Well, here we are, back at Monday again. You notice the weeks keep doing that?
I didn’t do much of anything over the long weekend, just kinda pulled in and rested. I’ve been tired and a little down, so it seemed like a good idea. The last couple of weeks have been so hectic that beyond a little necessary food shopping, I did very little else. Well, I read but that’s like saying I breathed and doesn’t denote anything extraordinary or even unusual :)
I haven’t had any kniting motivation whatsoever. I would be alarmed, but I know that as soon as I’ve had a chance to relax and unwind a bit, it’ll come back. I did a couple more repeats on the short-row scarf and worked some more on the Big Green Thing (TM) but that’s about it. It looks like both pieces wil get finished eventually and that’s a good thing because I start way more things than I ever finish!
This is what’s got me running around in a semi-frenzy at the moment:
Pretty, isn’t she? My father and I are leaving on January 4th (next Sunday) on this ship to sail through the Panama Canal. It’s a 12 day cruise (not a “three-hour-tour”) and I am looking forward to it. But until we actually leave Ft Lauderdale, things will be a bit tense.
Dad gets very edgy as departure time nears - especially at this time of year when a snowstorm could close down the airport. The ship won’t wait for you if you’re late - it can’t. So dad will be working himself up into a nice quiet frenzy over the course of this week. Needless to say, he’s been packing for the last month.
I’m trying to get things in order myself. The ship has formal, semi-formal and casual nights. While the dress code isn’t regulated with an iron fist, it is expected that you will clothe yourself appropriately. For me this presents some interesting challenges as I am not a formal or even a semi-formal type person. My wardrobe is…erm…relaxed. I have a long, black velvet skirt that works for formal (paired with a silk tunic) but we’re going to be in the Caribbean and velvet is going to be too warm. Thank goodness Myria tends to be a girl-girl and how fortunate that where skirts are concerned, we are a similar size. She has a light, floatly black skirt - the perfect thing for warmer weather - that she will let me borrow.
I know, I know - these are not life-changing decisions we’re making here. I wish the cruise ships did these things differently, but their clientele (at least on the high-end lines my father prefers to travel) is older, gernerally quite wealthy and quite spoiled. They seem to enjoy the opportunity to dress up. Me, I have a lovely little all-purpose denim jumper that works wonderfully for me most of the time and believe me, that and a few jerseys and blouses would be the only clothes I’d bother with if the choice were mine.
And if I only had the disapproving looks from the maitre d’ to worry about, I might do just that. But my father, well, dad is totally weird about these things. Formal dinner dress may not be graven in stone as far as the cruise line is concerened, but for my father, it is. So I will put together the most comfortable evening clothes I can manage.
I only pack two bags: one to check and one to carry on. I try very hard to keep the clothing to a minimum because there are other things I want to have along - my knitting, for example. I have a room with a veranda this time and expect to spend a gret deal of time there enjoying the ocean and my knitting :)
But before that happens, I have to get laundry done, actually decide what to take and what to leave, get my hair cut (trying to get rid of the rest of the “blonde” experiment), get the shopping taken care of (I will be gone for 13 days and Myria doesn’t drive) and so forth. This week is going to be busybusybusy…
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WAY COOL!! I bet you are going to have so much fun! Make sure you remember to take some knitting along - never know if you might just have some time to do it.
Have a great time! What a way to start the new year. Have fun!
Thanks sweetie :) I’m definitely bringing some knitting with me. I plan on spending a bunch of time sitting on that veranda, working those needles and watching the water slip by :)
