Extreme Boats Magazine bragged recently that Jokers Wild Promotions (my employer) was the King of Regattas. Well, we stepped it up a notch and impressed everyone with our first boat regatta of this year, Eliminator Boats. BIG boats, rich owners, and high demands. But, we pulled it off. We have an all new staff this year, so much of my time was spent explaining things that made my day much longer. Sometimes it was simpler to just do the task myself than explain it to the newbie. We had the Friday night hospitality party (with championship Hot Wheels racing) the Saturday morning helicopter photos, and then the poker run and beach party. Then Saturday night we had a HUGE banquet which was decorated by yours truly (and I must say, it was devine--with oversized beach balls framing the stage and balloons EVERYWHERE) along with a prize raffle that had about $7,000 worth of stuff given away.
The whole event felt like a Chinese Fire Drill (if there's such a thing) but the great illusion to the participants was everything went smoothely with no problems.
And I got to wear a bitchin' pink halter dress with my new wedge heels during the raffle. I was Vanna White, with enormous boobs.
Then yesterday, I drove to Las Vegas to drop off my boss's son at the airport. It's about two hours drive, so we had time to catch up on all the happenings he missed while being in boot camp. He flew to Havasu to visit for a week after he graduated out of Cape May, New Jersey. He's now reporting to his first assignment with the Coast Guard, in North Carolina.
As we neared Vegas, Casey (boss's son) pointed to a huge, resort-like house and said he'd heard the house belonged to Andre Aggasi. A limo entered traffic ahead of us, and Casey said, "Hey Burt Reynolds must be in town!" (a line from Happy Gilmore) Then the limo turned into Andre Agassi's place. We both laughed at the thought of Burt Reynolds hanging out with Agassi.
Vegas is neat because there's always a great chance of seeing a celebrity, one worth seeing. Last time I was there I bumped into Ted Nugent. We were both wearing green camouflage and cowboy hats. Seriously. Ted noticed that I recognized him. I was trying to be cool, but, you know. The look on my face said, OMG. I have seen a few celebrities in Vegas, but I've never been uncool enough to go and get an autograph. I saw Penn Gillette (from Penn and Teller) and he looked quite grumpy.
Spend enough time at the airport up there, and you'll see some pretty interesting people.
My goal is to meet Wayne Newton, just so I can say I met him. Oh yeah, also David Cassidy. They both have shows in casinos up there.
Once Casey was dropped off, I headed to the mall because I had a need for some new Bath and Body Works lotions. Awesome. And the Hot Topic store was calling to me. I got a new belt there--it's lined with machine gun bullets. Hilarious! I already have a belt like it, but the bullets are smaller. So now I can strap them together and have a bandelero. YES!!!
My attire is certainly the reason why I can't work a normal job.
