WHOA

I don't even know what happened this week because ALL I can think about is my ride back in from offshore yesterday....

I've successfully determined that if I put in my head phones, sit in the first row on the right hand side right behind the captain, and close my eyes I can handle the surfer ride out to the platform and back with no problem at all.  So on the ride back in yesterday, I did just that.  I was riding in with 2 coworkers, and one of them, Harry, always sits in the same seat, which was one over to the left of me.  

Sidebar:  On the way out on Friday I was with Harry as well, and we both fell asleep.  Which normally would be just fine, except that the other 3 guys and the captain saw a WHALE along the side of the boat.  So naturally, I yelled at them all when I woke up and said if that ever happened again I need to be woken up immediately.  

Anyways, yesterday we got on the boat, I started listening to Ryan Adams cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 album, which is a very calming playlist and I highly suggest you check it out, and I started dozing.  About then, the boat took a HARD left (enough to almost roll me off my seat) and simultaneously Harry slugged me.  He was basically standing over me when I opened my eyes, and the captain was yelling.  So I popped up and started to leap for the door thinking that we were abandoning ship.  BUT I looked to my right and saw the last few seconds of a humpback whale breaching, literally 15 feet from the boat.  That image, or the fact that I thought I was on a sinking ship, took my breath away.  It was unbelievable.  Apparently, the hard left was because the whale popped up right in front of the boat.  Had our captain not been alert we would have had one of the most odd incidents to report....boat collision with whale.  

I came back and immediately told Rene, aka Sniper, and of course his first question was "Did you get a picture??"  Uh no, Rene, I didn't have time to whip out my camera amidst the shear panic that I was experiencing at the time, geeez.  But this is basically what happened....

 O.M.G.

When I was in Bakersfield in August, my good friend, Rachel, asked me to be in a fantasy football league with some other girls in Bako.  I have only "played" fantasy football once with The Kennedy's and my performance was shameful.  I never even looked at my team, and I think all I did that season was make Wesley regret allowing me to be in their league.  This year is a total 180.  I am SO into fantasy, even though I still don't quite understand all the ins and outs; like what in the world is a "waiver".  I'm going to go ahead and predict that my obsessiveness will probably ware off when I start losing, because I'm 2-0 right now...no big deal ;)

It's looking like we are going to have a sunny Sunday here in camp, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.  We are getting into rainy season, which means the weather can (and usually does) change at a moments notice.  As long as I can get my 15 minutes of sunshine, I'll be a happy camper.  

30 days down, 9 to go!  xoxo...