#cep2014

    So I had an 8:30 shift this morning, but again I’m trying to write this mid-August so I really don’t remember what happened during the shift. It was probably hot, I was probably tired, and I was probably happy to be done at the end.     Instead of going out to the parks tonight, I decided to go to the grocery store, which sounds pretty boring, but I had decided that this would be my last shop before the end of my program. Laziness prevails! I signed a little cart out from security, which didn’t really make my life any easier because it was soooo heavy, but I stocked up on easy things to make for lunches and dinners, and some fun things to take home that you can only get in the US.     When I got home, as much as I didn’t want to think about it, it was time to book my flight to go home. It’s so crazy how quickly this program has gone by, and it seems like just yesterday I was saying to myself “Oh I have two whole months to do that!” Now we’re all scrambling to cram the fun in before we have to go home.     I did some blog updates and hit the hay early because I had another early shift the next day.

    Today I had a full day off, but after the Universal day and work yesterday, I was still feeling pretty crappy. Katie texted me in the morning and invited me to hang by the pool, which sounded like a wonderful idea to me, so we chilled in the sun until a thunderstorm (typical Florida) started rolling in. At first I tried to brush it off as a truck on the highway, like at the cottage, but soon it was too loud and thunder-y to deny, so we ran for Katie’s apartment, where she had homemade popsicles! Nom. They were cookies and cream flavoured, and paired with some How I Met Your Mother, it was an awesome morning! (Despite the storm)     Katie had to work a PM, the storm was tapering off, and I was feeling a bit better, so I decided to head over to Cast Connection before it closed. Cast Connection is an area “backstage” at Magic Kingdom where you can get discounted Disney merchandise. I’d been eyeing a Dumbo pillowpet because they were so cute, but wasn’t super keen on the 32 dollar price tag. One of my roommates had mentioned, however, that they’d seen them at Cast Connection for 14, which seemed like the perfect price to me!     They did have my Dumbo at Cast Connection, and they also, surprisingly enough, had food, so I grabbed a couple of lemons because my friend Luke had recommended Earl Grey tea and lemon to make me feel better. Thanks Luke! I also bought a Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland pin for really cheap, which may or may not have started a pin problem. Only a minor one...     I also scoped out a trailer next to Cast Connection called Property Control, which is only for Cast Members, where they sell damaged merch for SUPER cheap. It was...actually kind of sad. I didn’t stay for very long, and I definitely did not make any purchases.     I was starting to feel crappy again so I hopped back on the bus to head back to housing, which was a good choice because the storm picked back up and it started to rain HARD. The bus ride home was a bit of a doozy, but when is the CP bus system ever boring?     I took it easy for the rest of the night catching up on blog stuff, so that I could do something more fun tomorrow!

    Today it was back to the regular working world for this gal. But first, I knew I needed to get some more heavy-duty cold medicine. So after sleeping in a bit, off I set to Walgreens to acquire some of my usual Dayquil and Nyquil. I also needed to grab some Burt’s Bees lip crayons for my mom, they don’t have them in Canada so I needed to grab some ASAP.     It was stinkin’ hot outside, so by the time I made it to Walgreen’s I was quite the hot mess (literally). I grabbed my lip crayons and a combo pack of Day and Nyquil SEVERE, walked to the counter...and got asked for ID. Apparently here in good old ‘Murica they’re worried you’re going to make meth out of cough medicine and need to see ID before you buy it. I, unfortunately, was not expecting to be carded for cough medicine, so I had no ID on hand except my housing ID, which does not have my date of birth on it.     ...So I had to walk all the way back to housing. Which in my condition wasn’t the most fun of experiences. But I needed that cough medicine dammit, and so I walked as fast as I could there and back.     Once I got back to Walgreens, there was a different woman on cash who was very apologetic, said the other girl was new and that she shouldn’t have made me walk back to housing. Which would have been nice to know BEFORE I made the trek but what can ya do.     By the time I rolled back to housing I only had a very short time before I had to catch the bus, and thanks to cough medicine and illness, (and the fact that it’s now August 12th and I’m trying to finish this post...oops!) the shift was a bit of a blur. I’m sure you’re not reading for the shift stories though, so it’s all good.

    Today I woke up feeling full on sick. So sick in fact that I considered calling in for the first time this summer. But by the time my shift rolled around I was feeling like I could probably make it through, so I got ready and hopped on the bus.     And immediately felt like I’d made a mistake. The whole bus ride to All-Star I felt like I was hacking up a lung, so when I got to base I decided to try to ER. Then was told there were going to be no ERs that night because the finale of the World Cup was on and they were worried that the results might cause a fight between the Brazilian and the Argentinian tour groups that were staying at the resort. (Apparently Brazil was cheering for Germany just because they didn’t want Argentina to win...)     So we were all prepared for the worst, and when the game ended...nothing happened. We actually had a weather closing right around when the game ended which probably helped keep anything crazy from happening in the pools. It stayed quiet for the rest of the night (I’m fairly sure), AND Germany won the World Cup!!!! My team! Woop woop!     Around 8 pm I was at the small pool at Movies when my coordinator Brad came around and asked if I still wanted an ER. Of course I did! So I just had to wait for an extra to get ready to take my stand and then I was in the clear! Then I just had to wait for the bus to arrive, then it was home to bed, because I had learned about some big plans for tomorrow!

    I don’t know what it is about the 12th of each month on this program, but once again it seems I can’t remember what I did this day. There are no pictures, I didn’t write anything down, at this point I can’t even get back on the Hub to see if I worked. I probably did though, lets be honest.     So it seems as though each 12th of my program is destined to disappear into some strange time hole never to be seen again.