Favorite Adult Beverages (AKA: Drinkies!!)

As I’ve gotten older, my tolerance for alcohol has gotten less. But when I do indulge, I enjoy the heck out of it. And I don’t have a drink on a regular basis. I can get a case of beer and it may last me a couple months. I’ve got bottles of vodka in the fridge that have been around for several months. One drink is a sitting is about it. But here is my list of faves in no particular order:

Miller Genuine Draft in bottles

Gotta be bottles! No cans! Icy cold! If it’s not cold enough, a freezer glass or regular glass with ice cubes is required.

Jack Daniel’s and Mountain Dew (Jackadoo)

Absolute YUM! After many years I decided that of all the whiskies, Jack Daniel’s is the only one for me. And no rum. I have decided I do not like rum. Unless it’s a fruitcake drenched in rum.

Seagram’s Escapes wine coolers

To me, this comes under the listing of “toy drinks” as there isn’t much alcohol in them. But they are very tasty.

Whipped Cream vodka/Chocolate vodka/Peppermint vodka

Any of these on ice, mixed with cream, poured over broken up Otter Pops, whatever. And any combo of the vodkas or alone.

Hiram Walker Butternips

This is a dessert, in my mind. VERY easy to overdo with this one. I haven’t tried it yet mixed with cream, but I’ll bet it would be THE BOMB!

BONUS: For our anniversary (43 years!) we went to Red Lobster and I had a chocolate martini. It was To..Die..For.. Seriously. OMG. And it was enormous! I have no idea what it cost. They don’t list prices in the drinks menu, and Marv got mixed up asking for a receipt in his email when he paid on that little machine that they have at the tables. Whatever it was, IT WAS WORTH IT! I found the recipe online. Here it is. You’re welcome.

*Red Lobster Chocolate Martini

½ oz. Kahlua

½ oz. Baileys

1 ¼ oz. Vanilla Vodka

1 oz. Milk

Criss-cross over top of glass with chocolate syrup

*note: DRINK SLOWLY. This is so powerful, I was half looped before the salad got there. Good thing there were cheddar biscuits first. If I were to have this as a before dinner drink and drank it all before eating anything, I would have been on the floor. But I would have been very happy…

How Many Does It Take?

I love the light bulb series of jokes. You probably know most of them, but I found a site listing a bunch, some of them I’d not seen before. Here’s my favorites…They all start out “How many ___ does it take to change a light bulb?”

How many polite New Yorkers?

Both of them.

You could probably change the State, Occupation, etc. for this one. Pretty handy.

How many pessimists? What does it matter…it will just go out again anyway.

How many archeologists? One team, but they’ll label every piece of the old bulb, mark its location in the room and write a detailed description before determining that it was used to store cornmeal.

How many chiropractors? Only one, but it takes six visits.

A lot of people dis chiros, but I loved the one I used to go to before my insurance changed. Now that I’m on Medicare, I hope to be able to start going again once my current problems are taken care of.

How many mystery writers? Two – one to screw it most of the way in and the other to give it a surprise twist at the end.

How many psychiatrists? Only one, but the bulb has to really want to be changed.

And one of the best…and since I’m a Lutheran I can do this one without flak…

How many Lutherans? We don’t believe in change…

Ba dum DUM! Thankyouverymuch, I’ll be here all week…

Back To The Beginning

For several weeks I have been dealing with some pretty severe pain issues and have relied on banked blog articles to post. I always have at least two book reports on hand and I try to have a couple other pieces as well. For today I didn’t have anything, so I decided to go way back to when I first starting blogging on MySpace. (Anybody remember that? Remember Tom?) So into the files I went. I used to blog a lot more often than I do now, and the blogs were a lot shorter. For Bruce, Sara and Tracy (my original readers) forgive me for the re-run. But hey, it’s summer. That’s when re-runs used to take place…

Current comments will be in parenthesis.

“And So It Begins” May 23, 2006

I have no idea what I’m doing, so I’ll just plunge right in. I have various and sundry opinions on a lot of things, and from time to time as the whim hits me, I will share. Right now, my opinion is that chocolate should be part of every day. The end. (I still have this opinion, BTW.)

(The following was written about 5 months after I’d had my left knee replaced)

“Knee Deep In Dreams” May 24, 2006

Last night I dreamed I could fully bend my left knee. I was so amazed by this that I was showing everyone: “Look! I can bend my knee in half!” I still couldn’t bend it much while walking or doing stairs, but man, I could just bend it for the sake of bending it. I’ve had several dreams of that nature since the operation: having full use of the leg. I’ve even had running dreams where I’m running for the pure joy of being able to do it. I’ve NEVER enjoyed running! Unless it was running toward chocolate! ;-)

“Africa” May 24, 2006

Greeting Earthlings! (??) I just finished a cute little book, “A Lurk of Leopards” by Betty Dinneen. I got it several years ago at a surplus book sale at the library and finally got around to reading it. It’s from the juvenile section, but sometimes those are the best. It’s a fictional account of life in Africa in the late 50’s for a young British girl and her family. I’ve always loved stories about Africa. I never missed an episode of Daktari. I admit a big part of that was watching Yale Summers. (BIG crush!) I still enjoy the Mowgli and Jungle Book stories. After watching the movie Out of Africa, I became very interested in Isak Dinesen and her writings. I read a couple of biographies on her and then read the two autobiographical books on which the movie was based. I enjoyed those books much more than the movie, except for the wonderful scenery in the movie. Some more favorite Africa movies: Living Free; The Gods Must Be Crazy 1+2; The African Queen; various Tarzan movies. Another book I loved was The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley. (Her autobiography) And probably the best of all for African fiction: H. Rider Haggard. Which brings to mind the wonderful Hallmark TV version of King Solomon’s Mines starring Patrick Swayze. Yum! Of course, all these dealt with an Africa that no longer exists. I still love it when we have missionaries speak at church about their work over there, but it’s pretty sad stuff sometimes.