Sea Day/Birthday

Nov 12th
Sea day/Birthday

After waking up late this morning and grabbing some food, I checked my computer and had to go upstairs for a rehearsal for a new show, Chris Riggins. He was a pop-opera singer who took slightly more operatic music and moved it more towards a popular style, or had arrangements of musical theater tunes or something more popular and gave it an operatic flare. He had a nice show, but the music wasn’t exactly the most fun to play, and there were some all around bad charts thrown into the show. The rehearsal went about 90 minutes, and for music that you don’t really like to play, a long rehearsal is a great way to put a negative spin on the day. So following the rehearsal I wasn’t in the best of moods. It’s weird being on a ship for a birthday simply because I can’t really see the people I’d like to see, and considering not everyone knew about it, it made what should be a great day feel very mediocre. I called home following the rehearsal, and in my bad mood, but it’s nice to get to talk to my parents, even if it’s just 15 minutes.
Following that, I just hung around, did my usual thing, grabbed dinner, got a few birthday wishes here and there from people who had checked there facebook that day. I had another crown and anchor big band set to play, which went better that the first, but still hasn’t high on my list of things I’d like to do on my birthday. It really wasn’t till the second show that night till everyone started to pick up that it was my birthday. That made the second show a little better though, everyone’s mood started to lighten, and I started to have a better time. We hung out that night up in the SOB (staff and officer’s bar), and had a good time. I’ve never spent a birthday at a bar, but then again, I’ve never had a birthday in the middle of the Atlantic on a cruise ship either. But it was a nice night, everyone was having a good time, and it reminded me that I do have some good friends here on the ship that want me to have a good time. But all in all, it was maybe not the most exciting Birthday ever, we weren’t in any cool ports, didn’t have any big party, but it wasn’t the worst (that’s a nice thought, right?). And now, my birthday gets stretched out as everyone who didn’t hear about it last night slowly finds out and start being really nice because the missed the actual day, ha. Anyways, I’m behind on getting these posts online and I’m guessing people might be checking these next couple days. Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes, I’ll try to get back to you all really soon. And if you missed it, no problem, still say hi sometime as I’d love to hear from you. Have a great one!