8 weeks to go!

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!