Seas and Greetings (CHRISTMAS NOTCH IN JULY) by, SIERRA SIMONE Julie Murphy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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In a world of bouclé armchairs, I was a velvet settee, and nothing proved it
more than the room I was standing in right now.
“Make a note that I want the welcome basket to be set on the table by the
balcony doors on future sailings,” I said to my cousin, and last-minute
assistant, Bailey. My mother had insisted I bring her when my aggressively
capable assistant, Michael, had come down with a case of cat scratch fever
and wasn’t able to work on the cruise because his armpits hurt so badly.
And I loved my twenty-three-year-old cousin to bits, truly, but she was
no Michael—and also I was pretty sure she only agreed to come because it
was a free cruise on a ship with eleven different bars.
“And going forward, the bouquets near the accent walls need to have
more eucalyptus, I think. I want more pop against the yellow.” I squinted at
the bouquet again, wondering if eucalyptus was the right vibe for July.
Maybe I should save it for the winter sailings. “Or possibly bay leaves.
Write down ‘bay leaves.’ Bailey?”
I turned to see my cousin patently not writing anything down, as she was
staring at the door—and fuck me in my nonswollen armpit. This was
important! Details mattered! It was why I’d insisted on doing a walkthrough when I’d embarked: because I wanted to make sure that every
single element of a guest suite—the gold sconces, the artisanal toiletries, the
vegan chocolates handmade by radical nuns—was ready for that crucial
snap or reel or post.
It wasn’t good enough for things to look good in real
life. They had to look good online too. And actually it still wasn’t enough
for things to look good online; the posts from our cruises needed to look
good enough to convert the curious into the believing. Into guests who then
became tripod-carrying missionaries and evangelized the good news of
aesthetic ocean travel to the world.
I needed these believers because I needed Lemon Tree Cruises to work. If
the cruise line didn’t work, that set me behind on expanding into hotels, and
if I was behind on hotels, then I was behind on the Rest of the Plan.
Cruises! Hotels! Rest of Plan!
In that order!
Plans were what made the world turn; plans were how money was made.
Plans were how you took uncertainty and loneliness (and the gnawing
suspicion that maybe your life was a cold and empty crater) and shoved
those feelings into little boxes so that they couldn’t bother you anymore. In
the words of the Bible: Consider the lilies of the field, and look at how they
always have kanban boards and planners with highlighters in muted pastels.
“Bailey,” I said patiently. “Are you—”
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