Just checking in.

I have always tried to make sure to post at least once a month.  Not sure if I have missed any yet!  This year seems to have flown by in some ways, and in other ways been one of the most heart wrenching years of my life.

We learn things as we go along, hard lessons, bumps in the road, hills to climb.  And no I am not going to start channeling Miley Cyrus and break into song.  That is not my style.  No I come here to my little blog.

December has always made me emotional.  This one won’t be any different.  I miss my Dad, he loved Christmas so much.  He would always have his tree up as early as he could get it up.  And then call and tell me how beautiful it looked.  It was a soft side that I did not know that my Dad had until later in his life.  We would always time our yearly watching of  National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and we would laugh about all the lines and characters that we knew by heart.  Funny how that movie in itself became the “Gift That Keeps on Giving” like the jelly of the month club.  It will give me memories of my dad always.

This year has been amazing at work.  Mostly just the fact that Toy Story Midway Mania is still so very popular.  I never get tired of seeing how happy it makes people.  I am very proud to work there.

I still do the Park tour for the new cast members, I still am amazed at how lucky I am to have been chosen to do that.  When I am there telling the stories and talking about the magic that we make working for Disney, again it makes me very proud.  I have this one spot in One Man’s Dream that I tell all of the new cast members to share with me their favorite Disney memory.  And then I tell them Congratulations you are now a part of your favorite memory.

I am going to try to get my act together this year and get this weight off that I gained when I lost my mom and I was in Ohio.    Seems like my body has decided to hold on to every pound now, and now its a matter of doing battle with what the years are doing to me.  I need something to work on to keep me focused, sometimes I feel depression trying to creep into my life.  And I think if I do this it might help.  If anything it keeps me busy.  And a goal to look forward to.