Stepping Stones

30 October 2010 Saturday
Gosh it has been a busy few days. Well I have an offer of a lifetime to work as a relief temp stew on this yacht as my first boat...........390ft for 4-6 weeks to get the boat ready for the owners return.

I was first offered this position on Wednesday when I got back from a 12 hour day of day work. Due to it being a temp position which mean I have to take myself out of Fort Lauderdale when the next 2 weeks are supposed to be the “recruiting time” I did not jump at it. I then fired off a email to all the recruitment agencies the next day after I thought long and hard about it while attending a training session for Dockside Corporate Services who were asked by Show Management who set up and organize the FLBS to have greeters for the show. By the time Friday came around and I had spoken to a few people and got a yes go for it for 99% of the agents I said yes, after all what have I got to loose and it is experience is what I am missing right now.

Ok going back to this morning I was in bed by 9pm with a very sore throat a little run down from all the work and not property diet and taking care of myself. I joined Kiri my flat mate for a bike ride to the farmers market where we sampled “natural coffee” and all I wanted to do was find something to sooth my very sore throat. We were then distracted to sample pickled garlic, well it was not long before before Kiri and I decided to do a 50/50 on the garlic but I was standing there eating whole pieces of garlic like biscuits the pickled effect was helping my throat and garlic is good for you. By this stage almost 6 weeks of living in Florida the mosquito's have a blood bank of O Positive from me so I finally invested in some Citronella oil and got some pure shea butter which also comes in handy for all sorts..........now I was on a health me up mission! Well I had made arrangements with Paulette and Richard to go to the boat show and had a free car park pass and tickets for them so I needed to be home as Richard confirmed by text that they would pick me up from Ding Dong Motel at noon.........now I live at Blue Bell Apartments but he could not understand my ascent so it is a little joke now.
So parked up hoped on the free shuttle ..............to the boat show.

Richard wanted to see the Hinckley yachts so we did .......