Frosty Come Back Pop-Rock Cocktail

When I was a little girl we had a dog named Frosty who was large and white and fluffy and sweet and one time woke up my mom in the middle of the night and dragged her into my bedroom where I was hot with sweat and laying in puke even though the room was eerily ICE cold and there were no windows open and OF COURSE we ALL LOVED Frosty for he was the Farrell version of Lassie by saving me from the chill and the fever and watching over us as my dad traveled the country due to work and then one day my dad comes back from his work travels and tells us that for Christmas we are going to Disneyland where I was tall enough to ride Space Mountain and buy POP ROCKS - the candy of the future- and we all rode the Flying Dumbos and even the Twirling Tea Cups where - in a midst of swirl and twirl I hear screaming from my brother and so I try to crane my neck up to look at the CAUSE and I see my mom laughing hysterically and her hair flying out loud in the twirl of it all - and then I see blood coming from her mouth - but it is FLYING BLOOD and now I am scared like my brother and my dad is on the sidelines snapping away pictures to remember our now not FUN but HORROR and the teacups stop and my mom is still laughing because she doesn't know she is bleeding and she looks at the FEAR on our faces and the blood on her hands and HUSHES us up because it is no big deal - she just bit her tongue and LET'S NOT RUIN THE FUN and hurt your father's feelings.....and there we were in the land of CROCODILES and FUTURE CANDY and TRA-LA-LA ladies like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty who bothered me with their prissy pomp when my dad announces that we were getting one final gift - the gift of music and salt-water sea fish!!!! We were going to Sea World on CHRISTMAS DAY to see Johnny Cash and June Carter LIVE - singing about jail and love and boys named Sue while having a killer whale named Shamu as their back-up dancer/splasher -and my dad took pictures of Johnny and June and also my brother who was pirate-like with a REAL parrot on his shoulder and one of me feeding some goats though the goats actually FED ON ME as they actually tried to EAT the Holly Hobby T-shirt I was wearing - and then our VACATION FUN TIME was over and so we flew back to Ohio and going home meant coming home to loyal FROSTY and that meant the holiday wasn't yet quite over - but when we got to the place to pick him up our family ride stopped spinning and my dad returned after a very long time - and when he came to the car there was no dog and only my dad taking off his glasses and wiping what looked like tears though he NEVER cried and I remember thinking how odd it was to see now BOTH my mom and dad have things leak from their faces on vacation - and there was just silence and even as a kid you KNEW without KNOWING and so I went straight to my room where the air was once again CHILLY and sadly now empty and I opened my pop-rocks - my CANDY of the FUTURE - and like blackmail money for the Tooth Fairy - poured some on the end of my night table in hopes that the FUTURE could somehow be changed and lure back Frosty into the chill of my room and make me warm once again.

FROSTY COME BACK POP-ROCK COCKTAIL
(thanks to Pop-Rock Web Page)

Ingredients:

1 oz Absolut Kurant
1/2 oz Chambord raspberry liqueur
Fill with Tonic water
Drop Sour Berry Pop Rocks on top