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.