sea day again…

today i researched some of the requests i had received that i didn’t know and listened to some tunes trying to learn some new stuff… i had lunch with some of the guests, a nice couple from Virginia, and ‘tho they are early to bed people, they promised to come in, and they did – glad i could convert some folks!

last night’s theme was “let’s be frank,” which is a tribute to all of the great songs frank sinatra did… i am not a real frank nut myself, he’s ok, i mean, but i do love the standards he sang – he has a nearly identical playlist as tony bennett, so i am happy doing all that… and there are a lot of major frank fans out there – he’s still one of the most requested artists in the piano bar across generation lines (i still prefer tony bennett any day!)…

my bar was packed until the second show (mainstage show) and the herd thinned a little, and just when my room was winding down, my good time canadian gals and my gays showed up!  yay!!  we stayed again til 2 am… the cast and crew of the ship also came in (singers and dancers), whom i had not yet met, and who had befriended my gay pals… so we were having quite the musical time… i hope my bar staff is making lots of money!

i am definitely having fun on the job, and that is a real bonus, especially when trying to deal with not having bob with me and also from having to leave nino again, which is always difficult.  it will be a little easier when nino is off to college, because then you kind of expect your kids to be away from you having their own lives, but when i know he’s at home, i still get fairly torn up about it on a pretty continual basis – i have to keep telling myself that this is how nino will get to go to college at all, and then i tell myself how i am going to finally finish college, too!  then maybe my nana will stop turning over in her grave like a rotisserie chicken – she was so pissed when i dropped out, but i couldn’t afford to stay in!  i am planning on going back to berklee to finish when nino graduates from his program and then i can teach anywhere in the world when bob and i grow weary of the road and get older… it’s good to have things to look forward to!

ciao for now!