KC in Disney

So much ground to cover so lets keep it simple. Retrospective.

I’ve grown up a lot since leaving WDW. I survived the transition back to reality thanks to some stellar best friends most of whom comforted me from states away.

I’ve learned a lot about who I really am; and with that, what I really need to be happy. I’ve discovered that with the love of a few dear friends and a magnificent thing called skype, coupled with concrete reunions to look forward to, along with the love and support of my family, and a few happy souls in Columbus, I can do just about anything. Believe me, I can run off of little to nothing else. Case and point: 2 impossible sets of finals weeks.

I finally have the solid friend group again that i’ve been lacking. I feel happy-go-lucky and so comfortable with them, despite a few bumps along the way. I really got lucky with friends like these.

Also, I’ve seen how love can really run deeper than I ever imagined, and that the fairytale romances just might happen in real life against all odds. When anyone else would’ve left, he stuck around after being dragged through puddle, after puddle, (after puddle…). I don’t understand how he put up with me taking him for granted for so many months, but I do know that I’ve finally realized that he’s not something that I ever want to lose. Never ever.

I’m the happiest that I can remember being since I was a little kid, and I really owe most, if not all of it to a silly goose. He’s everything I ever wanted, and more than I ever thought I would find. I don’t want to get too mushy-gushy about it, but I’m in love. It’s incredible how he makes me glow inside and out, and just having him in my life makes me want to be a better person.

No joke, I feel like a million bucks. I’ve been working out consistently for the first time in ages. I’m eating the healthiest I have since high school. I’m making time for doing all these projects that I’ve wanted to do for God only knows how long. Biggest of all, I feel so optimistic about my future. I’ve never felt so fearless about life after college, but I can’t stop thinking that everything will work out for the best. I’m really in love with this genuine optimism thing.

Final thoughts: summer plans!!! I graduate June 13th. June 24/25 I head down to Florida to live with Evan, Matt & Lauren for a whole month until July 26th. Then the same four of us are taking off on a roadtrip across the country that’s going to last until Labor Day. Intense and so so so so exciting! We’re making it into a project called —the MAP 100— “The Many Adventures Project” and we’re going to film and comment on 100 adventures during the trip. We already have a website that Evan’s poured tons of work into designing and getting the ball rolling at:

http://www.themap100.com

Check it out because we really care about it and want everyone else to enjoy it with us~!

Plus, I’ll probably start blogging from there soon (unless I take another 7 month hiatus)

some of the videos I’ve put together…

http://www.youtube.com/user/kconnare

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Lights on! Lights off!

Last night was so incredible!!! All cast members were invited to a special 2-hour party over on Sunset Boulevard at Hollywood Studios to ride Tower of Terror and Rock-N-Roller Coater. Buuuuuuuut! Not only did we have the whole area exclusively to ourselves, but they were running Rock-n-Roller with all the lights on! Helllluuuurrr!!! I’ve only dreamed of being lucky enough to be Emergency Stopped to be able to do that, it was CRAZY! But before we did that, we did some runs over at Tower of Terror in which we had the choice of regular ride quality, or lights on. Needless to say we did both several times, including once where we had an elevator just to my D-Fam and I and we decided that we would take an awesome picture where we all pretended to be dead except for Blake who would be screaming in the middle. While loading the elevator, we told the Tower worker about our gameplan to act dead and all, and he thought it was hilarious, welllllll, once we reached the top of the drop shaft, an old fashioned phone ringing noise came on over our elevator to which we all freaked because that isn’t normal, and a voice came from the darkness, “Are you dead in there?…You look dead… Do you need medical attention?” You could hear laughing in the background so it was obvious that he wasn’t serious, plus we were all cast members, so they expect us to know exactly when the drop and such is suppossed to happen. So I’m pretty sure the people up in Tower’s control room got a solid laugh out of the 7 of us positioning ourselves in a dead manner and wanted to make our ride even better (because you listen for the verbal cue to know when you’ll be dropping, but they overrode that cue to talk to us) It was so crazy fun and special and just for us. It really made me feel like a celebrity.

Also Pat’s here so I’m gonna wake him up from his mini-nap since I made him wake up early, and then saw how tired he actually was and decided he’d be better off with a little extra sleep. Magic Kingdom today!!! We are having a BLAST together, day 3 here we coooooooooooome!