Within 24 hours I left my job, my boyfriend, and life behind to go work for Walt Disney World!

[bearybubba]

LOVE your report so far! My dream is to work at Disney World when I retire...

 

[bearybubba]

double post - sorry!

 

[SarahDisney]

Sounds like a beautiful start to your new life! It's always nice when you can have that feeling of peace when starting something new.

 

[klo1335]

Is it crazy to try and find you at MK when I am there with my family in August I am really not a stalker but just think its awesome what you are doing.

 

[Chuckers]

As a cosmetologist, maybe you could get a job working in the BBB when your photopass season ends?

 

[Gracefulskinny]

Beautiful!

 

[Daddee]

Have you found a place to live in orlando already? Or are ya winging that too. By the time you read this you will be there. Good luck to you!

 

[jordansmama]

Congratulations! What an amazing experience and opportunity. I applaud your courage! I'll make sure to keep an eye out for you on my August trip. (not in a stalker-ish way. lol)

 

[Tinatoo]

Super exciting!! I'll look for you in a few weeks!

 

[princessmegan20]

This is so exciting! I will definitely be following along!

 

[DreamLikeWalt]

"I really really do not want to do long distance." I texted my now ex boyfriend. I tried to have this conversation in person before I left but he wasn't having it. I was not about to do this over text message while driving cross country, but I was so high from that amazing sunrise morning I didn't even care. I was ready to be single and start this new chapter of my beautiful life! I FINALLY made it to Georgia. One state away from my hopes and dreams!!!! As I was waiting for his response during this awkward text message break up (go ahead, judge me!) I put my foot on the gas to try to reach the 70mph speed limit.......

What.is.going.on.....?!

My car wouldn't accelerate. I tried to stay calm. I pulled over to the side of the highway on 95 South.

NO.

NO NO NO NO NO.

I turned my engine off and opened the hood of my car. I wasn't thinking. Everything was happening so fast. I checked my oil level....because that's the only thing I know how to do. BONE DRY. I panic, running to my trunk to get the oil I have and fill it back up. I get back in my car and turn the key.

IT DOESN'T START.

I immediately look up what town my gps says I'm in. Richmond Hill GA. I hate that town now. A million things running through my mind. I go to call AAA.

"IPhone needs to cool down before you can use it."

WHAT IS MY LIFE.

I eventually call for a tow truck in a 20 minute conversation that seemed to drag on forever. I hang up.
The heat of sitting in my car is unbearable. I can feel my car shake with every passing of each truck on the highway. What just happened finally hit me. If this was say, a flat tire or something fixable I would be okay. I am a VERY calm and chill person, and it takes a lot to upset me. However, I don't know much about cars but I do know that running them for god knows how long with no oil in it is not a good thing.

I do not want to call any of my friends or family, because 1. I don't want to make them worry as they where already making me check in what felt like every 5 minutes and 2. I don't want to hear it.

It still hurts to even describe how I felt in this moment. I felt stranded. I felt alone. I felt hopeless. All my happy thoughts from that morning where gone. How could such an amazing mood turn into this feeling? What happens when I have no car and I'm so far from Orlando? I refuse to give up. I refuse to go home.
I sat in my car sobbing, hyperventilating, and screaming all these thoughts to myself for a good hour. Just non stop crying and sweating.

The tow truck comes. I get myself together. Me? Having a metal freakin' breakdown? Nope! Never! I wipe away my tears and greeted this man with a huge smile! I was overcompensating to try and make myself not break down in front of this stranger. Plus, I didn't want a random man knowing I was stranded and so upset. I was so awkward as stumbled over my own words not even knowing what was going on, "HELLO HI HOW ARE YOU WHAT BEAUTIFUL WEATHER WE ARE HAVING!" I got in his truck and watched as my poor little Toyota got loaded onto the back.

I took this photo while he was attaching my car. I'm not sure if you all can tell yet, but I am a super CHEESY and super positive (usually) human being. I took this photo because I knew whether my car be good or bad, I will always remember how hopeless I felt in this moment. And some day eventually I will look back on this and be okay and feel pride. I took this picture to remind myself everything is going to be okay, and in the future when things aren't okay, I can look at this picture and remember what I've been through.


I know, so cheesy right? Well welcome to the mind of Khalee and the strange things that I do.

I know this may seem so over dramatic, but I'm just trying to tell the raw story here. It's one of those things that HOPEFULLY someday I'll look back on and laugh at, but in the moment it feels like life is just one big downhill spiral from here.... like that feeling when you breakup with your first teenage love or something.

I got towed to a local car shop that AAA recommended me, and waited. After I waited, I waited some more. I felt as though I was in an Emergency Room trying to figure out if a loved one was going to make it or not. I hope that doesn't offend anyone, I know it's just a car.. but I really did feel like that in the moment. My future depends on this car. I do not have any money saved up to get a new one, and my family can't help me out at this time either.

I sat in the waiting room alone, still not telling any family, crying on and off for 4 long hours.

"Khalee?" They called me over.
"I'm afraid we don't have good news... your car is done for good. It would cost less to buy a new one than to repair it."
"Okay!" I said with a smile on my face.
I didn't know how to react without looking like a complete crazy lady. "Thank you so much! Let me just go make some phone calls to figure this out!"

I walked outside in the heat of Georgia, sat on a sidewalk and just cried.
I had no car anymore, everything important to me packed up in that car, very little money, and was so close to making it to Orlando.

I had been through such highs and lows in a mere 10 hours, I was mentally and physically exhausted. And I smelt really bad.

It was time to make the phone calls I didn't want to make and attempt to figure out what the heck I was going to do.

"Walt Disney had plenty of failures and hardships in his story. This is just your version." I kept telling myself all day. "If you can dream it you can do it!"

Thank god for my cheesiness....

 

[wiscbugs]

Holy cow.....that sucks!!!

 

[MrsSkellington]

Oh no! I need to know more!

This sounds weird, as I'm not terribly OLD yet (36, but shhhh!), and this sounds like a motherly thing to say, but I'm proud of you. Not enough people do this sort of spontaneous stuff anymore, and then have no idea what to do when life doesn't go according to plan. I think if I was in a different place in life when I was 21, I could have done just what you did. I actually thought about it a lot. So way to go! Now I can't wait to hear what else happens. But I'm sure you'll get through it.

 

[SarahDisney]

Wow ... sounds like a crazy day, but I'm so impressed that you can be "cheesy" and try to stay positive.
I hope you can figure things out and get yourself down to Disney without having to spend too much!

This will probably sound really cheesy, but ... I'm actually having a bit of a rough time, and it's really easy for me to want to give up, but seeing stories like this remind me that people can go through worse and still try their hardest to keep going, so there's no reason for me to give up. So thank you for sharing your story, and I hope you can have a magical ending!

 

[briellemary]

omg! I wish I had the guts to leave everything behind and go work in Disney. Unfortunately, I'm a baby when on my own so I'll have to live vicariously through you. Your way of writing is really compelling and I can't wait to hear more of your story. I want to know what happens!

 

[Daddee]

Khalee you are not quitting! Find a bus station. And get back on the dream. This is nothing but a test. You will get there! Please don't quit now!!! And if you think you will pm me.

 

[GrumpySue]

OH NO !!! WHAT HAPPENED !! I CAN'T STAND THE WAIT !!!
By the way, you are awesome doing what you are doing. I regret not taking more chances at 21. Whatever happens you will be better for it.

 

[chocolateMinnie]

you can't leave it on that cliffhanger......................... need to know how you made it to WDW. Every mother on the disboards needs to know how you got there and what happened next.

 

[cjbcam]

Yikes really hope you still follow your dream.

 

[Chuckers]

I used to live in Atlanta, I don't know how far you are from there, but I do know there is an inexpensive bus that goes from Atlanta to Orlando daily. It's called The Megabus and they have a website.

Good Luck, so many of us are pulling for you!