Spring Break!

Well, I am going to Treasure Island beach in Tampa Bay, Florida in March during spring break. Still not sure of the dates of the Hard Rock Cafe Florida job, but I am loving all this trip action! Yippee! A little group of us are getting some cheap rooms in a po dunky joint...but it's on the beach! I'm so excited! Though we are driving there....so that's a little icky, but I'm trying to convince my parents to let us take their minivan so we can all fit in one car at least. We'll have 6 drivers though, so that should make it easier. And it should end up being a pretty cheap trip, which is always nice. I'm trying to figure out a way to get at least a smidge of sun presence on this pasty white body of mine...... If I don't.... which is most likely seeing as how the only way I could get some sun is in a tanning bed, and that will never happen (I guess I could try the fake bake layering lotion stuff but the last time I did that, I got a huge patch of hives on my arm. I don't know if it was from that or the other hive inducing things goin' down in my life at the time....but still! How straight up nasty would it be to have hives and pastiness on the beach????!!!!!) Everybody!.....bring out your sunglasses!!

Florida! Whoo Hoo!!

Well, I apparently talked to much smack about Key West and someone out there is listening. OK, either that, or somewhere, sometime, a band of drag queens and beer wenches put a tracking device in me and now check my blog in addition to knowing where I'm at 24/7. =-0 !!!! I say this because a couple weeks ago, we refinished the bar at the local Hard Rock Cafe. They obviously liked what they saw and are now requesting us to do another........in......Key West Florida-home of the lowered pirate beer wench and Sushi in the red shoe. N.o. W.a.y. What timing! But hey! Who's complainin'?? So... we are gonna make it a little extended work/trip with the family. Tina will of course be able to camp out on the beach all day everyday (grrrrr). But I will slave my fingers to the bone getting it all done in record time(hopefully-please please!) so that I can hang with the wench. Huh Hhmmm....... The pirate beer totting variety of course. Sushi and beer wenches, here I come!

Just Chillin' With My Peeps....

I always stay up and watch the ball drop in New York City on New Year's. Sometimes the local stations here decide to not show it and use the time to show car chases and other useless trash I couldn't give two hoots about when the countdown is going on. But alas, this year I was able to see it, twice! (New York time and our time) But while watching, one of my friend's informed me that last year, she saw a drag queen being lowered in a red shoe, and I thought, "That's hilarious! I wonder if other places drop things??" Sooooo.... I am thrilled to share with you what I found. Enjoy..... In Havre de Grace, Maryland, a wooden duck is lowered. Atlanta, Georgia lowers an eight foot tall by eight foot wide, over 800 pound peach. North Carolina has a few different ones. In Brasstown, they lower a live opossum in a cage, Mount Olive, a pickle, and Raleigh, a 900 pound brass acorn. And Texas?? They hope to lower Darren Ballard's testicles in 2009. !?!? Indeed! Pennsylvania has the most.(28!!!!) In Blain, it's a cow made of wood, dropped from a silo. Falmouth has a stuffed goat lowered. Hershey raises a giant Hershey Kiss , and Mechanicsburg lowers a wrench (get it? Mechanics burg- a wrench- cute huh?) just to name a few. One of my personal favorites is the giant Peep that gets lowered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. But I think these two take the cake. First, the pirate beer wench(pictured)(Tina, how much could Bob tease you about that one!), and second, the drag queen named Sushi(also pictured) that comes from the ceiling in a nine foot red shoe, both brought to us from Key West, Florida. And I thought that shiny glass ball in New York was interesting! These people have gotten down right creative! But even though they are all extremely strange, they supposedly all have something to do with the city's history. Which leads me to wonder, "Who in the world established Key West??"