Ok, so I realize that I haven't updated my blog lately but here's what's been going on in my life lately!
I got a phone call a few weeks ago from a manger at Revenue Currency and Control at the Magic Kingdom. He told me that my resume caught his eye and it was made even more appealing by the fact that I am currently at DisneyWorld. He asked if instead of starting my professional internship in January if I would start now. I said yes!!!!! So, for the past few weeks I have been following through with all of the proper procedures, interviews and whatnot so that I can start this new job. I am officially starting on October the 6th!!!!!! :):):):):):):):)
Also, once I found out that this was a possibility my friend Beth and I started looking for a place to stay. We found this amazing house out in Kissimmee that we absolutely fell in love with. We put an offer in last week and were crossing our fingers about it. I got a phone call on Monday saying that we were approved for the house! We move in today!!!!!! I am so uber excited!
So, that's my life so far. Everything is going great! I love my life.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Grandparents Visit Me!
My grandparents were here for almost a week!! It was great!
It started with Sunday when I got off of work early and went out to dinner with my grandparents at Perkins. It was fun because I got to hang out and talk with them for about an hour.
Monday was slightly interesting. I worked in the morning training for opening GT at Casey's Corner and after I got off I went to the hotel to get my grandparents so we could go out to dinner at Don Pablo's. On the way out to dinner I realized that I had left my Disney ID and my Vista Way ID in my costume which I had returned to costuming when I left work. So I panicked and me and my grandparents drove back to West Clock to get it. I didn't get to eat dinner until 9 p.m. so I was trying very hard to not be grumpy. But my gramma was happy because she got to see the backside of Disney which my mom has never seen so gramma got to brag about it.
On Tuesday I worked late so that I could train for closing GT at Casey's so that morning I took my grandparents to Cast Connection so we could go shopping and after that we went to Barnes and Noble then out to lunch at Bahama Breeze, where I had never been before. Then I went to work and came home late.
Wednesday was a great day for the most part. We went to Animal Kingdom for half a day before going to Cirque du Soleil. Again, Gramma got to see things my mom hasn't seen before. This time it was the First Aid station at Animal Kingdom. An old lady in an electric wheelchair ran over my foot when I turned around because Gramma called me. The lady would have run over the back of my foot if I hasn't turned because she was going way too fast and following extremely close. So she ran over my foot and in her concern for me she reversed back over it. My foot is still bruised though not as bad as I thought it would be. We went to first aid to get ice and they told me I had to keep the ice on it for 20 minutes. We watched the Festival of the Lion King with me in a wheelchair for the first time in my life. It was very odd for my grandparents to be the ones pushing me in the wheelchair so that I could keep my iced foot elevated so that it wouldn't swell.
That night we went to Cirque du Soleil and Grandpa got to be a star of the show. The show was amazing and at one point they pull someone out of the crowd to replace a clown and Grandpa got to be that person! It was so funny Gramma and I were crying we were laughing so hard. The clown that Grandpa replaced came and sat next to me with Grandpa's camera (which he had been very concerned about being Grandpa) and the clown clung to me with his arms and a leg wrapped around me. Made me and Gramma laugh even harder.
Thursday was fantastic! We went to Magic Kingdom all day. It started with a character breakfast at the Crystal Palace. On the tram over we met 2 little girls and their parents. One of the little girls was named Laurel and Gramma got all excited because I was Laurel. Only I informed her that I was Laurel's daughter, not Laurel herself. It was still fun.
The character breakfast was wonderful. Great food and we got to meet Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger. After that we went on all the rides and saw all the shows that I wanted us to do. And we did it all before 2 with some extra rides thrown in! We didn't wait more than 10 minutes for anything. It was fabulous!! Then we watched the 3 o'clock parade before going home for naps. We went out to dinner at Qdoba, a Chipotle like store near my apartment, and then we went back to the park to watch the night parade and the fireworks.
That concludes my week with my grandparents. Pictures will follow soon. Byes!!
It started with Sunday when I got off of work early and went out to dinner with my grandparents at Perkins. It was fun because I got to hang out and talk with them for about an hour.
Monday was slightly interesting. I worked in the morning training for opening GT at Casey's Corner and after I got off I went to the hotel to get my grandparents so we could go out to dinner at Don Pablo's. On the way out to dinner I realized that I had left my Disney ID and my Vista Way ID in my costume which I had returned to costuming when I left work. So I panicked and me and my grandparents drove back to West Clock to get it. I didn't get to eat dinner until 9 p.m. so I was trying very hard to not be grumpy. But my gramma was happy because she got to see the backside of Disney which my mom has never seen so gramma got to brag about it.
On Tuesday I worked late so that I could train for closing GT at Casey's so that morning I took my grandparents to Cast Connection so we could go shopping and after that we went to Barnes and Noble then out to lunch at Bahama Breeze, where I had never been before. Then I went to work and came home late.
Wednesday was a great day for the most part. We went to Animal Kingdom for half a day before going to Cirque du Soleil. Again, Gramma got to see things my mom hasn't seen before. This time it was the First Aid station at Animal Kingdom. An old lady in an electric wheelchair ran over my foot when I turned around because Gramma called me. The lady would have run over the back of my foot if I hasn't turned because she was going way too fast and following extremely close. So she ran over my foot and in her concern for me she reversed back over it. My foot is still bruised though not as bad as I thought it would be. We went to first aid to get ice and they told me I had to keep the ice on it for 20 minutes. We watched the Festival of the Lion King with me in a wheelchair for the first time in my life. It was very odd for my grandparents to be the ones pushing me in the wheelchair so that I could keep my iced foot elevated so that it wouldn't swell.
That night we went to Cirque du Soleil and Grandpa got to be a star of the show. The show was amazing and at one point they pull someone out of the crowd to replace a clown and Grandpa got to be that person! It was so funny Gramma and I were crying we were laughing so hard. The clown that Grandpa replaced came and sat next to me with Grandpa's camera (which he had been very concerned about being Grandpa) and the clown clung to me with his arms and a leg wrapped around me. Made me and Gramma laugh even harder.
Thursday was fantastic! We went to Magic Kingdom all day. It started with a character breakfast at the Crystal Palace. On the tram over we met 2 little girls and their parents. One of the little girls was named Laurel and Gramma got all excited because I was Laurel. Only I informed her that I was Laurel's daughter, not Laurel herself. It was still fun.
The character breakfast was wonderful. Great food and we got to meet Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger. After that we went on all the rides and saw all the shows that I wanted us to do. And we did it all before 2 with some extra rides thrown in! We didn't wait more than 10 minutes for anything. It was fabulous!! Then we watched the 3 o'clock parade before going home for naps. We went out to dinner at Qdoba, a Chipotle like store near my apartment, and then we went back to the park to watch the night parade and the fireworks.
That concludes my week with my grandparents. Pictures will follow soon. Byes!!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Rant followed by GT stuff
Ok, seriously the moron who created Vista Way needs to be smacked. Who the heck builds an apartment complex in freaking Florida that doesn't have any rain gutters/drains?!?! Seriously, in case no one has ever noticed it rains a lot in Florida and having to walk through puddles that come above my ankle is absurd. While I may not be that tall the puddles still shouldn't be that high. It didn't even rain a lot today and the puddles got huge and deep! Idiots.
Anyways, on to happier news. I began my GT training yesterday and aside from the having to get up ridiculously early I love it!!!! My trainer is a great deal of fun which is a relief because I was getting mixed reviews from everyone about her. She was amazing and I learned a lot from her. Yesterday I just followed and watched what she did. Today, however, I "ran" the show. That means that anytime there was a problem I fixed it, I did most of the setting up this morning and unless I couldn't figure something out (which only happened once) my trainer let me do everything. It was great!!!
Apparently though I am a bad daughter because I neglected to tell my mother that I work in an ice cream parlor attached to a bakery. I just kept referring to it as shops which is what it's called here in Magic Kingdom lingo and I forgot that my parents who don't work here didn't know that. Granted, my mother didn't say that I was a terrible daughter but she was just adorably excited and jealous of me working in an ice cream shop that I think she wishes we may be able to switch lives for a few days. I'm not allowed to eat any of the ice cream though. That might kill the desire to be me just slightly.
Also, as a yay me for running the show today, the Snow White DVD that I ordered weeks ago as a go me for getting the position showed up today. So that's what I'm watching now. I'm going to get back to that. Byes!!
Anyways, on to happier news. I began my GT training yesterday and aside from the having to get up ridiculously early I love it!!!! My trainer is a great deal of fun which is a relief because I was getting mixed reviews from everyone about her. She was amazing and I learned a lot from her. Yesterday I just followed and watched what she did. Today, however, I "ran" the show. That means that anytime there was a problem I fixed it, I did most of the setting up this morning and unless I couldn't figure something out (which only happened once) my trainer let me do everything. It was great!!!
Apparently though I am a bad daughter because I neglected to tell my mother that I work in an ice cream parlor attached to a bakery. I just kept referring to it as shops which is what it's called here in Magic Kingdom lingo and I forgot that my parents who don't work here didn't know that. Granted, my mother didn't say that I was a terrible daughter but she was just adorably excited and jealous of me working in an ice cream shop that I think she wishes we may be able to switch lives for a few days. I'm not allowed to eat any of the ice cream though. That might kill the desire to be me just slightly.
Also, as a yay me for running the show today, the Snow White DVD that I ordered weeks ago as a go me for getting the position showed up today. So that's what I'm watching now. I'm going to get back to that. Byes!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
More Pictures
So, I got kind of picture happy since I finally got all the pictures Wenn has taken because my camera committed suicide. Enjoy.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Good Days is all I want to focus on
A week ago, Bethany got here!!! She lives "across the street" from me, which means that she lives across the pool from me at Vista. Her roommates are very nice and seem like great girls. It makes me excited for her because I know she was somewhat worried about coming down here. One of her roommates is one of the chipmunks and has told Bethany that she will go to any voice audition they find out about with Bethany so they won't be alone. Yay ra Bethany has someone to sing with! I know she misses Haylie, her old roommate from college, but I think this will be a good growing up stepping stone for Bethany.
Yesterday, I got a phone call for a preliminary interview for the Disney Professional Internship. The lady who did the interview told me I will definitely be getting a second interview in November sometime. I'm torn about this internship and coming home. I already talked to my dad about this, but if I don't get a raise for this internship I will be coming home because I will have more expenses with less money if that's the case. Part of growing up is having to pay college loans off and I won't be able to do that here. But I am at least going to follow through to the next step of the process before making any permanent decisions.
I get to see Alissa, Mike and the boys in 39 days and Matt and Bailey in 38 days!!!!!!
My grandparents are here in 8 days!!!!!! I plan on spending both my days off with them. One day we will go the Magic Kingdom so that I can show them around my park and the other day we can do whatever, maybe go to another park of their choosing. If we go to another park I think we might go to Animal Kingdom because it has birds and we all know that Grandpa loves birds. Almost as much as he loves chocolate cookies ;P.
Tomorrow I am going with 2 of my roommates to get a massage. We found a place earlier this week when we got pedicures that has an hour long massage for $35 instead of $70. Heck yes!! We are so looking forward to that. I think I made Mom a little jealous with that. Sorry Mom!!!
Also with my roommates, we will go shopping to Bed Bath and Beyond because I have a graduation gift certificate to that store and I sometimes like being a geeky grown up and being happy going to that store. And we might go to Old Navy for a clothes shopping fix and we will got to Company D so that Beth and I can figure out how much of a discount we get on park tickets once our free main gate passes run out.
Food and Wine Festival at Epcot starts soon so I will be getting Extra Magic Hours there which means more money for me!!
I should be getting a care package from Matt and Bailey soon which makes me happy! My siblings love me :)
I am also getting a care envelope from my parents since I already got their care package. I'm excited about that one too.
And I should be getting Snow White in the mail any day now (the dvd) because I ordered that as a yay me for getting a promotion.
I start my training for GT on Wednesday!!!! I will start getting more hours and actually be doing something slightly related to my major.
Sorry for the long post but it's been a while since I updated and I decided that a post full of only good news was a good thing. Helps everyone know that I am ok and helps me remember that the good always outweighs the bad.
Yesterday, I got a phone call for a preliminary interview for the Disney Professional Internship. The lady who did the interview told me I will definitely be getting a second interview in November sometime. I'm torn about this internship and coming home. I already talked to my dad about this, but if I don't get a raise for this internship I will be coming home because I will have more expenses with less money if that's the case. Part of growing up is having to pay college loans off and I won't be able to do that here. But I am at least going to follow through to the next step of the process before making any permanent decisions.
I get to see Alissa, Mike and the boys in 39 days and Matt and Bailey in 38 days!!!!!!
My grandparents are here in 8 days!!!!!! I plan on spending both my days off with them. One day we will go the Magic Kingdom so that I can show them around my park and the other day we can do whatever, maybe go to another park of their choosing. If we go to another park I think we might go to Animal Kingdom because it has birds and we all know that Grandpa loves birds. Almost as much as he loves chocolate cookies ;P.
Tomorrow I am going with 2 of my roommates to get a massage. We found a place earlier this week when we got pedicures that has an hour long massage for $35 instead of $70. Heck yes!! We are so looking forward to that. I think I made Mom a little jealous with that. Sorry Mom!!!
Also with my roommates, we will go shopping to Bed Bath and Beyond because I have a graduation gift certificate to that store and I sometimes like being a geeky grown up and being happy going to that store. And we might go to Old Navy for a clothes shopping fix and we will got to Company D so that Beth and I can figure out how much of a discount we get on park tickets once our free main gate passes run out.
Food and Wine Festival at Epcot starts soon so I will be getting Extra Magic Hours there which means more money for me!!
I should be getting a care package from Matt and Bailey soon which makes me happy! My siblings love me :)
I am also getting a care envelope from my parents since I already got their care package. I'm excited about that one too.
And I should be getting Snow White in the mail any day now (the dvd) because I ordered that as a yay me for getting a promotion.
I start my training for GT on Wednesday!!!! I will start getting more hours and actually be doing something slightly related to my major.
Sorry for the long post but it's been a while since I updated and I decided that a post full of only good news was a good thing. Helps everyone know that I am ok and helps me remember that the good always outweighs the bad.
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