I'm starting to feel as though I'm becoming nocturnal as my shifts go later and later into the evenings. Yet, no matter what time I get home in the AM I always wake up around 11am. So if 10 am was London, 11 am is Orlando time.
This week has been eventful and the reality of how fast time is flying is become more and more clear. I counted it today and I leave for Horsham in 12 weeks - crazy right.
And considering Thanksgiving week until January 3rd will be nothing but non stop work I have about 6 weeks left to really enjoy Disney for all it's work - so I'll make it count.
As for this past week:
After I finished my blog post I noticed my computer was acting up...until I realized my mouse pad stopped working.
So my Friday night to Tuesday night was spent without a working laptop but no one would have known that because the 21st century never allows you to be unconnected. Well, you yourself could choose to remain unconnected, unattached, not chained to technology, but sadly I did not have that option. So in order to keep checking my schedule and email I trusted my phone or went to the Patterson Computer lab.
Saturday: Saturday was Allie's Birthday and Britt and Lauren did a great job decorating her door.
Allie had some visitors in town so I didn't get to see her on her birthday but I made sure she got her card of course. I worked out before heading to work.
All of us there for the night shift wound up getting ERs (early releases) so Kenzie, Thea, and I decided to go to Ihop because we were super hungry! I got chicken and fries and it was so good!
Allie's and Alexis' door decorated for Allie's 24th Birthday!
Sunday: Sunday - day was pretty uneventful. Woke, breakfast, work out, work. Excitement came after work at we all got ER'd again and decided to go to Ihop - again. This time the group was of 14 of us and we got to introduce Gina to Ihop! I literally think she did not know what to do as she was overwhelmed by the first two pages of the menu...I looked over and went "Gina, turn the page." She did, went open mouthed, and repeat "Oh my God" at least 70 times, there were several "God Bless America"s thrown in there too :)
We all got home at 5 AM. The Emporium Gang loves the early morning!
Monday: I had to wake up at 10 in order to get ready and get back to work on time. I had a short training and then worked until 10 pm. It was a long day but it was my Friday and the fun I had the night before made up for it. I was also craving a Wawa milkshake and after Mary Kate and I fought whether the Wawa down here sold them or not (they sell THICK milkshakes but not the f'real ones) she took Tori, Marty, and I to get some. It was Tori's second time at Wawa and Marty's first - I love introducing people to Wawa - it's like taking them to my house. Need less to say I went home and crashed.
Tuesday: Tuesday was Britt's 23rd Birthday!!! I had to get up early to head to the FL Mall and to the Apple Store. After waiting a little bit I was told the repairs wouldn't be done for a few hours. I couldn't stay as I had my first Heritage class in the afternoon so I had to let Apple know I would return after my class. Before I left the mall I stopped in the Michael Kors shop and wished I had money but managed to pick up my own MK stylist, Nicole for when I do make my first million. (I do think I'll treat myself to an MK bag on sale for Christmas).
I returned home to find Katie had already decorated a lot of the door and the Britt's side of their bedroom. I had gotten supplies the night before and spent some time decorating the door and Katie finished up the bedroom and door frame. Katie went all out on Rapunzel - way to go Katie! I place the Iron Man birthday card on the door and Katie and I realized all that was missing was a cut out of Justin Timberlake. ;)
I was sad I wouldn't be able to see Britt's reaction when she got home but Katie assured me she'd film it. I headed to my first Disney Heritage class really, really, really excited!
The teacher of our class - David has been with the company for almost 20 years and has had an amazing career. During our first class we got to know more about David, his career, how the course would unfold and some about the Disney family. Now I know I said I was excited but compared to some of these kids - I probably appeared not to have a soul let alone any feelings. Let's put it this way - there were tears shed on day 1. I had an "OMG"-Laura-and-I-stuck-in-the-sea-of-Emma-Watson-fans-at-Selfridge's-moment. But I'm still so stocked for the rest of the seven weeks of the seminar.
After class I jumped back on the bus to the FL mall to get my laptop. One fixed laptop and bus ride later I was back at the apartment where Britt and Katie picked me up and we headed to Lobster House to go to dinner for Britt's birthday. It was a really nice time. We returned home and were all really tired so we were able to get some rest.
PS - Shout out to my Aunt Mar and Uncle Jamie for their lovely care package.
Wednesday: During the day Wednesday I cleaned, went to the gym, and sat by the pool with Britt. Alexis' boyfriend Greg came into town so it was nice to get to meet him. That night Lauren, Britt, Katie, and I headed to Disney's boardwalk as Britt wanted to go dancing. Sadly, when we go to dance hall we found out it had been rented out for a conference - :(. Off to BDubs (Buffalo Wild Wings) it was. Before we left boardwalk though we go to talking to the cutest little seven year old named Sam and her mom. Katie and Britt played chess with Sam for a little bit and I talked to her Mom.
Alexis and Greg met up with us while we were at Boardwalk and then we all headed over to the bar where Allie met up with us after she got off work.
It was really great having the six of us out together. Britt seemed to have a great time on her birthday and I'm happy we got to share it with her and also be able to celebrate Allie's birthday too.
Britt's door for her Birthday!
The 10 by 6 foot Rapunzel birthday sign - great job Katie!
All six of us celebrating the birthday girls!
Thursday: Thursday I took time to relax as it was a fresh start of the work week. Thankfully my shift went fast and I was able to come home and get some sleep.
Friday: Yesterday I went over to Thea's to watch the Glee tribute episode to Cory Monteith and farewell to the character of Finn. It was so terribly sad. So sad in fact that we were crying so hard we forgot we had made popcorn....the popcorn burned, the fire alarm went off, and we almost were overcome by smoke. .....So sad. :(
After we were left feeling sad I decided to go gym and spent some time by the pool.
Before I knew it it was time to head back to work. Last night's shift wasn't all that bad either.
Saturday: I woke up today, went to gym, showered, and came here. This afternoon I'm heading over to Gina's apartment to watch an English TV show her and Thea love before heading back to work....and work until 4:15 AM. It is also one of the girl's we work with, Chanelle's last night at the Emporium (before going to Food and Beverage) so I'm sure we'll be headed to IHOP. Sunrise with the Emporium Gang - woot woot!
This week's quote is to remind me to keep pushing myself forward. I have found out I haven't gotten three out the five internships I've applied for, but I'm still holding on hope for the last two. In life, competition can be adversity - of all sorts. Hope you respond and move forward after adversity and adjustments says a lot about you and I hope I'm taking all the right steps on my college program so I'll be able to get the most out of it and have a successful future.
As always thank you all for all your support.
I think I'll be seeing a couple of visitors I know to Walt Disney World this week so I'm looking forward to that.
Until next time friends...
Keep Dreaming,
Mary-Kate
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