Back to Reality

Here I am. Back from from the Happy Island of Aruba. Back to reality and life. I was welcomed back to Mass. with 90 degree weather, in APRIL mind you. Where this weather is very nice, it is nothing like Aruba.

I have many tales from Aruba: the sights, the shopping, the sunsets, the frozen tasty drinks....and the people. Ahhh...let's discuss the people. The locals are wonderful people. Very nice, very unlike us rude Americans. But I would like to focus on the tourists, one in particular. Me and boyfriend nicknamed her "Six-Shot Lady."

I stayed at a very, very nice All Inclusive Beach Resort. I happened to bump into "Six-Shot Lady" during one of my frequent visits to the bar. Six-Shot Lady was middle-aged and defined (in my eyes) the meaning of "White Trash." Now I mentioned that our resort was All Inclusive, meaning that all food and drinks (including alcoholic) were "free." So I sat down and waited for the bartender to serve me and "Six-Shot Lady" sits down next to me. She promptly gets the bartender's attention (even though others and myself had been waiting). She proceeds to order 4 pizzas and two orders of onion rings. (I thought, hmmmmm...she must be hungry.) She then orders some type of whiskey, but she wanted a double. Now they give everyone the same glass, which is about 14 to 16 ounces. So the bartender fills her glass about half-full (which is more than too shots...) "Six-Shot Lady" looks down at it, frowns and calls the bartender back. 

She says, "I said a double." 

He says, "That it is one."

She says, "Well...I want more." 

The bartender comes over to pour more in. 

She proceeds to take the bottle out of poor Mr. Bartender's hand and pours it in herself. She filled it right to the brim. Mind you, there was NO ice in the cup. (Damn, that gave me a hang-over just looking at it.)

So that's how "Six-Shot Lady" got her name. 

I kept bumping into her and her son throughout our stay. It finally occurred to me that I needed her picture...REALLY bad. It would have been the frosting on my scrapbook of the trip. But alas, it was too late, "Six-Shot Lady" was gone. 

Oh well. There is always next year.

Huh?

I consider myself pretty tech savvy. I have a knack for figuring things out pretty easily. 

This is not the case with my new Blackberry.

I am the proud NEW owner of a Blackberry Pearl (and yes, I want your pin so we can instant message.)

I felt so overwhelmed with all the applications and downloads that I didn't know which way was up. So I am winging it. I finally figured out how to download a "cool" ring tone ("Just Dance"), none of those preloaded ones do it for me... 

I think I need a Blackberry class. 

Easter Bunny is early!

Yes, the Easter Bunny came early.

Let me explain...

When I was 9 years old, I was home because of a snow day for school. I decided that it would be a "cool" idea to take my snow tube and go sledding down my hilly street before the plows came by to remove the snow. Holding my snow tube firmly in front of me, I got a running start. I then jumped on to my snow tube (belly first) and somehow....I missed. I remember hearing a crunching noise as my face hit the snow covered pavement. I reached into my mouth and low and behold, my two front teeth were missing large chunks. I searched the snow, crying of course, with no luck. I knew I was in BIG trouble. I made my way into the house and of course my mom  sent me back out to find the missing pieces. Days later I found myself in the in dentist's chair as he bonded my teeth and made them pretty again.

Fast forward 20 years later. My two front teeth weren't so pretty anymore. Because of my hard core coffee drinking habit, my teeth got stained. There were little cracks forming. The dentist discovered a cavity lurking in one of them, which resulted in two painful roots canals. Boy, did it hurt, well at least the novacaine. But it gets better....

So today, I got two temporary crowns. I look like a bunny, buck teeth and all. They do not resemble my originally shaped teeth. They are rather large and VERY white. They are longer than my other teeth. I kind of feel like Hermione when her teeth got all large. Luckily, these are ONLY temporary. I get my pretty porcelain crowns in one month. The bad news is that these temporary ones could fall off if I am not careful. My luck, they will fall off during my vacation to Aruba. I will be packing glue I think. 

Just call me the Easter Bunny. Better yet how about Babs from Tiny Tunes? She was pretty sassy...