Getting Serious

       Okay, so I think the weather nice got to me a bit today. In a good way, I mean. Wednesday is my long day, and normally I dread it, and it's never a good time. Today I was awake, energetic, and not even consuming an excessive amount of caffeine to get that way! I took care of some things today, which was really good. I looked  into the transfer requirements for returning to UNC Greensboro and it looks like I'm going to need two A's and three B's this semester. I think that's do-able, but I'm going to have to re-focus on my schoolwork. I've been doing just fine in every class, but admittedly I've been getting more and more distracted lately.
       I'm really glad that I looked all of that up today. It was basically just on a whim that I even typed the UNCG web address into my browser. It was very good timing though, if I start to focus harder now on the things I need to get done, it shouldn't be difficult at all. I drove home during a gap in my classes today, and was able to clean my room a bit. It's nowhere near done, but it's a lot tidier than it was. It didn't really hit me that my school week is over until like, an hour ago. I love that feeling when you realize it's the weekend. Especially when your weekend is 4 days long.
       Tomorrow I have an eye appointment, where I'll be told that I'm continuing to go blind, or that my retinas are going to detach, or that my eyeballs are going to fall out. Other than that, nothing's going on tomorrow, so I'm going to be able to relax which is much needed, and I'm looking forward to it. On Friday, I'm going to do some more hanging out until the afternoon. I was supposed to work a party at a sport and fitness center in Alexandria, VA... but they called my boss today and canceled on me and a snow white because they're "understaffed" for that day. I'm not too torn up over it though. Later on Friday I'm going to go thrifting with my friend Laura and then head to a bible study at Stevenson University. On Saturday I'm going to have coffee with a very dear friend. Afterwards, I have a party at noon, and another at 5:30. Lots of Cinderella time for me this weekend :) I'm just going to have my regular Sunday this weekend, and then the week starts all over again!
       I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed that the weather stays as nice as it was today! If tomorrow is like today, I'm going to probably fall asleep outside and melt my face off, and it will be wonderful. Because of how many parties I've been scheduled for (8 in the next 5 weeks!) I treated myself to a small notebook, where I can write down the details of all of my bookings. I hope it'll help me keep it all together in the coming weeks! That's all for now. I looked at my blog-spot stats and realized that I've recently had a lot more page views than I had realized... hello to all of my friends out of the US! lawl, so weird to even think about that. I'm going to add some pictures of my schweet new notebook and then hit the sack. Thanks fer readin'!!

'daw... so cute.

Update

                I'm sorry.... I'm literally the WORST at keeping up my blog. My goal as of right now is to do a better job. Speaking of jobs... I QUIT MINE. Yep, the job that I talked about in my last post is no longer my job. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed working there for the most part. There were definitely some MAJOR downfalls though. Well actually just one - her name is Grace.
                Grace is the owner of the store, and at times can be a very nice woman. However, she expected me to be able to pick up shifts whenever she needed me. Three days in a row, she called me, asking me to come in on a whim. I consider myself to be a good worker, I am dedicated to any job or project that I commit myself to. However, I go to school. My education is my primary job at this time, and sometimes I'm just not going to be able to come into work. Anyway, the first two days that she called me, telling me that I needed to come in, I had to politely decline. She didn't take it very well. In fact, several times I heard her say "I'm your boss - you work for me" (yikes!) Anyway, on the third day I went into work after having two days off (the two days that she hounded me to come in) When my shift ended, I took a look at the schedule just to double check everything, and write down any new shifts. I then discovered that at some point between my shift on Wednesday and my shift on Saturday, she had scheduled me for Sunday. This was not on the original schedule, and I was never contacted about this schedule change. I had made plans for that Sunday, as I was not originally scheduled and Grace had previously informed me that I would not be scheduled on Sundays, because those shifts had been requested by other employees. I gave Grace a phone call on the way out to ask her about the schedule change, hoping that she would understand and be sympathetic to the fact that I had already made plans. Boy was I wrong.
                Maybe I had been reaching too far by hoping for her understanding, but I was in no way anticipating the next 15 minutes of my life to be consisting of an old asian woman screaming at me through my cell phone while I sat in my car in the parking lot. She told me that it was unnacceptable that I wasn't able to accomidate her the last two times that she called me, asking me to come in, and that I absolutely had to come in the next day. She did not care that she had changed the schedule without my knowledge, and she did not care that I had made plans around my originoal work schedule. I was completely taken aback and frankly, just wanted to get off of the phone before I lost my temper, so I told her that I make changes in my plans so that I would be able to come in the next day.
               When I went home, I told my mom and dad that I would be quitting my job at Casual Gourmet. I informed them of how disrespectful she had been to me, some of the things that she said, and what had occured with the scheduling conflict. As I was recounting all of this information to them, I just got so frustrated with the way she had treated me over the phone, and the fact that I was going to be going in the next day due to her basically bullying me into it. I had been told previously that she at some point in time had made every employee at the store cry, and had told my coworkers that Grace would never in a thousand years be given the chance to do that to me. Grace never did make me cry, and I was also not going to let her harass me into accommodating her obnoxious schedule changes. I called Grace back and told her that I had given our discussion some thought and that I would not be attending work the next day. I was polite and simply told her that just like I would not cancel on her last minute, I could not cancel on those I had made plans with for the next day. She crassly asked me if my plans the next day were more important than her need for me at the store. I told her that it had nothing to do with what was more important, but with my obligation to keep my commitments. I told her that from now on I would need a set schedule at least a week in advance. She told me that she wasn't able to do that, and I told her that I wasn't able to work for her any longer. That was that! I feel so much better after leaving that job. It's also sad because I REALLY enjoyed the people that I worked with, but I couldn't work for somebody so insensitive. Anyways- I GOT A NEW JOB!
              My new job is working for a company called Princess Parties by Heidi and I LOVE IT! My boss is the sweetest and I get to work as Cinderella! I go to birthday parties and get to make a little princesses day! It is really the most rewarding job in the world. I had my first party on Friday and though, it was in the ghetto (but seriously), the kids were amazing, everybody was wonderful, and I got to be Cinderella for a day! (I'll post pictures at the bottom)
           But enough about my employment. I've been getting to hang out with friends more often, which is always fun! School is going great (nothing below a B) and spring is slowly but surely coming to Maryland! So,  I think this post is plenty long. Next time I post it hopefully wont be as long because I wont have so much catching up to do!! Yay life! Here's a picture...

My new job! Click Here!

Yes I know... it's been forever.

Call me a bad blogger... I really don't care. Anyways... I'm back in good old Maryland and my life is getting rolling again! This week everything starts, and by everything I mean school and work. Yes that's right, I got a job! It's not exactly what I was hoping for because I don't get tips, but it's the first place that got back to me and I love the store so I'm going to be working at (drum-roll)... Casual Gourmet! For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about it's a cute little local store that's part cafe, part eclectic and "cutesy" things you can buy. But let's be honest, coffee+shoppingforpointlessthings = ELIZA! So I start work on Thursday which is right after I finish my first week of school! Yeah a week of school for me is now Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday classes. I'm spoiled. I'm taking two fine arts classes, an English, and two business classes! It's a full load but I think it's going to be a pretty simple semester. This should be a good semester. I'm really trying to save up some money so hopefully that works out. Though the 20% discount at my new workplace mighhttt not be the best thing. (especially since the store is not even 5 minutes away from my house)

Other than that, yeah I miss Florida. I miss it being warm. I miss being independent. Most of all, I miss Disney! People thought that being in the program would probably beat my love of Disney out of me but alas, it hasn't happened yet. In fact I went to the mall and talked to the manager (and I think a regional manager) of the Disney store. The manager wants me to work there over the summer, because they're fully staffed now. The regional manager wanted me to pick up and work at the Disney in Tyson's Corner! HAH no thanks, I'm going to stick to my small town traffic. As for summer, my top choice as of now is actually going back down to Florida and working at Disney there. If that falls through, at least I know that I have a good alternative Disney option!

That's all for now! Dinner time soon! OH and here are some pictures of Casual Gourmet!!

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...so don't judge this post.
Cockroach apocalypse

So yesterday I woke up in the morning to go run a little errand with Michelle. When I was walking to the sink, I noticed a (small) dead cockroach! EWWWwW. Anyway, I decided to be a big girl, so I went to the kitchen and got a paper towel to pick it up and flush it down the toilet. While I'm trying to pick it up, the worst thing possible happened. It started crawling. Holy cow, I could not have freaked out more. So I got up my roommate because I clearly needed back up for this situation. We of course were squealing and freaking out about what to do and about who was home that would kill it for us. We discovered that our usual exterminator roommate wasn't home and we had to deal with this ourselves. While we were busy being grossed out it started crawling... Towards the closet. That is one giant no-no. W had to do something quick so we went into our closet and decided that we would have to squish it because our attempts to "shew" it outside just wasn't working. We both decided that we were not using any of our shoes to do the deed, so we grabbed a shoe in the hallway who's owner is still unknown. then that didn't work because it was in a corner. So to wrap the story up, Brittany blindly squished it with a hanger and it eventually stopped crawling with it's head chopped off.

Christmas Party Number 1

My shift last night was from 7:15-1:15, which isn't unusual. What was unusual was how much fun I had at work! It was by far the best time I've had while on the job. The dance party in the dining room, s we had a dj, plenty of characters, and an entire "bay" set up with free cookies and hot chocolate. We were dancing on the counter all night. It put me in such a good mood. One of my favorite moments of the night was when I was on "topping bar". Party in the USA had just come on, and obviously I was excited. I looked behind me at the outside dining and saw a small girl (maybe 5 years old?) hard core breaking it down all by herself. It was so cool but she looked up and saw me watching and fist pumping. She got super embarrassed and went to hide behind her mom. Tying to make her feel more comfortable, continued to look at her and dance like a maniac. Let's be honest, it's impossible to be self conscious when you dance around me, because at least you know you're better than one person! She was laughing and smiling. She started to dance again and then before I knew it she had run inside and walked up to me. In the sweetest little british accent she said, "you're a very good dancer"! I was so cute! So I told her that she was too! She said that she wanted to be a dancer when she grows up and I just told her that she could do whatever she put her heart to, and that luckily, she was clearly a talented dancer, so she'll be just fine. I looked outside at her mom, who was smiling, and she mouthed "thank you" to me. I just smiled and asked the girl if she was hungry because she's been dancing so much!! Eventually she went back outside, but I loved talking to her.

Late Night, Early Morning
I got home at two, and packed and got ready until three thirty in the morning. So I decided that I should lay down for a cat nap before I had to get up to catch the flight. I was planning on leaving at around five twenty, but of course, I overslept and woke up at five fourth. Thankfully my roommate Liz is a very skilled race car driver, and the lines were really short. I got to my gate with plenty if time, and now I am at home!! I love it so much, it feels great to be in my own bed, in my own room, in my house, in my town...even in my state. It's was a beautiful and colorful fall day today, and now I'm going to sleep well, because I'm still running off two hours of sleep. Thank goodness for coffee!!!

'Tis the Season

          Halloween to Christmas... there's really no grace period between the two here at Disney. But hey, I'm more than okay with starting to enjoy an oh-so-jolly Disney holiday season! Last night I went to the cast preview of Mickey's Christmas Party parade! It didn't think that there could possibly be a parade more impressive than Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party parade, but this was probably just as good! I mean, they make it snow on main street!! Everything is decked out in Christmas decorations and the castle looks like it's dripping with icicles. Honestly, I kind of expected to be missing out on Christmas by coming down to Florida for the holidays. Disney does such a great job making me feel otherwise. I'm so happy about that.
          At the parade I had the BEST magical moment ever! It was literally the greatest ever- Dopey came up to me and kissed my face! I was so surprised and happy that I was just giggling like a five year old when it happened. It definitely made my night. After the the parade was over and I made my way back to Liz (my roommate)'s car we stopped at taco bell and ate way more than we should have. Or, at least I did. Now it's Saturday and I don't start work until 8:15 tonight. I work for the rest of the week until Wednesday when, in the morning I'll catch a flight back home! I really can't wait to visit home. It's a much needed vacation. I'm trying to focus on work and every day that I spend here this week though, just so I don't waste my entire day looking forward to Wednesday. I guess that's all for now! Thanks for reading.