I can get dressed up go out and swing till three am and then
Lie down at five, jump up at six
And start all over again…
Although granted, I can’t do that as often as I used to. There are times the job does remind me that much as I may wish otherwise – I’m not 22 anymore…but, as Silv reminds me fairly consistently, I’m also not dead…so I’m basically able to keep up with myself.
Which is a good thing, because otherwise embark days would probably kill me. Especially on this run, as they are the day before a sea day…and a sea day is 10 hours. Embark day may start late, but it runs long, and it doesn’t really stop…
Of course, I have the option of not playing ‘Kitten to the ‘Cats…I could not go to the welcome aboard set…but this is the first time in a week we’ve actually had a full band (for the last little while we’ve been working without a guitar player, which is tough, because the ‘Cats are a guitar driven band); and I wasn’t going to miss the first time my boys got to play with a full sound. Fortunately for us the new guitar player is awesome. Amras walked off stage last night with a grin on his face for the first time in days…
And for the first time in a while I was simply able to plug into the energy in the room and feel my shoulders shift into being relaxed. Not that I’m tense these days, quite the opposite – being back on the regular rotation is a breath of fresh air after the stress of the flagship, eating three meals a day (and ravenous much of the time), and sleeping like a baby straight through the night – tense is not really a word in my vocabulary right now. But none the less, it’s nice to get the little extra energy boost.
Especially if it’s midnight and 7am comes awfully early.
And in the morning you shift from cheering section to hair-pinned-back-pencil-behind-the-ear tech girl…I sometimes wonder how I manage to keep my worlds relatively separate (emphasis on the relatively, complete separation is just impossible out here).
Buuut…it’s worth it. After all, you do only live once (well…maybe), and all that…
Oh honey you are sounding so happy 🙂 yeah!!!!!