A good feeling...

Have you ever had that feeling of "yeah, I'm doing good"... Even though your life may be crazy and all over the place, you know that you're doing what you need to be doing. I love that feeling. It's like a blanket of happiness and joy that snuggles around you and just makes you feel... safe.
I am so grateful for where I am in my life. For my accomplishments, my success's, my new experience's and even my failures. Yes, my failures! I am so glad that in this life we are given the opportunity to mess everything up, and then learn and grow from it and learn to do things even better the next time.
I'm at a point in my life where I am making serious choices and decisions that will affect me for the rest of my life. I'm constantly trying to figure out what I'm doing after college, I mean I have my dreams and aspirations and I'm working on them, but I really have no idea what my future holds. I could be MARRIED NEXT YEAR!(doubt it.. highly.. buuuut who knows :) ) That brings me to that all important choice of who to marry, and more importantly, when... I'm surrounded by married, engaged, and dating couples. I can't escape it! So that's always on my mind. Then that leads to where I'm starting my family, if I'm going to work, and then that just brings us full circle to what I'm going to do after college.
Sigh... but I'm going to be ok. I just know it. I can feel it. So as I start this new week, I'm looking forward, and pressing on with faith.

Love lots
Kelly <3

New year, new things to worry about, new changes

I'M SO SORRY TO ALL WHO HAVE BEEN CHECKING MY BLOG!!!

Disney decided that I was a human robot, in stead of a human being and made me work crazy hours from Halloween till New Years. Now that I'm back at school I have a little time between classes, and I have my weekends back!!! HURRAH!

Ok so in short, Disney World was amazing. I met wonderful people, friends for life that followed me to school, and made memories that will last a lifetime. UNFORTUNATELY due to the nature of the work I did with the Mouse, I can't explain all the fun in detail. Don't want to ruin the magic ;)

Let's jump right to my big move back to the Berg!!! January 1st ran as follows:

Work from 11:30-12:00

Steak n Shake with the crew ( friends including Brad, Emily, Katelin, and Jenna)

Home at an unreasonable, unmentionable hour

Bed

January 2nd was our last hurrah in Magic Kingdom ( MK to all us College program kids) Watched the parade, did our favorites ( Space, Big Thunder, Pirates, Haunted Mansion...)

Kate had a delicious looking Mickey premium ice cream bar, and Em and myself had Corn Dog Nuggets with nacho cheese sauce at Casey's for the last time :( and then we meandered our way up Main Street, and said our goodbyes to Cinderella's Castle one last time on our last ride on the monorail.

When we got home that night, we were a panicked mess. We cleaned the house top to bottom for check outs, and the we finished packing. Now by packing we mean this....

So now you see why I wasn't in the biggest hurry to update my blog.

Now things get interesting...

So this is how the 3rd ran:

Outta the apartment by 8 (After cleaning it till about 3)

Got picked up by a nice big van to transport us, and 6 massive suitcases to the airport ( Kate, em and I all got a flight around the same time on the same airline). We got through security, and waited.. and waited.. and waited...

Then we all go on our flights ( me and em, and then kate took a slightly earlier one) and we headed home.

Em and I got to Salt Lake at around 9 ish and went straight to bed. Then we woke up the next morning, packed up the car and drove up to Rexburg. We moved in just fine, and classes started the next day.

To sum up January... a blur... that's all. I seriously don't know how I've coped. When I signed up for the college program in march, I thought "Yeah, I'll get through til Christmas and go straight to school. No biggie"

Guess what... Big biggie... I probably spent the first week crying cause I was so stressed. But then The Wilson's, bless their hearts, surprised my parents and me with a quickie trip up to Idaho, for the long weekend. I couldn't have asked for a better Christmas present than to able able to see my mom and dad after 5 long months. It was truly a blessing, and I am so grateful that things worked out so well.

After they left I felt rejuvenated and pumped. And the last couple weeks have been lost in blur of Homework, a couple trips to Utah, and reading.

Now this is the end of my Doings with Disney. No more parks, no more magic, no more characters, no more parades, no more costumes, no more mickey bars, no more 50% discounts, no more weekends spent trying to figure out which park to go to, and no more magic. On to the grown up ways of life, and it's time to place the pixie dust on the top shelf... so long Neverland ;)

Questions... and Revelations

Hello All,

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 :)

FIRST DAY OFF!!

Alright, so my friend Brad and My roommate Katelin ( whose also my friend) decided to go to Hollywood Studios yesterday for my first day off since I've started working and here's some of the awesome pics we took!

Hello Epcot!

Here is Emily and I saying hello to the world famous giant Epcot golf ball!

Wow... that's all I can say.

In just two weeks I have:

1) Been through all four parks, and one water park at Walt Disney World Resort ( and one hotel resort ;) )

2) Started my first ever company paid, on the grid, federal papers, actually hourly pay... job

3) Seen many if not ALL of my absolute favorite characters and had full fledged conversations with them!

4) Touched every single gown of each of the Disney Princesses... a wonderful dream come true <3

5) live in an apartment, and enjoy all of my roommates and keep everything pretty much clean!

6) Almost cry and break down because I've never been worked so hard in my life...

7) Gotten my first-real-actually-my-own pay check

8) PAID TITHING ON MY FIRST-REAL-ACTUALLY-MY-OWN-PAY CHECK!

9) Talk with a manager for the first time to request Sundays off

10) Wrote a letter to my manager explaining why I need Sundays off to accompany the letter my bishop gave me

Whoo! Is that all? Emily and I keep saying that we feel like we've been here for months just because we've gotten so much done, but we've only been here two weeks! Crazy... Never, when I graduated High School, never did I think that in just one year I would be sitting in an apartment in Florida, typing out my first few days of work working for the Walt Disney World Resort as a Costuming Cast Member on my blog... never could have even dreamed it....

but I'm glad that dreams.. even dreams we don't think up at first... come true...

Kelly and Emily

Friends through it all. Love you Em!

Magical Chaos... The Joy's of a New World

OK... wow. So let me fill you in on the last couple of days... trust me, it's a doozy.

Now I flew from Sacramento to Orlando ALL DAY on tuesday and settled at a lovely resort called the Regal Sun on Disney property. Very nice if I do say so myself. That bed could not have felt better after all that traveling. After settleing into the room for a minute, I sat down and paused and thought oh my goodness, I'm in a hotel room, in Florida, working for Disney World with one of my best friends.... and no parents... it was a little thrilling to think that I'm spending the night in a beautiful hotel room with a girl friend and my parents wont be sleeping in the bed next to mine... wow.

So we wake up the next morning and have a quick little bite to eat in the lobby, and then the fun began... alright now we got ready and headed off to get a cab. Ok, this was my first ever cab ride and it was pretty nice! We got our hotel to grab one for us and they got us a beautiful Excursion with plenty of room for our 200lbs of stuff we brought with us.

We arrive at the check-in point at Vista Way apartments and we go through this HUGE check-in process ( getting keys, apt #, signing paperwork, being carted around from one building to the next... very complicated.. BUT WE DID IT!) So we get through this huge process which started at 9:00am and ended shortly after 12:00pm.

Now, our apartment is absolutely beautiful, and we probably have the biggest bathroom known to college students because it's basically a master suite with a huge walk in closet and takes up the entire back wall of the apartment. So nice, and I only have to share it with Emily! Perfect!

So that night we meet up with some friends to go get some ice cream at one of the resorts...

This is what we ordered....

For ten people... we ordered two... I felt like I was going to burst by the end of it. BUT IT WAS AWESOME!!! Eight scoops of ice cream, a full can of whip cream and every topping they had! Ah-mazing! ( The Kitchen Sink at Beaches and Cream at the Beach Club Resort)

After getting completely Chocolate Wasted, we headed back to the apartment to sleep it all off.

Thursday was exciting for the sheer fact that we had no food in the house and we needed desperately to go to Walmart. After going through practically every food isle and getting a couple cleaning essentials, we ended up spending $90 for the both of us! Quite spectacular. The problem was getting it all home... with no car... taking buses... oh, boy...

That's Emily with half the groceries on our bus. I had just that much on my arms... can't believe we actually carried all that home...

So then we decided to take naps after that long journey. And when we awoke, we had many asking if we wanted to explore Downtown Disney! Of course we would, we replied!

Oh so much fun... :)

Now the next morning was my first day of work, aka: Orientation/Traditions. Now, they took me to a lot of places I can't say on the web, but I was giddy like a school girl when I saw Cinderella's Castle for the first time! Now, when we got back they started talking about a lot of different things we needed to know, and then there was a knock on the door and there was this huge present box with a bow on it, and then out the other door came in MICKEY MOUSE! THE BOSS HIMSELF!!! It was so cool!!!! Then he told us that the present was our NAME TAGS!!! I screamed.. I really did. I could not keep composure at that point. I'M WORKING FOR DISNEY WORLD!