It's all coming back to me now.....
So today was a long, wierd work day. But it was actually pretty good as far as days go! This morning I got up around 10:30am and hung around the apartment for a couple of hours, talking to the roommates (all of them had the day off today!) and fiddling about on the computer. I took the 1pm bus to work, started at 1:45pm.When I clocked in I got sent to greeter, which I was none to happy about as it was stinking hot out there today! So I was at greeter for about ten minutes when I see this Guest Services guy coming over with this little boy with really long hair to measure him. So I go up to the bar that measures the kid and look at his height. His head it not quite touching so I get him to put his feet together, stretch his kneck and then I do the general knock about of his head, trying to get his scalp to graze the bottom of the height stick. Finally, after manhandling this kids head, I make it work and I tell the little boy he's free to ride. Then I look up and his mother who is standing a few feet away asks in a nice French Canadian accent if he's tall enough. I say yep! It's then that I take a close look at this woman who sounds so familiar. She looks normal enough, except most guests dont' walk around with belts that say chanel all over them. She was incredibly familiar looking.
Then I look at the kid and all of a sudden it clicks. Did I not just see a picture of this kid on Perezhilton.com....yes I did. It was a photo of him and his mother, Celine Dion. So there I'm standing watching as Celine Dion is walking away from me! I couldn't beleive it. My first real coaster celebrity. Joey Fatone doesn't count as he's kind of a hasbeen....lol.
Of course after they were out of earshot I told any other castmember who would listen who I'd just seen. I was freaking out. I remember the good old days when I was nine years old. I had two cds. The Backstreet Boys and a Celine Dion cd I stole from my mom. I used to listen to that song "there were moments of gold and there were flashes of light, there were things I'd never do again but then they always seemed right, there were night of endless pleasure........" you know! It's all coming back to me now! Love that song. And who could forget My Heart Will Go On, anyone who remembers me at the age of 10 knows how obsessed I was with Titanic....
So that pretty much lifted my spirits for the day. I told all the coaster people how I had measured Celine Dion's son.
Later in the day I got Launch Base and not ten minutes into being in there, I get a zone one evac. That's when a kid is too scared to ride and we have to evacuate them from Zone one, which is where the train launches from. We have to shut off the ride so that the pusher car doesn't launch while trying to get the kid out. It's pretty routine and usually only takes fifteen minutes. Today that was not the case. Somehow maitenance frakked things up and the pusher car wasn't working and finally after like half an hour we thought we had the train working. So we put the guests back in the limo and the train launched. Its' supposed to go 0-60 in 2.5 seconds at launch. This first train when 0-about 2miles per hour. It was the slowest launch ever. lol. So obviously something was broken and we were still down. We ended up having to dump the building and what not. The ride was down for at least 2hours. And I was stuck at Launch Base being 'in control' for almost all of that. I didn't even really know what I was doing either, so it was a bit stressful. lol.
So we finally got back up around 8:30pm. I was in rotation for a bit then I got a couple of tasks. I clocked out at 10:15pm and caught the bus home. It was packed. I don't get why American Bus always sends the little ones to MGM when they know that everyone gets off work at 10:30 and thus all those people aren't going to fit!
I'm home now. Not sure where any of the roomies are. I think they mentioned going out dancing. I'm tired. I think I"m going to go read then off to sleep. More updates as my life unfolds.
Brynna
P.S- I'll try to post the few pics I have eventually. It's just so much work tracking down my camera and the base....where is my camera by the way?