It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Another day here at Disney World. Finally, things are starting to feel normal here. What I mean by that is that working at Disney, wearing the silly costume, living in an apartment with five other girls, celebrating days off like they're vacations...this is my life. It's incredible and I really could not be more grateful. Of course, there is some work involved, and naturally there are days when I'm not as happy as I want to be, but when those days come knocking I know that I've got friends and a magical place where I can just go and find my happiness. It's pretty wonderful.

I finally got trained in another location at work so now I'm qualified to work two different jobs, and I'm really excited about having the reach and the skill to spread my abilities. I'm just excited.

Trivia of the day! Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom is the only one of the four "fantasylands" that does not have Pinocchio's Daring Journey in the Dark ride. Now you know!

Slowly Getting Brainwashed...

It's becoming more and more a part of my life...I love being at Disney. This is a wonderful place. I love my roommates, I love my job, I love my coworkers, I love my perks, I love my WHOLE LIFE! (see Jessica's Daily Affirmation on youtube if that didn't make sense) I am so pleased. I reached a new level of love today though. I realized that it was payday and immediately headed over to Downtown Disney to gather some of those "make your own" vinylmation characters. Basically, they're blank Mickey Mouses that you can decorate as you so choose. I totally stole this idea from one of my coworkers, but I colored one to look like an Auto Plaza cast member (in those cute yellow stripes) and one like a Park Greeter cast member. Their names are Otto and Parker respectively (you know you're jealous). I'm fairly pleased.

Fun  Disney FACT time! Toontown is closing (SAD FACE!) on the eleventh of this month in order to make space for the newest coolest thing - Fantasyland's expansion. It's gonna have all of the bells and whistles...literally. No really, Belle's castle is going up, along with her village, a tavern for Gaston, and a giftshop AND the Seven Dwarfs (insert whistled tune here) are getting a new place with a state of the art suspended train that responds to every twist and turn. ALL good things to come! So, come visit me...when I'm back here in 2013 when it looks like this project'll start wrapping up then. Loves to all!

Coloring-time in the life of me.

So, living at Disney World is fun. Who knew? Oh wait, everyone saw that coming? Yes. Indeed. We went to Typhoon Lagoon and had a super fun time. It was actually pretty cool, coming from me with the whole lots of people in bathing suits awkward, it worked out. Lots of slides and rides and stuff to enjoy.

Work is good too, which is awesome. I'm really enjoying what I'm doing...though I am spending a lot of time very disoriented. My days are sorted into working and not. Weekends and weekdays don't really register anymore. Life is strange here, but some things hold true no matter how weird the world. For example, make overs always seem to happen to my face - and here is no exception. We were watching the singalong version of Grease and the inevitable happened...someone looked at me and was like, "Becca...you look kind of like Sandy before her makeover...I wonder what you'd look like made over." So we busted out the curling iron, the teasing comb, the hairspray, and buckets of makeup and a new face was born. Life is fun sometimes, I think.

Disney trivia time! Question: What is one thing you are forbidden to bring into the Animal Kingdom?

Answer: Balloons. They're unsafe for our pretty animals. And now you know.