Girl Meets World

Putting the Horror in Horror Nights

2010-10-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

It's been a few days since I last updated. Well a bit more than a few. I won't give you a minute by minute run down of what we've been up to, but I'll highlight the best bits.

So on Tuesday it was Magic Kingdom with Claire. We were rained out, so went back to our room early and had a delectable meal at Sanaa, the restaurant here at Kidani.

Wednesday we got a much loved text from Ryan inviting us to Universal, so we were going to go. Unfortunately a tropical storm was brewing so forseeing crappy weather we opted not to go and instead play video games and his and Jimmy's house. Of course the storm didn't even touch down, not a hint of rain all day. We ended up meeting Matt and then having dinner at Applebees and playing mini golf at Winter Summerland. Excellent time!

Thursday Claire and I hit up the Studios and thank gods we found Jimmy who gave us coaster Fast Passes, and then Claire knew someone at Tower who gave us Fast Passes for there. Eventually we met up with a friend of Claire's and went to dinner over at Olive Garden before retiring for the evening.

Friday Claire and I fully intended to go to the Animal Kingdom, only when we got to the bus stop the thing was absolutely packed so we walked on to an empty bus to the Magic Kingdom and rode by ourselves all the way there. The park was still a bit busy, but fun none the less. We did pretty much everything in Fantasyland which I haven't done in years. The carousel included! Later we met Claire's friend again and hung around MK for awhile longer before eating dinner at Taco Bell and going back to our hotel.

Saturday was probably the best day ever, at least so far on this trip. Claire and I met Chase at Epcot just past noon, and a short while later met Jimmy. We played around in Future World for awhile before heading over to World Showcase to partake in the Food and Wine Festival. It was beyond packed, but fun still. Eventually we met up with a few more people, Aaron Chase's boyfriend and a couple of Claire's Soarin' friends. We went and saw some 80's popstar called Taylor Dayne play at the US Pavillion. Chase was so excited it was comical.

After the concert we wondered around a bit more, picking up food along the way. I had a Nanaimo Bar at the Canadian Pavillion, it wasn't done right though. Disney Chefs just don't know what their doing it seems...Jimmy and I procured his much desired Chicken on a Stick from the China Pavillion as well. Eventually Ryan and Matt met up with us and even better times were had. We went over to Space Ship Earth and rode, running into Kyle there. It was like 2006 all over again. After riding we all headed over to Ale House and Jimmy and I had a Zinger Mountain Melt, which is essentially our two old favourites - Zinger Chicken Strips and Loaded Cheese Fries, combined. Terrible for you, but terribly good.

Yesterday was another fab day. Claire and I headed over to Animal Kingdom with her friend in the morning and we stayed there until about five. Then Jimmy and Ryan picked me up and we met Claire and Courtney over at Universal for Halloween Horror Nights. I've never been before so I was so so very excited. It was very cool. Scared the crap out of myself and spent some awkward moments clutching Jimmy. Claire was even more scared though, which was awesome. All in all it was a scary, but superbly awesome night. I only go to see about half on the haunted houses which sucks, but at least I got to go at all! I'm thinking coming back this time next year might be in order so I can go again.

Not sure what's on the plate for today. Epcot or something. We're heading to Universal on Tuesday with Jimmy, Ryan, Matt, and Athena (new awesome girl who works at coaster- well new to me and Claire...). Can't wait!

Thanks for reading guys. Til next time.

Brynna

Into the Jungle

2010-09-27T18:53:00.000-07:00

Woke up this morning around 10am after 11 hours of glorious sleep. Poor claire was up at half seven waiting for me to pry my eyes open and get up. After about an hour of primping and sitting around Matt Hughes picked us up and we headed to Sweet Tomatoes for lunch. It was absolutely delicious and ate I way too much. For those unaware, Sweet Tomatoes is a buffet style place but only serves salad, soups, and breads. They also have desserts, most notably a frozen yogurt machine, and really yummy juices.

After lunch we headed over to Animal Kingdom where Claire and I picked up our passes, then the three of us headed into the park and caught a showing of Festival of the Lion King. After that we headed over to Finding Nemo the Musical. As it's off season, the park closed at 5pm, so once Nemo was done the park was shut. Matt drove us back to our hotel and went home for a bit. At 730 we met up with him again and met Chase and his boyfriend Aaron for dinner at Qdoba (a kind of Red Burrito-eque American Chain) and I had a burrito. We hung out and talked for awhile which was very enjoyable. By the time we left it was nine and all the parks save DHS (which closed at 10pm) were closed. So it was pointless to go anywhere. Matt dropped me and Claire off back at Kidani, where we are now.

It doesn't seem like we did much today, but it was a rather full and funtastic day. Now were chilling, well I am. Claire is on the verge of falling asleep. I'll get there soon.

We're hitting up Magic Kingdom tomorrow, excited.

Later

Brynna

Feeling Blue, in the literal sense

2010-09-26T12:49:00.000-07:00

I was just going to make a bunch of random status updates to post on Facebook, but figured mushing it all together in one blog might be a bit more sound of mind. So here we go!

Left yesterday for Disney World! Yay.

My flight took off from Victoria at about 645pm to a tune of 11 passengers. The plane was so empty they made us all sit toward the back for weight and balance. Had two seats to myself which was delightful. Made it to Seattle at around 730pm. My flight to Orlando didn't leave until 1045pm, so I did a lot of time wasting. Walked to my gate so I knew where it was, then all the way back to the foodcourt for some food, then back to my gate where I sat down to watch some Friday Night Lights on my computer. After awhile I looked up and the sign above said Gate indicated that my departure gate had been moved to a different terminal. Had to pick up all my crap and make my way over there.

Finally boarded the plane around 1025pm. I scored a wicked seat, row 6 aisle, right behind first class so had plentiful leg room and my tray table came out the arm rest, not down from the seat above. Much steadier that way.

The flight was a mess. Well actually it was me that was a mess. I couldn't sleep at all for the longest time, and when I finally did fall asleep, I was only out for about 2 hours before waking up about an hour before the flight was due to land. I stayed awake and made the terrible decision to eat a bunch of Nibs, which were delicious, don't get me wrong, but made me feel oh so gross.

The plane landed at 7am and I headed over to Disney Magical Express and got aboard a shuttle right away, got to Kidani by 730am. This did me no good however as my room wasn't ready. I zombie walked my ass over to Jambo House to get some proper food in my stomach, grabbing a bottle of Pepto to chug on the way. It took until about 10am for me to finally start feeling human again. Although was still unbelievably tired at this point.

I decided to go find a comfy chair at the movie theatre in Downtown Disney and if the mood struck, fall asleep. I ended up wide awake through an entire showing of Easy A, still an awesome awesome movie ( second time I've seen it). On the bus back to Kidani it was a different story. I fell asleep and woke up about every five minutes. I could barely keep my eyes open enough to trudge off the bus and into the hotel. Alas it was 2pm and my room still wasn't ready, so I went and stared glassy eyed at a baby giraffe whilst sitting in a lounge. Finally at three I went over to the front desk, just to ask what was going on, and alas my room was ready after all. God knows how long it had been ready. My phone never got the text message they were supposed to send me.

This brings me to now. Well almost now. I've since made it to the room, had my luggage delivered, and taken one blissfully deserved shower. As for the title of this blog, well let's go back to Friday evening. I purchased a pair of jeggings at walmart, feeling that they would be oh so comfy on my flight. They were. Felt like I was wearing sweatpants the entire time, but looked stylish. Only discovered that the dye was rubbing off them at an alarming pace and onto my skin. I had nothing to change into until about half an hour ago, so I was wearing the things for about 20 hours, maybe a bit more. By the time I got to the shower there was so much dye on my legs I could have been wearing another pair of jeans. Thankfully most came off on the shower, but there's still a bluish tinge. New rule. Thou shalt always wash new indigo jeans before wearing.

Anyways, now I'm waiting for Claire. She should be here by now. No idea where she's gotten to. Hopefully her plane didn't fall into the Atlantic. Eager to see her. Even more eager now that my legs are mostly normal color again.

Updates to come.

Brynna

The begining of the end.

2010-07-15T15:35:00.000-07:00

Wow. It's been quite awhile since my last update. So long that there's no way in hell I'll be able to update you on everything simply because I have no memory of what everything entails. Brief rundown of key events:

June 3oth. Alex procured a difficult to come by reservation at Le Cellier, so me, her, and one of her old friends from GMR took in a showing of Captain EO during Cast Preview, then went over the restaurant and indulged in a delicious meal. I had cheddar cheese soup, Prime Rib with cream cheese mashed potatoes, and a chocolate mouse...yummm.

July 1st was spent with my wonderful roommate Alex and two of her work friends, Matt and Matt, at Universal Orlando. Awesome day filled with Harry Potter...we ate lunch at the Three Broomsticks and inhaled incomprihensible amounts of Butterbeer, went on the Forbidden Journey twice, and engaged in various other bits and pieces of awesomeness. Until the rain started and eventually drove us, sopping wet, out of the park.

July 7th, Right now there's an event going on in Africa at the Animal Kingdom called Taste of Africa where they've brought out all these Amazing African dishes that you can purchase. They also have a sort of parade/street party during it. On July 7th after park close there was a cast preview which I attended with some friends from work. Free food (banana bread pudding, samosas, curry chicken, beef bobotie (a beef pie) and a mango milkshake...yummm. The music was great and the party atmosphere was splendid. Had an amazing time!

July 8th, once more with Alex, went to Animal Kingdom and finally saw The Festival of The Lion King for the very first time. We also had lunch at Pizzafari, took a two week safari with one of Alex's old work friends, Paul, as our guide, hiked the Mahoraja (Sp?) Jungle Trek, oohed and ahhed over monkeys, explored Everest, learned the hardships of being a bug, and then ate Jalepeno Cheese pretzels that made us go "oooh" (in a good way).

July 13th. Alex's Birthday! Vicki and I decorated the apartment and it looked awesome. One day I'll post photos. Don't hold your breath, not likely to happen before christmas. Alex went skydiving in the morning and got home around noon with her friend Cory from work. We had some birthday cake and then got ready and headed over to the magic kingdom. Did Hall of Presidents for the very first time, went on the Carousel of Progress - my first time this summer, man I love that 'ride' - went on the TTA, ate sweet cream cheese pretzels which are AMAZING, went to the Tiki Room for some confusing bird song, and then took a Jungle Cruise. At ten pm, the group of us which had expanded to about 15 by then, headed over to the Polynesian where we had the most delicious dinner at 'Ohana. I'm still thinking about the bread pudding...and the noodles, and chicke, and pot stickers. Such a good night.

July 14th (yesterday). Alex and I went to Property Control/Cast Connection to do a bit of shopping and then later in the evening we saw The Sorcerer's Apprentice which was pretty good. Not a cinematic masterpiece, but I definately enjoyed it.

So that pretty much brings us up to date. I haven't mentioned work, as you can tell, because I can't really be bothered. It's not bad, but not that exciting either. I prefer the days I'm off. They make me happy.

It's so strange how quickly this summer has gone by. I'm looking back at all those things I just listed, and I can't believe dinner at Le Cellier was only two weeks ago. It seems like so long ago, but then again, it seems like it just happened. It feels like just yesterday I was telling people I'm done in three weeks, but as of today, it's two. I'm sad this summer is ending, I am. I'm really going to miss being here. Maybe not the job so much this time, but I'll certainly miss the lifestyle and the people. I'll miss going to the parks when I have free time and shopping at the outlets. It's annoying, because even with how much I don't care for the work I'm doing right now, I still have a hunger for Disney and I really don't know how to get rid of it. But I'm happy to be coming home to. I miss my Dad, and my friends. I've seen Amanda's baby once! That's it. And I can't wait to see her again. I miss everyone. And I miss my bed. I can't wait to crawl into it and just lie there for awhile. After the bed I've been on all summer, it's going to be heaven.

Ugh I have so much to do in the next two weeks. Packing, shopping, park hopping...I'll never get it all done. I guess I should go attempt to be productive in some way, shape or form. It's already 7pm and all I've done today is laundry and HULU. Sometimes you need to just veg I guess.

Until next time, I promise I'll try to write at least once more before I leave.

Brynna

Lucky Charms

2010-06-28T18:19:00.000-07:00

I'm making dinner, so I have until the pot of water on the stove starts boiling to write this. I'm not sure when I last updated, I'm assuming it's been at least over a week. I beleive perhaps it was the day after the Harry Potter amazingness? If I'm to be correct, then I'll give you a rundown of post HP events. If I have updated since then and forgotten, I appologize for the repetetiveness.

So the day after HP I hung out with Kevin Casey of Ireland Amazingness again. I think that's the day we went to the Magic Kingdom where we met up with some of his GMR pals. My memory is a tad foggy but I think we may have eaten at Pecos and watched Philharmagic...and rode Dumbo. Sure we did more...after that we headed over to Hollywood Studios, but were assaulted by the biggest rainstorm I've seen yet, and got trapped in Kevin's friend Bri's car for a time. Eventually the rain stopped pouring so intensely and we hightailed it into the park to meet the rest of the group of the ABC Commissary for dinner. The menu did not appeal. Kevin and I had chocolate mouse.

After food we went over to GMR and rode. We were going to attempt Fantasmic, but the rain was too ridiculous and the show was cancelled. We eneded up riding tower before heading out of the park. Of course on the way out, walking as carefully as I could down the wet street, I fell. My knee was and still is a gross mess. Most of the scabs have gone away, except for the big angry one that still hurts like a bitch whenever it gets touched.

We went to Perkins after DHS where I ate...something. I can't remember. Breakfast maybe. Then back home and to bed.

The next day met up with Kevin and the gang again, this time at Animal Kingdom. We ate lunch at Flametree (YUMMM) and then went over to Africa to ride Safaris. It was a good ride actually, the animals were plentiful and the rhinos were apparently about to mate, so they were acting all funny and running out into the road. We had milkshakes from Tamu Tamu after. Delicious. Its an ODF location in Africa that I've never worked.

After that we headed out, back to Bri's place so Kevin could get his wallet. Of course another huge rainstorm hit just then, and so we got trapped in the park until we finally made a run for it. We ended up hanging out at Bri's for a couple hours. Was finally introduced to Sassy Gay Friend in this time. Awesomeness.

We headed to Epcot and had dinner at Sunshine Seasons (More Yummmmm). Then we went into World Showcase and watched the film in France, then found a spot to watch Illuminations again. After that we hung around for a bit, taking photos and being generally sad for Kev's imminent departure the next day. We eventually left the park and went to Downtown Disney for ice cream at Ghiradellis. Eventually it was time to go, time to say bye to Kevin. Very sad. It was truly amazing hanging out with him while he was here. I can't beleive we hadn't seen each other in three years! 2006 remains bestest summer ever. Hopefully, no not hopefully, for sure it won't be another three years before I see him again!

I was supposed to work on the Monday, but felt crappy due to staying up late, eating lots of bad food, and my knee was uber sore, so I called in sick. I used my day off to do useful things like grocery shop.

The next day I worked on an Ice Cream Cart, nothing of note, except the heat and lack of rain. Of course it rained on all my days off, but once I'm back working it can't be bothered to shed a single drop! Annoying. (I like the rain when I work, just in case you didn't catch that).

Wednesday I worked again, long long day, but at least I was in air conditioning that time.

Thursday was fun. I met up with Matt Hughes for lunch and Menchies...for those who are unware. Menchies is amazing. You get a like bowl, fill it with flavored frozen yogurt and toppings, then pay by weight. I had a peanut butter flavored yogurt which lots of chocolate toppings. SOooo good.

After that I went back to Vista and met up with Alex, we headed over to DHS to watch the American Idol show which neither of us had seen yet. Then we wanted to ride coaster or tower, but it was so busy that we opted not to. Instead we went to Take 5, where low and behold I ran into Jimmy and Ryan, who I've barely seen this summer at all. I got some coaster passes out of them, and made them swear to hang soon. Hopefully tomorrow actually.

After riding Alex and I made our way to Downtown Disney and we met up with Vicki and Justin to see The Karate Kid which was surprisingly really good.

The next day I went shopping with Joey at the outlets and got some awesome new balance runners for dirt cheap, and a cute jacket from the Gap.

I worked for all of four hours on Saturday. It was lame. Super duper lame.

Sunday I was off again. No one else was, so I had a Brynna day. I went to another outlet mall and got another awesome Jacket, this time from Tommy Hilfiger. I forgot how much I love that store down here. Then I came home, showed off my purchases to Alex, then headed to Downtown Disney and finally saw Toy Story 3, which was beyond amazing. Good times.

Anyways, my water has long past boiled and my chicken is thuroughly cooked. So bye for now.

Brynna

Alohamora my Heart

2010-06-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

The past couple of days have been fantastic. Makes up for all the not so excitable days I've had since I've got here, although I've had quite a few really good ones. Anyways, it's been awhile since I last posted, so I'll give you a run down of the past week or so, then get into the good stuff.

Last week I had Thursday and Friday off. I didn't really do too much on Thursday, just sort of chilled. But on Friday I went to Aquatica with Joey. It was amazing. I love water parks, I do. And I loved this one, all because of one attraction. This river rapids thing, which Joey and I spent a few hours in. It's basically like your every day water park lazy river, except there are no tubes. You literally just get in and let the current take you. It's fantastic, relaxing, and so so so fun. I want to go back. Our day there was pretty great, except around lunch I either put sunscreen adorned hands in my eyes, or had a reaction to the chlorine, and I spent about an hour mildly blind and my eyes were burning and tearing up like mad. I rested some, used some eyedrops, and bought sunglasses and it got a bit better. But man, it hurt like a bitch.

On Saturday I was back at work, then I gave away my shift on Sunday and just did stuff around the apartment. It was very low key. Monday back to work, this time I was on an Ice Cream Cart again, which I despise. Thankfully there were two of us there so it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. I'm telling you, the heat is just getting worse and worse here. I've spent two summers in Florida and I dont' remember it being this bad.

On Tuesday I was in Dino Diner and there were quite a few of us in there thanks to some trainees, so I didn't have to do too much work which was nice. The people in there were pretty fun as well, so it wasn't a terrible shift. Best part was I got off at 5 and didn't have to clean.

Wednesday I was in the pretzel kiosk and I wasn't supposed to have to clean, but I did...so I got off work an hour late. I wasn't too pissed about this though as I was jazzed about the next day:

Thursday! Awesomeness has arrived in Florida in the form of Kevin Casey. To my three fans who may or may not recall blogs of years past, Kevin and I were both on the program in 2006. He's the first Disney friend I made when we started chatting in December of '05. Irish and amazing. I haven't seen him since a brief jaunt he did when I was here in '07. We went to Epcot with one of his Great Movie Ride friends, Pat. Despite so much rain that I decided to rename the park Wetcot, it was a blast. We ate lunch at Sunshine Seasons, did The Land, Imagination, and Ellen's Energy Adventure, and then headed over to World Show Case and looped around there, stopping in Mexico and Norway for the rides. We snacked on Popcorn in Canada and saw Shanan, another former ICP of '06 who is there on a cultural rep program. Then we met up with more of Kev's friends and ate quick service in Japan, then watched Illuminations. All around an excellent, awesome day.

As for yesterday, this is the stuff I know you all (all three of you) have been waiting for! THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER.

If you know me, at all, you know I'm a Harry Potter nut. Back when I was 14 I was even a little insane about it. Remember all that HP stuff I had? Anyways, I've been waiting for this park to open for years. When I was trying to decide whether or not to come back this summer, WWHP played a massive part in my decision.

I never actually intended to go to opening day, but when I had it off, it just seemed fortuitious, so I thought, what the hell. It'll only happen once right?

So yesterday morning I woke up at 439AM, about one minute before my alarm was set to go off, and got ready. I was supposed to be getting a ride from another Canadian ICP, Jaimie at 5am. But he didn't show. I waited half an hour with no word. I contemplated just giving up and going back to bed, but I was dressed and awake and excited. So I called a cab and took it to Universal. I arrived aroudn 545/600am and hightailed it from the parking garages, down city walk, and around to where I ended up in line in front of the NBA world place. Was there for about half an hour before they started to let people go in the park. I got in the park about 645 and then hightailed it around the left side until I met up with the end of the line in Jurrasic Park.

I finally got a call from Jaimie who told me he'd overslept, but he was on his way. He got into the park and found me in line, where we stayed for about two hours. About 930 the line started to move a little bit as they gradually let people in to the WWHP. I didn't see any celebrities but I have now learned that they were just a couple hundred feet from me...sigh. Rupert Grint...I suppose it just wasn't meant to be, this time...

I think we finally got let in around 1030am. We rushed over, while snapping pictures on our way, to Hogwarts so we could ride The Forbidden Journey. The wait time said 90 minutes, but I doubt we were in that line more than 40, maybe less. The queue is really cool. It passes some awesome HP landmarks including Dumbledore's office and the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom. We finally got on the ride and OMG it's amazing. The ride is Harry Potter, so it's automatically awesome. But when you add in the ride system, which is completely new and awesome, it's like...awe inspiring. I was just enthralled. It's part motion simulator, part moving attraction. All together awesome.

After the ride we returned to Hogsmead and saw that the place was absolutely nuts. When we'd come in clearly they weren't at capacity yet so it wasn't too bad. Not the case now. We were hungry so contemplated going to a different part of the park for food, but learned if we left, we'd have to get back in line...which was hours long, to get back in. So we stayed. We waited in line about 45 minutes to get into The Three Broomsticks for lunch. It was worth it. I've never had better quick service theme park food. The Roast Potatoes were to die for. The corn on the cob was awesome, and my chicken was great. I had trifle for dessert or 'pudding' and it was soooo good. Oh and I had butterbeer, which was pretty good...I loved that it comes with like whip cream on top, and then with lunch I had pumpkin juice which was soo good, but sooo sweet. I could barely finish it because of just how intensely sweet it is.

After lunch we went back out into Hogsmead and went in Honeydukes where Jaimie bought some candy. We sat while he ate some, I had a Bertie Botts Every Flavored bean in I beleive onion, then fish...I don't think I shall try those again any time soon. After that we went on Flight of the Hippograph which is an old ride that's been converted for WWHP. Not too exciting. The wait was really short.

Then we rode Forbidden Journey again, this time as single riders and we just walked on. It was fantastic. I bought a lanyard at the shop at the end of the ride, it looks like a Gryffindor tie. Then we went back out into the mess, analyzed the lines for Olivanders and Dervish and Banges (which were longer than the ride queue) and decided to wait til our next visit to try those stores. I can't wait though. Oh all the things I shall buy. Robes, a wand, a scarf....oh my.

They also converted Dueling Dragons to "Dragon Challenge" which is supposed to be themed around the Triwizard Cup. Honestly, I wish they'd just get rid of the damn ride. WWHP was at capacity and literally, it was a walk on the entire day. Nobody cares. And really I don't want to see the coaster's tracks all faded blue and red when I'm standing in the splendor of Hogsmead.

After Dragon Challenge Jaimie and I decided to leave the WWHP and move over to Universal Studios. We'd been in there about 6 hours, so we felt like we'd had a good taste. We walked out through the Lost Continent and Suess Landing. When we got to the front of the park, we saw a line and were like, wonder what that's for. Jaimie asked someone. It was the line to get into WWHP.

At this point I'd like you to confer with the posted link below: www.talkdisney.com/maps/ioamap.gif

Now there's no WWHP on this map yet, but see the squiggly blue and red lines in the top right hand corner, that's about where it is. Now when I got in the park yesterday morning, I was waiting in the Jurrasic Park area about where the 15 is. Find that. Okay...so not too far. It actually looks farther than I was considering the way things have been built.

Now go find Port Of Entry....and then imagine a line going from there, left, through Marvel Island, Toon Lagoon, Jurassic Park...that's where the line to get in to WWHP ended when Jamie and I were leaving after 4pm. Holy shit right? That had to be a 6-10 hour wait, judging by how much time people were spending in there. They couldn't only let people in as they left...nut show. I'm so glad I got there when I did...sure I had to wait the three or four hours in the start, but I got in before it hit capacity so compared to people who got there even just an hour after me, I probably had a two hour shorter wait or more.

NUTS. And it will probably be that way for weeks to come. We'll see.

So we left IOA and went over to Studios. We did ET, Terminator and two goes at The Mummy, then left and stopped for dinner at Margartiaville on City Walk. We finally got home just around 83opm. Thought I would crash, but managed to stay awake for a bit longer and talk to the roomies.

All in all, it was a gong show, but I'm sooooo glad I went. Now I can say I was there for the opening of WWHP and it was amazing! Too bad I didn't find Rupert Grint...sigh. Oh well. I can't wait to go back.

I'm off again today, gave away my shift, and am heading out to hang out with Kevin again later. Can't wait.

Brynna

PS. I'll post pictures on Facebook soonish.

June has come so soon.

2010-06-07T17:41:00.000-07:00

I don't have alot of things figured out these days, but one thing I have got figured out is my hair. I've gone through my fair share of haircuts over the past 22 years. There was the awkward mushroom cut when I was 8, then another awkward incident in 1999 that left me with the most awkward hair style ever given to a self concious 12 year old girl, there was the superbly long hair that everyone loved and admired til I chopped it off in 12th(?) grade. There were the bangs, added I might add, a full year before everyone in the world started wearing bangs again. The streaks - brassy blonde, dark red. My hair has been chopped and changed a million times, but just over a year ago I discovered THE cut. Perfect. You know the one, if you've seen me, longer in the front, short and layered in the back. I love this haircut. Unfortunately, it is completely and totally irrelevent in Florida.

Now don't get me wrong, with a blow dryer and flat iron I can style my hair perfectly here, and sometimes it stays that way for a while, but between the rain, sweat, and humidity, it just doesn't last. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but really, it's awful. My poor hair goes all thick and coarse, it poofs and limps, the bottom right side flips out a la Carol Brady, but the left side flips under. My bangs kind of wither. It's depressing. By the time I get home after work I look ridiculous. The one thing I have going for me these days, gone.

I've been working ice cream carts the past couple days whic is why I'm lamenting. Being stuck outside, in the elements, just makes it worse. Today, I hadn't even dragged my drink cart out ot my location before the rain started to poor. By the time I got there I was drenched, my hair and makeup were a wash, and I didn't dry out for hours. On my break I shivered until I couldn't stand it anymore in the breakroom. Then of course when the sun finally came out, it was so hot I wished the rain back.

I was off on Friday and Saturady. I had a couple pretty good days. On Friday I went to Wal-Mart in the afternoon, then I went to Magic Kingdom with my roomies and a few others. We saw the last Wishes of the summer (a new fireworks show is now playing) and hit a couple of rides. Got home pretty late and went to bed.

Saturday I woke up pretty early and took myself to Downtown Disney. I finally made it to Earl of Sandwich, been craving it since I got here. After that I walked over to AMC theater and watched Killers, the new Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl movie. It was good, but kind of disappointing. I feel like it was a great concept with a terrible script. It was mildly contrived, and just didn't make sense in places. On the other hand, Ashton Kutcher was hot. So...

After the movie I headed home and hung around the apartment for awhile. Then I went to Sweet Tomatoes with Vicki, Emily, and Carrie (British Girl on program). After dinner we walked to Downtown Disney (Too long a walk, shall never do it again) and we saw Get Him To The Greek which was beyond hilarious. Raunchy yes, and a bit out there, but I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard.

Then of course I've been back at work the past couple of days.

Sad news, Emily is going home. She's homesick and has decided to leave. She goes tomorrow. It's going to suck without her...we shall miss her dearly here in Apartment 412.

Nothing else to report.

Brynna

The Bitch of Living

2010-05-29T07:37:00.000-07:00

Hey all,

Sorry such a long time and no update again. It's been a long week. It should be longer, seeing as I was scheduled, starting last Monday, to work 11 days in a row. But alas, it's my supposed day 6 and I'm home sitting on my computer and not at work. Why? Because I'm ill. Of course. Working so much, not eating properly, and shoving pepto bismol down my throat all week has finally caught up with me. Just so you all know, it's not like I'm not trying to eat healthy or anything...it's just so hard to grocery shop for fruit and veggies often because they go bad and I work so much and taking the bus to Wal-Mart is a two hour ordeal.

Anyways, first off I'll adress a question I beleive my aunt Robin left last post about what it is I actually do at work? Here goes. I work in outdoor foods at Animal Kingdom, this means that any stand in which the guest orders food from well, outside, is fair game. Except for two places: the turkey leg place (thank god, who wants to smell that all day) and an ice cream place attached to Restauarantosaurus (a quick service place in dinoland). So I can be working at an ice cream cart or Kiosk anywhere in the park, although I tend to work mostly on Discovery Island - which is like the centre area of the park where the tree is, and in Dinoland. For example, the past couple of days I worked in Beastly, a kiosk that sells Corn Dogs. The day before those, I worked in another Kiosk that sold pretzels, and before that, another one that sold Hot Dogs, Popcorn...etc.

Aside from working, my week has been pretty slow. I think the biggest event was watching the Lost Finale on Sunday. Let me tell you, my mind is still reeling. Some days I'm thrilled with the way it ended, others I'm still mightly confused. But to anyone who never watched, or stopped watching, go back and watch again. I can't wait to buy all six seasons and watch em asap all in a row. Maybe all my questions weren't answered, but the message at the end was beautiful and maybe it's fiction, but it's hopeful and I wish it to be true.

Last night a girl from work and I went to see Letters to Juliet. It was a cheesy/cute romance that I thuroughly enjoyed. It even made me laugh a bit. Amanda Seyfried is my current 'it' actress.

This is nice, next week which equals tomorrow through next saturday, I only work three days! How you may ask? Well I was schedule five, which created that 11 days in a row I was supposed to work (mentioned earlier). I know my limits, and I knew it would be too much, so I gave a couple shifts away. I'm actually really excited for the time off. Hopefully can find things to do during them! Tuesday - I was supposed to come home for graduation, but it just didn't work out, so instead I bought a ticket to go see the Backstreet Boys at the Hard Rock at Universal. Very excited! Shall tell you all about it after, as I have the day after it off.

I don't really have much else to mention right now. I wish I could have come home for graduation and seen you all, I really miss everyone so so so much. I wish you could all come down here and visit me. Unfortunately, I know that won't happen. Though if you're interested, let me know and I'll book you a cheap hotel. And I have 6 days worth of maingate pass just sitting around that could get you in the park for free...

Oh well. Be warned that once I'm back, well not once, but soon after, I'm forcing my Dad to throw me a graduation/birthday shindig and everyone has to come. I'll buy a mickey eared grad cap and cross the backyard while everyone claps for me. K? Keep your calendars open. Probably labour day weekend, or the one before.

Love you all, miss you all.

Brynna

(Ps just bought the Spring Awakening soundtrack on itunes, so amazing. That's why I titled this blog that, it's a song from the musical. Soooo good. Plus it's true.)

Back to the Blog

2010-05-22T14:30:00.000-07:00

Okay, okay, I know it's been an eternity since I last updated. I'm truly sorry. I do have some good excuses though, and I will list them out for you now.

1) I've been extremely busy working. I'm not lying. I had six days of work straight, one day off, then two more days...until today, which I am off. And tomorrow. Then I have six more days...

2) My computer, my lovely tablet HP, decided it was through with me and stopped working on I think it might have been Sunday...maybe Monday. The days are blurring. Of course it decided to crap out just as I finished typing up a couple thousand word synopsis of Starkissed (novel I wrote) and I had no back up...

3) I haven't had alot to report. I mean work pretty much consumes my life, day in day out. But now I do have a few things, so listen up.

So from my last day off until the 18th, I did six days of work. Nothing really to report in there. Four of those days were training, one was my assessment, and one was an actual real working shift. I'm happy to report things are getting easier, but also hotter. On Sunday I think, I got sent home from my training shift because the heat made me so sick I started to throw up. Not so good. I'm still trying to handle it though. I don't really want to go make a stink about being outside and getting sick, but if it happens again, I probably will have to.

Wednesday was my day off. I didn't do much during the day. Hung around the apartment with my roommates and watched mindless television. But Wednesday night was awesome. Matt Hughes, myself, and my roommate Alex went to see Spring Awakening downtown at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre. It was amazing. I didn't really know too much about the play. I'd seen a bit from when they were doing it at the school in the first season of 90210 (btw I in no way beleive a highschool would ever allow their drama department to perform this play). I also knew Leach Michelle and Jonathan Groff of Glee originated the male and female lead roles. That one fact alone made me want to see it. I didn't really know what it was about though, or what the music was like.

First things first, I loved it I swear. But I also kinda disliked it. I'm wildly torn. The music was sensational. It was like being at a concert. The energy, the writing, and voices. I would go again and again just to hear those songs performed. Go download the soundtrack, everyone. You'll love it. Where I had issues was the plot, see for the first quarter of the play, I had no idea what was going on. It took me a long time to figure out the time period, location, everything...but once I did it was alright. It's basically a story of all these 18th century kids coming of age. Good stuff, some really funny stuff too. But the end didn't sit great with me.

I loved the songs.

So Thursday I didn't start work until 2pm. Just before I was supposed to leave, the new netbook I'd ordered on Amazon arrived. Thank god. Because I was really starting to go nuts without the internet.

Work was alright, nothing special.

Friday I worked again. Afterwards I met up with Elliot (coaster friend from back in the day) and we went to the Studios. I rode coaster for the first time since I arrived. I admit, I was full of bitter nostalgia. We met up with Ryan Morse backstage for a while, and then when we went to see Fantasmic we found Chase Mine and Jimmy Snell. Reunion circa 2006.

After Fantasmic Elliot and I went to the Ale House and met up with Jimmy and Ryan. We stayed there until 1am. Then it was back home and off to bed.

Today's been good. I went to Cast Connection and Property control and got some swell stuff. In particular this really funky bag that I love. It was there because it's got a stain on the front, but I barely noticed it. I got it for super cheap, so I'm thrilled!

Not sure what I'll do tonight. Thinking of going to see a movie. We'll see.

Nothing left to report. Lost finale tomorrow night, so I'm all a tizzy. Can't wait.

Brynna

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

2010-05-11T17:35:00.000-07:00

Work so far: The title says it all.

But I love my roommates, so it's mostly worth it.

Off today, thank god. Spent the day watching TV on Hulu and just relaxing as have barely had the chance to do so since I got here.

Another day off tomorrow, going to be seeing Joey. Can't wait.

That's all for now,

Brynna

Peanut Butter

2010-05-08T16:20:00.000-07:00

Alright, now that I have a few minutes to sit down I guess I'll update this thing. So it's officially been one week and one hour since I departed Victoria. It's been one hell of a week, and it feels like I haven't been home in months, not just a week! It's just been such a packed week, I've barely had time to breathe, whereas at home I'm never ever busy like this. I'm not used to having somewhere to be ALL THE TIME.

Wednesday I had Traditions at Disney University. For those uninformed, it's a class Disney gives to all new Cast Members to learn the history of the company. Unfortunately because i'm qualified College Program, this version of Traditions was severely abreviated. In 2006 on my first program, I attended an 8 hour class. Wednesdays was 4 hrs, and we spent an hour of it over Magic Kingdom for a pointless 10 minute excercise. So basically in 06 I had 8 hrs of learning and this year, 3 hrs. Anyways, the good parts of Traditions are that we finally got our Disney ID's that get us into the parks, as well as our new nametags.

After class, we headed home and changed, then a group of us went to the Magic Kingdom. The nice part of Orlando in early May is that it isn't really busy. Most rides were 10 minute waits at the most. We made it on to Pirates, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Haunted Mansion, Philharmagic, and Space Mountain all in the span of only a few hours.

At around 530 we (Alex, my roommate, and I) headed back to Vista Way and met up with our other roomies Vicky and Emily (two very nice British girls) and we all got ready along with a couple other Brits for that nights big College Program Formal. Unfortunately we didn't know about this thing until like two days before, and with orientation and what not, no time to shop. So I wore a brown sundress which wasn't very formal at all. It was held at the convention centre at Coronodo Springs and the room we were in was massive. Football field length and width, in the least. There were probably thousands of us there. They had a DJ, a ton of catered food, characters, and a 'Vegas Room' .

It was pretty fun and the food wasn't bad at all. It was kind of like being at Prom again, except it was a bit nicer. We were all quite tired from being up so early for Traditions so we headed back to Vista around 11pm and went to bed.

The next day was my only day off this week. I ended up tagging along with Vicky, Emily, and a group of others to Animal Kingdom. It was a pretty good day. We got on It's Tough to be a Bug, Everest, Safari, Dinosaur, and Primevil Whirl. I'm going to be working Outdoor Foods at AK so I spent a fair amount of time staring at carts and bemoaning the hot weather. On the bright side, at least most of the carts had fans.

After the park, we headed back to Vista and I met Matt and his roommate for Dinner at a place called Cracker Barrell. Then home and to bed.

This brings us to yesterday. I had an orientation class to Animal Kingdom called DAKlimations. It was basically like a power point presentation on the park followed by a walking tour, and then lunch and a trip to costuming to get our costumes. It was an alright day. The park is huge so walking the entire thing was a task. Especially in dress pants. I looked a mess by the end of the thing.

My costume isn't terrible, it's basically a pair of khaki shorts and a khaki shirt (although the color is refered to as Peanut Butter).

After DAKlimations headed home and showered, then realized I'd grabbed the wrong size shorts - funny thing about Disney, just because two pairs of shorts are technically the same size, they really aren't the same size. They can fit way different. So after lamenting the fact I had to return to costuming eventually, I headed to Wal-Mart to get some brown shoes for work, and some groceries as well. Got home around 7 and was in bed by 9.

Today I had a three hour class at Disney University for Food Service. It wasn't really anything new and was a bit slow, but I got out of there by 1130 so it didn't eat up my entire day. After I got home, I had lunch and then headed to costuming again and got the right shorts. Then back to Vista where I hung out the rest of the afternoon. A little while ago I met Matt and Brendan (both whom I met at Coaster in 06 btw) and we had dinner at Chik-Fil-A. And that brings me to now.

Not much else to report. I have training tomorrow at 8am and really am not liking these super early mornings. The DAK bus is so lengthy that I have to get up way earlier than when I did working at Coaster. Sigh.

My next days off are Tuesday, Wednesday. Looks like I might finally get to see Joey so that's awesome!

Alright, going to go hulu some more shows then try and sleep.

Brynna

Slow going.

2010-05-04T11:40:00.000-07:00

Sorry no update yesterday, it was a long, mostly uneventful day and by the end of it I was far too tired to put finger to key and write anything. So a brief rundown, yesterday morning we had orientation over at The Commons, 3 hrs of boredom. After this, we returned to Vista for lunch, then had more orientation stuff in the afternoon. Pretty slow going.

Once the orientation stuff was done, I headed back to my apartment and spent some time catching up on TV through the blessed Hulu. Best part of the USA. Well close to it. Last night my roommate Alex, me, and a handful of other ICPS went to downtown Disney for dinner. We ate at the new T-Rex restaurant which was pretty awesome. Very cool theme. In case any of you have eaten at rainforest cafe, it's pretty much the exact same but with dinosaurs.

After dinner we headed back to Vista and I went to bed.

Now for today, started out the morning with more orientation and paperwork over at The Commons. Thankfully it was a bit shorter than yesterday. Returned to Vista after a couple hours and watched last nights episode of CHUCK on Hulu. BTW people, if you're not waching Chuck, you should be. So good.

This afternoon was when we went and found out where we'll be working. I don't know much but I know that I'm outdoor foods at Animal Kingdom. Not too sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I'm releived I'm in a park, and I'll never have to work late because the park closes for the most part of the summer by 8pm. The downside? Well for one, it's foods. And I'm not exactly thrilled by that aspect already. Another, well outdoor is the key word here. If you've ever looked at me, you know that any prolonged exposure to heat and sun on my part is a bad idea. I'm prone to heat and sunstroke. It'll be like a game, trying to guess when the first time I pass out will be.

So that's the gist of everything. I must admit this whole thing has me a bit melancholy. I'm happy to be here, I am, but without attractions, I'm just kind of down. Hopefully the job will be alright though. And of course the Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens in just 1.5 months. Enough reason to be here.

Brynna

Three years in the making...

2010-05-02T11:32:00.000-07:00

So it's been about three years since I last posted to this blog. I kind of went back and forth, trying to decide whether to use my newer blog, an absolute new blog, or this blog to record my summer. This blog won because the other one is not Disney enough and I'm too lazy to go make a brand new 'Disney World' blog.

So here is the deal. In 2006 and 2007 I participated in Walt Disney World's International Summer College Program. Both summers I had the time of my life and worked at the Rock'n Rollercoaster in MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios). So after a nearly three year absense from my beloved WDW (not including two vacations I took in '08) I've finally returned to Disney as a Cast Member and in three days I'll officially have my nametag. Unfortunately I wasn't able to snag another attractions role, which believe me, devestated enough, so I'm working Quick Service Food and Beverage. Something I'm not entirely thrilled about, but hey, at least I'm here.

I left Victoria yesterday at 3:04pm on United flight 6055. 1.5 hours later I landed in San Fransico, endured a two hour stop over (where I ate a giant bowl of soup for dinner), and then jumped on another plane that took me to Los Angeles. Not such a fan of LAX. The airport is loud, crowded, and kind of outdated. The waiting area at my gate didn't have nearly enough seats and I couldn't find an outlet anywhere to plug my computer in. I ended up buying Chex Mix and a neck pillow and chilling until my flight finall boarded around 10pm. My flight from LA to Orlando was just short of five hours, and as hard as I tried, I barely slept at all. All in all, I probably garnered about 2 hours of rest. I had a window seat, not my first choice. I much prefer the aisle. Especially condsidering the two girls beside me fell asleep cutting off my access to the bathroom. Not that I had to go, but the minute you can't go, it's all you think about.

Anyways, my flight touched down at MCO just after 6am. I collected my luggage and then met up with two other ICPer's to grab some breakfast before catching a shuttle to Vista Way at 730am. We arrived at VW at exactly 8am and were told we were the first ICPs to arrive. It was nice not to have to deal with lines or anything, and it's kind of cool to be first! After being given our forms and apartment keys, we were driven off to our new homes. I'm in Apartment 412 at Vista Way. It's a top floor apartment, which is new to me as the past two programs I did, I was in bottom floor apartments. I'll post pictures eventually, but for a quick run down, it's a two bedroom (meaning I only have 3 roomies, as opposed to 5 the last two times) and both bedrooms have ensuite bathrooms! The living room is bright because of the giant windows, and the kithen is a bit tiny and outdated, but usable. Another plus, it seems they've replaced the living room carpets with laminate...or maybe it's wood, so that looks really nice. And is so much easier to clean.

I spent most of my morning in a hazy sleepy state. I unpacked my bags, set up my wireless router, and did a bit of interneting before crawling into my bed (which I comprised using a towel, a tiny Harry Potter fleece blanket, and decorative cushion I stole from a couch back home). I think I grabbed another couple hours sleep in total. I finally woke up at 1230pm (930am home time) and had a shower, brushed my teeth, and put on some of my new "Florida" clothes. I stepped outside briefly and was reaquainted with the midday Florida heat. It's not even as hot as it's going to get this summer and I'm already hiding in my air conditioned apartment.

It's almost three now and I'm waiting for Alex (who I met during my 2007 program) to get to Vista. Looks like housing listened to our begging and she's one of my new roommates!

No idea what the plan is for tonight. A trip to Wal-Mart is imminent, and perhaps dinner at Downtown Disney.

Until tomorrow,

Brynna

The End is near.

2007-08-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged in a long time. For that I am sorry. These past few weeks have been super busy and I've barely had time to get my head on straight, let alone write a detailed account of what I've been up to. Of course now I can barely remember anything, but I'll try to figure it out for you all.

So after my two days off on the 6th and 7th I worked for 7 days straight. It was a long haul and my body was nearly ready to give out on me.

On Monday the 13th Joy and Donald threw a coaster party at Donald's house after work. Technically we were supposed to be off at 9 that night, but due to stupid executives making stupid decisions we were force extended until 10 and then off at 10:30pm. This was the story for that entire week actually, so every closing shift I had was extended.

Anyways after work we all trooped over to donalds house and had an amazing time. One of the best nights of my summer. Almost everyone was there and man was it a fun night. I really love these people, I can't beleive in less than a week I wont' be seeing any of them. The party was filled with amazing funness. Group sing alongs to karaoke songs on that were playing on the TV. I was particularily fond of our round of Closing Time, and I will never forget that moment during What a Feeling (flashdance) when out of nowhere Jimmy lept up and started doing the flashdance dance, then just as sudden as it began, he was back down on the ground like nothing had happened. Also had a nice dance with this guy named Josh who used to work at coaster. He's about as flaming as they come, we grooved to Time of Your Life from Dirty Dancing.

I suppose the biggest moment of the night is when I, Brynna Gabrielson, consumed Alcohol. Before you get too excited, don't worry, it wasn't much at all and I only did it because it was one of those moments. Donald and Joy brought all of us up that we're leaving and we toasted what an amazing group of people this summer was. They handed out shots of yager (Spelling?). I wasn't going to do it, but I didn't want to be that person. It was kind of one of those moments you always remember, surrounded by these amazing friends saluting on of the most amazing experiences of your life. I mean, even Matt was doing it. lol. Anyways I did it, and then spit half of it back out then chased it with half of matt's fruit punch because my god did that stuff taste like shit. I don't not consume alcohol becuase I'm against it or anything. I don't drink becuase I hate the taste. I mean I really hate it. I can't even drink coffee and that stuff should be like a life blood to me. I mean, I'm never awake.

It was a great party. There are pictures on my facebook album. I'll post some links later on. If u dont' have facebook u really should just go and get it, then add me. That way I dont' have to post links. lol.

Liz drove me home from the party around 330am. I would have stayed the night with the other CP's but I had to work at 3 the next day and I didn't want to chance missing my shift or anything. That shift the next day was crappy too, stupid long ass shift til midnight because of a freaking convention. All young accountants who dont' know how to count. How hard is two per row? I mean serious. I yell that out and they all stand there and stare at the rows like they're trying to solve a proof.

The next day, Wednesday, I was off. That was shopping/parks day with Liz. We started off at aroudn 1130am and headed over to Cast Connection and Property Control where I got some sweet deals on some sweet stuff. Then we dropped by Company D at Disney U so liz could get a funky lanyard. Since we were already parked at DU we decided to take the cast bus to the tunnels and enter Magic Kingdom that way. I was happy we did this cause i haven't been in the tunnels all summer and wanted to go in at least once before we left. We spent some time in the kingdom doing all the good stuff. Then we got tired of it and went to MGM to see our folk. Of course it we EMH night and the place was insanely busy, prompting us to leave after doing coaster and tower. We called it an early night, we were both tired, and wen't home.

The next day I hung out with Jimmy all day. It was a long but totally fun day. We started out at MGM, rode tower and coaster....I really don't do that enough, lol. I did some more shopping and Jimmy dragged me through the Honey I Shrunk the Kids Playground which was hot and uncomfortable. Then we left and drove over to the Contemporary and went up to the roof to take pictures and admire the view. You can see almost the entire world from up there. It was nice. Unfortunately once you get outside, getting back inside the building is an issue because all the fire doors lock, so we had to climb down like 15 flights of stairs to get back in the building. After that my legs were ready to give out on me. Only now am I starting to feel not so sore, many days later. After the contemporary we monorailed it over to the Polynesian and had a gander around. I love that hotel. Would love to stay there one day. We then popped over to the Grand Floridian, also gandered around there. Then it was over to MK to get a smoothie and ride the TTA. We decided not to stay in the park cause it was mad busy, so we went back to the contemporary and got Jimmy's car. We headed over to Chick-fil-a for some food. This was around 7pm. We then went back to MGM to wait for Ryan to get off work at 1145pm. He finally got off and we met an entire crew of people at Perkins for more food. It was the night before Kelly left, so we all said bye to her. It was sad. I miss that girl! I also have pics of this perkins trip that I will soon post.

That ended my days off. Friday I was back to work for a 8hr shift. Saturday I said to hell with it, slept in and took half a point. lol. I was supposed to be at work at 9, got there around 1030. It was a long day tho and I really haven't had a true break in a while. Sleep has been on the scant side. I needed that extra hour and a half of sleep. That day was supposed to be 12 hrs, it ended up being 10.5. Sunday I worked from 10-8, then monday I worked 930-830. Today I worked 1015 to 645. After work I walked around the park waitin for Wendy to get off, then at 8 we ran over to see fantasmic. It was good.

I also finally saw Kevin and crew today. I'd been getting worried, seeing as I have to check Kev and I into Port Orleans tomorrow. All is sorted now, especially since he now has the right cell phone number for me :)

Tomorrow I work my last shift at coaster for god knows how long. It could be a year, it could be forever. This uncertainty makes me feel uneasy. My stomach is in knots, my eyes are teary. I'm going to miss these people so much. I'm leaving another piece of my heart here in Disney. That sounds so corney. When did I become that person? Anyways, it's going to be difficult. I love this place. You all should know just how much.

I'll try to blog again before I leave, but I might not get the chance. I fly back on the 27th. I'm flying into seattle. Should be back in Ladysmith on the 28th. I'm not unhappy to be going home, only unhappy to be leaving Disney. I like home, I really do. I just wish I could have home and Disney at the same time.

G'night all.

Brynna

My hand hurts from typing so much, you better love this

2007-08-09T21:56:00.000-07:00

So last I left off I was heading out to Bennigans to eat dinner with Tyler last Friday. So Tyler and I went and ate. It was alright. I think I'm getting tired of buffalo chicken. I've overdone it. lol. After dinner we dropped by Walgreens because we had time before the bus to DTD left. I got some milk. We met up with Kelly on the bus. Danny was supposed to meet us, but he had fallen asleep and wasn't ready. So we got to DTD and walked around a bit. Danny met us a short while later after taking a cab to get there. Danny and Kelly ate at Earl of Sandwhich, then we all took off and went to the theatre. We got our tickets and went into the theatre. Theatre one which is like awesome, because it's got the three floors. You have to love a movie theatre with a balcony! The Bourne Ultimatum was awesome. I thuroughly enjoyed it from open to close. I think it might have been the best of the bunch.

After the show we strolled back to the bus stop and waited for it to arrive. It finally showed up about 15 minutes late. I got home around 11:00pm. I went to bed at like 11:30pm and then kind of drifted in and out of sleep. Then suddenly at midnight I started to feel kind of wierd. I figured I was hungry, cause I usually get nauseaus when i'm super hungry. But then I got up and I realized that I didn't want to eat. About five minutes later I was like puking in the bathroom. Throwing up is incredibly rare for me. I think it's been a couple years since the last time I was properly ill like that. So I stayed up feeling like shit for a couple hours and then I finally went to bed.

On Saturday morning my alarm went off at 8am, I was supposed to work at 9am. So I kind of got up and realized I was dead tired. I stumbled to the bathroom, so tired that I was falling into the wall. The fact was that the day before I'd only had like 4.5 hours of sleep, then that night I'd only had like 5 hours, so I was not in good shape. I made the educated decision to call in sick. So I called in, had to do it twice because I fell asleep during the first call. lol. I left my message, hopefully it was coherent. Then I threw my phone aside and slept until 1230. When I woke up I felt fine. Not like I'd been sick at all the night before. Tho I was super hungry by then.

I spent my day reading and watching stuff. Later that night I went to see Hairspray again with Kelly, Matt, Matt's mom and Michael from work, and his boyfriend. It was great as always, even if we had to sit in the second row cause it was so full.

On Sunday I worked at 11am. I had to start my shift with a Guest Service Basics class. It was great tho cause Joy, Tyler, Wendy, Alejandro, and Kim were all there. It was a big coaster afair in there. They gave us free junk food too, which was swell. I took a bag of chips, two pop and two chocolate bars. DOn't worry I didnt' eat it all at once. I saved stuff for later. I actually just ate the last candy bar today.

I was off on Monday, which was supposed to be Monday Funday, tho things went a little awry. It was supposed to be a big park day for like me, Wendy, Tyler, Danny and Kelly. We were all set to go when Tyler called to say he'd lost his ID. Then Danny decided he wanted to go to the pool and get a tan...Wendy was working til two. So me and Kelly set off for the Magic Kingdom. We went and ate at the mainstreet bakery. Tyler showed up a short while later having found his ID in Joy's car. We went to to tomorrowland and did some of the basics. I finally tried out MILF (Monster's INC. Laugh Floor). It was funny. Then we went to get food at Peco's Bills and Danny came and met up with us. I had a few moments of heart attack when I lost my phone at the condiment bar. Luckily a manager found it and when Tyler called he answered. Crisis averted. Then we went off and did Pirates and Tom Sawyers Island. I've never done Tom Sawyer before, so it was really cool.

We then followed that by going to Aloha Isle for some ice cream. I had a pineapple float which consistis of pinepple dole whip in pineapple juice. Best thing ever. We were sitting down eating our treats when something wierd happened and Tyler had a fit and stormed off. Still not sure what went on. At the time I was concerned with the fact that I'd just spilt a glass full of water down my leg.

So we sat dumbfounded for awhile before we figured he wasn't coming back. So Danny, Kelly and I headed to Jungle cruise where we had the gayest skipper known to man. The guy was flaming. Then we headed back to tomorrowland for Space Mountain and another round of MILF. We ended the night with a stop at the noodle station for dinner. I had ceaser salad. Then we caught the bus and went home. End of night.

Tuesday I layed around the apartment all day doing not alot. I watched Jersey Girl on my computer and read a little bit. I washed some stuff in the sink cause I didn't want to do real laundry.

Then around 430 I headed off to Disney University to meet Kelly, Matt and Kelly's roomie. From there we all headed off to Tampa to see John Mayer! We got there a little late, missed the first opener. Matt and I were sitting together, our seats weren't great, but I wasn't too concerned. I've seen John twice in the past year already. The venue was an ampitheatre and tho it was covered, it wasn't exactly the best venue for a concert in Florida. Especially when I nice big storm rolled in and it started to pour. The rain was diagnal and hit us with a vengeance. So me and Matt ran down to get away from it. It stopped raining just before John came on, thank god. So we went back to our seats in time for the show to start. It was a really good show. He's a super talented guy. He's funny too. There was a girl there with a sign that was super long and he couldn't read it because there was too much. His response "Whatever happened to 'do me'?" The songs were fantastic. He is such an amazing guitar player. I don't know what it is about Guitar Players, but man....u could be completely ugly and get on a guitar and ur hot points will sky rocket. Well only if ur really good. lol. John used to look wierd. Pale with long greasey hair. He has changed much since last september. He's dressing better and his hair is short now. Looking great. I want to marry him. He's perfect. And I could get some american citizenship. lol.

The only thing really wrong with the concert is that he didn't play Slow Dancing in a Burning Room. I can't understand why. That's the most amazing song ever. I was like appalled. Everyone was. I'm still bitter when I think about it. I mean he played NEON which is like 'huh?'. Nobody knows that song. It's not even that great. Sigh.

We got home that night at like 130am. I went straight to bed.

Wednesday I worked at 12:15pm to 8:45pm. Not an eventful shift. I can't really remember any details. I got home last night at like 10pm and made dinner. Then I watched Dirty Dancing and went to bed.

Today I worked at 1pm. It was a good shift. It was a good group of people. Then after work a bunch of us went to Perkins which was awesome. I love big trips to Perkins. And there were quite a few of us there too, which was awesome.

Now I'm home, ready to head to bed. I work at 145 tomorrow. I start my shift with PAC aka: Parade. I've never done it before, so i'm not looking forward to it! Oh well. Hopefully I won't pass out from the heat or anything. That would suck majorly. Also hopefully I won't look completely idiotic. Afterall, I have no idea what I'm doing. lol.

Night all.

Brynna

Close Encounters of the Third Shift Kind

2007-08-03T12:20:00.000-07:00

This morning I had to catch the bus at 5am for my 6am opening shift at coaster. Thus I had to wake up at 430am. Not the best way to start off a day. I arrived at the MGM parking lot at about 520am. It was eerie. Empty and quiet. I was sure a gremlin was going to jump out and maul me. I got into the park as as I made my way through it, I encountered a world I'm not very used to: MGM starring Third Shift. These are the people that come in after hours and do those jobs that keep the park in working order. They do landscaping stuff, cleaning stuff, fixing stuff, painting stuff. These people live in a different world that the rest of us Cast Members. First of all, alot of them don't have to wear a costume. Some of them look a little rough around the edges. As I made my way up the road a guy driving a truck leered in my direction. Another guy said hi to me, he was old tho. Well like 30's old.

The nice thing about MGM at this time of day tho is that it's at it's nicest. By this time it's been power washed within an inch of its life and everything looks so fresh and new...and it's relatively empty which makes it very cool.

I started my shift at 6am. You must understand that I haven't actually opened the building since my training like 14 months ago. So it was kind of daunting. I opened Launch Base, which is evidentally the hardest one to open. I didn't know this when I got my assignment. I was very prepared to be the cause of a delayed opening but miracle of all miracles we opened on time. It was sensational.

This morning a good cast was working. We had some good times. Some great moments of efficiency. We got like almost 15oo people in there in one hour, which is like uber good as we usually average like 1000-1100. Our OHRC (Operational Hourly Ride Capacity) is somewhere around 1300 I think. Tim and Danny were at load and were like running. Nick was back grouping like a champion and Kelly was over there at unload...unloading like a champion. I'm not sure who else was involved, but like i said, awesomeness. I myself was alley rat, but I'll take some credit because I fashioned a bandaid for Danny out of tape and guaze which helped him in his loading. I also had people moving down that alley....

I got off at noon. I waited around an alley for Kelly to get an ER, then we took the bus home. We're going to see Bourne Ultimatum later tonight with Danny and Tyler.

Yesterday was a really good day. I went to Epcot with Liz and Jamie. It was uber fun. We were only there for like 6 hours but we did alot, including getting stuck on Maelstrom when the ride went 101. We sat there near the end of it for like 15 minutes watching at the Norweigen chick walked back and forth to this little room. She didn't acknowledge us at all to tell us what was going on. It was awesome.

We also had lunch in the Mexican Quick Service. That was amazingnly good.

We also did Test Track, Figmennt, Honey I shrunk the Audience, Where's the Fire and the Mexican Boat Ride. Fun times. Oh and of course we got Fastpasses for Soarin' and did that at the end of the day, as we had to wait like five hours to use them. Awesome as always. We finished the day by getting dessert at Season's. I had the richest brownie on the planet. The brownie that has made me not want brownies for a very long time....Good times tho.

I went to bed last night at like 930pm. Didn't fall asleep for three hours tho. Even after I took two nyquil and one tylenol pm. I think I've built up a tolerance. Time to move on to the heavy stuff. lol.

I gotta go shower and get ready to meet Tyler for dinner. Bennigans. Yummmm.

Brynna

Shorts!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-29T09:11:00.000-07:00

So I thought yesterday was going to be a really crap day at work. Mostly because up until a couple weeks ago I've been wearing these super giant shorts to work. I had to wear these as the smaller size is just a bit too tight. So I've had to wear these huge shorts that I absolutely swim in. They look awful and aren't comfy at all. I must cinch my belt to it's tightest to keep them in place. Anyways one day I went to costuming and grabbed a pair of shorts. But instead of them being these massive awful things, they fit. They were the same size I'd been wearing all along, but they were old. The old style. So they fit, not so they looked amazing, but so it didn't look like I had clown pants on. It was amazing. I wore these shorts every shift for the next couple weeks. But you see, these shorts were so old that the fabric in the thighs had become paper thin. After wearing them so much and then one day washing them, the fabric disintegrated and giant holes started to form. My shorts were dead. So yesterday I had to go back to the other shorts and I was not happy. When I got to work I went into costuming just check and low and behold, I found another pair of ancient shorts! They fit! And they are better than the other ones cause they aren't as worn out. So I'm super happy about that.

The rest of my shift was good too. Some pretty good people were working. I got Launch Base three times, and then for the last hour and a half of my shift I got to do next to nothing as I'd been kicked out of LB for training. So I took flik cards out front, ran lost and found to the front of the park, and then chatted to Wendy. It was awesome.

After work we all went to Perkins and I ate a quesadilla and peanut butter silk pie. I was super full and then felt super sick, but my word that pie is good.

On Thursday and Friday I had the days off. On Thursday I went to see Hairspray again with Bree. It was fun. I love that movie alot. Like alot alot. Afterwards we went to Virgin and I found this movie that I've been looking for for years. I was so excited. You have no idea.

Friday I went and hung out with Jimmy at Epcot. It was super fun. We did Test Track, Living with the Land, Ice Station Cool and walked around the World Showcase. At 930 we went to MGM to get Ryan who was just getting off work. Then the three of us went to Ale House, which I hadn't been to since i got here. I was super excited. Loaded Fries! Zingers! Sigh.

I work today at 345pm. I have to do this cast excellence survey thing for an hour of my shift, which should be great as I dont' have to be in rotation for an hour now :) Then I work tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I'm off Thursday I think, then work at 6am friday. Ugh. and I think I work on Saturday too....

I'm listening to the Hairspray soundtrack right now. I'm in love with that movie. Must see it again!

Brynna

My Week at a Glance

2007-07-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

So I have no idea when I last updated this thing. I've been out and about and haven't really had the chance to sit down and collect my thoughts. Or I have had the time but haven't really wanted to deal with my thoughts, so I've stored them away where I don't have touch them. I've been a wreck here and there this past week because I am crazy and that is what happens to crazy people.

On Tuesday it was Park Day! I started out my morning with Kelly and Bree at Epcot. It was super good fun. We had some breakfast then did Test Track, and shopped a bit. Then we headed over to Animal Kingdom and met up with Matt. We had lunch at Flame Tree, then went over to dinoland and did Primevil Whirl. After that we got in line for Finding Nemo and Ryan and Jimmy met up with us. The show was great as always, long, but great. Afterwards he headed back to Dinoland where Ryan used his superpowers to get us 14 fast passes for Dinosaur.

This was followed by wierdness which I will not elaborate on because I'm not even sure what happened.

Then we went to Everest and rode that. We got in FP cause Matt traded some MK re-ads. Then Matt complained because we got split up for the photo and they wrote us a no strings to go on again. We saved it and went over to Safari. We asked to get in Mike Ruckus' truck and they sent us up through the fastpass line and then it turned out Mike wasn't even working, but we still got to get on with no line, which was awesome.

Then we went to Dinosaur and rode twice. Then back to Everest and I bought the photo.

After that we wanted dinner. We couldn't decide where to go and then Jimmy thought up a brilliant plan, let's go to Yaht and Beach and eat in their foodcourt. We found out too late that Yaht and Beach doesn't have a food court. So I was starving as we walked and walked with no food to be found. We ended up at Boardwalk where I eventually had half a panini because I couldn't eat the rest as I actually started to feel ill from the hunger.

After food we ended up wandering around Boardwalk, and I mean inside, like going up and down the hallways of every floor. It was actually really fun. I had a blast.

After that we went home.

Wednesday was Typhoon Day. Me, Jimmy, Ryan, Kyle, Liz, Kelly and Tim all went to Typhoon Lagoon. It was awesome. We all had alot of fun. At around 615ish everything went down for rain, so we had to wait around for awhile but then at 715 everything opened back up and there were barely any people there so we got on all the slides line free and the wave pool was totally empty. It was pretty damn awesome.

After Typhoon we went to Downtown Disney and I had chicken and chips from Raglan Road. I seemed to remember the chicken being much better, but I think was just remember the tartar sauce, cause I love tartar sauce. lol. Then we went home due to tiredness.

Thursday I was off again. I woke up at 830am and just after 9am Chase came and picked me up. We went to MGM where we proceeded to spend the entire day. We met up with Matt around 1ish and we had to sit through two High School Musicals as one of Matt's friends had just taken over the lead female part. That is definately a show that only needs to be seen once.

Later on we ended up spending like two hours with Ryan in the Coordinators office in Ops 3. That was fun for awhile, but I got restless, so I went and hung out over at coaster with the working folk.

I was supposed to meet Chase and Matt at Load to ride, I went over to say hi to Wendy. They should have been right behind me. Twenty minutes later I go looking for them. They were gettin back together. So I had to wait another like 15 minutes for them, feeling like a loser standing at Load. lol. I didn't want to be in the breakroom, no one was in there and there were managers at unload so I didn't want to hang there.

Finally they showed, we rode. Then we went to Fantasmic where we had VIP seating thanks to the wonderful and amazing Ryan. After that we got a ride on Security Guard Roger's Pargo back to Coaster. Which was fantastic. We hung in the courtyard awhile, then went inside in hopes of an allride. It didn't happen. We were wavering on whether or not to go to Hairspray. Decided not to. Then last minute decided to. So at midnight we went to see it and it was awesome. Fantastic. Sooooooo good!

Then yesterday I worked. So so shift. Near the end and proceeding directly up until later tonight I was mostly in a pissy mood. I didnt' get to go get HP at midnight which made me angry. Also other stuff pissed me off too.

Then this morning Danny and I went to Walmart and got it. It's beautiful. I'm a hundred pages in. So good so far.

Worked tonight. It was mostly a good shift. Really good people working. I was pissed off for most of it though, my mood just woulnd't budge. Then near the end I was happy. Now I'm settled somewhere between there, happy and annoyed. People are stupid and I want to throw my shoe at them....

I'm at home right now, talking to Scotty and writing this. Work tomorrow at 2:30pm. Not looking forward to it. Who does?

Brynna

P.S- Mom had surgery on Wednesday. If ur reading love you lots and hope you're feeling better!

Let's review

2007-07-15T08:21:00.000-07:00

The last time I posted would be the 10th right? So what's happened since?

The 11th was a Wednesday....so that means I worked that day, then went to see Harry Potter with Jimmy, Ryan, Kyle and Phillip. Excellent movie, I must say. Full of fun and excitement. I ate so much food that night, i nearly threw up. I went to get a pretzel at the stand and this lady offered me a free popcorn coupon good only that night, so of course I had to get it...lol. Then after the movie we went to some place called Whataburger.

The 12th was Thursday. I was off on Thursday, so I went to the Florida Mall with the girls. I bought a few new things. Some new jeans from Old Navy, a sweat shirt from American Eagle, a henley from Aeropostale, and a tank and short sleeve cardigan from Anchor Blue.

Friday, worked in the evening. Got an ER around 8pm and came home to sit around and do nothing, but then I could go to sleep early which is what I intended as Saturday, aka, yesterday, I had an early morning shift.

So I worked yesterday morning. It was a relatively good shift, as far as shifts go. I had some fun, did a few tasks which is always good. Got a ride home from Tim, which was excellent as the bus is the devil.

Last night Tim and I went to wishes. Love Wishes. So pretty. It was the first time I have actually really watched it since I got here. I've missed it.

I work tonight at 3:15pm til close. I have all closing shifts this week.

Tuesday a group of us are going to Animal Kingdom, I'm so very excited.

More to report later,

Brynna

Sigh...

2007-07-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

The weight of what's coming is already crushing me. The idea that in less than two months I'll be back home makes it hard to breathe. I'm trying my hardest not to think of it, trying to ignore the impending dates. There are things I need to do here before I can even think about leaving. I don't want to be filled with regrets as I head back to blasted Canada. I miss my friends and family of course, but nothing else. I don't miss school like other people. I don't miss my hometown like other people. Orlando feels like home.

These past few days have been alright. Saturday at work was interesting, although I can't really outline why is was interesting because there could be people reading this that I'm not sure I want to read about what exaclty happened. It's slightly startling. At least it was for me. lol.

Saturday at work, besides the 'interesting' bit was pretty good. There was a good crew of people working. Afterwards Donald, Kyle, Joy, Ryan, Jimmy and I went to Perkins. I ate way to much. They had a buffalo chicken wrap. I just can't resist buffalo chicken and blue cheese, no matter how hard I try.

Sunday I worked the night shift. We had a 101 for an emergency stop. That was pretty cool. The train stopped as it was starting to go up the loop so people were like hanging there on an angle. They weren't upside down, but it was still pretty funny. I got to go reset a zone which means I got to go in the Gravity Building again. I love the Gravity Building. It's so awesome in there.

Monday, yesterday, I was off. I hung around the apartment til about 6 and then went to MGM with Joy. She's never really done any of the parks so it was fun to take her on a few new things. Then we met up with Wendy and some of her friends and went to see Transformers. Probably the bestest movie I've seen all summer. It was freaking awesome. Hilarious and action packed. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I will definately be buying this movie when it comes out on DVD. Bring on the sequel!

I work at 3:30pm today. I don't wanna, but it's kind of necessary. I like work, I just like my days off too. lol. I work on Wednesday too, during the day. Then on Thursday I'm off again. Not sure what I'll do then. Hopefully something will pop up.....

Going to go eat some lunch, get ready for work. Have a nice day all.

Brynna

I can't think of an interesting title...

2007-07-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

So Wednesday I was off because I gave my shift away. So I went out to MGM with Wendy, Scotty and Kyle. It was Wendy's birthday. It was actually a really fun day. We did the Backlot Tour, Little Mermaid, Star Tours, Great Movie Ride, Tower and then Coaster of course. It was terribly fun and I spent a good deal of the day laughing. It was a good group of people. On GMR we got backdoored cause I asked to do a show with Alex. It was really cool, for like the first time in ages we got the bandit instead of the gangster. If you haven't been on GMR you will have no idea what I'm talking about, frankly that's your own fault and you should come see me in Disney World to rectify this issue.

I was also really happy to see Little Mermaid again, because I hadn't seen it since like 1999. I tried to go last year, but it was the day the computers were down and and so the show wasn't running.

We ate lunch at Pizza Planet. I'd never eaten there before either. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the pizza was like amazingly delicious. I was expecting the common disney mediocrity, but no, it was delicious. Scotty managed to finagle a cookie out of the one of the food service people for Wendy. A cookie me and Wendy shared later that day. It was really good.

We ended up spending about an hour in the coaster breakroom while it rained. Scotty had to work at 730pm and Kyle left to go god know's where. So Wendy and I hung around then we left and went and got more free food from Sunset Market Ranch cause one of Wendy's friends was working. We left just as the fireworks were playing. I was amused to see them synchronized to God Bless America as sung by Celine Dion, a Canadian.

Yesterday I hung around the apartment for the better part of the day. Around 5:00pm Tim came and got me and we went to EPCOT. It was his first time there. We had some fun. We went on Spaceship Earth first and it went 101 while we were sitting two cars away from the exit. Had whoever jumped out chosen to do it like five seconds later Tim and I would have been able to get off and go elsewhere, but no, we sat there staring at the exit for ten minutes while the Spaceship Earth person ran around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get up to the Sisteen Chapel where the alleged person jumped out of the car.

After that we went to Mission Space and got fast passes. Then Tim bargained some more out of a guy for a Coaster Rider Switch. We then walked over to Test Track which had just reopened after a weather closing. We got on it relatively fast which was nice. Of course just before we got to the outside part the ride went 101 and we sat there for a few minutes. Finally it started up again, but it lost it's excitement by then. lol.

We went on Mission Space after that. For the first time like ever I didn't get ill on it at all. In face I felt just fine. It was odd.

We ate dinner after that at Electric Umbrella. I had chicken strips which were good as always.

We left Epcot after that and headed over to MGM so we could say bye to Scotty. We hung around for awhile talking, rode once. Then Tim and I left, he dropped me off back at Vista. I got changed and then about an hour later Scotty and Wendy picked me up and we went to Perkins with Kelly, Kyle, Michael and his boyfriend, and Ryan Boy and Ryan Girl. It was a good time. I laughed alot. The food was good. I had a chocolate muffin that was so good. Got home around 1am. I was dead tired. I fell into bed around 2.

Today I went to Property Control, Cast Connection, and Company D. I got another holder for my ID's, but nothing else. I wasn't thrilled with what was on offer. I couldn't be bothered to spend my money. After that I came home and fell asleep for a couple hours. I went to WalMart around five and now I have food again! Yay. I was getting tired of Grilled Cheese.

Now I'm just sitting at home bored. I work tomorrow at 3. Must do laundry tomorrow morning. If I forget I'll be very sorry come Sunday.

Brynna

P.S- I saw Vanessa Williams a few days ago. Well the back of her and a bit of her profile. She was on her way out when someone told me so I followed her.

Apparently I also saw a black eyed pea last week I'm not sure which one. The black one I think?

Fun, fun, fun

2007-07-04T07:37:00.000-07:00

The past few nights I've been working. Monday night was an alright night. Not too exciting really. I finally got Launch Base after not having it for like....a week. I really can't remember anything else about Monday night. Oh right, Jimmy was working. I haven't worked with him in like two weeks, so it was kind of nice. He gave me a ride home and we went to Wendy's.

Last night was pretty damn awesome. I worked from 415 til 1030 among an excellent group of people. A group of us decided to go to Magic Kingdom after work, as MK was open til 1am last night. So me, Tim, Scotty, Wendy, Kyle, Alejandro and Danny all went over to MK for a couple of hours of fun. It was probably one of the best nights I've had since I got here! When we got there we headed over to Space Mountain but it was 101 I think, so instead we ran over to Buzz Lightyear where I got my lowest score in like forever. It was fully disheartening and everyone else totally beat me, usually I do so well. After that we walked over to Adventureland and everyone got pineapple floats from the dole whip place. Delicious. Then we walked over to Big Thunder and rode it. It was pretty awesome. After that we hopped over to Splash Mountain and inevitably got wet, which wasn't so great as it was like 12:30am and the sun was not out to dry us. After that the park was going to close in like 15 minutes, so we ran, well I tried to but my shoes weren't exactly good for that purpose, to Space Mountain. We got in right before it closed and rode. It was pretty excellent. It's actually Wendy's birthday today. So at midnight we went and stood in front of the castle and sang to her. Then Scotty kept bartering with cast members, telling them it was her birthday. She got a free dole whip float, free popcorn and a free bottle of water. It was pretty funny.

After we finished riding space mountain we took a bunch of group photos, first in front of the space mountain washrooms, which was wierd, and then over in front of the castle. We got a nice security guard to take the pics of us in front of the castle. The park was pretty empty by then as it was closed. We left, hopped on the monorail and walked back to the cars.

All in all it was a pretty awesome night. I had a blast. Scotty is going home on Friday, which sucks. It was awesome having another one of the good people from last summer around. So sadly that group of us will never be all together at once again. It will definately be one of those nights I remember forever though. Going to Perkins and what not after work is always fun, but Magic Kingdom so totally rules.

I gave my shift for today away. I'm going to go hang out with Wendy as it is her birthday. Hopefully I shall have some fun.

Brynna

Everything hurts...

2007-07-01T21:02:00.000-07:00

These past couple days have been the longest ever. I had a morning shift at coaster yesterday and like an idiot I decided to extend for some reason. At the time I had lots of good reasons. Money, good people working, lack of anything to do last night. So all day long I was pretty much under the impression it wasn't going to happen, then right as I'm about to clock out I find out I've been extended to closing. I won't deny it, I was actually happy to find this out. Last night was a pretty good shift for the most part. I had fun with the people who were there. But around 9ish the pain of being on my feet for so long started to kick in, all I wanted to do was sit. Annoyingly enough though I got stuck closing unload advance and those stupid maitenance people decided to do a five train shuffle, so instead of being off at 10:30 like I should have been, I got off about 20 minutes later. Thank god that Joy waited for me so I could get a ride home, cause I'd of course, missed the bus.

This morning I started at 9am. Because a few days ago I had the bright idea to pick up an extra shift today so I could make some overtime. So of course, after getting home last yesterday and not sleeping great, I didn't really want to be there. I put in for an ER, which sat 'unread' for like eight hours before they denied it. Sigh. So I worked for 9am to 10:30pm. My legs are killing me now. The second half of my shift was kind of torture. Walking = not fun. It was an alright shift for the most part. There were good people around for most of the day, which is always good. No matter how much I love Coaster, the job just sucks if you get trapped working with unfun people.

Today, while I was out a greeter this afternoon, the Christian sky writers were back sending us inspirational messages such as Trust Jesus, Praise Jesus, and my favourite: U + GOD = :) except the smiley face was right side up and had a circle around it. Gotta love those extremists.

Friday, it was Meg's birthday so a few of us went out to lunch. Then I went to MGM with Meg, Geoff and two of Meg's work people. I hung out with them for a few hours, then decided to go home while they went to another park cause of my early shift on Saturday. I actually ended up going over to Coaster and hanging out there for a little while cause I started talking to Joy and Wendy and lost track of time. Then I went and got dinner at Take 5 as I'm almost completely out of food.

Work tomorrow at....like 3 or something. Some time around then. I probably wont' have anything exciting to say for a few days....so if I dont' update, sorry!

Brynna

P.S -Happy Canada Day

Mass Confusion, a touch of boredom...

2007-06-29T06:26:00.000-07:00

I worked Wednesday morning. 8:30am to 5pm. It was a long shift. Not bad though. I actually wanted to extend, but couldn't as they were over staffed. So after my shift I ended up hanging around the coaster breakroom for a couple of hours while I waited for Kelsey and Bree to make their way over to MGM.

When they finally got there we rode once, then headed over to tower to ride that. Fun as always. We ended up having dinner at the Sci-Fi Drive In. I like it there, but I'd just actually eaten some subway so I didn't really get to enjoy the food as I wasn't all that hungry. I'd like to go there one day when I'm actually hungry. lol.

After dinner we met up with Becca and Meg on Sunset and waited in line for Fantasmic. It was an EMH night so the park was packed and the 10:30pm showing of fantasmic was stuffed full of people. The show was awesome as always. Kind of made me sad as it reminded me of last summer and the good old times with Claire and everyone. This summer is amazing, but I still miss how it was last year.

Yesterday was the first of my two days off. I spent the morning just hanging around the apartment reading and what not. Well I actually went to Walgreens as well, as I managed to lose my voice on Wednesday and needed stuff to help get it back. I bought tea, honey, throat losanges. Whatever I could come up with.

I went to see 1408 with Tim in the afternoon. It was an alright show, had alot of unexplained things though, which was kind of a piss off. I had fun, though. It's great having someone to go see movies with!

Today, well I dont' know what's going on today. Most people are working. I wanted to work, but didnt' manage to pick up a shift in time. Which sucks. Not sure if I'll get out of here at all. Which is kind of boring, hense the title of this blog.

What else is there to report about my life? Work is good. Roommates are good. Rebecca is gone for awhile as her family just got down here and she's gone to go stay with them...I kind of like someone, but I'm not going to say who or give well any clues as it's easily figured out. That is where the frustration comes from....lol.

I have nothing left to really say. I've pretty much divulged anything of interest. I'll update again once I have something more than "i just sat around" to say.

Brynna

Another sighting.

2007-06-26T13:32:00.000-07:00

In my last blog I forgot to mention another "celebrity" sighting.

I saw this kid http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1102053/ from Hannah Montana. He plays her friend. Not a big deal, really. Funny story tho. I wasn't there when he first came to the unload area, but a girl named Kelly that I know what. She tried to usher him and his friends through the back door to load and he said "NO, I'm an actor. I load here!" Like in a really snotty voice...lol. It's kind of funny cause nobody at coaster could figure out who he was and his "VIP GUIDE" was worried about him getting mobbed... yeah right. I checked his harness and had no idea it was him. Then I went back to unload after someone told me and I was like..."oh right".

Today was another boring day at work. I'm at home now. No plans for the evening. Just sleep maybe. A bit of reading.

Brynna

True Story

2007-06-24T18:40:00.000-07:00

So the past few days....what have I done? It's all kind of mashed together.

Thursday I had the day off. I was supposed to do something with Jimmy, but that ended up nto happening as he had no clothes and had to do laundry and his brother broke the machine. So I ended up heading to Wal-Mart and getting some groceries and a couple of books.

Friday I worked for 12.5 hours total. I had an scheduled shift in the morning, then I picked up a second one for the night. I wanted hours. It was actually a pretty good day, it didn't feel long at all. After the park closed and all of us clocked out we went to Perkins for some food. I got french toast, only ate about half of it. It was a fun night tho.

Saturday I worked til 9:30pm. I could have gone home on the bus, but I hate the bus and I had wanted to go and buy something in the park. So I hung around so that I could get a ride home from Tim.

Sunday- today. Woke up at 630am and headed to work. Gross time of day to be awake I tell you. It was a pretty shitty shift. Well it started out alright. For the first hour it was really good. We were open just for the jump ropers who were doing a competition at the park. So there were like no people and I just stood around at Front Grouper talking to Matt and Tim and Scotty. When the rope finally dropped and we got busy things got gross. I was tired and really hungry and I didn't get my break for like 3.5 hours. We were so short staffed that I was trapped at Front Grouper, my most hated position, for all 3.5 of those hours. Then when I finally got my first break, it wasn't 'official' so I had to go back to where I was in the rotation, which meant I was at Lobby, which I also dont' like. Was there for about 2 hours before I rotated to Distribution. Was there for awhile then got my lunch. I had high hopes for the period of time after lunch. I was going to do great things. Then I clocked in and got sent right back to Front Grouper and through that damn rotation all over again.

My bump off came late. So I missed the first bus. I had to wait half an hour. When I got to the bus stop this random girl started to talk to me. She was uber wierd. Showed me her autograph book and kept refering to Mickey Mouse as her boss, like she really, truly believed it. When the bus came I let her go on first, then found a seat a way away from her.

It started to pour about five seconds before the bus got to Vista, so I got to run to my apartment through it. Was drenched by the time I hit our front door. I got changed and was just about to make some food when I got an IM from Tim seeing if I wanted to go see a movie. I did. So we went and saw Evan Almighty. It was pretty funny, tho not as good as Bruce Almighty. Going out tonight totally turned my day around. I've been so 'at work' the past few days, it's nice to go out and do fun stuff.

Tomorrow I work at 745am again. Awful awful time to be working. So I'm going to head off to have a shower now, then bed.

The rest of my week is all morning shifts. No sleep for me. Not sure what I'll do this week. Hopefully I'll get to go have some more fun. I love fun.

Brynna

A tale of two days

2007-06-20T18:34:00.000-07:00

So yesterday I worked. It was a night shift. 4:30pm-6:30pm. Not crazily exciting, but fun. I started out the night with two half our tasks- VIP tours. The first one I got, I just kinda wandered around and did other random tasks. I hate doing VIP tours. The second one I got, my manager was standing there when I got it, so I kind of had to do it. I went and found some family and took them through. They weren't exaclty the best family, didn't seem to really care. So when I got to the load platform I had no qualms kind of deserting them when I saw Mehki Phiepher standing there! You know who I'm talking about, Pratt from ER. Well actually at first I thought it was the guy from house, Omar Epps, but then I wasn't so sure....

I completely freaked. Got all giddy and what not. I rushed over to unload to tell the people who were there. Then I proceeded to stand there and watch as each train passed me by. Finally his showed up and I was very openly staring at him. Which he of coursed noticed, he gave me a giant smile. I turned bright red and got really excited. lol.

That was the highlight of my shift. The rest of it went by alright. I got trapped at load for the last hour of my shift, but it was actually alright. I was in a pretty good mood and Wendy was there for most of it, which was fun. I like Wendy, she's cool.

Today I went to the Animal Kingdom with Jaime and Alex. It was fun. We started out on Everest, then went and had lunch at Flame Tree BBQ. After that we went over and got fast passes for Dinosaur, then walked over to Safari and got in line. Waited over an hour....it was long and hot. Finally we got on and thankfully most of the animals were awake. Lots of babies. Baby giraffes, baby elephents, baby white rhinos. It was different in a wierd way tho, as they took out the references to Little Red (if you even know what I'm talking about) and were just talking about poachers and baby elephants.

After that we got caught by the parade so were forced to watch it. After that we walked to Dinosaur and did that. Still wasn't able to keep my eyes open for most of the ride. Lastly we hit up It's Tough to be a Bug, which was entertaining. Alex hates spiders, so it was funny watching her freak out.

After that Alex had to catch a bus to Coronado as her parents were arriving there, so Jaime and I caught the bus back to Vista, we said our goodbyes and now I'm back at the apartment, relaxing. Kind of bored.

That's all for now,

Brynna

Darnit

2007-06-19T08:43:00.000-07:00

So I got to coaster yesterday morning and was saddened to see that it was up and running. I mean, it's nice that the ride is working, but the downtime kind of had it's fun bits. Like not being in rotation. That was lovely. Of course standing outside in the blazing sun was a bitch, but seeing as I spent over half my day out there anyways yesterday, I prefer the downtime.

Other than that nothing of excitement has really happened. Ryan gave me a ride home after work yesterday, which was very nice as I hate the bus with extreme and unrelenting passion.

Last night I stayed home and read, which was relaxing. I wanted to go do something, but I was really tired from the 6:30am wakeup and couldn't bring myself to do anything but languish.

I have nothing else to report. I work tonight from 4:30pm til 10:30pm. Hopefully it will be a good shift.

Brynna

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroken

2007-06-17T17:36:00.000-07:00

That is the sad sad story of coaster! For like the past three days the ride has pretty much been completely and totally broken. It was open for a tiny while on Friday apparently, I was off, so I didn't see that. I got to work yesterday and they were all like, ya it's down, its' been down all day. It's so bad that they're flying someone in from overseas to look at it! We don't know what's wrong with it really, but the cars like won't launch. They go like 50 feet into the tunnel and just kind of stop.

So my shift basically was comprised of me sitting inside and doing nothing, or hanging around outside and telling guests that the ride was closed. It wasn't too horrible. I kind of had fun last night, just talking to people and what not.

Today was a different story as the ride was still completely broken, but it was not night, so when I was outside I was faced with direct sunlight and no shade. After thirty minutes I was ready to pass out. Luckily I got to spend a good half of the day indoors. Being inside was fun as all we did was sit around and talk. I got to clean out the breakroom with Tim for awhile. That was a nice reprieve from the sun. I didn't get too burnt, but my scalp is bright bright red and really painful. Having a shower was just wonderful.

Tonight it's an early night for me. I've got to be up at 630am tomorrow. Not looking forward to it one bit!

So that's my update for today. I'll

Update

2007-06-16T09:17:00.000-07:00

So when did I update last? I guess the last you heard of me I'd just seen Knocked Up. That was on Monday night I beleive.

Well since then I haven't really done all that much.

On Tuesday I worked, night shift. It was an okay night, nothing terribly thrilling happened.

Wednesday I didn't work until like 5pm. I was there til 1:30am. I hate extra magic hours. I really don't think they are necessary. Thankfully that night I had it pretty easy at work. I got the launch base rotation three times, which is amazing, cause you get to sit in Launch Base.

Whenever the next launch base rotation came through and I'd get sent to load, my break would come, which is awesome. I hate loading. The one time my break wasn't due to come through, miraculously a second LB rotation went through in like ten minutes. Which sent me to unload advance and away from the dreaded load. The other times I clocked in that night I either got a task or got sent to Studio C, which is alright as it's at the end of one of the rotations, which means that I get to clock in when the rotation comes thru. The night ended up going really well.

Thursday was not so great. I was supposed to do something with Jimmy, but he blew me off. I'm mad at him right now, though I don't hate him, like I'm sure he beleives. I ended up going shopping with the girls.

Yesterday I went to MK with Becca and Angie. It was fun. We went on Pirates, Small World, Philarmagic, Carousel of Progress, Buzz Lightyear and Splash Mountain.

I bought a shirt too yesterday.

I'm working again tonight. At 3:30pm. Not looking forward to it. I work at 9am tomorrow. I hate having a night then a morning shift. Sleeping is not going to be good tonight.

Brynna

Photos

2007-06-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

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Soggy and Sleepy

2007-06-12T08:38:00.000-07:00

The past few days have been alright, not totally exciting, which is why I haven't been rushing here to write about my mundaneness, but now that I have a few days worth of uninterestingness, I thought I'd share!

On Saturday I had the day off. I ended up going to Epcot with Jimmy. He came and picked me up around 2pm and we had lunch at Chik-fil-a. After that we drove to Epcot, parked and then ventured into the park. We started off as all do, at Spaceship Earth. No matter how boring it is, I'll never tire of that ride! After that we went to I think Soarin'. Though it could have been innoventions. lol. We'll act like it was Soarin'. When we got to The Land, the building that Soarin' is in, there were all these people just standing outside and no one could get in. Jimmy and I were very confused and wanted to know what was going on, so we hung around. It turns out there had been a fire alarm inside and the building had been evacuated. This meant that ten minutes later, when they finally let people inside, we like walked on Soarin'. That is incredibly rare, as the line is usually at least 1.5 hours long, if not longer.

After that we went on Nemo, which was cute, very little kiddish though. It was still fun. Then of course we went on Figment, as it's an Epcot tradition.

Eventually we ended up at innoventions, whether it was before or after Soarin' I have no idea. We did Where's the Fire, which was really fun. I'd never done it before. Our team won, of course. Then we went over to the other side of innoventions and did the House of the Future or whatever it's called. It was really cool as it was just on a soft opening. It had been closed and completely updated. They had all these really cool new things in there. The kitchen was completely different. It had this wall mounted oven, that hung like above ur head, and to load it u hit a button and the bottom descended to the counter top. I want one!

Also they changed the 'sewing' room they used to have to like a family room and had these really cool 'fake' instruments that teach you to play. I want the guitar.

The bathroom was also different, had a massive spa shower in it and a toilet without a tank. It was fun.

Oh and the TV was really cool, it was like computer/tv and had the harddrive thingy that lets you tape three programs at once! I totally want one of those.

And the computer they had was touch screen, which was also cool.

So after innoventions we ended up over at Mission Space. Jimmy managed to get me on it, in the bad side too. Of course it freaked me out and gave me a headache. Made me feel like I couldn't breathe, but I lived. As we were getting off we ran into Joey and his cousin...We ended up hanging out with them for awhile. We went to Test Track, the line was miracuously not long.

After that we had dinner at Electric Umbrella. High five for refillable drinks.

Then we went on the new ride in Mexico, they massacred the old one and disneyfied it. Now it stars three mexican cartoon birds, one is donald. And it's really lame. Doesn't really make sense and is just really stupid.

Then we went home. I had an early shift the next day, so I needed to go to sleep....

The next day was...Sunday...that was a long day. I got to work, worked. Then went home, just as I was leaving MGM is started to absolutely pour. By the time I got back to my apartment I, and everything on me, including my work shoes, was drenched. It really sucked.

Then Monday....yesterday, I worked at 745am, which meant I had to be up at 6:30am. It was gross. Went to work, had a mostly uneventful day. Went home, and called up Alex to see if she wanted to go see Knocked Up. Eventually we all ended up going, well me, becca, meg, alex, bree and Angie (alex's new roomie, she goes to MAL but only showed up on the 10th as she had visa issues).

We got to Downtown Disney just as it started to rain. Got soaked on our way to the theatre. Froze inside. The movie was really awesome tho. So good. Sooooooooo funny.

After that we caught the bus home and I went to bed.

The End.

Brynna

It's all coming back to me now.....

2007-06-08T20:49:00.000-07:00

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?

Four Day Mash Up

2007-06-05T18:49:00.000-07:00

Ok I'll try and get the last few days crammed into this blog. I'll probably forget many things, and for that I appologize, but I'll make sure to put in the most important stuff!

First off, sorry I haven't blogged lately, but as I've started working I've been too busy/tired.

So we'll start off with...Saturday?

Saturday night was, well it was interesting to say the least. I worked from 6:45pm til 3am during One Mighty Party, which, if you don't know, is a giant GAY convention/party that is held at MGM every year. It's part of the gay days weekend. So the park closed to regular folk at about 9pm and then incame the gays, and boy did they come. There were lots, and lots, and lots. For the most part it was men, with a few token women thrown in here and there. They came wearing all sorts of things, from normal clothes, so skin tight jeans, to clothes befitting the opposite sex, well men in drag. Dude really does look like a lady....An extreme majority of the men saw fit to just take their shirts off. There was even a guy with breast implants walking around with naught but two shiny stars on them.....

The gays were nice for the most part. Some stroked my head and commented on how lovely my hair was, disbeleiving that it was in fact natural. At unload I got bitched out by a guy when he lost his phone on the train and we weren't able to locate it. I never did see anything too raunchy, I was warned that I might.

I must say tho, that those guys take really good care of themselves. The shirtless, well for the most part those guys had a reason to be shirtless. Such a waste....

The park closed to the gays at 230am...we closed the building and then clocked out. I ended up tagging along on a trip to Perkins for breakfast. It was awesome but wierd, there were like none of the old crowd there, save for Donald and Kathie. I had food, it was good. We left there around 445am. I got a ride back to Vista with a girl named Joy. When I got back to my apartment I realized that my cell was missing and I went into panic mode. I spent an hour freaking out, calling perkins and trying to get Joy's phone number to see if she had it. I finally fell asleep around 6am, aided by some Tylenol PM. I was too wound up to go the natural way.

Sunday I did some more work trying to track down Joy's number, did but then discovered she was out of minutes and therefor 'not in service'. I did find out that she was working in the afternoon tho, so I went to MGM with Alex and Pierre and managed to track down Joy who had my phone with her. thank god.

Came home around 8 that night, spent a good while starring at the computer, but not doing much of anything. I was uber tired. I tried reading, but couldn't as my hand was shaking and the book was therefor unreadable.

Monday....I worked. I didn't do much else but work. That was last night. I had an eight hour shift.

Today I also worked, also haven't done anything else really. Except for acquiring a major heat rash or irritation or burn on my legs, made possible by the sucky polyester shorts disney forces me to wear. It burns and it hurts. I went to walgreens and bought whatever I thought might help. So far the Aloe isn't really working. Damn.

I work again early tomorrow morning. 830am. Ugh. And I did that by choice, I could have worked an evening shift, but no, I got stupid and was like....i could have the afternoon off. So now I have to wake up at 730. Gross.

So now i have to things like get ready for bed. I will try and update more later, but be warned as I work now, there's not as much time to do so.

Brynna

Merge: Rest in Peace

2007-06-01T18:40:00.000-07:00

Oh the good old days of coaster are over. Gone is merge and the once lovely studio B. In place is the 'hybrid' position of Lobby. This my friends, is not a nice change, but a hectic and stressful one. I shall forever lament the loss of my beloved Merge with it's handy little counter thingy and Studio B, where I had more than enough time to spiel whenever I wanted. For there are no spiels to be done now that the job of merging lines and taking fastpassses to load the show takes up the entire 3 minutes. Sigh.

Now this isn't to say that I don't still love my ride, because I do. I just wish they hadn't changed it.

Today I was officially recertified at coaster. It was a pretty good shift, long and very early. I had to be up at 4:30am to catch the bus at 5am. Gross. It was a very tiring day.

After work I came home and splayed out on the couch with a book for awhile. Eventually my roomies came home and joined by Alex and her roommate, we all set off to Bennigans for dinner. I had the same as I had for lunch the other day, I just can't get enough of those buffalo chicken things. My new fave food!

I'm back at the room now. I really don't have much else to report. It's officially started raining. As we were walking back from dinner a frog jumped on my foot. I screamed.

Oh and Walgreens now has their own version of ice cream, so I got some yummy looking stuff, two pints for 3 dollars. Which is not bad, considering I used to get the Edy's for 2 for 5 dollars. Tho they don't have the Edy's anymore, which makes me sad. Maybe the gas station will....must check.

Going to go do other stuff now. G'night.

Brynna

Quick Update!!!!

2007-05-31T07:21:00.000-07:00

I have done nothing since last night so there's no news to report on that front. Just have to share with you, the world, that I'm am incredibly excited as they have just announced that Universal is going to be building a HARRY POTTER island at Islands of Adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you know me, then you know how much I love Harry Potter. I CANNOT WAIT. It's supposed to open 2009. I'm so there!

A Magical Day in the Disney World

2007-05-30T21:27:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning at 10am. It was nice to sleep in after a few days of extra early mornings. I called Joey around 10:30 and he showed up about half an hour later. I met him at the front gate and we drove off to Disney University so I could pick up an ID at Access Control! I got the id, which is identical to last years and then headed over to Vista Federal Credit Union to get myself a chequing account. My card should be coming in the mail sometime next week.

I followed that up with a quick trip to Company D to get a lanyard and pouch for my ID's. I'm now officially doing the same thing as last year, including throwing my cards in there when I'm done with them. Who had time to fish around a wallet? lol.

After we finished off at Disney-U we drove over to Downtown Disney and had lunch at Earl Of Sandwhich. Again I had my beloved beef and blue. It was fabulous. Next I shall try the Extreme Grilled Cheese or whatever it is called.

After lunch we went over to MGM. We were going to see if Joey's maingate worked so we could go in the park, but it didn't, so instead I ran over to Costuming and picked up a costume. Annoyingly there was only two coaster jackets left, neither were good. I grabbed the best of the two. I'll be keeping a weather eye out to see if any better ones show up.

So I got my stuff and then he headed over to Target and I did even more grocery shopping. I have most of what I need now, though I could still use a couple things. I think I'll be fine for now tho.

Joey came back to Vista with me and we spent awhile hanging around the apartment. When the roomies got back from traditions the group of us plus Geoff, Emma, Grace (from Vancouver) and a girl named Alex (from Quebec/ met her yesterday) and I all went over to Magic Kingdom for some good time parking. It was cool. Had dinner at Columbia House. Then we went on the Haunted Mansion. Only five days til they shut it down and inevitably change/ruin it :( Over to Pirates to take a gander at Jack Sparrow. Personally I'd prefer to have an anamatronic Will Turner in there....

We also went on Peter Pan and Space Mountain. Then it was off home. The line just to get on the monorail was longer than any of the ride lines. It took forever. Finally we got on and then caught the A bus. That ride was actually pretty fun. Alex and I ended up talking to a guy from Australia who is working at Tower of Terror and it turns out his friend who was with him works at Coaster. So I'm sure I'll spot them around. Alex is working Great Movie Ride at MGM, so I suppose I know someone in all the good MGM attractions now.

At home now. I'm off tomorrow, but I've gotta go to bed early as I've got to be up at the crack of dawn (litterally, it will probably still be dark when I get up) on Friday. I wish to god I didn't have to, but I suppose I will deal. Must remember to request a special bus. MUST!

Gonna go get a snack now. More updates to come on the Wonderful Disneytastic life of Brynna soon.

There's no tradition(s) to this summer.....

2007-05-29T20:47:00.000-07:00

It's very different here this year, compared to last. Not that I expected it to be the same, but it's still somewhat of a shock. It's not a bad shock, I'm actually having a pretty good time! Different kind of roommates, different apartment....

Today we had the immigration meeting in the morning. It was rather dull and very repetetive. I did all that stuff last year. Of course. Sat next to another Canadian girl named Alexandra and she was really nice. She's on the top floor of my building. She's also working at MGM on Great Movie Ride.

After immigration we came back to Vista and went to lunch at Bennigans. As much as I wanted my pita burger, i didnt' want red meat, so i had some appetizers. After lunch we traversed back to the apartment and chilled for awhile. We set off about 2:30pm to get our HUB (formaly the portal) login ID's. We then set out for the Pavillion so we could get our training schedules for the week. I was met with a happy little surprise. While all others were receiving traditions cards at the table, I walked up and spotted my nametag sitting on the corner of the table. On further inspection I saw it was attached to a note telling me that I don't have to go to traditions. So I bought my nice clothes for nothing. OH well. Now I have two days off before I start at Coaster on friday. I kinda wish I started earlier, but whatever. I'm still excited.

So after getting all our info we all trooped off to walmart where I spent lots more money on food. We rushed back to the bus and back to Vista. Got to the apartment, put our stuff away, and then went off to the pool at the Club house for the pool party. It was actually pretty good. Free Pizza, Pop, Chips, Cookies and Ice Cream. Good Music and lots of people. I enjoyed myself. This is one of the reaons last year was so different, I never did housing events. Who would have thought they could be so good?

Back at the apartment now, chillin on the couch. Think Joey and I are going out tomorrow, not sure where, but I'll be buying stamps to send off my Veronica Mars postcards to Dawn Ostroff. I will save my show if it kills me.

More later.

Brynna

There's a bug coming out of that bug's ass!

2007-05-28T19:13:00.000-07:00

So there are these bugs everywhere. From what I can tell they are
two bugs attached at the ass. No lie. And they are everywhere. Apparently they only hang around for two weeks, which is probably why I didn't see them last year. Never the less, they are freaky and gross and keep landing on me.

I've just been told they are called 'love bugs'. I googled them. They fly around whilst mating. It's disgusting.

Anyways, on to other things.

So last night I saw some of the old Coaster folks. Jimmy, Ryan, Kim and Kyle. We went to see Pirates. I went mostly cause I wanted to see them, partly because I like the movie, and somewhat because I just like to look at Orlando Bloom. I fell asleep a few times.

Today we got up and went to an orientation session at the Commons. It was all about housing and was almost identical to the stuff I heard last year. Same stories, same slides, same everything. Including speakers.

After that we got to go home for lunch. Andrea, her roommate Kelsey and, Bree, one of my roommates (by the way I have five. Becca from Nanaimo who I've known forever of course, Meg from Cape Breton and her friend Amanda. Kelsey who was on the second flight with Becca and I, then of course Bree who is from Ontario. Funnily enough, Bree, Becca and I all have the same middle name!) and I all went over to Wendys for some food. After that I went to walgreens to get some more food.

Went back to the apartment and then headed over to the Pavillion to do some more check in stuff. Got my new ID. This year my face is really really red, last year I was really white. Apparently there is no happy medium.

After check in we kind of louned around the apartment for awhile. Then had to pick up my passport and other documents at 5 and low and behold there was Libby, my hero. The woman who I harrassed for months and months, the woman who made it possible for me to be here! I owe her my happiness :) I paid her with a hug. lol.

At around 6 the contents of my apartment along with Jeff and two other girls form his school (Emma and Grace) and I went over to the Outlet mall to check it out. I got some headbands and some disney sweatpants. I had dinner in the food court. They have a taco bell in there now which is totally awesome, cause before the place only had sucky places to eat.

After shopping we caught a bus home and then went down to the pool to hang around. It was fun. Lots of boy scouting. Not alot of boys to scout. There was Arm Guy and Plaid Shorts, as we named them. lol. but not much else to look at.

Becca is like a beacon to Mexican men. Wherever we go they come to her like flies to honey. Yesterday we got back from Walmart with so much stuff that Kelsey and I left her standing there while we ran half the stuff to the apartment. Low and behold some mexican guy appears and carries the rest of the stuff for her. Of course later on the same guy carried stuff for Bree then asked her out to lunch today. lol.

Tomorrow we got more orientation stuff.

Gonna go now,

Brynna

I have arrived

2007-05-27T07:26:00.000-07:00

So I'm back! I'm here in Florida. The sunshine state. And yes, there is sunshine this time! Not like last year when it rained for four days straight. After a day with my parents and Tabi, I met Becca at the airport in Victoria last night and began our trip to the happiest place on earth.

Our first flight was nanoseconds long. It was all take off and landing, barely anything in between. After we arrived in Seattle we got our I94 cards and then maneuvered our way though the airport to find the terminal for out next flight. Alas the next flight didn't leave for another 3 hours anyways.

At our gate we found Geoff and Kelsey, two people I'd been talking to on the WDWIP boards. The four of us headed on a long and complicated journey to find food. We ended up at Chili's Too which was yummy. I had a chipotle blue cheese burger than was awesome. After food we wandered, headed to Borders so Becca could find a book. I talked her into buying Twilight, because I firmly beleive it's one of the best books ever written.

Our second flight boarded at 1030 and thank god the seat between Becca and me was left free. It wasn't a comfortable flight, and very fruitless when it came to sleep, but all the same it was better than last years when I was trapped beside a crying/kicking baby!

We then headed to baggage claim where we waited for what seemed like forever for our bags to finally show up. Then we all grabbed our massive suitcases and dragged them to the elevator and down to level one where we found the international arrivals desk. We got our welcome packets there, last year we got them at Vista. I found out I was again in a 6 person apartment, which was annoying cause I wanted a four person so badly. But then I discovered that both Becca and Kelsey were also assigned to my apartment. We're in building 8, apartment number one. It's farely close to the club house and hopefully not a long walk to the bus.

We've unpacked now and I'm both very tired and very excited. I need to go to walmart to get bedding! Becca and I are sharing a room, the room that's the equivelant to what I was in last year. I'm even sleeping in nearly the same bed. All that's different is the furniture arrangement. lol.

More updates to come as my life unfolds here at Disney.

Brynna Gabrielson

Back in the World Again

2007-04-17T15:38:00.000-07:00

I'm going back people. Getting ready for more additions to Girl Meets World when I'm back in Disney starting May 27th.

That's right, I have been accepted to go back on the ICP Summer Program. I'll be there for 3 days short of 3 months. I can't wait. Woot!

Brynna

Back in the Sunshine State

2006-12-17T10:02:00.000-08:00

My vacation has officially begun. I’m far far away from that dastardly place called home and am sailing the aqua seas of the Caribbean about the Legend of the Seas. It should be the most wonderful vacation ever, but so far has shaped up to be less than awesome. It’s still super nice, but since the moment we left the island we’ve been plagued with misfortune. Starting with Thursday night at the airport hotel. I went to be at 10pm, didn’t fall asleep until 1:30am then had to wake up at 4am to go to the airport. You can see where my troubles began. The first flight then, was almost two hours late to take off because the plane, it seems, was just falling apart.

The flight lasted about 4 hours, have of which I slept fitfully. We finally landed in Dallas about twenty minutes after our connecting flight left. We were then bumped to a 7:10pm flight to Orlando. Seeing as it was about 3pm Dallas time, we had about four hours to kill. We ended up having a meal that was meant be a mixture of Lunch and Dinner at T.G.I.Fridays. It was delicious. The rest of our hours were spent sitting around waiting for the flight.

We finally landed in Orlando just after 10pm EST. We gathered our baggage, which had evidently arrived in Orlando hours before us, and then got ourselves a rental car. We then proceeded to get lost driving around Orlando because mom did head towards Disney World when I told her to. We were looking for the I-4, which of course runs right by Disney, so clearly, had we followed the signs leading us to Disney World, we would have come upon the I-4. But she didn’t, and we ended up in Downtown Orlando. Of course the entire time we were driving around I didn’t give a crap if we were lost because I was in Florida again, Orlando even. The haven from which I was forced to leave nearly four months ago. When we finally got on the I-4 and drove by Disney I nearly threw up I was so consumed with elation and sadness. I saw Vista, and the front window of my apartment. The light was on, someone else is living there now. I didn’t actually see any of the world, as we didn’t actually venture in. Just knowing I was so close, though, was enough to tie my stomach up in knots.

Eventually the I-4 took us from Orlando into the abyss. Basically that means, parts of Florida that aren’t Orlando. One thing about freeways in the states, they are long, boring and endless.

We finally got to Tampa around 1am. I was starving by then as we’d had our lunch in Dallas hours before. We proceeded to drive around in search of any fast food that happened to be open. We finally found a Taco Bell with a line of cars so long that it took us almost half an hour to get through it. Then we hit the hotel and got our rooms.

Meanwhile the Jeffery’s had planned to fly out of Seattle on Friday morning, in order to meet us Friday night in Tampa. Their plans were thwarted, however, by a storm with hurricane force winds. The entire SeaTac Airport lost power and all flights (including theirs) were cancelled. This of course sent them into a tailspin, how were they to get to Florida? They ended up having to drive all the way back up to Vancouver to catch a later flight. Then they had to spend the night in Dallas, taking a flight early Saturday morning to Tampa.
So while they were trapped in Dallas, their hotel room in Tampa was going unused. So it took it. I had an entire hotel room to myself, no snoring parents. It was wonderful. Of course at about the time we were checking into the hotel, my throat started to get a little scratchy. Not a good sign.

Saturday morning, or yesterday, I got up at 10am and repacked my stuff and got ready. We drove our rental car back to the agency, took a shuttle to the port and behold, there was our cruise ship. The Jeffery’s had been dropped off about two minutes earlier and the moment we stepped out of the shuttle, there they were.

We went about the normal boarding procedures. Security check point, check in, Sail Pass picture. Then we made it onto the ship. We had lunch then ventured down to our cabin. We didn’t have to go far, as it’s on Deck 8. A suite, though a suite is not as sweet when it’s occupied by eight people, as it is. All five Jeffery’s plus me, mom and dad. Nana has her own cabin down the hall a bit. It’s nice to have all the free space.

The ship eventually departed from Tampa at 5pm. We had dinner at 6pm. A show at 7:45pm. Then a bit of a rest in the cabin. We went up to the Viking Crown Lounge at 10pm to watch Karaoke. Worst ever. I love Karaoke, well I love to sing it. With a passion. I’ve been practicing my songs for weeks. But low and behold, I’ve lost my voice. I now sound like a sqaking goose. It’s ridiculous, and life ruining. How am I ever going to enjoy this cruise if I can’t sing?

After the Karaoke we headed down to the Casino where I proceeded to lose twenty dollars. They had my machine though, the one where you put the quarters in and the thingy slides knocking them off. I love that. I spent ages there.

After gambling we went to the Solarium for a snack. As we sat there munching on our burgers and pizza we witnessed a drunk college guy and this other guy get into a very verbal argument. Apparently drunk guy had ordered two pieces of cheese pizza, but this other guy was given them. The drunk guy got very angry and belligerent.

Then I went to bed.

This morning I woke up feeling like crap. I hate being sick, and I’m sick. Though dad is also sick, but with something else flu like. So I’m sure he feels worse. I’ve just basically lost the ability to talk…or sing.

I didn’t so much as wake up this morning, as I was forced into it as everyone but myself was up at about 8am, being louder than ever. I’m sharing a room with Hannah and Sarah. I love them dearly, but please learn that if you need to turn on the light in a room when someone else is sleeping, then turn it off when you leave. I had to get up like four times to turn of that blasted light. And there are only so many times one can wake up and fall back asleep before they can no more. So I’m basically exhausted because of lack of sleep. And not getting much better because I’m not sleeping well. I usually only get sick when I’m sleep deprived.

So that’s been my vacation so far. It’s nice, but could be better. If we could just remain healthy human beings. Only 6 days until I’m in Disney World. You can’t imagine how excited I am. I nearly had a heart attack just thinking about it!

Tomorrow we hit Grand Cayman. Been there, done that. But oh well. We’re doing some weird pirate excursion, so hopefully that’s fun. I should stop typing now, as I’m sure most of you have stopped reading by now.

Brynna

Fog

2006-12-06T21:52:00.000-08:00

I haven't blogged here in ages. I guess now that I'm back home, life is sadly just not quite as interesting as it used to be. I've been going to school and that's pretty much it. I see Tabi now and again, but really, that's it. I'm heading off on Vacation in a week. A cruise then back to my beloved Disney World for nearly two weeks. My excitement cannot be contained. It feels wierd to be going back there, especially as a guest. I want more than anything to just go back and work at Coaster again.

I miss the summer alot. I miss my friends, I miss my job, hell I even miss my apartment. This summer was perfect with about a bajillion imperfections. There are things I wish I could go back and change, but I'm fine with the way things turned out. I made some amazing friends and had the time of life. It's just moving on from all that which seems to be the problem. I keep focusing on my ache to go back, so much so that it's hard to move forward with anything else.

One year ago tomorrow I found out I was hired by Disney. It was an amazing feeling. After two weeks of being so worried I was going to be rejected, completely convinced of it actually. Then that day I called and called until I finally got through. It took hours, but when she said I had the job, I could barely contain my excitement. It was, unbelievable. Few moments can live up to that one...such as when I found out I'd be working at Rockin Roller Coaster, or when I met the Moffatts for the first time, or when I saw the Backstreet Boys from 3rd row...twice, or when I saw the first Harry Potter movie. That uncontainable excitement that makes the entire world look rosy and pink. I want that feeling again. I can feel it brimming inside, waiting to come out when the time is right. Seeing Jimmy and Ryan and Joey and Matt and everyone else again in just a few weeks is making it come back. I have a feeling I won't really feel it again until I find out if I'm going back to Disney again, if that happens...or of course, if John Mayer comes knocking on my front door.

I've got a life to live, I just need to figure out how I'm going to do it. Emerge from my Disney fog, or get sucked back in. It all depends on when I know for sure...and I have no idea when or if that will happen.

This is the end for me, I'll try and update more often, on the off side chance anyone happens to be reading anymore.

Brynna

Weekend Update

2006-09-24T23:30:00.000-07:00

Just got back from a whirwind of a weekend. On Friday went over to Vancouver on 10am boat with mom. We headed to our hotel and droppped our stuff, did a quick stint at the mall and then headed to pacific collesium so I, a Local-83 member, could go watch John Mayer's soundcheck! Local-83 is his fan club. So I got to go in a see him to about 3 songs. He was late so we didn't get to see him for too long. Sadly there was no 'meeting'. Just about 30-40 of us sitting 15 rows back watching his brilliance. sigh.

After the soundcheck got picked up by aunty T and mom. We went to dinner at a pub. It was yummy. Then back to the colliseum for the concert. It was both John Mayer and Sheryl Crow. I was mainly there for John. We had pretty good seats. 5 rows up, right beside the stage. I mean, we could totally see the 'backstage' area. So I could see him before he even walked on the stage...

Loved him. He's like so fricking amazing. I want to marry him. lol. that damn 13 year old girl in me and emerging once a again. Soon I'm going to plaster my room in pictures of him.

Sheryl Crow was also very good. I was super tired at that point, though. and missing John.

After the show we headed back to the hotel and to sleep.

Next morning, at crack of dawn, I am awoken to get up and get on a bus that shall take us to Seattle for our 'one night' cruise back to Vancouver. The bus ride was like, I have no idea long,actually. I slept for all but an hour of it I think.

Then we got to the port, we got checked in and onto the boat. The Norweigan Sun. Nice boat, not as good as a Royal Caribbean ship, though.

Had lunch, went to cabin to have the coldest shower ever, got dressed, went to read at the Java Cafe for awhile, went to room to rest, went to some cocktail thing (mom was there on a 'work' thing, so I was alone for the afternoon portion, until I went to the cocktail thing). Then I had a nap. Then I went upstairs, met mom and went to Karaoke. I sang 2 songs. New York, New York and White Houses. Then we went to dinner. Lasagna.

Finished dinner, wandered for awhile, then went to see a comedy show. Funny. Then onto the shops for a gander. Nothing to buy. Then we went to the casino. I proceeded to lose twenty in the machines in about half an hour. Then I found this awesome machine. You put tokens in that knock other token and the thingy moves and ur trying to knock tokens off of it. It was wonderful. I played 5 dollars in like an hour. I became quite addicted. I couldn't leave til I'd lost it all.

Then I had to go to bed.

Got up this morning, got off boat. Got picked up by Aunt T. Went to lunch on Granville. Nicole joined us. Then ferry ride home and homework.

That was my weekend.

Also should mention. I am now employed again. Sort of. I've been hired at Chapters. Though I have yet to start or know when I am starting. Sometime in the first weeks of Ocotober is sounds like.

Must sleep now. Am v. v. tired.

Brynna

P.S- pardon my spelling/grammar. I'm too tired to go over this.

Getting on with Life

2006-09-12T14:46:00.000-07:00

Home is wierd. I like my home, I like my parents. But it's so different be back here, and it's also so completely the same. I think the problem is that I'm just a different person now.

We got back to Ladysmith last Monday, after a weekend on the mainland. On my birthday I went to the Casino with my mom, aunt and Nana. Then that night everyone went out to dinner at the Macaroni Grill. Nikki was there and Tabi made it over from the island too! It was nice to see them.

So back in Ladysmith I was completely dismayed at how nothing had changed. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I didn't think things would be so the same. I guess I assumed that since I'd changed so much, things would have changed here too. Not. Instead things were almost exactly as I left them. Some people find the familiar comforting, at that point I was annoyed by it. I changed alot this summer, and I didn't want to step back into that old life I'd been living these past 18 years.

No matter how much I didn't want it to, life started up again. I started school last Tuesday and found myself sitting in a classroom wondering what the hell I was doing there. One, I just wasn't ready to step back into life so quickly, and two, I really dont' know what I want to do with my life anymore. Do I really need to major in Creative Writing to be a writer? Do I even want to be a writer anymore? Truth is I'm so completely confused about my whole future that I'm a little scared.

I'm only in four classes right now. I tried for five, I was waitlisted for one, but couldn't get in. I'm actually okay with that. The courses I'm in require alot of work. It's not just reading a text book and listening to lectures. For maybe the first time I have bonified homework like every night.

I still need to find a job. I'm not looking forward to that. How can anything compare to working on Rock'n'Rollercoaster??? I mean, no where here is going to let me ride a rollercoaster every shift. No where here is going to let me into four theme parks free whenever I want. I shouldn't compare working for Disney to here, because I'll be disappointed every time, but I can't help it!

On Saturday we had a little BBQ to celebrate me being home/my birthday. It was fun. I got to see some folks I hadn't seen in awhile. My aunt and cousins came over. It was still wierd, though.

I feel bad, not wanting to be here. I love everyone and I miss them alot when I'm gone, but at the same time Ladysmith is just not the place for me. I wish everyone would just move down to Florida. Then life would be lovely.

I'm trying to go back for a whole year. It's a scary thought. The hardest part would be leaving my family behind for so long. I can't imagine going that long without my mom and dad. I feel like crap for even thinking about deserting them. They are the one thorn in my plan to evade this damn town! If I'm in WDW I won't get to see the new Spiderman movie or Harry Potter movie with my dad! I won't get to go shopping with my mom, or just sit and watch TV. Most kids aren't as lucky as I am to have such a great relationship with their parents. I really don't want to leave them, but at the same time I just want out of this town. You can tell I'm majorly confused.

I think getting out of here for awhile is what I need though. I keep going to school and thinking, this is stupid, what am I doing here. And If I keep going without taking any time off to really figure out what I'm doing, I might end up resenting my life and my choices. Going on without a plan is just a waste of time and money, as I see it.

I need to go eat something, and maybe get dressed. I have scriptwriting tonight. Another class I don't like but must endure.

Brynna

Correction

2006-09-02T23:19:00.000-07:00

So I was very emotional when I wrote my blog yesterday, and I forgot to mention that I don't 'hate' all my roommates. Just one did I leave actually disliking after she turned into a really rude person who couldn't be bothered to actually talk to me about whatever her problems were. And one, I did't hate, but I was bothered by some of her antics. Helen and Ryan never bothered me once and were actually quite nice. Charlotte and I got along for most of the summer, we didn't really talk much at the end, though, and left on bad terms, which is sad because I really did like her.

There were alot of things that went on in that apartment that I didn't appreciate. It's stupid how it all ended, but I'm not going to get upset about it, because so many other amazing things happened this summer, that I can't be bothered to waste time worrying about all this. So after this blog, I'm putting the entire roommate crap behind me. Goodluck to all the girls in their future endevours.

Brynna

Chasing Cars

2006-09-02T10:45:00.000-07:00

I’m writing this from the plane. I’m about three hours into my six hour flight and I can barely keep my eyes open but at the same time can’t sleep. My head is a mess. I’m probably going though one of the hardest days of my life. I can’t believe the summer is over and I’m going home. It feels like I just arrived in Orlando. I didn’t have enough time. There were so many things I wanted to do but didn’t, although there were also so many things I hadn’t planned on doing but they turned out to be amazing. The summer was definitely a rollercoaster of change in my life. I started out shy and had no idea how I was going to survive so long away from home. Now, leaving is the worst thing ever. I had no idea I’d make such amazing friends. This summer I found myself living the kind of life I always wanted. I’ve gone through life being so quiet and shy and losing myself in other people’s lives because mine was just so boring. The boringness of my life was partially my fault, but also can be faulted by the location of my home town and the kind of people I grew up with. There really wasn’t much to do in Ladysmith but drink and be stupid, neither of which I was interested in.

I guess I’ll recap my last days in Orlando, although reliving them will undoubtedly have me sobbing again.

Wednesday was my last day at Coaster. Probably one weirdest days I spent at RRC. Because of the impending arrival of hurricane ‘Ernesto’ the park was pretty dead. The line barely ever became a line. I started work at 9am that morning and went on until 8:30pm that evening. It was a very long final shift but I’m glad of it. I pretty much worked every single position but FP Distribution, FP Return and Front Grouper. Not bad at all, as those are three of the most loathed positions. Jimmy and Claire started work in the afternoon which was lovely. I’m so glad Jimmy was working for Claire’s and my last shift. Wish other people had been working as well, but we can’t win them all. I pretty much went around all day commenting on how I was going to miss crossing the track and how I was going to miss other stupid little things. This amused everyone greatly, but the truth is, I really do miss those things. All the little things build up into the big package, after all.

We concluded the final shift with one last all ride, I sat by Jimmy, Claire and Ryan in the row behind us. We all got the picture. I’m going to probably look at it later and cry again. Although pretty much anything is setting me off right now.

So after work on Wednesday we all went for one last trip to Perkins, well for me and Claire that is. We were going to do Wishes but the rain was pouring and none of us felt like standing outside in it. So we had food at Perkins. Then Claire, Ryan, Josh, Jimmy and I all went back to Ryan and Josh’s place. Josh had to sleep so he kind of passed out on the floor while the rest of us played Mario Party. We played until like 2am then we were all kind of tired and falling asleep. At some point Ryan swears he told Claire and I we were spending the night but the two of us never heard and him and Jimmy disappeared into Ryan’s room. So Claire and I sat out there for over an hour confused and kind of irritated. Eventually Josh woke up and we related the story to him. He got very pissed off at Ryan for ‘abandoning’ us and was very adamant that Claire and I get comfortable and go to sleep. He would not sleep, despite us demanding he do so, until we were lying down. I ended up on the futon and Claire on the floor. I think I got about 4.5 hours of sleep that night.

The next morning we all woke up and Claire, Ryan and I got ready for our day of park fun. Jimmy had to go to work. The three of us went over to Vista and Ryan hung in my apt. while Claire and I got ready. I was ready ages before Claire and ended up spending a great deal of time packing. She eventually showed about an hour after we got there and we took off. Initially the plan had been to do all four parks, but seeing as it was already 1 in the afternoon before we were even leaving Vista, we decided to do the Magic Kingdom then go see Fantasmic at MGM.

Magic Kingdom was a blast. We met up with Kim and Michael and then Josh came and joined us when he got off work. We all pretended to be Ryan’s wives. He got a top hat and the rest of us had tiaras (yes, even Josh and Michael wore em). Claire even ran to Guest Relations and got us those just married pins. So the six of us were walking around looking like that, getting congratulated left right and center. Of course no one considered that we’d all be Ryan’s wives, so they pretty much just thought we were three married couples.

We did most of Magic Kingdom, then at 7 went of MGM and sat down for Fantasmic. It was good. It was sad. You know the drill.

After Fantasmic we met people at the Coaster breakroom and then everyone headed over to Ale House. One last Ale House night for Claire and I. I was pretty quiet all night long, lost in my thoughts. I had fun, though. I really do love all of those people so much. We left Ale House at about 2am and I got home at 2:30am and finished my packing then tried to clean up the kitchen a bit. Annoyest of all roommates, Laura, came home with a bunch of people and beer. I took a page out of Josh’s book, as Claire put it, and spoke my mind. I told them all to leave. Even though it was our last night and nothing would likely have happened, I didn’t want to chance it. Plus I was pissed at Laura and her friends. I walked out of the kitchen for one minute and I came back and one of her friends was on my computer, which I happened to be using. I’d left up browsers and chats and stuff. I was very irritated. So now pretty much all the other girls hate me, but whatever, I hate them more! In fact the only one I actually left liking was Ryan ( the girl I shared a room with).

So this morning Ryan came to get me at Vista. First we said bye to Claire then we went back to his place to pick up Josh. Then we drove to MGM. Josh went to work, Ryan and I sat in the break room to wait for Jimmy to get there so I could say goodbye. In between I had one last Take 5 meal.

When Jimmy got there we pretty much went and hung out with him in position until I had to go. Well at one point I left and made the rounds to say goodbye. By the time I returned to Jimmy I was crying, which I hate. I hate crying. I hate leaving them all. Especially Jimmy. And Ryan. And Claire. And Josh. And Kim. And Michael. And everyone else. Life looks bleak without them all. Jimmy made me a cd which I’m kind of scared to listen to because I know I’ll start to bawl the minute I hear Chasing Cars, which is our song.

So after goodbyes Ryan drove me to the airport, I continued to cry in the car. I mean, when he paid the tolls I started to cry again cause he wouldn’t let me pay. Then when he dropped me off I cried more. Then I checked and kind of just wandered around the airport for awhile. Then I went through security and had some food at Burger King. There was a Cinnibon there and it reminded me of Jimmy, and I cried again. Then after I ate I bought some Oreo’s at the little gift shop and went to the bathroom and proceeded to cry more. I really wasn’t doing well, still am not. I finally got myself to stop and I went to my gate and sat down. Then my mom cried and the moment I started to talk more tears started to pour. Actually, more like sobs. I got on the plane, sat in my seat and cried for the first hour of the flight. Then I read my cosmo. Side note, free dinner on this plane, which was very unexpected as no one does that anymore. And in the magazine they say it’s 5 dollars.

So now I’m sitting here, with two hours left in my flight, trying not to cry some more. I know I will as just thinking about everyone is making tears form in my eyes. It’s going to be a long time before I’m okay again. I’m not even home yet and I hate it.

It was such an amazing summer and I’m desperate to return. I still haven’t eaten around the world at Epcot, or had dinner at Cinderella’s Castle, or gone to Typhoon Lagoon, or ridden Tomorrowland Speedway. I never managed to get up the guts to tell the guy I like I liked him, and now I’m thousands of miles away. I doubt he would have liked me in return, but one of my goals this summer was to not be so damn shy and actually say something. Oh well. I told Claire I didn’t care if he knows once I’m gone, so she’ll probably tell him. Or someone else will. It’s not like it matters anymore, seeing as I am, I repeat, thousands of miles away. I hate that. I don’t want to be thousands of miles away.

I miss CDS. GRRR. The only thing I don’t miss are my roommates. They don’t even qualify as people, they are things to me right now. After the way they were so rude to me without taking the time to bother talking to me about anything, it was stupid. Things isn't the right word, but I'm mad at them right now, so I'm being mean. Especially since I tried to be nice for the majority of the time and got nothing in return. Except Ryan (the girl).

This blog entry has pretty much turned into a novel. If anyone is still reading at this point, they deserve a gold star. To any of you coaster people who are reading, please please keep in touch. I want to hear from you guys all the time. I love you all and I miss you like crazy.

I’m going to watch a movie now and try and take my mind off of the mess that is my current life.

Love,

Brynna

I Shall Never Return to Walgreens

2006-08-28T23:18:00.000-07:00

For I have endured too much embarassment there to show my face again, until I need more minutes that is! You see, I was there earlier today. I bought a jug of milk, a card, and some cookies. The guy only put the bag with the milk on the counter, though, and I was distracted by Claire, so I walked away without the cookies and card. So I get home and realize I only have milk in my hands! I was appalled, but I didn't want to walk all the way back there as it was way way tooo hot. I mean hottests it's been in ages. So I called them and was like, I forgot the bag but I can't come now cause I have to work, can I come after my shift (which ended at 12:15am). I gave the girl I talked to my name and the girl was like, okay. So after work tonight, Jimmy dropped me and Claire at Vista. First we went to Bennigans to get some food, then after we walked over to Walgreens and I told the cashier what happened. Then she called the manager. My bag was no where! I was like, ummmm. Then the guy was like, just go get what you bought. So I walked over and got the cookies, but the same card was gone. So I grabbed a different one and was like, I'll pay the extra. The manager was like, don't worry about it and let me leave with the stuff.

It was very hilarious but also embarassing. I never want to go back! Claire was horrified.

On to other things.

Saturday was an awesome awesome day. First Jimmy came and got Claire and I and we went to Wal-Mart to get water fight tools for that night. Then we ate some food at Sonic and Ryan came and met us. Then we drove over to Universal for a day of awesomeness. We rode rides, had a terrific time. I saw the Terminator Show which rocked, I love terminator. Jimmy gave me and Claire comp passes so we got in free. I love Jimmy.

After a long but awesome day involving Cinnibon and TCBY we all went over to Jimmy's and filled water balloons then went over to Saratoga Springs for another BBQ with Jaime and her family. It was alot different than the last one as there were more people there, a bit of a different crowd. It was fun, but not as great as the previous one. Once most of the people left, though, it got good. We all just sat around the hot tub and talked. It was nice. After Jimmy drove us home and it was off to bed.

Sunday I worked again, then after work a small group of us went to Wendy's for food and then after I got home I went to Wendy's again with Kevin. After that I came home and slept. Today I got half my packing done and did laundry before I went to work at 6:15pm. It was an okay shift, long and boring, kind of. I was never around the good people! (Ryan, Jimmy, Jaime...) Claire wasn't at Coaster tonight, so she didn't make the list. lol.

And then you all know what happened after work. That's my week up til now. A hurricane is on it's way, which is both fun and bad. If it comes my flight might get screwed up which would be bad. I'd love to stay but at the same time it would put my parents out a lot. We'll see what happenes. Must sleep now, though.

Oh, must add. The other day when I was in Launch Base I had my first 101! It was both terrifying and great at the same time. Great cause I finally got to figure out what the hell u do in a 101, terrifying as I had no idea what to do at first. If you don't know. 101 means the ride is down. My 101 had something to do with some computer and we lost all power and stuff.

Brynna

They Call me Daisy

2006-08-26T07:58:00.001-07:00

At least when I'm playing Mario Party, because I'm always Daisy, the redheaded princess. It's quite fitting, really. If you want to know what the past two days have been like, they've been pretty identical. They go like this. Work, food, Mario Party. On Thursday Me, Claire, Jimmy and Ryan all went to Ale House after Claire and I got off work. Then we went back to Ryan's and played Mario Party til 3 am. Good fun!

Yesterday after Jimmy, Claire and I got off work Ryan met us. We went to Perkins with some other work people, then went back to Ryans to play Mario Party until 2 am. Good Fun!

Today, I am supposed to be working. But I've called in personal as I want one last full day with my good friend Jimmy before I leave. Sadly he is working on the only other day I'm not working before I leave. Also Claire is hangin with us today which rocks, and Ryan is going to meet us later. We're going to Universal Studios again. Fun! And after the Studios we are all gathering again at Saragtoga Springs for some BBQ madness. It will be great, at least I hope it will. We're gonna have another water fight. Alas the last one was so spontaneous that it was amazing, hopefully the planned one will be great, but who knows.

I must go dress and eat food as we will be departing eventually.

Brynna

And the fun goes on and on and on

2006-08-23T23:36:00.000-07:00

Had the most awesomest of nights last night. Went to Jaime's BBQ at Saratoga Springs last night and had a blast. It was Jaime's family and a bunch of coaster peeps. We started out the night just chilling and having fun, then someone (Ryan) started throwing ice at people. So people started throwing it back. This went on and on until the ice ran out. Then we all decided to go play on the playground for awhile when low and behold a bucket of water appears and Ryan dumps it on Jimmy. Somehow it was decided that everyone was going to chase Josh and get him wet. So he ran, and ran, and ran. We hunted him for over two hours. It's a big resort, Saratoga Springs. Near the end everyone else had gone off and I found him by the pool. I ended up attempting to get him but missing then falling in the bush and getting soaked by him. So I was out, then everyone else came back and Elliot defected to Josh. About that time I found my cup in the bushes so immediately got Elliot. After awhile we all seemed to disband and agree we were done, then Kim hit josh with her water, so I thought, what the hell? and dumped mine on him. He ended up wettest of all, but he did manage to outlast us the entire night. lol.

After the water fight it was home and back to bed.

This morning I went to Universal Studios with Ryan and Jimmy and Elliot. Was supposed to be going with Lou and Andy but they were going so early and I need to sleep as I was out til 3 last night. So Ryan picked me up and we met the other two there. Had some lunch then did some rides at Islands of Adventure (The Hulk, Spiderman, Dueling Dragons) then we headed over to the Studios and did E.T. After ET Elliot had to leave, so us other three went over to Men In Black where Jimmy works sometimes and he 'backdoored' us onto it a couple times. Of course the minute we left it started to pour and it was a horrible, wet race to get to the other side of the park to get on The Mummy (Best ride at Universal). We rode that, then Jimmy had to get going to work at Coaster, so Ryan and I continued on. We did Twister, then went back to IoA and did Jurassic Park and the new Suess train thingy is Suess Landing. I also bought a cute shirt.

After we rode our rides Ryan and I sat down and shared a funnel cake before heading back to the car. I then made him go to Target so I could get Veronica Mars Season 2 on DVD. It was very exciting, I'm very serious. I was thrilled. Love Ryan to pieces for taking me there, and just cause he's awesome. After that we met Elliot and Maureen and her roommate at T.G.I. Fridays for some dinner. I had steak...awesome. Then we drove over to MGM and met Jimmy as he'd gotten an Early Release. So the three of us ended up going over to Ryan's and playing Mario Party until 1am. Now i'm home and sleepy. It was an awesome day, I had a blast.

Tomorrow I work at 3. Not sure if I'll be doing anything else.

Brynna

Explain this to me....

2006-08-22T10:09:00.000-07:00

I spent all of June and July manically cleaning this apartment and people kept messing it up and telling me they didn't care, it's no big deal. Now I've stopped cleaning up after everyone and my other room mate has gone on a cleaning kick and is getting mad at me for making a mess. I dont' make messes. I clean up after myself. The only thing of mine in the common area besides my food is my computer, which I am plenty willing to take away if this goes on. I always clean up after myself (except my room). And do you think I like waking up to find crumbs on my computer? No!

I don't want to go home or anything, but I'm definately ready to leave these room mates behind and get some new ones.

What else have I done these past few days?

Saturday: Worked then went to Perkins
Sunday: Worked then went to Perkins
Monday: Worked then went to Perkins
Today: Going out at some point. I think Jaime might be having a BBQ for coaster peeps! So I'll be there.
Tomorrow: Universal? If things work out.

GRRRRRRR

2006-08-22T00:37:00.000-07:00

I hate my room mate sometimes. Someone needs to teach her to be a little more considerate. It's 3:30am and she's got a bunch of friends in the living room being loud as hell. I want to strangle her. No wait, I want her termed. I should have reported her for drinking earlier this summer. Then I'd never have to deal with her. GRRRRR. I hate her.

More later, I'm too pissed to write anything of interest.

Brynna

My head is spinning

2006-08-18T18:46:00.000-07:00

For many reasons.

1. I'm so bloody tired I can barely keep my eyes open
2. Everytime I remember I have to go home in exactly two weeks this moment I start to feel nauseous and a have trouble breathing.
3. I've had the best time of my life these past few days, probably the most fun I've ever had.

So last I left off it was Tuesday, the first of my couple days off. I woke up and hung around the apartment for awhile. Then I went to Epcot and met up with Meredith. From there we headed to MGM cause I wanted to see Voyage of the Little Mermaid. Sadly almost every computer system on Disney property had crashed that day and Voyage wasn't running. Boo. So we ended up going to Coaster and bugging the working folk for awhile, then rode. After that we headed over the The Great Movie ride and did that. Longest I've ever had to wait in line for that ride. After GMR we had about an hour of what the hell should we do? It was not a fun hour as neither of us wanted to do the same thing. She wanted to go watch a movie at her place, I did not. I wanted to hang around the park and soak in some Disney Magic. Meredith was just about to leave and I was going to go troll around the park when we ran into Patsy and Joey in a store. We ended up tagging along with them and having an amazing time. Then to make things more awesome we found Chase and Matt. Joey backdoored us on tower three times ( he works there and coaster) and then we went on Coaster once. Then Joey got us on the all ride at Tower with the lights on, which was so cool. I bought the picture, we all did actually. Then we all parted ways and went home.

On Wednesday I hung around the apartment for awhile that morning then headed over to Patsy's where her, Meredith and Joey were hanging in the mess that was Patsy's room. Patsy was trying to pack. After awhile we all drove to Arby's for some food then we dropped Meredith at work. Joey then drove us over to Fort Wilderness. See Patsy's sister had just arrived for a couple days as she had come to drive Patsy home for this morning. So we get to the cabin and meet one of the most annoying people I have ever met. Every annoying guest I've met wrapped into one. It's really just too hard to explain her. She's that bad. So me, Patsy, Joey and Meg (the sister) went over to Epcot where we met Chase and Claire. Then the five of us went on Test Track twice (got backdoored by Patsy's friend). Then Patsy scored us some no strings passes and we went on Soarin'. Jimmy and Ryan had just gone to get Josh at the airport so they all met up with us after we rode Soarin'. We all headed over to the World Showcase and rode Maelstrom and then found a spot to watch Illuminations from.

After Illuminations we all piled into cars and headed over to the Winter/Summerland Mini Golf. We played the most fun game of mini golf I've ever played. I love all of those people so much (except Meg). After a game of golf that included me almost killing Ryan twice with rogue golf balls we all went over to Perkins for some food. Food was followed by home at about 2 am.

Then came yesterday. I worked at 10:15am til 9:00pm. Long shift. After my shift I ran to the buses, got on one to the TTC and then bolted over to the Magic Kingdom where I met everyone (Patsy, Meg, Jimmy, Ryan, Jessica, Jon, Elliot, Random Guy, Joey) to watch Wishes at 10pm. I was so happy I made it in time. After Wishes we were supposed to go to PI but Patsy and her sister had an 'incident' so we abandoned Meg and went over to MGM to pick up Claire. Then we all went to the Ale House, where we were met by Josh. We hung around there for a long time eating food, talking and having a general great time. So much fun. I didn't want the night to end. Alas it did, I came home last night around 3am.

Today I worked 12:30 pm to 8pm. Now I'm home. Taking a night off. I've got a 12.5 hour shift tomorrow! Gotta go make dinner.

Brynna

Things I have done since I last blogged...

2006-08-15T08:34:00.000-07:00

1. Have had numerous emails from different people about the J-1 program but am still absolutely no where with it.
2. Went to Wendy's with people from work and had a blast
3. Had many horrible dreams that involve coming home and woken up crying or nearly crying
4. Not seen the guy I like once.
5. Seen that incredibly odd movie Zoom
6. Had a fit cause Bernard is not in the next Santa Clause movie
7. Said bye to my parents as they had to go home
8. Hung out with Jimmy and Chase and Matthew at Epcot on Sunday. (Me and three gay men). We went on Testrack, Soarin, Maelstrom, Spaceship Earth and that annoying mexican boat ride that makes me want to scratch out my eyes. Oh and we played mission space race. Then after we left Epcot we were joined by Ryan at Perkins, bringing the total up to four gay men...and me.
9. Wondered why I have no straight guy friends
10. Wondered why all the gay men have boyfriends but I don't.
11. Went to Magic Kingdom with Chase and Matt yesterday to see the 'new' parade. Which is really the old parade with some minor changes. Then we went on Space Mountain and played in the arcade. Chase leaves in a couple days...I'm gonna miss him.
12. Went to work and had a pretty good shift despite the fact that a ton of crap was going on. I was blissfully unaware of the height situations and death threats though. Although some woman told me I wasn't accomodating to children. She wanted me to give her two rider switches instead of one and we had a line that was backed up to the gate ( like over an hour and a half long!) and I told her I could let all her kids ride again.
13. Got a ride home from Jimmy last night. I'm really going to miss him. and Everyone else. I don't wanna go home.
14. Woke up this morning to find a large black man asleep on the couch. Laura's friend.
15. One last bit of excitement! Joey Fatone came to Coaster last week. I got to check his harness twice! lol. I miss NSYNC

Time to go now.
Brynna

Life would be so much nicer if I'd get some replies to me emails...

2006-08-09T10:35:00.000-07:00

I've been firing off emails to different casting people trying to get some info on coming back and I've had no response whatsoever. It's getting a little annoying. I got the name of someone new to email yesterday from one of my managers, so I'm going to try that tomorrow.

I'm back at my apartment right now. For the first time in like 5 days. It's nice, calming. I love hanging with my parents and the hotel is beautiful, this just feels like home now, though. No matter how disgustingly dirty it is.

Yesterday I went to magic kingdom for lunch with my parents. The taco place was open which is rare so I was very happy. That place has only ever been open one other time when I've been at Disney. After lunch we dropped dad at the hotel and mom and I went to World of Disney so she could spend a ton of money then use my discount. After that we relaxed in the hotel for a short while then we had dinner over at the French Quarter's Food Court. After food they dropped me off at work.

Work was good last night. I started the shift with a task which is always nice. I had fun. There was a convention for the last couple hours of my shift, so I basically just stood there telling people to pick where they wanted to sit. Easiest work ever. Well maybe sitting in the box office at Galaxy reading was a bit easier, but I prefer coaster any day. The people at the convention were done at like midnight, and we were scheduled til 12:30am so we just hung around and ate the left over food. Saltiest popcorn ever. I thought my mouth was going to start to bleed. Last week after the convention there was ice cream. Sadly none this week.

Exactly three weeks til my last day of work. It's uber depressing. I'm not ready to come home. I know people miss me, I miss them too. This place is just so amazing though. I like the independance, the responsibility. I like having a ton of friends and a super cool job. I like the weather! Sigh....

I should go get dressed. I need to catch a bus for work soon.

Brynna

Oh Boy

2006-08-07T18:31:00.000-07:00

My parents are here. It's strange. I'm so used to living for myself now, it feels strange to have other people to consider. Not that I don't love to see them, cause I do, it's just wierd. I like being here on my own, I miss everyone, but I like it. I'm really going to miss it come September. I might, no I will, be a bit depressed. by a bit, I mean a lot. Leaving is going to be so hard. I dont' know if I'll be able to handle it.

Friday they got here, we went shopping. It was nice. I like to shop.

Saturday the 'rents went to AK early while I slept. I met them there for lunch. Then we came back here and they rested. I went to Epcot with Chase and Jimmy. It was alot of fun. Then I came back to the hotel and we went to DTD for dinner. Then we went to MGM for a couple rides and some Fantasmic. Then back to the hotel.

Sunday, yesterday, mom and I went shopping. After shopping we went to Epcot, rode a couple rides then had some dinner. After dinner we went back to the hotel. I went to bed, they went to DTD.

Today I worked v. early. After work I met up with them again and mom and I did some more shopping at Cast Connection. Then it was over ot Animal Kingdom to do a few rides. Now we're here again. I'm tired.

Brynna

I Miss Florida

2006-08-03T14:45:00.000-07:00

and I'm still here. This is how acute my need to stay here is, I miss it while I'm here. I don't want to leave and it's just getting worse and worse. The guy I like, I probably won't even see him for another week and it's been at least that since I last saw him, so that sucks. That means I only have three weeks to not do anything about it. I wish I could, but I'm too chicken. It seems I take three steps closer then go back two. It's frustrating.

On to other things, not alot has been going on. I worked Tuesday night til about 12:30a.m. It was some Accountant Intern convention so we were open two hours after closing for them. Most were drunk and most were actually pretty young. Some very hot ones came through. After the conference I went out for food with some people from work and it was really fun. I like the people here, I don't want to leave them! Then it was home and to bed at 3am for seven hours of sleep before I got up at 10am to get ready and leave for work. I had a hearing test before my shift, that was okay. I passed, I'm not going deaf at this point, which is really surprising. After all thsoe concerts I was sure I'd be condemned. Jimmy and I had it at the same time which was nice, chance to hang a bit. We got back about a half hour before out actual shift started so we got paid to have a nice thirty minute break. lol. Then we worked. After work I went out to dinner at the Magic Kingdom with Meredith at the Liberty Tree Tavern. It was pretty good, yummy food. I was stuffed. Then home and to bed again. Worked this morning again, it was a pretty easy shift. No outdoor positions and good people for the most part. Now I'm doing Laundry and cleaning my room. I've sorta let it go these last few days and now I can't find anything!

Brynna

Desperate

2006-08-01T08:08:00.000-07:00

It's August 1st and the worst month of my life has officially begun. Well not the worst month, that will be September, but this month will be jam packed of me being sick to my stomache and near tears. Aren't I lucky? I can't stand the thought of having to leave this place in one months time. I don't know what I'll do come the last night. Maybe chain myself to the gates of Rockin' Roller Coaster? I want to come back here so bad it hurts. I want to do it as soon as possible as well. If Disney offered me an H-2B Visa starting in September I would take it no questions asked, as long as I was placed at RRC again.

I'm warning all of you people back home now, when I come back I'll probably be a sodden mess. Not only do I have to leave the best job in the world, I have to leave great friends and the guy I really really like. And don't get me started on the weather, I shudder at the idea of going home to fall and winter weather. I'm aclimatizing, I could stay in Florida forever.

So yesterday I gave my shift away as Kevin and I were supposed to go to the Kona Cafe for breakfast. I get a text a 9am saying he was too tired and needed to sleep a few hours. So I didn't get my tonga toast which sucks. So I eventually called him at noon and made him get up. The plan was to leave his apt. at 1:30pm to go to EPCOT for lunch and test track then head over to Blizzard Beach with Louisa and Andy. Well I showed up at his apartment at 1:20pm and he had yet to shower. So we didn't end up leaving Vista until about 3:00pm. Which means we didn't leave Epcot til about 5pm. By that time Louisa had run all the way over from Magic Kingdom but Andy was seconds away from getting on the bus to Blizzard Beach. Blizzard Beach closes at 7pm so we decided that would be a waste of money. So instead of going there I called Andy and told him not to get on the bus. Instead Kev and Louisa went back to Vista to take our bags back and I went to meet Andy at Pop Century. I felt really bad as the guy was in such a rush to get to Blizzard Beach and here we were saying we weren't going after all. So Andy and I got a drink at Pop Century and then caught a bus over to Downtown Disney and bought our passes for DisneyQuest and went in and played. Louisa and Kev finally called about an hour and a half later and told us to go meet them at Raglan Road for dinner. After much fuss on my part over walking in the rain we did. We had a very deep fried meal and then headed back to DisneyQuest for more fun and excitement. I got to play Mighty Duck Pinball twice. That's where you stand on these moving things and you are the pinball. It's awesome.

After DisneyQuest we cabbed it home and bought ice cream and went to the Pavillion. Well technically we parted ways first, then 20 minutes later met there. Well me and Andy got there about 10 minutes before Louisa and Kev and discovered some other people sitting in the Pavillion which is just wrong. No one is allowed in there but us. And worse, they were doing crafts. So after awhile Kev and Lou showed and we basically talked for 15 minutes before Lou went to bed and Kev walked her home then went back to his apt to get my bag and bring it back to me. He showed up at 25 minutes later and then we walked Andy to the bus stop. And that's where the night ends.

I work tonight, 4:15 til 10:45. I think there's a convention going on, most people have to stay until 12:30, but not I! Then tomorrow morning I have my hearing test, woohoo. At least Jimmy will be there.

Brynna

I'm swimming in a pool of my own sweat...

2006-07-30T14:41:00.000-07:00

but other than that I'm doing alright. I swear to god it is so hot outside I want to fall over. Even worse I got stuck outside almost the entire day! I mean out of a 7 hour shift I was probably out there for 5 hours.

So where did I last leave off? Hmmm...July 26th was my last update. Since then what has happened? I can't really remember but I'll give it a shot.

July 27th: What day was that? I can't even remember. I think I worked. It was very exciting, or not. Wait, I think that's the day the I went shopping with Kev and his family before my shift. That was actually very fun as I found this awesome awesome jacket at Tommy Hilfiger that I bought and like to take out a look at every so awesome cause it's so nice. After shopping got dropped off at work and worked. The end.

July 28th: That was Friday right? Yah I had the day off. So in the morning Charlotte and I woke up too damn early and took the bus over to Downtown Disney so we could see John Tucker Must Die. It was hilarious, I mean fricking awesome dudes. I loved it. I was laughing so hard I poked myself in the eye and started to cry. After the movie Charlotte and I parted ways and I went over to MGM to meet Meredith and Jimmy who were working til like 3. I ran over to get my paycheck and discovered I'm not set up with direct deposit which sucks as I didn't want that. I don't like having quick access to my money, i spend it faster that way. So went over to coaster and followed Jimmy around til the end of his shift. It was entertaining. When he got his bump out we went back to the breakroom and met up with Meredith. After that we drove over to Jimmy's house so he could change, then we went to Chick-Fil-A for food. It was tasty. After food we went to MK and did a few rides with Meredith's awesome never ending stack of fast passes. Then we went over to MGM for some VIP seating at Fantasmic! It was awesome. Then over to coaster for a quick ride. Then I made Jimmy take me home so I could sleep.

July 29: Worked yesterday morning, the shift was blah. Slightly disappointing actually, but I won't get in to that. After work I got the bus home and sat on the comp for about an hour before heading back to MGM. I met up with Kev and his fam again and I took em all on coaster. Then Kev and I left to head over to the Yacht Club for Jei's b-day dinner. It was a ton of fun. Everyone was so lovely and Jei's mom was so generous and paid for all of us! Such nice people. Then caught a cab home with Louisa, Kev and Andrew. Had to sign Andrew in as he lives at Chatham, then he hung around until his bus came and he went home. After all that I went to bed and slept like the dead.

Today: Woke up at 7 :30 for my 9am shift only to discover upon arriving at work that I had a 9:15 am shift and could have slept an extra half hour. I got put in early at work anyways cause we were so short staffed. 7 people called in sick! Had a never ending shift in which I was outside almost the entire time. I can't stand it out there! It's too hot.

No idea what's up for tonight. I gave away my shift for tomorrow so I'm not working. Going to hang with Kev as he has the day off as well. I know an evening of ice cream at the pavillion is in the works. That's all I know, though.

Tata for now,

Brynna

Ummm ya....

2006-07-29T15:02:00.000-07:00

I refuse to write anymore until I hear from you people! What are you up to, what are you doing? If you read this blog then leave me a comment or send me an email.

Brynna

Super Stuff

2006-07-26T11:19:00.000-07:00

Quick Recap of Yesterday-

11am-Wake Up, proceed to sit around for three hours reading and playing on computer
3pm- Charlie Calls, we agree to meet at MGM
3:30pm- I catch the bus
3:47pm- Get to MGM
4:00pmish- We ride Coaster
4:30ish- Make Reservations for dinner at Mama Melrose
5:00pm- Get to Lights, Motors, Action and sit in cruel heat for thirty minutes waiting for it to start
5:30pm- It starts. It's okay, not great.
6:03pm- Finally over. My back is killing me from sitting on those benches
6:10pm- Wonder around Muppet Store
6:20pm- Wonder around Christmas Store
6:30pm- Got into Mama Melrose and proceed to be seated then eat dinner. It's before 8:30pm so we're not supposed to be able to use our cast discount but the nice manager says we can as they aren't busy
7:20pm- Leave MM, try and call Kevin but my phone tells me I'm out of minutes
7:45- Take Charlie to Coaster, she won't ride so make her wait in store while I go through twice. Somethings are just worth doing...or seeing twice.
8:23pm- Leave MGM, take Cab to downtown disney.
8:45pm-Buy tickets for 9:50pm My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Then spend next hour wandering around Marketplace.
9:30pm- get in theater, find chairs with raising armrests and take up two seats each. So comfy
9:50pm- Movie Starts, it's awesome. Eat so much Candy I want to puke.
11:35pm- Movie over- we run to the bus stop so we can make the 11:50pm bus
12:25- Get back to Vista late of course as the driver decided to go to Vista last instead of first like it's supposed to. Run to Walgreens to get phone card
12:50- Go to Louisa's apt. and hang with her, Kev, Shanan and Shayna
2:00am- Come home. Am sent disturbing text from Kev.
3:00am- Go to bed.

That was yesterday. Today I've done nothing but sit by my comp and talk.Blah. Work at 5:30pm. Odd time I know.

Brynna

A perverted handshake, a humping of a hug, and an awful good time.

2006-07-25T09:20:00.000-07:00

So went to see Hedley and Yellowcard last night at the House of Blues. Fantastic concert. Well those two bands were, the other two were slightly annoying.

First I'll start with the begining of my day.

Got to work at 7:17am for my 8am shift. Hung around the breakroom for awhile then started work by doing rope drop. The ride wasn't open yet when we got back so got to stand around for half an hour telling people we were sorry, that was interupted briefly by my feeling like I was going to puke and pass out from the heat, so I had to run to the breakroom for a second. Then I returned just as we opened and took over my duties at MERGE. Worked for three hours before my first break. By the time it came around I was starving.

After my first break went back outside I think then eventually got my second break. Had some subway and hung around the break room again. Then I got two tasks in a row after my break so continued to hang around the breakroom as they were tasks that didn't require much work, or any for that matter. After the tasks got sent to Load Advance which sucked cause soon after got bumped to greeter just after it started to pour harder than I'd seen it all summer. I was walking undercover to get my rain jacket from the breakroom and got soaked. It was gross. When I finally made it outside I was drenched.

I finally got my bump out half an hour later and went to the breakroom to wait out the rain before I would leave. It stopped and I walked out with a few people from work. Got to Cast Services 15 mins before my bus so I hung around cause I didn't want to chance going outside and it starting to rain again. Then Josh walked by and asked me if I wanted a ride, of course I said yes... I never turn down a ride. It worked out really well cause had I taken the bus I wouldn't have been back until 4:15ish and would have had to take the 5:15 DTD bus. I got back by 3:30pm and got on the 4:15pm DTD bus. That got me down there by 5 and in time to have some dinner at the HOB restaurant. If you buy an entree you get in before the normal line so it was great. Had i not gotten a ride I might not have been down there in time and would have been standing in a crappy area during Hedley.

So we stood oustide in line for over and hour then got inside and stood for another hour. Then Hedley came on, they were awesome. Jacob was weird as ever. Me and Jei were like two of 7 people who knew who they were. It was great.

Aftet they finished their set we went upstairs and talked to them. When I shaking Jacobs hand he kind of moved my hand to that vacinity and was like 'you just touched me ball'. I know, very classy. Then I got a hug from Chris and he decided to hump me a bit. LOL. So Jei then asked why didn't hump her during her hug, so he did it to her. It was funny. Got an autographed pic. It was good fun.

Didn't like the two bands after Hedley but Yellowcard was actually awesome. Like amazing. I love them to death now. They are so so good. You should go listen to them.

I'm off today. Not sure what I'll do.

Brynna

Thought you'd like to know

2006-07-23T14:25:00.000-07:00

Half naked guys playing soccer outside my window.....yummmm

On to other things, worked last night, worked this morning. Was terribly unexciting.

Had some awful news, looks like one of my friends is being termed. I'm shocked and it just sucks.

I've got other things to do now, like bathe and stuff.

Brynna

Recap

2006-07-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

So yesterday morning I worked at 7:45am. It was a very early morning and I felt it. I was very tired and walking in a haze for most of the morning. Then I kept getting stuck at crap positions all day long. I had front grouper for a little while which was nice but other than that I was at load advance or outside the entire time I think. After front grouper I was supposed to go to Studio B but because Josh was in there training with his trainee that position got skipped on the rotation and i got sent outside for like the millionth time. Then when I signed back in after one of my breaks I got sent to Load Advance so Josh and his trainee could leave the positions. I hate load advance almost as much as I hate it outside. It's on my list. So as far as positions go I wasn't having a great day. After work I meant to go get my paycheck but the sun was so hot and I didn't want to walk that far so I got a ride home from Naveen and we agreed to meet later to go shopping at Wal-Mart. Fast forward three hours and we were there and I bought a ton of stuff. 80 dollars worth. Hopefully it will last until mom and dad get here so I don't have to go back for two weeks.

After shopping came home and relaxed for a few hours then Naveen called and we went to see the 12:25am showing of Lady in the Water. It was really good and not really scary. Not as good as his other movies but still great. When I got there I really wanted a pretzel so I ordered one and the girl was like today we're doing buy one get one free so I got three pretzels. No worries, I only ate one. Naveen had one and the other went to the trash. No wonder people are so fat here, giving three pretzels away for three dollars. It's insane.

So got home at something like three last night and went to bed. Slept until noon and now I'm awkae. Just showered and now I'm writing you people. I work at 4:00pm this afternoon until 10:30pm. Am going to pray for a somewhat early release as I have to work early tomorrow morning and I'd like a bit of sleep.

As I haven't mentioned it in a while there have been lots of 'M' sightings. Sadly nothing to exciting to report. It really sucks that I have just over a month left here and I'll probably leave still totally liking this guy I may never see again. It really sucks. I really don't want to come home. I'm not looking forward to it at all. School is going to suck and working will suck. I'm sure I'll spend my birthday in tears. It all just sucks. Why can't I just stay?

Brynna

EMH= Don't even bother

2006-07-20T17:48:00.000-07:00

If you are one of those people who know what EMH is then bear with me for a moment. For those who don't, here's the gist. EMH stands for Extra Magic Hours, these are special hours in the morning or evening when the parks are open only to Disney Resort Guests. Now you'd think this would make visiting the parks easier and less busy but you think wrong. Because only one park a night is open for EMH every last resort guest floods into that park packing it tighter than it ever gets during regular hours. I know this as I work at MGM where it gets absolutely nuts. The line for coaster can stretch all the way to the outer edge of the courtyard during EMH. During the day it doesn't go much farther than the Greeter position and that is rare. Walking through the parks during EMH is like a never ending obstacle course and people are just insane, rude and stupid. I hate EMH with a passion, therefor you should too. Maybe it's not so bad at other parks but it is not worth it at MGM.

I just thought I'd share that bit of info with you all in the event you ever decide to visit WDW. It's just not worth it!

Now on for an update on my life. Where did I even leave off? Oh yes, the day of the great watch fiasco. The day before yesterday. Well yesterday I started work at 8:45am. It was an ok work day. Nothing great or amazing happened but I was happy all around. I even extended my shift for an extra 1.5 hours. After work I met up with Louisa, Kev and his family. I proceeded to backdoor the lot of us onto Coaster then get a No Strings for tower. Then after that we walked over to Lights, Motors, Action and discovered the entire show was full and we couldn't get in so intstead we went to the backlot tour. Just as we got under cover it started to rain, so we didn't get wet! We were standing in the queue waiting to get on the tram when we noticed them emptying the LMA stadium so that probably got called off anyways cause of the rain. After the tour, which was lame as the stunt demonstation wasn't fully working as well as the truck in the canyon didn't come sliding towards us. It was lame. So after that we did dinner at Sunset Ranch followed by one more trip to Coaster and Tower. Then I left as I had to head home to sleep. The rest of em stayed for a little while.

This morning I got up at 9 for my 10:15am shift, got ready and left. Got to work, had the slowest morning ever. Thankfully I got an ER (early release) at 5. Was supposed to stay until 9:30pm but since I work tomorrow at 7:45am I really didn't feel like working til later. So now I'm home, doing laundry and getting ready for bed. Must go now.

Brynna

I Must Know the Time...

2006-07-18T19:06:00.000-07:00

Or I go nuts when I'm at work. If I don't have my watch on me it drives me insane. So this morning I got up at 9:30am and got ready to go to AK with Charlotte and Jei. Just as Charlie and I were about to leave I ran back in to get my watch but I couldn't find it anywhere! The bloody thing was missing. I needed to catch the bus so we left. We got to Animal Kingdom and Jei and I single rided on Everest (Charlie doesn't like big rides, they freak her out) then then three of us did Kali River Rapids. I, being as prone to bad luck as I am, got drenched. I mean soaked through and through. It was very very uncomfortable. So after the ride we walked over to the Flame Tree BBQ for lunch then I decided we had to back to Vista so I could change and not be so uncomfortable and itchy. Then we were to head off to MGM. Jei decided she didn't want to go to MGM so she went back to the Commons. Charlie and I went back to our room, first encountering a snake on the way (we both ran and screamed) and then I got changed into so nice dry clothes.

We were just about to leave when it started to pour so we hung around the apt for a little while longer. I searched some more for my watch but no luck we decided that after MGM we'd run over to the outlet mall so I could get one from Fossil.

It stopped raining in time for us to catch the 3:00pm bus. We got to the park and I backdoored us onto RRC. Charlie had never ridden and was freaked out but I dragged her on. It was fun. She enjoyed it, although seemed very shaken. Then we left and popped into one of the shops. Just as we emerged it started to rain again. We walked over to the Great Movie Ride in search of shelter but were appalled to find an actual line stretching around the building. Something I have never seen before. I mean I've always walked right on that ride. It was crazy. So we opted to go sit in the ABC Commissary and wait out the rain. Charlie bought me a hot chocolate and we sat for awhile. Then we walked over to TOTS to see Beauty and the Beast. It was a cute little show, I'd love the job of the girl who plays Belle. I think the best part of the show was the pre-show with the group 4 for a Dollar. They're very good, one was very hot!

After that we strolled back to the entrance of the park. We stopped in Mickey's of Hollywood and I took one look at my hair and gasped. It was bad. So I bought a hat. It was a hat I'd been eyeing for awhile. It's jus tlike the other one I bought, but it's an olive green colour and on the side it says Pirates of the Caribbean. It looks great on me, I really suit that style.

So after my purchase I took Charlie backstage and we went to Cast Services. I got another costume shirt as mine are all dirty and then we used the bank machine. We caught a bus over to the Commons and met up with Jei again and walked over to the Outlet Mall. First we went and had some dinner in the food court. Then we did a bit of peeking in the shops. I went to Fossil and bought a nice watch. Purple with a dark metal wrist band. We walked all the way back to the Commons and sat down in Jei's apartment. I took out my new watch and pushed the little thingy in and the damn thing didn't work! After all that trouble the watch won't work. Now I need a watch and I was very pissed off. So Charlie and I came home and we went to Walgreens and I found a nice watch there, very reminiscient of the one I lost. So now I have two new watches. I'm going to take the Fossil one back when my parents get here. I don't feel like walking back there anytime soon.

Oh and the stupid people at the church decided to put a fence up along the border between the church and the mall so now we have to walk all the way around it now instead of just cutting over at the end of the wall. It was very very annoying. If they think the little fence will deter all us from cutting through their parking lot to get there they have no clue. Young people, especially girls, like to shop!

Anyways, I work at 8:45am tomorrow so I'm off to bed. Have a good day all.
Brynna

I'm not as dark as I sound...

2006-07-16T20:18:00.000-07:00

I promise. After my post yesterday I went out with Kevin and his family and had a blast. Nicest people ever! It truly was tons of fun. We attempted to go to Celebration for dinner but in small town fashion everything was closed at 10:00pm and we'd gotten there at 10:15pm. So we drove back to the Vista area and had a nummy dinner at The Orlando Ale House. I had a burger that was to die for. Red meat and I have been apart far too long. Sure I've had a cheeseburger from McD's but that's not real red meat, it's imitation at best. Then I ate a bunch of Kev's hot fudge brownie, nummy as well. Then it was back home and back to sleep. Man do I love my sleep.

This morning I was up at 9am to make it to my 10:30am shift. My shift, as you may remember me metioning, was 11 hours long. My feet are going to fall off. On the bright side, I didn't hate it. I had a pretty good day actually. Until I got stuck at Unload for 1 hour and 45 minutes that is, that kinda blew. Other than that life was fun. Although over 10 Brazilian groups came through which was it's own kind of hell. Have I mentioned the Brazilians before? If I haven't I'll tell you. For some reason beyond me Brazilian tour groups seem to be obsessed with Disney World. Every day hundreds of Brazilians come through the parks not understanding a word we say and being louder than I thought was possible. They sing and chant and rush at you and don't listen to a word you say. You send them to row 7, then end up in row 11. If you ever want to make a load of money, just set up a tour agency in Brazil and send everyone to Disney World, cause they all want to come. I think by the end of summer over half the country will have been here. Most of the time the members of each tour group wear matching shirts. Like today I saw 2 different groups in green shirts, 2 in blue (one navy/ one sky), 2 in red, 1 in grey, 1 in orange and 1 in white. The worst is when they don't wear the matching shirts and wear just plain clothes because you don't expect them. They sort of come up on you without warning and it really shakes you to the core. The singing is the worst, though, cause they are so incredibly loud and you have no idea what they are saying. The other guests cower in fear with you. So I had to deal with a ton of Brazilians today which wasn't in the least bit fun, but oh well.

On the bright side I did encounter the hottest Brazilian ever. He was gorgeous and he had a good command of the English language and he was super nice. I was at FP return and he had 54 tickets to get fast passes for so I started to help him out as no one else was having any problems. He was super nice and very grateful. And he called me by my name. So nice and did I mention? So gorgeous!

The other day Naveen told me the only word he knew in Spanish was Salida (Sp?) which means exit. Then today some non english speaking spanish woman came up to me and said 'Salida?' and I knew what she wanted! It was wonderful. So I sent her in the right direction. How cool am I?

I'm off tomorrow, no idea what I'll end up doing. Maybe some food shopping. Tuesday I beleive it's park day with Charlotte and Jei. Who knows? We'll see. Then I think I'll work something like 6 days in a row. LOL. By choice too. I could have Monday off but I'm trying to get a shift switch so my days off are blocked together.

Whenever I'm away from the computer I always think of tons of great things to mention in my blog but I always forget by the time I get here. It's annoying as I really have all these funny little things to share with you. Like how slow the people who work at the Take 5 Subway are. It's really annoying as you only get a half hour break and they take like half of it to make the sandwhich, and they don't even do it well.

Oh I know what I did today that was stupid, I dropped an entire box of blank fastpass slips and ruined them all. I was trying to refill the machine but my hands were slippery from sweat and I just kind of slipped. It was embarassing.

Oh and the heat here right now is insane. So those at home know what I'm talking about. Imagine the hottest day possible, then imagine being out in that and standing behind exhaust pipe of a running vehicle. That's what it feels like here all the time. Then every once in awhile it rains, it doesn't stop being hot, it just gets thicker. So those of you in other places thinking it's too damn hot, try living in Florida during the hottest months of the year. I do not understand why people come here in the summer. It's too hot and too wet. And they always complain to you about it. I'm getting used to it, though. So good on me.

I'm running out of things to say, so bye all. More later.
Brynna

Never Ending Anxieties

2006-07-15T17:46:00.000-07:00

The thought of even coming home makes me sick to my stomache. It's not meant to be an insult to any of you or anything, because I do miss you all and can't wait to see you again, it's just the thought of going back to that mediocre thing I used to call a life. My entire year last year I had all of what? 2 friends that I saw. Tabitha and Amanda. Sure we're incredibly close and all but we've all got our own agenda's that seem to clash more often then not, in can be a lonely kind of life. It will be so nice to have Nicole closer this year for sure. I'm excited as hell to have her just s a ferry ride away. The thought of going back to Malaspina, though, petrifies me because I'm so sure that I'm not sure about anything. I have no idea where I want to go with my life anymore. I still love writing but I wonder if that will ever amount to anything. It's such a risky career choice. Maybe I'm not as good as I hope I am? The only way my degree won't have me washing toilets for a living is if I get into the publishing program at Simon Fraser and they take so few people, I'm not sure I've got what it takes. The whole West Coast notion that Malaspina isn't good enough will hurt my chances even more, which sucks because Malaspina isn't actually all that bad. I'm probably better off than most of the people at SFU or UVIC or UBC because I have such easy access to my professors and such small class sizes. That's a whole three years away, though, I'm not even sure I want to do six years of school, so in that case I will have a useless degree. The only shred of hope I may have in a future is the paltry business minor I'm going to attempt to complete.

Life would be so much easier if I could just sit down and write a novel and then sell it. For one it would make life so much easier because I wouldn't have to worry about money and maybe I could do the schooling I really want to. For another it would make me feel so much better because until I can sell something how do I know I'm good enough? It's all my stupid Fiction professors fault. Though I don't even want to call her a professor as she wasn't much older than myself and that, in my eyes, makes her far less qualified to pass judgement on my work. It baffles me how she stuck me with a B in that class while people who were far less writers than myself walked off with higher marks. I'm not trying to sound egotystical, I swear, but some of the writers in that class were awful. Their language didn't flow or they over used big words. There were people in that class who could write but didn't have an ounce of creativity in them. I mean the stories I handed out for the class to read, well the chapters of my novel, people loved them. I got one person hand my story back with a comment that said it actually made her cry. So it's just incredibly frustrating. This stupid teacher has gone and made me really doubt myself at at time when I really need to be sure of stuff.

I'm being really depressing I know, this is what happens when I'm left alone for extended periods of time. I start to think about stuff. I wish I could just take a year off and stay here, or go to school here. There's something about Florida that makes life sunnier or something. I've only been unhappy here when thinking about going home. Maybe it would suck here after everyone leaves, though. I have no idea. I have no way of knowing anyways as I have to go home on the 1st whether I like it or not. Stupid Visa. I wish I could have dual citizenship or something, just so I could come back and work seasonal when I want. I'd love that so much.
I need to stop thinking, it only leads to bad things.

Today was an okay day. I didn't do a hell of alot. I woke up and went on my computer then had some lunch. Then Charlotte and I went to DTD to see Click. It was an okay movie. I enjoyed it. After the show we went to the cast McDonalds which was cool. I didn't know there was one there. I had a happy meal for 3 dollars which wasn't bad. Then Charlotte went to work and I caught the bus home. I read for awhile then came on the computer and began to obsess again. It's my worst fault. I obsess like nobodies business. I'm going out for dinner with Kevin and his family in like half an hour I think. Somewhere in Celebration. It should be nice.

I work tomorrow at 10:30am til 9:30pm, so think of me as I'll be dying by the end of my shift. It's going to be a long day. Lots of people do them just fine, though, so hopefully I'll be alright. At least I don't work Monday or Tuesday. Then I'm back again on Wednesday for four straight days. No idea what my schedule is like for next week yet. I'm sure I'll know by tomorrow, though. I must be off as my hands are starting to wear out from all the typing. Have a nice night all.

Brynna

P.S- hopefully I didn't depress anyone. I promise you I'm not actually depressed or anything, just contemplative.

Breaking News

2006-07-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

Justin Timberlake's new song "Sexyback" sucks. I do not like it one bit. It's ridiculous and it doesn't even sound like him. He sounds stupid and he's swearing. He's trying to be a rapper or something, it sucks.

On to other things. I worked today. It alright. Nothing that exciting to report. Got a ride home from Horace. That was nice. Was walking with him and Scotty backstage and this nice guy with a golf cart stopped and gave us a ride to Cast Services. That was the highlight of my day. lol.

I have the day off tomorrow. I'll probably do nothing but relax. I'm not sure, though. We'll see.

Brynna

Funaliscious

2006-07-13T23:41:00.000-07:00

My day turned out to be alright. Got up this morning and did nothing more than piddle around on my computer and read. Very rewarding. Left for work on the 2:30 bus and got there about fifteen minutes later. Got into work and sat in the break room for like half an hour before my shift started. All this is so compelling isn't it?

So I started my shift at 3:30 and was sent somewhere, not sure where. Probably load. I'm always at load these days. It sucks. I hate load/load advance. Too much walking. Plus brings back the memories of my dreadful fall. My work day kind of went by slowly. About half way through my shift I somehow got Meredith to switch shifts for tomorrow so now I'm working close which rocks. I also got someone else to take my Saturday shift cause I don't want to work. It's a morning shift and with my closing shift tomorrow it just wouldn't be fun. Plus my shift tomorrow is like 8 hours long opposed to the 6 it was supposed to be, so I'm only losing like 4 of my scheduled hours which isn't that bad. So now I didn't have to race home and go to bed I asked Naveen if he had room in his car to go the the Ale House after work. He did, so plans were set to go.

I worked until 10:20pm. I was supposed to be out at 10:00pm but was forgotten about for a little while. So I signed out then put my civilian clothes on and went back inside for the all ride which was fun as usual. After the all ride hitched a ride with Naveen and headed to the Ale House for Jake's goodbye thing. The Ale House was tons of fun. It was cool to see people outside of work. I enjoyed myself. It sucks that Jake is leaving. I'm gonna miss him, he's fun.

We left the Ale House at 2am. Were supposed to leave earlier as Naveen has to work at 9am tomorrow but alas it took forever to get him out of there. There I was feeling all bad cause the waitress hadn't come back with my credit card and when I finally get it back he's off chatting to people. lol. It was fun, though. Now I'm home. I've just eaten a frozen lasagna. Didn't end up eating at the Ale House despite my intense hunger. Cheaper this way I guess. Just had a drink to get me through. So no worries mom, I charged all of $2.50 today.

Working tomorrow at 2:30pm now so I'm happy. I don't really know if I have anything left to say. Just that I had a pretty good day.

Funny thing, some guy figured out I was Canadian because I said Pardon. Had no idea that was a Canadian thing, but whatever. lol.

Goodnight all, or good morning shall I say. I'll update again when I've more to say.
Brynna

I'm a God

2006-07-12T23:47:00.000-07:00

In the month I've been here I've learned one thing; it could all end in the drop of a hat. This place is fantastic and I love it but I've also come to realize this place won't always stay the same. Come three months from now about 75% of coaster's cast will probably be people I've never met before. There is a ridiculous amount of people here on either CP (college program) programs or seasonal. It's incredibly sad to see them go so soon after meeting them. Three really cool CP's have come to the end of their program in the past couple weeks and I just found out today that another CP I work with that is really nice and cool got termed for a stupid little thing. Not exactly sure of the details but it's ridiculous; there are idiots who don't give a crap running around here breaking the law at every turn but he made a tiny mistake as I understand it and it cost him his job. Disney can be ruthless. It's very sad and annoying. None of this means I want to come home or anything, I'd love to stay here or come back, it just makes things less fairy tale like.

On to more happyish things. Well at least not depressing things, my day wasn't wholly exciting so you may not even crack a smile. But who knows, perhaps just the thought of my wonderfulness makes you smile, and in that case, smile away.

This morning despite all my bestest efforts I was up at 11:30am. That might seem late to you, but when you didn't go to bed unitl 4:30am it's not. I topped out at just under 7 hours of sleep. I can barely survive off that. Last night I was out til like just before 4 with Louisa, Kev, Shannan and Vanessa at Wendy's/the Pavillion. Got home and found Charlotte reading on the couch. I hadn't had much of a chance to talk to her in the past couple weeks as she's been off with her parents so I spent like twenty minutes gabbing at her; telling her almost everything that's happened in the past two weeks. The poor girl. After that I managed to force myself to go to bed and there I slept. I might also mention that yesterday I literally sat in front of my computer for 13 hours watching tv shows my mom had burned and sent me. I know, I'm shocked as well. I guess I just didn't realize how much I miss TV. Once I started I couldn't stop, I had to keep watching. I got through ten episodes of All My Children, two Alice, I thinks and two Beautiful Peoples. Then last night I dreamed about TV's and us getting one in our apartment. Scrubs was on and I just had to watch it. lol. I have wierd dreams I know.

So this morning I woke up and, like always, plunked myself down in front of my computer and did a myriad of different things. Checked email, read stuff, watched another Beautiful People episode, chatted. You know the drill. I ate some yummy raisin toast as well. I also read my book for a few hours today. Then at around four a started to make my dinner. I made a big nummy plate of spaghetti and just as I was carrying it over to the table I dropped it. It was all over the disgusting floor, no hope of recovery. So I decided to have one of my frozen meals. I started to eat it and it felt like there was sand in it. Then I found a little hard thing that looked like a piece of glass so I thought it best to throw that out. So before I worked I didn't really have much to eat at all.

Went to work, Helen rode on the bus with me cause she was going into the park. Started my shift off in Launch Base, the only nice hours of my shift. The rest of the time I was stuck at Load or Load Advance with a pop off to Unload Advance for awhile and short time at Merge and Greeter. Mostly I was on the load platform though. It sucked. That's where you're constantly walking back and forth checking the harnesses. My feet are killing me now. Kev, Louisa and Jei popped by and rode about half way through my shift which was nice. Good to see some friends. Then they came back about ten mins before close and rode again and Kev reminded me that I'd mentioned I might be able to get them on an all ride one day. So I mustered up the courage and asked my boss and she said it was alright so Kev, Louisa and Jei got to ride Coaster with the lights on. Kev nearly cried he was so happy. I'm pretty sure they'll love me forever. It is an experience one shall never forget, even if they've done it a ton of times as I have. They shall worship me forever now that I've let them in on the wonder of the lights on Rockin' Roller Coaster. It is pretty cool to see, it's all strange and fun. Alas mother, don't get any ideas. You have to be a cast member to even be considered to be allowed on the all ride.

After my shift got a ride home from Naveen which was lovely as I hate the buses with a firey passion. Who wants to ride that damn thing for 45 minutes after a long shift. NOT ME.

I work again tomorrow at 3:30pm-10:00pm. Then the next day I start at 7:45am which I really don't want to do. Trying to get rid of the shift but no luck so far. We'll see what happens. It would be lovely if I didn't have to do it. I don't want to be up that early on Friday. On the brightside I managed to switch next friday's shift to the morning instead of night.

(SHIELD THIS SECTION FROM EYES OF SMALL CHILDREN)
OOOO funniness I forgot to mention. Was walking backstage from cast services to Hollywood BLVD when I looked over and saw Darth Vadar with his head off. Scared the daylights out of me. He was followed by bunches of other characters from the Stars and Motor Cars Parade which was making it's way off stage. I also saw Sully and Mike without their heads. Odd. Just as I was getting to the gate I saw Lilo and Stitch and was gripped with fear they'd remove their heads. I don't want to see my fave characters without their heads...it would be saddening. And the Aladdin in the parade, not so hot up close.

That's all I really have to say for now. No 'M' sightings today, sigh. Oh well. Yes on the 'stalker' sighting though. Shudder. Although I think he has gone down from stalker status to just creepy annoying. We'll see.

Brynna

Oy! An alligator just floated by my window...

2006-07-11T10:34:00.000-07:00

Well not really, but I wouldn't be surprised with the amount of rain out there it won't be long before we've a new lake outside. The raindrops are so fricking fat the look like they might knock you out. I don't know for sure as I'm not going to even attempt to go outside. I like my dry little cocoon here. Of course I'm bored out of my mind, but I'll deal. I'd rather be bored and dry then drenched and uncomfortable.

I had the day off yesterday, as I'm sure all of you know because you all love me so much, you must have my schedule on your calendar because you must know what I'm doing at all times or you'll go insane. So in the morning, well early afternoon, Jei and I headed over to Disney University so I could go to Vista Credit Union and deposit my paychecks. That took forever but now I have access to money which is lovely. After the bank we walked across the large cast parking lot over to Cast Connection which is a giant discount disney store for Cast members only. I got some fun little things for next to nothing. Then it was over to property control which was disturbing and horrible. I wanted to leave immediately. So we left and stalked back across the parking lot under the hot hot sun over to the bus stop. When the bus finally arrived we jumped on and headed back. Jei went back to the Commons and I went home to Vista. About a half hour later Meredith from work called and we arranged to meet to go see Pirates. About an hour later I was on the bus and she got on at Chatham and then it was off to Downtown Disney. We caught the 7:30 show. It was in the biggest movie theater I have ever been in. I mean the thing had a second level balcony! Insane! It was a fantastic movie, though not as good as the first. Jack Sparrow was a laugh as always and Orlando was just as nice on the eyes as ever. P.S- he's got like the nicest back ever.

After the movie I read the bus schedule wrong and so we ended up sitting at the bus stop for like an hour before the next one came. LOL. I'm loads of smart. Got on the bus and Meredith and I said goodbye and I went straight up to Kev's apartment when I got back to Vista. He had apparently received a somewhat promising email from his manager about transferring to MK. Of course it's not a definite or anything but it would be so lovely if he could move. We hung around for awhile lamenting at the fact that we were both starving but had to wait for Louisa to get home before we could go to Wendy's. When we finally went I went all out and got a potato and chicken strips. I know it was a lot of food but I hadn't had much of a proper meal that day. Mostly snacks. So I dug in. It was good and no, I didn't finish it all. Then we walked home and went our separate ways. My way led me back to my computer for a few minutes before I crashed into bed and slept for nearly 6 hours without waking up once. That's very rare. I slept in til after 11 which was really hard to do. I made myself sleep though because I needed to catch up. I've been getting alot less sleep then I'm used to these days. With my illness and all I figure I need to get as much as I can. I'm getting better, though, which is super cool. Hopefully I'll be good for my 6:30pm- 1:45 am shift tomorrow. Lovely aint it! Not really, no. At least I don't work the next morning. Sweet sweet Meredith switched with me so I don't have to go in until 3! Yay. Tomorrow begins 5 straight days of work before another two days off. It's going to be a long few days but I think I'll get through. I better. I hate morning shifts but I've got a few coming up. Oh well. Irony, next week I'd rather work in the morning than the evening. I'll see if I can switch or not.

My god the weather is gross. The thunder is getting closer and I can see lightning now. It's pouring like you Canadians have never seen. It rains hard at home but not like this. You step outside for ten seconds and it's a toss up between human or drowned rat. Sadly I don't look good when I'm wet. My hair gets plastered to my head and my face gets all red and blotchy. I feel bad for those I know who work outdoors, Jei comes to mind. She's out there now selling popcorn. Poor Jei. And anyone at work stuck at greeter, FP distro or FP return, my heart goes out to them. lol.

I have a song for everyone to go out and listen to. It's called 'I write sins not tragedies' and it's by a group called Panic! At the Disco. If u can't download go to myspace.com and search panic at the disco. You can listen there. It's a great song. I'm addicted. Someone from work turned me on to it. Now I can't stop listening. It's replaced Jaded as the most played song on my computer.

Holy crap the lightning is close. Like super close. The thunder is almost right above me. I need my Tabitha. We get very few storms back home but whenever one occurs she's always there. Hiding on the couch while watching Grease 2. Ahhh the memories. Nothing, I mean nothing could get me outside. Well one thing, but I'd rather not say as you probably guessed and it's pathetic. lol.

I should stop rambling now and go hide under my covers. Good day all.
Brynna

P.S - post some comments or email me to let me know ur reading!

The blood! Oh the blood!

2006-07-09T23:32:00.000-07:00

Don't worry, I'm not dying. I just got a bit of a booboo, I'll tell you how in a minute.

So where did I last leave off? I'm really not sure. I'll just do a quick recap of yesterday just in case. So I had the day off yesterday and went off to MGM to return that extra jacket I took out and get my paycheck. After I did both tasks I got back on the bus and headed home. The entire trip took over two hours. Damn buses. After my jaunt on the E bus I decided I'd hop on the H bus and head over to Wal-Mart so I could eat this week. I got there and got enough food to last me a few days. I spent the last of my cash then had to charge a little on the credit card. After Wal-Mart I lugged my bags of grocerys back to my apartment where I proceeded to finish off the rest of the Battlestar Pilot. Then I decided to go all out and actually make some real food. I made a very delicious chicken curry pasta salad. It took forever but is quite easy. I didn't have a recipe so I kind of just did it from memory, it turned out really good though. I didn't finish making it until after 10:00pm, though. I quickly ate some for my dinner then put away a few containers of it for lunches this week. Then it was off to bed.

This morning I woke up with a searing pain in my left ear. I very strongly considered calling in sick then realized I didn't have a clue what the number was. So I got up and got dressed and popped a few pain killers. I got to work and groggily made my way to the break room. I signed in and was assigned Greeter 2, which isn't really a real position, it's basically just helping out Greeter. So that was a pretty easy hour. Then I got bumped and got a break which was nice. I like breaks. After my break I was off to Launch Base for like the only second time ever. It was slightly nerve wrecking as it's can get a bit 'busy' in there. Then I got bumped to Load about an hour later and that is where I was walking down the side of the car and tripped and scraped my knee. I got right back up and it didn't really hurt but I few minutes later I looked down and noticed there was some blood running down my leg and a giant scrape on my knee. As blood isn't really part of the Disney look Janelle (who was in launch base) quickly switched with me so I would be out of site and called a person to come cover for me so I could get a bandaid. When my replacement came I quickly ran off to the break room and put some bandaids on. It took three to cover it. I also put some neosporin on it. Then I returned to Load and finished out that part of my rotation. Not before I was asked several times by my manager if I was okay. Then I was bumped to Unload Advance which I really don't like much, I don't think anyone does. I was quickly bumped for my lunch break, though, which was good as I'd started to bleed through my bandaids and needed new ones. I ate my yummy pasta salad and hung out with the other CMs on break. There were quite a few of them. Managed to gross out a few people with my wound. After break I got a task, then another, then another, then another, then another. About an hour and fifteen minutes later my run of tasks finally ended (which sucked as I love tasking). Then I got sent to Unload which I don't like all that much. I was bumped by josh for training pretty quickly, though, and I got one more task before I had to clock out. It was a pretty good shift.

After working I met up with Jei in the Coaster break room and we rode the coaster then went on Tower, then headed over to Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular and tried our hardest to be volunteers but we weren't picked. We followed that with some dinner at the Sunset Ranch. I had chicken strips which were pretty good. Then we rode coaster one more time (walked right on as I have the power of the back door). We then went to the Coaster Breakroom and I got my stuff. Then it was off to the bus and back to Vista so I could drop off my stuff and change out of my clothes. We then caught a bus to Downtown Disney and went to Gharadelli for some sundae fun. I had a brownie sundae which was fabulous. Then we looked around for a bit then bussed it back to Vista, met Kev and went to Wendy's. It was too late for Jei to be back on Vista grounds so she took off and now I'm in the pavillion with Kev, Louisa and Vanessa. It's all very exciting. Kevin's writing an email to send off to his area manager pleaing to be released to the Magic Kingdom. It's his last chance.

I don't work tomorrow. Meeting Jei to go to the bank and property control tomorrow then might meet up with Meredith from work to go see Pirates.

Oh and just so you know, I have a bit of a 'stalker'. It's not very nice. It's just a guy that likes me who I don't like back and I'm trying to get rid of him. LOL. It's slightly annoying but one day it will be a funny story.

I don't know what else to tell you all. I can't think of anything else that might keep you on the edges of your seats. So I'll be off. It's kind of late.
Brynna

Still bitter...

2006-07-08T09:28:00.000-07:00

but I had good day yesterday. Was walking to the bus stop and staring up at the sky with anger as it began to rain. Just as I got to the bus stop I hear someone calling my name, pronouncing it wrong while they were at it. I looked over and there was Naveen sticking his head out of his car window. He asks if I'm going to work. As I was wearing my uniform it was pretty definiate I was. I'm not exactly dying to go out in public dressed like that. So I called back, yes and he offered me a ride. Being driven in an actual car instead of a bus is like the most fantastic thing ever. I hate the buses. As we approached MGM the rain just got harder and harder and harder. By the time we were parked it was ridiculous. I pulled on my costuming issued clear rain jacket and walked briskly to cast services. When we got there I stayed put while Naveen headed off as his shift was starting. I still had 45 minutes. I didn't want to leave the cast services building it was raining so hard. It got ten times worse about ten minutes later and there was no way I wanted to go out in that. I had left my coaster jacket at home cause it was slightly damp from the day before and I just knew that if I got stuck outside that when I came indoors into the air conditioning I'd freeze, so I got another from Cast Services. We are technically only supposed to have one out, so I have to take it back today. I also took out another uniform in the event that if I got positively drenched I'd have another to wear. So I hung out at cast services as long as I could then braved the rain. By the time I made it to the coaster break room I was soaked.

I signed in and my first assignment was Studio B, which would have been nice, except I was bumping someone for break and the actual rotation was going to go through soon. After studio B comes Fast Pass Distribution which is of course outdoors. Needless to say about 15 minutes later I was outside and freezing and wet. That lasted for about 1.5 hours as after distribution comes Fast Pass return. Then annoyingly I got my half hour break. I enjoy the break of course, but wish it had come later on in the shift. I got another sub at subway then back to the breakroom where I ate it. Thrilling eh? After break the computer told me to start a rotation so I went to Unload. I hate unload. You have to yell and it's just not easy when you have no voice. By the end I was just waving my hands at the people to get them to leave. After unload comes backgrouper which is now my fave position. I was there for about an hour and then got bumped to Load advance. Then shortly later I was bumped to break again. Had my break then the computer told me to start the same rotation all over again, so it was back to unload. Thankfully I got to Backgrouper at about 8:45pm and was there til closing. It was a good time. Went on the all ride which was as always a blast. Who doesn't love being paid to ride a coaster?

Sometime during my shift while I was unload and Naveen was unload advance the two of us decided we wanted to try and see pirates after work. Sadly it became obvious that Pirates was sold out for the night so we decided on Superman instead. So I got a ride home with him. Got changed then we went to Perkins for some food with some other guys from work. I got french toast. We ate incredibly fast then raced to the theater for the 12:30a.m. show. We got there just in time. It was a really good movie but not quite satisfying. The man in tights was fantastic though. Yummy all around. We didn't actually get out of the theater til about 3:15a.m. so it was a very late night but fun.

I still have no one to see Pirates with and I'm still sad. I may have to go alone if no one turns up. Oh well.

On the 'Malcolm' front I saw him yesterday for about 2 seconds. Blah. At least he said hi.

I've got to go into MGM today to drop off that jacket and pick up my pay stub so I should do that soon.
Brynna

Alone...always alone..

2006-07-07T08:04:00.000-07:00

I've been abandoned. I know I shouldn't be so annoyed but I am. Everyone I know is going to see Pirates today, except me. I have to work at 3:30pm. Of course I could go after my shift but who the hell can I go with?I have nobody... It sucks in a major way. All those plans made months ago, ripped to shreds. I have no idea when I'll get to go or who with. Everyone seems to have conflicting schedules with me. I'll probabably have to go alone tomorrow, which sucks. Without someone to punch and say holy crap this is good, it's just not that fun. And when I start thinking about how depressed I am about this my mind also goes, hey I'm depressed about other stuff too...like coming home. So I'm a big ball of black energy right now. The only thing that may save me is a 'malcolm' encounter which I'm pretty sure probably won't happen tonight. Apparently, I'm just not that lucky. Sure I'm lucky enough to have gotten my dream job at Disney, but that's about as far as it seems to be stretching right now. I'm big on the self pity right now.

As for last night, went out with the traitor and Shanan and Shayna to Wendys. It was alright, nothing to write home about, though technically I am writing about it. Anyways, after that came home and found a roommate and her friend being very loud in the apartment. Then a few minutes later two guys came in and I wouldn't let myself go to bed til everyone left cause I didn't want them to do anything stupid like start drinking. I feel bad for the girls who had to work this morning. We really need to set some house rules, isn't fair for some people to have friends over that late when others have to work at the crack of dawn. I know as it happened the other day too.

Anyways I gotta go do laundry and mope,
Brynna

UPDATE

2006-07-06T21:10:00.000-07:00

Well not really. Just watch this...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3382491587979249836&q=jump+in+my+car

Insert sigh here...

2006-07-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

It's been a hectic couple of days. Well not so much hectic as just plain old tiring and busy. I left off here on the afternoon of the fourth just as I was heading off to work for one of the busiest days of the year. It was an alright shift. There were lots of people around which was annoying but I got through. Still there are only so many unintelligent guests you can handle. I don't even really remember getting home that night or anything.

Yesterday I worked at 8:45a.m. so I didn't get as much sleep as I'd have liked the night before. So I went to my shift and worked. It wasn't a horribly exciting day but enjoyable. I do like working there. After work I rushed home and agreed to meet Jei at Downtown Disney so we could catch The Devil Wears Prada. I got home and showered in a hurry then caught the bus downtown. Got there and got some chicken strips from McD's then we headed off to the show. It was very very good. I really enjoyed it. Kinda got lost at the end, though as in the span of three minutes my mom text messaged me and Kev called and texted me. I haven't figured out how to silence the phone so I was having a little freak out trying to shut it off. Therefor I'm not too sure exactly what happened but I'm sure I'll find someone who can tell me. After the movie we took a quick gander in World of Disney as we had about 45 mins before the next bus. I finally bought the pirates T I've been staring at for weeks. Caught the bus after the buying and then came straight home and dived into bed, stopping only long enough to change my clothes.

This morning I was up early again as I had to work at 8:30a.m. It was not pleasant being so tired/stuffed up. I got the bus and walked as if in a haze into work. I stopped at Take 5 for a bagel as I still have no breakfast food. I was really after some special K with a banana (I'd brought the cereal just needed the milk and banana) but they didn't have any bananas out and I can't hae special K without Banana. It just isn't right. So I got this kind of crappy bagel which I ate. Then I started work. I got to pick what position I wanted to start with which was really cool. I picked back grouper which has become my favourite shift. It's all about the math which I love. It's just one giant math game, or as a girl at work once said, a game of tetris. Must make the lines even. Back Grouper also gets to do Rope Drop in the morning which I had yet to do so I was really eager to go. Basically what is is that the park will open the gates around 8:45a.m. and start letting guests in but they can only go up Hollywood BLVD, then there's a rope holding em back from all the attractions. A couple people from Tower of Terror come out and a couple from the Coaster to 'lead' the people back to the attractions so they don't all run in a mad frenzy. Before that though the cool 'Stars' came out and did a little pre-opening show. The stars are a group of actors portraying actors/directors who think they're living in the 1940's. They are very funny to watch. If your ever in MGM and you see them you have to stop and watch cause it's tons of fun. So I got to watch they're little opening show and they did the countdown to dropping the rope. Then everyone started to rush and of course we had to yell to them that they couldn't possibly get on the ride if they don't stay behind us as we have the keys (we really don't).

So we got the people there only to have to inform them that we were having an opening delay and the ride wasn't working yet. Well I didn't tell them, I kind of ran inside with Austin (other guy at rope drop/front grouper) and avoided the wrath (if there was any) of the impatient guests. Inside we hung out for like half an hour until the ride was finally up and running. Got to go on the ride to do a test run which was, as always, cool.

After we finally started letting people in I was grouper for awhile before I got bumped to Greeter which was nice and hectic as we got so backed up the line was stretching all the way through the courtyard. I'm not too sure what else I did today and in what order, I know I was at backgrouper again and at Unload for awhile. That's really all I can remember. It was only a 6 hour shift. After work I came home and got changed then went to Epcot to go to the SALSA sale which sucked. Spend a little save alot: not really. More like...Sucky a little, sucks alot. I'm sure there was some nice stuff but it was so overwhelming and hard to find things and there were so many people and it was storming. I didn't buy anything, just wanted to get out and get home. So I did.

I came home and the went to Walgreens to load up on a few things (TP, Milk, Ice Cream...) Then I came home and made some spaghetti which was yummy. I put a ton of cheese on it and it makes it fantastic. Now I'm here bloggin to all you folk. You better be reading cause I could be doing other things like watching Battlestar Galactica (I'm in the middle of the second half of the pilot. It's taking me awhile to get through as I'm so busy!).

I work again tomorrow night. I must remember to pick up my check tomorrow. Don't want to forget that. I also need more uniforms. Pirates comes out tomorrow. I'm bitter as I may have no one to go with. Stupid people can't wait til I get off work. If I have to see it alone I'll be very depressed.

As for any other news I really don't have any...haven't seen you know who since the 3rd:(

I must go now as I'm boring myself to death with my less than exciting life. Though it's still miles more exciting than any life back in Ladysmith. Sorry guys, but it's true. I miss you of course, but you'd all be much more fun if you were here.

Brynna

I'm a spaz....

2006-07-04T09:12:00.000-07:00

but what else is new? More on that later.

So yesterday after I posted I went to work. I know! Thrilling, eh? Work was good, slow but good. The fact that I'm sick made it seem like an eight hour shift not a six hour one, but whatever. I started out at Fast Pass distribution then moved up to Fastpass Return. After that I had a break which was nice. When I got back I was off to cover someones break. Was told to find them in studio C but they were still at MERGE as the rotation hadn't gone through yet. So I was Merge for all of one show before I got sent to Studio B where I spent over an hour watching the 3 min little show over and over and over and over and over. Every three minutes it's the same thing. By the end I was going a little insane. After someone finally releived me from C I got another break. After my break the computer sent me off to deliver the Lost and Found items from Coaster to the park Lost and Found. That was a nice little walk. After that I was sent to Load where I remained for nearly two hours until closing.

As for my spazziness....there's this guy I like. Won't say his name or how exactly I know him cause you'll know who it is then, and I have no idea who is reading this blog, so just in case...I'm not saying. For now, let's call him Malcom in honour of Malcolm the Bunny, my giant stuffed Duck that I sleep with at home. I miss him. In case you were wondering, I didn't get it confused, not that time. Malcolm is in fact a duck but before I had him I had a bunny named carrot. Unfortunately Carrots head ripped off (he's been repared since) and I got a duck to replace him. Alas I can never actually remember that Malcolm is a duck and whenever I refer to him I say bunny. So I've officially changed his name to Malcolm the Bunny. So as I was saying...Malcolm was saying goodbye to me (won't say when and where)yesterday and instead of being nice and flirty like I should have been I pretty much grunted at him. Had I not been deathly ill and felt like a brick was squeezing in my skull with my brain I might have been a tad more aware of my actions, but I wasn't. So this guy who I like immensley probably thinks I'm an idiot. Like I said 'What else is new?'

Anyways, I'm back to work this afternoon. We're having a potluck dinner thing at work so I baked some cookies (bought the dough). Of course as I am a spaz in the kitchen as well I managed to overcook them. So they'll be fine and crunchy.

I'm feeling pretty drippy and gross right now. I don't have alot left to say. Just that I love it here even when I'm sick. So tata for now. Wish me well and wish me some non stupidity for my next encounter with 'Malcolm'.
Brynna

I'm dying...

2006-07-03T10:21:00.000-07:00

Well maybe not, but I feel like crap. I refuse to call in sick, though. Love my job far too much to dare miss even a day. Unless I start feeling any worse, in that case I may have to, which sucks. I really don't want to.

This'll be just a quick little note as it's been a very short while since my last post and there isn't a ton to report. Last night I got a call from Kev just as he was getting off work. He decided that him and I were going to rush over to the Magic Kingdom once he got home and ride Pirates of the Caribbean as it is now open for 'soft opening'. It officially opens Friday. That was at about 9:30 and he'd yet to get the bus back from Epcot. Magic Kingdom closes at 11 so our chances weren't looking to good. He called me a little while later and said we wouldn't make so we wouldn't bother. Then at about 10:09 he called and said we were going to try. So we met at the bus stop and he ran up to his apartment and got changed in record time. Then just as the A bus was pulling away he got back to the bus stop and he managed to get the driver to stop and let us on.

Once we got to the Transportation and Ticket Center we bolted over to the monorail. Evil Kevin made me run which was not easy as I am sick, my jeans were falling down and I'm just not a very good runner. It was painful. We got on the monorail and made to to the gates of MK at about quarter to. Then we bolted through the park, Kev trying to make me run and me telling him it was impossible. We made it to Pirates 7 minutes before closing. The excitement between the two of us was extreme. We couldn't beleive we'd made it. We got on the ride and then we were taken through the magical world of Pirates and Jack Sparrow! It was great. The animatronci Johnny Depp is freaky. I mean he looks so incredibly real it was almost creepy. I'd swear that Johnny Depp had taken a new job moving his head left and right in the ride if I didn't know better. He makes three appearances and looks just as real each time you see him. He even talks at the end. It was great. Kev loved it but said it was also ruined. Something about it being to open. I really didn't see too much of a difference besides the addition of Johnny. It was fantastic and I'll ride it again and again. Can't wait for the movie to come out.

After we got back we went over to Wendy's and I had some chicken strips. Figured I deserved them after all that running. Then we went to Walgreens where I bought a large amount of Nyquil and Dayquil. Then it was to the Pavillion for a little chat, then home. It was a good night. I work in 2.5 hours now. I'm looking forward to it, but also dreading it as I feel like crap. Oh well. We'll see how it goes. Next week I have a shift that end at 1:45am then I start the next morning at 9:45 am. If I'm not better by then I might not make it.

Have a great day all! I'm off to work where it shall be a mad house as all them idiotic folk who came in for the 4th of July will probably be around.

Brynna

My Job is Better Than Your Job!

2006-07-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

It's true. Don't try and deny it, because you know it's true. I mean how many of you (besides you Disney working folk like myself) have such a cool job? How many of you get total free access to the Disney theme parks all the time? How many of you get a 20% discount on all Disney merchandise. How many of you get paid to ride a roller coaster? NONE OF YOU! Except maybe you disney folk.

Yesterday I had a nice long eight hour shift at the coaster. Usually an 8 hour shift would send me into a tizzy but not at Disney. I didn't mind one bit. Sure my feet were hurting and I was a bit sleepy, but I didn't mind. I like my job that much. I could stay there day after day. Admittedly there are a few positions on my rotation that aren't the greatest but I get through all right. I started work at 2pm yesterday and worked until 10:30pm. I didn't get to do most of the positions though. I spent most of my time at Front Grouper and Studio B with a little bit of time at Unload Advance, Merge and Greeter. Well not so little time at Greeter. I was there twice. The first time it was awful as it started to rain about seconds after I got out there. Yes I have a bit of shelter to hide under but it doesn't work that well when it's windy too! So I got a bit damp. Florida being florida, though, meant it didn't take me a ton of time to get dry. One of the reason's this place rocks. There was virtually a river going through Greeter during the rain then just a few short hours later it was bone dry.

After my shift ended I got on the bus and came home. I got home from work at like 11:30pm. I came in the apartment and proceeded to attempt to read and not fall asleep. Didn't work. Eventually started to nod off but was abruptly interupted when my cell phone started to ring. It was Kevin telling me he was on his way home. I'd agreed to meet up with him and Louisa at the Pavillion when he got back. So about ten mins later he called again and I headed over. Thankfully I wasn't that drowsy after my ten second cat nap. So we went to the Pavillion and sat for awhile and talked. It was very exciting...or not. But it was nice.

This morning I slept later than I have since I got here. A sure sign I'm actually sick. For some reason Disney motivates me to not be so lazy. Most of you are well aware that I spend most days sleeping until 11am or noon. Here I'm usually up by 9:30am. I know, shocking! Today I wasn't up 'til 11am, though. A little while after I got up Kelly, Laura and I paid an anormous amount of money to take a cab to the Florida Mall. It was worth it, though, I think. It was a mall after my own heart. It had everything I love in it. Old Navy, the Gap, American Eagle, a book store, Shaper Image...the list goes on and on for 260 stores. Needless to say I spent alot of my (mom's) money. At Old Navy I got a pair of very comfy brown capris and some socks for work. I got a burgundy henley from American Eagle and a Blue stripey shirt from Aeropostle. I also got three book from Waldenbooks. I could have spent alot more money but I was sort of weary of it. So I didn't. That's why mom and dad are coming down in August anyways! P.S to all of you wondering to get me for my birthday...cash is nice. LOL. I'm burning through it here and will be dead broke come September.

After we finished shopping we paid another exorbatent amount of money to get home. Now I'm here typing to you people. I wanted to see Superman tonight but don't really have anyone to go with. I dunno if I'm willing to go by myself yet or not. Maybe. We'll see. Seems everyone has already seen Devil Wears Prada, which sucks as I am desperate to see it. I'm the only person here who's even read the book!

Funny story. Three days ago I lost my nail clippers. They were no where to be found what so ever. It was incredibly irritating! I searched everywhere. Under the bed, in the dresser and nightstand, my closet, the bathroom, the living room. They were absolutely no where. Then last night I look over at my nightstand and there they are just sitting there. So I'm either going crazy or I've a borrowing roomie.

So I don't really think I've got anything of interest left to mention. I could ramble on for awhile but I'm not sure you'd keep reading. Perhaps you would as my prose are always witty and interesting, but I don't want to chance it. So I'll go, but not before reiterating again just how much I love it here and how much I want to stay here forever. The prospect of going back to school in September is not exciting. I can't get myself excited about my major anymore which sucks.

Anyways, I'm going to go now.
Brynna

P.S- Mom I charged a bit on the card today, but not a ton!

Did she or didn' she?

2006-07-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

I bet that's the question on all of your mind, Did she or didn't she...pass her assessment? The answer is YES! Of course I did. To all those who doubted me, SHAME! It was a very easy assessment as, for reasons you're well aware of, the attraction wasn't attracting that many guests yesterday. It was pretty much walk on all day long. Which meant that in the highly stressful busy positions, I kind of just breezed through.

I started yesterday at 4pm. For two hours my assesser (Elliot) and I walked through each position where I demonstrated my saviness at each position. I passed in every area and apparently did extrememly well. One of the best he's assessed, Elliot said. I was done being assessed at about 6, then I had to wait around til 6:30 so Elliot could get the managers signature. After that I had my half hour break then at 7pm I was officially a Rockin Roller Coaster Cast Member. I was meant to go right into rotation but the first two times I signed into the computer it tasked me. That means going off and doing little tasks instead of doing the regular position. Each task is about 14 minutes long. The first one told me to go and pick garbage out of the planters. They were relatively garbage free so I just swept the queue. The second task had me out in front of the Guitar asking people if they'd like me to take pictures of them together. I didn't actually take any pics as the few people I asked refused the offer.

At 7:30 I was finally back in rotation. I did literally about 2 minutes at Unload Advance before I got bumped up to Front Grouper. I was there for about half an hour, then I was moved to Studio B. Stayed there for maybe twenty minutes then was sent on break. After break I was sent back to Studio B. I was there not long before I was sent out to Fast Pass Return at 9pm and I got stuck there until close. As it was a walk on and very slow, I was bored out of my mind.

After I finished my shift I came home and went to bed. Very exciting right? I got myself another shift today. I was start at 2pm and work until close at 10:30pm. I was hoping to get a morning shift but when I asked I got stuck with this, oh well. I'm off tomorrow. Don't know for sure what I'm going to do. Laura and Kelly are cabbing it to Florida Mall, might tag along. Then I work Monday-Friday. I'm very angry I don't have Friday off as Kev and Shanan are going to go see Pirates that day and of course I can't go! Meanies. After all that talk of going together months ago, Kev is deserting me. Just Kidding. I'm not all that bitter, just wish I could go. Now I'll have to coherce someone to go with me to either the midnight show on the 6th or an early early show on the 7th or any time on the 8th. I'll work it out.

It is officially the first day of July today. That means I've just two months before they make me go home. It's very depressing. I'd just rather not. Sure I miss you people, but what are the chances I'll see all of these people again? Maybe a few of them, but some of them live across the Atlantic. How the hell am I going to see them? It's just not a nice thought. I shall stop thinking about it.

Okay, I should go or I shall start thinking more dark thoughts.
Brynna

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2006-06-29T16:49:00.000-07:00

Today was a day unlike any other I have ever experienced, not in a good way. If you've seen the news then you probably know what has happened. I'm not going to go into great detail about it here as I'd just rather not, but I'll post a link in the sidebar just in case you haven't heard yet.

As you may remember, this morning I was scheduled to do my assessment. I arrived early, got some breakfast then hung out in the break room until I was scheduled to begin. When my assessor came I was taken to another building where I did my written test (did great on it by the way) and then after he marked it we stepped just outside the break room and sat at a picnic table so we could do the verbal part of my assessment. It was around then that this tragedy occurred. Needless to say the ride was shut down and I was not able to complete the in ride portion of my assessment. After the incident we were moved over to another building where I stayed for nearly four hours. I was given the option of leaving but I decided I'd rather stay. So I sat in the conference room talking with other cast members for a majority of the time. Then just after four I moved out in front of the gates and told guests we were closed. At 6:30pm I finished and caught the bus home.

Yesterday was my last day of training. I started my shift at 6pm with Claire, Josh and BJ. Basically we spent most of the night either going over the Q&A or in position. It was fun, I enjoyed the night. I was sad when it was over as I'd rather enjoyed the training portion of my job. I've yet to discover what it's like to be on my own in rotation, hopefully it's great. My shift did not end until 1:30am. Then I raced to the bus and got on, got home and went to sleep. I may have gotten about 5.5 hours of sleep, not much more though. This morning it was the worst thing ever, now it doesn't even matter.

I'm going to work tomorrow at 4pm til close at 10:30pm. Since I didn't finish that portion of my assessment I'll be doing that for the first two hours of my shift, then I'll be in rotation. I'm sure I'll do fine.

As horrible as this afternoon was I still don't want to go home. If it's possible, I want to stay even more. The way people came together this afternoon was amazing. I couldn't imagine working with a better group of people. I'm proud to call myself a Cast Member on Rockin Roller Coaster. I don't want it all to end.

It's not like I'm getting much incentive to come home anyways. I mean, besides my mom I haven't heard from anyone really. Here I am divulging the details of my life and I'm getting nothing in return. How am I supposed to miss you if I'm not getting constant reminders of you in my inbox.

One thing I know for sure is so far this summer has really made me look at my future. I'm making all sorts of crazy decisions and learning a ton. I'm even considering changing majors. I can be a writer with any degree. I can't run Disney World with a Creative Writing Degree. Though I'm sure whoever is running Disney World probably has an MBA from Harvard or something. Malaspina isn't quite on par with that, but oh well. I can start small, who knows where life will take me. Who knows how I'll feel at the end of the summer, or even two weeks from now.

I really shouldn't be left alone with my thoughts. I'm going to do something crazy one of these days.

Brynna

Recapping the last few days...

2006-06-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

Sorry to have neglected to blog, but I've been kinda busy. Now let me see...where did I last leave off? I think perhaps it was after work on Saturday. So after I posted I hung around the apartment for awhile. Didn't really do much worth mentioning. I was enjoying being lazy while being annoyed that I couldn't be at work. I'm strange. At around 8ish I tagged along with Kelly, Laura and a couple of their lifeguard friends to the Golden Corral. It was both great and horrifying at the same time. Basically it's just a massive all you can eat buffet. We got there and had to stand in a pretty long queue before we could get up to the front registers. That's where you pay for your 'admittance'. It came to $13.62 so I gave the cashier $23.62 because I really wanted to rid myself of a load of change that was clogging up my purse. I don't think that cashier could have passed grade eight math. I said here is $23.62 and she's like '$20.62?'. I was like, no here's three dollars, can I have a ten back please. Took her five minute to figure out what she was doing and the line behind me was getting longer and longer. In the end she was like I'm going to ring in $20.62 then she gave me a five a two ones. Then she took my three dollars in quarters and handed me five one dollar bills. How that was easier then giving me a ten dollar bill is beyond me. I was just glad to get away from her.

Once inside it's all very overwhelming. There's food everywhere. I went off and found the table the girls had picked out then got my plate and headed out. It's no wonder America has issues with obesity. This place is just ready to breed them. There were hungry fat women everywhere, barking at small children who accidentally cut in line. I've never felt so svelte in my life. So I managed to consume about half as much as my dining mates before I was ready to burst. That amounted to like a plate and a half of food and a tiny bit of dessert. I did not eat my money's worth.

On the way I got a text from Kev announcing a midnight trip to Wendy's. It was only ten then so I waited about two hours attempting not to fall asleep. I'd been up at 5:30 that morning, remember. Somehow I managed to get a second wind just before Kev called at midnight and I walked over and met up with him. Then Shayna and Shanan arrived and after they quickly changed, we were off to Wendy's. I had a few fries and some lovely lemonade. I've fallen in love with the minute maid light lemonade. It's great, not too sugary like the regular stuff. So after that we came back to Vista and hung around the pavilion til about 3:00a.m. I managed to stay awake for 22 hours. It was amazing.

On Sunday, my first day off, I walked around in boredom and despair for a short while. Then Charlotte and I decided to clean, I swept and mopped, she vacuumed. It was disgusting. Six girls equals a lot of shedded hair. I'm gagging as I remember it. After cleaning I layed on the couch and read for like 4 hours. Then I got on my computer for awhile. At around 7:30 I texted Kev cause we'd semi made plans to hit up the Magic Kingdom after he was done at work. I heard back from him about 45 mins later and once he'd arrived back at Vista and changed out of his costume we headed off to the Magic Kingdom. First we went to Toontown in hopes of finding Shayna on the Barnstormer. Sadly we couldn't locate her. So we rode the stormer which was short but fun. After that we headed over to the Haunted Mansion where Shanan was working and she walked us right on the ride. Very cool. After the mansion we went over to Adventureland and went on the Jungle Cruise. We managed to get ourselves on Louisa's boat. It was fun.

It was about 11:30 after we'd gotten off the JC. It was EMH (extra magic hours) but alas we had no wristbands, which meant no more rides. So we walked over to tommorowland and ate some food. I had a kids meal..yum. (not really). Then instead of going home we kind of just stood around and stared at the castle. We eventually left after 1:00a.m. The bus ride home was unfun as I kept falling asleep then waking up three seconds later. We got back to Vista and parted ways. Kev and I agreed to meet at the bus stop the next morning at 10:50a.m. so we could catch the bus to the AK where we could start off our day of visiting all four parks.

I went straight to bed and didn't move for 7 hours. Woke up at 10a.m. yesterday. Twenty mins before my alarm clock. Got up and got ready then headed off the the bus stop. Sat there for ages waiting for Kev. Bout seven minutes before the bus was meant to leave I texted him demanding he get down there. Bout three mins later I get a text from him saying he'd slept in and had just woken up. Needless to say we missed our bus. We managed to catch the next one thirty minutes later. We got to the Animal Kingdom and after some picture taking we walked over to Everest to I could ride for the first time. We stood in line for just over half an hour then we were on. It was fantastic. It was freaky and fun. The going backwards was nuts. After we got off the ride we wandered over to Africa to see the wait time for the Safari. Kev has never ridden it before, can you believe that? We didn't get on it, though, as the line was deemed to long by him. So we went in my fave store in the park and I bought a hippopotamus. He's very cute. Animal Kingdom is the only place I like to buy stuffed animals here. After that we decided to head over to Epcot. Not before I found a frozen banana, though.

We got to Epcot at around 2pm and went on Spaceship Earth. Then we met up with Vanessa, the girl from Kev's work. We didn't do much in Epcot. We went over to the UK pavilion so Kev could have some Chips. Just as he was getting them it started to absolutely pour. Like pellets of painful rain. I ran over to the shop to get a poncho but then decided it was too expensive. I expected the rain would pass. So I ran back to the others. After awhile it became evident that the rain would not stop. Kev, being very nice, decided to run over to the store and grab a poncho for me as I didn't want to leave the cover of our umbrella. He had a rain jacked from work already. After we were decked out in ponchos we headed backstage to catch the bus back to Vista.

After we got back to Vista we went our separate ways and put on some dry clothes. It was about six by the time we got back to Vista as we managed to miss the first bus from Cast Services as Kev decided he absolutely had to have his rain pants and ran back to his locker. Vanessa decided to stay home but Kev and I met up with Shanan and caught the 6:30pm bus over to MGM. We got in line for Rockin Roller Coaster but about ten mins later one of my coworkers came over and was like, Why are you in line? She then handed me a few rider switch passes and told me to just back door it next time. (that means come in through the backdoor and just jump on the ride). I was very excited by all this. We got on the ride and it was a blast as always. Working there doesn't make it any less fun at all!

After the ride we went over to Tower where the line was very short and that was also a blast. After Tower we went ot the ABC commissary for dinner. I had a nummy Cuban sandwich. After dinner we caught a bus over the the MK. We got to the park and descended into the tunnels. I'd been wanting to see them forever. They aren't all that exciting in the end. In fact, they kind of smell. It was still cool to see them, though. After I think we walked the entire length of them we rose up in Tomorrowland. Then we walked over to Haunted Mansion and rode that. After Mansion we went back to Tommorowland and rode Space Mountain. Then we went to Toontown to see if we could find Shayna, and we did. We helped her push some strollers and then agreed to meet her at the bus at midnight. Then Shayna dragged us over somewhere in Adventureland so she could go talk to her Manager. After that we went back into the tunnels and found Shayna. Then we left, heading to the VIP bus. That bus took us to Westclock where we were to catch our bus back to Vista. One of Shayna's coworkers was very nice, though, and offered to drive us back. So we got a ride with him. It was much quicker and nicer than the bus. I miss having a car. If I ever come back, I'm driving down. Not if, sorry, when.

So we got home and parted ways again so we could go get stuff from our apartments, then we met back up at the pavilion. Stayed there for a bit, then I walked over to Walgreens with Kev. I promptly forgot everything I needed to buy there (bug spray for one). Then we sat in the pavilion for awhile until like three, then I came home and crashed. Now it's Tuesday. Another storm has arrived. It seems we get one a day now. Kind of annoying. Makes the parks not fun.

I work tomorrow, I'm excited but nervous. It's my last day of training, then on Wednesday I have my assessment. I also got myself a really painful blister on the bottom of my foot yesterday, so that's kind of annoying. It makes walking unfun. My work shoes are also kind of drenched still. If they don't dry by tonight I'll have to throw them in the dryer.

I think I'm finally going to go to Wal-Mart today, if the storm doesn't get worse. I'd hate to get struck by lightning.

Have a good day all!
Brynna

Now I really need to go to Wal-Mart..

2006-06-24T13:22:00.000-07:00

And I can't get there until freaking Monday. I should have gone yesterday but I my feet were going to fall off and I couldn't imagine dragging myself around that place. I was way too tired. I came home and just sat for almost an hour, not moving. Then of course I blogged and had some food. Went to bed last night at like 8:30 or 9. Had a bit of a time trying to fall asleep as I'd gotten a second wind and I was actually quite giddy. After divulging my entire life story to poor Helen who just listened with a smile on her face I retired to my bed. This morning I was up at 5:30a.m.
It sucked again of course. Found myself alot more tired today than I have been so far this week. Must be catching up with me.

I caught the 6:02a.m. bus to MGM and was there at around 6:15a.m. I had neglected to eat breakfast on my way out because 1. I was running late and 2. I didn't really have any food (cause I need to go to Wal-Mart). So I dragged Claire over to Take 5 but sadly they do not open until 8a.m. So for 85 cents I bought got a packet of two poptarts out of the vending machines. I only ate one, though, as I'm not the biggest fan. We walked over to the breakroom after I'd aquired what was to pass as my breakfast and we sat around for about 20 minutes until Josh and BJ showed up. Once they got there we went off to Launch Base to learn the opening procedure for there. That took about an hour and a half. It involved alot of pressing buttons and speaking over the loud system. Once we were open we hung out in the Launch Base for almost an hour until our relief came. After that we went on break then headed over to unload. I was just about to start working unload advance and Claire at unload when Claire happened upon a girl who was hyperventilating in the car. Immediately all things stopped and I stood to the side as the all the experienced CM's set about doing the necessary stuff. The ride was shut down and the ambulance was called. The girl couldn't breathe properly and almost passed out several times. Because the paramedics were coming to offload no other guests could go back there so we had to completely stop the ride, evacuate the people who were in any of the cars (none were in the gravity building thank god, didn't really want to climb 101 steps to get people out) and then send all of the people waiting in line away. It was pretty hectic but also good experience for the future. We ended up spending about half an hour in the courtyard sending people away.

After the crisis ended and the ride was back up and running the four of us went over to one of the operations buildings and sat down and went over downtime (when the ride is shut down) reasons and procedures. After that we got lunch at Take 5. I had a buffalo chicken sandwich and a small handful of onion rings. After my single pop tart I was starving.

After lunch we did a walk through of all the positions and were told what to do if we are there and we go 101 (shut down). Then I think we may have gone back to the breakroom and had our last break. We might have done something else in there but I really can't remember now. After our break we started to go over what we'd be asked during out assessment on Thursday. We have to answer all these verbal questions and take a written test. It's kind of freaky. I'm pretty sure I'll pass, though. As long the ride doens't decide to shut down while I'm in Launch Base or something. We pretty much did that until 3 when the shift was over. Of course, at about 2:45 it started to absolutely pour outside. I had to walk from the breakroom, across the park and to cast services then out the building and to bus pick up. By the time I got there I was drenched. To make matters worse the bus was like 10 minutes late so that was just another ten minutes I was stuck standing in the rain. It was a very uncomfortable bus ride home. I hate being wet. It was all very thundery and there was lightning as well. So far in two weeks we've had more thunderstorms here then we had all year at home last year. It's nuts.

So now I'm home and I've three days off ahead of me. Most people would be jumping for joy, but frankly, I wish I didn't have three days off. I like working. I like the people. Three days is going to take forever. I want to go back now. I want to make new friends at work and get better and my job. I don't want to be here stuck listening to my roommate and her friend gibber gabber in Chinese, which is currently happening. It seems that everyone I know is probably working these next few days as well. It's crap.

I still don't want to come home by the way. I like it here and I can't imagine life in Ladysmith ever being quite as nice. I'll be coming back here one day, at least I really hope I will. Must find myself an American to marry. I might as well look while I'm here, lol. I love everything here. I love how there are oranges on the street signs and that when it rains it's still warm. I love the parks and my job. I love the people and I don't even mind my uniform that much anymore...although it's not that flattering and no one I look with has any clue that I'm not nearly as....poofy as my uniform makes me look. It makes me look about two or three sizes larger than I really am. No one should have to wear pants at their natural waist and then have to tuck their shirts in. Especially me. It looks fine on the guys, but on the girls it's not great, again, especially on me!

I can't believe I've only got one more day of training left. It sucks. I like being trained. It lotsa fun and not so nerve wrecking when you've got someone over your shoulder making sure you don't screw everything up. I really don't want three days off....I'd much rather be working. That's very different for me. Back home I was just dying for a bunch of days off, which I got alot of, and whenever I had to work it sucked. Now I can't wait. This is very strange for me.

I could ramble on about how much I love it here forever but you might get bored, if you aren't already so I'll stop. I'll keep you updated on how my three days off go. They'll probably be spent in a haze of longing for work. How strange. Perhaps I'll have to be pathetic and go to MGM one day just so I can ride the coaster.

Brynna

P.S- In regards to the comments on my last post...Jei's Mom, I had a really good burger at Bennigans the other night.

As for you Kevin, don't go trying to mug me. I think they may notice your not a girl when you get there, so it's not really worth your trouble. Plus they got nuts over Claires accent, they'd be sure to notice your Irishness and realize that you don't belong. By the way, where have you been this week? Haven't heard from you! Call me, I'm bored!

My feet are killing me and I'm tired as hell...

2006-06-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

Yet I'm still totally in love with my job and I never want to return home. Every last person who knows me knows that I will not wake up before 10 a.m. for almost anything. This morning I was up at 4:30a.m. to go to work and it didn't really bother me that much. That is how much I love working at Rockin' Roller Coaster. As for my feet, I can barely walk, but I don't care all that much. I've got a giant welt on my left foot and an annoying blister on my right, don't care. I miss everyone, but life in Ladysmith seems to maudlin after working here. Everyone will just have to move to Florida with me so I can have the best of both worlds.

Yesterday my shift started at 6:30 a.m. which meant I had to be up at 5a.m to catch a 5:30a.m bus so I could get to Cast Services ( place where Cast members enter the park) by 6a.m. It was still dark out when I got to Cast Services. After I was dropped off I started walking towards the RRC break room, of course I was so tired I ended up walking in the wrong direction and I found myself over by Star Tours instead of Hollywood Boulevard where I meant to go. So instead of going backstage and back tracking I just walked across the park towards RRC. It was very cool to see the place so empty. It occurred to me I may never see the park so empty again. It is a very cool place but even cooler when there aren't hordes of people everywhere. It was just me and the maitenance/janitorial people. Although funnily enough, the seem to keep the theme park music going at all times cause even without guests it was still going.

After strolling through the empty streets of MGM I made it to the break room. The other girl I'm training with was already there. About fifteen minutes later BJ and Josh showed and they took us for a walk around the empty building. We walked into the Gravity building, which is the building where the actual coaster is and saw it all with the lights on (to those unaware it's an in the dark coaster). It's kind of weird and kind of freaky. After our little walk we returned to the break room to get the keys, checklist and binders required to do the interior opening. There are three opening people each doing a different section. Our job was to check all of the doors in the building and make sure they were locked and stuff, cause if someone some how opens them the entire ride shuts down. We also had to climb like 101 stairs to get to the very highest point of the coaster when we were doing power resets. We did a lot of other things which aren't worthy of mentioning but the entire thing involved a lot of walking around.

After opening we went back to launch base and we got to ride the coaster twice. Once in the light which was so freaky cause you could see everything and where you were going, the second time we rode in the dark. Then we had 'track talk' which is the managers little opening chat with the cast members. Then we opened. Our little training group headed off to unload where we were taught the two positions there. Unload in which you tell the guests where to get off the coaster and check the first four cars and then Unload advance which is where you check the last two cars and actually push the button that sends it to load. We stayed there for a while and then I think we may have had a break. Again I'm not exactly positive of the order we did things, so bear with me as I try to remember. We did front grouper at some point, which is where you group the people into the limo cars. Make them line up at the appropriate gates. Front grouper is only in charge of the first six cars of the train. After that I'm pretty sure we may have gone outside to work at greeter or fast pass distribution. I do remember that we spent a lot of time at both locations yesterday. I know at some point we sat down and kind of reviewed the stuff we'd learned. I know we tested another car at some point later on. And I had a chicken salad for lunch. Then I came home, did a couple loads of laundry, ate dinner and went to bed. It was all very exciting.

Today I got up at 4:30 a.m. It was nuts being up so early. I don't really recommend it. Today was extra magic hours early edition, which means the park opened an hour early at 8a.m. for hotel guests only. Because I'm still doing the opening rotations, had to be there two hours before opening so we could do it. The girl I'm training with though didn't show up until after nine cause she had slept in. So BJ and Josh took me through the exterior walk through, then I rode the coaster in the light all by myself, then they taught me the load position. We then had a break and then went out to fastpass return. A few minutes after we got out there she showed up. After we did fastpass return awhile we went over Studio B, the place where you get to say a little spiel to the people. I like that position best I think. We did that a few times then went in Studio C where the actual little show is. They don't always have a person working in there but when they do they get to talk as well. I liked it in there as well.

After those two positions we went back out to Greeter and Fastpass Distritbution and hung there for awhile before heading off to lunch. I had a 6 inch Chicken Bacon Ranch which was delicious and very reasonably priced at just $3.55. You may or may not know this, but that is like the most expensive sub on the menu in Canada, so I rarely get it cause it's like two dollars more than all the other ones. Finding it so cheap at Take 5 was awesome. It tasted fabulous.

After lunch we went back out and I think we may have Load/Load Advance. Which is where you load the guests on the car. The two positions are on either side of the car. It involves a lot of walking. Then we worked MERGE which is where you merge the fastpass and standby lines, count them, measure the small ones, and then send them up to the show. It's a very fast paced position but I think I can get the handle of it. It's also outside, though, which sucks because of the heat. The last thing we did was back grouper which is probably the most fast paced of all the positions. You have to send people up to front gouper, then group people into the last six cars of the train. You also have to measure heights of small children, deal with FLIK cards (cards you give to guests to measure the wait time) and remove wheelchairs to unload when a guest with one comes through. It was all very fast paced and I didn't even do all of it, Josh was helping me out. Apparently I'm doing pretty good, though, so that's nice.

After grouper we got to clock out then Josh walked Claire and I over to the bungalows to pick up our checks. I got a whole $48, woohoo. On the bus home I was falling asleep. All in all it was a pretty good day. I love the job and the people are really cool.

Josh and BJ are lots of fun as well. Although they've taken to pushing us around, literally. I don't mind, though, as I just push em back. literally. I may come home bruised but I don't even care. That is if I ever come home...lol.

Now I'm back home. It's like 6:00 and all I want to do is go to bed. I'm so tired. I'll try and stay awake a couple more hours though. I still have to eat dinner. Another frozen meal, hooray. I have another shift tomorrow at 7a.m. which means I must be up by 5:30a.m. Then I have three days off, which I kind of don't like as I like my job so much and sitting around won't be nearly as fun. Would it be sad if I spent one day at MGM going on RRC over and over again? I do have to go to Animal Kingdom, though. So I may try and get over there, and I'd like to go see Click if I get the chance.

I must be leaving now as I don't really have anything left to say. I'll update when my life becomes newsworthy again.

Brynna

After that we went back inside and

I suppose I'll just have to marry an American...

2006-06-21T17:40:00.000-07:00

Cause after today, I never want to come home. How can I possibly work anywhere else? Any other job is going to blow like no tomorrow. If the only way Disney will let me stay is if I'm American then I'm going to have to go about getting my citizenship the old fashioned way, marrying an American.

Before I tell you about my fabulous job I shall tell you what I did yesterday, then we can delve into the other stuff.

So yesterday afternoon I headed off to MK with Shayna, Shanan and Kev. First we had to stop at Vista Credit Union which is on the way at Disney University. So we got off our bus and walked over to the bank so the three of them could deal with their money things. I haven't been here long enough to need to cash a paycheck and I don't have a bank account yet. So after we finished there we walked back over to the bus stop intending to catch the VIP Castmember bus that takes you to the entrance of the tunnels so we could get in the park. Apparently people do this all the time, no big deal. We happened upon the worst security guard in the world though. When he asked Shayna if she was working she said no and he was like 'you can't go on this bus then.' Which was bull, people do it all the time. MK cast have to take the bus to get to their employment bases to pick up paychecks and stuff. They have to let you over there. It was just stupid. He was going on about us falling and breaking our ankles and suing disney, which none of us would ever do. It wasn't a really big deal to me but everyone else was very angry.

Finally another one of 'our' buses came and the very kind bus driver dropped us of at the TTC even though it wasn't on his route. We made it into the parks about 1-2 hours after we had planned.

In the parks we went and watched Mickey's Philharmagic which was very good. After that we walked over to Frontierland and had an early dinner at Peco's Bills. Then we wondered around the pirate store for awhile, looking at the Pirates of the Caribbean doors in awe. Only a few more weeks!!! It seemed for a minute there that Shanan was going to try and break in, but in the end she did not, thank god.

After we finished there it was nearing time for Kevin to leave as he had to work. We said our farewells then headed over to Splash Mountain. It was so hot out there that standing in line for over an hour just to get on the ride seemed alright. We just wanted to get splashed. And we did. It cooled us off for maybe five minutes, then we were completely dry again.

When we had arrived we'd gone over to Space Mountain and grabbed some fastpasses. It was time to use them when we stepped off Splash so we headed to Tomorrowland. On the way we grabbed some Pineapple Dole Whips (pineapple soft serve ice cream) which were amazingly yummy. When we got to Space Mnt. a guy Shayna and Shanan knew was working the FP line so he gave us a couple tickets that would get us all on two more times. So in the end we rode Space three times. It was fantastic each and every time. When we were done at Space we went to Fantasy Land and rode Snow White, then over to Haunted Mansion, then the Jungle Cruise where we had an awesomely hilarious 'guide'. After that we went back to Adventureland and rode Aladdin's Flying Carpets. One of the big stone camels spit in my ear, I fear I may get an infection as it's been hurting ever since.

It was about ten after the carpets so I said farewell to the girls and headed home. I wanted to beat the Wishes (fireworks show) crowd and get home early and go to bed. I got home and went to sleep.

This morning I began work at the Rockin' Roller Coaster. I woke up forty five minutes before my alarm cause I was so nervous/excited. I got ready, put on my snazzy uniform and headed to the bus. When I got there I found another girl from my arrival group who was training with me. Her name is Claire. Together we waited 'til our appointed trainer, BJ, arrived at 10:15. When he showed up he was accompanied by Josh who was job shadowing him because he is training to be a trainer. So together those two were training us, still are for the next four shifts. Two very nice guys. We walked over to the RRC break room and put our stuff in a cubby then signed in and began our day. First we got a little tour of Sunset Boulevard, then we went to the ride. We got in at the fastpass line and got to ride the ride. It was pretty cool. After that they walked us through the place. We toured all the areas we were allowed in and took a look at the various positions. Then we had a break, then we went back and did another little tour. Then we walked to Take 5 for lunch. After lunch we came back and did more walking around....I can't remember all that we did as it was a long day and it all seems to blend together more. We did get to go in the little recording studio that people look into during the preshow and pretend to be part of the show. It was really cool to go in there. After that we may have taken another break, then we had a little welcome talk with one of the managers. Then we got to hang out in the launch pad for an hour. I got to press the start button a ton of times....it was cool. I was controlling the coaster! Kind of. LOL. It was fun. After that we spent about a half hour outside greeting people and then we were off.

I know I condensed alot of that but it's really hard to remember exactly what I did. I do know it was a ton of fun and I can't wait to go back. It's going to be an amazing summer, I can tell. I never want to come home. And we get really cool jackets to wear inside, although the one I picked up in uncomfy so I'm going to get a different one tomorrow. I have to go to bed now cause I have to catch a bus at 5:30 a.m. so I'm off. I'll write more later.

Brynna

A horrible realization!

2006-06-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

Before I get started on telling you all about my day yesterday I must relay this dastardly realization I had this morning. I was just lying in bed attempting to drift back to sleep when it occurred to me, next week I work until 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Then on Thursday I work at 10:00a.m. That's only like 9.5 hours apart! You may say, 's'alright, won't be too bad'. You must account for the buses though! If I'm super super lucky I may get the 1:47 bus home and be back by 2:30. If I'm no lucky though and miss that I'll be on the 2:17 bus and will arrive back sometime around 3:a.m. Then I have to be up at like 8:30 the next morning so I can catch the 9a.m. bus! Im going to be dead to the world...and get this. That's the day of my assessment! I'm going to be nodding off while they are trying to test me and figure out if I'm good enough to run the ride! Oh the horror!

Now that I've finished telling you this horrible tale, I'm sure you are all shaking in your seats, I'll tell about what I did yesterday.

So at about 1:20 Charlotte and I hopped on, well I'm not sure which bus it was but it took us to the commons. So we got to the Commons and jumped out and started to walk over to the Outlet Malls! This involves crossing the most giant Church parking lot in the history of the world. It also has a very massive church. Once we got to the other side and we began to troll through the mall. I dragged Charlotte in almost every single store. We started at the Gap then worked our way around. I found some very nice jeans at Levi's, but as I don't really need jeans in this weather I figured I'd leave em' til August. We went in every shoe store and I found tons of pairs I want. I found Nine West Sandals for $20. I didn't buy them cause they didn't seem practical, but it was a nice thought. Maybe if I can ever learn to walk in anything higher than two inches...

After some time we started to tire so we stopped at TCBY which serves nummy frozen yogurt in the ice creamiest flavours. I had a small one with a scoop of chocolate chip mint and a scoop of vanilla brownie swirl. Nummy! Just as tasty at Ice Cream but half the calories! Charlotte just got a massive coke. After we finished we went in this store Charlotte loves called Papaya. It was one of the those stores where I size L is about a size small or extra small in any other normal store. Needless to say I did not fit in...lol. So I left and took a quick gander at Samsonite where I found a great little turquoise backpack for $40. I did not buy it because it was so expensive, but it was a thought. Maybe another day. It had a padded slot for my computer and everything. After that I went to some underwear store and considered buying a bunch of new ones so I wouldn't have to do laundry, then I remembered I still have enough left to not have to do laundry til about Saturday, so I didn't buy any.

After Charlotte was done in Papaya we walked over to Fossil where I gazed longingly at watches and purses. Didn't buy any yet, though, as I'm still considering saving my money and getting this really nice watch at Disney. Then we walked over to Sketchers where I found these awesome shoes. They are black sandals with very squishy soles. We'd been walking around for about 3.5 hours by then and my flip flop clad feet were screaming at me. The minute I tried those sandals on I was in heaven. The pain almost completely went away. So I bought them. Luckily they were onsale from $43 dollars to $25! Even better because of my Disney status I got this discount book which gave me 20% off at Sketchers. So in the end I payed like $21 which was awesome. Best purchase of my life. Well maybe not, but certainly of my week.

So after I bought my sandals we decided it was time to go as we'd been there 4 hours and we were quite hot and sore. We stalked back across the giant church parking lot and into the Commons where our bus showed up seconds later and we hopped on. About thirty minutes after we got back Laura and Kelly arrived home and the four of us went to the pool. I think we swam for nearly three hours. It was quite fun, although the nearing thunder and lightning was a bit frightening. Never hit us though!

*Fun Fact: In the Disney parks there are tons of little metal rods on the tops of the buildings...Lightning rods. They'd rather the lightning strike those then the guests. The Mickey on top of the tall thing at the front of MGM has a giant copper ear for the very same purpose!*

After swimming we came back to the apartment and dried off then walked over to Bennigans, an Irish themed burger place. I had a Peppercorn Bluecheese Hamburger Pita which was fabulous. And mom (she doesn't believe I'm eating enough veggies) instead of fries I had steamed broccoli. The burger pita thing was very cool. Instead of a bun they fill a pita with all the burger stuff. Quite nice. It even had those little dusted onion things that I love so much. The only way I will eat onions.

After dinner came home, hung out on my comp for awhile then read then went to sleep. The phone rang at 9a.m. this morning so I've been up since then. I'm dead tired but my room was way to bright and warm to sleep in. May go to walmart to get a sheet to hang over it.

Now that I've relayed all the details of my life to you I don't know what else to say. I start my work on the Rockin Roller Coaster tomorrow. Woohoo! I'm excited, except the fact that I must wear my dastardly costume on the bus does freak me out a bit. I don't think it's fair to make me wear it in public. I must remember that everyone else looks just as crap in their costumes as I. Well not all of them, there are quite a few who look just fine in their uniforms. I must try not to hate them.

Ooo have I told you about my status as bug treat. Apparently bugs just love to eat me. I'm the only one of my roommates with a myriad of bites on me. Oddly they all seem to be occurring on my left side, but I have a few. Three tiny little ones on my left arm. No idea what those are from. Then on my left side I've got three massive, angry red bites in a row. One day I only had one, the next day I had two then the next day I had three. I'm not pleased. Bugs suck! Oh and last night we saw a massive beetle or cockroach climbing the side of the building outside our door. EWWW!! Wasn't as big as the bug from the other night but it was enough to freak me out a bit.

I've a challenge for all of you, send me emails, tell me what's going on with you. I feel very disconnected from you peoples. Here I am sharing ever last detail of my life with you yet I've no idea what the hell you guys are up to! So send in the emails. I'm starting to feel like no one loves me. It seems I only get emails from the House of Blues concert updater!

I should go now, I've noticed I've become a bit fond of the exclamation point. I must work on not using it so much. Have a nice day all, although I doubt many of you are awake right now...

Brynna

Nothing really has happened....

2006-06-19T07:58:00.000-07:00

I'm bored, so I thought I come here and ramble for a little while. I believe we left off yesterday when I came home and told y'all about my day at MGM. Well I'm going to give it to you straight. Since then about next to nothing has happened. I ate some frozen macaroni and then Helen, Laura and Kelly all came home. Laura and Kelly were v. excited as they had passed their lifeguard tests and now could start work. After awhile we all decided to go the Pleasure Island. Fast forward about 3 hours and Kelly still isn't ready. At around 9:30 we head over to some other lifeguards apartment to hang til the next bus. About then I start to yawn frequently and the thought of my bed brings a smile to my face, not dancing 'til the wee hours of the morning. Alas the girls were so busy talking that they missed the 10:30 bus so Helen, Charlotte and I all decided to head off to Walgreens for my sugary crap and then come home. I ate some very nice Edy's Nestle Tollhouse Icecream, not that much though. Then I went to bed.

Now I'm awake. Riveted are you? I know I would be. I have no idea what I'll actually end up doing today, though I know I need to go to Wal-Mart to get another T-Mobile Card as the website will not accept my Canadian Credit card. So now I have to spend like an hour on a bus and then an hour at Wal-Mart so I can call people. Oh well. I could get some more food too. I've tomorrow off too so I might go then if I can't work up the energy to go today.

I can't think of anything else to say, and I've tried. So I'll say farewell for now.
Brynna

The Adventures of Super Brynna

2006-06-18T13:20:00.000-07:00

So I'm trying out Superhero names. I'm not sure Super Brynna is the best but if you have any suggestions let me know. I figure I need an alter ego, it might be fun. A good way to blow off steam.

No that I'm done with the general silliness I regale the latest tale in the Super Brynna Saga.

So last night Charlotte and I headed down to the West Side of Downtown Disney and caught a film, The Lake House. It was fabulous. Both Charlotte and I loved it! People may make fun of Keanu but I like him. He's very pretty and I think he can act. I don't care if you don't. Sandra Bullock was in fine form as well. We shared a giant popcorn and I bought a ridiculously expensive bottle of water. Next time I will not forget to bring my own snacks. After the movie we bussed it home and I went straight to bed.

This morning I was up at 6a.m. I know, what a horrible hour eh? When my alarm went off I was so disoriented, I had no idea why it was going off. It's never done that before you see, gone off so early. When I finally remembered I had somewhere to be I got up and started going about the business of going ready. I wore my lovely pink top that I bought in like January at Old Navy. It was the first time I wore it and could be the last. Between January and now I've lost far too much weight for this shirt. I shall only wear it if I want to world to witness my bra...and then some. Perhaps a pin would help.

After I'd perfected my look to the best of my ability I hightailed it out the door only to discover the sprinklers were on and my normal path to the busses would require getting soaked. A few quick jumps and maneuvers and I was on the road and away from the offending jets of water. I walked quickly, paranoid the bus would leave without me. I was early, though, and I did not miss it. So I got on and headed off to Disney-MGM Studios where my future (well the next two months) awaited me. We were there about half an hour early so we sat in the break room and watched Playhouse Disney. I got to watch The Wiggles and that clown girl, I forget her name.

At 7:15 our two group leaders showed up and handed out costuming forms for us to fill out or sizes so when we came back after the tour and class we'd have things to try on. I looked at the top of the form and under type of costume there was my job title........Now if you've talked to me recently or perhaps I mentioned it in this blog, I don't know...I found out last week that I was working on Sunset Boulevard in the Studios, and I'm on attractions. That left serveral options. Tower of Terror, Rockin Roller Coaster, Parade, Fantasmic and Theatre of the Stars with Beauty and the Beast. Now, the night I found that out and I was MSNing with a girl who is here who had the same job description and she's working Parade Control/Fantasmic. She told me it was almost definite I would be doing the same thing as her as they really needed people. I wouldn't be Tower of Terror as you need a hearing test and Rockin' Roller Coaster was apparently full she said. So I'd resigned myself to that job. Not that it's bad or anything, I was just worried about being in the sun during the Parade.

So I get my form and I'm expecting the Parade/Fantasmic job when I look down and see....COASTER as my costume type!!! Rockin' Roller Coaster people! You have no idea how excited I was. For months and months I've been saying how Rockin' Roller Coaster is my number one choice. I have no idea why, I just got it in my head that I really really wanted it. That or Tower of Terror or the Safari. I never thought I'd get any of my first choices. I mean, what are the odds, this place is huge. I could have been placed anywhere. So I was on a general high for the rest of the morning.

After we filled out or little forms we went on a walking tour of the park. It was pretty empty as it wasn't even open yet, so that was cool. I got to see a lot of the backstage area, although I have no idea how to find anything back there. After our walk through we went to the staff cafeteria for breakfast or lunch depending on your mood. It was only 10a.m. but we'd been up so long it was time for a meal. I had breakfast. Some lovely french toast with a hashbrown patty and a sausage patty. It was yummy. Especially since I've been mostly consuming frozen meals this past week.

After breakfast we went to the learning centre and did a couple of online 'classes'. Very simple and didn't take to long. Bout half way through our Training Co-ordinators showed up and took us aside. I got my training schedule. I was horrified. I have two days off then my training starts. on Wednesday it's not so bad, I start at 10:15a.m. But it just goes downhill from there. I start at 6:30a.m. on Thursday, then a horrible 6:00 a.m. start on Friday. Then 7:00 a.m. on Saturday. Then thankfully I've three days off before my last day of training on the 28th. I start at 6:00p.m. that day. The next day I start at 10:00a.m. and get my assessment. So you can see how terrifying this is. Even worse. The first bus to MGM doesn't even get here til 6:02a.m. which leaves me screwed on Friday. I'll have to figure out something.

After we finished our computer classes we walked over to costuming to get our costumes. I may like my ride but I hate the costumer. It's horrible! Even worse, nothing fits properly. Disney sizing is just wrong. If you ever find yourself suffering from high self esteem just get a job at Disney and watch it plummet the minute you step into your uniform, 3 or 4 sizes higher than your normal size. I'm not joking. I'm not even going to tell you what size the pants are, only that it made me want to cry. And they fit really badly too. The problem is they have such a high waist that the waists are really small, but the rest of them balloon out. So they fit in my waist and then there's room for me to stuff a couple of children around my thighs and stomach. The shorts are just as bad. They just look like a wired skirt cause they flare out. I may eventually post a pic for you to see, but I'm not ready to share my shame yet.

It took over an hour to finally find a costume that fit marginally, by that time I was so hot and sweating so much I wanted to pass out. Those costumes won't breathe, I can tell. Then I had to lug FIVE of them home. That's five shirts, five vests and five pants or shorts. Plus a belt. It wasn't easy. As I left the building I saw my bus in the distance but could not run for the weight of the costumes. Just as I hit the road it took off I had to wait another thirty minutes for the next one. I sat on the same bench as the other night, no bug this time though, thank god!

So now I'm back home. No idea what I'll do tonight or for my next two days. Hopefully I'll have fun. I'll let you know later.

Brynna

they have faces now...

2006-06-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

I have officially met three of them people I've been talking on the internet with for like months. No longer must I imagine what they look like. Yesterday afternoon I was just chatting along on MSN when I started talking to Kevin. It seemed he and Shanan both had the day off and were heading to the outlet mall. I wanted to go there desperately so I tagged along. It was much fun walking around with them. The mall has a Fossil store which made my day. I can get a Fossil watch for 30 dollars. That's insane!

After the mall we caught a bus over to Disney-MGM studios. It was my first time there since I got here. It's my fave park and it's where I'll be working so it was very cool. We went on the Great Movie Ride first. I love that ride. It may be slow and kind of mundane at times, but it's still fun and a good way to relax. After the Great Movie Ride we stumbled upon the Narnia Exhibit thing. I was expecting something really cool, it was slightly disappointing. There was like a room with a bunch of 'snow' covered trees. The White Witch made a small appearance then we were shown a bunch of clips from the movie. After that we went in this tiny little room with props from the movie. That was it. Nothing exciting at all. After Narnia we walked around a bit. Found New York street and took a couple fab photos. Oddly there's another street going of New York street that looks like it's supposed to be San Francisco but at the top of it there's a british phone booth and apparently some british signs. Can't really tell what the streets supposed to be. It was odd. I took some photos which I shall post soon.

After the confusion of San Francisco Street, if that's what it's called, we watched Muppets 3D which was nice and entertaining. I haven't seen it in years so it felt newish. We wanted food after Muppets but annoyingly the planned restaurant would only seat you if you had reservations so we settled upon the Prime Time Cafe. I love the place. It's food is horrible for you but the atmosphere is great. I had some fried chicken, gasp! It was good but I shall not eat it again. Luckily I'd eaten barely anything else all day. My waitress yelled at me for not eating my veggies (i think it was spinach but not sure. All I know is it wasn't going in my mouth). She didn't punish me or anything, though, which was nice.

We finished dinner just after ten and then dashed over to Fantasmic and watched the show. Until last night I hadn't seen the Disney World version. I only saw it once when I was eight at Disney Land. I've tried to see it every time we've been here but mom has had no interest. I could be working there, though, so I may see it every night for the rest of the summer.

After Fantasmic we left the park and headed for the bus stop....ok I just have to stop right now and tell you that I'm going nuts at this moment. One of my roomies has pringles and is eating them so loudly I want to throw something. The sound of people chewing is my biggest pet peeve but I've managed alright so far since I've been here but no one should be eating that loud. NO ONE!...anyways, we headed back to the bus but found that we'd just missed it so we had to wait for half an hour. Just as we sat down on a bench a massive bug walked over to us. It was the biggest bug I'd ever seen outside of a cage. It was over 2 inches long and had pincers. It looked like half scorpion half crap have beetle. I'm not sure what it was but it freaked me out. Freaked us all out. It just sat there and stared at us for like 10 minutes then suddenly it's got wings and it starts flying right at us. I screamed bloody murder. Shanan swore a lot. Not sure what Kevin did I was too concerned with my safety. So I ran. Shanan ran. The bug flew at us then in the other driection. At one point Shanan was running after it...not sure she realized. Eventually it did leave us alone although it hung out down near the next bench over.

The bus eventually arrived and we loaded on and headed back to Vista. It was a longish bus ride but I didn't mind. This guy wasn't driving nearly as bad as the dude that took us back from Epcot yesterday. I don't think that guy could drive within the lines.

When we got back we met up with Shayna, another internet pal, and headed to the pavilion where we stayed until about 3a.m. talking. At about that time we headed off for bed. It was great night and it was awesome to finally start meeting all those people I've been chatting too.

I'm off to get ready to head to Wal-Mart. I'm in need of work shoes and food. I believe I'm going to see a movie tonight with Charlotte and perhaps Helen. I'm not sure. We'll see.

I find out my job tomorrow. I'll make sure to let you know the moment I can get on the computer.
Brynna

In the house of mouse...

2006-06-16T12:26:00.000-07:00

I have officially been in the Parks. They are more packed then I've ever seen them but they are also quite fantastic. On Wednesday night I didn't have my ID yet but everyone in my apartment was going to go the the Magic Kingdom. My very nice roomie Laura offered to get me in on her guest pass so I go to go too! A huge group of us headed over to the park on the bus. We got dropped off at the TTC ( Transportation and Ticket Center) and somehow in the midst of fighting over wether to take the monorail or ferry to the park we lost Charlotte and Helen. So I made off with Kelly, Laura, Robin and a few people I don't remember the names of. They were all very nice though. We went to space mountain, decided the line was too long so we went on Stiches Great Escape. I liked it better when it was the scary version. After that we went on Buzz and I got a fabulously high score. Higher than ever before. Nothing as high as dad can get but it was great for me.

After Buzz we walked over to Fantasyland and walked right onto It's a Small World. It's a miracle the stong isn't stuck in my head. It was about 10 mins til closing after we got off Small World so we bolted over to Haunted Mansion and got on just before they closed. It was awesome as always.

I had thought we would leave after the Haunted Mansion but I had to stay cause everyone else wanted to watch spectromagic. I did not as I had traditions very early the next morning and it was already past 11. I watched it but didn't enjoy it as I was so anxious to get home and go to sleep. It would have been nice had I not been so worried. Even so the damn music from it is still stuck in my head two days later. I can't seem to make it leave.

I finally got home at around 12:40 and went straight to sleep.

Yesterday morning I got up early, got ready and headed to Traditions. Eight hours in a classroom learning about Disney. Most of it was okay, although there were parts I was so sure I would pass out. Our teacher was nice and enthusiastic, just a little long winded. It wasn't horrible or anything. I sat with four french people which was interesting. I couldn't really understand what they were saying most of the time, but oh well.

So after Traditions I came home and Helen and Charlotte were just about to head to the MK (Magic Kingdom) so I got ready and headed out with them. We got there and went straight for Splash Mountain. The line was 70 minutes but we really wanted to do it so we braved it and waited. Was a good chance to talk and get to know each other better, though. The ride was great. Charlotte, who is terrified of most rides and was freaked out about this one, loved it.

After that we went to Big Thunder (we'd gotten fast passes before getting in line at Splash Mountain). We walked pretty much right on the ride and as a bonus got the very front car. Charlotte and I sat in the very front. You feel the bumps and turns alot more up there. It was great.

After the ride we went to Pecos Bills and remembered we were broke so we had some fries and cheese sauce. Not healthy I know but it was enough to get us through the night and it didn't send up to bankruptcy.

After food we went and stood near mainstreet and waited for the fire works. The fireworks were awesome and very pretty. After the fireworks we went in the emporium and looked around then went home.

This morning Helen, Charlotte and I went to Epcot for awhile. It was very very hot and busy. Couldn't get on any of the good rides as the lines were hours long. So we did the lame-mediocre stuff. Then we headed home and now I'm here writing. I think I may go shopping to the outlet mall soon which should be fun. It has started to absolutely pour and I fear getting soaked but oh well.

Tata for now,
Brynna

This one's for the fans...

2006-06-13T21:21:00.000-07:00

So apparently there are people out there just dying to read up on the adventures and misadventures of my summer in Disney World. I aim to please so I'll make sure to include all the exciting details of the past two days.

I guess I'm done, as there are no exciting details.

On to the boring ones!

I have five flat mates....the reasons for my British slang will be evident soon. Ryan who comes from Hong Kong, Kelly who comes from Wales, Helen who comes from Scotland, Laura who comes from Ireland and Charlotte who comes from England. All are vey nice and fun.

On Monday morning we all got up and trooped over to the Pavillion so we could get on a bus and head over to the Commons to have a 'housing talk'. It lasted about two hours and then we were brought back to Vista and had about two hours off to hang and eat lunch. It was about this time that Alberto started rearing his ugly head. It just poured and poured. I thought it was bad in B.C but it was nothing like here. At around 1 I had to leave the dry apartment to head over to the pavillion again. Luckily it's only across the road. Still soaked when I got there though. And in case you were wondering, Umbrellas aren't that helpful when the rain is coming at you from all sides.

At the Pavillion we had to go through all these stations to get officially 'checked in'. Took almost two hours and it was kind of boring. I got my ID at one of the stations. The photo is so horrible I shall never show a soul, except everyone who sees it when I have to show security. And my room mates have seen it. But none of you people ever will. They confinscate it at the end of summer.

After I was done that I came back to the room and met up with the other girls and we all headed to Wal Mart. Promised ourselves we wouldn't go over board but did anyways. Between the five of us (ryan went alone) we managed to buy about three full carts of stuff. There was no way it would all go on the bus so we had to take a cab back. It all filled up the entire trunk area.

After we got back we hung around for awhile. Robin (a girl from Canada) came over and we talked then played ping pong at the club house while the other girls swam. After that we call came back and went to bed.

This morning had to wake up at 8 and head back to the pavillion. I got to spend 3 hours on a bus waiting at Social Security. There were three bus loads of people going through. I got in about half way though. Then we had to wait for other to finish. It was incredibly boring. After all the kids on my bus were done we were driven to the outlet mall to get lunch. I had spaghetti. Then we had to go back to the Commons for another talk. This time it was all about forms and stuff. I foudn out I'll be working in MGM in the 'Sunset' area. Apparently I'm likely to be doing crowd control at parades and Fantasmic. Won't know for sure until Thursday though. Although I'm being told I might not know until Friday. It's all far too confusing.

After the talk came back home, hung around for a bit then Charlotte and I went to Downtown Disney and looked around a bit. We scouted out what her costume will be when she works at Goofy's Candy Co. The poor girl...

Now I'm back at the apartment staying up as late as I want to as I have nothing to do tomorrow. Some may find a day off alluring but I'm antsy not getting on with things. Plus what the hell am I going to do? Until I get to my Disney ID on thursday I can't get in the parks.

Anyways I've run out of things to say.
Brynna

I have arrived

2006-06-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

My plane landed at about 7:30 this morning. It wasn't soon enough. It seemed to go on forever. When I got the airport last night they told me I'd been put in a middle seat. I couldn't believe it. I was so mad. Just ask my mom. The guy on the phone had said it was an aisle seat when we booked it! Anyways. Hung out at the airport with mom and dad for awhile then said goodbye and headed to my gate. It was nerve wrecking, waiting to board that flight. I was like almost the very last person to load as my row was called almost last. When I got there, someone was in my seat and the aisle seat was clear. Apparently the idiot airline had put me in a middle seat and split up a couple. So I got my aisle seat. The couple had a baby, though, which made things a little less nice. I think I might have gotten a total two hours sleep.

So we landed and I rushed down to baggage claim cause my plane was late and I was paranoid no one would be there to meet. As I frantically looked around a nice looking woman approached me and asked if I was "brynna?". I didn't say thank god, but I wanted to. Then the luggage took like half an hour to arrive. It was the most awful half hour ever. I was so tired I felt like I might tip over. When the luggage finally came the woman (I forget her name, I think it might have been Jessica) helped me lug it to the other end of the airport so we could meet up with some other kids who'd already arrived. There were six of us total on the bus to the residences.

Thankfully I was placed in Vista. I'd been so paranoid all week that I'd be put in the Treehouse Villas. They don't have internet access, and no one I know is there. When we got here I checked in and got my room key and headed off to unpack. I was the first of six of us to arrive, so I got my choice of beds. I chose the farthest one from the living room to avoid noise.

After unpacking I crashed, only to wake up two hours later shivering and aching. I'd turned the air conditioning on way too high earlier. I thought for sure I had the flu. I had to leave the apt immediately and sit in the sweltering heat outside until my jaw stopped clacking. Then I unpacked some more. Eventually my first room mate Helen arrived. She's quite a nice girl. We talked for a while then walked to Walgreens then cabbed it to Wal-Mart. I needed a pillow bad and wasn't willing to wait for the free bus ride tomorrow. So I went and got my new cell phone, two pillows, a mattress topper (the beds here are so uncomfortable). I also got some food. I have to go back tomorrow though cause there was too much stuff to carry all in one trip.

After Wal-Mart came back, found three more girls had moved in. Two of them I've seen for maybe four minutes total. No idea where they are now. A while later Laura, an Irish girl showed up. She unpacked then, her Helen and I walked to Wendy's for dinner. We came back, they went to bed, I showered. Now here I am. It has been a long and uneventful day. I have to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow which sucks. Oh well.

Anyways, I don't know if there is much else to say so I'll leave it at that.

More tomorrow,
Brynna

Like a ton of bricks

2006-06-09T11:55:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning and it hit me, this is it. I'm going. This is the last time I'll wake up in my bed for something like 85 days. It's a wierd feeling. Tonight I sleep at Aunt Teresa's house and then tomorrow I don't even get a bed, just an umcomfortable seat on an airplane. It's sort of surreal. Like I never thought it would actually happen. I think it really is going to, though!

Last night I said my final goodbyes to Amanda and Tabi. I'm gonna miss those two. We went out with my parents to Gina's Mexican Cafe which was yummy. My enchilada wasn't quite as good last night as it was last time I was there. Oh well.

Just so you know, my blog finally is updating. Apparently it only wasn't doing it on my computer. Everyone else could see it just fine. Wierdness.

Last night I dreamt that Disney was a job/summer camp/magic school. It was in all fairness, one of the wierdest dreams I've ever had. I got bit by some shark and started growing a fin on my foot. The 'proffessor' got it off, though. But then I had to have stitches, so instead of doing it from the inside he turned himself into a miniscule little bug size thing and crawled in my leg and stitched me up from the inside. I think I might be disturbed. Or I ate something wierd before bed.

Just so you know, I'm not just freaked out about Disney. I woke up this morning and like my most important Creative Writing Class in Septemeber is full. I'm gonna have to waitlist now. Stupid late registration date.

Anyways,I can't beleive I'm leaving so soon. Something like 40 hours from now and I'll be in Orlando. Okay, I should go, cause apparently I've still some things left to pack. Don't let me forget my IPOD.

Brynna

GRRRRR

2006-06-08T11:58:00.000-07:00

My blog still isn't updating properly. I'm going to hit something soon. It won't even post my recent posts unless you like click on the archives and then navigate through them. It's ridiculous!

I have two days left to go. It's odd. Tonight is my last night in my big comfy bed. I'm going out to dinner with some people tonight. It's going to be nice. Then it's over to the mainland to see the rest of my family before heading to Seattle Saturday morning. My flight now leaves 17 minutes later which is annoying. Oh well. We're going to Outback steakhouse in Seattle which I'm looking forward too. Ribs!

I'm almost positive I'm going to buy myself an Archos PVR this summer. In case you don't know what that is...it's like a big video IPOD but better. You can tape stuff directly from your TV and everything. It's great. Really expensive but great. Yesterday I went nuts researching prices and stuff. It's way cheaper to buy in the states than in Canada. Like $200 cheaper.

I'm very hungry now, and my dad is trying to kick me off so he can load web cam software. So I'll be back later.

Brynna

Frustration!!!

2006-06-07T23:24:00.000-07:00

This damn blog will be the death of me I swear. I've been trying for over an hour now to update it and take it out of it's boring misery. I've found myself a fab template and everything; the stupid thing just isn't working! If anyone else is using this damn site and has any idea of how I can fix this without going nuts please let me know.

On to other things. My flight takes off in less than 72 hours. I'm a bit dithery with excitement. Of course I'm also freaked out. But we've been over all that already! I've been having some crazy dreams these past few days. Thankfully last night not one relayed my anxieties about WDW. Instead I dreamnt an entire episode of Veronica Mars...it was actually quite a good episode. Logan (Veronica's on again off again boyfriend) was particularily great. Perhaps it's my brain telling me I should write for TV. My other dream was actually quite horrifying. I know I had a gun, I know people were trying to kill me. I know I was in some wierd hotel and we (people I was with. Don't remember exactly who was there) couldn't find any stairs or an elevator to get off the damn floor. People coming at us trying to kill us. You'll be glad to know we got out safe. On the sucky side I think I had to kill a bunch of evil people. Then when we got out (by climbing down a rope ladder that broke the minute we were all safely on ground) we found ourselves in a backlot of a movie studio with Halle Berry. Whatever that means I don't know. Perhaps salavtion = Halle Berry? Although I quite prefer Jason Dohring myself (Logan on Veronica Mars)

In other news, I had a completely boring day! We, by we I mean mostly my mom, did most of my packing. There are only a few things left to gather. I read some of my book. Watched a movie with my parents. It was as mundane as can be. Tomorrow is my last full day at home. I'm taking Tabi for her driving test in the morning. Then I hope to come home and sleep. Then out for dinner with the 'rents, Tabi and Amanda (hopefully she didn't forget!).

Anyways, I'm going to go fiddle around with this damn thing for awhile. If I don't figure it out soon I may do something rash. If you want to see how funky it could be, just click on the title of any one of my posts in the left hand sidebar. For some reason it comes up there.

Until we meet again,
Brynna

Twitchy

2006-06-06T12:33:00.000-07:00

It's getting really close. I mean really really close. It's exact closeness: 4 days and 9.5 hours until my flight leaves. That means 4 days and and about 15.5 hours until I'm actually in Florida. It's freaking freaky. Of course I'm excited. I'm also scared out of my wits. I have no idea where I'll live and where I'll work. It's a bit unsettling not knowing.

Last night my parents and I went to see the Break Up. I liked all but the last twenty minutes, then it just went downhill. It was really funny, though. Just something I would'nt buy. On the plus side I dreamed an alternate ending last night, which is how I wanted it to end.

It seems to be a trend these days, movies ending not how I wanted them to end. First it was X-Men, now the Break Up. To tell you the truth the ending of Poseidon wasn't that great either. And I hated the end of the Da Vinci Code. I think I'm sensing a pattern. If either Superman or Pirates end crappy I'm going to boycott the movies.

Oh and yesterday we went to future shop to take in my PVR for repairs (stupid thing keeps crapping out) and I found season four of Buffy for $30. You wouldn't believe my excitement. In fact every season is on for $30. I could only buy number four though cause I have the first three and didn't have enough for the more than one. I'm kinda broke these days. Anyways I was on cloud nine cause I've been trying to get the rest of the seasons for ages but each of them has always been around $60 and I never have the much money. So it was pretty exciting. I plan on getting the rest this summer.

I know my life amounts to a bunch of boring drivel at the moment but like I said earlier, everything picks up in like four days. You may wonder why I titled this blog twitchy. It's cause I am. Twitchy that is. I'm such a mess of nerves and excitement that I've started to randomly twitch.

Tonight Tabi and I are hanging. It should be fun. I'm gonna miss her!

More from my boring life later,
Brynna

ONE WEEK!!!

2006-06-03T16:02:00.000-07:00

First of all...OH MY GOD I TOUCHED J.D FORTUNE!!!!!! If you're not aware of who that is (shame on you if you don't) he is the hot hot hot new lead singer of the band INXS. I saw them live on Thursday night and it was freaking fantastic. My hearing still isn't back to normal and it's been two days. My seats were pretty good but turned great when J.D hopped off stage and ran down the left side aisle of the floor passing by right where I was sitting in third row plaza. Sensing an opportunity I immediately ran down the stairs and was just in time to reach out and grab his shoulder. It was magical. Another highlight of the night: the old guy sitting on the floor a few rows away from me. He was dancing like nobody's business.

After the concert, which I attended with my aunt teresa and mother, we headed back to the hotel room my mom and I were staying in. My three cousins: Hannah, 11; Sarah, 10: and Nyla, 3 had been hanging out there with my Aunt Robin and her girlfriend Marnie. Once they all evacuated the room I promptly crashed. Yesterday was spent walking around the big bad city all by myself. I did a little shopping and bought a great skirt and tank at the Gap. I also got these awesome Keds which I've just discovered were created by the devil. In just one hour I've acquire three blisters.

After my day of shopping I met up with Jei and her mother. Jei is another Disney freak like myself. She will be heading down for the year long program about nine days after me. We had the best burgers ever at this place called Modern Burger. After that we trolled around the city for awhile before they dropped me back at my hotel. I finished the evening by sharing a delectable white chocolate brownie from Moxie's with my mother.

Now I'm at my Aunt Teresa's house. I'll be here for the night before heading back to the island tomorrow night. My mom's off at her cruise conference so I won't be seeing her until we meet up to catch the ferry home.

In exactly one week and 6 hours I will be boarding my flight and heading for Florida. I'm giddy with excitement and ill with fear. My final week countdown has commenced.

Until later,
Brynna

10 days to go

2006-05-31T15:07:00.000-07:00

I've decided to join the Blog Craze that's sweeping the world. I've held off for as long as possible but since I've ten days 'til I up and leave the country for three months, I thought this would be a great way for my fans...er friends to keep up with my life. I'm not going to promise this blog will be absolutely riveting, although I'm sure my mom will think, but I'll do my best.

For those who don't know, although there are few people who I haven't told, I'm off to Disney World for the summer. I found out last December that I was accepted into the international college program which means I'll be spending the majority of my summer ( June 11th-September 1st) working in Disney World and living with complete strangers. Before you even bother to ask how I got the job (every single person I tell asks me) I'll tell you. My mom found out about it from the website www.cast-a-way.com and convinced me to send in my resume. *Thanks Mom!*

Now I've just over a week until I leave home and head to the happiest place on earth. I'm ecstatic but I'm also a little scared and by a little I mean a lot. The longest I've ever been away from my parents is like 1 week. The longest I've been away from home: 3 weeks. So you can see how the prospect of 2 and a half months away from my near and dear might be a little daunting! Then again I've free access to the parks whenever I'm off. At home I'd just be sitting at home watching repeats of sitcoms, so I'm thinking I may just have the best summer of my life. I'm hoping.

Until then I've ten days to say my goodbyes to my family and friends, with a little fun thrown in. I'm going to see INXS tomorrow night in Vancouver. Then I'm meeting Jei (she's going to work at Disney for a year starting this summer) on Friday night. On Sunday it's out to Maple Ridge to see my cousins, aunt and uncle. Monday I'm back home for a week of friends and goodbyes before leaving on the Friday. In between all that I've got to pack. Ain't life grand?

Now the laundry is calling my name so I must sign off.
Keeping you posted,
Brynna