Captains Journal

Just realised that this year is probably going to be my first easter with out an easter basket.  I was very saddened by this thought.  So I am trying to think of something to do that wont cost anything, or will distract from my work.  Oh well.... I was just sad thinking about this.  Oh well....... I might just have to buy easter candy for myself and hide a basket until sunday. 


On a happier note, today I had off, and spent time with my roommate Krystyna.  We went to Disney's MGM and saw the pep rally, the parade and the Disney's playhouse show.  I wanted to see what there was for Dominic's age range and I was not disappointed.  When he isdown here we will see the playhouse Disney show, and Krystyna told me that she might be able to make a meet and greet for us and Bear... Bear in the big blue house... she works on the show.   I think that Dominic would love to see bear.    Also I need to make sure that we buy two little fans to strap to his buggy so he at least is cool.  Cant have acranky baby because of the heat.  There are pleanty of other reasons for Dominic to be cranky.


I have to go now cause I have work tomorrow.... andI will need to get a full nights rest.

1. Do you still talk to the person you lost your virginity to?
No. I would rather kill him.

2. What would you do with 1,000 plastic spoons?
Dig my way to freedom.

3. What kind of music did you listen to in elementary school?
New kids on the Block, and Disney.

4. What is the best thing about your current job?
Disney.

5. Have you ever felt betrayed by your best friend?
No.

6. Are you against same sex marriage?
No. If someone loves someone else then it should be thought of as wonderful.

7. Have you been on a date in the past week?
No. Not recently.

8. Where are you going on your next vacation?
Funnily enough Disney.

9. Quote a song lyric:
“Say you love me…”

“You know I do.”

“Love me, that’s all I ask of you.”

10. Are most of the friends in your life new or old?
Old.

11. Do you own any furniture from Ikea?
Um personally… no I don’t think I have any.

12. Do you like your parents?
I love my mom and she is a great Friend, but am rather hurt by my father

13. Do you still live with them?
No, well Kinda. I am living with mom or I was before I came on my internship.

14. What state/country are you from?
Virginia, USA

15. Tell us about the last conversation you had:
My roommates and their friends talking about weird things and how drunk we are during the super bowl.

16. Where do you see yourself in one month?
Still Working for Disney.

17. What is your favorite smell?
Vanilla

20. What is the time and the outside temperature at the moment?
10:16 pm and 55F

21. Have you ever done anything vindictive to your coworkers?

Does making cookies count??

23. Have you ever Played Spin the Bottle?
Yes.

25. Have you ever liked someone but never told them?
OH HELL YES.

27. Have you ever had a crush on your sister's friend?
I didn’t have a sister growing up…

28. Have you ever been to a nude beach?
No.

29. Have you ever had sex on the beach?
Not even the drink.

30. Have you ever had a stalker?
Yes.

31. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?
Truthfully no, but I want to.

33. Have you ever gone to a party where you were the only sober one?
More then I can count.

34. Have you ever been cheated on?
Sadly yes.

35. Have you ever had sex with one of your LJ friends?
Um…. No.

38. Have you ever lied to your parents?
Yes.

39. Have you ever been out of the US?
Yes.

42. Have you ever eaten 3 meals from 3 different fast food places in 1 day?
Yeah.

43. Have you ever gotten so wasted you didn't know what was going on?
No.

44. Have you ever spied on someone you had a crush on?
Spy?? Or been very aware?

45. Have you ever met someone you only knew through LJ?
No.

46. Have you ever slept with one of your co-workers?
No.

47. Have you ever seen your best friend naked?
Yes but we were like two and three getting a bath.

48. Have you peed your pants recently..?
No.

50. Have you had sex this week?
No.

Ok today I learned how to clock in and out. Yay! which of course means I am getting paid!!! Very big thing there as I need to pay rent sooner or later. Oh but I got to walk the entire park today and we learned about the different greetings in each section of the park. Yep.

Well if I havent said yet I am on Kilimanjaro Safaris. Thats right I get to drive the safari bus. Very loud laughter. Well I also get to point things out like the baby giraffe that we have. Apparently he is four months old and oh so sweet. His daddy was very protecting of him as we drove by today. And there are baby elephants! It's amazing how close we really do get. There was a male lion pacing, we were joking that the female (who was asleep right next to him) was making him wait before she got up to go hunt.

Oh and I want to clear up some misconception. There is only ONE Mickey Mouse! I dont care what you have heard in the past but that is the truth! Who better then to ask a Disney Cast Member? Maybe Mickey himself, but he's a mouse of few words at most times.

Well thats the news up to date here in Sunny Florida. Now for the weather...

Highs up to 83 degrees F and a chance of small showers.

To all you who keep tuning in, I have just recently moved to Florida.  Today I have met my three room mates.  Thats right I said room mates.  Laura, Monica and Krystyna. There isn't that much to report today so I will post tomorrow as well and tell you more about working for Disney. That right DISNEY!!


Loves.

Oliver became a member of our family, after one visit to the Leesburg Animal Shelter. Mom and I were in search of a guinea pig, and that's exactly what we found. His story was heart breaking and we knew that he had to be with us. The sad truth was that he was just over a year old, and he had been there for a year, his former owners had surrendered him. So for a year no body wanted this sweet boy. On our next visit we brought a strawberry, which he had never had. He wasn't sure what to do with it, but he ate all of it. On the third visit we were allowed to take him home with us. He became my pet on March 13 2003.

In the early fall of 2005 Oliver started to grow a lump. At first is was small and hardly noticeable, I thought he had bitten his lip and it had become swollen. It didn't go away. It started to grow, but it wasn't slowing him down or causing any pain. He was active, could eat and wasn't bothered by it. However in spring of 2006 it was larger then a quarter. We took him to a vet, to see what could be done. The vet tried to drain the lump, but it was solid. We were told that our only choice was to have it surgically removed. Oliver was not considered young anymore and a surgery like this would very likely have killed him. It still wasn't causing him pain so we left it alone. His lump continued to grow. In July of 2006 it started to cause him pain. Going to a different vet we were told that it could be lanced and a biopsy on the lump could be done. So we went ahead and did this. The results came back as Cancer. It wasn't going to spread to other places in his body, but it would continue to grow. To remove it would force him to under go facial reconstruction and he wouldn't have lived through that. We decided a life on pain medication was a better choice.

After several months of taking pain medication Oliver refused to take any more. He physically wouldn't take it. So we stopped giving it to him. During this time I was away in college, and my mother was his care giver. She has told me stories of how she would return home from a night of work, and as soon as he heard her, Oliver would squeal for her attention. More often then not he was louder then both the dogs. When I returned from school it was as if I had returned from the dead for him. He would talk to me long into the night and often during the day. It was two days after Christmas that the lump had almost totally covered his mouth. He couldn't eat anymore, and he had lost weight. That night I held him and told him that I would always love him, in this world and the next. The next evening mom and I discussed that it was time to let his rest. That very night we took him to the vet for the last time.

I loved him so much that I have to make this clear. Rather then watch his starve to death, a slow and pain-full demise, I let him fall asleep and simply not wake up. So it was on December 29 2006, close to ten o'clock pm that Oliver was carried in the arms of an Angel up to heaven. He was buried New Years Eve in the backyard of my Uncle John and Aunt Arlene along with the ashes of Jingles. I know that he is in a better place where he feels no pain and has no thirst. In heaven I know he is as he was before, lump free and adorably chubby.