{"id":686,"date":"2011-12-14T21:57:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-06-17T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T18:12:08","slug":"on-to-the-next-at-sea-12042011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"On to the next \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [12\/04\/2011]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloggers note – obviously this is posted way out of sequence, I somehow missed posting it back at the beginning of the month…<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t stay for long
\nJust turn around and I\u2019m gone again
\nMaybe tomorrow I\u2019ll wanna settle down
\nUntil tomorrow I\u2019ll just keep movin\u2019 on<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s odd that my family should have such a strong sense of roots, and yet should produce a daughter who\u2026often feels that she doesn\u2019t really have a home. Very odd.<\/p>\n

Today is the last day of the 2011 Grand World Voyage. By now they will have once again painted over the great beige logo that graced the bow for the last three months, reducing our flagship to another ship in the fleet again \u2013 one that just happens to be running the dreaded holiday season special.\u00a0 After a crazy day of prize redemption, last chance bingo, and the inevitable crew farewell (during which there were at least a few tears shed), those few of us that are staying on board for the holidays are preparing to adjust to an ever-more demanding ( in their own way) clientele, which will be served with less staff.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s really no turnaround time, much as it feels like there must<\/em> be. Lace and I will bring the library as much up to scratch as we can tonight, buff, polish and restock everything, before heading off to our farewell dinner in the onboard specialty restaurant (and our evaluations of course) \u2013 and I\u2019ll be able to sleep in a little bit tomorrow morning. But the schedules for tomorrow are already published, with a different set of names along the top \u2013 only one of which I know, and as of 11:30am tomorrow, this library is once again solely mine. Until January comes along and I once again gain a partner for the World Cruise contract.<\/p>\n

Three quarters of my friends disembark tomorrow. A lot of them come back in January \u2013 but a large portion of them, Campbell and Wildish included, will not be returning ship-side for the foreseeable future, possibly not ever. Those ones are always a bit of a wrench. I honestly don\u2019t know I\u2019d have made it through this last three months without Campbell and Wildish. Even the Hotel Manager is changing over for the Christmas cruise. A lot of those that are leaving are looking at me as if I\u2019m mad to be staying on as long as I am \u2013 but really\u2026the choice wasn\u2019t all mine. I could<\/em> have said no it\u2019s true \u2013 but to do so would have been to give up an opportunity that was really too good to miss. I wasn\u2019t going to miss this itinerary just because I might get a little bit worn out.<\/p>\n

Our lives onboard are liquid, they merely fit the forms that are provided to us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about the ticking crocodile isn\u2019t it? Time is chasing after us all<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloggers note – obviously this is posted way out of sequence, I somehow missed posting it back at the beginning of the month… Can\u2019t stay for long Just turn around and I\u2019m gone again Maybe tomorrow I\u2019ll wanna settle down … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-below-the-waterline","category-grand-world-voyage-2011"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-b4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}