The last few weeks as a CP were pretty crazy. After a lot of back and forth, I was finally
approved to be a seasonal cast member - which reminds me that I still need to post my availability. I celebrated my birthday - or didn't really celebrate my birthday - by making "birthday dumplings" with Lily. I only got to mix the filling and try my hand at forming the dumplings (regular and won ton) as I had to go to birthday lunch with my parents at Bahama Breeze. But she brought them to work for me for dinner and they were pretty darn tasty. :-) I had to work Glow that night, which I was dreading, but it turned out alright. I actually had
a lot of fun and came out with my lowest variance ever - go me! Then, after work, I went with Carmen Maria to Colton's for Christmas cookies and milk. Now, we thought he'd just bought cookies - but no. Apparently its his tradition to bake cookies, so he actually baked cookies. They were damn good cookies too!
They were some kind of amazing peanut butter cookie. To quote Colton: "They're called Jailbreakers. Its an inside joke between me and my sister. . . Actually, I don't really remember why we called
them that. . ." The night actually lasted for quite some while for I don't know what reason - it was a lot of fun but not a lot happened. For the rest of the program I
hung out at Colton's a lot, and I guess we were kind of "seeing"
each other? I don't really know what to call what was going on, to be honest. But I can say that I'm a little sad that whatever it was didn't start happening sooner.
I was terrified for New Years Eve. I'd heard horror stories throughout the whole program about
how terrible it was going to be - how crowded it would get and how messed up the stores would be (I was on a stock shift, so that bit of info was especially scary.) But New Years was honestly fun. Admittedly, I did have a bit of a panic attack when it took me 10 minutes to get back from
the shed to the store before the first set of fireworks (it usually take like 2 minutes.) Other than that it was nice. Don and I went outside to watch the special New Years Eve fireworks at 11:40 and I'm so glad we did, they were amazing! Other than that, the night was pretty uneventful.
Well, except for that huge group of Brazilians that came passed the store at around 1:30 - they had bongos and noisemakers, best party ever. After work we all met up at IHOP for what was not that good of a meal, but a lot of fun regardless.
In short, I kinda miss my college program experience - living with everyone, seeing people I enjoy being around every day - but I will not miss being treated like a CP. By that I mean I will not miss having a roommate IN my room, I will not miss inspections, I will not miss having to be out of my friend's complex by a certain time at night . . . though I suppose that actually means that I will not miss Price Management. So, I guess what I mean is - I don't miss the program, I miss the people.
