5:30am Days - C-C-C-C-Changes

Today 5:30am-4:00pm shift. Not very thrilled. Especially after lack of being able to go home for Easter. Got assigned to accessories (slightly better). No other CPs this morning. Announced that Magic Kingdom got some toy monorails with purple color. Purple's retired because of accident. Were told to check ours and be on the lookout. Manager Ginny asked me if I'd done accessories before. Allowed me to ask questions. Had a slice of Cuban (not French) bread with butter. Had one more, plain, later on. Helped guy named Kevin in Bubble. Only second time on 5:30am shift for him. Gave a little advice and help, went on my way. Phone can now play music. Made good use of that this morning until Epcot music came on. Kept volume low though, polite to others. Found out author was doing booksigning in Bubble today. Ridley Pearson, author of Kingdom Keepers series. Book three out today. Instructed by Manager Ginny to stack and arrange book display. Kind of fun. Suggested to Manager Ginny that some of the books should be displayed at registers. Was told that was a good idea. Spent most of day working on books and shoes, occasionally making it to other areas. Occasionally helped Guests too. Ran around looking for sharpie for woman celebrating 14yr Anniversary, but had only been given "I'm Celebrating" button. Need to get more markers and sharpies. While working on books, teen girl (with birthday button) and her parents (with anniversary buttons) came in. Said they wanted to get autographed book, but author signing only from 4-6 and they had dinner reservations at Hoop De Doo for 5:00pm. Have to be at location at 4:15pm. Wanted to know if they could leave book to get signed. Said I'd seek out manager. Found Coordinator Gwen instead. She said no, went to see Guests anyway. Told them that Pearson's time relaly restricted. Wristbands being given to only 150 people. Family wasn't very happy to hear this. "Happy birthday" the Mom sighed, and picked up book to purchase as gift for daughter. Later, on second break, thought that maybe, if Pearson was worth his salt as a writer, he could sign just one copy of book. I could take copy over to Hoop De Doo, find family, make swap. Would maybe even be willing to have manager come along, if they thought I might do something fishy. That's Disney magic right there. Finished break and went to find manager. All standing around on stage, waiting for Pearson to show. Not doing anything, just standing and talking. Finally Manager Ginny was free. Told her about family, asked if Pearson could do any signing. Was told he had been set to sign a bunch of extras. Due to time, never happened. Wanted to explain rest of my plan, stalled by young boy who wanted to pin trade. By time I traded, Manager Ginny was chatting with another manager. No good to interrupt there. I'm sorry, Celebrating Family. You may never read this, but I heard your problem, and had a solution. I'm very sorry it didn't go through. Finished work day and walked long way backstage, chatting with Mom on phone about not being able to finish telling Manager Ginny what I planned to do. Changed in car and headed to Hess across from MGM to get my car a carwash. Tried to pay at wash. No way to do so. Drove through, parked along random curving curb. Went inside. Waited in line. Paid. Went back to wash. Started entering code. Notice displayed: Carwash broken, please tell manager. Drove through. Parked along curb again. Think I spotted Ketty from Sunset (in Sunset clothing and holding a hot dog) heading towards store. Went inside. Waited in line. Guy went to go reset. I pondered 99 cent Coke slush. Guy returned, said it was a go. Went back to carwash. Laserwash, just like at home, only with chirping beeps to tell me to stop and to drive. Happy dryers pass overhead instead of my having to drive beneath them. Left. Was about to merge onto World Center. Remembered Soyoung saying she was working today. Soyoung getting new role - moving to full service food and beverage at Polynesian at the Luau. Thought it might be nice to visit her in qsr. Turned around at Shades of Green entry road. Tried to get into Boardwalk parking lot at stop light just a little down the road from main entrance. This entrance used by buses. Waited. Tried id. No good, arm wouldn't go up. Had to make awkward turn around and go in proper entrance. Parked in self-park. Walked onto Boardwalk (funnel cakes smell delicious). Played a little phone tag with Mom. Made my way to Yacht and Beach Clubs. Determined weather was good ice cream weather. Got to Periwig Salon/Beaches and Cream area at Beach Club when thought Soyoung's costume looked more like something found at Yacht Club. Turned around. Hunted a little for store at Yacht Club (got just a little turned around at lobby). Found store. Wrong place. Had to go back to Beach Club. Once there, found store, but no Soyoung. Waited and wandered, still nothing. Decided to get a Dole Whip. Walked around a bit, looking for bus stop. Found signs and followed, enjoying walking by fountain and pleasant summer-like night air. Found bus stop and sat. Listened to family plan food at Magic Kingdom. Guy's phone had menus - cool. Just sitting made me feel like I was on vacation. Bus finally came. Encouraged couple to get on before me, despite his logic "It's not gonna leave without me". Seeing ad for mobile magic (updates sent to phone) also made it seem like vacation for some reason. Saw monorail Gold. Laughed to myself - saw Gold this morning when setting up books and getting things ready for Guests. Arrived and headed into Magic Kingdom (semi-thorough lady Guard). Walked left side of Main Street, headed into Adventureland. Saw people could walk through Castle. Was happy. Little line at Aloha Isle, but no worries. Guy behind me asked if this was ice cream. Was asking wife/girlfriend, but I answered. Said sort of, had pineapple and orange flavors. He wanted ice cream. I recommonded the plaza. Said he wanted soft serve, like at Animal Kingdom. Realized it would be helpful to have tell-a-cast for that. Woman in front of me passed flavor information back to him. He wanted to know if there would be cones. Said I was unsure. Got a Dole Whip float. Haven't had one since my Disney vacation in October. Still delicious. Sat down on rockbench facing land entrance. Took in some details, and annoying sound of "Move It, Shake It, Celebrate It" parade. Enjoyed, then walked to Hub and aimed to go through crowd to castle and beyond. Saw Mad Hatter dancing atop one of the floats. Whoopie? Walked through. Couldn't remember which Imagineers are in murals. Wondered which door leads to "Castle Elevator". Wandered Fantasyland. Took in some of the beautiful details of where the Skyway used to be. Lots of lush greenry and levels. There's a clock there too?? Wanted to ride a ride. Lines long all around. Figured parade was over and was getting late. Back to front of park and buses. Boardwalk and Yatch and Beach Clubs buses pulling away as I arrived. Boardwalk had another one come soon after. Drivers changed, first one telling me he'd had a long day. A long day? Two families got on bus. One went to back. Dad and daughter (son?) sat more in middle. Then Dad said "Let's go to the back". Sitting at front of bus, not really showered, wearing "Painting/Pain" t-shirt. Was it me? Enjoyed ride. Drove back to apartment. Saw lovely colors of evening sky (and star) in parking lot. At door, noticed next door had notice in their door. Inside, saw little bags of cookies. We passed inspection! Found Soyoung. She'd called in. Was supposed to work at Yacht and Beach today too x.x Went to change, saw moving notice on dresser for Soyoung. Talks of May move already? Turns out, no. She's got to move this Monday. Monday - Wednesday to be exact. No idea where she's moving to either. And role change not next week, but the week after. Chatted with her a little about Luau area of Polynesian, maybe living with person next door (Soyoung said Korean girl lives there, maybe same depature date, would explain the notice). Made me wonder if I'm going to be getting new roommate. Showered, decided on leftover Hamburger Helper Italian Lasagna. Scooped out from container, looked like cat food example you don't want from a commercial. Still delicious. Ate while reading Shalom's borrowed Haunted Mansion book. Finished with a little salad and V8 Raspberry Goji drink. Delcious. Had nibbled on cookies a bit :P

Need to update on things, like Easter. Tired now though.

Oh, also, got denied my request off for May yesterday. First one denied - can't give time off during final week of program. Second - program ends on the 14th, can't give time off.

...awesome.

Weather was hot today, apparently. But the night time was very nice. Reminded me of the summers of home.

I miss home.

But I really got to get my act together.

Sleep first :P

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter!!

Yes, the big day has arrived (and practically gone at the time of this writing). Kind of fell off the Lentan (Lentian?) bandwagon a little near the end. Gotta keep trying. HOpefully I can do a better entry tomorrow as, believe it or not, it's 11:04pm and I'm tired. I've got a couple of things to do tomorrow that simply must get done, but otherwise, I'm gonna try to take care of things on here. Much writing to do, and not all of it in the blogging style.

I will say this though: I am more than a little disappointed that I couldn't be home for Easter. I don't think there was too much I could've done in regards to getting these exact days off, but I'm still a little bummed that I missed yet another holiday. That being said, yay for having a bunny in my pocket and for being assigned to Accessories after being assigned to Bubble (yep, it was a 5:30am shift today too).

Also, Easter candy is awesome, Easter phone calls and relaxing, more awesome..er.

And as a little side note, since today is Sunday, I got to take a look at my schedule for next week. Mostly 5:30am days once again, but next Wednesday, I had a shift from 5:00pm - midnight. Which, while different, isn't terrible. Until I figured out that I'd have to work at 5:30am the next day. That doesn't fly with me. Hopefully it'll be fixed :P

Happy Easter to everyone once again ^-^

Lent xx - 5:30am Days - Dadgum!

Thought someone was up this morning. Heard someone in the bathroom, and thought I heard Misako/Shalom's door open, but was interested in cereal and reading a mail ad booklet for Sony products. Got Bubble again today. Was also the only person (in the group of Kim, Robyn, and Alice) to work. Where is everyone? Ginny gave me a mini "moving stuff around" project. Nothing bad at all, just switching some tops and shorts. She did say the people down in the tunnels were cranky today. I think it's just the coupon. The doors leading to Bubble were unlocked. A moth managed to get into the store. No idea where it went. Also got to see the moon hanging over what I believe is the side of "Honey, I Shrunk The Audience". Kind of cool. Had seen the moon on Monday as I was heading home. Big and pale and beautiful, it was rising up over the horizon. Got to get a nice look at it while stopped at the light by the Hess at the intersection of International Drive and World Center. And there it was this morning, hanging in the sky, going to bed while I was going to work. Hat wall was redone today too. Looks a little overwhelming, but also kind of nice. Didn't get my break until late again, meaning I got to eat at least seven hours after "breakfast" this morning (is there a meal before breakfast? Cause that's what it is really). Kept busy trying to stock. Wasn't doing the greatest of jobs, but things looked...ok. Neat...ish anyway. Left the doors to Bubble open today. So nice to see the people and feel the breeze. Plus, heard fountain today. It makes funny little popping noises. Neat ^-^ Had a woman describe a hat to me ("Walt Disney World written on the side of the bill, and a metal medalion in the center. Brown and khaki") and I managed to find just the right one. Woo! Helped a ten year old out, writing his name (Brian Allen, first and last!) on his birthday button. I told him it was cool that he had hit the double digits, and that now he was "seasoned". Took my second break around 1:15pm. Headed up to the managers' office area. Heard news of popcorn. There was! Probably stuff left over from Christmas tins. Three kinds, but I stuck with a handful or two of carmel. Also (finally) had a hot chocolate. Headed to breakroom to sit. Decided, at the last minute, that Bubble needed some more work, and extended an extra hour. Managed to straighten more, made a list, nearly ran out of time. At the last minute, a woman asked me to take her to the hats, since we didn't have a shirt/hat combo in the size she was looking for, and wanted a medium size in the doggie shirt. First time finding those things. Now I know where they are! Thought I had lost my cart after that. Searched everywhere for it. Found it in jewlery, not too far from where it should've been, I think, but now it had a couple extra t-shirts and items people didn't want. Well...nice of them to put the items in there. Met Coordinator Miguel in Costuming. He was going in while I was leaving. Said he was going to have to work seven days in a row. That sucks. Called (and got another number to call) to find out info about Professional Internships. No longer staying 45 minutes away, but if I can't work at Mouse Gear between the end of my college program and the beginning of the professional internship, I gotta take my stuff home. No early moving in. Ah, more fun. Seriously debated a Chick-Fil-A shake. Also found out there's a Chick-Fil-A coming to Chicago, woo!! Had a little munch-fest when I got back to the apartment. Tried new Banana Nut Granola. Tasted good. Still waiting on the "final results". "It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" was on tonight too. Happy to see it ^-^ Believe it or not, tried calling a couple of people to see if they could work Easter for me. Usha works until 11:00pm tonight. Barbara Diaz is not a girl, but a guy, and he's working at Blizzard Beach all week since he's seasonal. I had such wonderful hopes for being able to find someone, to get it approved (quickly), and to be able to fly home tomorrow night. I still do...

Windows keeps asking to restart to make changes. Leave me alone, I've got pictures of "Mator" the UFO from one of the Car Toons to find. And stuff to prepare for tomorrow.

After watching Easter Beagle, I'm still really, REALLY hoping for some Easter goodness.

Dadgum >.<

Lent xx - 5:30am Days - Day 89

Why is Florida cold in the morning? I mean, I know it's morning, and apparently Florida's been going through a cold snap, but still! Got to work and said hi to (a darkened) Spaceship Earth. People were busy around the one kid's fountain, adding more trees to cover the big pump it seemed. Got assigned to Bubble today. They also randomly had french bread cut into slices this morning. Had a couple of those and ::gasp:: tried a little bit of the coffee they brewed. Straight it's...you know what...I'm very certain cream and sugar are a good thing with that coffee. But it helped take a bit of my headache away. No Kim, Robyn, or Alice this morning. Just me. I feel kind of bad, honestly. I mean, I'd like to be able to talk to the other stockers, they certainly seem like nice people, but every time I encounter them, I usually just say hi or the polite "Pardon me" as I try to get past them. Lonely morning, I guess. I thought there was another person working Bubble this morning. Turns out, she was just doing the accessories, which meant I didn't have to take care of hats or shoes. What a time saver! Also met a girl, whose name I don't remember, who was kind enough to move some shirts and jackets around and bring up some new shorts. She had a nice sense of humor. People are being let into the park at 8:45am, instead of the usual 9:00am, so I tried to stock what I could. A random family came in, looking to get to the Princess breakfast they were a little late getting to. I have no idea how they got in, but since our doors are (mostly) locked in the morning, they had a bit of trouble getting out. Did the wave and kept on stocking. Walked out the door at one point and into a family with teen boys trying on t-shirts. Guys, while I appreciate that you are fit, we do actually have fitting rooms. But the Mom (who didn't speak very much English, which doesn't matter, but may convey that she and her family spoke mostly in a language I didn't recognized) said they were hurried. No time for fitting rooms then? Also met a trio of young teen girls looking for a hoodie in a small. All we had was mediums unfortunately (I even checked where the clothing was being hung like a good little stockgirl), and offered to call mail order for them to see if I could locate the hoodie anywhere else. I had my doubts, since most of the time, mail order is busy, I can't reach them (for some reason), or our stock levels just suck, but would you believe...mail order actually came through! The guy said the hoodies might be at Club Cool (across the plaza, although the girls said they'd checked there earlier with no luck) and also at Sir Mickey's at Magic Kingdom. Hopefully that helped. Brian (wearing a Goofy hat) asked me to get things a couple of times, which I know I'm supposed to do, but I felt a little bossed around. I think it was the lack of energy. Or the coffee. Not as bad as that nast 3:30am Crossroads McDonalds stuff x.x Also had to deal with a double stapler issue. Both Bubble staplers were't working, so I ran to jewlery to get one. Then ran to get staples to fill them up. The first stapler (at the station where the girl from this morning was working) got jammed. Too many staples. My fault. The second, by Brian, had just one (later discovered cluster) staple stuck in the opening. The girl eventually came to help me out, using scissors and a dump voucher (which sounds wrong) to work on them. Apparently she's going to school to be a nurse. I think she's got the skill. Didn't actually go on my break until after 10:30am (oops), and when I got back, I decided it would be best if I stayed in my area, rather than go up to the registers. For one thing, I had a good deal of register work yesterday. For another, I wanted to see if I could keep up on the straightening, at least a little. Met a gentleman in a Tillie (Tilly?) hat who was looking at jackets, either for him or his wife, I wasn't sure. Found out the hat was authentic and from Austrailia, where his daughter lives on the east coast. Later, when I was doing put-backs, I heard "Lady!" and turned to see the man and his wife. She was trying on the jacket he'd bought, saying it was too large. She was going to go for a smaller size, then saw I had a navy jacket in my hands (the same style that the couple-with-the-woman-who-wanted-the-XL-and-had-me-call-all-over-just-to-go-use-their-fast-passes-on-a-ride had wanted), and tried that. She liked it, but not complete, and ended up getting a Grumpy jacket. Ah well, thought it was kind of cool I had had the almost jacket in my hands. While she was trying it on, found out I reminded them of their 40-year-old daughter (is that a good thing?) and that they had some family in Illinois. Neat ^-^ Took my second break around 1:15pm, and had planned to try to do some last minute stocking before I left (on time for once). Unfortunately, I got balled up in the shoe area. I had three shoes, two right and one left, all three of different sizes. I have no idea where their partners went. After that, I just headed to the front, clocked out, put my stuff away, and headed out. I had been feeling a little burst of energy earlier, and thought that I might try to do some of the stuff I should be doing, phone calls and walks and whatnot. But as I got to my car, I realized how tired I was. Back at the apartment, I had planned to go lay by the pool for a bit, but opted for laying in bed instead. I think I slept for about four hours, and woke up dreaming a depressing segment of dream in which my Mom and Dad were visiting me in some dark little town, and Dad was saying I had probably never driven in that particular area before and didn't believe me when I insisted I had. I don't want us to have a relationship like that :( Anyway, I woke up because Mom had called me. I had blearily read her text message about rainbow bread not being made anymore (WHY?!?!), but hadn't responded to that or her text about her and Dad going to Sweet Tomatos. It was good she woke me up though: I was hungry. We chatted a little bit, mostly about Easter and how I'm still going to try to find someone to work for me and how maybe there's still a chance, and then I went to go make my chicken-topped salad. Of course, whether I was tired, or just awesome, I got out the crumbled goat cheese and must've been holding it wrong, because the top came off and a great deal of it spilled all over the kitchen floor. I cleaned it up of course, but now I'm a little bummed because I have to ration it. I guess I won't have to worry about there being leftovers? I also switched on the tv and caught "The Luck of The Irish" on Disney Channel. On a neat little aside, the guy who plays the villian Seamus is also Lassetter on Psych. I asked my Mom to take a look to be sure, as she said she'd seen him on Seinfeld too. She also mentioned that Ryan Merriweather (main character) may be Bree's son on Desparate Housewives. This is strangely fun. Did some dishes. Stood in awkward silence scrubbing at a cup while Maria wordlessly zipped around the kitchen. And now, I'm feeling tired again and am thinking it's time for bed.

Just wanted to mention that yesterday I met an older gentleman who said that it was his and his wife's first time to Walt Disney World. They'd been to Disneyland quite a few times, but not here. He was looking for some headband ears for his wife, and as I showed him around, he told me that she was a "secret Snow White". In other words, she has a personality just like Snow. Sure enough, I encountered him again while on register (he was going to another register though: shorter lines) and afterwards, he briefly introduced his wife to me. Just from those couple of seconds, with her laugh and her attitude, I could totally see why she is a secret Snow. Very cool.

Speaking of Snow White, one other quick thing, at the meeting this morning, I think I might have been mentioned in a story. Ginny read something about Katie (there's a couple of Katies though, or at least a Katy Beth, so maybe not me) and Kim greeting a Guest who had all Snow White pins. Talked about the topiaries at Germany (Ginny paused here, waiting for location, which I said, but quietly, so she didn't hear me) and about being a future Cast Member. Sounds sort of like something that happened to me when Sarah was around, and Sarah was there this morning, but who knows?

Here's hoping for my future. And sweet dreams.


P.S. - My Dad sent me a text this morning saying today is the 89th day of 2010. Wow. 89 days already?

P.P.S. - When I got home, I ended up watching most of another episode of Jonas? Really? Really??

Lent xx - 5:30am Days - It's not 5:30!!

9:00am - 5:30pm shift today!
No wait...9:00am - 6:00pm shift today!
Wait, wait...9:00am - 6:30pm shift today!!

Yeah, that's right!

I'm tired, I need sleep, and I don't know how I feel about being on register.
But I've got a craving for some of Goofy's candy :P

Also, I picked out Kirsten Storms on General Hospital! I'm not sure what that really means, as I don't really watch the show, but woo!!

Lent xx - 5:30am Days - I need to be cuddled

Checked cds this morning: Easter Sunday - 5:30- 14:00.

...

Assigned to home dec today. Originally had a partner, but then she got moved to kids. Need to learn how to fold towels. Manager Rob was asking what sections we like. Kind of really didn't say anything, when I should've. Had also asked which ones we didn't like. Figured if I told him this, then if I screwed up, he'd put me there. Probably should have spoken up, ne? New plush named...P...uh...don't know. Nicknamed Pluto "Ninja Pluto". Met little girl in Tiana dress. Really cute, really nice. British accent? Scraped her knee on the side of a pool. Got a little Figment to kiss it to see if it made it better. Figment kissed her cheek too. She said it didn't help :P Asked if Donald was up in the office. Said he was, but busy because he was dealing with his nephews. Tried to put out Fab 5 display frame. Wrestled with the box for a few minutes, ended ripping it to get at frame, then struggled to put frame together (Minnie separate piece that helps hold photo display), and finally, after getting it, lifted it up to check for price and price tag...and dropped it. Minnie's arms and nose popped off. Off to damages...lesson learned. Went on first break a little late, but went instead of going to register. Needed food and a break. Never got to my second break. Considered extending. Decided against. Did find $5 though! And gave it to the manager x.x I really need to learn... Nicknamed Alice and Robyn the Tweedle Twins. Started to rain as I got to my car. Got to apartment, chatted with Mom on phone, and got into apartment just as rain started really coming down. Almost like snow. Outlines of things were all fuzzy and white. Little lightning and thunder too. Got to watch Dumbo (finally) when I got back. Good movie. Haven't seen it since I was a kid, which was weird, because I remembered some parts. Ah Dumbo. Related a lot to him in more than one way. "Baby Mine" sequence got me sniffly. At 64 minutes, decided to watch again with audio commentary. Was learning some neat stuff, but had to go to Church and so had to shut it off halfway through. Palm Sunday Mass - long, but enjoyable. 6:00pm Mass, ended at 7:30pm. Got me kind of down too. Partially because I kept thinking about Baby Mine. Also because of lack of Easter Headed to Vista to drop off Dumbo and Jurassic Park (really wanted to watch the rest of Dumbo and actually watch Jurassic Park). Picked up Great Mouse Detective and 101 Dalmations. Actually watched an episode of Jonas on Disney Channel. I know!! Wtf?? Also chatted with Mom again. Feeling down about Easter. Feel I can't really go anywhere, because it's spring break, everyone's here for vacation and Easter, and since I'm working Easter, not really much of a "vacation" or holiday for me. Mom suggested visiting the tourist traps. Good idea. Delayed in getting to bed when I wanted to, so I should probably go now.

Why is everything I want on iTunes $1.29?

Also, I forgot to mention yesterday that I learned how to hand hug. If I give my right hand, you give your right, so we're palm-to-palm with thumbs on opposite sides. Then, move thumb around side of other person's hand. It's a hug!

Dumbo taught me you don't need wings to fly.

Lent xx - 5:30am days - Changing Awkwardly

Assigned to home dec today.
Got many mini projects.
Brad left.
Anthony's leaving.
According to a Facebook quiz, I'm supposed to be an entertainment Cast Member.
Time for sleep.

P.S. - Epcot at night, with no people, and pathways large enough to presumably fit three cars, is cool