Well I just thought I'd catch everyone up on what I'm doing and the people I've met and what's going on.
Works going... ok. I'll say this, I enjoyed my job like it was the best thing in the world for about... ehhh, I don't know, 2 weeks? Then I started to settle into it and it became very monotonous. I really glad that I'm here during the holiday season for the sheer fact that Disney goes ALL OUT for Christmas and Halloween (stop, reverse that) and since I'm working all the shows and parades, I get the brunt of the christmas cheer. Yeah, they've been unpacking Christmas since about.... august. It's crazy, but quite exciting. I've heard that the Christmas parade is the biggest parade Disney has to offer, so yay!
Now, when I got to Orlando, everyone kept telling me that I was going to meet people from all over the world. I kinda believed them, but I was just expecting a whole bunch of college kids fro universities all over the states.. wrong. I can name on my hand the number of kids I've met from the actual states. Most of the people I work with are either from Korea, Russia, Ukraine, England (Liverpool.. not London), Columbia, Jamaica, and Hatti. It's truly amazing how many different cultures have been thrown into one big melting pot... hmm.. we're in America.. duh. Kelly come on :)
So the is some WAAAAAY exicting news that I need to let people know about because it's all I think about. So about a month ago now, I'm walking to the bus stop on my way to the post office for stamps, and something tells me to check my phone. So I pull out my phone and I see that I have a voice mail from my mother. Probably her telling me that she got my message and she's "Just calling me back" right?... wrong. "Keeellly, so you need to call RaeLena, because she's getting married, talk to you later. Buh Bye" I literally almost dropped my phone and just stood there, my mouth gaping open, standing in the middle of the sidewalk towards the bus stop. So I dial in a panic, my best friend since I was 4, the girl that I danced with, laughed with, the girl who my mother calls "A Surragate Kelly" or "An Adoptive Daughter". She doesn't answer, but as I wait for the bus, she calls me back. We giggle and laugh and talk about everything, how it happened, where when and how he proposed, and when and where the wedding will be. February 19th... my best friend is getting married in Reno, NV, to a wonderful man named Daniel Harlow, and I couldn't be happier! I am already in search of a perfect black dress because she asked me to be one of her bridesmaids! So now for the past month I've been on every wedding gown, bridesmaid dress site I could find. Sooner or later I'm going to take a trip to the flordia mall to see what I can find. But AHHHHHHHH my best friend's getting married! My best friend's getting married....
It's just so, thought provoking. We had always talked about what kind of dresses we wanted, what colors, and who the perfect man for us would be, and for the fact that one of my friends, my BEST friend, has finally found her's and she's planning everything, and buying the dress and picking her bridesmaids for real, is just so... real. I never thought all those childhood years would hit me smack in the face as hard as they did when I heard this news. For a while I was kind of looking at my own life, thinking of my dating life and how utterly disgraceful it is... but then I though but you know what, she's getting what's best in her life for her right now, and so are you. I am having one of the most epic adventures, meeting all sorts of new people, and most of those people are going to follow me back to college in January and I'm going to have a blast this next school year. So... I'm doing great. And she's going to have a wonderful new year in 2011.
Congrats RaeLena.... Your awesome and I wish you all the best :)
