diva this, diva that

Monday, September 12, 2011 (11:47am) - Atlantic Ocean

let me preface this by stating that i realize there are bigger things to worry about in the world, but right now, i can't help it. so, most of you know how obsessed i am with my hair. it is like a security blanket to me, and while i do plan on donating it, a small part of me will die on that day. but, few of you realize just how obsessed i am with my eyebrows. i love my eyebrows more than i love my hair. until i have a child, my eyebrows will remain my pride and joy. when i have freshly waxed eyebrows, you will be hard-pressed to find a happier girl in the world than me. SO when i decided i really wanted to go abroad, my one GIANT thing on the "con" side of my "pro-con" list was leaving my eyebrow lady. let me rephrase that... my ONLY con was leaving my eyebrow lady. so today i finally had to cave and go up to the 7th deck wellness center to get my eyebrows done. it's currently taking every ounce of my strength not to burst into tears and/or book the first flight home from ghana. (okay, not really... but kind of). i look like a chola. razor thin line of "eyebrows." not great. and yes, i realize how ridiculous this is. but i can't help it. make fun of me all you want, but i love my eyebrows. at this point, i might as well just shave my head on neptune day. (um. yeah. never actually going to happen).

tomorrow... GHANA!!!! last night as we were blogging and falling asleep, brew & i watched hotel rwanda on tv. i don't recommend watching a movie about genocide before entering an african country. we'll call it character building, for now.

OH and of course i have to fill you all in on our dinner date last night. their names are sam & ricky... who are both originally from mexico and now they both live in san antonio, texas. though we won't be marrying either of them, it was pretty funny to finally meet them. and now we both have that story to tell of our blind dinner date on the mv explorer. romance at it's finest.

last thing before i go. every morning the entire shipboard community is emailed the "dean's memo" which tells us what's going on that day, what movies are on, where we are, laundry schedule, quote and question of the day... just everything we need to know about that day. a few days ago they started including the "rumor ranger. " there's been a ton of rumors going around the ship, and here's a couple of funny ones. one of them was about the camel trek that i was on. people apparently were saying we were on the libya border. turns out, morocco does not border libya... but that hasn't stopped us from telling everyone we found gadaffi. and no, we will not be followed by a us naval destroyer from mauritius to india to protect us from pirates. yes, we are still schedule to go to japan. and no, they have not kicked off anyone. yet. 2 people have left voluntarily though. strange.

enough of me being a diva. love you all.

and HAPPY 24th ANNIVERSARY TO THE BEST PARENTS IN THE WORLD!!!!! if any of you see or talk to them today, give them love from me. xoxo.