Its Turkey Lurky Time Week 16
Monday November 24
Today was my Sunday and I was going to see hunger games. But that wasn't until later. So I started my morning off by doing some laundry. Then hung out till 3ish.
I headed off to dtd, I wasn't working but who just doesn't like to spend some time at dtd? I met randy at amc and we purchased our mockingjay tickets and waiting for alish to arrive from work. I also received this nice little reminder
I mean this was suppose to open back over the summer…so good to see that they are actually almost ready to open it.
I was hungry and regretting the decision of not eating lunch before coming so I got me some waffle fries to hold me over till dinner.
So mockingjay, if you don't already know I'm a big hunger games fan. I read the books in no time at all. I can say that they set this movie up for a great movie for part 2. Alish was all about the "new" peeta (if you read the books or saw the movie you know what I mean) while I just wanted to cry. I'm #teampeeta alish is #teamhaymitch...like that's not even a real side.
After the movie we headed over to the marketplace. We passed pocket park, alish and randy were confused to where they even were. Dtd is forever changing, but really we were just now walking behind raglan road instead of in front.
Also inspiration park opened up in front of TRex, it's a cramped area and I'm not sure if I like it. However it is just so inspirational.
We got some dinner at earls. HAPPY EARLY THANKSGIVING TO US!
Then we browsed the shops where I found the cutest antenna topper, if I drove and had a car I would have purchased this right away. Plus it was the only one available.
Alish drove me home, I showed her my new building at work and the new bus stop. She thought it was ridiculous that I had to walk so far. Yes, join the club. We planned on going shopping in the morning, she had to do her Christmas shopping and I was just going to tag along.
Tuesday November 25
Today I woke up to having my own room again. Surprise Brittany went home again, she was somehow was lucky enough to find reasonable priced plane tickets and got people to take her shifts so she could go home for thanksgiving. The thing was that she didn't tell her parents that she was coming home so it was a big secret. She asked if I wanted to go home with her but 1) I don't really have the money for that and 2) I would have never been able to get thanksgiving off.
I woke up to many things this morning
1) a 3 minute voicemail from a butt dial from pa
2) a text from alish saying it was raining and she didn't want us to die in her stupid car, so no shopping
3) a weather alert telling me to take shelter because we had a tornado warning…I went back to sleep because clearly that’s how much my life means to me.
No tornado so it was off to work for me. Katt found me at the bus stop, just two girls going off to work. When I got to work there were black clouds swallowing up dtd. I could see the 101 night in front of me.
Tonight I was restroom 7 aka west side restrooms.
During our breakout meeting we learned that the food truck park/ exposition park was finally open. I was ready for some free food. But let's not get to excited because at our 4 o'clock meeting our manager for the night, Anthony, told us that they had food vouchers but they were only good from 3-4pm. Are you kidding me? All I want out of life is butter chicken!
It was a wet rainy day and now that the truck park is open the Starbucks restrooms are more popular than ever. I can only go threw so many towels trying to keep that floor dry, and let me tell you it was never dry.
Today there was a concert at house of blues. Reliant k was playing, like that takes me back to high school. The line was the longest line I have ever seen so far for a HOB concert. It started from the front of the restaurant, wrapped around the restaurant, and all the way down to Starbucks along the waterside.
After my second break I walked outside to a total downpour. Then as I started heading out we got that lovely call "attention all guest show cast members, attention all guest show cast members. Please go to your nearest lightning location, we are 101"
Now while I was happy to be reunited with the 101 life it was also bad timing. Like I just left the break room a couple minutes ago, so I had a party, a party of 1, in the cirque storage closet. I sat in there for over an hour. Then it felt like someone stabbed me in the gut, I wanted to just lay on the floor and die. I almost called ma but there was nothing she would be able to do all the way up in NY. I only had an hour left of work and I had to close my restrooms down. So I sucked it up and got through the night. I literally never felt so much pain, it lasted maybe 10 minutes at most but those 10 minutes were like I was dying.
I made it threw the night and it was just down pouring so good tonight. Luckily the bus arrived to the bus stop just as I was.
When I got home I made myself a nice big cookie dough hot fudge sundae for not dying.
Wednesday November 26
Today I woke up to a text from alish, something to do with princess Minnie in the sir Mickey shop. Did you ever text someone back and you’re pretty much still asleep and have no clue what you ended up sending them? Well that was happening to me. Then later on Brittany texted us worrying about giving her shifts away for the cruise.
It was another day of work and today was chilly. But that didn't matter because I was WOD female. Surprisingly it wasn't crazy busy and my night went fast.
At 12:30 someone offered to give me a ride home, when a ride is offered you accept! I got home by the time the bus would be getting to dtd. It was glorious. You would think that I would go to bed since alish was picking me up at 10 tomorrow to go to Danielle's but that was wrong. Instead I watched some Lizzie McGuire and then found myself reading till almost 3:30am. Like who am I?
Thursday November 27
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
My alarm went off at 9 and I regretted staying up so late. But there was nothing I could do about it so I got up and got ready. We were having brunch but I was starving so I made myself some toast and tea, that's when jessie found me in the kitchen. Then it was a game of 20 questions that I was just not in the mood for today. She means well she just questions my every move and what I'm doing with my life.
Alish picked me up around 10:15. When I left Patterson the round about was filled with families waiting for their kids to come out of the complex. It kind of made me sad, but alish came pulling up shortly after. Randy drove his own car behind her. That way everyone could leave for work when they needed too.
We were so close to Danielle's parents house when she texted alish saying her and her husband jimmy were running late. L-O-L. So we just drove around and then parked in the publix parking lot. We headed back to the house at 11:15.
Danielle's family is the sweetest and I was so happy that they invited us over. Alish told me even before today that Danielle and Jimmy were super excited to have thanksgiving with real natives.
Danielle has 2 rescue dogs, haggis and Kevin (Kevin's a girl!). Kevin and I got along and cuddle up on the couch as we watched the macys day parade. It made me miss my dog so much, but let's be real my dog doesn't cuddle.
It was quite the different thanksgiving I'm use too. Not in a bad way though. I'm use to running to the table when Danielle and Adam pull in and claim the native side of the family. Yes we have a pilgrim and native side, always an entertaining house with our family. However Danielle's mom gave everyone a specific seat. We had brunch and her moms apple cinnamon French toast was the bomb.
Talk over our meal was more than entertaining. Danielle and alish talked about there different work stories (Which is always entertaining), I talked about my dream of getting cirque at work, Danielle and I talked about going to japan to visit alish.
At 2 it was time for alish, randy, Danielle and I to head off to work. Danielle's mom made Andy a lunch for work since the rest of us were getting a meal at work. Randy left and the 3 girls headed off to mk. Alish was planning on dropping me off at the contemp before heading to west clock but we came in the back way. So we all got on the west clock bus and headed to the tunnels. Danielle was like an overprotective sister making sure I found my way around. But first we went into the entertainment costuming...aka fur heads all around.
They grabbed their basic wears, which is just a white vneck and pants. Then we headed up stairs so I could get to the park and leave.
I should have planned on it being busy with the holiday but add festival of fantasy into the mix and I was sure I wouldn't make it to work on time. I had to power walk to the contemporary so fast that my shins and legs were burning. I called ma to check in, they were just getting ready to sit down to eat.
I got to the contemporary pretty much panicking that I wouldn't make it to work on time. There were no busses around. Luckily the bus came and we made it to dtd at 3:35. 10 minutes till I could clock in. I didn't want to walk the whole dtd so I hopped on the water taxi. It was 3:43 2 minutes till I can clock in. I ran to the cirque bathroom changed, probably the fastest I've ever changed in my life. Then walked fast to the service building where I clock in at 3:54 and got zone 10. I was shocked I didn’t get zone 11 for clocking in last.
When I went up to the breakout room everyone had come early to eat thanksgiving dinner. So I waited till after the meeting to get food.
Assignments went totally weird today and everyone was switched around. Instead of zone 10 I was switched to market place tables. It wasn't horrible at all, no one had room after big thanksgiving dinner and it was just way to cold out tonight to be eating ice cream outside.
WOD was having thanksgiving served as well. So that means my 3rd meal of the day, going strong. They had gravy, we did not have gravy.
I walked all around marketplace tonight, it was crowded but not to the point where I wanted to just be done with the night.
Tonight a little girl about 4-5 ran up to the aurora statue outside of world of Disney saying "aurora I finally saw your movie" it was pretty much the cutest thing ever.
12:28 came and I went home. There I had some apple pie I took from earlier today.
Friday November 28
Today my alarm woke me up nice and early. Part of my wanted to ignore it and go back to sleep but I promised alish I would go see her and da bae. I was up, ready and out of the apartment at 9:15 and heading to magic kingdom. It was COLD! It was only 43 degrees and I wasn't bundled up properly.
I got to the poly, hopped on the monorail and fought the crazy crowds over to agrabah. It was a lot harder because when I arrived the move it shake it was happening. Making me have to take a long detour. I got there and the 10:20 line at 10 was pretty much full.
A family behind me were just something to talk about. The mom was trying to convince her daughter that she wanted to meet jasmine, but her daughter kept refusing saying she wanted to meet Elsa. This didn't make a happy jasmine when I let her know.
Then once Aladdin and jasmine came out the mother complained about how long they were taking with each family. Like isn't that why you waited in the line? To actually meet and greet with the characters? I mean I came because alish wanted cute pics but most guests come to interact with the characters. Then to top it off she was talking about how she wasn't really a fan of hoop dee doo. Like now you've gone too far.
I met my baes!
First thing I asked jasmine was to see her outfit under her cloak. She denied me, as I knew she would because I know her secret. Aladdin noticed my shoes and asked for a pair, the cost 5 rubies because I need to make a living.
Before I left I made sure I took up more time for the mother behind me. Just kidding I had a mission to complete
Tell me princess, now when did you last let your heart decide?
After a lovely time in agrabah I headed out of the park. I almost stopped at Starbucks because...just because. But the line was out and down Main Street, no Starbucks is worth that wait. So instead I went around Main Street trading pins for my work lanyard. Like they have such good pins I might stop pin trading at work and keep all my finds.
I almost left when the trolley show caught my attention. But only for a few minutes because I needed to get home and nap before work, cause I'm an old granny.
I went back to the poly and caught the bus back to Patterson. I fell back to sleep so fast and the hour went by so fast. I was not feeling the whole "time to wake up and get to work" thing. But it won because I don’t want a point.
When I got to work I got zone 9, it use to be simple until the food truck park opened. Plus the butter chicken taunted me all night. It was cold and windy and I just wanted to crawl back into bed.
My manager found me and asked me why I was ignoring his zone 8 calls, probably because I'm zone 9. He laughed and said he was still on morning zones.
During my last trash run west side restrooms used me but that's what happens when you're zone 9. Zack came out of the Starbucks stock room and said he had a few trash bags, there was more than a few and lucky enough I was almost done with my trash run.
I was finishing up and making my way around to the waterside when I looked up and saw my engineering buddy. It was that moment when you wish you could just walk away but 1) he already saw me 2) it was literally only the 2 of us.
So I was nice and waited for him to catch up, but I couldn't wait to hear what awkward comment/ compliments that were headed my way.
There was some comment about my rosy cheeks tonight...ding ding ding, woop there it is.
He then proceeded to follow me along for the rest of my trash run. He asked if I went to a lot of cp parties because that's what he would do if he was a cp, let's keep in mind that he is roughly in his thirties. And I could truly care less what he would do if he was a CP
Then it was time to grill Sam because if you don't know her she will rarely make small talk, however it was just about the parks so that was easy to get through. We parted ways and I finished off my night. At 12:28 I peaced out and headed back to Patterson.
Saturday November 29
This morning/ afternoon I woke up to Brittany being back. I'm pretty sure she got back a little after I got home from work.
She once again said we needed to talk, this time it was about the cruise. And there is a good chance, about 99.9% , that she is backing out. I mean it's not like we aren't leaving in a week. She left shortly after with a kid she has been talking/seeing and I got ready for work. I had to make a quick trip to the patterson club house to pick up a package from Gma, some banana bread, a dress for Alish, and our cruise documents!!
The traffic was horrible there were 2 accidents on my way to work, one of them being a cp I work with. She was ok though. With being stuck in traffic for a good half hour I was forced to once again briskly walk dtd to get to work on time. I made it although my shins hated me. Tonight I was zone 1. When I got there sky told me how the managers said if you were in the market place you could have started early, however I'm really glad I didn't go.
Today was another retirement party during our breakout meeting. So we had cake, MICKEY BARS, and pop. Sugar overload!
We were warned it was a busy day and that we needed to get out in our areas right away. Brandon was in the marketplace as well so we both hopped on the water taxi. On our walk over there we almost got ran over by a car. So there's that.
At the water taxi We met a lovely grandfather and his grandson, he told us how him and his wife have an rv that they have at fort wilderness and are here until April. Like what a life. You get to call fort wilderness your actually home.
It was a busy night but it wasn't horrible. It made the night go by fast and that's all we could ask for. Before my second trash run I found myself over at the waterside stage dancing at the dance party. Why? Because I can. And because my dance partner in crime Brandon was over there. Gangnam style, Macarena, and YMCA yeah we were getting the crowd pumped up, you’re welcome disney.
I had to go and do a trash run before my last break. Brandon was 3,4 assist so he came and helped me out with my trash run. Then I went on break and said I would meet him over at the waterside stage after my break for the cleanup.
During my break I finished the 3rd book in the rose gardiner series I'm reading, I'm hooked and the worst thing happened. I didn't have enough cha Ching in my apple account to get the next book. The struggle was real but my break was over anyways.
About 5 minutes after my break was over I was called over the radio by 3,4 assist asking where I was. Like calm down child. I headed over to the stage and they were playing the Cupid shuffle. The DJ tonight was on point. Then to end the night he played Gangnam style again.
The night took a turn. We were hanging out behind once upon a toy and we were literally dying of laughter. We were joking around with my trainer, Ella. It involved citrus ginger and the rainforest volcano. I'll leave it at that because we are horrible people.
I did my last trash run with the help of Brandon. We sang to the frozen loop, photobombed peoples selfies and watched the "let's see if I can run threw the fountain without getting wet" game played by the guests. Then we found ourselves near the rainforest just in time for the fire show (every half hour) and we just kept laughing. We got the run done and our night was finally finished. Brandon told me how he was having a horrible day and that I made his night so much better, like I try, I don’t like seeing people sad or upset.
But tonight the best thing I overheard was a guest saying to his wife “That's a fake trash can” I still don’t understand what he meant by that.
Sunday November 30
Tonight was an interesting morning. Another morning trying to figure out this cruise. And at this point I really am not looking forward to it at all. It's becoming this big hassle and I don't even know why.
Today was my Friday at work and I couldn't be happier. On my walk from the bus to the cast building I saw one of the managers. He asked me how my day was and I told him how it was my Friday, I guess it was his too. He said how he worked the morning and now he was going home for a cold beer. Jokingly he said I would have to tell him when my last day of work was so he could buy me a beer. It was kind of awkward and I sort of walked away after that.
Today I was zone 11 and it was so slow. After my first break I found out that Brandon was west side support. We ran into each other and we both bummed with life. Robbie joined us and we all went to find some entertainment to get us happier. Didgeridoo Dominic was playing, he awkwardly came up to us and stared in our souls as he played his guitar. Personal bubble sir. Then when he went back to his area he chucked a guitar pick at us. Like no. Stop. However after tonight I have a few free guitar picks for the guitar that is collecting dust in my room at home.
The three of us then found Shirley and the four of us sang too Barbie girl and then he played Gangnam style. Just in time for 2 of our managers to come find us, however they were glad we were entertaining our guests but we couldn't hang out there all night. We all had the same break time so we all hung out in the cirque break room where Robbie was kind enough to show us a parody of let it go called let me poop. She is completely obsessed with frozen and I have no clue how she can still love it after having it crammed down your throat here. A parking cm passed by and just said "it must be a guest show thing" yep pretty much.
After break there was not much too do. So I walked around and helped Brandon do his recycle run. After the recycle run I did my last trash run. Then hung out with Robbie and Shirley behind Disney quest till it was time to go home.
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