Gratitude!

I am so grateful for my life! Even more so now that I know it can be a matter of weeks and I will be on a ship fulfilling my dream to travel! Most mornings I awake with the feeling of my 100% cotton sheets and down duvet and thank the lord for the fact I can have a warm shower and hot filtered coffee and eat what I feel like and really appreciate the freedom I have with my time after all I am my own boss in every way personally and professionally. Now that I have about 15 CV's applications in cyber space and over the oceans......the anxiety is starting to kick in.

So today I was excited about getting the 8 new Zealand chops out the freezer and made a delicious lunch and spent time with my family. So strange my Mom takes 7 years to decide to finally come and stay in the UK and next thing I am planning to travel!

I am a lady of comfort so I am wondering how I will deal with certain aspects of life on board....when I got home last night after being treated to a grand dinner at La Tasca with my family and had wine, champagne and shots.....got home feeling tired and tipsy and thought how I am going to deal with permanent partying at the crew bar!! Well what I know for sure is it will not kill me and the mind has strange way of inventing things that when they occur are never as bad. That has helped me to take the challenge of giving up a well paid career and joining the ship world!

Took a SHIP TEST online ....got 50% so need to brush up on the terminology but if I could go to college for one year every weekend and hold down a full time job, move home, leave my ex and do case studies and exams over Xmas and new year then hell anything is possible.

One of the biggest lessons I have learnt is NOT SPENDING WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE! I am very blessed to have the friends I do that are assisting me manage my financial portfolio, I think this will be one of the most challenging Xmas's I will ever have but know I have my guardian angels looking over me and I know my prayers will be answered which I will share with you once I know more.

My mom got me the coolest B'Day pressie, it is a laptop portable table which is from the famous IKEA and now it goes with me everywhere.

It is credit crunch.....but hey it is not going to stop me jumping ship!! LOL