Little update on Disney Re-Opening Status!

Good Morning, Good Evening, and Good Night! (Well whenever it is you are reading this!)
This being my last "mandated" post I wanted to do one final Disney reopening update. I do hope to continue this blog later once I am back starting the process for working at Disney, but that won't be for a few months.

From what I understand Disney World in Florida will have a better chance of opening up before Disneyland in California does, Gov. of California has placed Disneyland opening at a Stage 4 level, meaning that the park would not be allowed to open until a Coronavirus treatment was in place and was working a majority of the time. Whereas DisneyWorld yesterday basically was told that they can reopen whenever they want as long as a few arrangements were in order...

 I still have my fingers crossed that Disney will be open by July because that's when my family has a trip planned!
That's all the updates I have for now! I am very excited for College Program applications to come out in August(ish) so that I can start the application process again! In the meantime, I'll be looking for jobs preferably in the Peoria area so that I can be closer to all my friends who still have 1 more year before they graduate.

Retail Therapy the Disney edition

This week's blog post is just going to be different (Mainly Disney) Redbubble and Etsy shops that I wish I could buy things from but my unemployment money hasn't kicked in yet so no spending is able to occur at the moment. *Names in the parenthesis are the names of the shops*

• https://www.redbubble.com/people/zmayer/shop?ref=artist_title_name (Disney Designz)
• https://www.redbubble.com/people/CreativeMisc/shop?ref=artist_title_name (CreativeMisc)
• https://www.redbubble.com/people/lunalalonde/shop?ref=artist_title_name (Lunalalonde)
• https://www.redbubble.com/people/Street99/shop?ref=artist_title_name (Street99)
• https://www.redbubble.com/people/tachadesigns/shop?ref=artist_title_name (Tachadesigns)
• https://www.redbubble.com/people/NargleSlayer/shop?ref=artist_title_name (NargleSlayer)

• https://www.etsy.com/shop/KissTheEars (Kiss The Ears)
• https://www.etsy.com/shop/SpectroMickey?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=796561647#shop-info-banner (SpectroMickey)
• https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChildishAntics?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=513041886#shop-info-banner (ChildishAntics)
• https://www.etsy.com/shop/ETicketEssentials (ETicket Essentials)
• https://www.etsy.com/shop/MouseketearTradingCo?ref=search_shop_redirect (MouseketearTradingCo)

These are just a few of my recent favorites! I'm sure sometime in the future I will be making an update about more of my favorites, but due to not having money to spend recently I have been trying to stay away from online stores 🤣🤣🤣

My opinion on what would need to happen in order for the Disney Parks to reopen.

Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World have been closed since closing for the day on March 15, 2020. And it was recently announced that about 40,000 workers would be furloughed towards the end of April... so clearly Disney doesn't think it will be open soon... but is it still possible for Disney to reopen over the summer, or even in the year 2020?

Firstly, I believe that the parks will reopen before a vaccine is in circulation. Disney currently is losing more money than they are bringing in because they have all of the parks closed, all the resorts closed, and most if not all of the physical stores closed. New College Program participants for the fall program at least at this point will still be going down starting in August, yes this could change, but I do hope that it still is possible for them to go to Disney.

Disney put out this message, "We’re studying very carefully what China has been trying to do in terms of their return to normalcy. And one of the things that’s obvious is they’ve conscripted a large segment of their population to monitor others in terms of their health. You can’t get on a bus or a subway or a train or enter a high-rise building there—and I’m sure this will be the case when their schools reopen—without having your temperature taken." 

One of the other big things that Disney World is talking about rolling out for the reopening is only letting a certain number of people in, and maybe that means only allowing Florida people in, or it might even mean only letting Annual Pass Holders from Florida into the park.

One of the latest updates I saw was that Disney is still doing registrations for their upcoming marathons, and especially pushing for their virtual runs. I should be going down to Disney in Mid July (fingers crossed they are really open by that time) and again possibly toward the end of August... but that trip isn't confirmed.

Or course it's hard to say right at this time what will happen for sure, I know that the California Governor might not even be allowing Disneyland to reopen until a vaccine is out!
I hope that everyone is staying safe, staying inside, and staying healthy!

I no longer work for Disney... rambling thoughts because I really can't put what I'm feeling into words properly.

I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to be accepted into such a competitive program, and I know that this was the best move, but that doesn't negate the fact that it still hurts. I would like to thank everyone who has reached out to me to make sure I'm doing alright, and thank you to those who didn't try to immediately cheer me up when you heard that I'm not doing alright. This is something that I am still processing and this heartbreak is something that won't go away so quickly. Huge shout out to those who have reached out to me through call, text, or DM.

And if anyone would like to help, there is a petition going around to have the Fall Advantage people join the Fall program (it would be pushing back our arrival a few months, but it would still mean that we could go)  http://chng.it/b85nmCFhMR and even just passing around the link if you could, would do a lot of possible help.

Even if I do not go to Disney as soon as I hoped I'll still be reapplying as many times as I can, plus in the meantime, it means more time with friends, I'll be able to attend a wedding that I wouldn't be able to attend if I was at Disney and more time to hone other skills that I could use down at Disney.


The hardest part of yesterday was just seeing all the Fall program people trying to support the FA people, but seeing a lot of them trying to compare their feelings of pain to our pain and some even saying that their pain was an equal/ even more pain than what we were feeling. That was the worst part, making us feel bad by saying "Awww now you guys cant come to my birthday" "I'm going to find a way to fly you all out so that you can spend my birthday with me still" That's the stuff that hurt the most. And even when confronted about it there was no real apology just a "So I guess my kind words hurt a lot of you guys, thank you to those who were mature and DMed me where I was going wrong you da real MVPs"

I'm still getting updates from my Disney friends, and the recruiters so until next week all updates will probably just be on twitter, so if you are interested you can check them out there.

A short list of facts that seem too good to be true

Happy April everyone! Despite everything going on in the world right now, it does seem that Disney still plans on having me down for my same move-in day which is May 18th. A few little updates about the park, as of last I checked (which was a few days ago) Disney World does have Park hours starting on April 19th, I have no idea how limited of an open it will be, but I suspect it will probably be Florida residents only and everyone will probably have to have their temperatures taken before being able to enter.

Despite my family being less than optimistic about me still going to Disney, I am holding on to all hope I have that I will be still going to work for them... because I have no plan B at this point XD.

10 Facts about anything Disney that MAY or MAY NOT be true (Because it's April Fools day of course!)

1.  The demon in the Fantasia piece "Night on Bald Mountain" his name is Chernabog and he comes from Slavic mythology with his name meaning "Black God" or "God of Evil". 
2.  Saludos Amigos was the FIRST Disney movie based on an original idea from Disney.
3. In, well under, Disneyworld Magic Kingdom, there is actually a floor below the Utilidors that are specifically used to house all the Disney World park cats that keep all of the rodents out of the parks!
4. Ideas for what would become the movie Frozen started back in 1930!
5. Have you heard of Donald's sister Della Duck? Did you know that her full name is actually Dumbella Duck?
6.  Despite Donald Duck's birthday being June 9, 1934- in comics and storybooks, his birthday is sometimes celebrated on Friday the 13th.
7.  Mickey, Minnie, and Donald are the only characters to have official birthdays!
8. In the early days, Goofy used to be date Clarabelle before she and Horace were eventually set to date.
9. Cinderella was originally not going to have a speaking roll in the movies. Due to the fact that at that time movies without speaking was much more popular than movies that had speaking characters.
10.  All of the Pixar animated movies have A113 as an easter egg and tribute to the room number of the classroom at the California Institute of the Arts where many of the Pixar animators got their start.

Are you able to figure out which of these are the fake facts! Let me know down in the comments which ones you believe aren't true!