I should take my own advice...

So i think all of you that read this should deffo read my housemate tom's blog - ethnictom.blogspot.com
its HILARIOUS, everytime i read his update im like crying in total hysterical laughter to the point where i think i may vomit, so i deffo reccomend it. the most recent of his posts had me just about roll off the sofa cos i physically couldn't keep upright i was laughing so hard i actually couldn't take air into my lungs. the one with the bike. if any of you know tom, it just makes this story way more funnier! so read the one with the bike.
After reading it i found his misfortune so funny i repeated this story at work. finding his pain funny.

Now another thing you should know for you to understand this story is the following:
At work the queue line for shrek goes right down the side of the building - visible and accesible to guests on the sidewalk, so frequently once we are loading a show, or when we are quiet, some guests climb over the bars/chains to avoid walking all the way to the actual enterance to then walk back on themselves. Normally we used to turn a blind eye, but we have been told to enforce that the guests walk all the way to the main enterance, for health and safety issues AND to make it fair on the other guests.

So today, i had some guests want to enter the last show, and they were at the front of the queue line, and some of their party wanted to ride Rockit, which had just gone down, so i offered to come and get them if rockit started running again before the park closed. Now most of this party entered shrek, whilst one of their party waited outside as they didnt want to ride shrek.
So i continued letting guests into the attraction and then noticed the rockit was running again, so i went inside to get the party, doing so by opening the wheelchair line as there was none in the line. Now after these people had gone to rockit, i noticed the other member of the party sitting on a bench, so i ran back inside to ask the party if this member had wanted to ride rockit or not. in the process i decided to hop over the wheelchair line chain. i got one leg over...but didn't lift my other leg high enough, which got caught on the line. In that same moment i KNEW i was going down. i made the LOUDEST smack on the floor, my glasses and hat went flying and i only just saved my face from a broken nose. that would have been perfect for New York.

Now when i said a loud smack on the floor, i mean loud enough to stop the preshow. i felt the blood rush to my face as i got up off the floor as fast as i could, to notice that the guests beside me pretended they hadn't seen and turned away...to save my embarassment. pfffft didn't matter then, i was already embarassed.
however it got worse.
the guests beside me were guests i had told off for trying to hop over the queue line cos they could hurt themselves. so i told them i was ok, and that was the reason why they should never climb over the lines.

then when i got to the party i was looking for, i asked if their other member had wanted to ride rockit...and of course they didnt....so all that for nothing.



but oh no. it wasn't over just yet.

not even

about 10minutes later we closed the attraction and i opened the chains to exit out my position...then walked to another way i could get into our theatre, and opened only one chain of the queue line...and climbed over the bottom chain.

but of course only one foot made it, and i caught my foot AGAIN.

not even 10 mins later. seriously.

luckily, i didnt land on the floor but my NEAR fall caught all the guests attention.

SO.

the lesson learned from this is DONT CLIMB OVER THE QUEUE LINES/CHAINS. not even if u work here.
my personal lesson - dont laugh at others misfortune...it will come back to you.

pffffffffft.


side note - i have bruised knees and a bruised wrist. i bet they dnt fade in time for NY.


bugger.

Zombie's

If the world was taken over by zombies...would you survive? if not...how long would you last?

That's what me and tom have just been discussing.

Recently our apartment has slowly been getting lower in numbers, to just me and tom, but we are still having fun. Amy is spending this time with her mum whose out to visit. Becca has moved in with some friends from work....and Immy dissapeared just over 24hours ago and has not been seen....however we do know he has been back whilst we have been sleeping. So me and Tom have been creating our own fun and company.

So we have just been talking about zombies. Dawn of the Dead is on. We have come to the decision after much deliberation the following -

Amy - would survive for a short amount of time...but then get bitten and tell everybody, but none of us want to kill her...cos she hasnt turned into a zombie yet and we like her, but immy would go in and shoot her...so all of us would hate him.

Immy - would be the antagonist at the beginning who nobody really liked...but then turn nice and save us when amy gets bitten and then saves me when i try to save the cat by letting it in but then all the zombies would start coming in, and he'd go to fight them off but die in the process.

Me - I would be the hysterical woman who has somehow miraculously survived until the middle of the film, even after immy has saved my life....but then end up getting myself killed by doing something stupid and selfish. My pussycat was still alive after immys massacre, and the cat gets scared and jumps out my arms and i chase it but the zombies kill my pussycat....and then i go insane and take a machine gun and start shooting all the zombies, but they all crowd me and kill me

Becca - would survive till the end....cos she's hot and clever.

Tom - would be a surviving hero. He would save becca by giving up his own life, and take petrol and a match into a huge area where all the zombies are and there would be a massive explosion...and becca would look on from a far distance with a tear in her eye...look away...and then get a strange feeling...turn back and coming out of the smoke...tom is limping...becca runs, they embrace it fades to black and roll credits.

this would be a good zombie movie.

me and tom have spent the last hour discussing this.

:-)

Thanksgiving

mmmm yummy yummy turkey in my tummy. Thanksgiving is also known as Turkey Day here! Its also the official start of XMAS IS COMING!!!!!!

so us english all worked the thanksgiving day...as we really don't care that much about the holiday...although it was fun to celebrate at work as we all got a free turkey dinner YUM!
But the lovely people at Universal Stdios gave all us lovely employees a FREE TURKEY wahoooo! so as there is 5 in our house...we weren't greedy...we just took 4 of the turkeys LOL! and we got one at someone's house, 2 in the freezer and then kept one for our very own thanksgiving dinner which we had 2 days before the actual thanksgiving...as we were all off (except Amy, who spent the holiday in the bahama's with her mum - JEALOUS!!!!)
However, i needed to go shopping to get things for NEW YORK ( 15 DAYS TO GO!!!!) and immy was gymming and doing his usual stuff, and Becca had stayed overnight at a friends, so Tom cooked the thanksgiving (huge roast) dinner all by himself.

For the first time.

ever.

IT WAS AMAZING!!!! he did the turkey (giblets and bacon and everything) AND THE BEST OF ALL.....HE COOKED YORKSHIRE PUDS FROM SCRATCH! amazing it truly truly was! even the gravy. mmm i could eat it all over again - take a looky -


















Doesn't it all just look so scrummy!!!!




but guess what.




We had a friend join us.





STICKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he came back for some turkey dinner a woop!


so it was utterly amazing. and scrummy. and we had cookies and cream cake for desert. mmmmm!!!! :-D

not as good as xmas dinner tho, definately not. Shall be awaiting that for when my family come :-)

So that was turkey day celebrating!

The Adventure's of Sticky

This is the morning we woke up and found sticky. He seems to like our bikes. Can u see him!?

21st Dress

Eeeeps

i didn't wanna write this in that other post cos that was all new moon focused.

I got my 21st dress!!!!

this is a funny story.

So i been looking online, and i wanted a LBD, but was open to discussion. So i decided i was gonna have a little look around yesterday in millenia mall, and Immy was going shopping too, so we went together but actually went into the shops together and everything giving each other advice on our clothes.

Now im not too bad at shopping, im a bit of a skimmer, so i told Immy i wouldn't be bad!

We did really well for about 2 hours, and then we went to a girls only shop, and i said i wouldn't be too long in side. then the shop assistant informed me that it was buy 2 get one free on EVERYTHING inside. EVERYTHING. uh oh.

I made my way all the way round the shop until i had covered everything, and we were about to leave empty handed. until i saw it. It was beautiful. It was my 21st dress. i just knew it. right there and then. we'd been in the shop for 5 minutes, and been shopping for around 2 hours and i found my dress. it was just exactly what i wanted, sophistication whilst being sexy. Even Immy agreed, and it was up high so he grabbed it down for me. He looked at the first one and said, that'll fit you, it was a size 4 so i was like PAH! im not that tiny, i need a 10 or 12, so he started getting them down, n when he got the 12 down i was like...thats huge, then remembered the sizes are different here! So i said oh no, put the 12 back, this 4 might fit me, its ok. So i went with the 2 dresses in my hand, believing i had a size 4 and 6 to try on. so i put the 6 on first, and it was a bit big, and didn't cling to me properly, so i SQUEEZED the 4 on, and managed with the help of Immy and the shop assistant to get it on. I tried shoes on, and the shop assistant picked out the most amazing earings that matched perfectly! We discussed how the 4 was a bit too tight...seing as i couldnt walk properly, but the 6 was too big and there was no inbetween. After much deliberation we decided that Immy was gonna be my trainer and get me to loose a little weight in time for New York, cos the other dress was way too big.

So i went back in the changing room and put the dresses back on the hangers...when i discovered that the size 6, was still a size 10. Uh oh....Immy.....please can u grab me a size 6.....i thought u already had one?....um....it was a size 10, we had the wrong size. deathly silence. U owe me a subway. THANK YOU IMMY!!!!!!! the size 6 fit perfectly :-D
but then i still needed my get one free, so i jst grabbed some jeans, and then got a shock at the checkout....at this point i was gettin death stares from immy as we had been in this shop for an hour and a half nearly. so ill return the jeans on monday.
I did buy immy a subway too :-D

No photo's of the dress till my actual 21st though :-D

New Moon

So last night was an experience i'll not forget in a hurry.

Some of you know, some of u don't, i am a Twilight addict....atleast i thought i was, but apparently im nothing compared to the masses here in America. Today is the 20th November and the release of the Twilight Saga's new movie New Moon. So a few weeks back i scheduled this day off, as i knew this film would be released a little after midnight and did not want to be scheduled for work at 8am after watching a film til 2am!

So me and some friends got to the cinema at 9pm, after already purchasing our tickets for $9.50 each, and joined a short queue outside the theatres that would be showing the film. we made sure there was 2 of us keeping our place in the queue at all times and went off to do various things, such as find my glasses that id left in the car, but retraced our steps to find it, go buy food and drinks, go to the toilet etc. and they had entertainment too, a small band with a male guitarist and female singer dressed as bella and edward and playing the songs from the soundtrack, and they had character lookalikes wandering around as well, so it didn't feel like we were waiting too long.

Now when we got there at 9pm, pretty early i know but we had nothing else to do, there was about 20 of us in the queue, and we were probably the only ones NOT in twilight tee shirts and things. By 10.30 there was a 100-200 of us, and we were still the only 5 out of maybe 10 not in twilight gear, so we bought the drinks tht cme with free cups lol. We couldn't decide wether we were the only cool people in there, or the only uncool people....

So anyway, they finally opened the theatres and i swear, the whole room started to feel different. I know it sounds strange but we were just very AWARE of the craziness that could and would erupt. the atmosphere totally changed and ill be honest...i felt a little scared.
We were loudly declaring within our small group "if they start running i swear down, we are all here in the same line wanting the same thing, if they start running and screaming we swear blah blah blah" I think this was our own personal shield and by doing this we felt a little safer and maybe the people around us wouldnt turn crazy.
It sort of worked.

The line started moving into the first theatre, and we were following everyone inside, when 2 girls, started pushing past us. Well you know me, i wasn't having any of that, so i walked right down the center of the corridoor so they couldnt pass me, started climbing the stairs and picked a row to sit on ( u dont get designated seats like in England) so i moved half way down, so we had seriously good seats and turned to see these girls following me down the row and stopped beside me. So i said oh, im sorry, these seats are saved, and the cow turned and said oh. sorry. and sat down anyway. i just stared in utter disbelief. This sad cow in her team edward teeshirt was so selfish, childish and obnoxious and just sat down anway, even though if she hadnt have pushed she wouldn't have got those seats. the steam started to leak out of my ears, and my hands turned into fists, and i knew i would have to move down the row away from them or i would say something that would get me kicked out of the theatre. i seriously could not believe she had just done that. so i moved all the way down the row and tapped my foot, concentrating on regulating my breathing, whilst grinding my teeth and shaking my head.

seriously, the attitude of people REALLY bugs me. I know it sounds like i was overreacting but it just infuriated me so much that people think the world revolves around them and are unaware of the people around them and so inconsiderate.
So me and my friends started talking about what had just happened....only i decided the only way i could safely let off steam, would be to talk LOUDLY about how inconsiderate and childish the people beside us were. (yes i know that is childish too, but trust me, i was sooooo pissed off i needed to vent so i wouldnt explode in their faces) And i know they could hear me, as the people infront and behind us were sniggering at my comments! Until i took it a step too far and said "Seriously, just cos america is a big country doesn't mean they own the world, so selfish, god!"
That wasn't such a wise move, seeing as we were surrounded by americans. I kept quiet after that :-s
So my bitching only lasted 10 minutes while i calmed down and vented, and so it was about 11.30pm, and the film didnt start till 12.15 (well the trailers started at 12.15) so for the next 45 minutes i then had to endure long legs behind me who obviously didnt have enough leg room and kept kicking the back of my chair. I didn't complain about it as i thought i probably deserved it after my last remark, and it wasn't too bad. Plus as angry as i get at people, im really a wuss and would do bad in a confrontation of physical attack. Im all talk, and ill tell people what i think of them, but if it ever came to fighting, im already running away!
So the theatre was full by midnight, but only the crappy seats at the front were available from around 11.45pm, so at around 12.13 people started shouting out a countdown till edward/jacob. guh. the idiots obv didnt remember there is such thing as trailers, and the trailers then started at 12.15 and went on till around 12.30 ish. One of the first trailers had kristen stewart (bella) in, and the last trailer had rob pattinson (edward), and when he came on screen all the crazy twilight addict kids started screaming and cheering and wooooing and me and my friends all turned and looked at each other. One of us loudly remarked, they better not do that all the way through the film. tsk!

Ok and then the film. was amazing. deffo a better director than the first film, it matched the book better and was sooooo good, just amazing. i decided i was team jacob anyway...edward is a lost cause, bella has him, i could happily fight for jacob if it wasn't for renesmee...but anyway, jacobs bod was FA...HIT! yummy, i couldnt care less he is younger than me!

***side note: a burger king advert has just come on the tv, and they have free new mooon merchandise...so im having burger king for tea tonight :-D***

Oh, also, not sure if you guys know, but here in america, when u go to watch a film, everybody reacts to what goes on, so the whole theatre will cry/laugh and comment on whats happening. its not like in england when its silence so u can watch/hear the movie.

so anyway during the film, the first time edward came on the screen, everybody gasping and ooed and aaahed and pathetic stuff, which was annoying, and then the same with jacob. and then when jacob took his top off. and all the way through the darned film. GRRRRR. and for some strange reason everybody laughed at really random places, they laughed all the time at bella's dad....when there was nothing funny happening. and when funny stuff did happen it wasn't small sniggers, it was loud hysterics so you couldn't hear the next line that was said in the movie. and then they laughed at other random scene where bella and edward were running together, and other random places. me and my friends were very confused. And then there was a scene were jacob says to bella "and you think im kind of beautiful" and some girl in the audience said "I DOOOOOOO" and everybody laughed at that so you couldn't hear the next line. that really pissed me off too!!!!

So from what i could actually hear of the film, it was AMAZING, and i will be first in line for the DVD!!!!!

As we left at the end we were all a bit pissed we had paid $10 to listen to a loud of crazy ass teenage american girls with their high pitched voices ooooing over rob pattison. look girls, u r nowere near his league, ur pathetic, grow up and get a life. I think its pathetic they went to the film just to see the actors/charactors. I know your laughing right now, but i didnt go to see the film for the men, they were an added bonus, i went cos i've read the books and enjoyed them, watched the film and enjoyed it, and i wanted to see this film for what it is as a whole, not to see a celebrity actor im heavily in love with.
GROW UP.

but yeah, im still really pissed about the whole stealing the chairs thing. if i'd been more prepared for that i would have kicked their ass!

Im off to read the book now anyway :-D

Questions

people are stupid. and you wouldn't even believe how stupid.

ok, i know your thinking, well duh, you already work there, of course you know whats what and whats going on....but sometimes it's really just common sense! However, most of the time i answer these questions before a guest has even finished asking them, as its obvious what they are about to ask me, So read this before you go to Shrek. Then you wont need to annoy me.

So....when I am at Greeter, these are the most commonly asked questions:

Guest: Which way do i go?
Answer: Down the line that the other 100 people are going down?
Guest: Do i go this way?(points to line that is chained up, away from the enterance)
Answer: No, go down the line everyone else is going down.

Guest: FastPass?
Answer: Express?
Guest: Fastpass! (whilst nodding)
Answer: Express!! (whilst furiously nodding)
Guest: Fast....Pass?!
Answer: EXPRESS!!!!!

Guest: Where is the express line?
Answer: (Point at the sign to my right) Right here
Guest: Where is the regular line?
Answer: (Point at the sign to my left) Right here
Guest: Which line do i go down?
Answer: If you have express, go down the express line. If not go down the regular line.
Guest: Is this enterance ticket express?
Answer: No its your enterance ticket.
Guest: How do i get express?
Answer: You can purchase an express ticket from either Nicktoons Store or the Universal Studios Store for $20 for one park each, or $26 for two parks each, which gives you a less than 15 minute wait on all attractions aside from our new red rollercoaster, the Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit or the P fliers in Islands of Adventure.
Guest: I have to buy one?
Answer: Only if you want to purchase an express ticket
Guest: Should i buy one?
Answer: Its your own decision - Today is pretty busy/Today is pretty quiet
Guest: Can i get a fastpass?
Answer: we only have express
Guest: Can i get an express?
Answer: Yes, you can purchase them from nicktoons store or universal studios store
Guest: purchase?
Answer: yes, for $20 for one park each or $26 for two park each
Guest: no fastpass?
Answer: no fastpass, only express
Guest: Is Fastpass this way?
Answer: yes, Do you have an express ticket?
Guest: no, fastpass?
Answer: No, go down the regular line if you don't have express
Guest: There is no fastpass?
Answer: there is only express
Guest: What is express?
Answer: its a ticket you can purchase which will give you a less than 15 minute wait on all attractions except for hollywood rip ride rockit or the p fliers in islands of adventure.
Guest: But i have this hotel room key card
Answer: :-| that also acts as express....come right this way....but next time show this card at the front of ALL ATTRACTIONS! (eye twitches)

Guest: Is this the express line?
Answer: Yes it is
Guest: All these people have express?
Answer: Well actually, this is the loading line, it means you will get into the next showing
Guest: But i have express
Answer: thats ok, you are in the right place
Guest: But look at all these people?
Answer: Ok, basiclly this is our loading line....it means you will get into the very next show, we let in 300 people into each show, so everytime those doors open, 300 people go inside....and there is only 100 people in this loading line, so you will get right into the next show.
Guest: But i have express.
Answer: Im afraid you will have to wait in this line until the doors open...then EVERYBODY will go inside. There is already 300 people inside those doors, so we cant let anymore in, until they have exited
Guest: But i have express
Answer: :-|

Guest: What is this?
Answer: Shrek 4d
Guest: What does it do?
Answer: its a 4d movie, you sit in a movie theatre, wear those funny glasses, the seats bounce up and down, there is other special effects.
Guest: Does it move?
Answer: the seats bounce up and down like a bumpy carriage ride
Guest: So its moves?
Answer: yes
Guest: is this a rollercoaster?
Answer: I dont think they could fit a roller coaster in this building....
Guest: Is this like jimmy neutron?
Answer: Not quite, jimmy neutron is a simulator, this is a 4d movie
Guest: Is this like Spiderman?
Answer: No, you wear the glasses the same, cos its 3d, but it doesnt go anywhere, its a movie.
Guest: Is this like the Simpsons?
Answer: No, the simpsons is a simulator, this is a 4d movie
Guest: Is this like the Mummy?
Answer: No, the mummy is a rollercoaster, this is a 4d movie
Guest: Can my baby come inside?
Answer: yes, we have no height restrictions
Guest: Can my grandma come in?
Answer: if she wants to
Guest: is it scary?
Answer: no....its shrek. some small children may be scared of the dark room and the loud noise, but its not scary
Guest: What is Shrek?
Answer: hes a big green fairytale ogre
Guest: Are you Shrek?
Answer: :-|



You wouldn't even believe how many small children say "Hi Shrek" at me. its really annoying. espeically when the parents snigger. The first time this happened to me i was mortified. I waved at this tiny lil kid, musta been about 4/5 years old as he walked into the preshow, and he waved back and declared "HI SHREK!" and his mother blushed a little and ushered in, and apologized. and i was just like staring in disbelief. then i found it a little funny and laughed about it.
Until it happened a few days later...only this time the parents giggled. and ever since i have loathed all these children! IM NOT SHREK! im not green, and im not an ogre(although my mum might say im different in the mornings), im not fat and huge, i dont have those strange little ears, and im wearing something totally different!

IM NOT SHREK!

this only tends to happen to me once a week, or once a fortnight, but last week i got it 3 TIMES IN ONE DAY. your kids are stupid. and cruel.
:-(



I will continue the annoying questions thing another post...as this one is pretty long now.

For You <3

STICKY IS BACK!!!!!

Indeed, he decided to come back and pay a visit. I woke up yesterday and started to get ready for work, and came to get my bike and here is Sticky coming to stay for a little while again. I said it was okay, as long as he doesn't do a repeat of the jumping off the bin onto me trick he tried last time....as i will not find it amusing. I dont really mind him staying...cos he eats all the small bugs and things, but it makes me slightly uneasy not knowing where he is....I've not seen him since yesterday...which worries me and makes me think he could crawl on me in my sleep. hmmmmmm

Ill keep y'all updated on his adventures here in 101!

Thank You for Concern :-)

Im a shrekie, yes i am. I will get a better photo of me in my uniform, but this is a photo of me with some of my collegues. Im in the middle by the way!



So those of you who like to keep updated about me and my life here on facebook have been concerned about me recently, due to negative status updates and what not. Well I'd like to put all your minds at rest, it hadn't really been brought to my attention that although i am in a different country, any negative comments would be percieved as me wanting to come home as i dislike it here. Well everybody, i still bloody love it here, im having the time of my life and i love my work, i love my home here and everything. It wouldn't be natural though for me to be 100% happy ALL THE TIME, while i was here now would it? Everybody has there ups and down, and not many people would bat an eyelid if id had all the same status etc when i was living in england still. So i want to thank you all for your concern, i really do appreciate it, it means people do care even though im so far away, im perfectly happy here, im not gonna jump on a flight home any time soon, but honestly i do miss people which makes me a little homesick from time to time! Also november is a pretty boring month, and december will be very exciting what with new york, my 21st, christmas and my family coming out to visit, so i believe this is nothing out of the ordinary for me to get little dips now and again.
Not only that, but unfortunately I've been a little ill recently, which of course makes me a little homesick, and i also discovered that i don't like/trust american men either. English men, i'll be marrying one of you HAH!

Also, apologies for the delay in posts, been pretty busy when im working all the time, but i will try harder, i promise!!!!

Im so very excited for the new twilight film coming out on 20th november 2009 - New Moon, i will be at the cinema at midnight for that one :-)