So today…well I since overnights let out, my entire sleep schedule is out of whack! So I went to bed last night around 10:30 and slept till about 1:30. I got up to go to the bathroom, and couldn’t fall back asleep. I laid in bed for like an hour and just couldn’t fall asleep so I decided to watch “Facing the Giants.” Well that bled into my alarm so really I got a grand total of about 3 hours of sleep last night! Needless to say, I was exhausted today!
I got to Epcot way way early, so I took the opportunity to dive into this book my mom sent me on joy! It’s really good! Then I got pulled to go over to the Beach and Yacht Club and help out with the breakfast shift over there! It’s been so long since I’ve been able to just do sets; I really miss it. Well, I got into a grove and was just kickin butt, if I do say so myself ☺.
After I finished off there, I returned a movie to Blockbuster and started on my mountain of laundry. While that was going, I made lunch. After the switch from washer to dryer was made, I decided to take a quick catnap, which extended a little longer than I thought! I thought they were going to have to pry me from the bed with the Jaws of Life! Once I had forced myself to get up and fold my laundry, it was once again time to head back into work. I had to do the parade again tonight! It actually went really well (though every time I say that I get hard core criticism from the parade choreographer for something I did wrong—so—it went really bad! ☺).
I met Jessica at the time clock and the two of us headed off into the sunset for a hearty dinner at Arby’s. It was a good day! Tomorrow gonna’s be a good one too! Man this book on joy is really working!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
"Wardrobe Malfunction"
Today was nice because all I had to do was the parade tonight so that meant I had the morning completely to myself. Well, my plan was to wake up and run back up to the Florida Mall to do a little more shopping. Since I’m still trying to readjust to my old sleeping schedule, I was still so exhausted, I decided I would just turn off my alarm and go back to sleep. I ended up forcing myself out of bed around 3 so that I could get ready and be sure to be at work on time. Once I had gotten there, things seemed to kind of take a turn for the worst.
The costuming department was having a really hard night for some reason. A ton of the costumes weren’t ready, which put everyone in a state of panic. The costumes take so long to get all wired up, we ended up running so far behind schedule. Because they were in such a rush, they didn’t plug our outfits in correctly, so the two of us were blinking on and off the entire parade.
Once the parade had finished I headed home pretty quick so I could get some dinner and get ready for bed. I’ve got to be up for a 6:30am shift tomorrow so I’d like to be in bed before midnight. Finger’s crossed.
The costuming department was having a really hard night for some reason. A ton of the costumes weren’t ready, which put everyone in a state of panic. The costumes take so long to get all wired up, we ended up running so far behind schedule. Because they were in such a rush, they didn’t plug our outfits in correctly, so the two of us were blinking on and off the entire parade.
Once the parade had finished I headed home pretty quick so I could get some dinner and get ready for bed. I’ve got to be up for a 6:30am shift tomorrow so I’d like to be in bed before midnight. Finger’s crossed.
Friday, November 6, 2009
"I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down in My Heart!"
Well today completed my over night rehearsals. Last night we finished the week of runs by performing for various high official Disney cast members. Once that was done, runs kind of went pretty easily. HGTV was in the park filming a documentary so they did a couple of shots with various members of the cast dancing out “phony” dance numbers on the stage.
I don’t know what was wrong with me last night, perhaps it was sleep deprivation, but I was so fed up with this show. It was one of those nights were everything was irritating and I was just in such an unusually unpleasant mood. Finally, I had to just force myself to close my eye while waiting to go out and just pray and ask for forgiveness for my lousy attitude. The Lord really seemed to help me from there because I was just able to chill out. I got to talk with another friend last night about eternity; it wasn’t really in depth but it at least gave him a chance to know where I stand. What I find interesting is that both he and my roommate said, “Well what if I believe one thing all my life and it turns out to be wrong.” They say they’re just going to do their best at life and hope that it’s good enough.
After work, I came home and slept for about 6 hours before I had to get up and run to the mall for a group project. Well, one of the girls in our group is seriously the most negative person I have ever met in my life. I am not exaggerating when I say that every word that came out of her mouth was negative. AND she wouldn’t shut up! This girl must snort pessimism. When the project was over I just sat in my car saying, “Wow. Wow!” over and over again. It, again, reminded me just how much a positive person can impact the world. We have a prime opportunity not only to have joy ourselves but to spread it to others that would never seek it for themselves. That is one of the biggest things that will draw a Christian out and make them look distinct and worth emulating.
I don’t know what was wrong with me last night, perhaps it was sleep deprivation, but I was so fed up with this show. It was one of those nights were everything was irritating and I was just in such an unusually unpleasant mood. Finally, I had to just force myself to close my eye while waiting to go out and just pray and ask for forgiveness for my lousy attitude. The Lord really seemed to help me from there because I was just able to chill out. I got to talk with another friend last night about eternity; it wasn’t really in depth but it at least gave him a chance to know where I stand. What I find interesting is that both he and my roommate said, “Well what if I believe one thing all my life and it turns out to be wrong.” They say they’re just going to do their best at life and hope that it’s good enough.
After work, I came home and slept for about 6 hours before I had to get up and run to the mall for a group project. Well, one of the girls in our group is seriously the most negative person I have ever met in my life. I am not exaggerating when I say that every word that came out of her mouth was negative. AND she wouldn’t shut up! This girl must snort pessimism. When the project was over I just sat in my car saying, “Wow. Wow!” over and over again. It, again, reminded me just how much a positive person can impact the world. We have a prime opportunity not only to have joy ourselves but to spread it to others that would never seek it for themselves. That is one of the biggest things that will draw a Christian out and make them look distinct and worth emulating.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
"A Sweaty Mess"
Well friends this one’s gonna be short and sweet, I’m running a little late ☺. Last night ran pretty similarly to the other two nights. We got there and got all set up and had our pyro demonstration. Let me explain—at the end of each show, fireworks shoot off the top of the castle; they wanted to give us a preview of it. It looked great! So then we started our runs. The majority of them were in full costume so last night was the first time it all really seemed to come together.
I only had to do the last two runs so I thought I would run up and get ahead by getting into my costume basics. I got all suited up and came marching back down to the front of the stage. So I’m sitting there next to my friend and all the sudden I said, “Man these basics are wet. Gosh, it feels like they just pulled them out of the wash.” Well, my friend leans over and checks the name tag on the back of the costume; they were his. The sick nasty sweaty ones that he just finished wearing. EWWW! Needless to say, I jumped out of those pretty quickly! Really that was the highlight of the night. Oh such good times at my expense—just like home ☺!
I only had to do the last two runs so I thought I would run up and get ahead by getting into my costume basics. I got all suited up and came marching back down to the front of the stage. So I’m sitting there next to my friend and all the sudden I said, “Man these basics are wet. Gosh, it feels like they just pulled them out of the wash.” Well, my friend leans over and checks the name tag on the back of the costume; they were his. The sick nasty sweaty ones that he just finished wearing. EWWW! Needless to say, I jumped out of those pretty quickly! Really that was the highlight of the night. Oh such good times at my expense—just like home ☺!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
"Catching Up"
Hello there friends! Long time no blog! Sorry, I’ve been on overnights and my sleeping pattern is a little outta whack! For instance, I’m heading into work in about and hour and will be there until 6:30 tomorrow morning! Yes!
So where to begin, well I’ll just kind of recap last night because the past two nights have kind of just mashed together into a tired blur. Okay, I get to work with around 10 with my fuzzy blanket and fold up chair in-toe. After checking in and getting layers and layers of basics on, I headed over to the warm up room to wait for a park clear call. Once we’d finally gotten that, we all headed upstairs to the stage. Now last night we only did 6 runs so that was nice. They had the Christmas lights on the castle all done up so that looked amazing! There were all of these beautiful ice cycles hanging from every spire. Ahhh, Prince Charming should be commended for his incredible Christmas light hanging ability. So we get up on stage. I’m going to give you a little special insight here, when we’re up on stage people are talking and screaming and whatever but because the music is so loud the audience can’t hear that. So there’s a part in the show where all the VIPs (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Chip & Dale) have to get out of the way because the equity dancers are all spinning their way down to the front of the stage to do these high kicks! Well last night, all the VIPs are screaming at the top of their lungs! Minnie sounded like she was being stabbed and I look over and Pluto and Chip are hugging the platform for dear life, screaming as the dancers twirl by them—it was wonderful!
After that, they filled the snowflake machine so they could fire that puppy up for the end of the show. Well, the food table was sitting right under it. So at the end of the number all these massive soap flakes comes drifting down toward our open food containers, so three of us go running over there in hopes to cover the dip with our fuzzy blankets.
It was a lot of fun last night! Tonight is our first full costume run so that’ll be loads of fun! I can’t wait to blog about it tomorrow! In the words of my favorite mouse, “See ya real soon!”
So where to begin, well I’ll just kind of recap last night because the past two nights have kind of just mashed together into a tired blur. Okay, I get to work with around 10 with my fuzzy blanket and fold up chair in-toe. After checking in and getting layers and layers of basics on, I headed over to the warm up room to wait for a park clear call. Once we’d finally gotten that, we all headed upstairs to the stage. Now last night we only did 6 runs so that was nice. They had the Christmas lights on the castle all done up so that looked amazing! There were all of these beautiful ice cycles hanging from every spire. Ahhh, Prince Charming should be commended for his incredible Christmas light hanging ability. So we get up on stage. I’m going to give you a little special insight here, when we’re up on stage people are talking and screaming and whatever but because the music is so loud the audience can’t hear that. So there’s a part in the show where all the VIPs (Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and Chip & Dale) have to get out of the way because the equity dancers are all spinning their way down to the front of the stage to do these high kicks! Well last night, all the VIPs are screaming at the top of their lungs! Minnie sounded like she was being stabbed and I look over and Pluto and Chip are hugging the platform for dear life, screaming as the dancers twirl by them—it was wonderful!
After that, they filled the snowflake machine so they could fire that puppy up for the end of the show. Well, the food table was sitting right under it. So at the end of the number all these massive soap flakes comes drifting down toward our open food containers, so three of us go running over there in hopes to cover the dip with our fuzzy blankets.
It was a lot of fun last night! Tonight is our first full costume run so that’ll be loads of fun! I can’t wait to blog about it tomorrow! In the words of my favorite mouse, “See ya real soon!”
Sunday, November 1, 2009
"Homework, Homework, Homework"
Today I had yet another day off, so I took advantage of it by doing all the homework that I had put off yesterday. So around noon, I headed to Panera and took up my usual spot by the window. I was there till about 7ish working on COM102.
After finishing up there, I headed back to the apartment to find Mike lying on the couch watching football. I had the option to either sit and do that, or to just put my hand in the blender…I chose the latter ☺.
I took up residence in the bedroom. After spending a little time in there, I can back out into the living room and Mike had decided it was time for a change of pace, so he switched it to some crazy weird show, so I just plugged in my headphones and zoned. That could only last so long, so I ended up giving Jessica a call begging her to relieve me from my boredom. Luckily enough, her and Meghan were home so I ran over there and watched some TV with them. Around 11, I ended up heading back to the apartment; however, Meghan was kind enough to let me borrow "Sister Act"so my night wasn’t a complete drag. I got to watch that! Love that movie!
Well, now that that’s over I think I’ll probably head to bed. I’ve got a long day tomorrow. I clock in at 5:15 and don’t clock back out til 7:30 a.m.! Oh dear!!!
After finishing up there, I headed back to the apartment to find Mike lying on the couch watching football. I had the option to either sit and do that, or to just put my hand in the blender…I chose the latter ☺.
I took up residence in the bedroom. After spending a little time in there, I can back out into the living room and Mike had decided it was time for a change of pace, so he switched it to some crazy weird show, so I just plugged in my headphones and zoned. That could only last so long, so I ended up giving Jessica a call begging her to relieve me from my boredom. Luckily enough, her and Meghan were home so I ran over there and watched some TV with them. Around 11, I ended up heading back to the apartment; however, Meghan was kind enough to let me borrow "Sister Act"so my night wasn’t a complete drag. I got to watch that! Love that movie!
Well, now that that’s over I think I’ll probably head to bed. I’ve got a long day tomorrow. I clock in at 5:15 and don’t clock back out til 7:30 a.m.! Oh dear!!!
"Overnights!"
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Today was a little different than most. I began my first day of overnights, which means I work from 10:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Let me just say that again, I work from 10:30 P.M. to 7:30 A.M.! Or for those of you who aren’t as quick on your toes, all night ☺. To be honest with ya, I was really looking forward to this! We get the park practically to ourselves, how many people can say they’ve had that! I mean despite the few maintenance groups, we were like the only ones there! It was so so cool!
The reason for the overnights is probably pretty obvious, because we’re performing on the stage that sits right in front of Cinderella’s castle, we can’t very well rehearse during park hours, so that leaves us no choice but to rehearse during the nighttime!
We got there around 10:30ish and waited for the call that the last guest had finally cleared the park. We then made our way up! After getting our lawn chairs and snacks all set up on the hub (that’s the semi-circle section right in front of the castle and directly behind the “Partners” statue. Don’t you feel so special to be included in this top secret Disney lingo?! ☺), we got a tour of the stage and backstage area. They started off by telling us how prestigious it was to be performing on this stage; the likes of which have seen Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, and other famous celebrities. It so awesome! I feel a little spoiled now because this is what I’m going to be expecting every time I’m in a show—a platform that rises 20 feet up into the air (How incredibly pimped out is that!)!
The night actually went really well. The cast adapted to the stage really quickly so we were able to add in an extra run. What with everybody downing 5-hour energy shots, moral was high! I didn’t really start to feel it til about 5:30 and even then it wasn’t too too bad. I really do enjoy these overnight!
I came home and crawled into bed around 7:30. I ended up getting up around 5:30. Now my goal was to get a jumpstart on my homework for my online class, but what with it being a holiday and all, I procrastinated and decided that I’ll just do it all tomorrow at Panera! Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow! ☺ So Jessica and I watched part of a scary movie on TV—people are straight up idiots in those movies. Oh there’s a murderer outside, let’s split up, GO OUTSIDE, and look for him! Yeah, that’s wise. Or you could just break each other’s legs and crawl outside and tie yourselves together!
So we decided to run up to Wal-Mart and get some stuff to perfect our non-alcoholic butterbeer recipe. I think we did it! It actually tasted pretty good!
After such a hectic day, I’m bushed and definitely ready to turn in to bed! Goodnight everyone! Happy White Rabbit Day! Who would of thunk, we’re already into November!?!
The reason for the overnights is probably pretty obvious, because we’re performing on the stage that sits right in front of Cinderella’s castle, we can’t very well rehearse during park hours, so that leaves us no choice but to rehearse during the nighttime!
We got there around 10:30ish and waited for the call that the last guest had finally cleared the park. We then made our way up! After getting our lawn chairs and snacks all set up on the hub (that’s the semi-circle section right in front of the castle and directly behind the “Partners” statue. Don’t you feel so special to be included in this top secret Disney lingo?! ☺), we got a tour of the stage and backstage area. They started off by telling us how prestigious it was to be performing on this stage; the likes of which have seen Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, and other famous celebrities. It so awesome! I feel a little spoiled now because this is what I’m going to be expecting every time I’m in a show—a platform that rises 20 feet up into the air (How incredibly pimped out is that!)!
The night actually went really well. The cast adapted to the stage really quickly so we were able to add in an extra run. What with everybody downing 5-hour energy shots, moral was high! I didn’t really start to feel it til about 5:30 and even then it wasn’t too too bad. I really do enjoy these overnight!
I came home and crawled into bed around 7:30. I ended up getting up around 5:30. Now my goal was to get a jumpstart on my homework for my online class, but what with it being a holiday and all, I procrastinated and decided that I’ll just do it all tomorrow at Panera! Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow! ☺ So Jessica and I watched part of a scary movie on TV—people are straight up idiots in those movies. Oh there’s a murderer outside, let’s split up, GO OUTSIDE, and look for him! Yeah, that’s wise. Or you could just break each other’s legs and crawl outside and tie yourselves together!
So we decided to run up to Wal-Mart and get some stuff to perfect our non-alcoholic butterbeer recipe. I think we did it! It actually tasted pretty good!
After such a hectic day, I’m bushed and definitely ready to turn in to bed! Goodnight everyone! Happy White Rabbit Day! Who would of thunk, we’re already into November!?!
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