Sherry E
Currently tag-less...
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2008
Sherry! Thank goodness I knew you're OK from Facebook! We sure have missed you over here!
(Apparently not everyone missed me! )
Sherry! Thank goodness I knew you're OK from Facebook! We sure have missed you over here!
Lol is it just me or does that gift card seem perfect for you
I just tried some Dreyers Peppermint Wonderland (not slow churned) that I bought earlier today at Ralph's. Dreyers is on sale at Ralph's this week $3.49 for one or $2.79 each when you buy 2 and yes you are able to mix and match. To be fair, I have not had Peppermint ice cream in half a dozen years due to my TMJ (jaw joint) condition. I'm not able to crunch on the hard candy pieces. I wanted to be able to taste a little of it this year and figured I could pick out the candy pieces or with hot fudge they would melt anyway. Sherry, I have never ever had the Slow Churned version. I did think of that with how this ice cream tasted to me. The ice cream itself is white, no longer pink. The candy pieces are still pink. I did suck on a candy piece and that does have a peppermint taste to it. The smooth white ice cream tastes more like strange vanilla....frozen toothpaste? It does not taste too minty at all to me.
I did call Dreyers and they are sending me out a full value coupon which was very kind. The customer service lady I spoke with said that the ice cream was once pink. It is now white due to consumer complaints about the pink dye. She said the white vs. pink might be why it tastes different to me but she did not say that for sure. I was disappointed. I do remember even last year Baskin and Robbins did carry pink Peppermint Stick ice cream. I will check this year and give that a try. I just wanted to give all of you a heads up on that. I hope if any of you tastes this flavor this year that it tastes sweeter to you--keep in mind I also have a very sweet tooth and lol the sweeter the better
P.S. Does anyone know if the Peppermint ice cream is pink at Disneyland or is it also white?
Happy Thanksgining to Sherry and all those who frequent this thread. In 20 days we will be surrounded by Disney cheer. Oh, so much to be thankful for!!
It's great to see you, Sherry! I was wondering what had happened to you!
I'm sorry that you felt like your work and this thread wasn't appreciated. I can't speak for everyone, but I can tell you that our family very much appreciated it! 2015 was our first holiday visit to DLR, and your thread was a wealth of information and a great place to come and ask questions! I am looking forward to being able to (assuming they continue ) participate in the theme week photos later this year! Thank you so much...we couldn't have had a better trip! And now I"m totally hooked on DLR at the holidays, and want to go back again next year...it's addictive!
Great to see you Sherry! I am also very sorry to hear you felt under appreciated last year for all your hard work on here. :/ Thank you for all you do on these boards! I enjoy this Christmas thread so much, especially the photos as it's a way for all of us, especially regular posters, to get to know each other a bit more personally. Lol, today is the start of Lent and I still have yet to post my December TR. I will try to do that this afternoon, if I am not melted from it being 90! Definitely a great time for PINK peppermint stick ice cream. I was it were a year round flavor at Baskin Robbins. As I posted last year that Dreyers stuff was horrible! :/ I did try Ralph’s (Kroger) Brand and at least that was pink.
To all, a wonderful minty ice cream I recently discovered is Safeway Brand, I get it at Pavilions. Mint Chocolate Cookie Crumble. Yes, the “mint” ice cream is green and not white. The cookie part is not very chewy (I have jaw joint issues) so I’m able to enjoy. It’s a million times better, IMO than that Dreyers plus because it is store brand, it’s more often on sale. Check it out and enjoy
I’m typing this up in Word and will copy/paste back into the reply box. Is anyone else having difficulty with the reply box this morning? For me, it is very slow for type to show up and not all the letters in words are sticking
Keep cool (or warm) everyone and Happy Wednesday
Sherry, so glad to 'see' you back here! I hope you know how much you are appreciated! I know for me, your Halloween thread was what made our October 2014 trip so awesome, and as well this year for our November trip. So much info, and all the excitement just helps to build up the feeling of anticipation when you are waiting to go. It is also so fun to look back on my photos and see everyone else's photos from Christmas time at DLR. I made sure to take a ton of pictures this year of the decorations so that I am set for the theme weeks. I hope you do them again. But I do understand that it must be a huge amount of work. Big hug!
Sherry, your the best! Thanks so much for all you do on these super threads! I for one use them all the time and find them super helpful.
PS: The offer I sent you after my Halloween trip this last year still stands. I still have the Lithograph and would be more than happy to send one to you. PM me if you would like one of them.
-Lane
Sherry I'm glad to see you back on the boards again!! I had wondered what happened to you. I'm sorry you didn't feel appreciated on the thread. I know that both of your threads helped a great deal when planning my past trips during Halloween and Christmastime at DL. Unfortunately I lost all of my pics and 4 years of data when Windows 10 ate my laptop in Oct. Still using our back up computer until we finally have the time to replace it in a couple of weeks. Am currently planning another solo trip to DL in May/17.
Did anyone miss me? Well, too bad if you didn't because I'm here! I'm here! I'm here!
I will probably move us over to a new Superthread soon -- we're not at the page limit for this one, but... new year, new thread, I suppose. I'll let you know when that happens.
How did everyone's holiday season go?
By the way, three holiday food-related things:
1. I was so very disappointed with Dreyer's stupid Peppermint Wonderland ice cream in 2015 -- I hate white peppermint ice cream that should be pink, and I hate mysterious blobs of peppermint goo where there should be crushed peppermint candy chunks. I actually resorted to a generic store brand just so I could have PINK peppermint ice cream. Dreyer's, you let me down -- no more 10 cartons per year of Peppermint Wonderland for me;
2. I tried the elusive Gingerbread Oreos (which had been gone since 2013, and I had never tried), as they mercifully returned as a Target exclusive last year, and... YUM!!!!!!!!!! Delicious!!; and
3. Full-sized bars/sheets of Ghirardelli Peppermint Bark are currently at the 99 Cents Only Store! Yay!
Edited to add: During the holidays I watched all 17 new Christmas movies on Hallmark; 3 out of 4 new ones on HMM; most of the new ones on Lifetime; countless repeats of older movies; and several more new ones between ION, UP and INSP. I even re-watched some favorites on ABC Family/Freeform.
Thank you for your thoughts. Others here already answered you, but what you said kind of touched on one of the reasons why you guys didn't see me here, and why I stopped updating page 1 for the holiday season last year. It takes a lot of effort to put these threads together, and no one ever asked me to do it. I was the one who created the Superthreads for the Holidays and for Halloween Time, out of my love for and knowledge of those seasons at DLR, and because I am good at giving explicit info to people and focusing on a lot of details that others might overlook. Also, I take a lot of photos as a rule, so sharing those helps with my Theme Week Countdowns every year. These threads are my babies. When it seems like the work is neither needed nor appreciated, or when it seems like people are going to sort of work against the purpose of this thread and then start separate threads for every single thing, then I just... give up. There's no point in putting in the effort. That's not the only reason why you didn't see me here, of course, but it was one of them.
The entire point of this thread -- in addition to giving out info -- was to consolidate holiday details and info in one place, and have a one-stop shop for info and news so that it is not scattered to and fro all over the forum (which can also be very overwhelming and confusing). Sometimes people start threads and ask the same things over and over because they don't want to post in a thread that has more than 5 pages in it, or search for other threads on the forum, and it's not always necessary to start all of those threads much of the time. They could come here and ask a question and someone could answer it, or we could point them in the direction of where to find the info. No one has to read the whole thread, so it doesn't have to be overwhelming and confusing, but -- ordinarily -- when the posts on page 1 are updated, as they would typically be under regular circumstances, people can go to page 1 and skim down the posts to find whatever holiday-related subject they need and read up on it.
I didn't update page 1 after a certain point last year -- normally I would have updated everything -- so that may have been why it was hard to find things. Otherwise, everything is ordinarily broken down by category and updated.
And no, I will not be doing a pre-holiday thread and then a new thread when the holidays begin. One Superthread. Also, I started this current thread in December of 2014 -- so it's not like it was years old. But I had already planned on starting a new thread this year because I wanted to get the Halloween thread AND the holiday thread started at the same time for a change, so it would be easier for me to keep track of both of them and how far each one advances in the same period of time.
The reason my Superthreads get so big is because they are popular, informative (and hopefully fun) threads. If there were no activity going on, nor reasons to actually come here and tune in/follow along, they would be 2 pages long and disappear forever into the archives. Big threads are usually big threads for a good reason.
My son will drive up from Fallbrook and meet us.We are going to have a short two day stay at the GCH. I've never been at springtime. I know it will be crowded the week before Easter, but it is when our break is. It will be fun to just be there again.
iOh my, that is the city (Fallbrook) where my nephew is getting married the first weekend of December! I keep asking my sister and nephew about hotels, etc but they keep saying they don't know. Ugh. Trying to plan even a day at Disneyland since we will be in California.
Oh, Sherry! I was worried that something horrible had happened to you. I thought you were terribly ill, but then someone posted that you were on Facebook.Christmas just wasn't the same here without you. No movie chats, no snack chats, no personal Sherry touches. I even posted asking how to become your friend on Facebook because I was missing you, but whomever was in charge did not post my post! Something told me to log on today and see. Voila! Here you are! Please don't ever leave us again!
My holiday trip was great, but the DL decorations were meh! Even the DL 60th decorations were meh! I think we are going to skip going next year because of all the changes. However, my DD and I are taking a spring break trip to the San Diego area so she can check out a few colleges. She invited her boyfriend along and he has never been to DL. How could we resist?! My son will drive up from Fallbrook and meet us.We are going to have a short two day stay at the GCH. I've never been at springtime. I know it will be crowded the week before Easter, but it is when our break is. It will be fun to just be there again.
Stay well and happy, Sherry. You are much loved!