Shlup

Well, I work at Disney California Adventure, which is part of the Disney Resort. I'm starting to feel torn over which one I like better, honestly.

I'm usually just a store lacky, but a couple of days ago I had a shift in the "Mad Tea Party" arcade. Some woman let her troupe of toddlers throw the skeeballs in whatever machine they wanted, throwing all of them out of balance, but I got to play like ten games of skeeball trying to fix them so whatever. They also have a couple of Kinects set up in there.

After closing all the techs came in with the big lift machine and we played a seven-way basketball tourny, in which I came in last. I said "I did bad," to which one responded, "Yes, you did very bad."

But then I played the hit-the-light-up-buttons-as-fast-as-you-can game and destroyed everyone who challenged me, so that made up for it.

Last night I had to stay super late, but one of the guys at the candy store brought over the leftover gourmet marshmallows, so that made up for all the shirts I had to fold.

I'm undecided on what job I want next. I could get promoted in this department, or I can transfer to guest relations. I'd like to eventually do VIP guest relations, which basically makes me a lacky for fancy people. Peter Dinklage was in the park last week and I missed it.

I'm also looking into buying a bundle of trading pins. I've been trading pins at work so much I think I want to start my own collection.

In other news, BJ has started doing a lot of the work for my Etsy store. I make the stuff and print the shipping labels, then I pass it all to him and he puts it together and takes it to the post office. He also set up www.sweetwhatevers.com. We each have our own offices set up in the house now, and it's lovely.