My family and I went to Orlando, Florida a couple of weeks ago. We've been there 3 other times before, but this time was different. First of all, we usually do Disney, Universal and SeaWorld. But this time we stayed at All-Star Music--a Disney Resort. We usually stay at either a hotel or at a time share my husband gets through his work. We went to all four of the Disney parks this time plus we took public transportation to Seaworld. This time, because we were primarily doing Disney and they had bus service, we saved money on renting a car. We got a meal plan, which consisted of two meals and two snacks a day. This plan allowed us to have a $15 dollar off coupon for Planet Hollywood. I had never been, but really enjoyed it. As I learned, of course, the 15 dollar coupon barely paid for one meal. With our meals, we were able to get desserts with all our meals, which we wouldn't normally do otherwise. We also went to Wolfgang Puck resteraunt which was a 60 dollar meal that we got for free. In otherwords, we got spoiled. The parks were great. With staying at the resort, we got to go to the parks early or stay after closing some days, but it was extremely crowded. It was fun riding Tower of Terror in the dark. I was disappointed though because Space Mountain was closed. Overall, we had a good time. There were a few drawbacks though. One, I wanted to go to Typhoon Lagoon--the disney waterpark. But my husband and daughter insisted we go to SeaWorld instead. Meanies :-p Also, my daughter stepped on her straightener and got her foot caught between the plates. It was still on, so she royally burned both the top and bottom of her foot--which after two weeks still hasn't healed. Finally, one of the days we were on the bus, some guy s*** his pants and we were stuck on there for a good 15 minutes smelling it. It was horrible!!!

Last week, I received a text from my daughter that my uncle Gary had died. What happened was that my mom had called Sara's cell phone number by mistake and so Sara let me know. It's a weird feeling. I feel bad for may dad (it was his brother) and for his wife and kids. But I don't feel bad for him. He was not a very nice person. First of all, when I was six, he was stationed in the Army in Germany and he was carrying on an affair with someone here in the States..all while his wife was dying of cancer. When she died, he coldly said that he didn't care because he was going to divorce her anyway when they got back to the states. Then he dropped his four kids off with one of my other uncles immediately after the funeral (they came back to the states and she was buried in Kentucky) for two months while he was with his girlfriend. A few months later, he brought his kids to live with him, his girlfirend and her daughter. I remember one incident that happened when I was visiting where he told her 5 year old daughter that he was going to leave her in the woods, naked (this was AFTER she hit her a couple of times) with all the alligators, worms and snakes. I just watched, but it was traumatizing for ME. I know it had to be for her too. To this day, I don't know why her mom married him. Anyway, from when I was thirteen until I was fifteen, this same uncle forced me to have sex with him. It has cause alot of problems in my life and in relationships. Finally, about 7-8 years ago, he fell and hurt himself and my aunt (his sister)'s house and actually filed a lawsuit against her. I remember over the last few years stating to my husband that if he died, the only reason I would go to his funeral if he died was to pee on his grave. Now, that he actually did die, I feel horrible for thinking stuff like that.

I'm sure everyone's heard of the Minister that was killed during the church service. What is really upsetting is that I knew this Minister. About 8 years ago, he would bring his son in for lunch in the resteraunt that I was working at the time every day after he got out of kindergarten. Plus, my daughter's fiancee and his family attends that church and he was going to be marrying them this December. Needless to say, this is extremely upsetting to both me and my daughter. For those to are reading this, please pray for the family and for the congregation of this church.