So after almost passing out on my face last night, I was determined to head back to the house and get a good night’s sleep. Around 3 in the morning, I realized that wasn’t going to happen. I laid in bed for hours last night unable to sleep; therefore, the cast of “Reba” kept me company. I got up around 5 this morning and ate a good hearty breakfast (as per mom’s instructions) and headed off to work. I decided to stop by Starbucks and get something to keep myself up. Since they were running a little late, they gave me a free hot chocolate—the little cherubs.
I finally got to work and headed to Tusker House, this freaking huge restaurant, to do a breakfast shift. It really wasn’t all that bad, it’s just kind of hard to maneuver around the tables when they are clustered together. After doing a couple of sets there, I headed over to Camp Minnie Mickey for lunch coverage. I finished up at Animal Kingdom around 1 and headed back to the apartment.
I made myself a big lunch and took a quick nap because I had to get back up for “Celebrate the Season” tonight. I got back into work around 6:30. The show went really well! Oh and we had a special guest in the park tonight, Bon Jovi! How awesome is that?!?
Man, the perks of working at Disney World! I just performed for Bon Jovi!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
"Dizzy"
Well friends this blog is gonna be short because I need to get some sleep. Hold on to your britches, here we go! I got up this afternoon around 3 and ate breakfast (yogurt and a banana-these details will be important later) and headed into work. I got all changed, checked in, and got my makeup done. On top of that, God was so good and gave me a phenomenal schedule for when the fam (“fam” being the rents, Alex, Tommy and Jessica and the girls, and Jordie—they’re all family. Awwww) comes down. I headed up to the PC to wait for the parade to start. We got all suited up and headed to step off around 6:30. We boarded our float around 6:50 and headed out right at 7.
Okay, here’s where the story gets interesting. Now for those of you who know me, I’m not usually a competitive person (unless I’m pranking someone) but the guy on top of the float was doing rocking it out! He was adding so much to the choreography and it looked wonderful! So I was like “alright, you wanna play hard ball!?” so I’m kicking my legs and throwing them up behind me. It probably look like a stuffed doll being thrown about. Well after parade, I was exhausted, but no more than usual…or so I thought…I got to PC and let them start to take off the electrical pieces.
I had a new girl unhooking me tonight so I’m standing there and the room is literally spinning. So I start taking pieces off myself cause I’m thinking I’m about to barf. She’s working real hard but can’t get my shoulder pads off, which are the heaviest part of the outfit. Well at this point, my legs are starting to give out. Finally, she gets if off and I headed into the cage (the area where we change) and make a B-line for the water cooler. I’m squatting there drinking some water and I get the ringing in my ears, so I ask the costume lady if I can sit in one of their rollie chairs—she obliges. As soon as I hit that chair is was like, “This is it! I’m gonna pass out!” The room was spinning and my eyes were crossin’. Well she ran and got the parade manager and he came over, like a champ, and worked to get my fever down. So long (long) story short (kind of), I’m good. I just didn’t eat anything but a yogurt and banana today and when you’ve got parade at night that just doesn’t suffice so…I almost passed out! That’s a new experience; not one I care repeating though! ☺
Okay, here’s where the story gets interesting. Now for those of you who know me, I’m not usually a competitive person (unless I’m pranking someone) but the guy on top of the float was doing rocking it out! He was adding so much to the choreography and it looked wonderful! So I was like “alright, you wanna play hard ball!?” so I’m kicking my legs and throwing them up behind me. It probably look like a stuffed doll being thrown about. Well after parade, I was exhausted, but no more than usual…or so I thought…I got to PC and let them start to take off the electrical pieces.
I had a new girl unhooking me tonight so I’m standing there and the room is literally spinning. So I start taking pieces off myself cause I’m thinking I’m about to barf. She’s working real hard but can’t get my shoulder pads off, which are the heaviest part of the outfit. Well at this point, my legs are starting to give out. Finally, she gets if off and I headed into the cage (the area where we change) and make a B-line for the water cooler. I’m squatting there drinking some water and I get the ringing in my ears, so I ask the costume lady if I can sit in one of their rollie chairs—she obliges. As soon as I hit that chair is was like, “This is it! I’m gonna pass out!” The room was spinning and my eyes were crossin’. Well she ran and got the parade manager and he came over, like a champ, and worked to get my fever down. So long (long) story short (kind of), I’m good. I just didn’t eat anything but a yogurt and banana today and when you’ve got parade at night that just doesn’t suffice so…I almost passed out! That’s a new experience; not one I care repeating though! ☺
"I'm a Go-Getter"
I didn’t log any hours of work today but with all the homework I’ve done I feel like I should be paid! I got up this morning around 7 to get ready for class. After jumping out of the shower, I got dressed, and headed over to class. We had our midterm today! Yuck! Those sentiments being expressed, let me say this: I like how my teacher does test. The first five minutes are closed book, the next 15 are open book and open note, and the last 30 minutes are open book and open note and you get to work with the other people at your table! Mmmm—good stuff!
After finishing up class there around noon, I headed back for lunch. But what’s lunch without a few episodes of “Reba”? I ended up wasting a ton of time with that, so I thought I’d do something really productive and take a nap. So that’s what I did for about three hours. Once naptime was over, I got up and decided to start working on my homework for my online class. That was intermingled between scenes from “The Last Holiday.”
After running to Outback to pick up cheese fries for dinner (I know, real healthy right?), I headed back to get my homework wrapped up somewhere around 1. That’s okay though, I don’t have to be into work until 5:15 tomorrow so I’ve got time to sleep in. Gotta love what these overnights will do to your sleeping schedule! YEAH! ☺
After finishing up class there around noon, I headed back for lunch. But what’s lunch without a few episodes of “Reba”? I ended up wasting a ton of time with that, so I thought I’d do something really productive and take a nap. So that’s what I did for about three hours. Once naptime was over, I got up and decided to start working on my homework for my online class. That was intermingled between scenes from “The Last Holiday.”
After running to Outback to pick up cheese fries for dinner (I know, real healthy right?), I headed back to get my homework wrapped up somewhere around 1. That’s okay though, I don’t have to be into work until 5:15 tomorrow so I’ve got time to sleep in. Gotta love what these overnights will do to your sleeping schedule! YEAH! ☺
Thursday, November 12, 2009
"Wonderful!"
Today was wonderful! I got up around 10:30 and got all dressed and ready to head out into this wonderfully cold weather. It was down in the sixties today. I felt like I was at home!
I ran over to Jessica’s and picked her up for her early birthday present celebration. We went to see “The Christmas Carol” in 3-D at the Imax for her birthday present. Wow! That movie was INTENSE! It is probably one of the freakiest Disney movies I’ve ever seen. I mean the story itself is kinda eerie and Disney did a phenomenal job of translating that to the screen! Because it was in 3-D and at the Imax (which mean the audio is enhanced a ton) there were parts that made you literally jump in your seat! It was hilarious—Jessica scream out loud at least 5 times! It was awesome!
After heading home, I ate some lunch and read a little bit. I read about Paul’s conversion in Acts. It was wonderful! It is completely appropriate to some of the stuff I’ve been thinking through the past couple of weeks. One of the things that so discouraging about trying to witness to homosexuals is that it’s such a different type of a sin; I’m not going to go into all the different aspects of it, but reading about Paul today was so inspiring. If God can reach the heart of Saul of Tarsus, he can sure as heck change the heart of anyone he chooses to! I know that nothing it too hard for the God that I serve!
I headed into work tonight to begin my first castle stage show! It was awesome! It was breathtaking to hear that applause at the end! You feel like such a rock star! Thank God everything went smoothly and there weren’t any real mess-ups!
After work, I headed home to make dinner and I got to chat with Liz. We talked about a musical a few of us are coming up with! It was great! I can’t wait to jump back into campus life!
I ran over to Jessica’s and picked her up for her early birthday present celebration. We went to see “The Christmas Carol” in 3-D at the Imax for her birthday present. Wow! That movie was INTENSE! It is probably one of the freakiest Disney movies I’ve ever seen. I mean the story itself is kinda eerie and Disney did a phenomenal job of translating that to the screen! Because it was in 3-D and at the Imax (which mean the audio is enhanced a ton) there were parts that made you literally jump in your seat! It was hilarious—Jessica scream out loud at least 5 times! It was awesome!
After heading home, I ate some lunch and read a little bit. I read about Paul’s conversion in Acts. It was wonderful! It is completely appropriate to some of the stuff I’ve been thinking through the past couple of weeks. One of the things that so discouraging about trying to witness to homosexuals is that it’s such a different type of a sin; I’m not going to go into all the different aspects of it, but reading about Paul today was so inspiring. If God can reach the heart of Saul of Tarsus, he can sure as heck change the heart of anyone he chooses to! I know that nothing it too hard for the God that I serve!
I headed into work tonight to begin my first castle stage show! It was awesome! It was breathtaking to hear that applause at the end! You feel like such a rock star! Thank God everything went smoothly and there weren’t any real mess-ups!
After work, I headed home to make dinner and I got to chat with Liz. We talked about a musical a few of us are coming up with! It was great! I can’t wait to jump back into campus life!
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
"Click"
First off let me start by telling Anna Claire “Happy 5th Birthday!” She’s getting so old! Today was an absolutely wonderful day! I woke up around noon and headed out to Wal-Mart to do a little shopping. I got my week’s worth of supplies (this is a good time to say, thank you Mamaw for the Wal-Mart gift card) and headed back to the fort.
After getting things all packed away, I ate lunch and took myself a little nap. Since I’m still in recovery mode, I can do that (so no rolling of the eyes ☺). I got up around quarter after 4 and headed into work.
I got to talk with Ninny (that’s my Aunt Cindy’s name from when I was two. The name stuck. Don’t lie, you’re jealous) right before I got to work so that was wonderful—hearing her laugh and joke really helped to put me in a good mood. I was doing the parade again tonight but I was in a part of the parade that I’m not especially good at. When I say “not especially good at” I mean, “I stink.” I get comments every week about how offbeat I am. So as soon as I got there I actively began prowling out someone who could trade places with me. Nathaniel! Found him! After luring him in hook line and sinker (I have such a way with words ☺), we headed up to the check in window. In my kindest, sweetest tone, I asked if we could change positions. “No.” was the immediate reply of the woman sitting behind the counter (so much for the happiest place on earth!).
A tad bit disappointed, I headed into cosmetology to get my makeup done and to grab my mask. Well unbeknown to me, my mask smelled like rotting corpses of a thousand seagulls; however, I didn’t realize that until I was at the parade center a.k.a. too far away from cosmetology to get another mask. So I took a deep breath and got ready to go. I’ll admit I might have complained a few times but after having a gay coworker tell me to “stop being such a wuss,” I shut up. Ow! After scraping up what remained of my dignity, I made my way down to the step off. Once there, I got fork lifted into my seat since it’s way up on top of the float. The music swelled, the doors opened, the float jerked, and the parade was underway.
Then all of the sudden, it clicked. Everything made since. The choreography fit with the music! I finally was able to put it all together! I was so excited! I rocked out that choreography if I do say so myself (now, I don’t know if the parade choreographer will agree with me, but for my own peace of mind, I was rocking it out). It was one of the best parades ever! It’s such a great feeling to know you’re doing a good job after all the hard work you’ve put into it.
After finishing up at the parade, I headed back home to cook up some Cheeseburger Macaroni and watch “Glee” with Jessica and Megan. It was such good times! I’m so pumped about tonight; I just don’t want to go to sleep. Heck, look at my blog—it’s practically doubled in length.
After getting things all packed away, I ate lunch and took myself a little nap. Since I’m still in recovery mode, I can do that (so no rolling of the eyes ☺). I got up around quarter after 4 and headed into work.
I got to talk with Ninny (that’s my Aunt Cindy’s name from when I was two. The name stuck. Don’t lie, you’re jealous) right before I got to work so that was wonderful—hearing her laugh and joke really helped to put me in a good mood. I was doing the parade again tonight but I was in a part of the parade that I’m not especially good at. When I say “not especially good at” I mean, “I stink.” I get comments every week about how offbeat I am. So as soon as I got there I actively began prowling out someone who could trade places with me. Nathaniel! Found him! After luring him in hook line and sinker (I have such a way with words ☺), we headed up to the check in window. In my kindest, sweetest tone, I asked if we could change positions. “No.” was the immediate reply of the woman sitting behind the counter (so much for the happiest place on earth!).
A tad bit disappointed, I headed into cosmetology to get my makeup done and to grab my mask. Well unbeknown to me, my mask smelled like rotting corpses of a thousand seagulls; however, I didn’t realize that until I was at the parade center a.k.a. too far away from cosmetology to get another mask. So I took a deep breath and got ready to go. I’ll admit I might have complained a few times but after having a gay coworker tell me to “stop being such a wuss,” I shut up. Ow! After scraping up what remained of my dignity, I made my way down to the step off. Once there, I got fork lifted into my seat since it’s way up on top of the float. The music swelled, the doors opened, the float jerked, and the parade was underway.
Then all of the sudden, it clicked. Everything made since. The choreography fit with the music! I finally was able to put it all together! I was so excited! I rocked out that choreography if I do say so myself (now, I don’t know if the parade choreographer will agree with me, but for my own peace of mind, I was rocking it out). It was one of the best parades ever! It’s such a great feeling to know you’re doing a good job after all the hard work you’ve put into it.
After finishing up at the parade, I headed back home to cook up some Cheeseburger Macaroni and watch “Glee” with Jessica and Megan. It was such good times! I’m so pumped about tonight; I just don’t want to go to sleep. Heck, look at my blog—it’s practically doubled in length.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
"Breaktime"
I am proud to say, I did not go to work today! I was off!!! Holla! I didn’t go to bed till 4 a.m. and I didn’t wake up till 4 p.m. It was wonderful! I got up and headed out to the Florida Mall. I hung out there for a while—though I had no luck whatsoever shopping for jeans because my legs are long enough to scrape Heaven. I did get a pretty sweet scarf at H&M though. Despite it all, it was just wonderful to get out of the area and just chill out for a while. I got a chance to just breathe.
I headed home around 7:30 just in time to watch Dancing with the Stars with Jessica, Megan, and her friend. Goodbye Aaron and Karina. We then go to talking about how crazy it is that everything has to be so politically correct down here. For instance, Mickey is having these Christmas parties yet they don’t really want us to say “Merry Christmas” because it might offend someone. Instead, they prefer, “Happy Holidays.” I just think it’s ridiculous that we can’t say “Merry Christmas” at a Christmas party. If I were to attend a Happy Hanukkah party, I wouldn’t get upset when I was told, “Happy Hanukkah.”
After the show went off, I headed back to the apartment to just chill out and tie up a few loose ends with my homework. It was a wonderful, rejuvenating day!
I headed home around 7:30 just in time to watch Dancing with the Stars with Jessica, Megan, and her friend. Goodbye Aaron and Karina. We then go to talking about how crazy it is that everything has to be so politically correct down here. For instance, Mickey is having these Christmas parties yet they don’t really want us to say “Merry Christmas” because it might offend someone. Instead, they prefer, “Happy Holidays.” I just think it’s ridiculous that we can’t say “Merry Christmas” at a Christmas party. If I were to attend a Happy Hanukkah party, I wouldn’t get upset when I was told, “Happy Hanukkah.”
After the show went off, I headed back to the apartment to just chill out and tie up a few loose ends with my homework. It was a wonderful, rejuvenating day!
Monday, November 9, 2009
"Doing Time"
So today was pretty much the longest, hardest day of my life! I got into work around 9. It was my first day working at Hollywood Studios. Now that place is spread out really really weird; it’s just a lot of trailers and stuff! So I finally get all checked in and ready to go. Well, I get to my set location and find out that we’re doing 9 SETS!!! Not only that, but the costume I was wearing is designed for a person 73” and above. Disney has a .5” leeway they will give you, which means because I’m 72.5” I am technically approved in this outfit. It. was. horrible. The outfit really isn’t designed for a person my height (never thought I’d be turned town because I was too short, but there it is). Not only did the costume not fit, but our set was right under some fatty stage lights which made it about 150˚ in the room! I tried calling in for an early release but they said they couldn’t give it to me. All of this happens as I’m starting this book about choosing joy; yeah, I epically failed at that today! I think one day off will do me some good!
After finishing up my time in Alcatraz, I headed back to the apartment to make dinner with Jessica. We had Chicken Alfredo, Hamburger Helper style ☺, and watched “Dancing with the Stars.” It was a wonderful night. On top of all of that, I gave in and did the dishes I refused not to do. The sink is now clean…I’m such a softy ☺.
After finishing up my time in Alcatraz, I headed back to the apartment to make dinner with Jessica. We had Chicken Alfredo, Hamburger Helper style ☺, and watched “Dancing with the Stars.” It was a wonderful night. On top of all of that, I gave in and did the dishes I refused not to do. The sink is now clean…I’m such a softy ☺.
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