Post 50th Blues

[€uroMeinke]

After all great events comes the denouement, the slow realization that after the years of waiting and preparing, it's all over. You can't help but feel a bit depressed - and I think I'm there. Still exhausted three days out from the weekend festivities, but yesterday when a friend called to see if we wanted to meet at the park, I quickly responded with a "what? Are you Crazy?"

My mind flashing back to our last sad, tired moments, of heat, crowds, and spectacular fireworks passed over to just go home - and I don't want to go back. Not right away anyway. I'd love to see my friends, lounge about with them. But I have to think there must be some swankier places we could be, nice as the Lobby of the Grand Cal is.

I know I'll get over this funk - eventually, but for the moment I'm done with the parks, the crowd, and the 50th celebration. For the moment, it's the Blues I'm singing.

[wendybeth]

I'm there, too. I dreaded going to work, and now we are in the midst of updating our house, which will be great when it is all done, but I hate actually doing it. Reality bites. Everyone was asking about the trip at work, but I didn't feel like talking too much about it yet, so I just said the truth- it was great.

[Not Afraid]

Yeah, I'm feeling it too. Did I give it to you or did you give it to me? Maybe, like most things, we just end up at the same place at the same time, together.

I think, post-joy of the 50th, I was left with the reality of some pretty icky stuff. Combine that with being tired and deperssion is natural. But, today, I am actually starting to feel a bit better. I had a good ole fashioned pissed off purge and, man did that feel good. It only took an hour after that for me to start on my backyard landscaping plan. I think that I'm back to my happy self.....I hope.

[MickeyLumbo]

i too feel the melancholy. so today... i got in the truck and went to Disneyland:D

after spending way too much money, i feel better now.

[wendybeth]

You know, when we went back into DL after riding GRR, there was a huge line. Two girls cut in front of us, and ignored our glares. A few moments later they were joined by their parents, one of whom said "Way to go- champion lineblasting!" or something to that effect. I saw red, and told the girls off. I said I didn't appreciate cheating, that I worked hard to instill good values in my daughter and that cheating- in Disneyland!- was always wrong, whatever the degree. The parents never once looked back or tried to intervene, but neither did they move, and all the girls could do was mumble "sorry..". I just told them I was sorry for them. It didn't accomplish a damn thing, because they didn't move, but I felt really good anyway. Do I think they'll stop their evil cutting ways? Nope, but the vent felt good, and it let them know they weren't fooling anyone but themselves.

Sorry for all the negative crap that was thrown your way, NA, and I hope your 'purge' was cathartic!

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Feeling it too...

I remember really not wanting to walk out the gates, even though our bodies were telling us that we had had enough. I would have stayed until I was kicked out, had I to do it over again. But there will be many, many more happy times there. It's Disneyland. Like Euro said though, we will probably stay away for a little bit, at least 2 weeks. Then I'm sure we will cave in and go. It will be strange though. Even though the "celebration" is still going on, we all know that the moment has passed. Sure was fun while it lasted though. :)

[CoasterMatt]

and you people ask me why I scream so much on Matterhorn, Space Mountain, and Big Thunder? :p

Work has just been soooo weird this week; like sleepwalking through half stiff jello...

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Same here.

Been really lethargic in the past week, as if I'd rather not move at all. Was stuck to my computer, reliving the weekend over and over. Tomorrow is my breaking point day where I'm going to get something done before work.

I really don't want to plan anything much anytime soon, especially not Disney related.

[innerSpaceman]

I've definitely got a bit of the post-50 blues. It's not too terribly bad, cause I know the cause and so won't give in to it. But I'm a bit lethargic and dimwitted. The remnants of my portable party are strewn all over my apartment, and I'm not doing anything about cleaning it all up ... which is a major sign of Zlickdysfunction.

I've no intention, as of now, to go back to Disneyland till, say, Goth Day in August. And I've arrived at a rather weird place in my life that I've never looked past or planned for. Disneyland-50 was the end-of-the-line in planned events. After 20 years of having that hang in the future so deliciously, it's over and - at the moment at least, and very oddly for me - there's nothing planned past it.

Oh well, I'm supposed to take up learning the saxophone at long last. Maybe once I get over the funk, I'll start playing the blues I'm feeling so bluesfully.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I've been anticipating this let down for weeks. "What the hell are we going to talk/think/plan about after that weekend?" And I'm definitely feeling it now.

For me, it's a bit mitigated by Paris plans, I don't think the real let down is going to come until after that.

[blueerica]

Oddly enough, while I don't feel some great need to go to Disneyland anytime soon, I think my "not going Saturday," which was not a part of my original plans ended up working to my benefit. I went Friday night to a fantastic party. I left, having a nice walk with CP & GD, sore feet, thought for a brief moment that my car was missing, to come back Sunday to a fantastic crowd of people, which is normally so not my thing, and to hop in on Monday for a brief evening stint, that ended up being so much fun. I think the real key was breaking it up, and keeping my expectations (as high as they were) pretty low.

Plus, I've had my share of personal drama that kept things moving along.

I think I've just gone through this so many times before, that this time, I outsmarted my usual self. I think I'm finally learning to appreciate the little bright things that happen every day in my life, whether it's walking down the street with some friends, or walking down Main Street, USA with thousands of my friends, it's all really cumulative hedons. Sometimes, it's Punk Rock Sunday, sometimes it's a good nap, and sometimes, it's both, right? ;)

I wanna go to Paris...............................

[Ghoulish Delight]

I wanna go to Paris...............................

www.expedia.com (http://www.expedia.com) (still $600 a ticket to get on our flight)
http://booking.disneylandparis.com/public_html/en/page2.jsp?pays=219,49,dlp9el14&compte=dlp9el14
http://hotels.parishotels.com/hotel_details.php?type=name&lang=en&hotel_name=montpensier&id=1056&page=1&fromPage=search&sort_by=%20hh.adresse_rue%20DESC

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Great, I just mojoed Erica and then she posts a beauty like that. :snap:

[blueerica]

Need to show that to Tramspotter, GD... He's Daddy Warbanks around this household.

[DisneyDaniel]

How to get over the 50th blues? Visit another amuesement park in Southern California, whether it's Knott's Berry Farm, Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Six Flags Magic Mountain or Legoland. You'll have an enjoyable time, but it's still not the same as Disneyland and subconsciously you will be comparing the place to Disneyland (or Disney's California Adventure).

Then, the next time you visit Disneyland again, it will be a personal, mini-homecoming back to "Where the Magic Began", regardless of any 50th celebrations, decorations or activities. You will be glad to be home.

Walk toward the left or right tunnel, read the sign: "Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy." Stroll down Main Street, U.S.A.; the sounds and smells of Main Street and Disneyland fill the air, look toward the end of the street to see Sleeping Beauty Castle in all its magical glory ... and your 50th blues will be over. :)

[Hades]

My post 50th blues started the moment after the 4:45 rededication at the flag pole. I was there. But before that, I was working my 5:30 am shift at the Acorns shop at the GCH. My left ankle was giving me greif, but I was in good spirits from all of the excitement of both cast and guests. After my shift, I went into Disneyland and decided to head to the Festival Arena to look at the "I was there" merchandise. When I finally got there, my ankle was nothing but a knot of pain.

I wasn't too impressed by the assortment of merchandise there, so I made my way back to the flag pole for the 4:45 moment, and attempted to call Ally to see if she was nearby, but I couldn't get through. Later, I learned that her phone was acting up, so no calls got to her. I watched the 4:45 moment, not having got to hook up with anyone attending the days festivities. At the end of the moment, I had to leave because my ankle was really putting me in a world of hurt.

Monday during my shift, the pain was still there. I countered the pain with a hydrocodone (Vicodin generic!) and killed most, but not all the pain. I made a doctors appointment for the earliest time I could (Thursday, July 21! So much for early, eh?). Flash forward to today. I'm going in for x-rays to determine if I have a stress fracture in my ankle, and my doctor has put me on a medical leave until July 31! All I can say is... OUCH! I think all the hard work from the ramping up for the 50th and the event really took it's toll on me! :eek: I think I was working mostly on adrenaline during the pre 50th days. Now what? Post 50th blues! I'm going to be spending most of my time on a couch with an iced up ankle.

Right now, I have a song stuck in my head. The song? Eddy Money's "I Wanna Go Back". I missed so much of the events of the 50th. I was there, but being at work kept me from really "being there". I missed the LoT debauchery! I missed the geeky moments, and the socializing, and the touching little Disney moments. I did get to see Ally, her new beau, and a hand full of the LoT swanksters at The Lost Bar on the 16th, but for only a couple of hours. I drop in a huge bucket of fun and frivolity.

The post 50th blues are leaving me feeling so left out! Yet, I still know that by working that golden day, I was keeping that spirit alive for everyone else. I did make people smile, and I'm truely a part of the reason Disneyland is the happy place it is. I invested 20 years of my life there, and in those 20 years, I was the heartbeat of a magical place. I guess the blues will pass. Besides, I still can live the LoT vicariously in all of your posts. ;)

[innerSpaceman]

I did get to see Ally, her new beau ...

Hmmm, would that be the caviar gourmet??

[Disneyphile]

I've been feeling "Blah" since I stepped foot off the cruise last month. And then, I had the joy of the Hollywood Bowl concert, and that passed..... more "Blah". And then, the excitement of the 50th, and now, the biggest "Blah" ever.

BLAH!!!!

:(

[innerSpaceman]

I think we need to have a Bust-the-Blahs night out somewhere.




NOT at Disneyland.

[Not Afraid]

There's this film on saturday in a cemetary and you can brink drinks and food and, em, it's really fun.

[Ghoulish Delight]

If it didn't mean attempting to drive to UCLA from Orange starting at 6 on a Friday, we would have gone to tonight's installment of The UCLA Hammer Museum's Sundance Summer Shorts (http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/26/). We could go next week, the last of the series, when CP doesn't work. But this week's lineup of films are what I really wanted to see, the theme being non-traditional film making, and featuring an animation by Don Hertzfeldt (creator of Rejected). Next week's theme is documentaries. I'm sure it would still be entertaining, but I'm really going to regret missing tonight's.

[innerSpaceman]

This weekend I want to do nuthing but veg.


Of course, that's impossible. Because I've got a Luau and a Harry Potter costume party on Saturday, and a Texas Bar-B-Q on Sunday.




I'm really glad things have slowed down after Disneyland Birthday.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

If it didn't mean attempting to drive to UCLA from Orange starting at 6 on a Friday, we would have gone to tonight's installment of The UCLA Hammer Museum's Sundance Summer Shorts (http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/programs/26/). We could go next week, the last of the series, when CP doesn't work. But this week's lineup of films are what I really wanted to see, the theme being non-traditional film making, and featuring an animation by Don Hertzfeldt (creator of Rejected). Next week's theme is documentaries. I'm sure it would still be entertaining, but I'm really going to regret missing tonight's.

Oh, too bad you didn't go. They are featuring the academy-award-winning short for this year, called "Ryan." I can honestly say that it was my favorite film of the year. It was beautiful and brilliant. And I knew the academy would never support something as fragile and incredible as it was. Boy, was I surprised.

If any of you want to see it sometime, we're waiting for our DVD copy to arrive in the mail. It might befit a Ryan-watching party.

[Not Afraid]

I'd be there for that. I've heard great things about that film.

[Kevy Baby]

I think we need to have a Bust-the-Blahs night out somewhere.

NOT at Disneyland.
How about DCA?

(Ducks and runs for cover)

[tracilicious]

All right whiney butts. Here's you: I went to Disneyland and had a fantastic time and now I'm not having as much fun, poor me! :p I'm totally joking, of course, but you guys don't seem to realize how lucky you are that you got to be there at all. I guess that's one good thing about living far away. I can always manage to look forward to my next DL trip. ;)

[TigerLily]

nope...no blues here..:)...I went to DL for an hour got ears...went to dca...got ears ...left dca...they gave me more ears and went home. I LOVED dca that day...we spent most of our time there..:)

[lizziebith]

I have blues because I had to miss the whole darn thang, including an actual iSm party. Crud. Worked the San Diego Con all weekend, which was its own kinda horror/fun, but geez.......

We'll be celebrating later this summer, with all our kids.

And welcome Sameer! ;) Another SW geek here is soooo great!

[CoasterMatt]

I go to a theme park (non Disney) every day for work... it hasn't helped the post 50th blues much (except for the WONDERFUL appletinis after work today)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Heehee, :iSm: sucks at doing nothing. :p

We actually tried to see someone tonight but they were busy, so we're saving Choc. Factory for a matinee tomorrow. I'd like to go clothes shopping, which I really need to do. Sale at Kohls! :snap:

I can see myself staying up and finishing Half-Blood Prince tonight.

Sounds like a perfect weekend to me. :cheers:


I just know we'll end up calling someone Saturday night....must fight social urges...

[BarTopDancer]

I'm solving my post 50th blues by working. Every weekend until sometime in August. Not by choice but at least it's air conditioned and man will I have comp days galore. Then school starts.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Well, one good thing about all these blues going around....the board is hopping, especially for a Friday night. :) Usually there will be 10-20 posts or so. Tonight, I went out for 2 1/2 hours, came back, and there were 104 posts! Big difference.

[AllyOops!]

I had total 50th Blues! I thought it was just me!

On Monday, I seriously couldn't even get out of my jammies all day. My mind wanted to go back, but my body couldn't move. Knowing that most of y'all were still there made it even harder to cope with. Nobody was online! I'm one of those personality types that never wants the party to end. EVER.

I was so down. I'm never that down. :(

I can't stay away from Disney, oh no. As soon as Friday hit, I was merrily driving back to Anaheim. I went for a bit on Saturday, too, and on Sunday I had a birthday party to attend at Rainforest Cafe. It was a totally all-Disney weekend all over again, and that cured my blues.

However, I found the park to be even more crowded on Saturday. The lines for all attractions were beyond out of control (5 words: Huge line for Star Tours) and there were no fireworks (they were also cancelled on Friday, as well.) They were back to blastin' away on Sunday.

However, we got to ride on Pooh Bear. I'm forever on Pooh Bear due to it's "jump right on-edness". We were the ONLY ones in line! :D