Indiana Joooooooones! :insane: *hugs her DVD*

Hit up GameStop today to celebrate my raise. Got "High School Musical: Sing It" for the Wii since it recently got a $20 price cut, as well as "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" for DS. I also got one of the GameStop membership cards. $15 for a year, 10% off and 10% additional for trade-ins, plus a Game Informer subscription? That's what, buy 3 new Wii games in the next year and it's paid for? Sounds good to me.

I also finally caved and bought a copy of "Twilight." I've heard so much about it, I figure I'll give it a shot. :)

And it looks like "A Lion Among Men" (the next in the Wicked series) came out early! :insane: Didn't buy it cause I have it on hold at the library... hopefully it'll be here in the next few days!

Went out with salukfan and ariellen last night. Drew at Animation Academy at Studios (Dopey and Minnie!), watched Fantasmic from the corner of the stadium (burlap sack!! XD). Afterwards we went to Applebees for karaoke. I got the guts up to go, and did "Breaking Free" with them (I sang Troy's part since my voice is lower than Ellen's) and felt kinda off-key. :P Got back up there later and did "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" with Ellen and Sam as my Muses and did that one better. :P

I'm sick again. Seriously? Seriously! I was just sick a month ago. At least I got a mocha frappuccino to make me feel better.

So my fantasy football team got SPANKED this week, 'cause all my players decided to suck. Gah. At least the Seahawks won, though! :D

Been reading like all the time. Oh, how I've missed doing that! Finished 4 books so far this month, on the way to 5. And my copy of Brisingr arrived from the library today! WOO! That was fast. :D So now I will bury myself in that (and put "Inkspell" on hold again).

Candlelight Processional rehearsals are going well! It's a bit of a challenge... I haven't done choir in years, so I'm slowly getting back into the swing. I'm also really learning it on the fly, since rehearsals go fast. Sight reading was never really my strong point, but I'm really working on it! It doesn't help that I'm an alto, and thus not the melody. :P I've got the rehearsal CD though, so that helps. But it's really fun - rehearsals are a blast. You work hard, but they really want it to be fun for everyone, so they're lively and lighthearted. I also usually have time to kill between the end of work and the start of rehearsal, so I end up hanging around Epcot for a couple of hours. I love to go to that back corner of France, in that garden, and sit down on a bench and read. :D

Splash is going well. The mountain is sort of giving us the finger at this point. She's telling us she's ready for annual refurb by going 101 every 10 minutes. See, every morning when we power up, we hit the "Track Open" button, and Frieda (the computer) tells us "Have a Zippa Dee Doo Dah Day." (No, she literally tells us. Frieda has a voice synthesizer.) And I think, when she says that, that's her way of giving us the finger, for we're usually down within an hour or two. :P

Movie night kinda got rained out. I say kinda because it was supposed to be on Tom Sawyer Island at 9pm... and at 8:58 it opened up and poured. So we hightailed it to the Walt Disney Story Theater on Main Street and watched it there instead. It was National Treasure 2, which is a pretty good one. And there was free pop and candy and ice cream, which is always good. Everyone was disappointed it wasn't on the island, though - we were all looking forward to getting to be on the island late at night more than the movie itself. :P

Hung out with mattore at MK and Epcot this week! YAY! We saw the most crackstastic Dream Along. They were short a Goofy, so they did the opening number, but it had no character voices at all, and Peter and Wendy and Hook and Smee and all the princes and princesses came out and random fireworks shot off. And then they just did a set. Good times! Oh, and the new, updated, sharper-resolution Illuminations globe? WIN. I can actually tell what the images are now! I sat there going "...I never knew that's what that was!"

Wii playing has happened a lot this week. Still chugging away on Lego Indiana Jones - 81.9% now. I'm one artifact shy of having Temple of Doom 100% complete (and thank god, too, 'cause I HATED some of those levels, like Escape from the Mines and Temple of Kali)

New Grey's this week! Finally!! XDDD

Splash is special this week. Yeeeah. Wednesday we opened 1.5 hours late, were down for an hour after a mid-day e-stop evac, and then went down for another half hour in the afternoon. Today we opened two hours late. *pats Splash on the head patronizingly* I think Frieda (the computer) hates us. :P Oh, well. :P Tomorrow and Sunday I'm in at 7:15. I haven't come in that early since training. I hope there's training groups, 'cause I don't know that I remember how to open tower or trackwalk. :P

I've done a lot of PAC this week, too. Day and night parade yesterday, day parade today, and I'll have day parade for the rest of the weekend. Yaaaay parade! I tried to play beach ball with kids yesterday afternoon, but there was a storm coming in (parade stepped off ten minutes early) and the wind kept blowing the ball away. :P I made up for it at night parade, though. We had an AWESOME beach ball game with a bunch of teenagers before the 11pm parade. :P

Oh, and DDCT today? Thanks for the epic pre-parade fail. You should probably start the music BEFORE the grand marshal performers are 50-100 yards down the parade route, so that we can, you know, know it's coming and get out of the way? Just a thought. :P

I was a good girl and finished my Indy drawing! I think I really biffed up his face, but I LOVED shading the horse. Uploaded to DA here!

I've got a Legend of Mythica one in mind next, because that show amazes me. (Video on YouTube starts here with the intro, check the "Related Videos" for the rest of the parts) Tokyo DisneySea, how are you so awesome?

And dammit, I got hooked on Ikariam now! I blame it joesmom92 and droops. So now I immediately check that in the morning, as well as my two Travian servers. :P

Oh, and I totally blame ariellen for spurring on my favorite new crack!pairing: Jack Sparrow/Giselle. Because it just brings the lulz. :P

And on the Wii front...
LEGO Star Wars Complete Saga: 85%
LEGO Indiana Jones Original Adventures: 72%

It's my weekend! Finally! And a TWO DAY weekend! I'm back to 6 days next week again, but still only 47 hours. And I have parade 3 days this week - one Spectro and two day PAC. And I have morning trackwalker shifts all next weekend, which should be interesting... I haven't walked track since I trained. I hope I can remember where everything is. :P Yesterday was MK's Gay Day, which ROCKED. It's amazing - the folks in the redshirts were so wonderful. They're friendly, fun, can listen and follow directions, and don't whine to us about everything. Someone at Splash put it best: we were treated like HUMANS. So to everyone who attended Gay Day: THANK YOU! You guys rock. I just wish I could have seen the 1pm show insanity at Bears - I hear it's hilarious. XD (The line about that time stretched to the Haunted Mansion. For the COUNTRY BEARS.)

Went to DAK on Monday! I wandered for awhile, and stopped to see princealia at work. (I'll eat cake next time, I swear! XD) And salukfan happened to be there, too, so I hung out with them for a bit and we watched the parade. Tried to go see Nemo, but got in, sat down... and then they cancelled the show. Doh! So I went on Everest, front row. Not bad, but it was raining and that rain HURT at high speeds! Saw Festival of the Lion King (that show is always sheer awesome), did Maharajah Jungle Trek (Southeast Asian mammals! <3), saw the baby siamang and baby white cheek, did Kilimanjaro. Lots of fun! Pics up here.

Then... Pirate and Princess Party on Wednesday night!! WHEE! OMG, it was SO much fun. ( The P&P recap! Pirates! Princesses! Fangirling! Kirsten in costume! )

Of course, I picked up Lego Indiana Jones last week! Been playing it like crazy, and have finished Raiders of the Lost Ark and most of Temple of Doom so far. ( Lego Indiana Jones review! )

And in the random news:

Publix's Buy One Get One is WIN. Easy Mac AND Thomas bagels on that sale? I totally stocked up.

Andrew Stanton + John Carter of Mars = EPIC WIN.

Got my yellow ID this week! Wiiiiiiin!

Still trying to get back into the habit of drawing daily. I'd like to beef up my portfolio a bit and maybe start taking commissions here and there. I'm bout halfway done coloring the Indy drawing, and have an idea for a Legend of Mythica piece.

GUESS WHO JUST BOUGHT HER MIDNIGHT SHOWING TICKET FOR INDY IV??? WOOOO! TWO MORE WEEKS!!

Also, Amazon (spoilerphobes - track titles ahoy!) just posted samples from the soundtrack. John Williams rocks my socks. LOVE the arrangement of track 7. And 8. I feel like I hear hints of score from the original three movies at times (especially track 14). And track 19? OMG YES. XDDD

"Operation: Beat Lego Star Wars" now stands at 59% complete.

And in totally unrelated news, this person wins. We need episodes I don't already have on there, though!

Splash had a 101 party today. It was great. We went 101 5 minutes after opening, and were down for 2 hours. Then a couple of hours after we reopened, we went down again for another hour. Yaaaaaay for sitting around all day! Apparently Paris Hilton was in the park, and visited Thunder while we were down the second time.

Toy Story Midway Mania cast previews were this weekend! I thought I wasn't gonna get to go because I was working the whole time, but I found out they extended the hours today, so I stopped by after work! Here's my thoughts... ( Not much to spoil, but under a cut anyways... )

I ended up going to Studios for a bit on Monday night to photograph Fantasmic. It was fun to try out my 400mm at a Disney park finally! Got some nifty closeups. It was also a dragon-less show. I'd never seen one of those before, in all the bajillion times I've seen Fantasmic at both parks. But really, it's done very well. If you didn't know there was supposed to be a big dragon there, you'd probably never know the difference. Pics from the night are up here!

Grey's this week? Addison Montgomery, how are you so awesome? Seriously.

Operation "Beat LEGO Star Wars So I Can Buy LEGO Indiana Jones Next Month With A Clear Conscience" progresses! I'm at 40% now after 25 hours of gameplay. I've beaten everything on story mode, and I'm going through everything in free play mode now to get all the True Jedis and red bricks and minikits. I bought Ghost Yoda, and he kicks ass. Ghost Ben Kenobi is up next, because Yoda is too damn slow when he walks and that annoys me. :P

And speaking of things Indy... AFHLALKGJKSLHK JUST OVER TWO WEEKS TO GO. Seriously. I'm SO psyched. I keep hoping to see Downtown Disney AMC theater announce a midnight showing, but they haven't done it yet. It's SO weird to see Indy tie-ins being pushed everywhere now. And new theatrical trailer out!! LOVE it. And you can pre-order the soundtrack at Amazon for $10. I already did! Is it May 22 yet?