"Would you take a bullet for a wonton?"
That comes to you courtesy of Taryn while dining at Yak & Yeti in Animal Kingdom the other day.
I think that's probably the only interesting story for the week, to be quite honest. Thursday I assigned; lunch was awesome, and dinner was a disaster. I'd rather not relive that. Friday I was popcorn stocker and FROZE outside. Like, seriously, you have no idea how cold it is here. Yes, Canada probably is colder, and yes, you have snow and we don't (or didn't anyway), but that doesn't stop it from feeling absolutely frigid when the temperature takes a sudden dive from a comfortable zone of about 55-65 Fahrenheit into 24 Fahrenheit. Not. Fun. Saturday, though, it actually did snow in Florida. Not much, and it mostly melted as soon as it hit the ground, but it was all over the news. The fact that the last time it snowed in Florida was '89 probably had something to do with that.
Saturday I was when I went out with Taryn. I got out of work at 3, rushed to Cast Services (where my cell phone was), called her, and set out our plans. I figured that EPCOT could be our fallback park, since it's open latest and I knew a lot of reservations had been open that day from doing searches for guests during my shift. But I've never eaten in Animal Kingdom before, ever, so I just HAD to do it. And it closed at 5. So Taryn hopped our bus line from home, and I booked it over to the Yacht Club Resort to catch the bus from there (I figured it was faster to head over the walkway to there than to go to the front of the park and hop a bus over there). Exactly one hour after I'd rounded the corner backstage to head over there, I was through the turnstiles. Taryn followed not long after. It's now about 4:15-4:20. Animal Kingdom closes at 5. We rushed against the crowds to Asia, and the lobby of Yak & Yeti was pretty much dead. Thankfully, though, they were still seating, and we got an awesome table with a window that overlooked the parade route. Why they were having their parade so late in the day is beyond me, but whatever. It was cool. And the food was awesome! Ros and Carol, imagine a place that looks like a Nepalese hotel, and serves the food from East. 'Cuz that's pretty much what it is. I love it! Afterwards we headed over to Hollywood Studios, where we stood in line for almost an hour for Midway Mania, and then rode The Great Movie Ride, since Taryn had never been on it. Then, of course, we had to do Rock'n Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror. The view from Tower of Terror was GORGEOUS! All the lights were on, because it was dark, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky - it was crystal clear! If only it hadn't been about the temperature of Calgary...
Today has been my do-nothing day so far, but that's beginning to annoy me, so I think I might actually change out of my pj's and go do something for a while. Selina and I are going to Florida Mall tomorrow to raid their bookstore. Yay! New books!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Friday, December 25, 2009
So This Was Christmas
And what have I done? (Yes, that was corny. Shush and keep reading.) Well, we should really go back to Tuesday first. I was woken up at 9 by a call from my manager, asking me to come in for our assignor. Okay, 11 hour shift on about 5 hours of sleep. It actually went very smoothly. I was rather proud of myself. And - OHMYGODPUPPIES! Sorry. Christmas Day Parade. There are puppies on TV.
Wednesday I pretty much did nothing all day. I did go to EPCOT that night, though, to meet up with a family friend in possession of my shiny Christmas gift from my family. Yay!
Christmas Eve I worked 12-7 as a seater. Honestly, it was WEIRD. We were expecting to be bombarded with people all day like we were for Thanksgiving, but we took a ton of walk-ins at lunch, and dinner didn't get bad until time for me to leave, so I didn't really have to deal with it. I covered greeter for a while, and it kinda shocked me that I could've done a stupid dance in the middle of the promenade and not disturbed any traffic at all. But, as Sam (I think) had pointed out, EPCOT is a last resort park for a lot of people, when they realize how incredibly nuts Magic Kingdom is. So we had a pretty good day. Then I came home and had nothing to do. Jen was having a potluck, but that was all the way over at Patterson, and I had nothing to bring. Plus I'd taken chicken thighs out to thaw, so I had to cook those. As I started making those, Keiko was making sushi to bring to a friend's place, but she did cut up a roll for my Norwegian roommate (Marian? I'm not sure how to spell it because I've never seen her nametag, but that's how it's pronounced) and I to share. While my curry was in the oven, after Keiko had left, Marian decided she wanted pizza. So she put in an order to Domino's, and we had a bit of chicken curry as an appetizer. I turned the TV on, but there were surprisingly fewer Christmas specials on than I thought there would be. However, it WAS Thursday, which is Supernatural night, and they were airing the Christmas episode from season 3, so we watched that. We're both big fans. Then there wasn't much else on, so it was Phineas & Ferb and Hannah Montana for us. Eventually I went to bed, after clicking around online, upgrading to Windows 7 (YAY! Though I mourn the loss of my stock market desktop gadget), and opening one of my Christmas presents.
This morning I dragged my butt out of bed, put on my present from Ros (Yes, I wore it; no, I don't have pictures), and got out the stuff I'd been shipped so that I could skype with my family and open my presents. Thanks, everyone! After video calling my family, I turned on the TV to watch the DisneyParks Christmas Day Parade (SO wasn't missing that). And that's where I am now. Yay Celine Dion!
(The rest of this was written on the Feast of Fools. For those of you who don't speak Hunchback of Notre Dame, that's January 6th.)
Okay, so after the parade I finally got into the shower and grabbed my cookies to take to the contest at work. Yeah, we were having a cookie contest. I made white cake mix-based cookies with crushed candy cane and red and green m&ms. I won for taste! Yay me! Mel and Ali won for presentation, because Mel was crazy enough to make sugar cookies in the shape of ornaments, decorate them, and then stick them on a small tree. Like, actually. I rode to work in the back of Ali's car, holding the tree steady so that it didn't fall over on me. After that, Mel and I went to her place to cook Christmas dinner. She already had the turkey stuffed and in the oven, so we made a game plan for cook times and then stuck on Love Actually for a while. Then it was time to start the potatoes, which was a mildly grueling ordeal because those things just did not want to peel! Eventually we got them, though (okay, Mel got them and I was put on jell-o duty because I fail just that epically, but whatever), and we put them on the stove to boil. We got the Pilsbury biscuits ready to bake, took out the non-turkey-stuffed turkey (made without chicken stock so that our vegetarians could eat it!), and started the veggies (microwavable bags - surprisingly very good). We also put on the cranberry sauce that Craig had donated to Mel's cause (which he'd had around since Thanksgiving when nobody ate it). By this time, people had started to show up, but since dinner wasn't going to be ready for a little bit, Mel had set up a cookie decorating station on the coffee table for them. She still had a few undecorated cookies from her massive sugar cookie bake, and some icing, so they had fun with that. Eventually the bird was done and we transferred it creatively to the cutting boards on the counter so that we could start on the gravy (my specialty!). I taught her to make gravy, and then she got down to carving the turkey, Commons style. Which means we totally didn't have a long serrated knife at all so it was mostly done with a fork and table knife. She did an amazing job, though. All in all, it was a great turnout, great food, and good drinks (unless you were Craig, in which case you were drinking eggnog instead of sparkling grape juice). Cookies were for dessert, as well as little pumpkin tarts that Desiree had brought, and ice cream! Unfortunately (or just humourously, depending on how you look at it) the ice cream also had to be consumed Commons style. See, we'd used almost all the bowls and spoons earlier for serving dinner. So ice cream was served in cups, and you had your choice of measuring spoon sizes to eat with. Allison claimed the smallest one, so she got to eat hers with a 1/8 tsp. We sang a few Christmas songs - like, the pop ones. Not the traditional ones. Mariah Carey, which was followed by NSync, and then somehow morphed into Sister Act (not quite sure how the transition happened there). I helped clean up as people began to disperse, pulling the rest of the meat off the turkey and removing the wish bone for Mel, which was much easier said than done (speaking of, I should ask her what happened with that...). We sent a couple people out the door with garbage bags, began a load of dish towels, and then kinda collapsed. Eventually Ali and I, the last ones there, decided we should probably go home. About ten or fifteen minutes later we actually made it up off the couch.
Saturday and Sunday were nothing particularly fascinating. I was seater, the parks were nuts, we move on. Monday and Tuesday (I'd been asked to come in again) I was assignor, and still nothing particularly fascinating happened. I missed Celine Dion using our break trailer washroom twice, and Toby Keith decided not to grace us with his party of 16 because the only time we could fit them in was too close to his dinner reservations at Italy. Thank god. I've managed to avoid assigning for major celebrities so far, and I'd like to keep it that way. Too much craziness to deal with.
Wednesday was fun because earlier in the week (Sunday?) I'd found out that Mel's French roommate had left, and there was a bed free in her apartment. I'd applied, and on Wednesday the lady called me to ask how soon I could move. Thanks to being called in on Tuesday, I now had Saturday off, so I told her so and everything was approved. Yay!!!! Only afterwards did I realize that phone calls would become a lot more confusing now, especially when one of us picked up the phone ("Is this Mel?" "...Well, it's one of them.") or if people were talking to us while we were both in the living room (this was bad enough on Christmas). That night, Selina and I went to see Avatar, which was SO awesome! Such a great movie! I mean, okay, the plot was like some strange hybrid child of Pocahontas and Dinotopia, but in away that made it even more entertaining. In other news, Sigourney Weaver is totally looking her age. She also kinda looks like Carrie Fisher. Whatever.
Thursday was kinda sorta Hell on Earth. My family may recall me mentioning over and over how much I'd love to be here at Walt Disney World for Christmas and New Years. I would like to amend that now, particularly with regards to the 31st. On New Years, I would like to be at the geographical furthest possible point from Walt Disney World. It is SO many levels of insane! The people! It's just madness! Originally I was scheduled to open popcorn that day, but Kari wanted to trade shifts to have the evening off, so I jumped at the chance to be PM greeter. I mean, New Years kinda stopped being a big deal to me after I started staying up til midnight regularly. Plus it meant that my shift didn't start at 9:30 in the morning. I got up to remote podium to start my shift and just kinda stared at the freaky sea of people. Surprisingly, though, I don't think I turned away any more people than usual (which is still a lot, really). I think people must've figured we were crazy-booked. Which we were. Just before midnight we all got to run up to the promenade to watch the special New Years fireworks, which was BEYOND awesome. After the normal IllumiNations run, the voiceover comes up and talks about how different countries are in different time zones, so they rang in the new year at different times. They start with when Japan and China celebrated it, and then fireworks started going off right above the Japan pavilion, when those were done, China started. And so on and so forth, until just before midnight, when Canada, the US, and Mexico "all celebrate the New Year" (despite the fact that we have how many time zones over here?), when the ten second countdown began. So there's 88,000 people plus cast members gathered around World Showcase all shouting numbers together, and then everything goes nuts. Fireworks are EVERYWHERE. It was crazy. Gorgeous, but still something I'd like to avoid in the future.
Friday I was really tired, but I dragged my butt to work anyway for a popcorn floater shift. In the cold and rain. Yippee. I probably should have started packing that night, but I didn't. I left it all for Saturday, after I'd gone to housing at 9 in the morning to pick up my new key. Having been driven here rather than flying, I didn't have rolling suitcases I could load up a few times and cart back and forth. No, I had to load all my hoarded stuff (I really should consider being less of a packrat) into a few travel bags I'd picked up at throwouts (Thanks Chantal and Greg) and my boxes, and walk back and forth for a really long time. Between noon and 1, Mel got back from horseback riding at Fort Wilderness, so we borrowed Ali's car to make life easier. It still took two trips. After all I'd already carried. We're SO gonna need the van to bring me home. I'll miss all of my housemates there, because they were fantastic, but I like having a smaller apartment with less people. Plus my bathroom in this apartment is gargantuan. After about three times of me saying, "Okay, that's it. ...No, wait! I forgot!" we finally got me all moved in and I could start UNpacking. Which took a lot of the rest of the day. What I was really uber-happy about, though, was that I could finally hook my system up to the TV and play video games. Yay Final Fantasy! ...No, seriously. It'd been almost four months. I was going through withdrawal.
Since then I've pretty much just been working and chilling out at my cozy new place (and I love that this bed doesn't creak so loud I wake up every time my foot twitches). Sunday's movie night had a population total of four (me, Dan, Jeremy, and Heather), so the boys had ordered pizzas and we sat and watched a couple episodes of the British 'The Office.' Monday night's game was The Simpsons Scene It. Craig is officially the equivalent of Heather and I with the Disney version. Tuesday was Heather's (attractions Heather, with the musicals, not aforementioned Heather) last day off before her last day of work today, so she wanted to go see the Welcome show at the Magic Kingdom one last time. I love Heather dearly, plus I'd never seen the Welcome show (ever, actually, that I can recall), so this was a great idea! Key word: was. I didn't think it was so great when I was trying to take pictures and couldn't because my finger was too cold to put enough pressure on the button! We had an absolute blast, though. Heather and I bought tiaras from the glass and crystal place, and all the cast members called us princesses all day. Mother, stop rolling your eyes at me. I can hear your "Oh Lord" from here. We also managed to get into VIP seating for the 3 o'clock parade, which was awesome because all the characters face us the whole time (since we're on one side of a bridge and there's no one on the other side), and I was bowed to and kissed by so many characters! Heather and I were like five-year-olds. Eventually it was time to go, especially since Heather was practically hacking up a lung by this point.
Today was another day in Magic Kingdom with Jess, one of the newest arrivals. I'd trained her on greeter. She's fantastic. Anyway, other than briefly with her arrival group, she'd never been here before, so once again I got to play tour guide. And I'd made reservations at Tony's again. Have I mentioned that I love that place? Sadly, mint cheesecake was gone, but the new flavour was chocolate raspberry, which was also pretty good. Jess and I had so much fun! Lines were surprisingly long, though, considering these are supposed to be our deadest weeks. So we fastpassed some stuff, waited in line for the stuff that wasn't that bad, walked onto yet other rides. And we finished the day off with Wishes. I love Wishes. And yes, I had my tiara back on. Don't judge. It's sparkly.
So now I'm sitting here, kinda freezing in my pjs. I think I'm gonna go get my flannel blanket.
(The rest of this was written on the Feast of Fools. For those of you who don't speak Hunchback of Notre Dame, that's January 6th.)
Okay, so after the parade I finally got into the shower and grabbed my cookies to take to the contest at work. Yeah, we were having a cookie contest. I made white cake mix-based cookies with crushed candy cane and red and green m&ms. I won for taste! Yay me! Mel and Ali won for presentation, because Mel was crazy enough to make sugar cookies in the shape of ornaments, decorate them, and then stick them on a small tree. Like, actually. I rode to work in the back of Ali's car, holding the tree steady so that it didn't fall over on me. After that, Mel and I went to her place to cook Christmas dinner. She already had the turkey stuffed and in the oven, so we made a game plan for cook times and then stuck on Love Actually for a while. Then it was time to start the potatoes, which was a mildly grueling ordeal because those things just did not want to peel! Eventually we got them, though (okay, Mel got them and I was put on jell-o duty because I fail just that epically, but whatever), and we put them on the stove to boil. We got the Pilsbury biscuits ready to bake, took out the non-turkey-stuffed turkey (made without chicken stock so that our vegetarians could eat it!), and started the veggies (microwavable bags - surprisingly very good). We also put on the cranberry sauce that Craig had donated to Mel's cause (which he'd had around since Thanksgiving when nobody ate it). By this time, people had started to show up, but since dinner wasn't going to be ready for a little bit, Mel had set up a cookie decorating station on the coffee table for them. She still had a few undecorated cookies from her massive sugar cookie bake, and some icing, so they had fun with that. Eventually the bird was done and we transferred it creatively to the cutting boards on the counter so that we could start on the gravy (my specialty!). I taught her to make gravy, and then she got down to carving the turkey, Commons style. Which means we totally didn't have a long serrated knife at all so it was mostly done with a fork and table knife. She did an amazing job, though. All in all, it was a great turnout, great food, and good drinks (unless you were Craig, in which case you were drinking eggnog instead of sparkling grape juice). Cookies were for dessert, as well as little pumpkin tarts that Desiree had brought, and ice cream! Unfortunately (or just humourously, depending on how you look at it) the ice cream also had to be consumed Commons style. See, we'd used almost all the bowls and spoons earlier for serving dinner. So ice cream was served in cups, and you had your choice of measuring spoon sizes to eat with. Allison claimed the smallest one, so she got to eat hers with a 1/8 tsp. We sang a few Christmas songs - like, the pop ones. Not the traditional ones. Mariah Carey, which was followed by NSync, and then somehow morphed into Sister Act (not quite sure how the transition happened there). I helped clean up as people began to disperse, pulling the rest of the meat off the turkey and removing the wish bone for Mel, which was much easier said than done (speaking of, I should ask her what happened with that...). We sent a couple people out the door with garbage bags, began a load of dish towels, and then kinda collapsed. Eventually Ali and I, the last ones there, decided we should probably go home. About ten or fifteen minutes later we actually made it up off the couch.
Saturday and Sunday were nothing particularly fascinating. I was seater, the parks were nuts, we move on. Monday and Tuesday (I'd been asked to come in again) I was assignor, and still nothing particularly fascinating happened. I missed Celine Dion using our break trailer washroom twice, and Toby Keith decided not to grace us with his party of 16 because the only time we could fit them in was too close to his dinner reservations at Italy. Thank god. I've managed to avoid assigning for major celebrities so far, and I'd like to keep it that way. Too much craziness to deal with.
Wednesday was fun because earlier in the week (Sunday?) I'd found out that Mel's French roommate had left, and there was a bed free in her apartment. I'd applied, and on Wednesday the lady called me to ask how soon I could move. Thanks to being called in on Tuesday, I now had Saturday off, so I told her so and everything was approved. Yay!!!! Only afterwards did I realize that phone calls would become a lot more confusing now, especially when one of us picked up the phone ("Is this Mel?" "...Well, it's one of them.") or if people were talking to us while we were both in the living room (this was bad enough on Christmas). That night, Selina and I went to see Avatar, which was SO awesome! Such a great movie! I mean, okay, the plot was like some strange hybrid child of Pocahontas and Dinotopia, but in away that made it even more entertaining. In other news, Sigourney Weaver is totally looking her age. She also kinda looks like Carrie Fisher. Whatever.
Thursday was kinda sorta Hell on Earth. My family may recall me mentioning over and over how much I'd love to be here at Walt Disney World for Christmas and New Years. I would like to amend that now, particularly with regards to the 31st. On New Years, I would like to be at the geographical furthest possible point from Walt Disney World. It is SO many levels of insane! The people! It's just madness! Originally I was scheduled to open popcorn that day, but Kari wanted to trade shifts to have the evening off, so I jumped at the chance to be PM greeter. I mean, New Years kinda stopped being a big deal to me after I started staying up til midnight regularly. Plus it meant that my shift didn't start at 9:30 in the morning. I got up to remote podium to start my shift and just kinda stared at the freaky sea of people. Surprisingly, though, I don't think I turned away any more people than usual (which is still a lot, really). I think people must've figured we were crazy-booked. Which we were. Just before midnight we all got to run up to the promenade to watch the special New Years fireworks, which was BEYOND awesome. After the normal IllumiNations run, the voiceover comes up and talks about how different countries are in different time zones, so they rang in the new year at different times. They start with when Japan and China celebrated it, and then fireworks started going off right above the Japan pavilion, when those were done, China started. And so on and so forth, until just before midnight, when Canada, the US, and Mexico "all celebrate the New Year" (despite the fact that we have how many time zones over here?), when the ten second countdown began. So there's 88,000 people plus cast members gathered around World Showcase all shouting numbers together, and then everything goes nuts. Fireworks are EVERYWHERE. It was crazy. Gorgeous, but still something I'd like to avoid in the future.
Friday I was really tired, but I dragged my butt to work anyway for a popcorn floater shift. In the cold and rain. Yippee. I probably should have started packing that night, but I didn't. I left it all for Saturday, after I'd gone to housing at 9 in the morning to pick up my new key. Having been driven here rather than flying, I didn't have rolling suitcases I could load up a few times and cart back and forth. No, I had to load all my hoarded stuff (I really should consider being less of a packrat) into a few travel bags I'd picked up at throwouts (Thanks Chantal and Greg) and my boxes, and walk back and forth for a really long time. Between noon and 1, Mel got back from horseback riding at Fort Wilderness, so we borrowed Ali's car to make life easier. It still took two trips. After all I'd already carried. We're SO gonna need the van to bring me home. I'll miss all of my housemates there, because they were fantastic, but I like having a smaller apartment with less people. Plus my bathroom in this apartment is gargantuan. After about three times of me saying, "Okay, that's it. ...No, wait! I forgot!" we finally got me all moved in and I could start UNpacking. Which took a lot of the rest of the day. What I was really uber-happy about, though, was that I could finally hook my system up to the TV and play video games. Yay Final Fantasy! ...No, seriously. It'd been almost four months. I was going through withdrawal.
Since then I've pretty much just been working and chilling out at my cozy new place (and I love that this bed doesn't creak so loud I wake up every time my foot twitches). Sunday's movie night had a population total of four (me, Dan, Jeremy, and Heather), so the boys had ordered pizzas and we sat and watched a couple episodes of the British 'The Office.' Monday night's game was The Simpsons Scene It. Craig is officially the equivalent of Heather and I with the Disney version. Tuesday was Heather's (attractions Heather, with the musicals, not aforementioned Heather) last day off before her last day of work today, so she wanted to go see the Welcome show at the Magic Kingdom one last time. I love Heather dearly, plus I'd never seen the Welcome show (ever, actually, that I can recall), so this was a great idea! Key word: was. I didn't think it was so great when I was trying to take pictures and couldn't because my finger was too cold to put enough pressure on the button! We had an absolute blast, though. Heather and I bought tiaras from the glass and crystal place, and all the cast members called us princesses all day. Mother, stop rolling your eyes at me. I can hear your "Oh Lord" from here. We also managed to get into VIP seating for the 3 o'clock parade, which was awesome because all the characters face us the whole time (since we're on one side of a bridge and there's no one on the other side), and I was bowed to and kissed by so many characters! Heather and I were like five-year-olds. Eventually it was time to go, especially since Heather was practically hacking up a lung by this point.
Today was another day in Magic Kingdom with Jess, one of the newest arrivals. I'd trained her on greeter. She's fantastic. Anyway, other than briefly with her arrival group, she'd never been here before, so once again I got to play tour guide. And I'd made reservations at Tony's again. Have I mentioned that I love that place? Sadly, mint cheesecake was gone, but the new flavour was chocolate raspberry, which was also pretty good. Jess and I had so much fun! Lines were surprisingly long, though, considering these are supposed to be our deadest weeks. So we fastpassed some stuff, waited in line for the stuff that wasn't that bad, walked onto yet other rides. And we finished the day off with Wishes. I love Wishes. And yes, I had my tiara back on. Don't judge. It's sparkly.
So now I'm sitting here, kinda freezing in my pjs. I think I'm gonna go get my flannel blanket.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
3 Days Til Christmas
So Wednesday Selina and I headed over to Magic Kingdom to have lunch at Tony's Town Square Restaurant. Entrees were really good, service was passable (not exactly the most personable server ever), but the dessert was fantastic! We both ordered the chef's cheesecake, which was mint flavoured. That intrigued me, because I'd never had mint cheesecake before. It wasn't a heavy cheesecake at all, and the crust was a chocolate cookie crumb crust, so that just made it more fantastic. Mom, seriously, you have to try this stuff. We ran around like small children and did a bunch of rides after that, including Space Mountain. It probably would have been more fun if Selina hadn't been threatening my death. ...She doesn't like roller coasters. We did Buzz Lightyear and I got 999,999 (max. score!). So take that, Mom! You can't beat me with your eyes closed anymore! And we rode Astro Orbiter, both of us for the first time ever. Let me say right now: for two grown people sharing one rocket, this is THE MOST AWKWARD RIDE EVER. Make sure you know your partner really well. I think we're over the awkward factor now. It was hilarious when we were up there, though. I got my picture taken with Peter Pan, who complimented my purse. ... Not touching that one. We stayed for Wishes, since Selina'd never seen it before, and then headed out with the massive hordes. The massive hordes all headed for the ferry and the express monorail, so we were smart people and hopped the much less crowded resort monorail, which stops at the Ticket & Transportation Center anyway. Except by this point we were already thinking of going to Downtown Disney, because I wanted to pick up The Princess and the Frog soundtrack and she wanted to see New Moon (to clarify: she was going alone. I wasn't going with her to that. Nasty, terrible thing that it is). So we got off at the Polynesian, because it's fantastic and I love it, plus I knew how to get to the bus depot. Well, it took at least a half hour for the bus to show up. When it did, it was full. The bus driver assured us another bus was coming right behind him, so we could hop that one, and off he went. There were actually quite a few people heading to Downtown Disney. So we waited. And we waited. It is now between 9:30 and 10 PM. Finally, after a half hour, that second bus shows up. Guess what he tells us? ...Yeah. We decided to say screw it and cram on the already full bus. We were NOT taking our chances. Still, by the time we got there, the Marketplace was pretty much closed down and she'd missed the last showing of her movie. So we turned right around and hopped the bus home.
Fast forward a few days because nothing interesting happened on them. I assigned my first Candlelight, and I lived to tell the tale, but there wasn't much of a tale to tell. No guests killed me, no servers killed me, life goes on. Anyways, we're fast forwarding to Saturday night, after I get off work. I'd been extended for a bit, because people called in sick, so as soon as I could I went backstage to change, went out the front gate (that bus appeared before the one that goes around World Showcase, which I could've just hopped to the UK, went out at International Gateway, and walked to the Yacht & Beach Club bus depot), and hopped a bus to Port Orleans so that I could transfer and get on a Downtown Disney bus. I was going to get that CD I'd missed out on the other night. Funny thing was, though, that World of Disney was sold out of them. So was Once Upon A Toy. Those are pretty much the only places to get stuff like that at Downtown Disney. Okay, fine. I get off work early yesterday and decide to head over to Magic Kingdom, because they'll totally have some at the Emporium (gargantuan shop on Main Street). Plus, the Once Upon a Christmastime parade has become the afternoon parade for the next week, so I can get some better pictures of that (I shot, like, the whole parade frame by frame, I swear. I have enough pictures to almost make a flip book of the parade). I get a spot on Main Street right outside the Emporium so that I can duck in as soon as it's done and avoid the hordes of people that inevitably come at the end of a parade. No dice. They don't have it either. PhilharMagic has a lot of CDs, though; I've bought some there in the past. Let's check there! The castle entrance to Fantasyland is closed at this point for the castle forecourt stage show, so I have to fight the masses through Liberty Square. All in vain, though, because PhilharMagic doesn't have it either. FINE. I'll go to Hollywood Studios. I know I saw it there before, in the Animation Courtyard. So I hop the resort monorail (again, express line was ridiculous), and decide to get off at the Contemporary on the off chance that they have it there. They don't. They did have a shirt that I'd been looking for, so that was awesome, but beside the point. I head down to their bus depot, and board the bus to the Studios. Briefly stop in Villains Vogue, mostly because I love that store, and then move on. Over to Voyage of the Little Mermaid, because that's where all the Princess and the Frog stuff had been before (don't question these things). Well, they were carrying it at one point, but they're all out. I should try Mickey's of Hollywood. Zilch. The nice people there direct me to Guest Services, because apparently they can call this central merchandise place or something and find out all the places that still have some. Awesome. So after standing in the Guest Services lobby like a moron for a while, during which time the GS dude had to clarify with the woman on the phone which CD I wanted, because there's also one that was released that's Princess Tiana and other princesses and is totally not what I'm looking for, Dude comes back. Emporium in Magic Kingdom has a couple (that's a lie). Contemporary has some, too (also a lie). But where they have the most is the Mercantile at Fort Wilderness. I clarify with Dude that it is Fort Wilderness, NOT Wilderness Lodge. He says yeah, it'll be to the right of where you go for the Hoop De Doo Revue. Okay, SO. I board the bus that goes to Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness. The bus stops at Wilderness Lodge, I stay on. The bus stops at Fort Wilderness, I get off. But see, the thing about Fort Wilderness is that it's a campground, so it's mega huge and really confusing and a gargantuan pain in the butt to navigate. They have three buses that run different routes to the main areas of this place, so I ask the guy driving one if he'll take me to the Mercantile. He's not sure what I'm talking about, but he's going up to the Settlement, where the dining and Hoop De Doo and stuff are. So I get on that bus, and away we go, through deepest darkest Africa. I get off, walk past the hall with the dinner show, and on my right is a Trading Post merchandise shop. This has got to be it. I go in, and ask the nice lady at the counter. The nice lady at the counter doesn't know what I'm talking about, because they've never carried that CD. Joy. She gets her manager involved, and then calls the lovely people over at Wilderness Lodge, who say that they have some, and are kind enough to put one aside for me. Wish I'd known that before, because then I wouldn't have had to walk through the cold to get to the furthest point in the campground (and yes, it was cold; for Florida, anyway). But there's a boat launch there, and there's a boat that goes to Wilderness Lodge. I'm gonna freeze to death on the water, but it's better than waiting for the bus, taking the bus back to the main Fort Wilderness depot, and then taking a bus to a park and transferring back to Wilderness Lodge. That would just be silly. So I go freeze. We pull up at Wilderness Lodge, I get a little lost, but eventually I make it to their merchandise shop which, funnily enough, is called the Mercantile. Huh. Imagine that. I go in, ask for Jenny as I've been instructed to do, and she presents to me the Tiana and her Princess Friends CD. Greeeeeeat. Thankfully, a guy happens to be walking by with a stack of the soundtrack just as I'm saying that's the wrong CD. So FINALLY I have my CD. YAY!!! ...And that is actually the end of the story. Like, it works and everything. And I didn't get stranded on the way home. (Though I did have to board the boat to the Magic Kingdom, and then take the ferry back to the TTC so that I could get on my bus.)
Tonight was our Gift Exchange at Games Night. In fact, the exchange WAS our game. It was Santa Steal or whatever it's called, where people go in a predetermined order and can either unwrap a present from the pile or steal what someone else has unwrapped. We had to wait for servers who got sat late, though, so we all crowded into Craig's apartment and sang Christmas carols and were generally rowdy in a holiday-ish way. So much fun! I went home with a really nice leather-cover photo album, which is good for me since I still believe in printing off pictures every now and again.
That should be it for now. Next update will probably come just after Christmas!
Fast forward a few days because nothing interesting happened on them. I assigned my first Candlelight, and I lived to tell the tale, but there wasn't much of a tale to tell. No guests killed me, no servers killed me, life goes on. Anyways, we're fast forwarding to Saturday night, after I get off work. I'd been extended for a bit, because people called in sick, so as soon as I could I went backstage to change, went out the front gate (that bus appeared before the one that goes around World Showcase, which I could've just hopped to the UK, went out at International Gateway, and walked to the Yacht & Beach Club bus depot), and hopped a bus to Port Orleans so that I could transfer and get on a Downtown Disney bus. I was going to get that CD I'd missed out on the other night. Funny thing was, though, that World of Disney was sold out of them. So was Once Upon A Toy. Those are pretty much the only places to get stuff like that at Downtown Disney. Okay, fine. I get off work early yesterday and decide to head over to Magic Kingdom, because they'll totally have some at the Emporium (gargantuan shop on Main Street). Plus, the Once Upon a Christmastime parade has become the afternoon parade for the next week, so I can get some better pictures of that (I shot, like, the whole parade frame by frame, I swear. I have enough pictures to almost make a flip book of the parade). I get a spot on Main Street right outside the Emporium so that I can duck in as soon as it's done and avoid the hordes of people that inevitably come at the end of a parade. No dice. They don't have it either. PhilharMagic has a lot of CDs, though; I've bought some there in the past. Let's check there! The castle entrance to Fantasyland is closed at this point for the castle forecourt stage show, so I have to fight the masses through Liberty Square. All in vain, though, because PhilharMagic doesn't have it either. FINE. I'll go to Hollywood Studios. I know I saw it there before, in the Animation Courtyard. So I hop the resort monorail (again, express line was ridiculous), and decide to get off at the Contemporary on the off chance that they have it there. They don't. They did have a shirt that I'd been looking for, so that was awesome, but beside the point. I head down to their bus depot, and board the bus to the Studios. Briefly stop in Villains Vogue, mostly because I love that store, and then move on. Over to Voyage of the Little Mermaid, because that's where all the Princess and the Frog stuff had been before (don't question these things). Well, they were carrying it at one point, but they're all out. I should try Mickey's of Hollywood. Zilch. The nice people there direct me to Guest Services, because apparently they can call this central merchandise place or something and find out all the places that still have some. Awesome. So after standing in the Guest Services lobby like a moron for a while, during which time the GS dude had to clarify with the woman on the phone which CD I wanted, because there's also one that was released that's Princess Tiana and other princesses and is totally not what I'm looking for, Dude comes back. Emporium in Magic Kingdom has a couple (that's a lie). Contemporary has some, too (also a lie). But where they have the most is the Mercantile at Fort Wilderness. I clarify with Dude that it is Fort Wilderness, NOT Wilderness Lodge. He says yeah, it'll be to the right of where you go for the Hoop De Doo Revue. Okay, SO. I board the bus that goes to Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness. The bus stops at Wilderness Lodge, I stay on. The bus stops at Fort Wilderness, I get off. But see, the thing about Fort Wilderness is that it's a campground, so it's mega huge and really confusing and a gargantuan pain in the butt to navigate. They have three buses that run different routes to the main areas of this place, so I ask the guy driving one if he'll take me to the Mercantile. He's not sure what I'm talking about, but he's going up to the Settlement, where the dining and Hoop De Doo and stuff are. So I get on that bus, and away we go, through deepest darkest Africa. I get off, walk past the hall with the dinner show, and on my right is a Trading Post merchandise shop. This has got to be it. I go in, and ask the nice lady at the counter. The nice lady at the counter doesn't know what I'm talking about, because they've never carried that CD. Joy. She gets her manager involved, and then calls the lovely people over at Wilderness Lodge, who say that they have some, and are kind enough to put one aside for me. Wish I'd known that before, because then I wouldn't have had to walk through the cold to get to the furthest point in the campground (and yes, it was cold; for Florida, anyway). But there's a boat launch there, and there's a boat that goes to Wilderness Lodge. I'm gonna freeze to death on the water, but it's better than waiting for the bus, taking the bus back to the main Fort Wilderness depot, and then taking a bus to a park and transferring back to Wilderness Lodge. That would just be silly. So I go freeze. We pull up at Wilderness Lodge, I get a little lost, but eventually I make it to their merchandise shop which, funnily enough, is called the Mercantile. Huh. Imagine that. I go in, ask for Jenny as I've been instructed to do, and she presents to me the Tiana and her Princess Friends CD. Greeeeeeat. Thankfully, a guy happens to be walking by with a stack of the soundtrack just as I'm saying that's the wrong CD. So FINALLY I have my CD. YAY!!! ...And that is actually the end of the story. Like, it works and everything. And I didn't get stranded on the way home. (Though I did have to board the boat to the Magic Kingdom, and then take the ferry back to the TTC so that I could get on my bus.)
Tonight was our Gift Exchange at Games Night. In fact, the exchange WAS our game. It was Santa Steal or whatever it's called, where people go in a predetermined order and can either unwrap a present from the pile or steal what someone else has unwrapped. We had to wait for servers who got sat late, though, so we all crowded into Craig's apartment and sang Christmas carols and were generally rowdy in a holiday-ish way. So much fun! I went home with a really nice leather-cover photo album, which is good for me since I still believe in printing off pictures every now and again.
That should be it for now. Next update will probably come just after Christmas!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
10 Days Til Christmas
So I never did find out what they played at that games night, because I took a nap after that post and didn't wake up until the next morning. Oops.
On December 1st, I did groceries in a tank top. Yeah. That was pretty awesome. Also a little on the strange side, but whatever. It was kinda rainy and cold on those days, but I headed out anyways because I was determined to buy my Christmas cards and start sending them off. Which I did. I may have also gone to the Studios at some point in there... Yeah, I think I did. That night, Selina came over and we watched anime together! I got her started on Death Note, which was awesome. And some other things that I'm pretty sure she didn't think were nearly as awesome, but whatever. I still think Hetalia is awesome. On the 2nd, I was in Magic Kingdom and saw that they had the extra stage pieces and stuff up for the Christmas Day parade taping, so I was uber-excited about that. I found out it was happening on that Saturday. So I went to work on Thursday and Friday, and then on Friday I asked to have an ADO on the Saturday. I probably shouldn't have, what with expenses and whatever, but this was the Christmas Day parade. Everyone who knows me well enough knows that I watch this every year without fail, and have a tendency to build our Christmas morning activities around it. WELL. So I get my ADO approved, and then head to my 'I Can Make a Difference' class, which was a lot of fun. Except that I was asking the woman teaching the class about the parade, and exactly what time they did it at and whatever, so she fired off an quick email to a friend of hers at Magic Kingdom for me. The message came back saying that because the sky wasn't supposed to be clear and blue that day, but rather grey and kinda rainy, the taping was postponed. WAS NOT HAPPY. So I spent the whole of Saturday in my pjs, doing absolutely nothing. I don't even think I showered. I was that depressed. (Kidding. I don't think I left the apartment, though.)
Oh, I forgot. The other kicker in there was that after I'd had my days off, I found out that Trans-Siberian Orchestra was playing Orlando and Tampa that weekend. If I'd known beforehand, I would have switched shifts with someone in order to go. And getting my ADO the day before for Saturday didn't exactly give me time to plan a trip off property. Of course, I heard their music more than usual at work that weekend (Christmas radio station), just out of spite, I think. Blah.
After that, another few days of work. We were getting a new housemate on the Tuesday (she's from France, and I keep forgetting her name because she says it with such a thick accent), so because we had beds open in two rooms Keiko moved into my room with me. So now I have a Japanese roommate again. I kinda miss having the room to myself, but Keiko's fantastic, so it's all good. I'm pretty sure my random Japanese knowledge amuses her as much as it did Sayaka. Then ... Oh! I remember now. On Wednesday the 9th we had our Winter Formal for all the CPs, ICPs, and CRPs (I'm one of the last group). It was at one of the ballrooms in the Contemporary, and involved fantastic food, generic dance music, and characters. I got my picture taken with Sorcerer Mickey and Belle and Beast (and Belle was in her Christmas dress, which I absolutely love). We hung out, had fun, etc. Thursday night was a blast because a bunch of us went to the midnight opening of The Princess and the Frog. I'm just going to say right now that it was the best Disney movie I've seen in a long time. I loved the art, I loved the characters, I loved the music... I don't think there was one aspect of it that I didn't love. Except maybe the snakes. Could have done without those. But seriously, I would put this one right up there with all the classics. It was THAT good. Everyone should see it.
On Friday I worked my first Extra Magic Hours since I've been here. It was okay, though, because the park was kinda dead and we weren't doing much business, so we closed pretty much when we normally do anyway. I did get to see the holiday extension of IllumiNations, though, which was SO COOL. Even when the fireworks were so intense that I could feel the ground shake underneath me. That was cool too.
On Sunday I worked until 6, and Selina was working until 6:30, so when Taryn did a random search on the reservation system and found some stuff at Restaurant Marrakesh in Morrocco, we jumped on the opportunity and headed there after work. It was SO fantastic. Amazing food, the service wasn't extraordinary, but they have a belly dancer, so that makes up for it. At least in my mind. So that's one more place I've tried that I can now personally recommend to people rather than saying, "I've heard it's good." Because that's not as reliable. And since we turn people away so often I think it's important to really be able to tell guests about their other options. (Yes, Mother, I am trying to justify my spending. Is it working? ...Didn't think so.)
Yesterday was so bland that I don't even remember it. I was a seater again. I think. No, wait! I was closing popcorn! Right. Gotcha. It was REEEEEEALLY dead yesterday. Opening the container of butter to switch it out was kind of interesting though, because Kelly, who was my stocker, cut herself trying to do it. So while she was down getting a bandaid, I picked up where she left off. And by the time she got back, we needed to switch off so that I could get a bandaid. Popcorn cart has now managed to scar both of my index fingers.
Today I went to FedEx, Magic Kingdom, and Downtown Disney with David and Dan. We had fun. David wanted to go visit Belle, so we did, and then Dan wanted to do Space Mountain, so we did that twice (and I'm still alive, despite how I feel the whole time I'm on that ride; the track is so close!), and I wanted to do Haunted Mansion, so we did that. We also did Jungle Cruise because we could, and we tried to do Pirates but it was closed for technical difficulties. In my mind, this means that what Malcolm in Jurassic Park said is coming true, and the pirates are about to eat the tourists, but whatever. No one got eaten by an animatronic. And now I'm back home, typing this. I am tired. I should get sleep.
On December 1st, I did groceries in a tank top. Yeah. That was pretty awesome. Also a little on the strange side, but whatever. It was kinda rainy and cold on those days, but I headed out anyways because I was determined to buy my Christmas cards and start sending them off. Which I did. I may have also gone to the Studios at some point in there... Yeah, I think I did. That night, Selina came over and we watched anime together! I got her started on Death Note, which was awesome. And some other things that I'm pretty sure she didn't think were nearly as awesome, but whatever. I still think Hetalia is awesome. On the 2nd, I was in Magic Kingdom and saw that they had the extra stage pieces and stuff up for the Christmas Day parade taping, so I was uber-excited about that. I found out it was happening on that Saturday. So I went to work on Thursday and Friday, and then on Friday I asked to have an ADO on the Saturday. I probably shouldn't have, what with expenses and whatever, but this was the Christmas Day parade. Everyone who knows me well enough knows that I watch this every year without fail, and have a tendency to build our Christmas morning activities around it. WELL. So I get my ADO approved, and then head to my 'I Can Make a Difference' class, which was a lot of fun. Except that I was asking the woman teaching the class about the parade, and exactly what time they did it at and whatever, so she fired off an quick email to a friend of hers at Magic Kingdom for me. The message came back saying that because the sky wasn't supposed to be clear and blue that day, but rather grey and kinda rainy, the taping was postponed. WAS NOT HAPPY. So I spent the whole of Saturday in my pjs, doing absolutely nothing. I don't even think I showered. I was that depressed. (Kidding. I don't think I left the apartment, though.)
Oh, I forgot. The other kicker in there was that after I'd had my days off, I found out that Trans-Siberian Orchestra was playing Orlando and Tampa that weekend. If I'd known beforehand, I would have switched shifts with someone in order to go. And getting my ADO the day before for Saturday didn't exactly give me time to plan a trip off property. Of course, I heard their music more than usual at work that weekend (Christmas radio station), just out of spite, I think. Blah.
After that, another few days of work. We were getting a new housemate on the Tuesday (she's from France, and I keep forgetting her name because she says it with such a thick accent), so because we had beds open in two rooms Keiko moved into my room with me. So now I have a Japanese roommate again. I kinda miss having the room to myself, but Keiko's fantastic, so it's all good. I'm pretty sure my random Japanese knowledge amuses her as much as it did Sayaka. Then ... Oh! I remember now. On Wednesday the 9th we had our Winter Formal for all the CPs, ICPs, and CRPs (I'm one of the last group). It was at one of the ballrooms in the Contemporary, and involved fantastic food, generic dance music, and characters. I got my picture taken with Sorcerer Mickey and Belle and Beast (and Belle was in her Christmas dress, which I absolutely love). We hung out, had fun, etc. Thursday night was a blast because a bunch of us went to the midnight opening of The Princess and the Frog. I'm just going to say right now that it was the best Disney movie I've seen in a long time. I loved the art, I loved the characters, I loved the music... I don't think there was one aspect of it that I didn't love. Except maybe the snakes. Could have done without those. But seriously, I would put this one right up there with all the classics. It was THAT good. Everyone should see it.
On Friday I worked my first Extra Magic Hours since I've been here. It was okay, though, because the park was kinda dead and we weren't doing much business, so we closed pretty much when we normally do anyway. I did get to see the holiday extension of IllumiNations, though, which was SO COOL. Even when the fireworks were so intense that I could feel the ground shake underneath me. That was cool too.
On Sunday I worked until 6, and Selina was working until 6:30, so when Taryn did a random search on the reservation system and found some stuff at Restaurant Marrakesh in Morrocco, we jumped on the opportunity and headed there after work. It was SO fantastic. Amazing food, the service wasn't extraordinary, but they have a belly dancer, so that makes up for it. At least in my mind. So that's one more place I've tried that I can now personally recommend to people rather than saying, "I've heard it's good." Because that's not as reliable. And since we turn people away so often I think it's important to really be able to tell guests about their other options. (Yes, Mother, I am trying to justify my spending. Is it working? ...Didn't think so.)
Yesterday was so bland that I don't even remember it. I was a seater again. I think. No, wait! I was closing popcorn! Right. Gotcha. It was REEEEEEALLY dead yesterday. Opening the container of butter to switch it out was kind of interesting though, because Kelly, who was my stocker, cut herself trying to do it. So while she was down getting a bandaid, I picked up where she left off. And by the time she got back, we needed to switch off so that I could get a bandaid. Popcorn cart has now managed to scar both of my index fingers.
Today I went to FedEx, Magic Kingdom, and Downtown Disney with David and Dan. We had fun. David wanted to go visit Belle, so we did, and then Dan wanted to do Space Mountain, so we did that twice (and I'm still alive, despite how I feel the whole time I'm on that ride; the track is so close!), and I wanted to do Haunted Mansion, so we did that. We also did Jungle Cruise because we could, and we tried to do Pirates but it was closed for technical difficulties. In my mind, this means that what Malcolm in Jurassic Park said is coming true, and the pirates are about to eat the tourists, but whatever. No one got eaten by an animatronic. And now I'm back home, typing this. I am tired. I should get sleep.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Update
I know I haven't updated lately, but that's because really there's only so many times I can tell you I was a seater. I mean, really. Seating is not that fascinating. And on my days off, I always do the same thing: groceries, and a park. Usually Magic Kingdom. I can tell you, though, that if I ever have to assign on a Friday the 13th again, I'm probably going to cry. And then possibly run screaming in the opposite direction. It was an absolute nightmare. Saturday was normal, and I talked to Janice about spieling the menu to her the next week. (We have to memorize the menu and then spiel it to two different managers before we can be put on the list to go into food running and service.)
I spent most of that week studying, so I don't remember a lot of it. Pretty sure groceries still weren't involved this week, unless we're at the three week mark, because then I finally did do groceries. On Saturday I spieled to Janice, and not-quite-passed, but I was oddly okay with that. Not sure why. It was a rather un-Mel-ish reaction. Anyway, I ran into Heather and (server) Melanie when they were on their way out to walk around EPCOT for a while, so I joined them. Mel bought a ton of tree decorations, without having a tree to put them on. Heather went off to join Jeremy for dinner, so Mel and I had a Mel-date for dinner at Tutto Italia. It was fantastic! And it was the first time there for both of us, so it was a really neat experience. They have really good canneloni.
Oh, wait! Somewhere in there was the Verry Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom. SO much fun. Not quite as much fun as Halloween, and the parade wasn't as cool, but it was still great. I saw the castle lighting ceremony (yeah, I'm not kidding. CASTLE lighting), they made it snow on Main Street, and then the group of us beelined it for Tomorrowland because the soft opening of Space Mountain was going on. The ride's been closed for refurbishment since I got here, so that was kind of a big deal. It was so much fun! And, okay, there were a lot of times when I was ducking, and I was shorter than all the other people with me. Except Trina. We're the same height. After that we went over to Cosmic Ray's for the free hot chocolate and sugar cookies they were giving out, and stopped by the dance party that was going on there for a while with Chip and Dale. Dan got challenged to a dance off (he kinda started it) with a chipmunk, and we all did Thriller. Then we did a few more rides, including Peter Pan, which was shockingly pretty much a walk-on, and then headed to Main Street once again for the Holiday Wishes fireworks. They were really neat, but in my pictures they're mostly indistinguishable from regular Wishes. It was time to get our spot for the parade then, so we trekked over to Frontierland and sat near the Country Bear Jamboree (which I still have yet to do since I've been here). I think the best thing about the parade was seeing a lot of things I'm used to seeing on TV in the Christmas Day parade, like the soldiers and reindeer. Right at the end of the night, I caught the show at the castle forecourt stage. I was standing really close to the front, too, so I got some great shots.
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled Mel. I spent more time studying, because I was spieling to Linda on Wednesday. I passed that, and also got my re-spiel done from the not-quite-passed one. A cupcake contest had been declared at work, and it was taking place the next day, on Thanksgiving. So I spent the rest of that night working on my cupcakes: strawberry ice cream cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese icing, and a strawberry slice and mint leaf for garnish on top. Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself. So naturally I was slightly disappointed when I lost. I mean, I knew I wouldn't win for presentation, because that was clearly going to the girls who had used candy corn to make their cupcakes look like turkeys and corn on the cob. But I figured I'd at least win for taste! But no, that went to them too. I lost to a Betty Crocker cake mix. I am slightly ashamed. Otherwise, Thanksgiving was a disaster and I have no desire to work one at Walt Disney World ever again, lest I go on a murderous rampage. Or at least seriously freak out on someone.
Friday was the first day of the Candlelight Processional show at EPCOT for the holidays, and it honestly wasn't as crowded in the parks as I thought it would be. I worked popcorn, so nothing particularly fascinating there. The other day, Selina and I went to Magic Kingdom and had a lot of fun. I rode the Tomorrowland Speedway for the first time in my life. I wasn't missing much. It was reeeeeally busy that day, though, so we didn't get to do a lot.
Yesterday Michelle came to movie night for the first time. Kind of. She's leaving this week, so she wanted to come to a movie night before she left. This being her first and last, she was given the pick for the week. We watched Beerfest. However, she's overbooked herself so much for stuff in her last week that she left not quite halfway into the movie. Which she'd never seen. Oh well. Such is life.
No idea what we're playing at games night tonight.
I spent most of that week studying, so I don't remember a lot of it. Pretty sure groceries still weren't involved this week, unless we're at the three week mark, because then I finally did do groceries. On Saturday I spieled to Janice, and not-quite-passed, but I was oddly okay with that. Not sure why. It was a rather un-Mel-ish reaction. Anyway, I ran into Heather and (server) Melanie when they were on their way out to walk around EPCOT for a while, so I joined them. Mel bought a ton of tree decorations, without having a tree to put them on. Heather went off to join Jeremy for dinner, so Mel and I had a Mel-date for dinner at Tutto Italia. It was fantastic! And it was the first time there for both of us, so it was a really neat experience. They have really good canneloni.
Oh, wait! Somewhere in there was the Verry Merry Christmas Party at Magic Kingdom. SO much fun. Not quite as much fun as Halloween, and the parade wasn't as cool, but it was still great. I saw the castle lighting ceremony (yeah, I'm not kidding. CASTLE lighting), they made it snow on Main Street, and then the group of us beelined it for Tomorrowland because the soft opening of Space Mountain was going on. The ride's been closed for refurbishment since I got here, so that was kind of a big deal. It was so much fun! And, okay, there were a lot of times when I was ducking, and I was shorter than all the other people with me. Except Trina. We're the same height. After that we went over to Cosmic Ray's for the free hot chocolate and sugar cookies they were giving out, and stopped by the dance party that was going on there for a while with Chip and Dale. Dan got challenged to a dance off (he kinda started it) with a chipmunk, and we all did Thriller. Then we did a few more rides, including Peter Pan, which was shockingly pretty much a walk-on, and then headed to Main Street once again for the Holiday Wishes fireworks. They were really neat, but in my pictures they're mostly indistinguishable from regular Wishes. It was time to get our spot for the parade then, so we trekked over to Frontierland and sat near the Country Bear Jamboree (which I still have yet to do since I've been here). I think the best thing about the parade was seeing a lot of things I'm used to seeing on TV in the Christmas Day parade, like the soldiers and reindeer. Right at the end of the night, I caught the show at the castle forecourt stage. I was standing really close to the front, too, so I got some great shots.
Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled Mel. I spent more time studying, because I was spieling to Linda on Wednesday. I passed that, and also got my re-spiel done from the not-quite-passed one. A cupcake contest had been declared at work, and it was taking place the next day, on Thanksgiving. So I spent the rest of that night working on my cupcakes: strawberry ice cream cupcakes with white chocolate cream cheese icing, and a strawberry slice and mint leaf for garnish on top. Yeah, I was pretty proud of myself. So naturally I was slightly disappointed when I lost. I mean, I knew I wouldn't win for presentation, because that was clearly going to the girls who had used candy corn to make their cupcakes look like turkeys and corn on the cob. But I figured I'd at least win for taste! But no, that went to them too. I lost to a Betty Crocker cake mix. I am slightly ashamed. Otherwise, Thanksgiving was a disaster and I have no desire to work one at Walt Disney World ever again, lest I go on a murderous rampage. Or at least seriously freak out on someone.
Friday was the first day of the Candlelight Processional show at EPCOT for the holidays, and it honestly wasn't as crowded in the parks as I thought it would be. I worked popcorn, so nothing particularly fascinating there. The other day, Selina and I went to Magic Kingdom and had a lot of fun. I rode the Tomorrowland Speedway for the first time in my life. I wasn't missing much. It was reeeeeally busy that day, though, so we didn't get to do a lot.
Yesterday Michelle came to movie night for the first time. Kind of. She's leaving this week, so she wanted to come to a movie night before she left. This being her first and last, she was given the pick for the week. We watched Beerfest. However, she's overbooked herself so much for stuff in her last week that she left not quite halfway into the movie. Which she'd never seen. Oh well. Such is life.
No idea what we're playing at games night tonight.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Showboat, Teppanyaki, and Blisters, Oh My!
So Wicked was a blast and a half. I went over to Heather's early and we geeked about the show while Bryce sat at the kitchen table, probably wondering what kind of crack we were on. We looked at a couple different illegal recordings before deciding to watch the London cast. They were British, which was weird, and their Glinda wasn't particularly awesome, but we got over it. The Elphaba was good, and their Wizard was actually very good. Then, being the nerds that we are, we found a recording of a 30-minute condensed production that ran at Universal Japan. Being a theme park show, it had its own theatre, built around the green and clockwork themes of the production. ...Well, it looked like someone had spilled green paint all over 'it's a small world,' to be honest. It was fun to see bits of the show in another language, especially one in which I can pick up a few (completely useless outside context) words.
Wednesday I headed back to the Magic Kingdom, determined to see Tiana's Showboat Jubilee. I haven't talked about this before, have I? ....Well, working under the assumption that I haven't, it's a new show that debuted here at the Magic Kingdom featuring characters and songs from The Princess and the Frog, which comes out next month. They've decorated the Liberty Belle Riverboat, and three times a day it goes around the Rivers of America with Princess Tiana and crew on board singing and dancing. It's so cool! And the music isn't half bad, either. Totally can't wait for the movie now. I did some shopping (being November, I've started picking up a few Christmas presents here and there, so that I can be done by early December as usual and then start shipping them out), and walked around aimlessly for a while. Then, as I was walking out of the Emporium at the end of the night, the strap on one of my brown flats snapped! I was SO not happy about that. I still have to see if I can't get them fixed somewhere, because I seriously love those shoes.
On Thursday there were about fifty bajillion people on podium so I got an ER after a half hour of work. ...Yeah. So, it being Thursday, I called Heather up to see if she had plans. She didn't, so she made her way over to EPCOT so that she could try some of Food & Wine before it ended on Sunday. While waiting for her, I walked around, feeling acutely uncomfortable in my undershirt-tank top and polyester work pants. So I stopped in a store and used my awesome holiday cast discount to buy a really cute skort, as well as a new pair of slip-on shoes (they're black and white Mickey skimmers). Joy of joys, though, my new shoes ripped my feet open, as all of my new shoes tend to do, so half way through our day I had to switch back to socks and work shoes. But that was okay, because once we'd gotten a drink or two in Heather, she decided that we should check out Teppan Edo in the Japan pavilion. This is a teppanyaki-style restaurant (translation for the Asian Culture Challenged: there's a gigantic stainless steel grill built into your table, and the chefs cook your meal in front of you), and the chefs do tricks and stuff so it's like dinner and a show. The food was SO good! It's been a while since I've had good Japanese. ...Or any Japanese that wasn't quick sushi from the grocery store or Food & Wine booth. Ros and Carol, do you guys remember the last time we were at Sushiman? Yeah, that would've been it. Then we did a Kim Possible mission (they give you a cell phone thing that guides you through a specific pavilion as you "help Team Possible catch -insert villain here-"), which was more fun than it should be, and then it was time for fireworks. Being Canadians, we watched them from the Canada pavilion.
Friday we were going to go to the cast preview of the Christmas party parade (I worked a morning seating shift), but the directions were a little sketchy and vague, so as non-Magic Kingdom cast members, Heather, Ali, Lindsay and I elected to not go. Instead we went out for a late dinner at the Outback. Having never been to an Outback before, it was interesting. After having worked in a Disney restaurant, though, you definitely notice a difference in the level of service. The food was good, though. Three words: peanut butter pie. They give you, like, a double slice though (seriously, the thing is huge), so I got most of mine boxed up and brought it home. Good thing, too, because I needed it after Saturday. I was assigning again, and the numbers were nuts. It was fairly slow, and the numbers at the end were rather on the sad side, but the party sizes were kinda ridiculous. So many parties of 8!
Sunday.... to be honest, I don't really remember Sunday, which means it wasn't particularly interesting. I think I was seating.... Ah! Yes, I was seating. 2-9. Nothing fascinating happened. Movie night was Rachel's pick, so we watched The Wedding Singer. A LOT of people showed up for that one. I actually brought Sayaka along with me, since she's leaving and when I told her what we were watching she said she liked Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. She thinks my group of friends is highly entertaining, which I suppose is always a good thing.
Monday night I had decided I was going to Canadian Girls, since they were partying with other girls and the theme was Pajama Party. I didn't last too long there, though. They're a great bunch, but parties really aren't my thing. So I went running back to Craig's apartment and begged the games night crew to take me back. I took David's place on a team for Scene It when he had to leave. The amount of non-Disney movies I've seen is kind of pathetic. I need to work on that. Oh, and at some point before that I was cleaning my drawers on my bedside table because I thought I'd lost a book. Turns out it's at home, but at least I got some cleaning done. Not that you can tell. The drawers look exactly the same as they did before.
Tuesday was a lot of fun, because I got to play tour guide. Melissa from my arrival group hadn't been to the Magic Kingdom since she was little, and didn't remember it (how someone goes about working for Disney for two months without stepping into the Magic Kingdom is beyond me), and she knows I'm beyond freakish about these things, so off we headed in the early afternoon for a tour. It closed at 7 for the first night of Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party, so we had about 6 hours to explore. We did all the major classic rides that don't majorly suck (coughDumbocough), and I told her enough useless information to probably last a lifetime. It's been a long time since I saw someone jump in the Haunted Mansion, so that was fun, and her reactions to PhilharMagic were fantastic! We had a really terrible skipper on Jungle Cruise, though, so hopefully she'll go back again sometime and have someone better. Like, seriously, who ACTUALLY explains how to identify an African elephant?! Everyone knows the proper way is to say, "That's an elephant and we're in Africa." But yeah. Then I called home, and clicked around on the internet for a while, I think.
Yesterday I woke up and thought, "Screw groceries and laundry. I feel like going to the Studios!" So I did. First, though, I had to go to EPCOT and pick up a going-away present for my roommate from the Canada pavilion. Then I heard someone mention Everest while I was walking through the park, taking pictures of all the Christmas stuff they have up now, so I got it into my head that I really kinda wanted to ride Everest again, too. So I did. But there isn't a direct bus from EPCOT to Animal Kingdom, apparently, so I took the bus to the All-Star resorts (I needed something there anyway), and then headed over. There was a long wait, even for the single rider line (not sure how that one happened, but whatever), so I grabbed a fastpass and went DeVine hunting. For those of you who haven't been to Animal Kingdom, and for my family members who probably don't remember, she's an Animal Kingdom character-type thing with stilts on her hands and feet, painted green, and draped entirely in vines to blend in with her surroundings and every once in a while she moves. I got some great pictures of her, and then went over to see who was at Camp Minnie-Mickey. In with the usual crowd were Thumper and Miss Bunny, so I got my picture taken with them. Trekked back to Everest, rode that, and then hopped the Hollywood Studios bus. I spent most of my time walking around this time. I stopped in at Tattooine Traders to pick up Wicket's Christmas present, and then went in circles over and over and over again, taking pictures of aaaaaaall the Christmas decorations up around the park. It's actually kind of ridiculous. I also added Prince Caspian to my character photo list. I stopped for dinner because I was kind of hungry and extremely bored at this point, and I didn't want to do rides anymore, but I wanted to wait until 6 for the Christmas stuff they have going on there. Then it was close enough to 6 that I headed over to where the crowd was gathering on the Streets of America. Oh. My. God. So, the Studios houses what is known as The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. The ENTIRE Streets of America section of the Studios is draped top to bottom and end to end in Christmas lights. And they blink on and off. To music. And they have fake snow. SO FREAKIN' COOL! I have so many pictures from that, my camera actually ended up full at the end of the night.
Today, I assigned. Tomorrow, I assign. Saturday, I assign. Wait until about Monday before asking how I am.
Wednesday I headed back to the Magic Kingdom, determined to see Tiana's Showboat Jubilee. I haven't talked about this before, have I? ....Well, working under the assumption that I haven't, it's a new show that debuted here at the Magic Kingdom featuring characters and songs from The Princess and the Frog, which comes out next month. They've decorated the Liberty Belle Riverboat, and three times a day it goes around the Rivers of America with Princess Tiana and crew on board singing and dancing. It's so cool! And the music isn't half bad, either. Totally can't wait for the movie now. I did some shopping (being November, I've started picking up a few Christmas presents here and there, so that I can be done by early December as usual and then start shipping them out), and walked around aimlessly for a while. Then, as I was walking out of the Emporium at the end of the night, the strap on one of my brown flats snapped! I was SO not happy about that. I still have to see if I can't get them fixed somewhere, because I seriously love those shoes.
On Thursday there were about fifty bajillion people on podium so I got an ER after a half hour of work. ...Yeah. So, it being Thursday, I called Heather up to see if she had plans. She didn't, so she made her way over to EPCOT so that she could try some of Food & Wine before it ended on Sunday. While waiting for her, I walked around, feeling acutely uncomfortable in my undershirt-tank top and polyester work pants. So I stopped in a store and used my awesome holiday cast discount to buy a really cute skort, as well as a new pair of slip-on shoes (they're black and white Mickey skimmers). Joy of joys, though, my new shoes ripped my feet open, as all of my new shoes tend to do, so half way through our day I had to switch back to socks and work shoes. But that was okay, because once we'd gotten a drink or two in Heather, she decided that we should check out Teppan Edo in the Japan pavilion. This is a teppanyaki-style restaurant (translation for the Asian Culture Challenged: there's a gigantic stainless steel grill built into your table, and the chefs cook your meal in front of you), and the chefs do tricks and stuff so it's like dinner and a show. The food was SO good! It's been a while since I've had good Japanese. ...Or any Japanese that wasn't quick sushi from the grocery store or Food & Wine booth. Ros and Carol, do you guys remember the last time we were at Sushiman? Yeah, that would've been it. Then we did a Kim Possible mission (they give you a cell phone thing that guides you through a specific pavilion as you "help Team Possible catch -insert villain here-"), which was more fun than it should be, and then it was time for fireworks. Being Canadians, we watched them from the Canada pavilion.
Friday we were going to go to the cast preview of the Christmas party parade (I worked a morning seating shift), but the directions were a little sketchy and vague, so as non-Magic Kingdom cast members, Heather, Ali, Lindsay and I elected to not go. Instead we went out for a late dinner at the Outback. Having never been to an Outback before, it was interesting. After having worked in a Disney restaurant, though, you definitely notice a difference in the level of service. The food was good, though. Three words: peanut butter pie. They give you, like, a double slice though (seriously, the thing is huge), so I got most of mine boxed up and brought it home. Good thing, too, because I needed it after Saturday. I was assigning again, and the numbers were nuts. It was fairly slow, and the numbers at the end were rather on the sad side, but the party sizes were kinda ridiculous. So many parties of 8!
Sunday.... to be honest, I don't really remember Sunday, which means it wasn't particularly interesting. I think I was seating.... Ah! Yes, I was seating. 2-9. Nothing fascinating happened. Movie night was Rachel's pick, so we watched The Wedding Singer. A LOT of people showed up for that one. I actually brought Sayaka along with me, since she's leaving and when I told her what we were watching she said she liked Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. She thinks my group of friends is highly entertaining, which I suppose is always a good thing.
Monday night I had decided I was going to Canadian Girls, since they were partying with other girls and the theme was Pajama Party. I didn't last too long there, though. They're a great bunch, but parties really aren't my thing. So I went running back to Craig's apartment and begged the games night crew to take me back. I took David's place on a team for Scene It when he had to leave. The amount of non-Disney movies I've seen is kind of pathetic. I need to work on that. Oh, and at some point before that I was cleaning my drawers on my bedside table because I thought I'd lost a book. Turns out it's at home, but at least I got some cleaning done. Not that you can tell. The drawers look exactly the same as they did before.
Tuesday was a lot of fun, because I got to play tour guide. Melissa from my arrival group hadn't been to the Magic Kingdom since she was little, and didn't remember it (how someone goes about working for Disney for two months without stepping into the Magic Kingdom is beyond me), and she knows I'm beyond freakish about these things, so off we headed in the early afternoon for a tour. It closed at 7 for the first night of Mickey's Very Merry Christmas party, so we had about 6 hours to explore. We did all the major classic rides that don't majorly suck (coughDumbocough), and I told her enough useless information to probably last a lifetime. It's been a long time since I saw someone jump in the Haunted Mansion, so that was fun, and her reactions to PhilharMagic were fantastic! We had a really terrible skipper on Jungle Cruise, though, so hopefully she'll go back again sometime and have someone better. Like, seriously, who ACTUALLY explains how to identify an African elephant?! Everyone knows the proper way is to say, "That's an elephant and we're in Africa." But yeah. Then I called home, and clicked around on the internet for a while, I think.
Yesterday I woke up and thought, "Screw groceries and laundry. I feel like going to the Studios!" So I did. First, though, I had to go to EPCOT and pick up a going-away present for my roommate from the Canada pavilion. Then I heard someone mention Everest while I was walking through the park, taking pictures of all the Christmas stuff they have up now, so I got it into my head that I really kinda wanted to ride Everest again, too. So I did. But there isn't a direct bus from EPCOT to Animal Kingdom, apparently, so I took the bus to the All-Star resorts (I needed something there anyway), and then headed over. There was a long wait, even for the single rider line (not sure how that one happened, but whatever), so I grabbed a fastpass and went DeVine hunting. For those of you who haven't been to Animal Kingdom, and for my family members who probably don't remember, she's an Animal Kingdom character-type thing with stilts on her hands and feet, painted green, and draped entirely in vines to blend in with her surroundings and every once in a while she moves. I got some great pictures of her, and then went over to see who was at Camp Minnie-Mickey. In with the usual crowd were Thumper and Miss Bunny, so I got my picture taken with them. Trekked back to Everest, rode that, and then hopped the Hollywood Studios bus. I spent most of my time walking around this time. I stopped in at Tattooine Traders to pick up Wicket's Christmas present, and then went in circles over and over and over again, taking pictures of aaaaaaall the Christmas decorations up around the park. It's actually kind of ridiculous. I also added Prince Caspian to my character photo list. I stopped for dinner because I was kind of hungry and extremely bored at this point, and I didn't want to do rides anymore, but I wanted to wait until 6 for the Christmas stuff they have going on there. Then it was close enough to 6 that I headed over to where the crowd was gathering on the Streets of America. Oh. My. God. So, the Studios houses what is known as The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. The ENTIRE Streets of America section of the Studios is draped top to bottom and end to end in Christmas lights. And they blink on and off. To music. And they have fake snow. SO FREAKIN' COOL! I have so many pictures from that, my camera actually ended up full at the end of the night.
Today, I assigned. Tomorrow, I assign. Saturday, I assign. Wait until about Monday before asking how I am.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Update. No originality whatsoever.
Long seater shift is long. Just thought I'd throw that out there. It was really boring, too, and my feet kinda hurt by the end of it. I sat some people from Woodstock, though, so that was really cool! My ear also started twinging occasionally. Almost fell asleep during movie night, so I decided to head home and hit the hay. Monday was popcorn cart day, and my ear was starting to bother me a little more than the previous day. Whatever, I did cash, counted out, and went to games night. We had a blast playing Things in a Box, and then I went home to sleep again. Tuesday was a Wal-Mart day, because I was running out of pretty much everything. I have now vowed that if I ever run out of milk and orange juice at the same time, I will only buy ONE at the store and suffer without the other for a week. I don't like carrying both, along with everything else I need, aaaaaaall the way back to my place. By dinnertime on Tuesday, I was in a lot of pain. So I called the clinic with the free transportation, only to find out that without a claims form for my insurance, it was going to cost me over $200 just for the visit, nevermind any medicine I might need. So there were lots of phone calls with Mom, a lot of stress, and me crying for a while from a mix of pain and stress and probably tiredness too. Because, see, I could get a claims form easily online, but I don't have a printer, and the ones in the computer lab and the clubhouse don't work. Then I took some advil and played The Sims and life was okay again. I stayed home from musicals night, though. Wednesday, more pain, so I eventually sucked it up and spent a couple hours in the clinic. I found out I had an ear infection in my inner ear AND my canal, so that was tons of fun and required two prescriptions. Joy. Thursday I called in sick to work because I was still in too much pain. I also ran out of advil that day, which was totally not cool.
Friday went okay, I guess. I was assigning on my own for the first time, so that was really nerve-wracking. Lunch was almost dead at points, despite that I kept taking walk-ins. Dinner was pretty much business as usual, with the lack of walk-ins, full dining room, and long wait list. I wasn't too late getting all-in, though, so no one was screaming at me at the end. I'll get better with practice, I hope. Saturday was a seating shift, and consisted of the normal mix of awesome people and crabby people. Also a lot of people in costume, considering it was Halloween. There was a group of adults at the end of the night with really awesome Disney costumes, and they were a lot of fun.
Sunday I was a trainer for the first time ever, which was really scary. It was worse because I was training on restaurant stocker, which you'll note I've done, like, twice since being trained. Thankfully my trainee was a re-hire, so she didn't require a lot of explanation for things. Hopefully I didn't screw up too badly. I mean, I totally would've been okay for training pretty much anything else because I've done everything else often enough (except greeter.... I never seem to be greeter, either). I wish I could've traded training shifts with Craig, since he was training seaters and that's what I do more than anything else I think. Movie night was Heather's pick, so we watched Evil Dead 2. So much fun! So much blood. So much cheesiness. I probably shouldn't have gone, since I had a service training class at 8 the next morning, but I wasn't tired at all and knew I wouldn't sleep anyway, so I sat there and watched bad 80s horror.
Service class was ....well, it was really boring and I kind of wanted to die. That may be a slight exaggeration. We sat there and got talked at by a very American old man about things that were really bloody obvious, and then watched videos that I think came from the 70s. And then he talked at us some more. In the afternoon, he talked at us about wine, and we peeled and ate grapes. No word of a lie. I think the only saving grace was that Craig (arrival group), Melissa, and Rob (not arrival group Rob, the other one) and I sat at the table together and kept each other awake. Mostly I think it was me being kept awake by watching Craig and Melissa torment each other in that awesome, best-friend way. I was still a little wired after class from the coffee I'd had, so Rob and I hopped over to do a few rides at Magic Kingdom. For some strange reason, it was really crowded. Then we came home and I pretty much collapsed on my bed. Eventually I was coherent enough to send a quick text to Craig to tell him I wasn't coming to games night, and then it was back to the collapsage.
And that brings me to now. My ear still feels a little off, but I'm not really in pain anymore, so that's good. I'm going to kick around for a while, do the laundry I haven't done for a week and a half, and then head over to Heather's place for Wicked tonight. I'm SO excited for this one! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love Wicked, and Heather loves it even more than I do, so I imagine we'll scare everyone else sitting there.
Friday went okay, I guess. I was assigning on my own for the first time, so that was really nerve-wracking. Lunch was almost dead at points, despite that I kept taking walk-ins. Dinner was pretty much business as usual, with the lack of walk-ins, full dining room, and long wait list. I wasn't too late getting all-in, though, so no one was screaming at me at the end. I'll get better with practice, I hope. Saturday was a seating shift, and consisted of the normal mix of awesome people and crabby people. Also a lot of people in costume, considering it was Halloween. There was a group of adults at the end of the night with really awesome Disney costumes, and they were a lot of fun.
Sunday I was a trainer for the first time ever, which was really scary. It was worse because I was training on restaurant stocker, which you'll note I've done, like, twice since being trained. Thankfully my trainee was a re-hire, so she didn't require a lot of explanation for things. Hopefully I didn't screw up too badly. I mean, I totally would've been okay for training pretty much anything else because I've done everything else often enough (except greeter.... I never seem to be greeter, either). I wish I could've traded training shifts with Craig, since he was training seaters and that's what I do more than anything else I think. Movie night was Heather's pick, so we watched Evil Dead 2. So much fun! So much blood. So much cheesiness. I probably shouldn't have gone, since I had a service training class at 8 the next morning, but I wasn't tired at all and knew I wouldn't sleep anyway, so I sat there and watched bad 80s horror.
Service class was ....well, it was really boring and I kind of wanted to die. That may be a slight exaggeration. We sat there and got talked at by a very American old man about things that were really bloody obvious, and then watched videos that I think came from the 70s. And then he talked at us some more. In the afternoon, he talked at us about wine, and we peeled and ate grapes. No word of a lie. I think the only saving grace was that Craig (arrival group), Melissa, and Rob (not arrival group Rob, the other one) and I sat at the table together and kept each other awake. Mostly I think it was me being kept awake by watching Craig and Melissa torment each other in that awesome, best-friend way. I was still a little wired after class from the coffee I'd had, so Rob and I hopped over to do a few rides at Magic Kingdom. For some strange reason, it was really crowded. Then we came home and I pretty much collapsed on my bed. Eventually I was coherent enough to send a quick text to Craig to tell him I wasn't coming to games night, and then it was back to the collapsage.
And that brings me to now. My ear still feels a little off, but I'm not really in pain anymore, so that's good. I'm going to kick around for a while, do the laundry I haven't done for a week and a half, and then head over to Heather's place for Wicked tonight. I'm SO excited for this one! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love Wicked, and Heather loves it even more than I do, so I imagine we'll scare everyone else sitting there.
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