I feel like every time I do an entry I start out with how long it's been. So I'm going to skip over that part and get right to the meat of things.
Disney like all companies right now was/is being affected by the economy. There was freeze on all TA's and professional internships were cut by 2/3rd. I was constantly being told that "best case scenario" I would be made seasonal in Main Street Ops and although I wouldn't be scheduled hours (All full time CMs are being cut to 32 hours and no seasonal CMs are being scheduled) I would be able to pick up hours.
It was the most stressful time in my life so far. Everyday I would worry about how I was going to pay my rent, whether I would have to go home and if so how was I going to afford to go home. My internship was scheduled to end on January 3rd and on December 24th I was called into the big boss' office. I thought for sure he was going to tell me I had gotten a full time position somewhere and I almost passed out when they offered me a TA as a Custodial Guest service manager! So I am now official with a blackberry, silver maingate, and blue id. My TA is only until February 29th, but after that comes the spring holidays and summer. Hopefully it'll be a lot easier to get extended or statused but either way I'm totally excited.
The other intern only got a seasonal position in attractions so it was really close. It came down to me vs. her and thankfully I won out. I worked really hard and REALLY REALLY wanted this so I feel pretty good.
Along with the new job comes the end of my lease. I liked living with Nicole but I am truly sick of having room mates. I don't like the idea of paying for someone else to leave thier TV on for days at a time. I am going this weekend to sign a lease on a brand new 1bd/1ba apartment around the corner. The apartments just opened a month ago and are gorgeous and I'm getting an amazing deal on them. I am SO EXCITED. I feel like I am finally accomplishing the things I wanted to accomplish and I'm on the right track. Now all I need is a new mattress, a dog and a boyfriend in that order.
But in the mean time I'm so happy and looking forward to the future!
Hopefully I will have more time to write in the future. But until the next 2 months pass.

I saw Idina Menzel in the parks today!

I know I haven't posted in a while. I've just been so busy! My hours are terrible but I was expecting that being that it's MK in the summer months. I really love my job though! Every day is different and I am constantly being challenged. Being in custodial at first had me a little "meh" but so far I am holding up pretty well. Next week I start my Leadership Classes and then have another batch of them come august. Hopefully they wont be too bad but they start pretty early in the morning so we'll see!
I really am going to try to post more often. I have experienced lots of things from the gross (Sewage Back ups at Caseys) to the weird (Alligators in the Veranda Toilets)and finally some pretty cool things (The Castle Suite, The Security Cameras and The July 4th Fireworks come to mind!)Five years from now I'm going to be glad that I did!

I move into my apartment tomorrow! Yay! I also have some good stories to tell but it'll have to be friends only so I don't violate any privacy or have someone read this who I am talking about. And I am too lazy to do that now! So when the cable gets hooked up Saturday I'll post!

Just a quick update because I'm pretty tired!
Today I got to go up and see the Cinderella Castle suite. The Main Street Custodial team is in charge of cleaning the suite and the manager comes up and does the turndown at night. So I got to go up to the suite and turn down the beds! I was slightly underwhelmed (don't get me wrong! It's pretty!) because it's pretty small. If a family of 4 is up there then there isn't too much room for moving around. What's impressive is the linens and bed are super lush. Also they have access to some fun stuff like movies and games. Also they get dinner in the castle and breakfast in the Crystal Palace.
Anyway, tomorrow I start shadowing. The goal is for me to have my first solo shift by next thursday! I'm excited and super nervous! Anyway, I'll post what I can as I go along! Until then!

I didn't have the internet for the longest time because it went out at my moms house about a week before I left. Plus I don't have my laptop anymore (May she rest in piece) so even after I got to my hotel I couldn't use the internet.
( But Now I'm BACK!! )

Things are finally starting to work out. Relocation finally called me, which is a huge relief. I emailed my professional recruiter and and was explained that I still hadn't heard from them and that I leave on Thursday and started training on Sunday. She emailed me back and was like "I am just confirming your start date blah,blah, blah." About an hour after she sent that email Relocation called me. I was a bit irritated just because I told her my new start date almost 2 weeks ago. But everything worked out so it's only a slight irritation that I was so stressed for no reason at all really!
I leave on Thursday by autotrain and arrive in FL Friday Morning. I plan on going to the hotel, and depending on time getting my BLUE(!!) id. Then probably relaxing for the rest of the day. Maybe meeting up with some friends for Dinner.
Saturday, I will be running all my errands and really settling into the hotel.
Sunday, I have a Global Custodial Class at DU and on Monday I have some random class called "for our guests." I have NO idea what that could possibly be so if anyone else knows...please let me in! I start in Costume OJT on Tuesday and it continues until Thursday when I have my assesment. And the week after that I start my management training! Mike (my area manager) said the goal was to have me working solo by my 3rd week. Which is also the week that I move into my apartment so I'm sure that will be the week from Hell.
So that's my life for the next few weeks. So if I don't post for a while you all will know why!

After a million billion years I have finally graduated. Thank god.
On the same day I received some of my training schedule! My mom thinks this whole thing is hilarious because I am the one who's always like "I'm not touching that. It's wet and I don't know why...."
LoL! I'm sure this will snap me out of that!

I'm excited because I will FINALLY get to see the Pirates and Princess fireworks! I haven't been down there during one of these parties so this will be fun! The only thing is I don't have to work on that day so I will probably go to one of the resorts or something. Unless someone out there wants to go to the P&P party on June 6th! And buy my ticket for me...no one? You sure?

( It's Official!! )

I just found my official location!! I'm returning to Main Street as a Custodial GSM. I have mixed feeling...mainly because I'm not a "trash person" but I'm also really excited to be returning to my home. I think what's really stressing me out is the uncertainty. I don't know what custodial managers do so I'm worried I wont really have guest contact (which is something I really want. I don't (didn't?) care where I went as long as I would have lots of face time with guests.
I have been stressing out because my future boss calls and was like "We want you to start ASAP!" My apartment lease doesn't start until June 12th, but thanks to my relocation package I can go down early June instead. So I will be moving down May 27th or 28th.
I've had a stress headache ever since I've talked to this man because suddenly I have 3 weeks less time than I originally thought. Plus today is saturday so I can't get anything done except packing because most offices aren't open.
Plus I still have a class to take so that I can you know...get my degree! I need to find something to wind myself down because I have been stressing for the past 24 hours. I think I'm not going to do any homework tonight but instead I'm going to cook and knit ( I know...like I'm 80 or something) and take myself to the movies. I REALLY need to chill out!

I only have 2 exams, 1 speech and 1 paper between me and graduation! I am so excited...I can't wait to finish up!

Here is a list of 21 suggestions for success that I found while stumbling(Something that is worth a separate journal entry altogether..but I digress!)
( Some lessons to live by! )

I finally got the location of my Mangement Internship...
( Cut cause you know I loves to drag it out )

So my housing situation is slowly working itself out. I talked to Andrea for references of good places to live and she said without hesitation "My apartment complex! It's The legends at Champions Gate" I called the leasing office and one other place and decided I really liked The legends, plus it would be fairly cheap (788/month compared to the 880/month at the 2nd place I was considering). I was getting ready to fax my application when my friend Nicole messaged me on Facebook and was like "Um, I got a PI...do you want a roommate?" I sent her the link to the legends and she loved it! She called them and got them to hold a 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment for us! And come to find out they were all out of 1bd/1ba for June ANYWAY. So it all worked out for the best!
Nicole and I got along great on Mainstreet, but is we were ALWAYS getting in trouble. And only with each other! By ourselves we were great CMs but together we caused all kinds of hell! Should be fun!
I finally got up the nerve to email my recruiter and find out whats going out with my location situation, but she is out of town! I can't imagine she went out of town in the middle of her recruiting season, so part of me thinks the offers were already sent out. But I don't know, she might have had a family emergency or something. Hopefully when she returns she will give me some insight. The people who had interviews were told they would hear by the first week of April but it's now almost May and none of the people on the boards or Facebook have heard anything. I guess only time will tell right?

I went to the Mary J. Blige/Jay-Z concert on Sunday! It was amazing! Our seats were incredible and my ears are STILL ringing! Which probably isn't a good thing come to think about it....
Pictures and Video as soon as I get my laptop fixed!

This is my last semester as a campus rep! It's also my last chance to get the reward I want. Last time I got a 50$ Visa gift card, but it was actually a bit of a hassle to use. So this time I want this super awesome computer bag. Even though right now I don't have a computer!
( The big picture. Literally. )
Sometimes, even I'm embarrassed by my dorkiness.

These past few days have been so sad for me. My beloved lap top has died well kinda. It's fixable but I don't have money to fix it so as far as I'm concerned it's dead.
It's actually been a good thing though. Because I can't use the internet as home I've picked up tons of shifts at work. When I'm at work I'm forced to do my homework since I have to stay at the computer anyway so I've actually been getting more work done. And now that I can't stay up and facebook until 2 in the morning I've been getting to bed earlier and getting to work on time!
I know, shocking!
( Disney Stuff This-A-Way! )

So I did some detective work and my little cousin finally came through and looked up the name of the woman. Turns out she is just in charge of operations management training, but by searching her name on the portal (I'm sorry I'll never be able to say hub) I was able to find the training info for ops managers! It's interesting to see all classes and training leaders have to go through, but it's also a bit overwhelming. The orientation that they have to go through (think "traditions" for leaders)is called foundations. The training book for foundations is HUNDREDS of pages long.
Someone on the Disboards posted that they got a 2nd interview for Ops management so I guess they are finally starting to set-up 2nd interviews. He (She?) has their interview April 8th or 9th so hopefully it wont be too long after that until they let me know where I'll be working. I'm DYING to know!
My cousin gifted me some furniture so if I find an apartment that isn't too expensive I could live in a One bedroom if it came down to it. My main concern is getting the furniture down there because I have to take a summer class to complete my degree, but I'm taking it online so I could always just make a couple of trips down.
I'm trying not to stress myself out, too soon, but I have just over a month left until I need to worry about this stuff. It's going to drive me crazy!

I am dying to know where I'm going to be. I got a name but I can't look it up because you can't search the Disney Contacts section of the hub if you aren't on Disney Property. I asked my cousin to look it up for me about 3 days ago, but he keeps "forgetting." It's driving me nuts!
My mom is like "you stressed to get the job, now you have the job and you are stressing about the location. When are you going to be happy!" I'm just like "When I have checked in, moved into my apartment, gotten my id and begun training!"
I'm also waiting on my "information packet." I gave them a wrong city name for my temporary address, but when I emailed my MI recruiter, she has yet to get back to me! It's all slowly making me crazy!
I think I want to live at the Alexandria Parc Vue at Lake Buena Vista. A Pro that could possibly turn into a con is that you can see the MK fireworks from there. My main concern is that it's kinda far from "everything" and it's not gated. But it's a place that's on my "short list."
When my spring break is done I'm going to start with campus rep, stuff so hopefully that will help my semester go by a little faster! I just want to be done already!

I wrote this visceral entry to address some jealousy I've been encountering. But just getting it out made me feel better and I decided posting it for the world to see wouldn't serve any purpose.Maybe I'll unlock it in a few weeks so everyone can enjoy my crazy.
I'm so happy that my spring break has started! My mom bought my a GPS system for my car because I am ALWAYS getting lost. Seriously it's ridiculous. I'm so excited about it! Yay!
My 4 year old sister (who is still up) just turned to me and said "The fish is killing me!" (We are watching "simply delicioso" and she's making some fish dinner)
Anyway, I'm just happy to be home!
Everyone should look at the new wall-e trailer. So amazing!
Wall*E

I have to write a paper for my intercultural communication class applying some of the concepts we know to a current event. I picked the genocide in Darfur but it might be a little heavy. I don't want to trivialize the subject at all and I feel like anytime you are working with page limits you run the risk of stretching and thining to meet the quota. I need to decide fast cause the paper is due on Thursday.

I really want to go look at Apartments and houses in FL, but I'm trying to hold off until I hear from relocation. I don't want to pay for a hotel cause I'm cheap! Dani said I should hear from them in a few weeks, but that could mean a few months in DT (Disney Time). I might just suck it up and pay for the hotel room.

I am so excited about spring break coming up! Yay!