{"id":2833,"date":"2013-12-24T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T06:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2013-12-24T22:47:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T06:47:22","slug":"all-the-madness-the-world-has-to-give-at-sea-12222013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"All the Madness the World Has To Give \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [12\/22\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"all<\/a>Day after day, I must face a world of strangers where I don\u2019t belong
\nAnd I\u2019m not that strong
\n[…]
\nWhen there\u2019s no getting over that rainbow
\nWhen my smallest of dreams won\u2019t come true
\nI can<\/span> face all the madness the World has to give
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

And it does look like the World is going to hold its share of madness this year. As it always does. I suspect I\u2019ll be getting a lot more sewing done, as anything that makes me Zen out? Is going to be an absolute must<\/i> this contract because doing double duty is seriously draining me. Once I find the rhythm \u2013 which I am slowly but surely starting to do (today was so<\/i> much smoother than the last two have been) \u2013 it\u2019ll be fine, I\u2019ll scramble back up to the top of my game.<\/p>\n

But I also tell you this: I\u2019m SO glad I took that break over the summer. So glad I recharged in Italy with good food and good wine and bloody amazing friends. So glad I got a chance to work with Family. Because if I\u2019d been coming into this straight off the Grand Voyage? I honestly question whether or not I would be here at all. I\u2019m good, I\u2019m seriously damn good, but what\u2019s basically a whole new job on top of my old one straight off a Grand contract? No way, no can do. So yes, I\u2019m exceptionally glad that didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Of course, most people don\u2019t even realize that this holiday voyage was also sold as<\/i> part of the World Cruise. It wasn\u2019t precisely widely advertised, but it was on the company website, so we do<\/i> have world cruisers on board with us. Thankfully, they\u2019re the nice ones! So when people ask me \u201care you staying for the world\u201d I\u2019m tempted to shrug and say \u201cwell, I\u2019m technically already on<\/i> the World\u201d but it\u2019s not worth trying to explain. It is, however, easier for me to think of it all as one contract.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting for me to think that not too long ago comparatively I was terrified of this job, I questioned everything and everyone. Now? I run<\/i> the flagship library, from the bottom up\u2026 from the collection ordering to (these days) the internet system. Suddenly I\u2019ve become all grown up, with a big person career and stuff\u2026<\/p>\n

Seriously\u2026someone tell me how exactly that happened???<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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