2012

Hopefully plans so far... ideas I'm throwing out there

Continuing to be an awesome Lead.... the Managers are already talking about me :) possibly another lead position?

January

• Cash Money coming down to visit and staying in a hotel for the weekend.... heck yes
• enjoying the off season for once at Disney

February

• Moving out with Chris into a place that isn't his parents!
• Big Bear trip with the Disney besties for snow and cabin fun

March

 

April

May

•  Miranda turns 15...

June

• Possible trip to Utah with Chris' family?
• Miranda comes down a week or so to visit?

July

• Richardson Family Reunion in Lake Tahoe 

August

• the freaking Nevada County Fair  
• Arizona river trip or 3 day cruise for me and Danielle's bday

September

• Rib Fest?
• My dad turning 50!
• Burning Man (gonna have to be next year... ugh, too much cash just for the ticket :( )

October

•  Something awesome for Chris' bday?

November

December 

 

Guess I'll have to fill the blanks as time rolls on...

That's a lot of trips.... blah I wish trips were freeeeee

droid picture round up

Not exactly a week... almost like a month... I'll finish it up for the month once the month is done :) I'm surprised I took as many as I did. I guess I could do a monthly instead of weekly round up....hmmmm

May 1st - Dodger Game with my love :)

May 2nd - Ebay watches came in the mail! I accidentally won 7 of them....haha. they were .99 so i figured other people would bid on them.... guess not!

May 3rd - I went to the laundromat... it was quite an exciting day

May 4th (Maythefourthbewithyou) - Chris and I bought ducks to benefit Make a Wish and entered them in the duck races at Disneyland. They get to race in the It's a Small World Track :) We dressed ours up as Tomorrowland Cast Members. Autopia, Space Mountain, and even the new Star Tours II costume! The last one was planned to be a Cupcake but I failed and ended up making it the duck from Nightmare Before Christmas. Chris did a really good job on all the costumes I did terribly on the only one I had the chance to decorate. Oh well. We're prepared for next year :)

This is what they turned out like

May 5th - Chris and I are watching the Clone Wars..finished the first season and love it! Can't wait to get started on the 2nd

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May 6th - The Star Tours poster is up! The countdown is on...

May 7th - My wonderful friends came down to celebrate Laura's Bachelorette Party... we went to DTF and had we had a grand time dressing her up and embarrassing her :)

May 8th - Spent the day in Disneyland with all the ladies before they went back home to Nor Cal

May 9th - Sushi... I needed sushi so bad...that I went by myself and it was totally worth it

May 10th it was an eventful day so there's more than 1 picture :) Rubber Duck races! We didn't win anything but it was fun anyways

Walking out after the duck races.... Chris cracks me up :)

Star Tours Luncheon at the Grand Californian... it was all catered and these are the desserts. They were mini so I took one of each. We also got to hear from the imagaineers and everyone so it was really awesome.

May 11th - It was a pretty day and we had breakfast at Bruxie :) Waffle sandwiches are amazing.

May 12th - They finally showed up! I ordered these like a month ago. www.jameshance.com amazing prints, shirts, paintings.... bottom line this man is talented. I love seeing things I love and I am familiar with in a different view.

May 13th - *shudder* the tours jacket came in...don't think i'll be sporting this

May 14th - had to say bye bye to the old disney id and now they are blue...same dumb picture though

May 15th - I ended up parking next to Julius and we were Klot buddies

May 16th - Chris picked us up the Tours tumblers! So excited to use this on a daily basis :)

Month is halfway over and I still have so much to do this month! I really didn't think this month would be so busy. I'll be better about taking pictures each day. But I didn't take one yesterday lol. Oh well.

what else is new?

Let's be positive now :)

Chris and I went to the first of many baseball games that we have planned for this summer! Even though the Dodgers lost we still had an awesome time in kick ass seats. I'll have to post pics once I get on a real computer again. We also didn't have to work anywhere else so met up with our friends in the Tomorrowland sofball game and watched that then went to Shakey's for pizza and more visiting and celebrating Osama's death. Which is a huge part of history. I'm just anxious to see what's going to happen next.

Little Mermaid and Star Tours are both opening up soon. Miranda is graduating 8th grade and I've got my flight booked to get up there for a couple of days then get back down here. Got a Grad night scheduled on this new schedule. Ashley is planning on coming down in July. The wedding is coming up at the end of the month ...then Leslie is crashing in the living room till we find a place together. Christine is talking about finding a house but I'm not sure I can live with her for longer than necessary. It's so nice not being in Eileens house. umm....what else? Birthdays and what nots and all sorts of good stuff in between. Spring break is over and we get a small break till summer kicks in at the park.

I might copy Ashley this week and next week post up pictures from my week. Seems like a fun thing.

found it! kinda

It's been a while since I posted. But things went well with training. She passed and so did I :D

I even had my own set of trainees and they both passed
I'm very relieved. Things went really well and they both caught on quickly and had no problem with the PA. I felt so good about it all until the other day when one of the trainees made a really bad move. I don't really want to get too far into it because it will just make me sad again. But basically he could be getting written up a safety for it. But we'll see. I took it as a reflection of my training so I took it pretty hard, I can't help it but take it personally. Danielle my friend who's a lead helped talk me through it. You give them the right tools and once they are signed off it's up to them how they use them. I'm almost afraid to train again.

And guess what Saturday is? Training! But not at Autopia.it's at Star Tours. Luckily and unluckily I'm getting people who already knew the attraction before so it will mostly be review and talking about the new positions that were brought in. Chris was supposed to have training at the same time but they called and pulled him out of it. Dumb. But the biggest part I'm not excited about this training is that there was no shadowing really. We're all just getting thrown into.it. and since I'm still a new trainer and have yet to get in my groove and there's no set up way to do it just yet I feel so lost. I'm attempting to keep my cool on the outside but on the inside I'm screaming for help.

This post I wanted to be positive but once I started typing all the negative stuff started to just spill out.boo.

my year

So I've decided I want to make this my year...I really believe I'm in charge of my own happiness so I'm going to make the best of it. Starting off....

1. I got Autopia trainer!! So so excited for this and I start shadowing on the 18th and cannot wait. It's starting so fast but it will be amazing :)

2. Tax return! Extra money for paying off some bills and also saving so Chris and I can do a bay area trip for Laura's wedding. Super excited for the wedding, I'm so happy for Laura.

3. I got a smart phone! I know I'm way behind on the technology but I'm really happy that I finally have something not ghetto lol. I'm actually doing my updating on here right now!
And it's super cool looking too and I get to be a geek about it. I love it so much

http://www.starwars.com/vault/collecting/R2D2DROIDPhone/index.html

4. I'm moving out of Eileen's....I've had enough of the abuse and ready to move on. Christine is letting me live with her for a little while until...

5. Leslie is moving down!! I'm super excited for that as well it will be nice having an old friend around and someone to live with :) and I really think it will help feeling homesick. I'm happy to be a part of a new chapter in her life as well.

6. Another chapter that I will be starting this year is going back to school again. Yikes! I'm really scared at the thought of going back but I chickened out last year and after a lot of thought about how I don't really have anything to show for how far I've come in my life already
I really want to not feel ashamed when people ask if I'm going to school or ask if I have a degree. Who knows I just finally find something I can see myself doing as a career and can continue my education further.

7. I'm going to be 26 this year....le sigh... but I really couldn't be happier with how my life is going. I'm the brokest I've ever been and don't have a car but I'm finally doing things that make me happy and not sacrificing my happiness for other people. It feels really good. Plus I'm very much in love and that makes everything better.

I just hope that the year brings more good fortune to me or that I make the best of what i'm given cuz really at that point you don't have any other choice.

Other things I have to look forward to this year

*Star tours opening - even if I'm not a part of opening crew I'm happy just to be a part of it opening again. I guess my interview will be next friday. I'm a little nervous.
*My baby sister is graduating 8th grade! I asked my parents to see if they can fly me up for the grad since it will just starting the summer and hard to get away from work for a full weekend.I can't believe she's going into high school already :(
*Chris and I will be seeing each other for a year this month...crazy! We didn't officially get together till 6 months later but we are still celebrating and going out to eat at the blue bayou :)
*Baseball games, plays, musicals and whatever else we feel like throwing in the,mix this year again....I'm hoping Vegas in August for my birthday again


Cheers <3

crazy ass weekend...

this weekend was long and full of a bunch of fun stuff.

friday was just a relaxing time with spencer and watching a movie... he had to work in the morning so we didn't stay up late and left his place saturday morning and came home to get ready for working out and reno. ash and i did the 11 mile bike ride up at cascade shores. it was rough and it really made me wonder if i'm going to be able to do this triathlon. fuck. it's scary. so after that craziness we met up with brit and went up to reno. those kosher cousins are crazy party girls. i would never be able to live up there, but we got some special treatment at the club we went to and didn't have to beat anyone up. i felt very good looking... i don't like to say things like this but seriously... there aren't very good looking women in reno. we stayed out late but really had a decent time :) i'm still in pain from the cigarette smoke though. sunday we drove home and luckily avoided 2 accidents, one closer than the other and i made it home later than expected but had to hurry and get ready for megan's birthday/going away party. it was decent but the sorority girls aren't really my favorite people to talk to, megan is cool, and she has a friend named erica who's was nice as well. but austin looked miserable having to hang out with them. i wonder about their relationship sometimes. they've now been together for 5 years. megan leaves tomorrow for her job training in chicago and austin leaves on saturday to texas to get set up for his job training. crazy crazy... now if spencer will just call that recruiter.

“They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.”

Ashley and I are going to Florida! I haven't told my dad and judy yet though... she told us we couldn't have any *unpaid* vacation days... and i'm like screw you, i'll take the time i want, you barely pay me anyways! ugh... and i already booked it and bought a ticket there. i don't have the outlined itinerary that we started but it's going to be awesome. starting off in ft. lauderdale and then to orlando and then we're taking the rental car up through the southern states and going up to see tony. it's going to be amazing.

things have been going alright lately... ash and i are also starting to train for the triathlon that we did last year as a part of a team but we're doing it on our own. so i'm super excited about it and i keep telling everyone but i keep getting doubts which is discouraging and motivating as well. my mom was the first one, she was almost trying to talk me out of it. then i talked to julie and she said her and mom talked about it and same thing. it's like eff you guys, at least we're doing something with our lives and setting goals and shit, i know you both don't have any idea about that. ugh, annoying!


so i also talked to spencer about moving down and everything and he is for sure going to join the Air national guard... it will be so good for him. so i'm excited. so the timing would be perfect i would be leaving for LA and he'd be leaving for boot camp in lubbock, tx for 8 1/2 weeks and then tech training for however long after that. so i'll be getting my feet wet down there and seeing how i like it and everything and we'll just play it by ear for our relationship. he doesn't want to stop me from doing anything and has already moved around and experienced living other places and i'm itching to do so. so if i like it and things are going on he'll probably move with me there and if not then we'll probably end up moving back to around here. there's places down there for the ANG down in socal so he'd be set down there too.

anyhoo... my first trip down there with intentions of making some progress is this weekend. i'm going to stay with joy and see what her situation is down there and hopefully i can move in with her once i get down there. i'm flying in thursday night we're going to warped tour on friday and then i have the weekend for relaxing and beaching and talking to her about how everything's going and if she still wants to stay down there and what not.

jeeze

Why is it so hard to talk to someone about something important? Something that means a lot to you?

Blogs

Here I go again... I'm starting another blog. I have LJ... and have had one forever but maybe I'll switch over to this and start over and just use that as an archive. There are so many memories in that dang thing and also a lot that aren't in there that I wish I wrote about. Plus, sadly, I still don't exactly know how to work livejournal. Just guess I never tried very hard though either. Although I do enjoy reading the community pages that are on there. I still need to check around on this and figure some stuff out.

I do feel like somewhat of a follower because Ashley & Brittney have been on here for a while and now I'm jumping on the train. I actually signed on this website a while back because my cousin Amber updates us on family happenings but doesn't do it very often. Ashley always is in on the hip and new stuff that's coming up and out. Like I knew she would know why all the Walgreens had signs welcoming Longs customers...and also Twitter, Myspace, & Yelp. Which yelp I have a little bit of an addiction to now.

In general I'm getting a little addicted to blogs. I've always been a fan at seeing how people live their life what's going on in their minds.

side note...why does my phone only like to pretend to work!?! i need a new phone


And there I go. I need this, need that.


Ugh.


I really am a little disappointed about how my life is currently.

I've gone nowhere.

But I'm going to change that.

I've been searching for jobs and I'm getting a new one or two, I might need two to survive. But either way I can't work there anymore and I will be moving away. Hopefully to Southern California... then other places.... I want to live in many places and come back here and be content with it. I like being close to my family and I when I start a family I would like to be close to them.

There's so much I feel like I'm missing out on... I don't just feel it, I know it.

More to come. We'll see how it goes.