Circle of Lifeee.

So I had talked to the managers about my slightly messed up schedule. Apparently they mixed my schedule up with ANOTHER natalie who had requested vacation time. She ended up self-terming so I worked the rest of her shifts last week. With that being said, my name wasn't on the schedule all week until Friday and thats when I was supposed to start greeter training which I have already done the week before. I was told by the area manager that I had Friday and Saturday off because those are the days she had off, but for whatever reason, my name was still on the schedule Saturday so managers and other cast members were asking me where I was. All is solved though. I was supposed to talk to the merch manager this week too about switching, but that's going to have to be rescheduled as well. They are apparently saying that merch has too many people and F&B has too many people so it may not happen, but since we're switching, there is a better chance of it happening.

So anyways, where did I leave off? I had an ER last Tuesday, thats when I did some major Christmas shopping at downtown disney. Spent the whole day in World of Disney. I am buying for 4 friends back home. I had a brilliant idea where I am buying them stockings and little stuffers that are themed around their fave disney character. Once that was done, I met up with some fellow Canadians at Magic Kingdom and we did Very Merry Christmas party which was a BLAST! I've got pics from it on facebook, but it was so much fun. They had soap bubbles on Main Street that represented snow, a christmas parade, free hot chocolate and cookies, christmas fireworks @ the castle (which is a different version of wishes, its actually called Holiday Wishes at the party) A couple of dance parties were going on, there was a dj and you'd dance with different Disney characters to different songs like Thriller, Cha Cha Slide, Jump on It and they'd teach you the dance moves. I'm telling you right now, that Chip can mooove. We also went to Laugh Floor, Buzz Lightyear, Peter Pan, and Winnie the Pooh rides. We got a group picture with Donald Duck cause he had a lumberjack hat on. Siiick.

The other days I worked as a seater, except for Thursday where I was popcorn pm cash. Not too many problems. Had some people tell me they knew I was Canadian because of my "accent". I have an accent? lol. I have officially become one of the trivia people as well. I am the one who entertains guests while they are waiting with either Canadian trivia or Disney trivia. It's alot of fun, and people don't get as impatient. It works. I took Friday and Saturday off. Friday not too much happened cause I had to wake up bright and early to go to a Florida Gators football game Sat morning at 8 am. That was fun. Hot but fun. Gators won by ALOT. We were at the very top, kinda hard to see what was going on in the game, but the marching band spelled out words. It was cool lol. We didn't get back home until 6 and by then I was exhausted cause the sun really wore me out. Took a nice hot shower that night too.

Sunday and Monday I worked, one at popcorn cart and one as a seater. Monday as a seater was redonculus. Many impatient people cause we were running at least 45 minutes behind schedule. We did trivia but even that wasn't enough, we had one family leave because we didn't give them enough information as to how long the wait was (even though we don't really know 100%).

I asked for Tuesday off to do some more Christmas shopping. Bought more stuff for friends, and stuff for my mom. Still have my dad and sister to buy for. Mailing all these gifts should be interesting. My friend Mel tagged along after I went grocery shopping at Publix. Bought a pile of stuff, 4 full bags of it. wont run out of food for a while now :) She helped me buy stuff considering she's an expert and knows where I can get things. The only thing that sucked was that it was blackout week so the holiday 50% discount did not take place. Still got my regular 20% off though. I love disney christmas shopping! We then went to earl of sandwich which has really good hot sandwiches. I had a limited time only holiday sandwich which consisted of turkey, stuffing, cranberries, and gravy all in one sandwich. It was magnificent. Mel had the meatball sandwich with marinara sauce and parmesan cheese.

Wednesday was Tampa day. We met up with everyone at Dan's place (where I got drenched in the rain, had to walk all the way from apartment 23 to apartment 1...ridiculous) and then headed off to Tampa for a Leafs game. We first made a pit stop to Epcot to buy our moose heads which are the funniest thing ever. Then we left for Tampa, and since we got there early we ate at Hooters (lol) and then went bowling after at a really nice bar/bowling alley. I lost both games booo :( Then we finally went to the game, 3RD ROW TICKETS!! We could practically touch the players, it was really neat. Told some people back home to turn the game on and see if they could see me on there with our moose heads. I swear we probably got more pics taken of us then the players did. 4 of us sported the moosehead, pretty much the best moment of my life.

Yesterday went to Animal Kingdom with my friend Rob and some people from Brazil. Went on Everest finally, but we went in the single rider line so I was forced to go on it for my first time by myself haha. I was not happy, but it wasn't bad at all. We just didn't feel like waiting an hour to go on together so we agreed we would split up. We got on that much faster. We also saw Festival of the Lion King (which is the best show in Disney, really well done!) saw the parade and rode Dinosaur. Which kinda freaked me out cause I hadn't been on it in a while, alot of the ride is dark and dinosaurs just come out of nowhere lol. Then we went on Kali River Rapids which I was not happy about, you really really have to watch where you sit on that ride because you can either get drenched or barely get wet. Keep in mind, it was not warm out at all. So lucky me sat on the side where you get drenched. Yup. There's a fountain that shoots up out of the water and I thought it was just a gimmick to get you scared, nope, went right through it and of course I got wet. All in all it was a good day.

Now today I have a 6 to 12:30 shift, should be crazy but hopefully it goes by fast. I am popcorn stocker. Yayy me. First popcorn stocking shift by myself.

Anyways thats about all

Nat