Oh where do I begin.

Yesterday was good times. Woke up at a decent time and made breakfast for K and I. Called Fish and we all headed to the pool. Got some very good rays and froze in the pool. It was a beautiful day for lying out and so relaxing. Fish cracked me up with his random thoughts and corny jokes. I think the best giggling that he got out of me was when he was flipping through his magazine and all of a sudden, violently rubbed one of the flip pages all over his chest, spreading out the deodorant that was being sampled. Funny part was that he was lying out and all sweaty from the sun, so it wasn�t too beneficial for him as an after thought. Good times.

Had decided we had enough sun and headed inside for showers and a lunch/mid-day meal. Made some pizza and salad with a variety of dressings. *grin* K went on to PI while I stayed back to catch up on things and then got ready for my dinner plans.

Cali and Tony picked me up and we headed to Kobe�s for dinner. We are now VIP members. Score! Our waitress, Naomi, rocked as usual and we reminder her that we had spoken with her at our previous visit and she remembered�too cute!

Cali and I were doing awesome in finishing our plates; for the most part anyways�it got increasingly more difficult as the night went on. I was getting full on my beverages alone, let alone the food. Almost did it though. �DO IT!� Ha! Tony was cracking us up�from what I could hear anyways. *grin* Can I borrow your Beastie Boys CD�cause I really miss that robot song Tony! �Aregato� *giggle*

They dropped me off and I headed over to pick up Jenny because Julie didn�t get off work until late. Got a bit on the lost side, but finally found her! Laughed all the way to the club and all through the first set. �This is my *first* first set, I don�t recognize any of these songs!� SO funny! Good times�you need to ride with me more often my friend!

Disney Jason showed up again and apologized for being so rude to me the night before and we had a good time again. He popped the question..."Can I ask you something..." but I think we figured out a good compromise. Watched the eclipse and then headed back into the club.

Met my new Australian friends Andrew and Greg. Nice accents...whew! Was dancing with a few different older guys....why can't any of the fun guys there be my age, huh Amanda? *grin* She was fun...hopefully will be there tonight to hang with us as a guest!

The manager of the place, Anna, came and found me outside to talk to me. She said that she knows me as one of the regulars and a friend of the band and she wanted to make sure that no one was bothering me. How cute was she? Adorable! One of the friendliest cast members at PI. Fanatic card for her! We chatted for a bit and she just wanted to make sure that the dancing guys weren't making me uncomfortable. She rocked!

Guy cracked me up the entire night with his facial expressions. He's so funny!

Talked with a guy who worked down here and came often...probably gonna come again tonight..."Can I get your number?" You can visit me at Epcot *grin*

Jenny got "Stewart" won for her and he became our mascot for the evening. He watched our beers and held down our purses. I loved the lizard (or whatever it was)...good times.

At the end of the night, I ended up back at the Crown Royal Plaza. Interesting night.

Woke up early this morning for work. Headed to the office to meet up with everyone and set up our Disability project. Got some REALLY great news that I can't talk about *grin* but really excited! Saw our Brinks boys today and I sang in Spanish for them the only song I know in Spanish (*NSYNC of course!) and saw Aussie Paul again....hottie! "Wise up!" Cute!

Got a call from K with a message in an aussie accent. Cracked me up...Fish in the background asking me what was gonna be in my blog....so funny!

Went to the Spotlight on Guest Relations meeting and it was so fun! Saw Tim's Jason there and talked with him a bit! So much fun! Went back to work and chatted a bit. Got off of work and now am catching up with things, resting and getting ready for tonight's exciting activities! Should be a good time, like usual!

How much am I lovin Big 10-4 at the moment? They rock!

So much going on right now that I can't even catch up. Whew. I need some time.

Must rest...need a nap....need more time...

So yesterday was a pretty good day at work. I had an interview that went fairly well so we shall see where that goes. I saw pretty much everyone at work yesterday and had such a good time doing so, but the work was very long and tiring for some reason. I think I was really stressed from the days activities and all the pressure, but finally my shift ended and I was on my way home to get ready for the evenings activities.

Day One:

Cali came by the apartment to pick me up and I was just finishing getting ready. We headed to PI shortly after. Good times at PI. Got there and saw K....he just held me for quite awhile. I wanted to just say so much, but all I could say was that I missed him. So good to see him.

Cali and I started our evening at the bar....met up with Lisa and her sister. Kind of a small "crew" last night, but still a good time. Met a lot of new people in passing and in introducing them to the band as they were playing. We met these Red Sox fans that were crazy. Mike was all into Cali and then started trying to get on me later on in the evening once he found out Cali was married. Cali and I safely avoided his kisses. *giggle* Didn't we, Cali?

My friend from Disney, Jason, walked into the club and I hadn't seen him in forever so I went and attacked him. He was fun for awhile and danced (or slid rather *grin*) and then apparently got jealous and left. Okay kid...not cool. Danced with several different older men (which apparently is what made him jealous) and had a good time with Cali.

There was a little girl who was dancing with her mom and Cali and I started dancing with her. She attached herself to me the rest of the time she was there and she was adorable! "I'm Brianna, what is your name?" She was the cutest little girl! We danced and I taught her some of my "signature" dance moves (not like I do them well or have many) but she did them so well. I taught her the rock on sign, which she gave to the boys many times! Too cute! She introduced me to her family and we all danced together. I was sad to see her go. She was my fun dancing partner for the evening (along with Cali, of course).

Went and got cheese fries and fed them to the entire Rock and Roll Beach Club...good times. I think we met a lot more people then. Hung out with some girls who were totally fun and dancing with us. It was a fun and good night! I was pretty toasted and ready to go by the end of the evening. Said our goodbyes and headed out.

Cali dropped me off and texted me when she got home okay. "No loss of voice!" Good times! K was on his way and I set up the table for his late birthday celebration. JHey and Tye were here to help so I almost burnt the apartment down in my state trying to play with matches. Made K dinner and had everything out by the time he got here. "Happy Birthday!" Stayed up talking most of the evening and listened to some music! So good! Finally made it to bed by about 4am and crashed hard. Woke up this morning so achy and in pain....and somewhat still intoxicated. So glad I have off! Good times!

My roommate is going insane at the moment-random thought, but have to mention. He is an ebay freak! *grin* Love ya Tye.

Fish is gonna come over and we are all going to the pool to rest and relax before Day Two begins....good times ahead as usual!

The past couple of days have been crazy. Got home at a decent time last night and went to the grocery store to do some much needed shopping. I stocked up on some major good food. Nice. Headed back home and hung out with Libby for a bit. It was good just to chat and hang. We listened to music and then decided it was time for bedtime. I was pretty beat...

Crashed and my alarm failed to go off on time, so I was rushed this morning to get to work. I made it just fine, but I hate having to rush either way. Justin rocked his way all throughout the day. He was awesome and did his assessment perfectly. Yay! I was so proud. That boy cracked me up throughout the entire training...he is so funny with his expressions and whatnot...so fun! I am sad that the training is over..

Ted and I were paging back and forth all day. That was fun and kept us entertained. *giggle* He's a funny guy! Saw Wade...can you possibly hold me any longer? *grin*

Got done with work and went to run some errands. Came home and got changed just in time to head to the softball fields. Was running a bit late when Pattee called me to see where I was at. Finally got there and we played okay in the field, but sucked at batting. I think I played okay...and a lot better than last week so that made me feel a bit better at least. I was fielding a lot better than I usually do at least...but regardless we lost by one run. Sucked!

Came home, baked K a cake for this week and made some dinner. Been hanging out with the roomies and Ting. Trying to catch up on cleaning, laundry and such. This week is gonna kick my butt. Lots to do...wish me luck. I shall try to complete it all...

Here we go..

I forgot to mention that the day before yesterday, I had a couple of visitors. Aaron from Arkansas brought his wife to Epcot and stopped by to visit. They are adorable! Hope they had fun! Also, Dale and Sue (Kimmie Sue and I's fun tour guests) stopped by right after the others...perfect timing! So cute!

Yesterday was not too different from the day before with visitors, except I had MORE! First, Mikey and Amy J were spending the day at Food and Wine so they stopped by-YAY! Then Leslie and Joel, then Nick and Dwight along with their friends. Good times! While Nick and Dwight were there, I heard my name said very loudly, but I couldn't see where it was coming from and all of a sudden a HUGE group of kids and adults walked into the lobby all screaming my name and running up to hug me. HOW CUTE! I was SO surprised. It was Kimmie and group (the kids that Traci and I babysat the other night) so I got tons of hugs and we took photos and I was just floored. They were the cutest! YAY! Thanks for all the visits!

Yesterday was a pretty crazy day in the lobby. I was still training Justin and he did awesome with all the crazies that we had that day...it was SO busy all day long! Today should be a little bit more calm cause we will be out of rotation, thank goodness! Justin was cracking me up all day though...he's SO FUNNY! *grin* I needed that...thanks!

Jamie Kneebone said she saw Joey Fatone in the park...and she waited a few hours to tell me! *grin* Probably for good reason....*giggle* Gotta love her!

After work, I went home and met up with Amy J and met Wally. Funny kid! Then, we headed to The Social to see BIG 10-4...."that's a BIG 10-4 Good Buddy!" *grin* and they were SO great! The crowd had definitely grown from the last time we saw them...they rocked it out! So excited to get a CD...or three actually...no worries Cali and Courtney (you got one too! *grin*) Good times!

Came home and crashed...was so tired from the crazy day!

Let me just tell you how excited I am about all the shows that are coming up (see sidebar)...I can't wait to hang out with K when he gets here...some major fun happening there my friend!

PS...I am back to being happy. Thank you!

Last night was a blast! Amy J came over and we headed over to Austin's Coffee and Film, which was placed next to the Hertz and where we had to park in boofu where the alligators like to hang out. "There's Phil!" *grin*

Happy to be one of the firsts to arrive cause this place was tiny and we needed to secure some seats pretty quickly...and we did. Good times. Cris Williams opened and was really good. "I am gonna wash my hands of this..." I hung out with her sister Becca, who happened to sit next to me. She was adorable. Big fan no doubt. People were drinking organic beer and then going back to Bud...funny stuff.

"You're all I need...I can't let you go" *grin* Sorry...David Ryan Harris moment.

Julie, Niki, Kim, Jenny, Cali, Courtney, & Stephanie came out and we all jammed to Berg while he played...really we just consumed more alcohol and hung out with Mikey, Phil, Dan and "Fred" or Matt (as others know him apparently) from the BIG 10-4! *grin* That's a BIG 10-4 Good Buddy! On a side note...when I was over at Pop Century the night before I saw a HUGE sign ON the building for the 70s that stated "10-4 GOOD BUDDY!" Good times! Anyways...good times dancing in the coffee shop and getting really happy.

It's been since The Rock Boat since I had this kind of musical experience and good time. Mikey and Phil took the stage and we took our seats in the front row along with Cali, Courtney, Dan and Fred. I was behind Fred and Cali playing with Cali's hair and then Fred was like "Umm you can play with mine too" and he took off his hat. *grin* So I have a beer in one hand playing with Cali's hair and the other hand is in Fred's hair pretty much all night long. *grin*

"Sorry but I have to rock out to this one" *grin* I would take pauses of hair petting and back massaging for Fred while I rocked out to The Curve. We all practically serenaded the birthday guy during "Birthday". Poor guy...the song didn't really apply, but we thought it did so we sang our hearts out to him. *grin* He grinned nonstop.

Every song was incredible and Mikey and Phil rocked it all out! Good times. We sang so loud and practically out sang Mikey. My voice is clearly scratchy today...yea good times. They were so good and amazed me like usual. We had the best time just singing and laughing. I fell on poor Fred mulitple times "its all good..you just keep rocking out!" OKAY! *grin*

After the show, we were all hanging out and I asked Fred what time they played tomorrow for The Social gig and he said midnight, which makes me SO happy cause I get off at 11 tonight so I will be able to make it! GOOD TIMES are ahead! I told him that and he goes "YOU BETTER BE THERE!" Umm yea...of course..I need the CD. Funny I don't know any of their songs except what we heard when we first saw them from the Gin Blossoms show ("That's my guitar!") and from FMF...but I am SO excited to see them again...umm that's a BIG 10-4!

PS. I dropped off some FYC promo cards at the coffee shop next to all the other promo stuff and CDS. Good times!

Said our goodbyes and Cali, Courtney and Stephanie followed Amy J and I to Steak and Shake. We had the slowest service ever, but that is assumed to happen at that restaurant. We were there with every other punk band in town. So funny. Winter Garden is much more band-like than I thought.

Got our food and it was SO good! Chatted and had good times with the gals. Left and headed home.

"Afterparty at room ***" *grin* Good times.

Got up this morning (or afternoon if you want to be pc) and realized my butt hurts. I was sitting on the side of a chair for most of last night and just realized how sore I am today. Amy J just called and filled me in. *grin* Good times. Going to go train today at work and then BIG 10-4 tonight and I cannot wait! :) *grin*

The past few days have been filled with work work and work. I trained Linda at the help desk on Wednesday. It was *so* busy, which was a great time to train her and get her feet extremely wet. *grin* Good times at the help desk. She did awesome though "call pickup, call pickup, call pickup!" *giggle* I love Linda!

Worked on our Disability project a bit and finished the day with OKelly hammering me on the coversheet specifics. He cracks me up. It was fun trying to please him...and not succeeding all that easily for his detailed requests. Good times.

The next morning, I got up at the break of dawn to do some DRC overtime, which turned out to be pretty easy. I finished my Disability project with the help from Linda and Mari. The "What do all these people have in common?" board looked nice...very simple and made a statement, I think. Went and worked out at Cast Services with Linda, Mari, Will and Stacey all day informing our cast about Disability Employment Awareness Month and playing some interactive games with them to teach them something new. Good times.

Met three guys during our project that were pretty cool. Paul is from Australia and so adorable, he came back twice *yay*...good times. Met Patrick, who was very sweet and very cool about hanging out. I really enjoyed hanging out with him and showing him everything...then there was the guy who I didn't really get to meet. We were at Armark when he was picking off the peppers off his sandwich to which, of course, I must comment...and we chatted for a bit and then that was it, but it was enough. Hmm...very good day.

I got a page...and then some pretty awesome news. I was very surprised that I was asked and I am very honored by it. We shall see what will happen with it. Things are looking up on the work end and I am excited about all the changes that might be occurring.

It was a pretty exhausting day from all the playing and informing believe it or not. Went back up to the help desk to finish OKelly's project for the coversheets and then headed home. Had enough time to just change and get ready to pick up Traci for our babysitting adventure...

It began to rain when I got to Traci's house. Was pouring when we got to Pop Century and then slowly began to stop. Got to the rooms and met four out of the five kids we would be watching and the parents of them all. They were really southern (from Texas *grin*) and so nice! Kimmie called and said she was on her way with Tommy (the fifth kid) and they arrived shortly after.

We had Connor, Tommy, Mariah, McKenzie and Olivia. All were adorable and followed directions pretty well for the most part. It was an exhausting evening though...they wore us out pretty quickly and I think we did the same to them. We went and had a picnic by the pool of peanut butter sandwiches, pringles, motts sauce and juice. Watched the guests splash around and then played some trivia games with the kids and let our tummies settle.

Got the kids cleaned up and we played on this HUGE computer keyboard that is made of foam. Ran up and down it for about a good half hour and got the kids nice and worn out. " Now, step on the first letter of your...last name!" Fun times...the kids were cute at following directions..they liked the games. Got back to the room and had dessert followed by pj time and then bedtime. It was a nice full night for us, believe it or not. They finally fell asleep and we watched Lizzie McGuire and other Disney type shows that were on the tube. Started watching Seinfield and began to get sleepy. We did everything we could to stay awake including talking about everything we could think of.

Heard a knock and Kimmie was standing there with a bucket. *grin* They had a good time. So funny! We left and headed on out. Poor Traci was exhausted. I had woken up so early that morning so I was pretty beat myself, but got us home safely and I crashed when I got back.

Got up this morning ready to train. Met up with Justin from MK Entertainment at Cast Services. He's such a cutie. We had fun today. I made him go on Mission:Space cause he had never done it before and he loved it. We went on it with Lisa Marie Presley's family who was visiting. She was at a different park...but so fun anyways! Florence was asking me about the ride...she's so cute! I adore her!

I have an interview coming up...really nervous about it, but excited at the same time. I really want it, but things always happen for a reason so I am comfortable with whatever happens. We shall see and only time will tell....

Going to see The Curve tonight and cannot wait! GOOD TIMES! "I'm still reeling....reeling..."

Gots to get ready!

Yesterday I picked up some overtime in DRC then met up with Ian to have a night of fun-filled activities. We met over at the Florida Mall and went shopping for him to get some sweatshirt type hoodies and had a great time just hanging out. He's so cute. When he tries on clothes, he walks towards the mirror, makes a certain modelsque face and puts his hands on his waist. Too cute! We had a great time!

Listened to some new music in his car (LOVE the last one!) then headed over to Best Buy and then Panera Bread for dinner. So yummy. Got home and I fell asleep for a bit then we headed onto Vir-in *giggle* to meet up with JHey and Libby for the movie of the night. We went to see "Team America" which was the funniest movie this year. Cracked me up. Totally unexpected and very offensive to lots of certain topics, but was hilarious to me and I would only recommend it to open-minded people my age who has a sense of humor. SO funny!

Got home and crashed. Slept in today for the first time in a long time. I made myself sleep in until about 2pm and what's amazing is that I am still kinda tired right now and it's only 10:30ish. Crazy. I had some crazy dreams last night. It's amazing how certain issues that are going on in your life come up so clearly in your dreams to help you see the light. Amazing.

Did a lot of cleaning and catching up today. Watched "Connie and Carla" which was an awesome movie. Thanks JHey! Then got ready for softball.

We won, but I didn't really feel all that good about the game. I wasn't playing well and I think Pattee isn't too happy with me at the moment so that sucked. Not a good night for Carolyn at all pretty much. Oh well. I did get some exercise in and I am trying to watch what I eat a bit better so that makes me have a bit of positiveness in my life in the current moment.

I am doing Segway tomorrow and then training this week as well...should be good times as usual! I am excited!

Day Four on the Rock Boat:

Amy J woke up first and then I followed suit, but dragging just a bit more. The night before was pretty rough for me. *grin* Good times. Found a note that she had left in the bathroom telling us that when we are done "sleeping it off" she would be laying out on the Lido deck. I went up there and found her, but with no extra chairs around so I grabbed myself a spot on the top deck part next to these really nice girls and listened to the beautiful sounds of acoustic music coming from down below.

All of a sudden during a break in a song, the guy who was playing introduced David Ryan Harris and I heard his voice. So I grabbed my stuff (who cares about sun bathing when DRH is down below) and went to watch the man in action. Found Scott over there as well and stood with him and listened. Good times. I love that man's voice! Walked back after he was done and found Amy J back at the room cause she had gotten too hot laying out and found Grace extremely hungover and asking questions about what happened the night before. "Yes, you met Sister Hazel" *giggle* "I did?" Good times on the boat!

Got dressed and went out to grab a bite for lunch. Ran into Scott again "Are you stalking me?" *grin* Afterwards, I went around and took some pictures of the ship and went shopping at The Rock Boat Store. Went back to the room to get ready for the shows for that day. Ran into Fred (crazy Jack Black wannabe) from Cowboy Mouth and he said "Good morning!" and it was like two in the afternoon. Oh how I love the Rock Boat! *grin*

The girls went back to the room for a bit while I walked around. I ran into David Ryan Harris and got a pic with him, he was very cool. Found him near Scott watching the Braves game...I love my ATL peeps. We actually came back and won that one too. Very cool! *grin* Got in line to meet Gavin Degraw and Marc Broussard (again...and again...and again) *grin* Was a pretty quick line when they pulled me out to go meet them. Said hey to Marc again ("Hey again sweetie") *sigh* and then went to meet Gavin for the first time. He had been pretty elusive the entire time on the ship, at least I didn't see him. There were hardly anybody in line and it was really a nice informal way to meet these "fish" but seeing as though we were walking around the ship with them all the time, I guess it wasn't all that exciting for the official meet and greet time, but regardless I was happy to meet Gavin finally.

He was so cute wearing a hat with his long hair sticking out and his sweet, big smile. He stuck out his hand and said "hey, I'm Gavin" and I introduced myself. He was too cute. He signed my poster "Too (with a smiley face underneath the two o's) Carolyn!!!!! Love Gavin Degraw" I loved him already. So I went to take a photo of him and I in the only way that I always do it...myself by extending my arm out. "I am good at this" and nothing happened. Gavin was like "Not so good anymore, huh?" and laughed. During the time I was tryin to take the picture, Gavin is growling...not in an evil way, but in a very sexy way. He was cute. Nice. But either way my camera battery had died so no picture and I felt like a dork, but he said "Don't worry, we can do it later!" Yes, yes we can Gavin! Good times.

Met up with the girls at the Comfort Zone for David Ryan Harris and I went up and sat on the floor closest to him and enjoyed his breathtaking voice. He was incredible like the time before. He used a "line 6" type of technology which allows him to loop, but I loved it cause he created the loop right in front of us and then started playing so you knew it was his and legit, while also creating his original type of music with whatever he could do, being a single artist on a stage. I am usually not a huge fan of looping, but the way he did it impressed me. At one point we were all singing "We had a good thing, don't get me wrong" and he came out in the crowd, passed right by me, and clapped with us. He rocks. Good times "This is my moment!" *giggle*

Left and got ready for Gavin's show. It was packed with lots of "fish" in the crowd. We waited...and waited...and waited. The band was all on the stage, ready to go with no Gavin for like twenty minutes...late much? The girls gave up (they really weren't that interested in seeing Gavin anyways) and went back to get ready for dinner and I hung out a bit more cause I really wanted to see him play. All of a sudden, this guy catches my eye walking down the crowd making sure that he stops and chats with everyone he passes and says hello. I totally didn't recognize him as being Gavin until he finally made it to the stage. No one else did either though, so I didn't feel so bad. When he got to the stage, I realized that he had been making his way through the crowd for a good while and just taking his sweet time. Interesting way of making an appearance. Strange. I wondered if that is usual for him and expected in the band's eyes, but who knows really.

I was a little annoyed with the fact that he was late and making all of us wait, but that was all quickly forgotten when he sat down and started playing the piano. I know this sounds cheesy, but he moved me. Like actually moved me. I was so struck by his live vocals. His CD is great, but it does nothing for the clearness of his sound and powerfulness of his lyrics. I just melted. Nice!

Went and met up with the girls after Gavin and headed to dinner where we had our dinner dates meet us there, Harold and Scott. Fun times at dinner. It was the last night and *so* funny. All we could do was laugh. Too many laughing moments to count, but it was the best dinner because of it. We all got complimentary "placemats" from the staff (pretty drawings of the cruise ship and a nice marketing tool for the cruise line *grin*) and our wait staff all got up in front of us and danced to "YMCA" which was the funniest thing I have yet to see. Scott pointed out the waiter on the far right was dancing to the beat of his own drum and we could not stop laughing. Good times were had at dinner. "I am gonna order TWO deserts, why the hell haven't I ordered one of each?" *grin* Ya'll cracked me up!

Made plans to meet up with the boys later and we headed onto the Sister Hazel show. Got seated next to this very nice guy who kept bringing the beer guy to me. Good times. Sister Hazel rocked my world for the second time around that I have seen them live and it was cool to have met Jett prior to the show. He's such a nice guy! Amy J got toasted. Funny how we all choose to get toasted at different times, why can't we all be toasted together? We weren't driving anywhere, there were drink specials and it was the opportune moment, but nope. It didn't happen. Ah well. Still good times were had. "Where's are beer guy?"

After the show, I ran into Todd again (Torrey's Todd) and he asked how the show was cause he was on his way to watch the second one (all the big acts had two shows after dinner for their night). He was very cool. Good to see him on the boat.

Headed on down to the Comfort Zone again to watch Will Hoge again. He was incredible! Ran into Scott and Kevin (Scott in the front and Kevin in the back-we made our rounds *grin*) and Will blew us away. They had taken away the in house monitors because they had to be packed a certain way before we got to port (so stupid) and because Will was the last act in that room, they took them away to start packing up and at one point the mic went down and no one could hear from any monitors in the house so he said "forget it, I don't need a mic" and came out into the crowd right in front of us and stood up on the couch and sang his heart (and lungs) out. Totally not good for his voice, but he didn't care. He wanted everyone to be able to hear him. It was a sweet, slow song and was so beautiful and strong at that moment. The whole room was silent just listening to him. I loved that about the Rock Boat. Everyone was extremely respectful (even drunk), all about the music (100%) and appreciated the musicians for what they were...talented people who deserve respect for all that they do. Impress me much? Yep...

After the show we all went into the Rock Boat store to get some much needed CDs and shirts from our adventure when we ran into shirtless Todd Martin looking pretty darn good for being trashed the evening before. So I take it as my opporunity to see about my "free" CDs that he bet me the night before. *giggle* "So Todd Martin, what *is* my name?" Nice....he needed some help so he kept true to his bet and we went down to his cabin to get the three CDs that I earned. Good times. I did support the artist and gave him a few bucks to buy him a drink...good times. He bought a shirt at the store cause he still couldn't find the one he lost the night before. *grin* He said they were jamming that night and for me to come. OKAY! *grin*

Went to hang out with Scott and the girls again. Scott wanted to go hang out in the Icehouse VIP Lounge, but he only had one pass for two people so we were looking for an additional pass for the girls. We were down the hall from Scott's room and one random dude had his door open and way-too-drunk Grace asked him if he happened to have an extra VIP pass and he actually did and he actually gave it to her. Nice! So we were on our way, but with one extra person...Harold, but no worries Grace just talked her way in. Dear goodness...funny times.

We get in the lounge and it was *packed*. Could not move. Hello Dave came in the lounge and was ON me and he enjoyed that...he started to sing "Lean Back" and actually lean back on me....again, again and again. You can keep leaning my friend...*grin* HELLO DAVE! *grin* Grace stole the Icehouse girl's beads and started the unravelling process...took forever and was a feat! She was pretty protective about her stolen beads, but she was nice enough to fill us up from time to time with colorful decoration. Met up with Christopher and his best friend Andy. Saw the Norweigen boys again! They are fun! *grin* Had WAY too much fun at that VIP lounge...whew! Free beer the entire time! Nice! Good photos taken at that party *giggle* Watched HELLO DAVE play and then watched the Norweigens take the stage. Too cute. Scott jumped on the bongos halfway through and did a rockin job, even though he was toasted as well. *grin* Closed the VIP Lounge down and headed onto U194 for the jam session.

Akiva was right in front of us walking down the hall so I told him to keep the door open. "HELLO GIRLS!" We all snuggled in the small room and somehow my drunk butt hit the lights off (twice) GOOD TIMES! *grin* Todd Martin looked up from his guitar and said "HEY! It's Carolyn!" Yay..you remembered...good job buddy! So we listened to them play for a bit before we discovered the room was getting smaller and smaller so we headed upstairs to the Lounge where the open mic was held. Scott and I went to grab his guitar and merch (yay I got to carry the guitar & be a rockstar!) and we headed up to the rest of the group.

The group was getting bigger but still an initimate crowd of only about fifteen people. It was the usual crew with Mike, Todd Martin, Akiva , Scott, Lauren, Rebecca, Melissa, Sarah and her sister, the violin girl, Peter (the Norweigen boy) along with some people I didn't know. It was good times! We sang everything from oldies to Gavin, Sister Hazel to Scott Ivey, U2 to Garth Brooks. Good times were had. This went on all night long. We did not want to leave so we were taking advantage of every moment possible. Quite frankly, we were already up around 3AM so why would we go to sleep for three hours when we could stay up and hang out. Akiva brought out the harmonica and everyone was so creative. One of the best moments on the boat.

About half way though, Scott and I went to check out another part of the boat for a bit and found Marc Broussard with his own little jam session with only about ten people hanging out so we joined in and listened to him. Just him and a guitar...until this dorkface grabbed a part of the drum kit and was ruining Marc's acoustic set. We wanted him to stop drumming so bad, you have no idea. Just didn't work for what Marc was doing at the moment, but we tried to tune him out and just listened to Marc's voice. Incredible! After he was done, we headed back to our lounge and con't the rest of the night's jam session until the sun came up.

Scott and I were hungry so we decided to go get breakfast. It was almost 6:30AM and we were about to port so we went out on the balcony and watched the world slowly come to a stop. It was fun to watch us port because the back of the boat was stirring up a lot of sand from the bottom and creating a mess, we saw the early risers roaming around the port and waiting for our arrival, people on early morning fishing boats were riding by us waving, and we were trying to figure out what the cranes were that were so close to the train graveyard. Good talks and good times. I didn't want the Rock Boat to end.

As Akiva put it best in his latest email to me "I want to be back on the boat!" Me too my friend...me too.

We got back to port and everyone was in a somber mood. Perhaps it was the immediate stopage of drinking, perhaps it was the early morning time, perhaps it was the extreme exhaustion, but my heart tells me it was due to the fact that we were getting OFF the boat and not staying on. Ran into our friends coming through customs. So sad. So exhausted. So ready to get on with everyone since we can't go back. Got into the car and I basically crashed. The girls had gotten sleep the night before cause they didn't stay for the jam session. Even though I slept most of the way, the trip felt like it took FOREVER! Got back and didn't know what to do with myself. Already started the withdrawal period. I was still rocking...literally. It felt as if I was still on the boat. Good times. Could not stop reeling from the music that was heard, new friends that were made, sights that were seen and times that were had. It was a great trip and I am so glad I did it...and so looking forward to next year.

Moving on and moving forward...."We had a good thing, don't get me wrong....time to move on, cause that good thing is gone" Words by David Ryan Harris

Okay so now I am caught up on my Rock Boat experience....going into my last couple of days now.

On Friday I started my tour with a return tour family for Juliet. This was one I believe she recommended me for. Spent about 12 hours with them. The family was very sweet. They were from New York and New Jersey respectively and very nice! We did MK the first day and the little boy was too cute as were the rest of the kids. Jungle Cruise...what an adventure. Ha! After MK we went and dined at Palio at the Swan. It was actually my first time to dine at that restaurant and it was really good in my opinion. Although there wasn't too much of a selection of what I would normally order, but what I did have, was really good...so I would probably get that everytime. Yummy. Good desserts too...yea so much for that diet after getting off the boat...

Spent the next day with the family at Disney MGM Studios and then Epcot. Another 12 hour or so day. It's always better the second day around after getting to know the family a bit on the first day. It was good to see them again. Had some rough times starting out at the park. We were SO busy, but things worked out well. Ran into Torrey's husband Todd at the FP machine at RRC and I didn't even recognize him (cause I met him in the dark venue at Sister Hazel and he had glasses on) and he came up to me saying "How was the cruise?" umm huh? "The Rock Boat?" umm how did you know I went on the Rock Boat...I began freaking out at that point. "You were on it with my brother-in-law Todd. Ah! Torrey's Todd strikes again. *giggle* So funny and random. I felt like a dork. Anyways...moving back to the tour. Epcot, I think, was a definite highlight for the majority of them and although they have been to the parks so many times before, I think they still had a good time, hopefully like usual. BIG thanks to L-Jo, O'Kelly, Ireland and Kneebone, all who were involved in helping me have a less stressful day! You guys ROCK!

Got your call Courtney...thank you! "It's your birthday....yeah!" *giggle*

I picked up overtime in DRC today so I was in at 6:45 in da AM and working until 3:30. I am calling today my overtime need to buy new shoes day and will put this money specifically towards new shoes. My feet hurt. Not cool. I am pretty exhausted from this past tour and this morning. Today was suppose to be my day off, but instead I will have the afternoon and tomorrow off. Good times ahead. Cannot wait.

I will be training this week so that should be exciting...cannot wait! Saw Tom Strunk today and he made my day *hugs* and loved the effort in trying to get me out of DRC...but overtime messes the whole thing up. *giggle* But I was good Theresa!

FYC leaves on their tour today....Be safe!

Later kids!

Can't do Day Four right now. Not enough time, but I will catch up on things I did today so I don't get too far behind on my blogging like some people *coughJordancough*. Today I took JHey to work and while I went to the window, he did an awesome job interviewing! Got to the window and it was BUSY ALL DAY LONG! I was exhausted after all that!

Had some crazy guest situations, but helped them all...of course. O'Kelly gave me crap...*someone* called me a tease *grin* and got an hours worth of overtime assisting a guest and helping out O'Kelly...good times. Even had some "girl talk" *giggle* You crack me up my friend!

Cooper told me about his experiences with *NSYNC and made me completely jealous...thanks Coop.

Got to look around online a bit today and noticed that Scott put some of my pics up on his site. You can look at them here. He's so fun! "I made a friend" *giggle* He's so cool!

Shout out to Nina! Thanks for catching up...you rock. We need to hook up soon!

Thanks for the pic Jocelyn. That rocked my socks off!

How cool is this? WILL TRAVEL FOR MUSIC! Sounds like me a bit in mind and heart, but in body and finances it just won't happen. My dream though....to go anywhere and everywhere for music!

The Rock Boat 2005...I WANT TO GO! Who wants to go with me? If you want to know more about what went on this past one go here to the messageboard

I have a tour tomorrow and I am exhausted...heading to bed...oh please let my laundry be almost done..

Day Three on the Rock Boat:

Remember I have a bad memory. I keep leaving out things that I wanted to mention. Going back to Day One. When we had our lifejacket safety course. We had to go to the Dynasty Lounge and sit at a table with our life jackets on, no drinks in our hands ("Aw, we have to put them down Grace") and go over what to do in an emergency and the person teaching us said that "we have many able-bodied seamen on the ship" and everyone wanted to cheer or at least I did, but we were required to be silent the entire time. Funny stuff...it will come up later in this post too...read on please.

I am pretty sure that I left out at sometime during Day One or Day Two of how I met Christopher (otherwise known to everyone else as Sparky) "You are the only one besides my mother that calls me Christopher" *grin* There's a story with that my friend...But either way, when we first got on the boat he was giving everyone high fives, then later when I was by myself before the sailor came, he came over to introduce himself and see how I was doing. Very nice guy. Just chatted and then was on his way. He will come up again later.

I also forgot to mention that late the night before I ran into Akiva and he remembered me. *sigh* Thank you for that. "Yea, I met you at Lion's Den" umm yea forever ago, good memory! Told me he was jamming that night but wasn't sure of the time yet, but was definitely going to open mic the next day so to catch him. Already on the calender my friend! Good times!

Beinviendo a Mexico! We arrived in Mexico. First we went and ate some breakfast before getting off the boat to enjoy the freedom of not paying an additional fees for food and then got off the boat. We were parked right next to our "sister" boat, the Sensation. Pretty cool to be standing inbetween two very large cruise ships. Nice.

Walked through an incredibly LONG shopping area (with tax free items) before getting to the "fake Mexico" like I like to call it. It started to rain right before we got outside. That was our welcome. The first people we see when getting outside in the rain is Marc Broussard and his drummer. Noticed, but didn't say anything. All of a sudden I hear, "Hey, you were the girl from last night saving me from the sailor" and I turned around and he said "What's your name again sweetheart?" *sigh* We chatted for a bit about the crazy sailor and he asked to be introduced to Grace and Amy J. Grace told him she met him the night before from the sailor too and he said "I'm sorry, I was toe up from the flo' up" That became the quote of the cruise. Ha! I then commented on how we all were and we were all walking together when I noticed that it didn't feel like we were in Mexico at all. It felt like an incredibly fake Mexico or real Miami or Mexico pavilian in Epcot. "We need to see real Mexico" so Marc went with his drummer to look for cowboy boots and we went to seek out a cab and get out of the gated colorful outside shopping fake Mexico area.

Got in a cab with a Mexican who laughed at all our funny comments all the way to the "forum". Small streets, colorful buildings, straw buildings, beautiful water on the right, shacks on the left, construction workers on the side of the small and potholed road. Got to the real Mexico and I decided I liked it more than I thought. We were in Cozumel by the way. Forgot to mention that. We went into shops and finally found some where we could bargin. That was kinda fun. "Because you are my first sale today, I will give it to you for....(then whispers in my ear) $15" Umm how about $12? "For you? Okay, but that is all I can do" Ha! Nice! Good times!

Went to eat at some authentic Mexican restaurant that had bottled drinks and GOOD FOOD! I had an incredible dish of "Special Tacos" with mushrooms, onions, cheese and beef. SOOO GOOD! Yummy! Real salsa and homeade guacamole. Yum!

Went to a bakery and got a snack. Had to serve yourself with all the baked goods just hanging out for everyone to grab and go. Kinda shady, but it's all about the experience, right? *grin* Walked down the way and grabbed some water and "Mexican doritios" and had to learn how to use pesos. That was an adventure in itself. Think I used them right. Good times!

Went to another shopping area where Amy J and I got "Mexican friends". "Can I be your Mexican boyfriend for one hour, two hours?" And one older and shorter Mexican guy grabbed Amy J and then grabbed me and asked his friend if he wanted a girl and said "Here, she is yours" and gave me to him. While my new "Mexican friend" wiped his sweaty face in my neck and kissed me goodbye, Amy J's new "Mexican friend" was putting his face in her boobs. "I've never been so happy in my whole life. I finally have a place to put my hand!" Yep...Sixteen Candles moment. I took a pic. Very funny stuff!

Grace and Amy J had to use the bathroom so after searching and searching, we finally found one. Yea..."50 cents please?" Huh? You have to pay to pee? "50 cents please?" So yea give her 50 cents and she gives you a ticket and a few small squares of toliet paper that you aren't allowed to flush down the toliet. Once we got to the stalls and went to go in them, we realized we didn't even fit inside them. Amy J and Grace peed with the door open and I decided that I simply donated 50 cents to a cause of hopefully them buying more room for the stalls and opted to hold it.

On that note, we headed out for the beach area, but got stopped by a guy trying to sell a boat trip for snorkling. We got sold and headed out on a very shady boat with very shady Mexican's in a "glass bottom boat" Ha! There was one small strip of glass and that was it. What did we get ourselves into girls? Bonus: Free Corona and yes, it does taste better in Mexico. Got to the next boat assuming we would be placed in the nicer, bigger boat where all the other snorkling people were. Passed that by....went to the next one that was less crowded and assumed that was our stop...nope. Then went to an even shadier boat that looked identical to the one we were on except it was the dance mix version with rap dance mixes like Eminim and Shaggy (strange), but we had to switch onto that one. More Corona please? *grin*

"You ready?" That was about all the English that our Mexican Scuba Instructor knew. Umm...I guess. So we jumped in and he held my hand as I tried to put on my flippers. We had to sanitize our snorkling masks and snorkle with our corona...tasted like soap. Ew. Saw some fishes. "Here fishy fishy fishy!" Grace kept trying to get me to see the fish near the bottom of the ocean, but without my glasses I was having a hard time seeing my own mask in front of me let alone some darn fish on the bottom of the ocean. Took photos of us under the water with fish swimming all around and Grace bought one. It was cute cause it made us all look skinny being under water! Nice!

Drinking all that I did, I had to pee like no ones business when getting off that boat. Thankfully the first stop I came to was a restaurant and amazingly enough did not charge me for the use of their bathroom AND I fit in the stall. Good times had!

Started heading back to the boat and board so that we could get ready for the rest of the shows that we were preparing for. Ran into David Ryan Harris, the guitarist from Tonic, the drummer of The Clarks and some other "fish" while standing in line to board back on the boat and I was thinking how cool it was that we were getting back on the boat with all those "fish". I was sooo happy that I was on that boat *with* them, ya know. Good times there. Really made me appreciate where I was and what I was doing at the time.

Got back to the room and all got ready for dinner. We were actually sat with people this time instead of us getting to choose, which was a change of pace for us. We were seated with a woman and an older couple who's first comments when we sat down were "I can't see a thing, I'm getting so old, but I can see that pretty girl that just sat at the corner of the table" pointing to me. "Umm hi!" Funny stuff. Then a younger couple sat in front of us right after we sat down. Started talking with the people and found out that no one was at dinner because they were offering free drinks on the Lido deck from 6-9. There was only about six tables being occupied at dinner...guess free drinks were a good reason to miss dinner...umm YES! And we were so upset that we didn't hear about it till after we ordered, so we all (the young couple in front of us included) decided to scarf down all our food and risk getting sick just to run up to the deck to take advantage of the drink offer...so we did. Good times. And we made it just in time. Free hurricanes, whiskey sours and some kind of blue drink. I sampled them all. Good times. We could even take some to go and two fist it. I love the Rock Boat.

Headed on down to see our new friend Scott preform in Open mic night. Saw Akiva, Todd Martin, an awesome girl named Sarah (didn't get her last name) who is new to the scene but rocked it and gave me chills and was a sweetheart, "The Able-bodied Seamen" (who played Brian Wilson) and more incredible new and upcoming artists who were promoting on the boat.

I wasn't sure what to expect from Scott, but when he got up there, he rocked it out and impressed me to no end. Kevin was there and finally he spotted us and said hello. We hung out with them for the rest of the evening, chatting it up and watching the other preformers. Amy J and Grace wanted to catch The Clarks, but I was so into watching the open mic preformers do their thing that I wanted to stay in that initmate environment and hang out so Kevin went to gamble and Scott and I stayed and enjoyed.

Will Hoge got up and sang with Josh (the MC of the open mic night) and another guitarist and invited Scott up there to sing as well. So cute! Good times! The norweigan boys that I told you about earlier showed up to try and play a couple of songs. Didn't make it as an entire group, but Joe and Erik got up and played a few songs for us. I talked to Joe and asked what the name of their group was. He said that they are called "SuperFan" and that they supposedly won an international battle of the bands, but apparently didn't, but they came anyways. So cute!

Met Todd Martin in his drunken state at the Open mic. After he played I wanted to know if he had a CD for sale with him so I caught up with him and he wanted to know my name before answering my question. I said "Why? You won't remember it" cause it was TOE UP! He said "My CDs are in my cabin, come tonight to U194 cause we are jamming there tonight and if I remember your name you get a free CD, if I don't remember your name, you get three free CDS, but I won't forget you Carolyn" Ha! So he was so drunk, he starts taking off his clothes (shirt only at first before stopping himself) and leaves his shirt wherever (he can't find it later on) and disappears. I see him later at The Pat McGee show with still no shirt, with a girl named Keri and he still remembered my name. Three more hours to go and I get at least one free CD! Score!

Watched them for a bit, then went to catch the end of The Clarks with Amy J and Grace, but couldn't find the girls so watched them for a bit on my own, then headed back to Scott and the open mic area. Afterwards, Scott and I headed into the Dynasty Lounge and found Amy J this time with Harold to get ready to see The Pat McGee Band, who was playing from midnight until 4AM. Let's go! "Where's Grace?" In the VIP Lounge meeting Sister Hazel. Oh dear goodness. She was toasted and ran into a guy named Paul going to the bathroom, where he apparently invited her into the VIP lounge to hang out. She came back with t-shirts, beads, lights and Paul. She met Sister Hazel and didn't remember a bit of it the next day. Worthless. *giggle* Paul was too cool and we saw him in the days after and he gave me a free shirt, hat, etc. Good guy.

Was about to pass out after about two hours of The Pat McGee Band (although enjoyed them lots!) so I headed back with full intentions of going to bed, but ended up stopping by U194 to pick up my CDS from Todd as promised before and I find the girls of NY (Lauren, Rebecca and Melissa) cause it's their room. Good times! So I hang out with them for a bit and Sarah (that really talented girl who gave me chills) came by with her sister. We were all waiting on the drunk boys to arrive (Akiva and Todd) but I was about to pass out, so I headed back to my cabin and crashed.

Done with Day Three...getting more exciting isn't it...oh just you wait!

Today I did Segway and it was a more heavy day today for the tour. Had some tears shed. Saw a guy with a shirt on that said "FOR SALE" so in my costume I asked him how much he costed (which might not have been the most appropriate time) but he said very simply "I am pretty cheap" Funny boy!

Saw Wade today...he makes me smile!

Hung out with Linda today for lunch and got to talk a lot..thanks for listening and talking with me my friend! O'Kelly gave me crap like usual but I am beginning to enjoy it and expect it. Ha!

Went over to Cali's after work today and hung out with her, Tony, her mom and dad and of course Neo! Good times. We had Donato's..only the best pizza ever! We watched "Man on Fire" which was incredible in the cinematography and just an awesome movie altogether. Freaked me out a bit with all the torturing and violence, but I enjoyed it all the same. Watched a bit of the presidental debate (that cracked me up). Enjoyed Tony's side comments, that kid can be SO funny when he speaks up. *giggle* Thanks Cali! Have fun on your trip...be safe!

Came home and have been "bonding" with JHey sitting across from me while I am asking him how to spell words like "cinematography" and such. This is how we bond. Listening to Marc Broussard's "It's a Lonely Night in GA" and thinking of how tired I am, but how I promised Chris that I would watch this video he just sent me. So I am off to do that and then crash! Day Four is coming up people...be excited!

THIS JUST IN!: Pictures from The Rock Boat 04 from Amy J and Carolyn are posted HERE! Feel free to browse and check them out. Amy J's are the first 56 or so and mine follow suit. Enjoy! Grace...put yours up there soon!

Day Two on the Rock Boat:

Got up to a beeping noise (Grace's cellphone we found out later) that was extremely annoying, but at least it got us up. It was about noon or so, but you would never know it cause we were living in a bat cave with no light or hint of an outside world. Went up to the Lido deck to catch some rays and listen to the acoustic music being played. Found a spot at the back of the boat and right when we laid down, ordered a hurricane in a yellow glass *grin* it began to sprinkle. Great timing. But....it quickly stopped and we caught some rays before deciding to get ready for a second Marc Broussard set at the Dynasty Lounge.

Headed over and got excellent seats, which was the case in most of the rooms. The Dynasty Lounge was considered the "larger" of the rooms and even if you were in the very back row (which never happened), they were still awesome seats with a great view. Marc was playing with his dad again and they were incredible. This show was being taped, so we got to buy the live album of that show right after. Very cool and a great marketing tool. Marc kept telling his dad what song was next and letting him know which instrument he needed and where the mic needed to go, but once they got that figured out, his dad wailed on everything he touched. Awesome talent right there and seemed like the nicest guy. Such a friendly smile. Poor Marc was so sick. He kept coughing and his voice was getting scratchier by the moment, but he was doing really well for not feeling well.

Amy J and I went straight to Shawn Mullins while Grace went back to the room to get ready for dinner. We sat on the floor and were mucho close to Shawn and his unbelievable sexy voice. *sigh* If I could just close my eyes (but he's pretty cute to gaze at too) and listen to him talk and sing all my life, I would be so happy. He melted me. The only thing that gets a little annoying was the tons of "talking" that he does during his songs. Don't get me wrong though, I do enjoy it at times, like during "Rock-a-bye" I think it fits, but when it's a constant talking of the lyrics, I would much rather him sing. My opinion, but then again others share it. "Did he talk a lot during the song like he usually does?" Yep Scott...you got it right on the nose. Shawn didn't play too long, but that worked well cause then we had enough time to get ready for the formal dinner we were having.

Headed back and got dressed then went to dinner in the Pride Room. It was so nice. This time, since we looked hotter than hot in our dresses and FINE shoes *giggle*, we decided to let the intimidating Amy J herself pick the table to sit at and hopefully find some hot single boys to dine with. So...she finds two boys, looking pretty darn fine, and walks up to them and asks them if we can join them. They said "of course" *whew* and we sat down with Kevin and Scott from Atlanta. Started getting to know them and doing lots of chatting when Kevin mentioned "yea my last cruise was on my honeymoon" and we looked at both of their ring fingers that happened to have a ring on each. Good choice Amy J. *grin* Just kidding, these kids were so cool, even if they are married. So we found out that Kevin had an extreme addiction to gambling and Scott was an artist. I bonded with Scott a bit more although Kevin was an awesome guy. They were awesome to hang out with...so we hung out with them the rest of the trip. Rather they just kept stalking us. *giggle*

After dinner we took our fine butts to the Tonic show and had, again, excellent seating. This is where I took off my shoes, sat on the top of my seat and was so *happy* swaying to the music of Tonic.

Sat next to Chrissy, who rocked! We started chatting after bonding over noticing the consistency of numerous people walking in front of us trying to block our wonderful view of the hot stars (including my favorite long-haired guitarist). We started talking and I went to give her an FYC promo card while talking about them and she goes "Oh I've heard of them! I really like them!" Good times...and she gave me a CD of an artist (Josh Queen she promotes and runs a website for. Loving the stars my friend, loving the stars!

Also chatted with some girls who were sitting behind us. One of the girls was trying to find the beer lady for her drink and everytime she came by with it, the girl had disappeared. We finally hooked them up and she was happy. After the show I ran into them again at the next show and I gave them an FYC promo card and they said they knew Kevin...Lauren, Rebecca and Melissa from NY said to tell Kevin HEY!..and we will talk more about them later. Fun girls!

After Tonic, Amy J and Grace wanted to go see Gaelic Storm so we did but after about twenty minutes I was done with the celtic stuff (sounded a lot like my favorite Canadian band Off Kilter) and I wanted to catch some of Ingram Hill on the Lido Deck so I left them to their scottish music and went by myself. This is where some more craziness happens.

Reminder: I am looking as hot as I can look in this dress, shoes in my hand (cause they were killing the feet) and was happy as a lark (you know what that means people! *grin*) standing on the side of the stage. Not two minutes later a hot guy comes up to me and says "excuse me" and I was ready for anything....yea he invites me to see his show the next night. His name is James Wright and is quite the hottie, but yea that was about all he wanted to tell me. Ah well...next. So about ten minutes later, a sailor puts his arm around me. Oh dear. This guy was "toe up from the flo up" as Marc Broussard likes to say. Ha! With a bucket full of beer, (he had a guy buying him all the drinks he wanted cause he was a sailor IN his uniform) he offers me one and starts talking about how hot I look. You are no good to me...Here we go...

So this sailor's name is Daniel and was quite the funny drunk. So...he was telling me about how he won the trip on the boat and doesn't even like this kind of music. He is more of a fan of Toby Keith and other country stars, but after hearing Marc Broussard he became a rock fan and owes it all to him. So I mention to him that Marc was actually standing right behind us. BIG MISTAKE. So he decides he wants a photo with Marc, but of course has no camera, but that doesn't stop him. He goes over there and asks for a photo then comes over and grabs me for a camera. I so did not want to be associated with him at that moment, but the drummer for Marc turns to me and asks if I have the camera and I went ahead and got it out....

This is when sailor boy decides he needs to get his hat that he left over where we were standing before and so I am left with Marc and the drummer. I took that opportunity to apologize to the drummer and Marc for the drunkiness of the sailor and explained how I really don't know him. Marc was too cute and being so nice. The sailor comes back and we get a photo with him and Marc. This was just the beginning. Every few minutes, the sailor decided he needed to ask Marc something or tell Marc something or "Marc will do it for us" no matter what it was. I tried my best to keep him away or come and get him because poor Marc was getting interrupted by the sailor too much and trying to talk to other people. At one point I was like look sailor you can write to him on his website and Marc was like, YEAH! Get on my website, like he never thought of that idea and was so glad that I had. So funny!

Went back to sit down and ran into two girls (Kerry and Leslie) that I had seen the night before at the David Ryan Harris show and started talking to them randomly. I mentioned that the sailor was gonna try and hit on them and to watch out. We bonded and they took me in as a project to keep the sailor away, but to keep getting the beer coming on in. Ran into Harold, Jason and his friend at that point. Harold noticed that I was getting tired of "taking care" of the sailor so he came to sit with us as well. Amy J and Grace showed up about that time cause it got too hot in the area they were in before. We were watching Matt Wertz whom I really enjoyed even through all the sailor drama. Got some ice cream and enjoyed the rest of the show.

The girls all left and Harold and I hung out a bit later. We got some hurricanes and after it started tasting like syrup we decided that was enough. We were gonna watch Michael Tolcher, but the guitarist was not one of my favorite people on the boat since he took every open opportunity to stand in front of me the night before at Marc's show so I decided to hit the sack instead.

Okay so that is Day Two...perhaps I will get to the end of this trip before next year. But for now I am gonna halt again and let you catch up....but before I do, I am gonna go off on a tangent about the past couple of days.

Ever since I got off the boat yesterday the world has been rocking in more than one way. Literally I have felt like I am still a bit on the drunk side and still rocking back and forth, as if it were a habit or like a drug that I need to feed....I want it again.

Got home and worked on getting things ready yesterday and adding more drama to my life. It's amazing how great I felt on the boat and ever so after, but then quickly things got back to normal and the numbers started to drop in my happiness percentage.

Watched some parts of a movie on and off with JJanis last night. Good times. He helped me put up some much needed wall art and my star. Thanks JJANIS! Crashed hard and still felt the room rocking! Went back to work today and saw all my peeps. I missed them! It was crazy at work today. Food and Wine has made people even more CRAZY!

Got much excited news today. I am a DSA TBA for a few weeks coming up which I am very excited about! AND...I am gonna be apart of the SuperSoap Weekend, which because it is an event I am SO excited! I have Bianca from All My Children! Cannot wait!

Tye is a crazy kid. He made the newspaper in Arkanasa for simply visiting home...."Disney Guests" SO FUNNY! Hanging out here now with Libby, who just got back from her visit home and JHEY laughing at Tye for his "stardom" in The Modern News. Craziness.

Going to head to bed soon..have Segway in the morning...and then to Cali's for dinner. Good times ahead...stay tuned for Day Three coming up soon!

This is a lyrics one. I have so many lyrics that I have been hearing lately that have been hitting me hard. Time to record them.

The wind blowing in my face, the sun shining down on my skin, music sounding in my ears, eye candy walking around (�FISH!�), food available 24/7, new friends laughing, late night to early morning jam sessions, adventures and conquests, questions and answers, too many shows to count, sailors and protecting, new Mexican �friends� (Ha!), sunrises and porting. What an incredible experience. I am gonna be as detailed as I can be. *giggle* Bare with me�if you choose to read on.

First of all�.let�s go all the way back to Wednesday night. I got off work at a nice time of 5ish from my last training day with Cecile. She did awesome and checked out well. Got home and hung out for a bit while procrastinating on all the packing I had to do for my trip. Ting knocked on the door and wanted to hang out. So we did. Then Tye came home with Cole. Ting left shortly after and we all hung out a bit before I had to go pick up JHey from work. Cole is an awesome guy. We talked a lot about music and such. *grin* He�s fun. Hopefully he will hang out a bit more.

Finally got everything together for my trip and headed to bed since I had to wake up at the break of dawn for our anticipated drive to Miami.

Day One on the Rock Boat:

Got to Amy J�s around 7AM the next morning and headed on down. The drive wasn�t bad at all�probably cause I fell asleep for some of the way. Sorry Amy J. I was exhausted and had to prepare for the no sleep I got on the boat. *grin*

Got to port and everything was fairly smooth�amazingly enough. Immediately we saw Jett from Sister Hazel. He was in the �Skippers� room, where apparently they skip the line, which makes total sense, being an artist and all. So, I watched that room like a hawk and only recognized a few, but knew all were gonna be blowing my mind on the boat. This set the mood for how the boat was gonna be�.rockin! I made up right then and there that we had to have a code word for if we saw an artist to let everyone else know, cause Grace had no clue who most of these people were, let alone actually able to point them out. So the code word for the weekend was fish. I just looked up at a sign that had fish on it and thought it was fitting for our �sail� anyways so it stuck. Boy were we saying it quite a bit this weekend. Good times! *grin*

Let me add in my assumptions before actually boarding on this ship. I thought that there was no way that I would be able to see these artists outside the performance areas, let along hang out with them. Ha. Boy was I mistaken. This big boat became a very small area and good times were had. I was sitting next to David Ryan Harris, protecting Marc Broussard from sailor guy (I will explain later!), talking to Jett (from Sister Hazel) and getting introduced to his wife and Todd (Torrey�s very cool brother!), walking past Ken (from Sister Hazel) talking to the guitarist from Tonic, hanging out with Akiva, Todd Martin and Scott Ivey, chatting with Fred from Cowboy Mouth, etc. I can�t even begin to tell you the comforting level these performers had with every guest of this boat and the way everything was so relaxed and fun. The people on this boat were incredible. From the fans (pure music fans, not some crazy �I just want to get in your pants" fans), the boat staff, the performers, the families and friends of the performers, etc. Everyone was so nice and polite and fun. No crazy stupid drunks�. drunks, yes, but fun ones. It was such a good time because of the people and the music. Now I will move on. Sorry about the tangent there.

Was in line to board onto the ship when we started talking to the boys in front of us in line. Harold and Jason from Atlanta (which was where most of the boat was from. Nice!). They were really nice so we chatted with them for a good bit. A few people in front of us where three attractive blond boys with guitars in tote. Hmm. We paid close attention and when there was a wait extension longer then expected in the boarding process, they pulled out their guitars and started softly playing to themselves. No one could really hear them except the people right in front of them, so we just observed and noticed they were not from the US (Norway we found out later) and were there cause they were told they won the International Battle of the Bands, but apparently there was not contest. They were adorable though. More on them later.

After much sitting, sweating and waiting, we finally got through customs and started getting the fun stuff (the room keys, sign and sail card, free Rock Boat bag and sponsor items, water, etc.). Good times. Got on the boat and felt like I walked into a casino in Vegas. So colorful, crazy, loud, and fun! Let the vacation begin!

Got to our room, which had no windows (great for sleeping in, but horrible in not telling what time it was), small with bunk beds, small bathroom with a toilet that would suck you away with it�s current if it could, and a shower with hardly any �tub� to catch the water. Philip was our cabin steward and he rocked it. He left me a swan and a heart made out of towels on my bed every night. Cutie. And of course, he left us chocolates. He knows the way to a woman�s heart. Fun shaped towels and chocolate. Nice. Always fun to find at 4AM or later. Whenever I decided to finally stroll back into my room.

Literally threw our stuff in the room and headed to eat some much anticipated lunch. We were starved from standing in line and sweating it out. We had only eaten breakfast that morning and it was quite early. Got to the Lido deck, which was poolside and a wonderful view (of Miami�s port from that moment) and ate the best cheeseburger ever with saut�ed mushrooms and onions�so good. Yum. Started our touring around the ship to get to know the different decks and see where all the different shows were gonna be held. Already had music playing on the deck (acoustic) from Francisco (from ATL) and he was rockin it with covers. I was so at home. Take me away�.take me away.

We had some downtime before the ship started to sail so we made good use of our time of just walking around and figuring out what our show schedule was gonna consist of and started meeting people. Found out we had certain TV channels only and one being the �Boogie Nights� channel. Yep��Boogie Nights� 24/7. I have had my fill. Random people made their doors so much fun for a contest that was being held to win the penthouse for a night and they were so creative. Some were made up to be like college dorm rooms with message boards and fun ways of meeting people. Everyone was so friendly and kind. I loved these people. Everyone said hello and was up for talking for the most part. Great times!

We had trouble getting our top bunks to come down from the wall (they were pull-downs) so we went in search of some help and found our neighbors. Bryce came over and was THE MAN and got our bunk down. Kirk came over shortly after and introduced us to drunken guy #1 on the ship. Very funny! Then we met Brad, Kirk�s older and more mature brother who told him about The Rock Boat. Funny boys. Immediately fun times begin. Within the first twenty minutes of being on the boat, we get free drinks. I was loving it already! Our neighbors were cool so we hung out with them and went up to the deck to visit the bar more and watch us sail away from port.

We ran into Harold. He was lost from Jason (just the beginning of that chase) and so we all went up to the top deck and all of a sudden we were moving. I totally missed it. I was there and just talking to people, but at some point we started to sail. It was the most incredible feeling the entire trip to be rocking. Sometimes more noticeably than others, but I wish I were still on it right now. For more than one reason.

This began our trip. Sailing down the ocean towards the middle of nowhere, far away from everything I knew. First time on a cruise, first time to leave the country, first time on The Rock Boat, first real vacation without the family or being funded by the family. Good times.

The girls were exhausted so they headed back to the room to nap and get dressed to prepare for the evenings activities, but I was wired and cared more about the music then what my hair looked like so I went and checked out Will Hoge at the Comfort Lounge. It was packed and such a nice intimate setting with dark lighting. Got right up front and enjoyed this guy�s energy and sweet sounds of soul. His guitarist reminded me of Graham Colton. His look, his feel, the way he would up sing into the mic, his holding of the guitar on the side of his waist�all very Graham Coltonish. �He looks like a badass, If I were gay, I would do him� coming from Scott (comes later though). *grin*

When Will was done playing I started to walk out of the lounge when I noticed that Jett from Sister Hazel was in front of me. Torrey (friend from work) told me that her brother Todd would be on the ship near Sister Hazel so that if I saw any member of the group, to look for a handsome guy and introduce myself. Ha! So, I said hey to Jett and asked him if Todd was around. And he asked �Which Todd? Manager Todd?� Umm nope�and I explained and he said �Oh yea, he is right here talking to my wife� So I sat there while Jett went to talk to someone else and waited for them to finish their conversation. They really weren�t getting to a stopping point in their convo so I just sat there and Jett saw I was waiting and came up and said �Did you say hello?� and I was like �I don�t want to interrupt� so he did for me. *giggle* �It�s just my wife, are you kidding? Come here!� I love Jett. So he got Todd and said �This girl wants to say hello� as if Todd were the big star and Jett was the friend of the band. So funny. I thanked them all for the tickets that Torrey had gotten from them for us to see the show. So I explain it to Todd and he gets so excited and goes to call Torrey to say that I had found him. He talks to Tom (Torrey�s husband) and says �I�m having a cocktail with Carolyn�this is great!� So funny! Very nice guy. I saw him several times throughout the weekend and was always so friendly. Good times. And yep Torrey, he was always with Sister Hazel. *grin*

Got back to the room to meet up with the gals before dinner. Got ready in five minutes then headed for our 6:15 dinner. We sat by ourselves because there was not a large crowd at all for the first night�s dinner. This was the beginning of a dangerous addiction to that dining room and all it had to offer. It was so beautiful and elegant with the most choices of anything you wanted on the menu. We could have ordered everything on the menu. But we definitely refrained from doing so. I still have never eaten so much in my life. Definite a downside to a cruise: You have the ability to eat anytime and as much so you want with no restrictions and you paid for it so you feel like you have to or you need to get your money�s worth. That sucks. But then again it was cool to not ever have to wait for a bill, have the food all ready for you and of the best quality. Whew, too nice and we got very used to that. Had Filet Mignon the first night, Prime Rib the second, a veggie medley the third, and Chicken Fettuccini the fourth. So good. The best dessert in my opinion was the Amaretto Chocolate Cake�yummy.

So after dinner we always had a show. The first night it was Cowboy Mouth. How fun were they? Fred is the drummer/lead singer and was as crazy as you could be without being Jack Black himself. And he reminded us so much of him. So crazy! �I NEED RHYTHM!� He called people out who weren�t standing up or clapping or singing. He was a trip and kept the entire place full of energy. Awesome performance, but I am not the biggest fan of their music to be honest. Loved everything about their stage show though. I couldn�t help but enjoy every moment of it. Good times!

After that show we were raring to go and next was David Ryan Harris, who we were all excited to see. He blew us away! His voice and musical talent was unbelievable. I was in amazement the entire time. His lyrics and music touched me more than he will ever know. I found out that he is in John Mayer�s band and helped write Neon, etc. He is incredible.

The girls were tired and headed to bed, but I was still not sleepy at all. On a high from all the music and experience that I was getting so I stayed behind and watched Marc Broussard�s first set of the weekend. After his set, David Ryan Harris came down and sat right next to me with his wife. He was so incredibly friendly to everyone. Great kid. On the other side of me turned out to be Marc Broussard�s mom and friends. Marc blew me away too. I had heard great things from Jocelyn about him and enjoyed his CD, but it is nothing like he is in person. Awesome voice, very soulful and he is so adorable when he plays. He smiles the entire time like you KNOW that he is doing what he loves. He got so into it. His dad was playing the guitar with him and was incredible as well�just amazing. They played the Winnie the Pooh song �Just like Christopher Robin�� Not sure of the name of it but I loved his rendition�Jocelyn..help?

Had to leave a bit into his set because I was about to pass out with no nap and from waking up so early for the drive. Got back to the room and crashed. Very comfy bed. Very cold room. Very dark in the morning/afternoon with no clue of the time. Woke up the next day around noon not having a clue it was past 6AM. And Day Two begins�

To be con�t. I am beat and this is far too much info already for one post. I will keep you on the edge of your seat for the rest of the exciting weekend on The Rock Boat.

I will leave you with words from David Ryan Harris� song �Good Thing�

Good night.

So the past couple of days have been crazy. I have been training Cecile in the lobby from a pretty crazy schedule and it has been exhausting me, but definitely in a fun way. She rocked! Today was her check out day and she did great, as I expected! Good times!

Last night I got home at a semi-reasonable time and hung out with the crew. JHey, Tye, Ting, Ian, Scott Gordan, Libby Jones and J Janis. It got too late for me cause I had to wake up early this morning. So I went to bed early while the others hung out a bit more and when I woke up this morning, I found the remnants of the evening scattered all around the living room. Mornin! *grin*

Headed onto work and had a pretty good day (but crazy!) with guests and cast members alike. Andy cracked me up "Kristos!" *grin* and A Bonds made me feel so much better! Thank you for always making my day brighter! I love the people I work with...individually they crack me up and always are there in a different light to give me joy. "78%? Then I need to give you more hugs today and raise that number up!" I adore you!

I am glad that Gary is back. *grin* He cracks me up!

Finally got out of work (a bit later than expected) and now starts my Friday...Good times!

So I am literally gonna be "lost at sea" this weekend. I am leaving my cellphone at home, leaving my computer at home, leaving my hurt at home, leaving my saddness at home, leaving my life at home. I am gonna take my heart and mend it as best I can on the boat with music, friends and new experiences with new people. I cannot wait! Good times to be had on The Rock Boat!

Lost at Sea....

We have to go back quite a bit. I had Friday off so after sleeping in a bit and then running some errands, I dropped JHey off at Epcot and then headed over to Cali's to hang with Neo. What a good puppy....I love Neo!

Started off by figuring out how to work the Del Cid's wonderful entertainment center. Four different remotes all doing their own intricate job. I am so glad that Cali labeled them well equiped with specific instructions for a dummy (i.e. me). Good times figuring that out. So bad that it took me a day to figure out how to TURN ON the PS2...and I was hurting for that. *grin*

Amy J wanted to do dinner so it was great that Cali gave me a list of people I could have come over to give me some company and that Amy J was on it. Good times. So Amy J came over and we ordered pizza. Sooo good. We watched "Say Anything" and then had some good chats. Thanks Amy J. YAY and Rock Boat info...cannot wait!

Crashed on the couch after watching some MTV...or less M and more regular TV. That sucked, but whatcha gonna do?

Woke up early to head onto work. Did the Segway tour and literally almost passed out. It was extremely hot out and I felt like I was a bit more drained than usual then I began to see the signs off heat exhaustion so I slowed down and noticed that I could see anymore...all I could see were spots and I couldn't hear at all. Not good...so I immediately got off my Segway, had to sadly admit to my guests that I was not feeling up to par and had my second take over. I got some water, sat down for a bit and felt like myself again...good times.

Worked the rest of the day in DRC just thinking about things and actually having a really good "phone day" and helping people left and right and feeling really satisfied with that.

Got off and headed home to see Neo. Nick came over (again on the list) and brought beer and pizza rolls to go with the PS2 (which he had to figure out for me mind you)...my kind of night. Had left-over pizza, pasta AND pizza rolls...m&m's for dessert. Good times. Played every PS2 game that the Del Cid's had...practically. I beat Nick big time in Tony Hawk until we left my track...yea I don't like leaving my track...can't leave my track.

So funny cause when I went to lay back on the couch while playing Tony...I could. GUY! She moved the couch forward for us. How cute is she? I literally got up and looked behind the couch and saw the marks. Just like before. "She won't notice" Ha! Whether or not she moved the couch because Guy and I had the idea of wanting to lay back while playing or they made the executive final decision that *that* is where they wanted their couch in comparison to their coffee table, or whether she was doing it cause she knew I might appreciate it...It rocked my world! A magical moment was made. Thank you Cali!

Got way too happy and had some way too deep convos with Nick that I thought I would never really get into...good times. Glad I could share those with you my friend. "My how things have changed" You are too funny! "This is all about me!" Ha!

Heard I missed some awesome shows this past weekend and some good times with the FYC crew. Glad everything worked out!

Crashed hard on Saturday night. Neo woke me up with a nice wrestling match on the couch and a kiss on the mouth. Great awakening..I love that dog! *grin* Got everything ready and fixed Neo up for the day with some treats and stocked with food and water. Left for my first day of training with Cecile.

Cecile is our new French International and she is so sweet! Very smart and a great cast member already and it's her first time to Disney period. First visit, first time working for us, first time in the Florida area. She is really easy to train. Makes my job so much more fun and easier.

After work, I headed on over to Cali's to see if I would beat her home and turns out she called me when I was about five minutes away saying they just got home, but to come over anyways. When I got there they were drilling holes into their new computer desk. Caught them up on all what had happened during the weekend and heard about their wedding fun!

They were so nice to take me out to dinner at this really cool hawaiian type restaurant (Thanks!). I got this "black n blue chicken sandwich and it was *so* good! I really liked it! Good times! Tony was cracking me up! "DO IT!" It's amazing how much Guy and him are alike "I have not said that around him at all!" *grin* I learned that I need to apparently go to a Waffle House to find some lovin (different gender of course!)...according to experiences had by Tony. Funny stuff. And yes Tony...you were holding hands! *giggle*

Got a CD that I had been anticipating for awhile. YAY! Thanks ALL to who were involved...so EXCITED! YAY!

Crashed hard when I got home and slept in big time! I was so exhausted from waking up so early every morning. Got up and ran some errands to finish paying rent, etc. Headed to work and met up with Cecile again for our second day of training. She did a great job again and impressed me much!

I burnt myself today on the oven. You can see a couple layers down. Is that good? I am quite pink "underneath my skin" Scary stuff.

FYI for anyone who cares...I will be MIA this weekend. Thursday through Monday I will be sailing away to Mexico. Sounds exciting doesn't it? Let me make it more exciting! I will be on THE ROCK BOAT WITH Sister Hazel, Tonic, Gavin Degraw, Cowboy Mouth...etc! I cannot wait! We were suppose to be heading to The Grand Cayman Island, but unfortunately the hurricane took over (one or all, doesn't matter) so onto Mexico we go. I cannot wait! My first cruise ever and it will be full of band boys, rockin concerts, discounted beer, and the sun giving me some color. So...if you try to call me, I won't be having my cell near me so wait until I get back on Monday! Thanks!

Training the rest of this week and then I sail away on Thursday! Trying to keep my mind off of things. Things that confuse me. Things that I haven't fully decided on. Things that make me question myself and what I am worth. Things that don't make sense. I like it that I have enough to do to keep my mind off these things. I like that.