My Life Is So Weird - warning: this post is politically incorrect and contains foul language

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I was a pretty bratty kid - some of it stems from being an only child - but some if it stemmed from just being a brat.  I was the kind of kid who was always really embarrassed by their parents.....I don't remember when but one day I said 'my life is so weird' with a snotty little valley girl voice.  It kind of turned into a family joke because it was preposterous - we still say it to this day when something is just so out there that you have to take a step back and evaluate where you are and what you're doing.  I have M.L.I.S.W moments all the time out here!  I'm going to start a new series of posts.  They are going to be titled My Life Is So Weird (M.L.I.S.W) and they may be politically incorrect - so if you are easily offended or are opposed to foul language you should read these posts with caution (that is also code for I'm a sailor - I hear some crazy stuff!) For the most part I'm going to try to capture some of the absurd conversations that occur on a daily basis.  These off the wall conversations are mostly fueled by the characters we see out here - normal people don't work at sea - they just don't. Here is today's M.L.I.S.W. moment:

Bridge conversation I overheard at approximately 1930 while posting my Osprey photos.

AB:  How much it costs?

Third Mate:  What?

AB:  How much it cooossstts?

Third Mate:  What?!

AB:  Costs!  Costs!

Third Mate:  Ooohh, COSTS!  Man - speak english!

AB:  I do!  It's the braces!  They hold me teeth together and I can't talk.

Third Mate:   I didn't need braces...I have naturally perfect teeth.

AB:  What?!  No you don't!  You got little baby shark teeth!

Stone cold silence....

AB:  What is that little red plastic thing on an Indians head?

Third Mate:  Megan!  Google that red dot shit! 

AB:  What you people be doing?  Just googling words and shit?

Me:  It's a bindi to mark the sixth chakra....

Third Mate:  Hey Humpty Hump it's to keep the devil out.

AB:  Ooooh....

Third Mate:  All you people from Norfolk need to get an education!

MY LIFE IS SO WEIRD!!!!

Osprey?

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I'm not sure if this is an Osprey...but it looked like one.  The nest was huge!  I had to take a little photo safari and scramble around on the dock.  There were a couple of times where the bird landed and I couldn't get a clear shot from all the framing on the finger pier.  The nest was amazing!  I have no idea where he actually found all those sticks!  It looks like such a barren wasteland!  Conside....and I'm not going to lie I was scared to death....all I could think about is this story where my Uncle swam out to an island and tried to steal a seagull egg and the mama seagull swooped down and bit his ear....except he was a hemophiliac and he had to swim back bleeding.  Everytime the bird came near I'd duck and almost drop to the grating.[gallery columns="4"]

#Reverb10 12-14-10

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Prompt:  Appreciate.  What's the one thing you appreciate most in the past year?  How do you express gratitude for it?  (Author:  Victoria Klein) I'm still thinking about yesterday's prompt!  I'm thankful for many, many things....but what this prompt is actually asking is what do you appreciate.  It made me realize there is a difference!  For example I'm thankful that I have a job...but I definitely don't appreciate it.  It also made me realize that I don't express gratitude as much as I probably should.

These past two prompts have been helping me narrow down my words for 2011.  I'm still working on picking a word for 2010.  My 2010 word candidates aren't very happy words...I think I'm having to come to terms with the fact that maybe 2010 wasn't my best year.