What Day Is It?

'..and in what month? This clock never seemed so alive.'

But actually though, where has the time gone?! This contract is FLYING by for me. I've been here almost 3 months and will be leaving in 74 days - sorry Mum I know I told you like 60 the other day - I can't count. I also have no idea what day it is half the time. I can tell you the number but honestly not a CLUE what the actual day is whether it be Monday or Thursday. Port or Sea day ..that's all you get.

I haven't posted a new blog on here since 20 days in and now I'm close to done which is crazy to think! Obviously went through all the holidays on here already, getting ready to go for one of my best friends bachelorette so getting a 3 day work break, and beginning to line up my next ship!

I never in a million years thought I would work so hard on a 3 and 4 day itinerary, but I'm glad I was wrong because I'm never bored. Constantly doing debarks and embarks, and rotating karaoke around every 3 and 4 days instead of every 8-10 days is refreshing. And all in all, the crowd out of Long Beach is a lot of fun for the most part! They're usually ready to get on and party which can be kind of a pain when we have to get through the safety briefing first and all they want to do is drink, but once we get through that, it's smooth sailing from there.

Now, back to the holidays. This was only the second time ever that I've been away from home for the holidays, but I must say I did improve from the last time. I wasn't so much of an emotional wreck this time. I mean obviously I still missed my whole family and friends and all the celebrations at home, but this holiday on board was really great. Our entertainment department on here is really close so when we did our white elephant gift exchange on Christmas eve/Christmas morning it was a lot of fun. It was my rotation for karaoke that cruise so we sang a LOT of Christmas music but that was PERFECTLY fine with me because for anyone who knows me, knows that I loooooove Christmas music and I actually listen to it all year. Yup, I'm one of those people. Anyway, not being HOD for Christmas was great, but that meant that I would be HOD for New Years which made for a veryyyyy long day on New Years Eve. For the past few ships I've been on, when you're HOD that means you work all day while the rest of your team is off in port, but you have your evening off and then the rest of the team works at night. Well not for New Years Eve. It was all hands on deck so I was one tired puppy by the end of the night. I think I ended up in bed by 4am or 5am and started work at 9am to welcome people to Ensenada. I was one lucky duck though when most people didn't show up to ANY of my activities until about 4:30pm when we had a trivia. Anyway, long story short (which ended up being super long anyway) I survived. It's a new year and I'm ready for the next challenge.

My next challenge may be coming up sooner than I expected and I can't wait to find out and confirm anything but I'll wait until I get any sort of confirmation before I share anything! Let's just say I'm beyond excited and will be heart broken beyond belief if it doesn't happen but if it doesn't, just means it wasn't meant to be. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed please and thank you .

I'll probably end up writing another entry after my big 3 day work break where I'm going to be absolutely exhausted by the end of it because I'll be spending my break in Vegas and we all know no one ever sleeps in Vegas.

Ciao for now!