Category: General

So I am sitting on my butt at home waiting for IKEA Home Delivery to show up with my mattress. I have the bed frame assembled and my room is coming together. I just hiked out to my car to add some brake fluid in to the dank so it would turn off the stupid light that came on the other day while I was heading home from work. It’s and icky, rainy day here in Orlando and I am off today, Friday and Saturday. Tomorrow I am heading south to St. Petersburg to visit some college friends and teach a class. It will be nice to get back to Eckerd for a visit. Well, I need to make some lunch/breakfast. I hope the delivery guy shows up sometime soon.

So I have heard official word that IKEA will be opening a store down the street from my house with in the next year. Down the street being a meer five minute trip across I4. According to several news stations and media outlets here in Orlando, the land deal is done and all that remains is approval to start building the store using exisiting plans that are the same at all the other stores nationwide. This makes me so mad after my whole bed fiasco. Oh well, at least next time I need something, I wont have to pay for shipping 😎

Well, today that stupid ticket I got the other week about my license is finally over! I started my day at the crack of dawn at Orange County Traffic Court to get that taken care of. Nothing but a stupid (not so cheep) fee just to sit there. Oh well. I came home and changed out of my dress cloths and headed over to the Magic Kingdom. Got my hair cut by Michal at my usual spot on Main Street USA and then walked the park for a bit. I don’t know what it is but, I just enjoy walking the parks and seeing new things and enjoying the old. I also stopped in Adventureland to visit a former Emporium Manager and talk with him about careers. Pretty productive actually. After leaving the park, I picked up my costume for the shift I am doing in Forontierland next week and then headed to the Disney Store at the mall to get the new Disneymania 3 CD and Disneymania DVD. Love them. They rock!

I’m off again tomorrow and plan on getting up to go to the cast pin party at Downtown Disney. I also need to get some things at Target as well so that may be the plan for tomorrow night. Anyways, things are getting better finally. Oh yea one more thing. I was just reminded of how special a simple song can be after listening to my new CDs. So I leave you with one of the best songs that we should never forget.

When You Wish Upon A Star
(Original Music by Leigh Harline)
Words by Ned Washington

“When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are
anything your heart desires will come to you

If your heart is in your dreams, no request is too extreme
when you wish upon a star as dreamers do

(Fate is kind, she brings to those who love
the sweet fulfillment of their secret longing)

Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you thru
when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true”

Well, today IKEA was supposed to deliver my new bed. For those that haven’t been up to date on this saga, I ordered a bed from them at the end of December for when I moved in to my new apartment. Well, the first order had to be cancelled due to backorder status so I placed a new order for a larger bed a few weeks ago when i found out JK was moving out. Well, the contracted delivery company showed up today and brought me the frame but NO mattress. How the heck am I supposed to use the frame with out a mattress? IKEA is in the process of trying to track it down after I called at them and explained the issue. So until then, I guess I still have my air-bed. One of these days I will have my new bed. :-\

This week has just been weird. The week started off as usual and I even had a lot of fun at the Cast Pin Event at Mickey’s Retreat yesterday. Last night though on the way home just royally made me mad. First, let me state that my trip to and from work had me going through a small community called Windermere. This is where a lot of RICH people live and the cops just like to pick on people. I get pulled over for having an out of state plate and for something lame that I can’t even remember. Nothing illegal like speeding or anything. So I hand over my Minnesota license and all the other needed info and the cop comes back with a citation and court summons for not having a Florida license after 30 days of employment. Well, what makes me mad is that technically I was still a student till January of this year and I am still in that 30 day window. So, I have to go to court and explain it to the judge since the cop says being a student didn’t help me get out of this one. Oh well, I now have a Florida license having given up my Minnesota one and have to wait till February 16th to prove I didn’t do anything wrong which according to the law, I was still covered as a student until January 3 of this year. And to top it off, the cop tells me that I should be lucky I was pulled over by them because they have nothing better to do than pull over out of state drivers. I was so mad at that point. What a bad night.

Today was better aside from the line at the DMV but I am all good now. Working again in the morning and then I should be hanging out with some friends from work and school tomorrow night. Things can only get better. May be I will hear about a full time job.

So today, Friday, was a slow day again in the park. Well, actually this whole week has been slow. I took the chance to help the Emporium out today and purchased the new Chip N Dale DVD that came out last week. What a great collection. All the classics and it brings back all the memories as a kid. I love it! Now I just need to get the Donald Duck one when it comes back in. Dad will be down in a week or so which will be cool.

I know I haven’t posted at all this week but, I am working a lot of hours so I can get the overtime pay while it is available. So, I’m off to bed. I have to work at Mouse Gear today at noon.

I am finally getting ready for the day. I work at Mouse Gear at 15:15 but I have just been relaxing around the house for the morning making myself breakfast and am now enjoying my coffee. I am still very full from last night though. I took my new roommates out for dinner at ‘Ohana in the Polynesian Resort by the Magic Kingdom. For one flat fee, you get all the Hawaiian food you want and it is simply one of the best meals I have had here at Walt Disney World. Great food, great people, and great times. well, I should head for the shower and get my costume on for work. Enjoy your sunday!

Well, yesterday I moved out of College Program Housing. I am no longer a member of the Walt Disney World College Program. I am now a seasonal cast member at the Walt Disney World Resort pending my transfer to full time status. I left Chatham around 10:30 yesterday morning and made the trek east to Conroy and my new place with JK, Norm and Anthony. I got most of my stuff unpacked but there are still things in boxes. My bed from Ikea isn’t here yet so I have to use an airbed for now but, that works. Most of the stuff I have left is stuff that needs to go under my bed (lifeguard manuals, and what not). I have also realized how much I missed Road Runner. It is just so much faster than the DSL that I had in Chatham. Anyways, I am off to get a costume for Ice Station Cool for tomorrow so I will catch you all later.