disneychic
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2001
Disneychic....you just got laid off of work what are you going to do now?
I'm going to Disney World!
Well, in honesty, that's not exactly how it happened. Let's recap a bit......
In 2001 my DH and I were newly married and living in NJ. We both worked in NYC. I happened to work at WTC, and was there on 9/11. Needless to say, I did not return to work after barely living through that experience. The only thing that made me feel remotely better following 9/11 was going to WDW. We made 6 trips between the end of Sept 2011 and May of 2012 -- on that trip in May my husband said that since this was the only thing that made me smile, we should move to Central Florida. When we got home in June, we, put our beach front condo on the market...it sold in 1 day! -- I guess we could've asked for more $$ but, we made a profit and I just wanted to start a new life in the Florida sunshine. We moved to Celebration in September 2002, made great friends, had great jobs and really enjoyed our new Florida lifestyle ......until last summer when my DH received a job offer with the department of defense. He is an engineer, this is a dream job, with a dream salary....only problem is......it's in mid-coastal MAINE....we'd never even been there before! But, it was just too good of an opportunity for him to turn down. So, in August we made the move from Florida to Maine (talk about 1 extreme to the other). I was very fortunate that my job didn't want to loose me, so they set me up with a home office in Maine. It was working out great, they were even flying me down to Florida for meetings every 8 weeks. A few months ago, I was told that a company out of Houston was merging with my company and my boss wasn't sure what types of roles any of the previous employees were going to end up having, since this new company was bringing a large financial investment, they would be calling all the shots.
About a month ago, my DH and I booked a trip to WDW for mid May. Not even a week later, my boss told me they are eliminating my position at the end of April
It was very upsetting since I had worked for this company for four years, and the people there became like family members to me. I asked my husband if he wanted to cancel our upcoming trip, but he said "absolutely not!" We are using our DVC points, so no money is being put out for the room, and we had already purchased our flights, we have annual passes, so there really isn't a need to cancel at this point.
Right now, we are set up to stay the first 2 nights at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, in a savannah room studio and the last 3 nights at the Wilderness Lodge Villas (because we booked relatively late, we couldn't get all 5 nights at one resort but we are on waitlists for the Boardwalk for all 5 nights, or the Wilderness Lodge for the 1st two nights) hopefully one of them will come through so we don't have to do the check in/check out, check in/check out game.
Hope you are enjoying....there is more pre-tripping to come
Just the two of us are going on this trip, here's a pic taken of us while we were on the Disney Magic....
I'm going to Disney World!
Well, in honesty, that's not exactly how it happened. Let's recap a bit......
In 2001 my DH and I were newly married and living in NJ. We both worked in NYC. I happened to work at WTC, and was there on 9/11. Needless to say, I did not return to work after barely living through that experience. The only thing that made me feel remotely better following 9/11 was going to WDW. We made 6 trips between the end of Sept 2011 and May of 2012 -- on that trip in May my husband said that since this was the only thing that made me smile, we should move to Central Florida. When we got home in June, we, put our beach front condo on the market...it sold in 1 day! -- I guess we could've asked for more $$ but, we made a profit and I just wanted to start a new life in the Florida sunshine. We moved to Celebration in September 2002, made great friends, had great jobs and really enjoyed our new Florida lifestyle ......until last summer when my DH received a job offer with the department of defense. He is an engineer, this is a dream job, with a dream salary....only problem is......it's in mid-coastal MAINE....we'd never even been there before! But, it was just too good of an opportunity for him to turn down. So, in August we made the move from Florida to Maine (talk about 1 extreme to the other). I was very fortunate that my job didn't want to loose me, so they set me up with a home office in Maine. It was working out great, they were even flying me down to Florida for meetings every 8 weeks. A few months ago, I was told that a company out of Houston was merging with my company and my boss wasn't sure what types of roles any of the previous employees were going to end up having, since this new company was bringing a large financial investment, they would be calling all the shots.
About a month ago, my DH and I booked a trip to WDW for mid May. Not even a week later, my boss told me they are eliminating my position at the end of April
It was very upsetting since I had worked for this company for four years, and the people there became like family members to me. I asked my husband if he wanted to cancel our upcoming trip, but he said "absolutely not!" We are using our DVC points, so no money is being put out for the room, and we had already purchased our flights, we have annual passes, so there really isn't a need to cancel at this point.Right now, we are set up to stay the first 2 nights at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, in a savannah room studio and the last 3 nights at the Wilderness Lodge Villas (because we booked relatively late, we couldn't get all 5 nights at one resort but we are on waitlists for the Boardwalk for all 5 nights, or the Wilderness Lodge for the 1st two nights) hopefully one of them will come through so we don't have to do the check in/check out, check in/check out game.
Hope you are enjoying....there is more pre-tripping to come
Just the two of us are going on this trip, here's a pic taken of us while we were on the Disney Magic....
but if there is anything in the world that should cheer you up disney is the place
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