Recent Happenings

My TAG (knock off or real, I have no idea) stopped working... so I lost track of time and forgot to write. JK, but my watch did stop working. The reason: I had a Kittitian change the battery, and the water proof seal was ruined. Water got in the watch, it fogged up, which sucked, then one day all the water droplets disappeared. On the flight from here to Miami, I reset my time and heard a snap. I don't know what it was, but the watch stopped. Later it started up again, and went through cycles or working and breaking. If I tapped it pretty hard, it would start working, but then the time would be off. I knew I should have gotten a cheap watch in Miami, but I thought fortunately we have duty free Port Zante.

I went to every store that could possibly sell watches on the island. The ones the locals buy are gold, full of fake diamonds, and not water resistant (and they are still pricey). The tourist shops tried to convince me that they'd give me a special price, cuz I was so pretty or nice or some other creative reason. I ruled out the over priced and ugly and came up with two options: Citizen Corso Eco Drive (MSRP=$225, SKB=$110) or Seiko Coutura (MSRP=$335, SKB=$190).

Neither watch will ever need a battery. The Citizen Eco Drive charges its battery from the sun, while the Seiko lack a battery completely able to run off the wearer's pulse and body movement. Such advances in technology!

While I really loved the Seiko because it was pink, I went with the Citizen because I figured I'd ruin whichever watch I got, so might as well get the cheaper one. It also had days of the week. Sometimes (like every day) I forget what day it is.

I acquired 2 cats and a dog over break... to make a total of 5 fuzzies in my one bedroom apt. BUT it wasn't my fault, remember I've adapted a "no pick up strays" policy. One of my really good friends didn't make it last semester. We actually lost 22 people out of our class of 91. The bummer is that a lot of them really had the personality to be vets, they just had one thing or another "happen" back home. A few were allowed to repeat the semester, but many are looking at transferring to St. George's on Granada. So I end up with this dog and these two cats... and the dog hated my landlord who happened to be on island during the break.

So I posted an ad: "Dog needs home ASAP! Student had to leave island and couldn't take her. Roux is a great dog w/o personality problem, ~10mo old. Hasn't chewed anything in my place up yet (and I've had her for almost 1 month!) Comes with crate, food, leash, collar, all shots, microchipped, deworming, spayed, everything. Weighs ~40lbs, almost solid black with a few white hairs. Really great dog, I have 5 animals in my 1 bedroom apt so I can't keep her. (Free of course.)" Found her a home the next day, pfew!

Unfortunately, I've decided to keep the cats. They are Batik (formerly Miss Puddy) and Mango. Miss Puddy got knocked up, so I couldn't justify calling her Miss with her son, Mango running around. This is how we figured it out: my friend picked up a seemingly 3mo old stray kitten-- Miss Puddy (Rule #1: don't pick up strays), and like a good owner, dewormed and vaccinated her (Rule #2: don't vaccinate pregnant animals), so she aborted 2 kittens and had Mango who is "special."