Cocktails!

Its Friday and the day before my birthday. Both are legitmate reasons to celebrate with a cocktail and together? Two cocktails!!! Which is why I find myself sitting in front of the computer contemplating a glass of strawberry lemonade and vodka. I'm wondering if I dipped the rim of my glass in sugar could I technically call it a martini and feel more like an adult? I guess its really not important enough for me to get up and find the sugar, throw it onto a plate, wet the rim of the glass and so forth. This seems silly since I would then be dirtying two dishes (need a new glass cause this one be full already!) just to pretend I didn't just use my five-year -olds lemonade as a mixer. If nothing else it is an ecologically unsound idea, because the water used to wash the one extra glass and one unnecessary plate, not to mention the unused sugar wasted....a green nightmare! Phew, glad I figured that out before I went back into the kitchen. :)

Besides, drinking like an adult is over rated. My parents drink like adults, all vodka tonics and vodkas straight up with olives. Gives you the shivers going down and is not at all the pleasant sipping beverage that so makes cocktail hour enjoyable. "Here's your drink, now grin and bear it!" Yuck.

Its funny how some people are so adamant about the type of alcohol they drink. Not all of you obviously, cause how many stories have we all heard about the brilliant hangovers someone got after a night out drinking first margaritas, then rum and cokes, then martinis, and then in some
inexplicable fit of a desire to self-mutilate, Jagermeister shooters. Its likely that the next day those unfortunately souls were vowing, if not abstinence altogether, then at the very least to be a one alcohol man. (or woman )

Some people are whiskey drinkers, some drink only rum, and some only vodka, always saying that anything else causes blinding headaches, blinding lack of inhibition, or just plain blindness. Who, by the way, drinks gin. I have never been anywhere that someone actually ordered something with gin in it. I don't even know anything about gin except that its made from juniper which smells like pine so I can therefore only assume that gin tastes like Pine-Sol. Pine-Sol and tonic. No wonder no one drinks it. (Vodka is of course made out of potatos and french fries are ever so much more delicious than Pine-Sol)

Drinks in my world are sweet and delicious and if I'm lucky come with a little umbrella, a piece of fruit and maybe, just maybe one of those plastic mermaids hanging from the side. Of course now that I have a small, brown eyed dictator in my life those mermaids never stay mine for long. She won't even let me keep the umbrellas. (Mermaids don't like the rain you see). Aww so cute you say? Yeah, its all cuteness and light until you step on one of those damn blue plastic mermaids at 3:00 in the morning on the way make sure the small dictator has her covers on.

But I digress. The point is that its Friday and its a great day to do whatever it is that makes YOU shake off the work week and get back to being the real you. The you that you WANT to be. :)


Thanks for reading!