Thursday, September 22, 2011

the week of uncertainties.

Monday smunday: what did I do what did I do?
I was friends with POOH!
and we had some dew!
okay enough of that silly goose. So monday was going quite swell I guess you could say. Just a normal day blah blah blah. Until I got home.
You see, I asked off a total of 6 days. 3 for when my mother and siblings come down and 3 for adam,martha, and justin when they come in January. Did I get any of those dates approved!? no.
-as a college program student you can't get a "personal day" or a "vacation" or a "requested day off" pretty much you have to be dead sick. aka DUMB.
So that was frustrating. Also, we don't get paid extra at all for working holidays. Even Christmas we don't get paid extra. Why? because we are part of the college program. So we have an outrageous rent, get minimum wage, get crappy shifts nobody wants, can't ask off a day, don't get paid extra on really important holidays, and we are supposed to be in the "happiest place in the world"
also, after asking a bazillion questions to different people about the christmas parade, they already set the cast.
thanks for nothing.

That was Monday.
TUESDAY! WAS A WONDERFUL DAY! I was very good friends with Mike Wazowski! He is my favorite EVER even before this, I have always adored Monsters Inc and Mike. He is just too cute. Here is my workspace/mike/him falling. ps. this was a long time ago...aka not me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzbKNfGSY8

thehehe pretty funny eh!?
hopefully that will not happen.
I like him because
1. i can breathe
2. he is fun
3. i like his character
4. i can breathe
5. i get to work with sully, who is HUGE
6. coworkers are fun (minus the creeper)

so i love mike. :)

Wednesday was the same deal. aka I was in love.

Thursday.... today was um interesting.
I have never been friends with TIMON, but I was quite excited.
He is small and easy.
except I had a problem....i kinda ran out of sports bra. sorry if that is TMI, you should skip to the next paragraph if you want. sooooo when i went on set...um, timon kinda became a girl. whoopsie. I got pulled off set after about 10 minutes with a manager freaking out/laughing. I did look ridiculous. Timon with boobs. It was awesome.

SO moral of this story is to either: a. get more sports bras or b. do laundry more

So then I sat around for a while as they tried to find something for me to do.
I finally went to Camp Minnie/Mickey and met my new friend King Louie. His arms are wayyyyyyyy long. I can't really tell you how it works, but it was fun/different.
I only had 3 sets, they had icecream for us and I didn't have to autograph.
perfect day.
:)
then I got home around 3, cleaned because we have inspections tomorrow, and talked to my teacher from school.
Then Kaitlin and I went to Magic Kingdom to stalk down a manager to sign these dang papers. So he did and was quite nice about it!
Then we went a played for a while, of course it rained, but we ate good food and I had cotton candy...again.

I feel sorry for all my meredith girls because they had a test today that apparently can be compared to those dang anatomy tests. AKA i am dreading dance history already.

this weekend i plan on sleeping a lot.

but the moral of these stories are: that sometimes what you expect isn't what you wanted. but sometimes what you wanted is too much.

it makes sense to me. what i'm going through right now.
I wanted to go home on Monday, I wanted to quit, I was tired of missing family and friends.
But this is good for me. I enjoy making people happy...a lot. and I'm good at it I am not going to lie. So as long as other people are getting what they want, I am good..

Today I finally got used to being away from people.
I am happy about it.
Sometimes you have to get away and do your own thing.

and I am defiantly doing my own thing.

BOOM!




winnie da pooh!


xoxo,

c




Wednesday, September 21, 2011

the things you didn't know...

So while I was working today I started thinking about all the things that "others" would never know.

here we go:

-if someone says "SMILE!", I stick my tongue out
-if someone says "SAY CHEESE!", I think about pizza and my roommate
-if i were to toot in my work attire and you were to hug me it would smell terrible and be worse than a dutch oven and STAY in there for a long time.
-if you are annoying i give you the death stare
-if you purposely hurt me i will ignore you
-if you speak NO ENGLISH, i roll my eyes because i don't know what the heck you want me to do.
-i sweat as much sweat as that cup of water you have in your hand
-i sometimes says "awe" at cute kids
-i accidentally talk sometimes if you ask me questions, but you will never hear because it's almost impossible.
-i do not enjoy CRAZY BRAZILIANS at all.
-if you have just gotten married or engaged, expect me to freak out whether or not i'm a girl or boy.
-babies are my weakness
-if you are pregnant, i really do not want to kiss your stomach
-i don't understand why some kids don't know what a "hi five" is?
-NO I DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE HOLDING YOUR NEWBORN BABY
- i can only answer yes or no questions...asking me what my name is is NOT a yes or no question. and why are you getting a picture with me if you don't even know who i am?
-you should know that i work my butt off to make you smile and laugh


:)


that's so funny

-c




Thursday, September 15, 2011

that's whats up


This week hasn’t been that bad surprisingly.                                                        
Lets start with  how much I didn’t get ANYTHING accomplished last weekend when I had off. That was fun.
 It’s official, I cannot sleep in anymore….I guess my body is getting used to getting up way too early for any human being to be up. The life of a semi-grown-up. Ew
Monday: I was wonderful friends with Pooh again. I’m starting to get used to him, he isn’t very hyper or anything so that is easy, just opposite of me. He is quite the fur ball, so he gets very very very very hot. Monday went okay, OH YEAH, this was the day that this girl decided to be a COMPLETE bully to me. Now listen, I usually don’t put up with people who do this, but I was legitly scared of her. She sat beside me and started pinching my arm *note* she didn’t know my name and I didn’t even know hers. I had never seen this girl before* anyways, then she started making fun of seriously EVERYTHING about me that she could. I just ignored her, that was fun.
I also told a manager how terrible my first few days were, she was very apologetic. Which was refreshing. She took notes on my performance and said the only thing she said I needed to work on was my first reaction when I see each new guest. Which knowing Pooh, he wouldn’t go attack a person or get all hyper, he is a calm bear. So I  just kinda ignored what she said, because I want to stay in character as much as possible and just made my hug seem bigger. Which didn’t do much because that just scares the little bitty babies.

Tuesday I was another spare. So I sat in a break room for 9 hours. Ran some errands for people. Saw a lot of the princes, why may I ask are they so PERFECT!? The princesses as well. I’m serious. Well…there faces are perfect. Some of them are a little bit chub chub chubby. That makes me smile. Oh. That was mean. J

Wednesday! Wednesday was a pretty good AOKAY day. I made new friends, Garrett and uh Austin. Austin is actually a girl, weird eh? They helped me tremendously. I was good friend with Pooh again at Animal Kingdom at the boat dock. AKA 30 minutes sets outside with a ton of fur on you. We get ice pack vests…which only help if someone hugs you real tight, which also is painful. There were not a lot of people at all, so I got to play around and  take longer with guests. Which was funnnn. I got a TON of little toodlers to  come to me, and play, they usually start to bawl, but they didn’t!
I did almost get trampled down a hill. On the way to the boat dock, we have to walk this little trail that go slightly down hill. Pooh cannot see behind him, all he can see is the ground…literally. Well a probably eh high schooler girl came SPRINTING down the trail cause she just got so excited. Well Pooh almost fell over and may  have peed in his pants a little. I mean I’m just saying it scared the you know what outta him.
THURSDAY! Spare day. Okay so I came ALL prepared, I got a library account and everything at the Disney place, got two DVDs, brought my computer, brought my charger, brought two jackets, I mean the whole kitchen sink.
Guess what? I ended up actually working.
TYPICAL CARA. TYPICAL.
Well it was my first dining experience. And guess who I was good friends with once again? Good ole Pooh. They showed me the ropes of which tables to go to, how to count them, to go REAL FAST, and don’t pretend to eat the food. LAMEO. Mmmmmm.
First set, ya know Im ready, its going by pretty quick, I started sweating really bad, like the sweat in your eyes bad. Then I was like dang I’ve been out here for a long time. This is a long twenty minutes. I had made it pretty much around the whole restaurant. Which was pretty big.
It was a 50 minute set. Hahahhahaha I was SOAKED in sweat.
An older lady that was friend with Eyore passed out today in costume. That was scary. 
Tomorrow is Friday which is actually MY FRIDAY! Aka your days off are the next two days.
Overall, this week has been better. Our apartment mates have once again trashed our whole apartment. We have inspections soon and if we get charged for their messes, I might go catch all their stuff on fire. Just kidding. But really….
It has been a month since I left home, which is really sad. I miss everyone a lot. I miss dancing everyday with my Meredith girls.
But I do love my roommate Kaitlin. She is a ball of fun. We are lazy together and like pizza and ranch too much.
I am loving me some Mumford and Sons. I listen to their Pandora station every bus ride, to and from work. They make things better.
This creeper guy thinks we are friends. He likes boys. But he thinks we are BFF’s. He doesn’t even know my name.   I think I am making this situation really awkward.

Oh well

And I miss my Elbee kitty
and apparently my NIECE kitty is now my NEPHEW KITTY!
J

                  


this would be TERK, she is a GIRL. :) oh ps.those are my friends. and I am on the uh right :P



 Cats and loving,

C


Saturday, September 10, 2011

the week of the last

that title doesn't make that much sense, but who caresss.

Lets talk about last week: I was good friends with White Rabbit a lot. I also got to ride the train and be part of the opening of Magic Kingdom for two days...that was interesting because I had no idea what was going on and BAM there were all the hundreds of people waiting to get into the park. Scary? very much

I also got lost backstage. I was supposed to be going to a meeting with all the other college program students at 4:15 and I got off work at 4:15. So I was rushed and lost and ended up being 15 minutes late to the meeting. You know when you are in a big crowded room and that one person shows up late and everyone gets quiet and stares as that person makes their way across the front of the room and you are like "dang that would be so embarrassing"

yeah. that was me. i was that girl. Pretty sure I did pee a little and turned REAL red.
thats life though
:D

I had my first Make A Wish Family while I was playing around with Terk (by the way terk is a GIRL not a boy and from the movie Tarzan) and I spent a little extra time with them, they were so sweet and I was messing with the little boys, playing around and having fun.
I also got this little British girl who said the funniest things:
"excuse me big hairy animal, but what are you?"
"why are you not talking?"
"my mom said you cannot talk"
"how do I know if you are a boy or girl"
"what is your name"
"oh yeah, you can't talk"

She was a cute little thing
I also got some award or something from my attendant. she said I made her job a lot easier by doing my job correctly. Which meant a lot because the people at Animal Kingdom are the people that told me to not do my job 100%.

Friday I didn't have to work until noon, but got up so I could see Terry, Annette, Alexis, and Sarah from CAMP MERRIWOOD. Yes they were my first visitors, got them a discount and rode some rides before I went to work. Sarah was hilarious riding rides.
Work on Friday was interesting as well.

I was a Spare which pretty much meant if someone called in sick, didn't show, or they died or something I would take their spot if I was their size.
from 12-7 I sat in a break room and watched Disney Channel, slept, and did two random tasks for the office people.

Today, thehe today was fun. I woke up and had two funfetti cookes for breakfast, with icing of course. Reserved Samanthas and Mrs.Stewarts hotel for when they come visit. and then went to get my hair cut, well I decided to just go crazy and get a perm. It was the most painful experience. I didn't give a tip either because she charged me $30 to trim my bangs up a little. It was an experience though. I can't wash my hair until Tuesday. It is epic.

Kaitlin and I might go to Night of Joy tonight, which is at Magic Kingdom, its a lot of Christian artists and it will be epic. I'm talking Toby-Mac, MercyMe, Jeremy Camp, Skillet, Newsboys, etc

My hair really smells funny.
oh and our apartment is leaking, they had to tear up the carpet.
and they cut down trees in front of our windows.
and Kaitlin is fun.

ps. GO NCSU!


until later,
c



Wednesday, September 7, 2011

bojangles & cheerwine

I really wanted bojangles and cheerwine today. So what did I do? Took Kaitlin and got some bojangles and cheerwine. Probably the best dinner I've had since I've been here.


The actual bojangles we went to.


The dude that served us.
 wonderful cheerwine
 Kaitlin and her first cheerwine
 cause I had more bo-rounds
 Kaitlins pretty ring
 so.full.
 :D

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

dancing in September

okay so no dancing yet. The plan is as of right now if I don't end up dancing that much I will just take some classes at a nearby dance studio. Monday nights I am taking a Open Adult Gym Class...aka get my flexibility, strength and tumbling back. Why you may ask? The best shape I have ever been in was when I was teaching/taking gymnastics. It helps with dance classes (especially modern) a LOT...like all those arm muscles and abs and all of that fun stuff. Tumbling still scares me but I like being able to do it randomly.

Sunday was a fun day. Animal kingdom all day, well, after sleeping in of course.

Monday was uh um uh um let's see here. Oh yeah, I was introduced to white rabbit. That was an interesting day. But fun :)
Got to talk to Adam which of course made everything better.
Then fell asleep at 8. :) epicness.

Today I'm friends with Pooh again. It's going quite swell so far. I've seen the cutest babies today.
I'm trying to think if anything interesting has happened.
I made rice. I'm so proud of myself. Eating it for
Lunch in about 30 minutes. Yay!!!

For the most part everything is going better.
Adam Is safe and having fun.
My roommate is still awesome.
I still love rollarcoasters.
And I don't want to go back to school. Ew.
Okay well the fun part of school just not the educational part.

I will put pictures up later.

Weh,

C

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Today

Isn't going to be about me. My lovely Adam is leaving today for his study abroad thingy. Am I freaking out? Um totally. Am I freaking out excited for him? Most defiantly :)

When we see each other again I think it will be about 150? Days. That is a lot when you have been dating for four years. Anyways I just really want him to arrive safely and have an amazing hike and not die on it. Cause I kinda need him in my life ya know?!

Haha this is so cheesy. But this is MY blog and he is a part of my life. Which my blog is about my life. I win.

Had a fun skype with his family last night. Miss them as wellllllll


Anyways so if my blogs ever mention Adam just let me vent on how much I miss him. Cause i already do and it's easier to let it all out rather than keep it all bundled up.
I'm doing this on a bus on my phone so I can't really make sure everything is spelled and makes sense.

That shall be
All for now

I love you ahdum :)

Love,
C




Thursday, September 1, 2011

the first "legit" day and then some

This isn't going to be a very happy post to those of you that are used to me being positive and happy.
Today was a really bad first day unfortunately...
During training we were told that our first month or so as we were getting into the hang of things that people would help us out a lot.
Today was nothing like that.
I wandered for about 30 minutes after getting off the bus because I had no idea where I was. I was expecting a sign or something or to follow people....the people I was planning on following went opposite ways. So I had to choose who to follow. Typical Cara, I followed the wrong people and had to go the other way. After finally figuring out what building I was to go to I was there an hour early. I wandered around the building trying to figure out what to do. I hid in the bathroom because I was scared (can't believe I just wrote that on here) went into the costuming room to waste some time and finally found the place where I was supposed to check in. They were actually really nice, told me where I was to go at what times and all that stuff.

Once into the costuming room everything was a disaster. I had never been the character I was today, I had never seen the costume, didn't know which shoes because there are a billion and everyone was talking crap about the CP (which are the college program students, which is ME) While staring at the costume making sure I had every piece this older gayish man decided to ask me what I was doing....I was really embarrassed and tried explaining to him that it was my first day I didn't really know what I was doing. He just kinda walked away. ..once into the green room I guess you would call it, the lady in charge was REAL RUDE. I stayed in a room alone all day and nobody talked to me. This is how the first two days went.

BUT updating!!! Today aka my third day into the "legit" world was much much better. I got to know Pooh a little bit better. He is quite opposite of me though. He loves hugs, being patient, eating honey, and not hurting small annoying children who seem to think it is funny punch Pooh's stomach. aka complete opposite of me. ANYWAYS, Hollywood Studios people are amaaaazingggggg and I loved it there. I worked 10 hours today :) and 9 tomorrow(friday) yeahhhh BUDDY

I do apologize for the first few paragraphs being so negative. Actually I don't...it is part of life sometimes but I moved on and now things are better. But I do want to remember about it just to know everything isn't always going to run perfect.

Here are a few pictures for my parentals & grandma :D

This is our living room, you may ask why Kaitlin is standing with the door open....I may or may not have kinda caught a frozen pizza slightly on fire and maybe there was smoke everywhere. Not saying any of that was true.....

This is the outside of our apartment. Our bedroom window is the one on the left :) and see that little lammp next to the red uhh whatever that thing says? Yeah that shines in my eyes every night. hahahaha its great, I love it.


The lovely pool at my apartment


Kaitlin and I went to visit Lindsey at the Yacht & Beach Club Resort...beautiful


I know it is really small, but our bathroom/room :)


oh...and from the previous post...coming home from a long day at work I really just wanted to sit at the table and eat. So I took care of it and shoved all of "hoarders" crap in the corner...and her stuff from the living room as well. 

go team go!

that is all for now mates

love,
c