Best News Ever!!!!!

My birthday is coming up this Saturday. It's fair to say that I've been kind of dreading it as I'm going to be 29, last year of my twenties and another huge reminder that I'm a lot older than a lot of people doing the program (or reading this blog!) I'm still not the oldest though :) My only real plan for my birthday were to give away my shift and plan a big drunken night downtown. However, I then got a message from my best friend telling me that instead of her and her boyfriend coming to visit me in late October, they were actually coming in 8 days... MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Best friend ever!! They've never been here so I'm so excited!!! This of course means that I need time off to actually see them... everyone has been amazing and had a million offers to pick up my shifts, however, every single one of my requests to shift swap have been denied! So I will take them to a manager on Thursday and see what they can do for me. Pretty sure I can get some extra time off as work is DEAD at the moment... people are constantly getting ADO's and ER's. The first week they are here is my last week of podium, the second week is my first week of food running so I really need to get time off in the first week to see them! With my other friend coming out in the last week of October/first week of November, I have so much to look forward to :)

Right now I'm the most senior on podium.... which does mean that I've had a lot of nicer shifts recently. Pretty much every shift for the past two weeks has been chippy filling or beer cart and as they are my favourite jobs I've been happy with that. Next week I have four seating shifts and my very last shift on podium is a pm beer cart. So I want to keep the beer cart but will happily give away all those seating shifts lol! I cannot freaking wait to get into the kitchen. With so many of my friends in service, I just want to be reunited with them.

On Sunday night the UK gang headed to Fort Wilderness for The Hoop De Doo Musical Revue. If you haven't heard of it, it's a dinner show. Normally its its about $60 per person, but we get really good cast discount, making it $34, including gratuity and tax. It's held in the Pioneer Hall and has a cast that sing, do little skits and do a lot of guest interaction while you eat and drink. Very pantomine-ish but good fun.... especially while you're drinking! They bring out big buckets of ribs, fried chicken, mash potatoes, etc to the tables to eat and those over 21 can drink unlimited sangria or bud light. So with 29 of us there over various tables, you can imagine that we enjoyed as much as we could!

I'm off today and tomorrow :) I didn't go to Lasses last night which is the first I've missed in a long time but I was so tired that I would never have enjoyed it. Very weird to wake up on a Tuesday at 9am feeling fresh! Going to go lie in the sun for a bit and then see what the rest of the day brings. Tomorrow night there are twelve of us going to see a hockey game at the Amway Centre. Very first hockey game, excited! Will also be extremely weird to see ice after over five months of sunshine!

My arrival group had our five month anniversary... but for the first time we didn't do anything for it! We tried to make plans but both Scott and Harriet were on trips away and trying to fit something around all of our schedules just wasn't happening. Just need to make up for it next month.

Just a 'lil bit of change...

 a few changes....

New roommates!

Last week we finally had a full apartment again. Three American girls have moved in and will be here until January so threat of moving any time soon! My actual roommate leaves in a couple months and I'm kind of looking forward to it as I want to make several changes to my room! She has the bigger side of the closest but I have way more clothes so that will be the first thing to change! It's a bit awkward to move into a room with someone who has been there a while as you just need to fit your stuff around theirs if they aren't the most welcoming. The girls that have moved in are pretty nice and brought tv's with them so we have a working tv in the livingroom again, yayyy!

Starbucks :)

Starbucks recently opened a store at Magic Kingdom and now have opened up at Epcot. For the soft opening, lots of cast members were given vouchers to go and get free stuff. The time I was given to go was three hours before I was due to start work so after my yummy frappachino I went and did Test Track and then Soarin. Not a bad start to the day :)

And thy name is....

So I am now a shirted UK Lass. My name is Ragebook Riot..... for my love of being raging, Facebook and being a drunken riot. I knew it would have something to do with at least one of those things haha. I love my shirt! So I was not happy when I had to wear the "Disney Dick of the Day" tshirt last night. Booooo :( I think that stupid thing is cursed as I then twisted my ankle pretty badly, cried a lot and have spent the day hobbling around with a stupid swollen foot.

Sooo many people!

The recent arrival groups have been friggen ridiculously large and it's too much! The parks are now pathetically quiet until Food and Wine so there's a lot of people and not a lot happening. ER's and extra days offered all the time and we're really struggling to get hours. With only a couple of people leaving and millions showing up it doesn't seem to make much sense right now. It's also getting increasingly difficult to get to know all the new people before the new group comes along. The people that are leaving are people that I've got to know so it's pretty sad to see them leave. On that note, another big group are arriving today so there will most likely be a throw in on Thursday.

Appearances..

I get bored with my hair really quickly so for me not to have coloured it for over 6 months is a pretty big achievement. It was really, really bugging me though so last night I finally gave in and dyed it a bit darker. Now it just needs cut and I'll start feeling more normal!

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Kind of drawing a blank here, clearly the brain isn't up to speed today. Oh, my little blogs now had wellll over 10,000 views... crazy! The pressure is on to entertain lol! I have had a seriously lazy day and haven't been to the parks other than Epcot in a long time so I was planning on going to one today but then I messed up my ankle :( So hopefully a day of rest and huge amounts of ibuprofen gel will do the trick so I can get out and about tomorrow! My best friend and her boyfriend are looking at coming out soon and my other close friend is coming out at the end of October, so exciting!!! Can't wait to show everything to my pals from home who have never been here before. I also really can't wait to get into the kitchen and start food running and server training... need money! Still never been to Universal lol....