She's like the Wind...Late December 2009.

Last night I slept about 10 minutes total. I spent the entire evening

jaw-clenched, using every neck, shoulder, and skull muscle to keep

from feeling dizzy and avoiding sea-sickness. That wind made for a

rough ride. I felt like a bobble head. It was like only getting the

bad part of being drunk.

The wind carried some interesting smells this week as well. There was

a passenger who was smoking some questionable leaves in a nearby

cabin. The fresh scent of marijuana danced through the halls of Deck

11 and blew into the nostrils of a Security Officer who inspected the

room of the culprit and then “dropped him off” in Belize. Yikes.

Jeff also had a brush with the “Law” this week. He was held in the

Ship Security office and questioned for 45 minutes. Although we have

guest privileges, sometimes the Security staff doesn’t know when to

let us off the boat. As crew or guests? So, when the officer in

charge swiped Jeff’s card and let him off the boat in the early

morning, when he returned a few hours later, the new officer on duty

couldn’t verify that he was allowed to have gotten off earlier that

day. So they had to make sure he wasn’t some dangerous Mexican

criminal trying to get on the boat by making him sit in a chair in

their office and arguing over who’s error it was to let him off the

boat. Silly.

Fun Little Tid-Bits:

We celebrated the company's 50th Anniversary on Wednesday. The

kitchen made an enormous cake and we took a photo with the Captain,

the Cruise Director, some officers, and about 250 passengers.

They started playing the Jackson 5 Christmas Album in all of the

corridors. L-O-V-E it!

A tiny Japanese woman came running up to me with utter excitement

after our first show. She held her fist in front of her mouth as if

to indicate that she recognized me as someone who used a microphone

and then said a bunch of Japanese words and repeated “ you make-a so

funny, you make-a so funny” over and over again. I should mention

that the other hand was cupping and SHAKING my left boob the entire

time. Yup, I got felt up by a sweet Japanese woman. Is that

cultural? I didn’t want to stop her and be rude. Something tells me

I might have made the wrong call on that one.

Sometimes on Sundays (aka New Orleans day), I get to see Jen Kober,my bestie! It is so great when that happens! She is shooting am HBO series down here. I am so proud of her! More to come, mostly want to say i love you all and happy holidays. stay safe.