Today was a bit rough.

Woke up late, couldn't find my IDs, and got in to work an hour late. Gotta love when that happens, but the day got a little better as is went on. However, I was surprised to find strange bug bites on my feet this morning that have caused my toe and part of my heel to swell up and make it hurt to walk. I asked if there was a chance of bed bugs and co-workers informed me that the bites would have been all over my body, but should defiantly keep my eyes open. Wonderful. Oh well, moving on.

Last night was lots of fun though. Victoria and I were the only ones home so we decided to make dinner together. We made broccoli and carrots in a garlic-y sauce, corn on the cob, biscuits, and I made the pork chops. Now my siblings would be the first to tell you that me and cooking don't always work well together, however the pork chops were perfect. I drizzled them with Italian dressing and put slices of orange on each one and cooked them for 40 min at 400 degrees and mmmmmm... were they good. plus I made Barbie dream jell-o for a going away party we had for some of my managers today. I was informed that I was a regular Betty Crocker, I said what's your point.

Wednesday was nice, a bit cold, but nice. Ok so most of you are dealing with snow, but breezy and 50 some degrees is kind of cold when you only have a sweatshirt, but whatever, you can't win them all. However you can win when you get to go to Epcot with your Aunt and crazy Uncle. Yes, Uncle Dick and Aunt Carol came to visit (for those who couldn't figure it out) and I took them to Epcot for the day. They loved Mission: SPACE, wouldn't do it again do the intensity, but they thought it was cool. We did Test Track a few times. The reason we did it more than once was my Uncle was like a small child begging his parents to let him do it again. Speeding in a car..how could you refuse him, it was like being back in the cobra.
We then went to the world expo area were we had reservations for dinner at Tutto Italia (the Italian restaurant). Now that was delightful, and that is an understatement. We had this wonderful appetizer that included a bunch of Italian specialties, for dinner I had this pasta with a cream sauce chunks of ham and peas. But it was defiantly the dessert that got me. I had this chocolate mousse with berry sauce and fresh berries on the side. Mmmmm... it makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
We then walked around for a while then watched fireworks at 9pm. All in all an excellent day.

Tuesday was a Pirate and Princess party were I had the privilege of looking like a drowned rat on multiple occasions thanks to the rain. Crossing the fingers for clear weather for tomorrow nights party.

Tonight I have come to remember my enjoyment of tuna salad...I knew Lent was good for something besides loosing weight. Also, I just found my ID's...seems they got caught between my mattress and the wall. Go me, not gunna happen again.

I bid you all a good night and hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow.

Still sick...

But at least I can now function. Right, so the last post was on Tuesday, and everything seemed to happen on Wednesday. First of all I pretty much lost my voice - yes, Lindsay had sexy sickness voice - and then we all had a house meeting. We cleared up some basic cleaning issues (like leaving a dirty pan in the sink for 3 days till someone got tired of looking at it, or needed it) and that we didn't want the new boyfriend in the apartment after 2 am. BOOOOOM!!!! No really. It started out ok, really. We were calm and handled it like adults. Then the irrational "lets raise our voice" part came into play, followed by the lets get out of control, then Lindsay (with here broken, squeeky voice no less) told the girl (I'm not naming anyone in this post) to calm down in a rather loud voice. Yes I yelled and she went postal. By the end of the night everything was cleared up, he won't be staying here past 2am, and the girl really doesn't talk to us anymore. Nothing new there I'm afraid.

Thursday I had class, which is starting to become a much loved class by the way, and we did some basic analysis to see what our strengths and weaknesses are. Apparently my strengths are boldness (go figure) and self-renewal. Now self-renewal doesn't mean what you all think. It actually means that when there's a problem I'll exhaust all ways I can think of to solve it, and if all else fails will turn around and either ask for help or read up on the subject. Not bad. Plus we're doing mock interviews next week where our teacher will show us how we can name those traits in an interview for a leadership position. By the way Dad, you were right. This is probably the best possible class for me to take.

Friday was the Pirate and Princess Party, and as always I enjoyed it. It's kind of hard not too. You always see the kids dressed up in the costumes (the parents get into it too and let me tell you, that can be interesting to say the least), and there are less people so it stays relatively calm after 8-8:30-ish. Not to mention the better music. No really, I love Hello Dolly! the Music Man, and Oklahoma, but when you here the score to their more mozy-dozy songs continuously for hours on end, they start to get annoying. So songs you can sing to are a rather enjoyable reprieve. We also found a dead cockroach in one of the incoming strollers. We don't know how it got there (no one screamed, so I think the kids in the stroller didn't even notice), but it was on its back and in perfect condition. So we being who we are in the back, picked it up and laid it on a towel to show everyone later. That didn't happen. Jonas (our closing manager that night) walked back saw it and proceeded to crush it with the a dust pan. What was more entertaining was the grossed out, manic look on his face. It made me think of several girls I know, but that's besides the point. After that I pointed out that it was already dead and he told the room at large that that just made it all the easier. We laughed so hard, stacking seemed to be a little more fun the rest of the night.

And last night, I got stuck stacking strollers from 8 o'clock on. Man did I get a work out. The reason I say that is because that's when all the strollers come back - right after the parade and fireworks- so I was stacking as quickly as possible and getting said stacks out of the way. But nothing else spectacular I'm afraid.

And with that I bid you all a fond fair-well for I need to finish my coffee, then hop in the shower because I have work at 4.
Bye-bye.

Sickness = not cool

So as I’m sitting here I am enjoying a delicious meal of ham & cheese hot pocket, fruit punch and cold medicine. Lucky me. The first two look wonderful, but the cold medicine looks like it would taste like citrus, smells like cherry and tastes like…crap. Oh well, it was either that or pills, and we all know how well I do with those. And the alternative of allowing the cold just sit and continue to fester was not an option. Sorry to say but when it hurts to move your head up and down while stacking and cleaning strollers is a bit of a problem. And it isn’t just the pain that can be taken care of by some aspirin either (believe me, I tried). No it’s the type of pain that comes from a sore throat that makes the area of your neck where your skull and spine meet and that little sun burst area around it ach as though you slept on concrete all night. It also doesn’t help that the delightful sneeze that I have as well is the type of big sneeze that makes the throat hurt even more as well as being big enough to notify everyone to the fact your sick. By the way, I need to complain cause my mommy isn’t here to listen to my sob story right now. In fact I think she’d find a way of hurting me if I called her up at 2:45 am. So you all get to hear it.

On happier note, we girls in the backroom had a bit of a Broadway review this evening. Interestingly enough I knew more of the songs – and the words to them – than anyone else there. The angel like voice I own at the moment defiantly put all the cats that are dieing out there tonight to shame. I think the only reason someone didn’t throw something at my head was because I was that annoying bouncing Mickey head on the sing-along videos. Either way, it was fun and gave us all that extra boost of energy needed for the closing shift.

Now, for those of you that are curious, I did work Saturday and at the end of the night accidentally sprayed myself with a hose when cleaning out the trash run container. This however was fine by me cause A) it made me laugh, and B) because most of those trash bags are filled with half drunk sodas, I had soda running down my wrist to my shirt sleeve, and the sudden spray helped clean it all up. Kind of. My poor costume can not have the same thing said about it. Hence the reason it’s now in the laundry.

Yesterday I didn’t work however. In fact I sat by the pool and did homework in 80-something degree weather. It was fabulous, and it’s at times like those that I’m able to NOT be home sick.

I love you all, and wish you a cold/flu-less week.

P.S. I watched Power Rangers during my break tonight, and it made me giggle like the dork that I am.

I'm not dead...

just a little sick. But that's what happens when you stand out in the pouring rain one night, then stand out in the freezing cold another. But I have yet to have any drastic symptoms beyond being achy and having the beginnings of a head cold.

So things that have happened since my last IHOP trip include a hair cut, another IHOP trip, Buffalo Wild Wings, Valentines day, and today's trip to Animal Kingdom.

So the hair cut was on Tuesday, and I cut all my hair off. Ok, I lied. I cut my hair to the top of my shoulders. Either way it's nice and short. It also has the ability to hold curl a bit better (although that might have something to do with the amount of dead ends the hair dresser cut off). After that I went into the locker room to do my hair all pretty and curly and ended up seeing Mary Poppins having a bad day. The poor girl was dropping everything everywhere and running into other girls. Well, I guess we can't be practically perfect all the time. As for me, after I made my hair look perfect, I went to work and about 2 hours later was rained upon. Guess where the curls went...that's right, down the drain with all the water. Although the rain was nice enough to leave all the hairspray behind...how nice.
I ended up doing two ECV runs in the rain that night. The first one I got soaked on (all the way to and from the Peter Pan ride), and the second one the person wasn't even at the Haunted Mansion when I got there. Grrrrrr.....
The night would end with all of us in strollers getting soaked in a cloud burst on our way back from the hub. We all laughed (except when people like me woke up with a soar throat the next morning).
However, ten of us ended up at IHOP that night, and let me tell you, those new shortcake pancakes are divine. I had mine smothered in cinnamon apple goop due to the Confectionery smelling like apple fritters all day. I also made a picture for our waitress on the back of my place mat, which everyone - including her- loved.

Wednesday I had off, but went to Buffalo Wild Wings that night with a few friends. I'll try again next week. Everyone complained that none of the music choices were good. It probably didn't help that it was karaoke night, and saddly not all who sounded drunk were.

Thursday was Valentines Day, where upon I opened a big old can of Martha Stuart/ my Mother on everyone and set a Valentine's table. Everyone got to wake up to a plate with a heart shaped box of chocolates and a valentine. Riley was also very sweet and got all of us princess figurines which we got to choose. I got Cinderella, and she has a skirt covered in glitter. Please disregard my moment of being four years old. Thank you.
I also had class that morning where we decided the thesis of our paper and chose positions for the paper. I have editor, and I don't want to hear any comments from the peanut gallery on that one, please.
A Pirate and Princess party was that night (and I worked it, as usual- and gave everyone valentines as was not usual), and had the privilege of standing outside directing people to stroller return in 48 degree weather. In shorts. Yes shorts, cause it was nice that afternoon, but the temperature dropped and I got hosed. Plus all my muscles and joints got cold which just made me hurt all over. I collapsed into bed immediately after I got home, and right after Shequasha's boyfriend looked at me and said I didn't look so good, was I all right.

This morning I could have told him, no I wasn't but then again I slept about 12 hours, meaning I didn't wake up till almost 1 o'clock. And I was still exhausted. But instead I made my self get up and went to Animal Kingdom for a few hours with Becca, Mariana, and this other girl who's name I sadly can't remember. Did the Dinosaurs ride (which is the not as cool equivalent to the Indiana Jones ride) and the Everest ride. Now that's a cool roller coaster. At one point in time you actually go backwards. We all then had dinner at a little Chinese place by the ride that was worth paying the $9 for. Now usually the parks give you a small amount for a not so small price, but here you got enough food to actually fill you up. I was happily amazed.

And so that was my past week in a nut shell, but now I fear my body is screaming at me to go to bed, so I think I shall do just that.
Good night all, hope your dreams are all sweet.

Not that I don't enjoy telling everyone everything...

but one really doesn't feel like posting at strange hours all the time. Ok, i lied, Wednesday and Thursday were not strange hours, I just had no motivation to write. My apologizes.

So, Wednesday: Hollywood Studios with my roomies (Victoria and Riley) and one extra (Erica). We had a BLAST! We started at one end of the park and worked our way to the other side. And lots of pictures were taken along the way. Don't worry I'll have them up soon. So we did Muppets 3-D, Star Tours (Star Wars) and got pictures on a speeder, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area- in which we got some really fun pictures. I got everyone to go to the animation studio. They loved it, and we all drew Pluto. We then saw the Beauty and the Beast show and I couldn't stop laughing because, hey, Beauty and the Beast meets interpretive dance...WHAT'S NOT TO LAUGH ABOUT!?! We then went on Tower of Terror. Now Riley and Victoria felt it was too short and so they decided to go on it again, Erica of course didn't go on it in the first place due to not liking drops. I however told them absolutely not, because if I did I would not be responsible for my body's reaction. Drops are fun, but I get such a bad adrenalin rush from them that I shake like I have too much coffee in my system. So once is enough, thank you very much. However, we were somehow able to ride the Rockin' Roller Coaster twice in a row. AWESOME RIDE!!! The fastest part is the take off and it's a 0-60 in 3.5 (or faster) followed by twists and loops. All of us were smiling and laughing when we got off.
We then ended the night with Fantasmic which is always delightful. However, we had front row seats so when the steamboat goes by with all the characters at the end, we could see everything clearly. Now this is great except for John Smith. It was obvious from his slight 5 o'clock shadow that the guy was brunette, but what got me and Riley to laugh so hard was that his platinum blond wig looked like it was a cheep $5 one from Walmart. OH MY GOD!!!! SO FUNNY!!!

Thursday was spent at class (I'm apparently in the most stressful class offered - go me.) and doing my laundry. Hurray for under ware! A group of us then went to Bahama Breeze for dinner. Lots of fun, good food, not an expense I'm willing to pay often. Yes I'm cheap, so sue me...on the other hand, don't. I have no money, hence the reason I'm cheap. Otherwise, try the Calypso pasta, it's delicious.

Friday was another day at work. End of story. I think I accidentally ate meat...oops.

Saturday (since it's now 4am) was spent working the Pirate and Princess Party. Always fun. Had the trash run at the end of the night and got liquid all over my hands and shorts. Don't wanna ask, but I'm pretty sure it's just soda, so I'm safe. My costume was not however, so I need tpo pick up a new one tomorrow. After work I ended up getting a ride from Ace (one of my co-workers) and he, Elaine and I all went to IHOP at 2am. Coffee, omelettes, and hash browns are so good at random hours of the morning. And now, I'm here finishing up this blog that started this morning cause I'm pretty sure you all want to know that I'm still breathing, and not in a ditch some where.

I was originally supposed to go to Animal Kingdom with some of my roomies tomorrow before work at 4pm, but that ain't happenin'.

Hope everyone has had an excellent last four days, and hopefully I'll have a long update next time as well.

So good night (or morning, if you prefer) and have a wonderful Sunday!!

Random guys gave me Mardi Gras beads...

No really. Random guest walked up to me and said "You need some beads" and placed them around my neck. So I am now the proud owner of 4 over-sized bead necklaces.
So updating might be nice, huh. Well, you didn't miss much with Sunday. I worked, end of story. Monday was a good day...sort of. I had work at 7:30am. Hahahaha.....ha... I quickly remembered as to why I hated high school. Stupid 5:50am. But in the end, it really was quite nice. I got everything ready for the park opening at 9am, and then I got off at 1:30pm. So that was me getting to deal as little with crazy people as possible. Didn't like waking up that early, but I ended up loving the shift.
Today of course was Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday if you will. I was sadly taken by surprise, and say that not because Iwhole heartedly celebrate Mardis Gras but because that means today (yes it's late) is Ash Wednesday. Hopefully I can find a Catholic church to kick off the Lenten season, but sadly I have no idea where to start. Apparently there is one by The Commons, but I don't know for sure. Otherwise I had a morning shift again this morning at 9:30 and was there till 6 due to a meeting. I didn't realize I got along with so many of my co-workers. Looks like strollers will be a great place after all.

But now, I think it might be time for bed...especially since my roomies and I are planning on going to Hollywood Studios tomorrow (I have the next 2 days off).

Good night everyone,and I hope someone out there had either a crayfish broil or a bowl of gumbo for me - especially since I was craving it all day. And no they don't sell it here, there is no New Orleans. That's just in Disneyland *tear*.

Don't you just love not being able to get up...

Sounds weird (well, to those who don't know me too well) but I felt physically to tired to get up this morning. Yes I stayed up late, but still 10 is not that early. Whatever, it's 12:30 and I'm UP!
I have Pirate and Princess party again tonight, so I won't go in to work till 6pm.
Yesterday's early morning did not make me happy. I had forgotten how much I hate 7am. But I think the reason I didn't like it was because I got kicked off of ECV rental so a trainee could learn, and got stuck cleaning strollers for the rest of the morning. Trust me when I say morning stroller rushes suck. But thankfully I asked my one manager if it was possible to be put outside after my break. He told me it was more than possible, and I got ECV rental again. The only difference was that we didn't have a mad rush, but instead the people who want ECV's but we don't have any for them. Telling people that there's a chance of getting one if they put their name on a wait list and wait for our call is always kind...I don't know, pathetic? But there was a small afternoon shower that had people returning their ECV's, making several individuals very happy.
I ran into my friend Christina on my way home and made plans to go grocery shopping together. Exciting, I know. But it was, especially since she came over to my apartment first. I made blueberry muffins!! And we sat, talked and ate muffins for about an hour.
Insttead of going to Walmart, we decided to try the Publix grocery store. Fabulous idea. It was slightly cheaper, and if you ever had to cash a check there, they only charge you a dollar for the service (Christine did, that's how I know). While there I picked up some yogurt and those Stella D'oro breakfast cookies; all of which I've been enjoying with my coffee as I write this.

Hopefully everyone has a wonderful day, and I'll write back later about tonight's party.
Love ya!!