It’s nice to be noticed. :O)

9/8/10

It’s nice to be noticed. Last embark day I got asked to lunch sometime by a Disney handler (shore side) … really nice guy funny and all that good stuff. Today trying to wash my clothes and getting hit on in the itty bitty laundry room by a guy from Mauritius who works in Carpentry or something… he can fix electrical goodness so that’s a plus right, lol. It’s funny how everyone starts looking good after a while. Not that these two guys look bad just saying life on the ship is very intense and the social life can be very strange and or nonexistent if you don’t go out to the crew bar. Which if you know me, you know I don’t.I love to go out to deck 5 forward and sit in the dark looking up at the sky trying to clear my head… I also like to walk around deck 4 which is our track. How nice it is to be noticed for being pretty instead of gaining weight. :o) My social life consists of work which isn’t too fabulous since my MAN SUIT as I call it adds like 20 pounds. One of the house keeper guys did tell me today “oh you’ve put on a few pounds since you got on the ship huh?”

Mom told me there was a hurricane… my bad tornado (obviously spending a lot of time on the ocean… I think of water before wind these days. Hope all is well in the Tejas… love and miss you all and will be praying for anyone who might have lost anything in the twister(s).

So back to work goodness… had a great closing team tonight and had a great meeting with a counselor. He wants to stick around the company for a while and wants to know what he needs to do to advance. I think he could advance, he just has to have the right mindset AND focus. My team was done by 1:00am and no one but me stayed after their scheduled time. I should probably change my scheduled time in the template since it doesn’t make since for me to leave at 12:30am but my closers don’t leave until 1:00am. It was a great cruise… I don’t mind the 4 day cruisers as much as the special 3 day cruisers. Those that come on our 3 days seem to want it all for free. Not everything is free and you can’t treat people like crap and expect great service. It’s like that old example of treating your waiter poorly before you get your meal. Why irritate nad treat your childs caregiver horribly while you have your kids in care with them? That’s just stupid. The 3 day seems to be the cruise for those about to fall or have fallen off the wagon. Boozers everywhere. Hopefully this cruise will be different. I know the next 4 day will be different since it is the Disney Vacation Club cruise. I have to go back and look at the scheduling template to make sure we have filled in all the holes.



I need to sign up for school this week. By this week I mean tomorrow or Sunday since I think I get paid on Saturday. We’ll find out tomorrow when I hit the atm in the mall to check my balance. The atm at Walmart and the actual cash register at Walmart hates me I think. Going to have to call the moms and get money moved around so I can start my classes. I only have 5 left until I can take my comprehensive and hopefully have a masters in Sports Management. I have to sign up by the 25th so that don’t have to go back through all the crazy paperwork… USSA is a bit special as well so we try to K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) for them. I am going to sign up and have the books sent to the ship so I can get started and while I am at home finish before the week of Thanksgiving so that I can take the final at SMU. I have no choice, there is no time to take anything once I return here, although I could look into what schools in the area have testing privelages or where there is a nearby testing center. I am ready to go and get back into my sports management. It’s the fall so I’m missing watchin my Black Daisies or Replacements or whatever they are calling themselves this season, I miss watching my Mustangs (WOO HOO GO SMU!!) play some soccer, volleyball, and football. I miss all my college teams and my Cowboys as well as FC DALLAS. I pretty much miss sports in general. I would say that is my main issue with Disney… can’t watch all mys ports. If I get some time I could potentially go to the cove and watch ESPN, but I couldn’t watch all of world cup due to broadcast rights… WE OWN ESPN AND ABC!!! Doesn’t make much sense to me but hey” I just work here!” .



Some of you will appreciate my quotes… I am running low on quotes at the moment. If you have any good ones… add a comment to this page and I will write it down. I’ve been putting quotes at the bottom of my counselors schedules. :o) I know it’s soooo me. Miss you all but remember: JUST KEEP SWIMMING!!! Hello 3:00am.



7 CRUISES!!

Ashley