MOST Magical Birthday EVER!

OH MY LANTA! I am continuing to have the best time down here in Florida! So many magical things have happened! I hold the record at work for having the most magical moments in one work day (47)... No one has beat it yet. It was at 30, and I was the one that had set that one, so I tried to beat my own record! Oh, and just for the record, PARENTS! If your child is not feeling well, PLEASE DON'T BRING THEM TO THE PARK!!! If they do get sick at the park, DO NOT ask me to clean up where your child got sick. A.) I'm am not liable for barfing on your child. B.) It is NOT in my job description to clean up their puke. Thank you! lol.
On that happy note, my Daddy sent my mom down for my birthday! It was the best birthday ever! I had so much fun running around the parks with her, riding rides, doing Disney finally the Mueller way. She got in on Wednesday night, and we went to Downtown Disney. Thursday morning, we and my roommate and my coworker went to the magic kingdom first thing in the morning, played there til about 2, went to my park (Hollywood studios) to watch my favorite parade, meet my coworkers and managers, see beauty and the beast, and watch Fantasmic (which because it was my birthday we got special seats, right at the top middle!) Then we ran back over to the Magic Kingdom to watch Wishes and ride a few more rides. Friday just me and mom went to Animal kingdom, got soaking wet, went back over to the Magic Kingdom for lunch at the Crystal Palace, ride more rides, then went to Epcot for Illuminations. Saturday morning we had breakfast and a long conversation with my Florida Parents, and then went shopping at Downtown Disney and the cast service building. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend or birthday! It was so much fun and it was so great to have my mom here for my 20th birthday! I'm just excited now for my daddy and brothers to come down too! Now it's back to life, back to work which is totally fine with me because I freaking love my job! I get to create magic and memories everyday! Can life get any better!?

I'm gonna soak up some fun! and some sun!

Life is great here in the land of the gators... I love my work family and my job! The good parts and the bad. I have many stories...
Story #1: I was returning to my store from walking a guest and her family to a ride when I saw this dad holding his crying little girl on the ground; so of course I go over there and ask "princess! Why are you so sad? We dont like sad here! We love happy smiles! Now tell me, why is the princess so sad?" She mummbles something, she was like 3 so I'm not sure she could actually tell us why she was so upset, but I gave her a sticker, which stopped the tears, asked her if she had just seen our pixar parade, and gone to see beauty and the beast or the little mermaid, to which she jumped up and screamed "HANDY MANNY!!!" Pretty much the rest of the day was the best ever!
Story #2: We get A LOT of spanish or portueguese speaking people in our store, to which I do not know much spanish and no portugese. A woman came up speaking one of these languages to me, to which I replied, "I'm sorry, I do not know what you are saying. I do not speak your language." Which she replied, holding up a sweater "M!" I said that we did not have that in a medium size, to which for the next 5 minutes, which seemed much longer, she kept yelling at me (well it sounded like yelling because it was very loud) M!!MM! M!! Blanco o negro! (black or white) to which I kept calm, trying to keep a smile on my face saying "no M! we do not have mediums in those sweaters!" To which made this day of work pass by VERY SLOWLY!
Story #3: We try to create what we call "Magical Moments" in our stores, where we make children feel special through the smallest acts. So I spy these 3 girls ranging from the age of 4-9. So I went up to them and asked if they would love to give me their autographs and become famous princesses of hollywood, to which all said yes! of course. So we sit down by the registars and they all sign our book and we trace their hand, to which more little humans came up and wanted to sign our book. Later, my boss Robert (who is SUPER cool btw) comes up and gives me a "you made a difference" card for being so awesome with the guests and handing out so many magical moments in just 10 minutes. That card now is in my file for the company to see just how awesome I am doing forever and always! <3
There are many more stories of how awesome my job is and how much fun I have at work, even when the times get tough.
Anyways, my roommate Julie and I are having a blast going from park to park to see and do as many things as we can in a few hours each day that we both have off or get home early. We went to animal kingdom and rode mount everest, which is less scary than what I thought it would be like. Then we went and viewed all the places that I work at MGM Hollywood studios, then yesterday we spent the majority of the day in the Magic Kingdom, getting autographs, riding rides, and making sure my roommate was full and did not eat me. It is truly a blast, but I cannot wait until my family comes down in may to share this fun with me! It is not as fun without you guys!

THE MOST MAGICAL PLACE ON EARTH!

IM FINALLY HERE!!! I'M FINALLY IN FLORIDA!!! The sun is shining (though it did rain yesterday!) its warm, and I got re-fingerprinted, so hopefully I can start work tomorrow since I was supposed to start it yesterday!!! But se la vie! Not my fault! They're working on it as a priority! But I am having fun here! My roommate Julie is amazing!! And my roommate Aria is just as cool to be around! Yesterday me and Julie went to downtown Disney and explored and shopped and ate and took millions of pictures!! It was a blast!!! Its going to be a great 8 months here! I can feel it! I'm working in Hollywood studios at a gift shop right in the front of the park! So its going to be great when I can start working and actually go into the parks on my days off! I'm soo super psyched!! I just have to go to my traditions class, and then 2 training days, and then I'm free to work and play as much as I want!

I PASSED!!!

AH!!! Today was the best day of my life!!!! It was our National Practical Board Exam for EMT. I had to be there at 730... and I didn't leave til 430pm. LONG DAY! I was soooo nervous.. I sat there studying and praying my butt off the entire day! I first was called and went to do my traction splinting. I kept thinking to myself, "You got this! You know this backwards and forwards! Jed taught you this well! Don't freak out!" After each station I would go back through that paper to see if I missed anything. Then my second to last station I was called to do medical, and I walked in to see Jed there... MAN! Why did I have to get Jed?! He was sitting there with his cute smile, hot blue eyes, in Jeans and a duck's sweatshirt... Dang he looked fine... but I did it the best I could. Trauma was my last station, with a girl that I had no clue who she was, and she seemed like a hard grader, but I did it. Then we had to wait around for another hour, and then the head person called my name, took me in a room, and said, "You took 6 stations today, and...." waited literally like what seemed like 5 minutes.... "You passed all 6- congratulations. OMG- I jumped up and down, thanking her, and then almost hugged her. I ran out screaming! Thank you God! All 23 of us in my class passed, so we went out to celebrate. Oh today is the best day ever!

EMT, nothing is better than my Trauma

OH boy!!! This weekend was sooo much fun! Like, the best time this whole semester! It was our EMT mock accident on Saturday, where we were split into teams, went to a scene where it was a middle school lunch room, where there were stabbed victims, broken femurs, asthma attacks, eye balls hanging out, and much more... it was awesome! I've never had so much adrenalin pumping through my body. I was team lead, so I was incharge of my team, which was super cool. My main patient that I was with was a "14 year old male, stabbing to the abdomen". We did everything perfect, and loaded him almost all by ourselves. I'll tell you, the Paramedic that was playing the part of the boy was double mine and my partner's size, yet with all our adrenalin pumping, we were able to move him to a back board, lift that thing to our cot, and then move him quickly down the stairs and out to our ambulance. Then I ran back, was assertive so my teacher says, and just stuck myself in with another patient as mine "went to the hospital". It was AMAZING! I know that if and when I pass my test, I will just love this job! I'm sad that this semester is almost over, because I've made so many great friends from this class. I love all 23 of my classmates, and will miss them, but hopefully we keep in touch and are able to be in future classes together! They are truly some of the greatest people I've met here at BYUI.

Happy turkey day break!!!

WOW! What a great turkey day break that was! Not only was it fun to see and hang out with friends and family, but i was also deemed the punching/sitting/jumping bag this year at thanksgiving. All the boys in my family all sat ontop of me. Lets see how long that lasts before Jennifer turns purple and passes out from lack of O2. But it was fun to see the family, and to play football with the little kids and be their pony. I cannot wait for more family fun when Christmas comes in 19 days! Soooo excited. So now im just studying my butt off for the last 2 weeks. My practical EMT test is in 12 days... so that's exciting... not really, I'm totally nervous but feel ready for it! But still I'm going to study loads!

Continuing to Love Life

So- with the countdown being only 9 days til I come home for thanksgiving break, I'm super excited as usual. Although I woke up this morning, okay it was 1051am, so basically the afternoon, and it was 3 inches of snow on the ground and still pouring. But I am keeping my head up and trying to look forward! Edward is doing fine, which I am sooo freakin grateful for! I was soo worried, even though it was trying to come up with my own diagnosis over the phone using my EMT skills. Tuesday- Wednesday I stayed up straight for 40 hours... I learned that you go through cycles when you stay up for that long. You are normal, then you get EXHAUSTED, then you get a second wind of energy, and then normal again, and it repeats this about 4 times, and then by the time 40 hours rolls around, anything and everything makes you cry, and once you hit the pillow, you are out within seconds. It was way fun to work in the ER at Madison Memorial hospital though! I loved the atmosphere there, and I would so want to do it again, but alas, I have no time, what with midterms this week and nationals coming up in 3 weeks... loads of studying to do, but I still find time to hang with my roommates and have a grand ol' time!