the procrastination problem. How can I light a fire under them??
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LaVere28
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 08:23 pm | 185th Post |
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home sea home wrote: I may just take you up on that offer Dan.
I am getting angry with some of my maybes. I gave them Terry's info to contact her and they are procrastinating! I know I can't wait to book my cruises! I've even told them to check out this site so they can see how much fun we are!
I wonder if I could book their cruises without their knowledge/permission lol. Probably not, right? Though it would end the procrastination problem. How can I light a fire under them??
Let me think about this one..... I think I may have a similar problem!
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beachlova
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 10:25 pm | 186th Post |
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LaVere28 wrote: beachlova wrote: Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!!Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
I'm thinking you mean July 20-24. I'm sure Dan will need an excuse to go to Bourbon St.! Duh!:oops:I keep saying June! Yep, we are planning on meeting up with Dan and Melissa. Can't wait!
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Posted: Tue Jul 1st, 2008 10:29 pm | 187th Post |
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Selucrey wrote: LaVere28 wrote: beachlova wrote: Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!!Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
I'm thinking you mean July 20-24. I'm sure Dan will need an excuse to go to Bourbon St.!
LOL! Yeah, she does. For some reason she has been hung up on June though.
Don't worry, we'll be there! :shottime:
I don't know why I'm stuck on June! I am looking forward to another Hurricane!
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Selucrey
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 03:41 am | 188th Post |
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beachlova wrote: Selucrey wrote: LaVere28 wrote: beachlova wrote: Well, we did think about that, but it was a little too expensive for us poor folks. Did get some good news yesterday, though. One of my friends has been teaching undergrad. students and they need more teachers, so she is going to try to hook me up with a job. It would be 2, 6 hour days a week! Woohoo...no more weekends!!Me and Cole are taking a trip down to New Orleans June 20-24th...if anyone is interested in meeting up with us! Should be a good time. Might hear us sing some more karoke!
I'm thinking you mean July 20-24. I'm sure Dan will need an excuse to go to Bourbon St.!
LOL! Yeah, she does. For some reason she has been hung up on June though.
Don't worry, we'll be there! :shottime:
I don't know why I'm stuck on June! I am looking forward to another Hurricane!
It is Hurricane season ya know!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 03:44 am | 189th Post |
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home sea home wrote: I may just take you up on that offer Dan.
I am getting angry with some of my maybes. I gave them Terry's info to contact her and they are procrastinating! I know I can't wait to book my cruises! I've even told them to check out this site so they can see how much fun we are!
I wonder if I could book their cruises without their knowledge/permission lol. Probably not, right? Though it would end the procrastination problem. How can I light a fire under them??
This here is a seasaw battle. On one hand you could pester them to death until the point they say to hell with it. On the other hand you can turn it over to Terry and let her pester them until they say the hell with it.
I think people have alot of preconceived notions and fears about cruising. I used to be the same way until I actually got on the ship. I think we need to leverage Terry as much as we possibly can without irritating our friends. She knows how to speak to them and get their questions/fears answered.
I have a couple of friends who are really interested in going but for some strange reason they don't want me to give their info to Terry, (which confuses me, I guess they think I am the expert?).
So about the only leverage I can see we have, without bugging them to death, is that there are only a certain amount of cabins and the sooner they deposit, the better the chances of getting a cabin they want in that category. I want to be able to accomodate everyone and give them a chance to reserve what they want but I can only add on more cabins at the same rate until July 15th. At that point they can only get what we have available.
Plus I can almost bet there will be another fuel surcharge increase on the horizon that will make the trip price increase even more. I paid $4.05 for gas today and I am sure it hasn't peaked yet. The money that they could have used to make the deposit now will probably be tied up in fuel expenses in the next couple of months.
Any other feedback here would be great guys. Let us know what you think.
Side note, how about the mardis gras smiley --->  First time I have seen this one!!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 03:48 am | 190th Post |
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| MySpace page is now verified!! I can now send messages from it and add all of your friends. The email address is worng but I guess asking them to change that would be too much. It only took them a month to help me verify it!
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home sea home
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 07:09 am | 191st Post |
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LaVere28 wrote:
I have a couple of friends who are really interested in going but for some strange reason they don't want me to give their info to Terry, (which confuses me, I guess they think I am the expert?).
Same here! I guess they think she'll just be constantly bugging them or something. Which couldn't be farther from the truth!
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Selucrey
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:30 pm | 192nd Post |
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Don't be discouraged! People either will or will not cruise. Some actually have a fear of being on the water and some may think it's too expensive. Jason, some of your friends may be interested but would rather talk to you about it rather than someone who they have not met. We know they would comfortable with Terry but she is still an "unknown" with them. A good selling point for those considering the cruise is that there is a minimul deposit right now. Later, that may not be the case. This far out, we should be able to add cabins to the group with no problems. I have a couple of "maybes" here but that's about it so far.
I had not noticed this before.... but since we are involved in Mardi Gras year-round, I see so many that they all start to look alike!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 02:41 pm | 193rd Post |
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| I'm not discouraged by any means. But there are just so many maybes at the moment that its hard for me to keep track of them all. And honestly, that's what the TAs job is. I can only help them so much. At some point they we have to physically call her if they would like to book.
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 02:46 pm | 194th Post |
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LaVere28 wrote: I'm not discouraged by any means. But there are just so many maybes at the moment that its hard for me to keep track of them all. And honestly, that's what the TAs job is. I can only help them so much. At some point they we have to physically call her if they would like to book.
You can only lead them to water, they must drink of it themselves.:whoopass:
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 02:51 pm | 195th Post |
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home sea home wrote: I may just take you up on that offer Dan.
I must have missed this, sorry. If you want some just let me know. I'll be glad to send you some (Community).
In fact, we will be in New Orleans Friday if anyone needs anything from there. They have a fantastic fireworks display on the river. Wish everyone could be with us!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 05:10 pm | 196th Post |
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Anyone have a cool plans for the 4th. We were going to watch a midget race in VA but being that our refinance had issues, I don't really have any cash. Looks like I will be staying home and watching the NASCAR race this weekend. Should be a good race at Daytona saturday night. Hope everyone has a good holiday. 
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 05:27 pm | 197th Post |
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LaVere28 wrote: Anyone have a cool plans for the 4th. We were going to watch a midget race in VA but being that our refinance had issues, I don't really have any cash. Looks like I will be staying home and watching the NASCAR race this weekend. Should be a good race at Daytona saturday night. Hope everyone has a good holiday.
Other than good food,drink,music and fabulous fireworks in New Orleans, not much.
We are having a family reunion this weekend so there will be a ton of people here from all over the country. I do plan to watch the race though!
We were going to refinance about 15 years ago but it seemed that there was more BS involved then than when we bought the freakin' house! Glad we didn't though, two years left!!
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 03:14 pm | 198th Post |
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| GOOD MORNING !!!!!!!!!!!
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LaVere28
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 04:59 pm | 199th Post |
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I will be sending out the a mass email tonight to everyone booked and interested in the cruise. If there are particular areas you think I need to cover in this email please let me know. This is what I plan to cover in random order:
Travel Agent, Rooms, Deposits Due Dates, Advantages of booking with a Group, Cruise Entertainment, Cabins, First time Cruisers, Singles, Fugitives, Websites, Forum, Fears/Phobias
If I have missed something that I need to cover please let me know.
I will attach the flyer to the email so that everyone has all the info at their disposal.
:sharks:
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Posted: Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 05:12 pm | 200th Post |
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LaVere28 wrote: I will be sending out the a mass email tonight to everyone booked and interested in the cruise. If there are particular areas you think I need to cover in this email please let me know. This is what I plan to cover in random order:
Travel Agent, Rooms, Deposits Due Dates, Advantages of booking with a Group, Cruise Entertainment, Cabins, First time Cruisers, Singles, Fugitives, Websites, Forum, Fears/Phobias
If I have missed something that I need to cover please let me know.
I will attach the flyer to the email so that everyone has all the info at their disposal.
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I think you have everything pretty much covered.
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