2 AM and I’m Still Awake Writing This Post
Posted on March 20th, 2008 in Just Pensive
I bought brand new rainboots. They are purple. They came in so much handy today as I splashed around in puddles while everyone else tiptoed. Ha ha, suckers.
I’ve decided I need “my drink”. As in, the standard drink that I order when I go to a bar. I would prefer this drink to be non-girly AKA no pineapple and rums, cosmopolitans, etc. It was pointed out to me this evening that it is downright embarrassing that at 25 I do not have “My Drink”. I do not have My Drink because though I am 25, I am a loser and I never go to bars so what the heck do I know? Tonight I had a whiskey sour. And some club soda. And 10,000 french fries. Let’s all pitch in and help me pick a drink. Suggestions? Keep in mind that I cannot do vodka, so that is off the table.
It is way too late for me to be awake on a Wednesday night when I have work the next day, I just want to throw that out there.
My birthday is coming up. I thought I had a plan of what I wanted to do–dinner with friends, drinks after with more friends in a mellow loungey bar and now I have scrapped that idea entirely and am left with…nothing? I wish I was in 7th grade and I could have a sleepover and we could all sleep on my living room floor in sleeping bags and watch The Breakfast Club. And then around 2 AM, my mother would come downstairs and tell us to shut up, she’s trying to sleep, there’s church in the morning.
March 1st marked the end of my Abstain From Boys For Six Months extravaganza.
In honor of this, I have developed a somewhat alarming crush on a very very tall boy who eats lots of meat.
I’m going to just go with this and not overanalyze it or make a big stink about it. Instead, I will just try to keep my cool when I see him. And maybe, possibly, try to get close enough to him to sniff his armpit because ohmigosh his armpit? It smells SO GOOD.
I’m leaving for Italy so much sooner than I thought. I thought May was like, I don’t know, in 2009 or something. I didn’t realize May of 2008 is actually, like, in a few weeks. My bad!
I don’t speak any Italian nor have I read any of the books Alayna gave me. I have not bought a rail pass or finalized where we’re sleeping our final night in Rome or bought a backpack or figured out anything really at all. If you ask me, I’m in real good shape.
All I know is, I’m going to get on a plane, get off the plane, wave to the pope, pop a Lactaid and shove some fresh mozzarella in my mouth. And that is going to be the extent of my trip to Italy, I can promise you that. And yeah, y’all be crazy if you think I’m going to freaking ITALY and NOT EATING CHEESE.
I will be eating The Cheese. Mark my words. And the Vegan God will shudder and strike me down in some piazza somewhere but SO HELP ME LORD VEGAN GOD, it’s Italian CHEESE!
I think, when I start praying to a vegan God, it might be time to go to bed?
Because it’s kind of awkward.
Also awkward? The fact that I just sliced a piece of skin off my face with my very own fingernail.
Happy Thursday, kids. It’s good to be back.
Okay, so having just started reading your blog not so long ago I just assumed “your drink” was wine! So, that is what I think your drink is, wine! And I do believe wine can be “a drink”. Too bad you live so far away because my hubby recently made some blackberry wine from my parent’s blackberries, and it is mmm-mmm-good!
If you plan on eating cheese in Italy you’re going to have to start prepping those tender bowels of yours NOW. You don’t want to be spending your whole vacation blessing the papal pooper.
So, you better start eating cheese ASAP.
As for your drink… you don’t like vodka? How ’bout gin or tequila? Give us something to work with here or I’ll just start listing acres of beverages. Also, do you like ‘em sweet or dry?
Oh my God, anonymous! I want some blackberry wine and I want it now.
And yes, I suppose wine is my drink! Pinot grigio in fact! But there are some instances AKA when in an Irish pub that ordering wine seems kinda sissy and out of place.
Dee–
I like ‘em sweet for the most part and can do rum, tequila, whiskey, etc. and I prefer to stay away from gin.
OKAY GO.
For a rum based drink my favorite is a mojito. For a tequila based drink, a margarita (but not that mix crap). Both drinks are great for preventing scurvy. Here are my favorite recipes for getting schnockered at home.
Mojito
3 oz white rum
12 mint leaves
1/2 small lime
3 teaspoons sugar (or to taste)
club soda (about 2 ounces)
Slice lime into quarters and muddle in a tall glass. Add sugar and mint leaves and muddle again (about 10 squishes). Add rum and stir. Fill glass with ice. Add enough club soda to top off glass and stir again.
Margarita
1.5 oz tequila
1.5 oz Grand Marnier
2 teaspoons sugar
1 small lime
Slice lime into quarters and muddle. Remove lime (leaving juice) and add sugar, tequila and Grand Marnier. Add ice, shake and pour into martini glass.
Of course, for both these, the quality of the rum and tequila can make or break how tasty these are.