CLEAN, NOT FUNNY

November 30, 2017

I met tonight’s entertainer while I was sitting in the beauty salon waiting to have my hair cut.  He told me that being clean is easy, being funny is hard.  I hate to say it, but he did the easy part, not the hard part.  It was painful watching him doing his material and getting two or three laughs.  I thought that some folks were just laughing to help fill some agonizing quiet space.  I’m not judging, just reporting.  Don’t wanna plant no seed.

My talk today was “Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe.”  Tomorrow I am doing “When Pirates Sailed the Atlantic” (which on some ships and some cruises is called “Pirates of the Caribbean”).  I get to tell my awful pirate jokes (I’ll see how it feels to be a comedian) and to tell them that one of the greatest Pirates of all time came from Puerto Rico.

Well, it was a pretty slow day today.  I think I’ve told you everything except the menu (I had two eggs over medium for breakfast, pasta with cream sauce for lunch, and carne asada for supper and creme brulee for dessert), and that we sent out laundry day before yesterday and so it should be back tomorrow, and that we had a towel animal on our bed tonight (only the third one of the cruise – it was a seal – I think), and that my cruise partner continues to stomp a mud hole in me rummy wise (after winning the first 2 I am now down 3-7), and that I have been reading a Star Trek novel (“The Diary of Elena,” written by Davan Kylesbreau, a powerful story that has not yet been sold to Pocket Books), and that the people we ate supper with last night (Tom and Irene) were back at the same table for 4, but tonight they were alone, and that the large loud carpet dryer that was in the hall outside of the room next to ours is finally gone after 2 days of very loud air movement (drying out what someone called “a waterfall”), and that the light I told our room steward wasn’t working was merely turned off (it had a hidden switch that no one told us about), and I guess that’s it.

And now, hereeeee’s Bonnie!

TTFN

No he, the comedienne not David,  was not funny. I got up and we went to breakfast. Bacon sandwich and some hot chocolate, not very good chocolate. Then, I went for my walk around deck 6, walked 1.7 miles today. It was windy but not real cold. Didn’t need my hat. After my walk and my shower, I took my newspapers and my crocheting and went to the deck chairs outside our room to sit. I took my sweater and my blanket and peacefully sat and read my papers and then got some crocheting done. David came out about 10:30 and said he was going up to listen to the talk on sinking the Bismark. I sat for a little while then went up also. After the talk we went to the Lido for lunch. I had a little spaghetti, the soup didn’t sound good but David said it was. I had a little ice cream for dessert. At lunch today there was a couple that started to sit at our table but moved, that if they were at our table for supper I would get up and leave. They had carried up two of the metal cups with lids with them to use for lunch. The woman had brought two of the decorative pillows from her room to put in her chair. Well, when they originally sat down the woman walked off with one of the cups. Then, they moved their stuff to another table and they couldn’t find one of their cups. They came back to our table twice asking if we had their cup. The man looked under the table, etc. They finally found it about 5 tables down from where they were currently sitting. Evidently the woman had carried it there, sat it down and didn’t remember. They were definitely weird!

After lunch he went back to get ready for his talk and I went to the theater to wait. They were doing bingo. I watched. Good crowd for the talk.

After the talk we headed back to the room so he could unwind and nap. Me I crocheted because I couldn’t sleep. After napping we dressed and went to supper and then the show.

Now back in the room, I have my pills to take and my teeth to brush.
Any post cards yet?

Love Mom, Granny and Bonnie