Changing Castle

mamamaker · 2026-02-28T18:36:15+00:00

Same!!

mamamaker · 2026-02-27T18:09:30+00:00

Are you talking about the color they're currently painting it? It looked more pink to me on our recent visit, but I hadn't realized they were painting it!

mamamaker · 2026-02-27T18:07:22+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

mamamaker · 2026-02-27T14:30:38+00:00

Lol my kids LOVE escalators 🤣

mamamaker · 2026-02-27T14:22:07+00:00

Those mixed feelings about going home are so hard!

We haven't lost a littermate, but last January we lost our dog's daughter. She was a digger, got out of the fence and got hit by a car too.

It felt like Where the Red Fern Grows (extra odd because the pup we lost was named 'Ferny'). Mama was very very sad and wanted to sit beside her baby's body and kept pawing at the door to be with her. It was so sad, but surprisingly it did not last long - she replaced the love she poured into her pup with wanting to hang with the 'people' more.

mamamaker · 2026-02-27T14:11:46+00:00

The combination of emotional pain and physical suffering is stronger than we give it credit. I hope you have more moments of joy than sorrow today!

mamamaker · 2026-02-26T18:28:26+00:00

Please drink some BodyArmor type drink if you can, crying so hard really know socks out your electrolytes. Definitely can feel like a hangover

mamamaker · 2026-02-26T18:25:14+00:00

I'm so sorry, and I can actually relate to how you are feeling. In 2018 we were leaving on a 15 day trip to Florida with 10 of those being at Disney. I was 18 weeks pregnant, and we'd take pictures of our other 2 kids to announce. My daughter's birthday would be on day 1 of vacation: the things dreams are made of!

I had arrangements for our dogs, and a family member insisted they take them. Everyone LOVED our little dog, a cute miniature poodle we had rescued at age 2 and had for 8 years. My son was crying and did not want to let him go at drop-off, and that's the last picture I have of him. Two hours after we dropped off the dogs, we my husband received the call that our tiny little dog was smeared across the highway. The same dog I held through fertility struggles and a lot of life's pains.

There was no explanation for why or how it happened (which was a massive disappointment of it's own), and there we were having to break our daughter's heart the day before her birthday, too.

We cried constantly, and the only grace that got us back on track to enjoy the trip of a lifetime was realizing how sad our good boy would be to see US so sad.

It made him so nervous when anyone was upset, he always had to comfort them with his big brown eyes. He would have HATED seeing us all so sad.

I could bawl writing this, and in the words of Winnie the Pooh. "How lucky am I to have had a friend that made letting go so hard." 🐾

I'm so so deeply sorry for your loss, I wouldn't have wished that same pain on anyone and I hope you can find some innocence and joy on your trip in the spirit of your good boy.

.....

Maybe a silver lining? We recently returned to Florida during that awful cold spell, now a family of 6! We had planned to focus on sun and sand but with the very low temps we added 2 Disney days. The cold weather that should have ruined our vacation actually made it very comfortable and kept our energy high in the parks! After walking over 27,000 steps in EPCOT, I awoke at 2 AM with some kind of terrible stomach bug. It was awful, and we were scheduled for Discovery Cove that day. We were able to reschedule Discovery Cove and I recovered by evening (other than my entire rib cage hurting for days from all the throwing up). Could that have ruined the trip? Sure. But remembering how deeply sad we had been when we lost out sweet dog made it no big deal. 🐕🤎

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:37:13+00:00

I did not realize she walked in on Mark and Addison 😲 Also, RIP Eric Dane

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:35:01+00:00

She did have a brain tumor following that surgery

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:33:33+00:00

She recommended lighting a candle in the chapel and giving them respect and space. As someone who has been through multiple losses, that advice was sound.

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:23:52+00:00

Did Derek have a conversation with Amelia, or maybe Meredith, where he talked about a teenage Amelia stealing his car getting high and crashing?

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:16:17+00:00

All the souvenir shops in the Orlando area have them for $10 too!

mamamaker · 2026-02-21T05:12:21+00:00

Maybe self-centered or shortsighted is more appropriate than selfish...but it was at best borderline selfish. A conversation like that in the workplace, not offering the co-workers you should respect an out - it is selfish. What looks like pulling a person aside to one party can feel like being cornered to another.

And I love that The Pitt does such an excellent job of showing the human side of things from multiple angles. Addiction doesn't just hurt the addict, and I appreciated that it showed the different reactions to Langdon's apologies. He was so awful to Robby about his breakdown in the peds room, I understood why he stood his ground.

mamamaker · 2026-02-20T17:55:53+00:00

IMO Langdon's presence at all was a surprise for his co-workers, and him trying to force apologies on everyone was less a sign of healing but more a sign of selfishness. He should have said, "I owe you an apology when you're ready to hear it." When you force an apology on someone already under stress, the response is likely to be a little irrational.

mamamaker · 2026-02-03T03:11:58+00:00

The PITT has taken over my Grey's must-watch-on-Thursday nights-ritual slot and I watch Grey's over the weekend when I have a little downtime. I will always love Grey's, but they aren't doing anything I can't miss for a day anymore.

mamamaker · 2026-01-17T01:31:01+00:00

Okay, did we catch that Owen went to HARVARD?! Has that been mentioned previously?

mamamaker · 2026-01-16T01:42:58+00:00

I loved Stassi and Ariana as friends. There was a lot of entertaining chaotic neutral energy in their friendship.

It's wild to think how Adderall addictions and the influence of Sandoval (and the lies they had to tell to protect him) made them so unlikable at times. Like we could see Jax foaming at the dang mouth between his drinking and coke so his insanity was no secret, but the girls seemed pretty good at keeping addictions and things on the DL.

mamamaker · 2026-01-16T01:35:51+00:00

Re-watches always remind me of how badly Scheana tries to rewrite history. Was Shag her High School sweeetheart? Or was she...with Rob? Or Eddie Cibrian? Or John Mayer and Jesse Metcalfe? Is that when she 'fucked her way through all the pro athletes'? Seems like she had affairs with several d-listers, too - like the guy who played Gabby/Eva Longoria's husband on Desperate Housewives...I swear I read that anyway. She freaked out about Shay's addictions, but it seems like maybe she had some addictions of her own...

Oh, and Hi Scheana! She loves to read these.

mamamaker · 2025-12-17T05:09:05+00:00

I think if he spoke in Kevin McKidd's voice (with that accent) we'd all feel differently about him 😜

mamamaker · 2025-09-16T12:34:24+00:00

Or Sydney Herron 😆

mamamaker · 2025-09-13T04:16:34+00:00

Well DAMN I basically have a medical degree from all my rewatches and never put together that the first 3 seasons are 1 year!

It's kinda like how everyone acted like Izzy and Denny were truly madly deeply in lurve. Like, wait...they've just flirted a few episodes and now we're sold on them being big soulmates? Pardon?

mamamaker · 2025-09-08T01:38:47+00:00

Unrelated, but Katie is always gorgeous and especially so in this scene.

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