FknBucky

You can’t see me in the picture because I’m standing on the ledge taking the photo. 

Been a while since I’ve written something for this blog, but I told myself I would be more motivated for 2017.  Something nice about the freshness of a new year, a new city, and new opportunities that says get out, put yourself out there, and make changes in yourself or this year will be the exact same as the last. You can’t control others around you so do yourself a huge favor and only concentrate on what you can control.  Yourself.  Want to make more money read a book.  Want more friends??  Be a good one to the ones you already have.  Pretty simple, but if you have plenty then do this year exactly as last.  You will get the same result.

I recently went outside of my comfort zone and wanted to share parts of that with you.  Kind like a tribute to the awesome individuals I was lucky enough to share the experience with.  Ha ha.  We all know that isn’t true.  They were lucky to share it with Bucky.  It went exactly as planned with no craziness at all.  Right….  Stress is for others because I have learned time and time again shit will always happen.

First I fly out to Miami to meet up with some old friends and some new old friends. I did not fly into Fort Lauderdale, but some of our people did and only missed that crazy bastard by about 20 minutes.  I will never understand the mindset of someone that wants to hurt random people.  I truly hope there is a hell so these individuals can go there.  I met lots of people on the ship with stories of being stuck on airplanes for hours, stuck without their luggage, and all kinds of craziness.  Made me sad to think this was an intentional act.

We had a great night in Miami regardless and I love South Beach.  Mainly because the women were so covered up.  The reality show filming at the bar we took over was a great memory as well. No way our group wasn’t getting on TV.  I loved every second of it. Totally worth the punishment.

We get on the ship without to much problems unless you count the worst Uber driver in history that waited at a red light behind a parked car with no one in it for 5 minutes.  I tried to explain to him the damn car was parked, but he didn’t speak English.  Not even when I yelled “It’s parked” really loud.

He smiled and said “It’s good” over and over.

It was awesome. A 3 minute Uber drive took 20.  Those of you that know me well understand I was very patient and happy to wait with him.    Okay on the ship and cocktails start flowing.  Wheelchair, drunk friends, and massive ship…..  What can go wrong??  Only one answer. Who cares.

I was happy to be a part of the group and involved.  Laughing, experiencing, and to me this is what the purpose of life is.  Getting out and seeing what the world has to offer.  Being around people that don’t always think exactly as you do.  I thought of at least one hundred reasons since July of why I couldn’t go on this cruise, but in the end I only needed one to make sure I did go.  I wanted to be a part of this experience. The rest is just details.

We had 15 foot waves and it beat the crap out of the ship.  We never made it to Grand Caymans or Jamaica because the ship was rerouted.  I met plenty of people on the ship that were upset over this, but what can you do??  Just roll with it. Why let something so trivial ruin a good time??  We ended up in Cozumel, Mexico and finally got off the ship.  I took one look at the taxi vans we needed to use so that all 17 of us could get to the resort and thought no freaking way is my crippled ass getting up there.

I was semi right.  I made it in, but with lots of help and some learning along the way.  I ended up laying on another man who I’m pretty sure felt me up in the process.  I told him he had to pay for it like everyone else, we had a good laugh, and then I was in the van.  Once again it would have been very easy to skip the adventure because of an obstacle.  How many good times do you miss because of some tiny problem???  Here is a bigger point.  I crawled, was lifted, and felt up into 4 van rides over the next 3 days.  The first one was anything but pretty.  The second one was slightly better.  We kept doing it until it was easy.  We had a plan and what was seemingly impossible two days earlier went like clockwork.  What I mean is stop being a pansy.

I could go on and on about this wonderful experience I had last week, but some of it will get me arrested…  Oh wait international waters ha ha.  Oh well next time you will have to just come along to know exactly how crazy things got. There was lots of dancing, a BEARBIE shirt, Star trails, tons of rolling around, hugs to the floor, amazing new friendships, huge shots, I love “chants”, ex-girlfriend moving out stories, fully clothed hot tubing and half naked sandwich ordering, Mom and Dad trying to find the lawn,  and most importantly… If You Don’t Like It!!!!

FknBucky

P.S.  It was truly a pleasure to meet all of you that were along for Marge’s B-Day Cruise.  I hope that we all stay friends for a lifetime.