<p>^Awwww… :)</p>
<p>Congrats to the college grad with a job!</p>
<p>Good morning! I’ll have a happy drink (ok, an iced tea) to the fact the DH is home this weekend, after being out of town during the week on business, and out last weekend for family issues. </p>
<p>Maybe we’ll finally drink a couple of those good dark beers in the fridge! Negra Modelo.</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Here comes the weekend! Surely you have time to stop by the Alley?</p>
<p>I am gathering ingredients for white sangria as it promises to be a warm one. :)</p>
<p>I’m going to the hospital for a sleep study tonight (doctor thinks I may have sleep apnea), so my only drink will be Ambien and water. It seems unlikely that it will be on the rocks.</p>
<p>I’m actually kind of looking forward to this unusual experience. Please have one for me. :)</p>
<p>Hosting a potluck tonight and it’s always interesting to see what kinds of food and drink show up. I’ll have my margarita mix and tequila in the pantry ready to go just in case I don’t like what they bring! ;)</p>
<p>Our house is “dry” tonight. Son is celebrating graduation with 40 classmates in our backyard. </p>
<p>As a close runner up, at least we rented a moonbounce. :D</p>
<p>Moonbounce=more staggering than I am accustomed to under any circumstances!</p>
<p>White sangria was a great success! I recommend it highly.</p>
<p>In a pitcher–lots of cut up peaches, pineapple, cantaloupe, a few cherries, & kiwi
Add 1/4 c. triple sec
Add a bottle of white wine and 1 to 2 cups seltzer (depending on how diluted you like your drinks)</p>
<p>2000 posts! </p>
<p>Think I’ll hang out here and only come out when I want to make it 2001 or other cool number. ;)</p>
<p>It’s mid week but what the heck. It’s summer. I can hang out here. After such an intense year, I don’t know how to handle this “free” time! Helicoptering can be so exhausting 
!
One mimosa, please.</p>
<p>Relating to the very first post (after the rules were set) my 18 year-old son sees me leaving the house and asks where I’m going. I said I was going to by a Father’s Day card for Grandpa. He says “It’s Father’s Day?” It was a Tuesday.</p>
<p>LOL that’s what my S would have said! Quick mind but jumps to confusions.</p>
<p>Usually-bright son receives a bill from the Secretary of State for car registration.</p>
<p>He exclaims, “What is this?!”
I answer: “Your car registration.”
His incredulous reponse: “How often does this happen???”</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Totally random, my son. They just pulled your name out of the hat this week.</p>
<p>Drinks for everyone!!
DS’s job interviews are going phenomenally well!! Expecting great opportunities are in sight!! Don’t want to say more until things are for sure, but all signs are good!!</p>
<p>Well, my wife and daughter are out of town, so it’s just me, the dog, the baby turtle we found in a parking lot—I love turtles!—and an empty home. So, what’s a guy to do? I stopped off at the fancy liquor store—the one with twice as much wine as other stuff, so you know it’s only for connoisseurs—on the way home. And I ended up with…</p>
<p>Mickey’s Malt Liquor. “The Beer for Winos.” I know. Pathetic. Something about those round, green bottles actually seemed appealing. I dunno…I guess I wanted to relive my first year of being of legal drinking age or something.</p>
<p>Anyway, I thought it would be horrible, but in fact it’s not too bad. It is definitely flavorful; it’s no light beer, that’s for sure. What scares me is that I don’t know if it’s good, or just drinkable. (Full disclosure: I bought a pack of Grolsch as well, which I know darned well is good stuff. But, sadly, I went for the Mickey’s first.)</p>
<p>Help yourselves if you’d like to try it. Let me know if it’s as bad as I fear it is, without my actually realizing it.</p>
<p>jym626, this Mickey’s is for you! I hope those interviews yield some great job offers! <em>clink</em></p>
<p>DS resigned from his startup.
You got confused? The other person was his undergrad prof, whom he gofered for 3 years. They had a difference of opinions and DS said you can have the startup, since DS had no input but money in the bank and a pt job. </p>
<p>Finished off the Porta (sister purchased, and of course way to sweet).</p>
<p>Happily celebrating a friend’s good news…she had a large scary tumor that had to come out, but it was benign! So just normal recovery from the operation, then she can JOIN us for a drink. :)</p>
<p>Seems like I have so many friends in various stages of the Big C, it’s lovely to hear some good news for a change!</p>
<p>Next to health issues, everything else is small stuff.</p>
<p>mommusic, that’s wonderful! I hope your friend is doing well and is off pain meds so she can come to the Alley to celebrate the good news!</p>
<p>After his surgery, DH did not want any painkillers. When I asked him if his leg hurt and if he wanted any Tylenol or Advil, DH said, “I’m priming my body for the best painkiller of 'em all - ice-cold Sapporo!” Then he opened his cold pack and ate the contents as a snack with his Sapporo! The cold pack was a package of Trader Joe-San’s frozen edamame. :)</p>
<p>Yes, next to health issues, everything else is insignificant.</p>
<p>She is home and enjoying her pain meds! ;)</p>
<p>While biking yesterday, I mindlessly thinking about this oddity. </p>
<p>In my era 50-60’s, girls used to spend a lot of time in curling their hair. Sleeping in curlers.
Wearing curlers to the grocery store. etc. </p>
<p>The millennium generation, girls wear their hair straight. Today’s young girls seem to be smarter than my generation’s girls who are now mid-age+ women. </p>
<p>Thinking about this on the two wheels, I come to the conclusion that Hair Curlers, sucked the essence from the brain.</p>
<p>What I have noticed is that very few of the young women today cut their hair short; it’s all long and straight. (I call them the “pony tail girls” when they pass me on my running path.) In my day it was the “wedge” (thank you Dorothy Hamill) or some other trendy cut.</p>