{all checked in}

well, today's day two of my program! yesterday morning my roomates and i met up at visit at 7:30...sadly only four of us managed to get placed into an apt. together - dana, jaclyn, cait, and i - but amanda and jess are right across the hall, and our other two roomates - jenna and lindsay - seem pretty nice. we're in patterson 12207, and it's such a nice apartment! very roomy, though the beds are tiny, as expected...

after check in, dana, cait, jaclyn, amanda, jess, and i all went to casting together. the casting building was so cool - michael graves designed it, and it was full of murals and cool little details. i found out my assignment - dinoland in animal kingdom. at first i was really disappointed that i didn't get hollywood studios, but i've really warmed up to the idea since. cait is working in dinoland too (but merch), and our hours will be really good, we'll always have nights off, and hey, i might get to work at dinosaur...i love that ride! i know any costume i have is going to be really horrible, but hey, aren't they all?

after casting we came back to patterson and started unpacking, and then we went to lunch at panera...mmm. and we already used our cast member discounts - sweet! at 3 we had our housing meeting in the big, freezing cold room at the commons...it was long, but some of it was fun/funny. after that we walked back to patterson and finished unpacking (mostly). we were going to go to the polynesian for dinner and to watch the fireworks, but the weather wasn't looking too wonderful, so we decided to go to the apartment of some of our friends for dinner instead - it was so awesome to finally meet everyone i've talked to online for so long, and everyone was so much fun. we ate and played some fun games, and then stopped by the pool for a little while.

all in all, yesterday was super busy and super exhausting, but a lot of fun. i can't wait for traditions tomorrow (even though we all got the morning one, meaning we have to catch the bus from chatham at SIX FORTY-FIVE AM!!!), and then my first day at DAK on saturday. today we rearranged our apartment a little, and then we're going grocery shopping and to walmart, etc. i'm really excited because friday after traditions, we're going to meet everyone in the parks for our first trip, and then we're going to jellyrolls that night! it should be lots of fun.

{2/3 TO GO!!!}

yes, i'm actually blogging, and yes, it's midnight...lol. two things for now, besides the fact that i only have TWO DAYS UNTIL I LEAVE FOR FLORIDA!! AND ONLY THREE DAYS UNTIL CHECK IN!!!!! still totally in disbelief...
anyway...

here's my latest vlog, where you can kind of see what i packed (and you can also see me with permed hair, woopee, lol):


secondly, i've got something to show you on the crafty side of things...i'm a digital scrapbooker, and i want to actually do a whole scrapbook dedicated to my program. we'll see how well that works out by the time january rolls around, but for now i wanted to start, so here's my first page, about my purple folder :)

did you spot the hidden mickey?

well, that's it for now...i'll blog again soon, if i remember to do so amidst the excitement ;)

{only 8? whaaattt??}

hey all! again with the no blogging - sorry! i've been all over the place - literally - since my last post (long island, north carolina, south carolina, upstate new york), and i'll be going back to nc on thursday to get everything together for my move to florida! i absolutely can not believe that in 6 days i'll be 22 and in 7 days, i'll be IN FLORIDA!!! sure, i don't check in until the 19th, but on the 18th, i'll be at the sunspree, and hopefully meeting up with some of the other totally awesome cp's.

speaking of awesome cp's, tonight we're having a final roomate chat to set up details of when/where we're all meeting up the morning of check in - hopefully we'll all remember this time lol. i can't wait to meet all of my roomies in person next week!

i have almost everything i need, i just need to go get towels, a diffuser for my blow dryer (oh yeah, i got a perm recently, so i'm readjusting to life with curly hair, haha), and some other bath stuff, and then we have to pack it all into whatever car we take. the original plan was to rent a car and drive down, then my dad would return the rental car at the airport and fly back to nc. now he wants to bring my car down, but i don't have my license, so i won't be driving it (though my roomates can, etc), and also the registration sticker is expired (which dad seems to think isn't an actual problem)...we'll see if i can talk him out of it.

i've unfortunately had a slight problem recently - i tried to email my recruiter a week or so ago to thank her and remind her that i'd really love to work at hollywood studios, but my email came back to me. then today i emailed tech support to see what the problem is, and that email came back too. very sad...i know it's not really a big deal, but i just thought it would be helpful to remind my recruiter that i like studios the best...we'll see what happens at casting, i guess!