Claudia Baxter

Asher. I hear there are elephants in Sri Lanka. I also heard you wanted to RIDE one?

Is this something we should look into?

Well, I'm sorry everyone else is having a rough time, but I have to say that this retreat is a blast for me.

Asher, honey? If I don't come back, you can be pretty sure I absconded with Hidalgo over here and we're somewhere in the mountains of Colorado.

If anyone else wants to come with, I'm game.

Asher?

I um, need to ask you a very important question.

In twenty days, I'll be twenty-four.

You ever get the feeling that you're really young in comparison to the people you know? Not that the people I know are particularly OLD, I just feel like, for all the stuff I've done (or think I've done), maybe I haven't done ENOUGH.

Dancing? Check.
Traveling? Check!
Backpacking across Europe, hostels included? Check check.

And now I have this job that I'm kinda fond of and this guy that I'm more than fond of (who isn't OLD, sorry Asher), and I have great friends and it's not like something is missing, but I wonder what else I could DO. If I say I've done everything I wanted to do, then I don't sound like I ever had a lot of aspirations. If I say I'm nowhere near my goals, then I sound unhappy.

One of those is more true than the other. I wonder what it says about me.

Seriously, I don't think that working on this ship will ever get old. I love the people I dance with and I love the people I work with.

And? It totally get my travel fix in WHILE dancing? Come on. Perfection is that sentence, right there.

I have no plans, I'll probably be staying on the ship. Anyone doing anything fun?

Also, Asher? I didn't forget your birthday, I just had two shows yesterday AND a class and I didn't get a chance to deliver your card. My bad.

Okay, this? This is the best cruise EVER. And I don't care if I literally catch my death of cold, I'm spending as much time outside as I can. If I'm not scheduled to work? Find me on deck, bundled up. On shore, wherever.

Seriously. Best ever. Thank GOD for the digital camera age or I'd have seventy-four rolls of film.

(People can't really catch their death of cold anymore, can they?)

Our next cruise has us scheduled to go to Antarctica. That is the only continent I have never set foot on.

SO excited.

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In other news, I need new music to work out to. As much as I love Britney, I think I pulled something.

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So, with this "deck-orate the halls" thing, were we going to get together and do it or just throw some down the hall and hope for the best?

I think I'm coming down with something. I don't feel good. I mean I REALLY don't feel good.

I can't even remember the last time I was sick.

In two in a half weeks, for two GLORIOUS days, we will be in Seattle, Washington. That's a Saturday and a Sunday and I?

I'm gonna be home!

This? This is what GLEE looks like when it's written out. G-L-E-E.

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So, I have a couple of wigs for work, but... I have no idea what to be for Halloween. The thought of dressing up didn't even occur to me.

I HAVE MY CONTACTS!

I'm me again.

In six years? I've never lost, ripped or in any other way destroyed a contact lens.

Until now. Forgetting the fact that I normally look like some kind of sixteen year old, I'm now reduced further in age by my glasses, which? I didn't pick. They don't fit my face and though I can see without them... ish? I can't really do much reading or anything without them.

This. Bites.

I looked all over my pillow and everything. Nowhere to be found. I don't even know WHY I had my glasses with me and no second set of contacts, but? Here we are.

And now I'm suddenly twelve.

Think positively about yourself... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale


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Meeting a chef is like being friends with a singer. You know how you drive down the road and sing totally out of tune with your favorite songs? You can't do that when your best friend is a singer. You just KNOW they're judging you. They can swear they're not but deep down? Yes.

And here I thought I was skilled because I could make a great Alfredo sauce. Oh, and chocolate chip cookies from scratch.

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