Sometimes it feels like the week will never end here… and
the rest of the time you wonder where the time went. The week is a blur of
stores mornings, counts, Castaway Cay, seeing the characters, napping, See Ya
Real Soon and of course, selling paintings. My point is, I only have 8 weeks
left! Actually, 7 weeks and 4 days after today. I even got my flight details
which is a little bit crazy! They won’t give me the return flight yet though
because my medical runs out during my next proposed contract so I have to get
it updated during my vacation time and then they will give me the rest of my
flight details.
A few things have changed since I last posted… Nick got a new
job as HR training officer which is super exciting for him – it means he has
taken on an officer role, thus now walks around in “whites” with 2 stripes on
his shoulders J
He also moved cabin to the other end of the ship so it’s a little bit weird to
not have him just down the hallway from me. It seems to be working out so far –
it’s a new challenge for him which is good. On the slight downside it means
that his contract got extended again so now we don’t finish on the same day
anymore… sad face. Our vacation in Orlando is no longer – so I have to find
people to hang out with for 2 weeks as I’m not changing my flight home and so I’m
not going to lie, I’m a little disappointed that we won’t get to go to Disney together.
Then he was supposed to fly to England to see me which will still happen but
just a little bit later in the month but unfortunately our already-booked trip
to Disneyland Paris will have to be undertaken with someone else. But hey,
these things happen and ultimately the pros outweigh the con that our vacation
will be rearranged because it gives Nick such great opportunity.
In other related news, I have put it to “career navigate”
which basically is a posh way of saying move department. I do enjoy the team in
merchandise and the perks of the QIP payment and less hours compared to other
roles is really nice but the job doesn’t challenge me at all and I want to
learn something new, so I have put in to change to Guest Services. We will see
what happens, I am happy to trundle along in merchandise for now but I thought
I’d take a step out the very comfortable comfort zone I found myself in and see
what happens.
I’m doing pretty well in saving money this contract – I’ve
really resisted buying stuff on the ship. This is helped by not working in the
Deck 3 stores because that’s where the temptation comes in! I’ve made a list of
the stuff that I want to buy as gifts for people and I’m going to try to stick
to that especially as now vacation will probably cost me more as I won’t be
able to split the cost of stuff between two people.
We’ve had a couple of trips out this contract, we got to go
to Downtown Disney about two weeks ago which was awesome!!! We got about 2.5
hours there which actually was just about sufficient because I went to World of
Disney, then had lunch at Earl of Sandwich with the other Nick, then Tren-D,
the kitchen shop, Art of Disney (which I now have a whole other appreciation
for because I basically work in one) and finally grabbed an ice cream from
Ghiardellis because getting back on the
bus to come back to the ship. We also did a trip to the Premium Outlets a few
weeks ago and Nick went to Mall at Millenia but I couldn’t make that one
because I was welcome line.
And an obligatory weather update, the weather at Castaway
Cay has got to disgustingly hot level. Yesterday it was 95F (34C) with 1 mph
wind… i.e. NO BREEZE! It was vile. It takes all your energy out of you – I’ve
never been a fan of powerade and stuff like that but I can’t get through a
shift there without it!
