Special Day!!!!!

Today is my Special Day! Happy Special Day Mom and Ga Ga. Just a shout out to them.

Love you both.

I miss you both so much and I know that none of the dream I am living right now could be possible without your support and warm wishes. I really wish I could expereince this day with you both and know that both of you are in my heart always. Can't wait to come visit in August and celebrate this day with you both properly as a family. Thanks for being my main support team throughout my life and always pushing me to go above and beyond. Love you. <3

Hospital Blues

This post is strictly for my records so one day when I get old and gray and in between remembering what day it is and who stole my bingo chips, I will suddenly remember how to work a computer or whatever device they will come out with next and I can remember this time in my program as the worst week ever.

Day 3 in the hospital is passing by and slowly making way for Day 4. This expereince has been fillled with ups and downs and this is most definately one of the downs. I was admitted Monday night for severe stomach pains and other unpleasants and I can tell you that I never have beforee missed the castle this much before. I miss all the Princesses too. I had Pancreatitis (unknown causes). Hopefully tommorrow I can go back home. Crossing my Fingers.

Thanks to the lovely nurses and doctors as Celebration Hospital, but a thousand thanks to everyone who has come and visited me here! Thanks to my cousin for calling too. And a special thanks to my mom  whose number the hospital staff has on file now and automactially know who's calling as soon as they hear her voice.

Pixie Dust Everywhere!

Alright. Just for the record. I am a Fairy Godmother in Training at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique at Cinderella Castle. I swear I am. It suddenly occured to me that I rarely talk about what I do. I have to say that it is one of the most rewarding roles at Disney World. I love it there.

I come home with so many stories of little Princesses having their wish come true. Too many stories to remember. But there are six main reasons why I love my role:

1. Seeing the expressions of the little girls and knights when we turn them around and they have all this pixie dust all over them. The most precious moments is when their eyes get big and their mouth drops. I have had Princesses gasp and let out a little squeal after seeing themselves for the first time. Some Princesses expressions make me want to cry. It's really hard not to cry at the Boutique. Of course I get some Princesses who are expereinced Princesses before and they take a trip to the Boutique every year, so they know what to expect. They know the stories and I don't get as big as a reaction, but I am so happy when I am done knowing that I made a Princess that day. How many people do you know that get to make Princesses and Knights everyday? I also get shy Princesses and Princesses that talk the whole time. My number one reason is kind of scatterd. If you understand this, then you get a cookie from Tinkerbell at the end of the day.

2. Seeing the Make-A-Wish children come in and turn into beautiful Princesses. Big Cry Moment!

3. Corronating Princesses from all over the World. I have met Princesses from France, Brazil, England, and Scotland.

4. Telling stories and answering questions. Where does Pixie Dust come from? How does Tinkerbell come in here? Are those the Princesses real crowns there and which ones do they belong too? Are there real pirates knocking at that door?  Of course you won't fly away dear.

5. Coming into contact with so many Princesses and their Royal Families! I think this kind of ties into Number one. Wooo! Here it is again!!!

6. Princess Hugs (Almost forgot!)..Story Warning!!! I asked one little princess to practice giving a hug to me before she went to go see Cinderella and she ran up to me and almost knocked me off my feet. She was 5! She didn't let go either. Smile Moment. Second Hugging Story. Two little twin 4 year old Princesses were checking out (I did one!) and one of the twins would hug any Princess that came up to the front. She even kissed one unsuspecting Princess on the cheek.

One thing past Fairy Godmothers in Training told me was that you will come home with Pixie Dust everywhere. And that is the truth! In your hair. In your shoe. On your forehead (Princess hugs). Everywhere! Loving that Pixie Dust. <3

Umm...Happy 4th of July....10 days later!

Hey everyone! Happy 4th of July!! Even though its ten days later and everyone is firework and grilled out. I have to tell you that experiencing the fireworks at Disney World was amazing!

Let's see if my 19 year old brain can remember what happened ten days ago....

It was Sunday...July 13th, and I was working (what else do I ever do?), and my roommate wanted to watch the fireworks at Magic Kingdom with me. I am not totally into fireworks (haven't seen Wishes (saw Tinkerbell!) or Epcot Fireworks yet) and my plan was to just go home and sleep. She convinced me to go and I have to tell you that the Fourth of July fireworks at Magic kingdom were amazing. They had stars in red, white, and blue, and they literally filled the entire sky over Magic Kingdom with fireworks. It was huge. Disney motto is "Go big or go home."

Now Monday, some friends wanted me to see the Epcot fireworks with them. The plan was going well until I decided to go over to Epcot with my roommate and friend and decided to ride Soarin during the regular firework show. I was going to meet them before the special firework show. Of course, by the time we came out of the ride, the park was filled with people. No way of meeting up with my friends and decided to just sit on the grass and watch the fireworks there. We didn't have the best seat, but the fireworks we saw were still stunning. They used lasers and fireworks in their show. At the end of the show, as everyone leaves the park, they projected on the golf ball (I know it's not a golf ball), Happy Birthday America. Soo cute. I would have taken pictures, but my camera takes horrible night pictures. It made me sad that I couldn't share the beautiful shows with all of you. :( It's a sad day in Whitney land.

Housing Inspections

Alright. Housing Inspections were not as scary as I thought they would be. I was up until 4 a.m. wiping down counters and organizing all my drawers. I also woke up and cleaned a little more. Our apartment wasn't even dirty, but in my mind, there was dirt everywhere. Yeah over reacting imagination!

So, I text my next door neighbor and he told me that they were in the building...I freak out...again. Then came the knock on my door. Two men came in. No hello, no introductions. They threw down their stuff and went through my whole apartment, writing stuff down as they went. They came back to me, who was still at the door, and awarded the apartment with the White Glove Award! Wooo!!!

With inspections, you either pass, fail, or get the white glove award. With this award, you get chocolates and a thank you card. I would have loved the reward, but I hate chocolate (Ahhh! She can't be human. I have my days when I question it too). My roommate loved the chocolates. I didn't have to ask her. She leaves a trail of wrappers behind and the chocolates are disappearing one by one.

Basically, for inspections, you need trash emptied out. Dishes clean. Clean the fridge and the freezer (they do look inside), and make sure you don't have anything on the floor. You can awesome rent a vacuum cleaner from the front office of your apartment so there is no excuse why there are crumbs hidden under the sofa.

Long Time No Post

Alright, so it may seem like I have fallen off the face of the Earth, but let me assure you I have not. I have just been so busy with work that I have not had time for my blog. Now things have finally settled down and I can finally share some (some is confidential) of the great memories I have been experiencing.

Life at the Boutique is wonderful. I had five days of training. Five long hard days of training and now I can officially call myself a Fairy Godmother in Training (FGIT).  It was not an easy process. After traditions, you will have park orientation. Depending on where you work, every park orientation is different. Mine took place at the Magic Kingdom. You get your costume after park orientation and the next thing is day 1 training. Everyone's training schedule is different. Some people start training right away while others have training a couple days later. My training was right away. All training consists of you and a few other people doing the same role as you following someone around all day long. Fun right? Actually it was a lot of fun. My trainer was excellent and she had quite a reputation in the boutique as being one of the best FGIT's around. Everyone in the boutique have been super helpful and supportive and I can honestly say that we are all one big family.

Right now, I am working about 6 hours a day, 5 days a week and come home exhausted. It's not easy being a FGIT. No amount of pixie dust in our magic wands can make me use to to working so much.

My roommate and I are getting along great. She's super nice and we both love Theatre and talk about it a lot together. We also can't seem to keep our refrigerator stocked. We are constantly going to the store for more groceries. I have met some of the next door neighbors too, and they are all friendly too. One of my neighbors even educated me on the right way to hunt for those elusive rare Disney pins that I want to start collecting.

Surprisingly, I have not gotten sick of Disney yet. I want to come home and visit family and friends in August (need to save money for the plane ticket), but I am still up on my Disney high right now. I really love my job. I mean, who wouldn't want to play with Princesses and their royal families all day? Not saying that it isn't stressful. Parents and little girls aren't always the best mix sometimes.

Tomorrow is my first apartment inspection. I have plants in my apartment and I don't even know if I am allowed to have them and our apartment is no where near tidy. We are going to be up late tonight cleaning. I'll let you know how it goes tommorrow.

Also, I am waking up early to get a pirate stitch doll that is stuck in the corner of a claw machine. Being the crazy person I was, I called over a cast member and complained that where the stitch was located, no one could get to it and it was the only pirate stitch in the machine. This cast member talked to his supervisiors and hopefully tommorrow they will readjust the location of pirate stitch. They didn't have the right key tonight. It's sad when that is one of the highlights of my day.

Check-in, Casting, Location, Apartment!!!

Words cannot explain how tired I am this morning. Yesterday was a bit overwhelming. Lots of people, lots of information, and sad goodbyes. On Sunday night, I had dinner with the some people checking in on June 13th. I met another girl, Betsy, who was doing the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, asked a billion in one questions to the alumni who was sitting at our table, and exchanged many phone numbers. I also figured to get the one bedroom at Chatham, my roommate who is a doll (Found her over Facebook before I came. I recommend knowing your roommate before you come), we needed to be there at 6 a.m.

On the day of check in, I arrived at 5:45 a.m.at Vista Way and there was about 6 other people there. We all talked and by 7:00 the line had grown drastically. I also met other awesome people in line (shout out to Natalie and Tamara!)

They let us in at around 8:00 a.m. and after that there was no turning back. They gave you a temporary name tag and you went through a maze of different stations. You received your housing guide (which you practically had to take out the whole day), took your housing i.d., chose your roommates/or apartments, get the bus schedule, and got your parking decal.

After I got through the maze, I had about a hour to go check out our new apartment with my roommate. We received a one bedroom at Chatham Square. All the apartments were beautiful, but Chatham appealed to us more although we almost went with Vista Way.

The apartment was huge! We lived on the third floor and had a balcony and our apartment building wasn't too far from the bus stop.

After viewing and moving in a few things, we went to the Casting building. Disney had a bus pick us up and what did we find...another maze. But this maze was fun. While standing in line, you find out your location right away...

Drumroll please......I am a Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique Cast Member at Cinderella Castle!! ^ ^

I am going to be crazy busy, but it's worth it. I have never been to Magic Kingdom and now I get to work inside the castle. I really did not have a preference for work location. I liked either location. But the cool part is...my roommate got the same location as me. She's also doing BBB at Cinderella Castle. We will be seeing a lot of each other.

After you find out your location, you turn in all your forms over the course of a hour and a half. You can sign up for classes if you still wanted to, you get a background check, and they serve you snacks (the best part in my opinion ^^ Snacks make everything better).  I also got my work schedule for the next couple of days. I have early morning Traditions tommorrow and training starts on Thursday.

At 3:00 p.m., we had to go to a two hour housing meeting to talk about rules of living in the apartments. I got done with Casting at around 11:45 a.m., so I had unpacked more things and went to Wal-Mart to pick up some organizing things I couldn't bring with me on the plane. After the housing meeting, I went to IKEA for some plants and some other decorating items and went to Wal-Mart for some food and cake making stuff for an epic "Lets invite our neighbors over by bribing them with food" event.

I also found out my friends back home had a bonfire and apparently set up a picture of me in a chair and one of my friends spent the entire night trying to make me (my picture) laugh. Don't ask.

Today, I am spending the last few hours with my mom and grandma. Thye leave tonight and fly back home to Michigan. It will be a sad goodbye, but I am excited for Traditions tommorrow. ^ ^