Second Try, and a Day in the Life

Operation: Take over [#5]'s Bathroom works much better when #5 actually leaves. I had as long as I wanted in a giant bathroom with NO awkwardness tonight. Can you say nice, long, relaxing, amazing, bubble bath? That's my kind of evening. and Whoops! I forgot my earrings and loofah. oh darn, guess I'll just have to go back over tomorrow.

So, I've been wanting to share what a day at work is like for me, using the example of a day from last week. Originally, there were going to be funny stick figure pictures to illustrate each point, but that is way too much effort for me right now. sorry. Just imagine that we're sitting in the Tea Grotto and I'm showing you funny pictures that I drew cause I have WAY too much time on my hands as I tell you all about this...

At about 6:30 I roll my sorry self out of bed and start my coffee maker. (coffee = yummmmmmm) While the coffee is going, start making breakfast (a delicious egg sandwich). Once the coffee and sandwich have opened my eyes, I start getting ready for work, swim suit, shorts, sandals, polo that's too big, hippack, sunglasses, whistle and nametag. No lunch because Chef Lee will be grilling up lunch today. I heart Chef Lee. around 7:15 I head off to work.

Once I get to work and am clocked in, head out to the guardshack while chatting with a few other guards. Check in and get a morning job, in this case, sweeping the sand out of the footbaths. It's already about 85 degrees, and only 8am. Once the footbaths are swept (which takes about 30 minutes of the given 45) pick trash off the beach until the bells are rung. While grabbing a guard tube, the "Big Kahuna" comes through, so we form a tunnel with our tubes for the Big Kahuna before morning breakout. Breakout is the same thing it always is, it's gonna be hot, don't tell guests that you found their lost articles, drink your water, blah blah blah. Grab rotations, and I'm on a Deep Rotation!! YAY!!!

I start the day at wave 3, so head on over. oh! and I'm bumping #14 all day. This'll be fun! Lifeguard the wave pool, no lifejackets past the red line, no masks allowed. The girl who is bumping me is an idiot, a guest made it all the way up her stairs and she did nothing about it. Idiot. Bump goes through, 40 minutes as an island guard, nothing interesting, then break. It's about 11:10, so get a burger fresh off Chef Lee's grill. yummmm. Then to Unload (the catch area of the Family Raft Ride). For once, the person I'm with can pull their own weight, AND he's cute. Head over to Wave 7, and we're on bobbing waves. I can see managers hanging out on the other side of the pool talking to a new trainee. There's a little boy who yells for help in my water, so I blow my whistle, hit my E-Stop, jump in, and swim over to him. As I get close he starts yelling that he doesn't need help, he's fine, don't touch him!, etc etc. Dumb kid. As I climb out, I get a round of applause from the guests in the wave pool, w00t. The rest of the Wave Rotation goes without a problem, #14 gives me a hard time. Hit break, finish off my chips and reload on Powerade before heading over early to the Reef. While at the Reef, I have to jump in again because the chick who is at Reef Float is playing Taxi rather than Lifeguard. #18, the responding Coordinator (who was nearby for my earlier jump as well) comes over and is all "Sweetie, it is just not your day. Everything OK?" At which point I was already 51 back to stand, and it was all good, just a minor save. Finish off the day with no other major things, guard Body Bottom (remarkably, only one assist over there, usually you have at least one save at Body Bottom on any given day) by the end of the 20 minute rotation, there were 12 lost articles in the catch pool awaiting the diver to come find them. Finish the day where I started, at Wave 3. Clear the pool at the closing announcement and then collect towels and trays from the beach until closing break out.

Since it's a Friday Night, anyone who wants to can stay to play Water Polo in the wave pool. That was fun! My team won. By the time I got home, it was about 10pm, so I hit the sack to start it all over the next day.

Speaking of hitting the sack, I work in the morning, so Good Night!

TEA!!!

Tea! Tea! I have Tea!
I really really really really like Tea!
It's so yummy,
Oh so yummy!
Tea! Tea! I have Tea!

Operation Amazing (and Awkward)

So... #5 is currently living in the master bedroom of a house just off property. Since he is in the Master Bedroom, it means he has the master bath. In this master bathroom is a GINORMOUS Bathtub. Yesterday was my sixth day in a row of working 12 hours in a day. I was exhausted. SO! I decided to execute Operation: Take over [#5]'s Bathroom.

Operation: Take over [#5]'s Bathroom:
step one: Go over to #5's house
step two: Kick #5 out
step three: Take over #5's bathroom and pamper myself silly

He didn't quite go for step 2... yeah. So I ended up taking a nice long bath in my ex's tub while he was folding his laundry and finishing up some chores in the adjoining room. AWKWARD! But now I feel like a human being again, and he was chill about leaving me to me, so it's all good.

so much Amazing, so little time to Blog it all!

so, I'm quickly learning that I kinda fail at the whole blogging thing. There are worse things to fail at.

So... what number did I leave off at? #11!

I really really fail, cause I can't remember who #11 was

I remember #12 though! #12 is one of my coordinators at work, and he's a sweet guy. #12 was playfully flirting with me earlier in the day of the amazing turtle hunt. The thought of the turtle hunt still makes me smile. That was the day after I had talked to #5 and he doesn't want me back, which really hardcore depressed me, so the amazing turtle hunt and flirting really really helped.

I actually met #13 fairly early in getting into town, and we'd talked a couple times, but it'd all been just friendly. THEN I saw him while walking across the apartment complex to get mail, and after talking for a bit, I was walking away when he called my name, and once I'd turned around he deliberately gave me the up-down-up, made eye contact and gave me the WDW Lifeguard hand sign for "You're Good/Waters Clear/Looks Good". I simply returned the sign with a smile of my own and walked away, but it brought me joy.

#14: #14 is from Ireland. gr baby gr. He's rather yummy and delicious. and working on becoming a Tampa Firefighter. He and I were having a good time while working the bottom of the family raft ride together. I spent the day bumping him (he was next on the rotation) and then played Water Polo with him tonight)

#15 was a guest. And it made me really kinda confused. So I was guarding at the bottom of one of the slides. It's a deep stand so I was just wearing my swimsuit and hippack, when a gentleman (who's family, aka wife, was nearby) who'd just come down the slide started walking up the stairs directly in front of me. I smiled and asked him how he was doing, and he said he was doing well, how was I? I told him I was doing good, thank you. THEN as he walked by he said "You're LOOKING really good". I was kinda speechless.

Yesterday was #16! We were closed due to lightning for a lot of the afternoon, but finally managed to reopen about 30 minutes before we had to close for the day, and I was in Satan's Playground. Also stationed in Satan's Playground was #16 (a cute asian guy from NY). There was no one in the park (not really no one, I think we had about 6 families; the point is there was no one in the Playground). We were both already soaked from the rain, but #16 starts trying to hit the slide operator with one of the water canons in the area, but was failing. He didn't notice that I was approaching one of the other water canons... until I absolutely soaked him with it. This dissolved into a full blown water fight, and some kids came into the area, so I had them splashing him too. After things had (I thought) calmed down a bit, I made the mistake of walking too close to him, and he dumped an entire 2 gallon water cooler FULL of water over my head. (Think Gatorade dumping after a football game). I gave #16 a ride home from Water Polo today, he's sweet.

#17 was a guest today who was teasing me because I had to jump in to save a kid (who it turned out was not actually in need of help, he was simply tired, and yelling HELP! for kicks), and he was saying that if I'd wanted to get wet, he could have helped me out.

I un-fail! #11 is another of those perpetual flirts whom I have known for forever and whom I work with. He was also my deep water trainer. We spent the day flirting and reviewing information I already knew. A few days ago he offered to help me get all wet and sweaty. and last tuesday when I was playing alone in the park he was impressed with me being "Miss Independent".

I really want to tell all about my amazing day at work, but I'm SO TIRED

so I'll tell you about A Day in the Life another time. For now, I'm exhausted, good night!

More coming soon -- I swear!!

So tired....

I've been working so much lately, but finally have some time off. I ran a whole bunch of errands today, then took some time for myself at my second most favoritest place on WDW property. I less than three dolphins. The man count is at 13, I'll tell you all about them in my bigger post tomorrow.

This is about the amazing things that I have seen or encountered in the last few days.

While out shopping today (Mom's birthday is Thursday) I saw a book that at some point I need to read... "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". How amazing is that?! It's the story of Pride and Prejudice, written like the original was -- all wordy and literary and English McEnglish Majory -- which makes it all the cooler, only it has zombies, and cannibalism, and other awesomeness. It brought me serious amounts of joy, and I want to read it hard core.

Also while out shopping today, I discovered that the next book in my trashy vampire novel series (my little guilty pleasure) has come out in paper back. YAY!

I'm throwing a slumber party, in like, 2 weeks. AMAZING!

QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST AMAZING THING FROM THE LAST WEEK:
While I was lifeguarding the catch pool to C'n'G at TL, a snapping turtle decided to go for a swim. Which is kinda awesome in and of itself, if it weren't for the fact that there were guests splashing in the pool, and coming down the slides, and yes, snapping turtles DO snap, and seem to like to go for the toes. Which I suppose is better than going for the jugular... ANYWAY, we had to have a Coordinator (#12, again, I'll tell you soon) come over to try to catch the turtle in a net and get the big guy away from the chlorinated water, and all the guests. #12 spent fifteen minutes like, CHASING the turtle with a net that had a like, 12 foot handle, and it was AMAZING!!!!!!!

I got an umbrella for $1. It is... Green. AMAZING.

I got a new saying from one of my other halves: Snark the Hell Of ______ (insert name, him, her, or you)

I saw Jimmy Buffett!

Amazing examples of my klutziness. (I officially give you permission to laugh)

Somehow, while getting dressed for work last week, I pulled my calf muscle, hard core.

While walking in the wave pool at work, I popped my knee out so bad that it hurt days later.

The Amazing Key Tales:

I accidentally locked myself out of both my apartment and car just before my thing with #5 on Saturday.

I then, 24 hours later, lost my car key while diving for lost articles at C'n'G, and didn't realize it until I got to my car and couldn't get in. Giggles and I went to go get it, and one of our other coworkers came along. It took the teamwork of all three of us to get the key out of the catch pool without having to get in. It was classic!

Summer of Amazing Men update coming soon, but for now, it's 2:20 am. Good Night

P.S.: Try snarking now!

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I have a thing with #5 this upcoming Saturday. AAgghhH! (speaking of drama, eh?)

Missing You

I'm having kind of a down day. I miss everyone back home a lot. Oddly, there's less drama among the Swingers than there is among the Goonies. What I wouldn't give to just go to a little, chill, out of the way cafe and just relax with my two other halves. I feel like I've really drifted away from my girlfriends down here, or maybe I just don't want to get as involved in their drama as they want me to be. I've had enough outside drama for one lifetime. I'm still trying really hard to be a drama-free zone, but no one seems to get it. I just don't want to put up with all the crap that everyone else wants to shove at me.

I still haven't talked to #5, I've spoken with him in passing, but haven't actually talked to him yet. I think I did quite well when we spoke, but actually talking to him could be something else entirely. I'm really nervous about it. More than is actually necessary, probably, but that's how I am.