14 hour days are FUN! :S

Yeah so overtime always sounds like such a good idea when you first request it. Then you see your schedule and go eargh. Then you work it and pretty much die. That was my experience yesterday, minus the dying part. Im still alive. Just so you know. I worked from 8.45 am to 11.30pm. It actually wasnt too bad, I wanted to kill people less than I did at the end of my 8 hour day a few days ago. Me and Nick had the same shift. We supported each other through our hardships and I fed him chocolate. Anyways enough about my ridiculous shift yesterday. Other than work I havent been doing a lot. Ive spent a fair bit of time at the Christian and Johns apartment recently, kinda nice to get out of Vista. Um. I really cant think of anything of interest to write in here. I walked into a door yesterday, it hit me right in the middle of the forehead and REALLY hurt. Um. Im going to Chicago next week with Rebecca. Um. Yeah its raining which is making my fingers lethargic so byebye

HI!

Well the last time I tried updating this the internet cut out and wouldnt save my awesomely massive post. Thats why there hasnt been anything on here for a wee while. And, just because Im paranoid, this post is going to be very short and to the point.

Not a lot as been happening around here recently. It was Johns birthday the other day so we went to laser tag last night. Insanely intense laser tag. With HUGE big military style guns. Dont ask me what kind they were but im pretty sure they were modelled off real ones. The first round I had a really big one, maybe a sniper rifle or something? But it was really big and heavy and I couldnt figure out how to look through the scope and pull the trigger at the same time so I used a little machine gun kinda thing for the other rounds which worked out a bit better. I didnt survive a lot longer but at least I wasnt hurting myself!! Everyone else there was really hard out into it it was funny... we just failed :). It was fun though! Today I went to Bonnies and helped her make sushi. That was pretty exciting. Then she made korean pancakes which were pancakes with cinnamon syrupy stuff in the middle. So good! :) And now Im off to get ready for work. Lameness, most of the cool people have gone which is lame. I cant wait for the new CPs to come, new people! But yeah I should offskis and get ready for work! Hope you guys are having good times- but not toooo good times or Ill get jealous.
Kristy

DAYTONA BEACH!

Ok so the last week or so has been fantabulous. On... Thursday? Yeah. Thursday. We all went out to TGI Fridays after work to say good bye to the CPs who are leaving this week. So so sad, both of my favourites are leaving. Funny thing was, most of the people who are leaving didnt come. Thats ok though, the rest of us had fun. Everyones cars were full on the way there so me Rebecca and Bonnie walked from Vista. It was pretty funny times, none of the flashy man walk now thingymajigs were working so we kinda just... ran. Wasn't the best. But yeah that was a good night. Ate waaaaaaaaaaay too much. Got an entree of fried mozzarella. Yes. Deep fried cheese. Awesome ay? So I got home from that at about 1 am. I then got up at 6am to pack for Daytona. The taxi came and got us at 6.45am and drove us to the greyhound station which happened to be in this really really dodgy area of down town Orlando. We were pretty scared lol. Sat there for about an hour waiting for the bus and generally trying not to fall asleep. Once we arrived at Daytona we did all the usual finding our hotel, getting settled in kinda stuff, blobbed on the beach for a while then we decided we wanted lunch. We went to this really really cute 50s diner. Just like in the movies!! From there we taxied to a chocolate factory which did a tour and let us sample the chocolate which was EPIC as... sooo good. The next day we went to Ponce Outlet to go parasailing. I wasnt planning on going- was running a bit low on money- but the others all wanted to so I tagged along and went on the boat. Thing was, the guy was talking to me and asked why I wasnt going so I told him. He ended up letting me go for free! I was like MEAN. It was sooo much fun, we went at 1000 feet- around 300m. Could see heaps, blue sky, blue water, white sand... gorgeousness. They dipped us in the water a few times as well which was awesome seeing as I was fully clothed... haha. Dont think the others were hugely impressed that I got to go for free but oh well. Um what else did we do that day? Oh. Stacey wanted a tattoo and Jackie wanted her nose pierced so they went and did that. The others all hung around and watched but I wasnt really too keen on staying there- was kinda dingy and it was soooo nice outside- so I walked home along the beach. It took about an hour and a quarter which would have been fine except that I wasnt wearing sun screen. I now have some really epic tan/burn lines. Third day we tried to go to IHOP for breakfast but failed so we tried the diner and failed so we ended up going to a burger place. Now, I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich. The lady misheard me and thought I said grilled cheese. I said that was fine and Id eat whatever. She puts a burger down, it gets passed down to me so I figure hey, this must be for me. I took a bite. Then I get told its not mine, it was Sarahs. So I passed it to Sarah and said "Sorry, I took a bite". That would be reasonably ok back home right? You wouldnt do it to a random but anyone you know, whatever, its only a bite. But apparently the rest of the world, not so much...... They gave me crap the rest of the day. Hung out on the beach for a few hours. I went swimming and wave jumping and stuff but the others were boring and stayed on the beach. Turns out I was swimming in a rip. oops. After that we taxied- again- to the Nascar Speedway. That was pretty cool, saw the race track and stuff. From there we walked to the mall. Which was shut. We still had about 4 hours until we had to be at the bus station- and really really didnt want to get there early because that bus station was just so DODGE!! So we stole a couple of trolleys and put all our stuff in them- I should probably mention we had to check out of the hotel at 11 am so we had been dragging all our stuff around all day- and wandered around various shops. Eventually we got sick of that so we pushed our trusty trolleys to Olive Garden where we spent a ridiculously long time deciding what we wanted to eat and doing everything else as slowly as possible. It was really good food. After about 2 hours we kinda sensed the poor waiter wanted us to leave so he could get new people and more tips so, very reluctantly, we gathered all our stuff that was piled around the table and loaded up the trolleys again. We still had a couple of hours so we went to Dennys- we spent a LOT of time in restaurants- parked our trolleys under a street light so we could keep an eye on them and ordered icecream sundaes. Eventually we decided to brave the bus station. So so so dodge! No other word describes it quite right. Im pretty sure everyone else on that bus was transporting drugs and/or homeless. We all had to split up too because the bus was almost full and there were only scattered empty seats. Finally we got home and, very thankful for Vista security, went home and to bed. The end.


That was a pretty long post huh? Well its not the end. I still have to tell you all about today! Haha. So today Rebecca me and one of her friends went horse riding at Fort Wilderness! Random much lol. It was pretty cool except I wanted a pretty horse and got an ugly one :). But at least it was well behaved and my helmet went unused!! After that we wanted to go swimming so we caught a guest bus to Blizzard Beach. My first time at Blizzard! I love the concept, its all set up like a ski village. So yeah just hung out in the pool and went down a couple of slides and stuff. We were only there for an hour ish though. Didnt see any snakes in the lazy river which was a good start! Um yuppyyup I think thats around about it now. You can all go back to your lame as lives and leave me to my fantastically exciting one! :)
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Kristy

Musings of a baked potato

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So... it is FLIPPING HOT outside! As in, its 6.30 pm and I would say its about 32 degrees out there still. It was 85 Fahrenheit last night when I got home at 10pm, I just translated it and thats about 29 degrees. And its only spring!! This is going to be really really nasty come summer. Today I caught the bus across the park instead of walking because I was stupid and forgot to bring a change of clothes and I didnt want to walk in my costume- polyester pants suits arent exactly heat regulating- and the bus didnt have air con. Ugh. Anyways thats my ranting about the heat. At least they have sprinklers going, I went and jumped around under one about 5 minutes ago. It was super fun. Ok so whats been happening over here? As per usual a lot of work, a minimal amount of sleep, a lot of eating. Church was yesterday which was good, afterwards I went out for lunch with Alex Christian and Sarah to Sweet Tomatoes. Its a salad buffet place and was so so so so so so good. They had all this really nice bread and stuff too, and baked potatoes and soup. I didnt have any soup. I was WAY too full of bread and epically awesome salad. There was dessert as well so kinda ate a bit much of that as well. The end result was that I got to work and could barely walk so I had to make people swap jobs with me everytime rotation came around so I could do the position that required the least movement lol. I was still full this morning at breakfast time! Um in other news, we are going to Daytona Beach on Friday for the weekend! It will hopefully be splendiferous. I have Wednesday off so me and Alex are planning to go to IHOP and to one of the water parks for the day then to the formal at night. Yeah, theres a Disney formal. I hadnt even thought about it until Alex asked if I was going. So I have no idea at all what Im going to wear and the only shoes I have over here are lime green jandals, some rainbow canvas sneakers and my work shoes. So uh... yeah this will be interesting! Thursday night we are all going to TGI Fridays to say goodbye to the CPs leaving work... so many people are leaving in the next two weeks. Its so sad, all my favourite people to work with are leaving. In other pointless stream of consciousness ramblings, I made sweet and sour chicken for tea and it was epically amazing. :) Yeah. I think thats about it.
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Kristy

A lovely little fail for you all...

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So not a lot of interest has been happening recently, hence the update drought. Basically just been working a lot and hanging out in my time off. But now its my weekend. Yesterday I went for a walk to the outlets- well, really I went to do my grocery shopping and got distracted by the outlets on the way. Did a wee bit off shopping, had taco bell for lunch which was certainly a momentous occasion, then finally actually went shopping. The bus didnt come when I wanted it to so I thought stuff this, I only have 3 heavy bags of groceries plus the stuff I bought at the outlets, and its only about 30 degrees. Ill walk. Ha. Ha. Ha. I am silly. Not to mention that by the time I got home all 6 of the eggs Id bought had broken. But thats not even the fail I mentioned in the title of this post. Today- My Sunday- I was bored so I thought it would be nice to walk to Mickeys Retreat, take some food and a book and blob there for the afternoon. I walked over there- its about a 30-35 minute walk- to discover the park was closed for the graduations. So that was annoying. I ended up jumping a couple of hedge lines and small pondy swampy things to hang out in the Mary Queen of the Universe Catholic Church garden. It wasnt really all that nice though so I only spent an hour or so reading there. Besides the bench I was sitting on was concrete and really not very comfortable. THEN I walked home and had the bright idea of going barefoot. I had also gone barefoot on the way there by the way... Problem was the ground was really really hot. Now I have blistered feet. So to sum up my day, I walked for ages, burnt my feet and crashed a garden. I think Ive turned into Kate. ;) Epic fail right there... Anyways. Yeah really nothing interesting going on!!
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Kristy

Howdy folks.

Hoooowdy folks! Its my Saturday and all is ticking along fabulously :). Had a most wonderful day off. First- and this was a very important part of the wonderfulness- I slept until 12. Then I toodled over to Brittanys to hang with her Rebecca and Bonnie. While we were there Rebecca and Brittany were talking about their plans for Rebecca to roadtrip to Michigan with Brittany when her programme ends in June. Somehow, it got decided that I am going to go with them. Only problem is, its the exact same time as my room mates are going to New York. SO New York has gone down the drain for the moment in favour of an epic road trip to... uh... Michigan. Rebecca is going to New York in January so Ill go with her then maybe. But yeah I told the room mates and I dont think they were too concerned, sounds like it solves a lot of the problems that they were having- 4 in a room works a lot better than 5- so hopefully I wont be disowned. Bonnie might be coming on the road trip too. It will be so much fun. Bonnie is hilarious, shes little and Korean and cute but shes been picking up on how we all talk so some of the stuff that comes out of her mouth just doesnt seem to fit. She made us noodles today that apparently "failed". In a korean accent. Well it doesnt fail in a korean accent, she says "failed" in a korean accent.... you know what I mean. She also gave me and Brittany back massages. At the same time. She used her feet on me. Then made me give her a leg massage. Which was kinda weird. Hahaha she did our hair all koreanish as well, I had this epic as top knot... I kinda looked like a cross between Mulan and some kind of trailer trash hillbilly. We have lots of fun plans for our road trip. We are going to have KFC in Kentucky. :). Um what did I do for the rest of the day.... blobbed on the couch eating junk and watching movies until I got a txt wanting to know if I wanted to go to Bible Study. I figured I may as well seeing as lying on the couch watching movies wasnt really a very constructive way to spend my evening. We were really really late, I had to go stand outside because I was having a massive coughing fit, tried to come back in, the door had locked behind me. Was standing at the door kinda pathetically because they were doing the worship so everyone had their eyes closed and I didnt really want to bang on the door. Eventually some heathen who had their eyes open came over and let me in again, just in time for me to start really needing to cough again. Of course by now theyd moved on to praying, so I really really REALLY didnt want to have a coughing fit. I was trying soooo hard not to cough that by the end I had tears streaming down my face and everyone was all like "are you ok"?!? They probably all thought I was having some sort of Holy Spirit moment or something... No... just dying... lol. So yeah that was fun... And now Im home again, updating all of you special people on the oh so interesting moments in my life. Oh! As far as "Famous People sightings" go, I had a few famous people in my gates the last few weeks that I forgot to tell you all about. Problem was I didnt know who they were... apparently everyone else does though. Um. Joey from NSync, Hooty from Hooty and the Blowfish? I think that was what it was... Dont laugh if I got that wrong... Dog the Bounty Hunter? Um yeah. Plus a couple of random Disney Channel people. And Barak Obama rode but I didnt see him. :) Im holding out for someone really really super cool to be in my gate.... I think Taylor Swift has been the most exciting one so far. One of the guys is adamant that she winked at him in the utility closet.
Anyways I think thats about all the interestingness for the moment. Going to make the most of doing nothing as I can today and tomorrow because this next week is going to be very busy!!
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UNIVERSAL

Good afternoon my minions.

How is everything thing in Kiwiland treating you all? Good? Fantastic. Argh I cant think what I said last time..... But ill assume it was before the sleep over and Universal trip so Ill start there. Got home from work the other night to find the lounge had been totally transformed... all our mattresses were in here, our teddy bears, everything. It was awesome. Not to mention all the junk food that Stacey had won at grocery bingo. They were playing some random game which I had missed most of but all good. Anyways the sleepover was fun, except that everyone fell asleep really really quickly. Then we woke up early the next morning, sleepwalked our way through getting dressed and such before we piled into the taxi and drove to UNIVERSAL. It was so much fun, awesomely epic to get out of the Disney bubble. And the rides are fantastic. Yay for good roller coasters. Dueling Dragons was my favourite I think, its 2 rollercoasters in one that kinda twist around each other and race each other and stuff. Its mean. You have to ride twice though. Good thing theres no line. There was another one called Rock it which was pretty cool too, you get to choose your own soundtrack for the ride which blasts in your ears. I didnt think it was quite fast enough though... was still fun! Only problem with the day was that now my room mates are annoyed with me... Kinda ditched them. I really wanted to go on a few rollercoasters and things that they werent so keen on so I just went and did them by myself. But now they arent really talking to me. Oh well, it'll sort itself out. Oh! There was a Special Effects Makeup show on too! I went to see it with Alex, she came as well but met us there and left early... Ditched the room mates to hang out with her too. Ooops.So funny just how Un Disney the place is, its almost like theyve sat down and been like, well disney does this this and this. Lets do the opposite. One of the guys in the show absolutely soaked a little kid with a water pistol and was like "This isnt the magic kingdom. I dont have to be nice to kids". It was great. After that I went to Christian and Johns for tea which was really good, Christians old room mate made pasta. There were quite a few people there, we all just hung out and talked and played a random game. I educated a few of them on the wonders of Hamish and Andy once everyone else had left. Oh gosh, I stopped a family at merge the other day and it turned out they were Kiwis. So was talking to them........ apparently Im getting an accent. NOT GOOD!!!
Anyways I should really go do something productive before Extra Tragic Hours... Bye!