Tired Tuesday

Shortcake started the day as Gatekeeper. Two days in a row not on the front line? What's going on? It was a steady day, but it never reached the back hallway. There was one man who came barreling through the maze. Shortcake had to check him with her arm, literally stopping him in his tracks. There were six Usher elves surrounding her, giving her backup and she explained that his wife and child would find him again at the exit. He was very agitated. Shortcake beckoned with her eyes for backup from the manager waiting just around the corner. Later, the man came through the maze, with wife and child, and he was much calmer.

Here's the deal. Stay with your family inside the maze. When you get to the Gatekeeper tell the elf how many are in the party -TOTAL. Not just the kids. Adults, kids, babies, everybody. And make sure everyone who should be with you is with you. The elves are not responsible if you misplace your husband. And you will be bodychecked if you try to get into the Village without an elf escort.

After a short break, Shortcake went to the front line to pick up the headset from Teddy Bear. Which is par for the course. The line was nice and steady, although there were a lot of elves without a voice. Happy was miming everything (no voice at all), but he was remarkably talented at it. He had more Christmas spirit than anyone else on the front line, and he was effective at answering questions, despite being unable to talk.

After lunch Shortcake went to Photo for a whopping 30 minutes. She had good families, and Moonbeam was her Santa elf. Moonbeam, Santa and Shortcake made a great team.

Oh! The buttons are out! We ran out of buttons! We are now passing out crayons and coloring books! AH!

Anyway, Shortcake went to a special event with Santa on the 16th floor. There was a Christmas party for Macy's corporate employees, and Santa was there for pictures. Shortcake held drinks and coats and purses and made sure Santa was able to go back to the kids at 4pm.

Shortcake went to the office after the event and colored a Tom the Turkey (from the aforementioned coloring book) with a blue pen (and only a blue pen - Frank would not hand Shortcake the red pen because it "was too far away." Humph.). She did a Special visit, and went back to coloring. Perhaps Shortcake should have been sent back to work, but the 4:30pm elves were about to come in and relieve the day shift, so Shortcake would have only worked about 10-20 minutes anyway. So she clocked out and went in search of Christmas presents. Because there are only 4 days until Christmas and waiting until Christmas Eve is not advised.

Okay, you need to go watch Prep and Landing right now. Now. No, not in 5 minutes. Now. It's only 30 minutes long. It's on Hulu. And it's amazing. You will laugh and almost cry. Shortcake just watched it twice.