Happy New Year, Ya'll!
No I'm not hungover.
I look a little rough but
I feel fine!
What an interesting evening for me!
I ended 2007 being a bad girl.
To begin with I worked half a day yesterday.
Got off of work and was so tired. On top
of that I am not a real big fan of New Year's
celebrating. As I have mentioned before I
don't like that Auld Lange Syne song. It makes
me cry. I don't want to see the ball drop in Times
Square and I definitely don't want to see Post stroke
Dick Clark. It just depresses me. I don't know when
this New Year's Eve depression began but it has
come upon me as I have gotten older.
Anyway, since there was this important bowl
game happening yesterday for our local university,
the partying started early. As in 3:45 p.m.
(Game came on a 4 p.m.) As I said, I was tired.
Was invited to 4 different bowl/New Year's Eve parties/
gatherings. Some parties I just didn't want to
drive all the way their and take a chance of drinking
too much and then knowing I have dogs and must drive
all the back home. Didn't want to chance it.
So me and the hubbie went our local "Cheers". Yes,
sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your
name (and sometime not!). Anywho, this is where it
began. Sleepy Blessed in a bar. I want to wake up
I want coffee but I really want is the next big
thing a caffitini, a concoction of Absolut vanilla,
Godiva white and dark chocolate liquers and expresso
shaken and served chilled. Tasty! This little ditty
is served atone of my favorite restaurants which
happens to be almost next door to the bar I was in
and it definitely is delicious and will jolt your
self awake. Unfortunately, at 4:30 p.m. no one
looked like they were there (yet) and no one answered
the phone, so I did the next best thing: jolt
my system by mixing my drinks! I stared with
Tanqueray and tonic, then a flaming Dr. Pepper
minus the flame and then a Crown and 7up. I was
feeling pretty good so I switched to Coca cola. I was
definitely awake and feeling the nice buzzy feeling.
Not to buzzed not too drunk. My husband decides to
go home to feed the dogs and leaves me at the bar.
No problem. I know lots of people there. People come
and people go. I am being the social butterfly.
My brother n law buys me a shot of Jeiger. I decide
to sip on it and my coca cola. But before my other
brother n law left, his wife bought me another
flaming Dr. Pepper. So I was feeling pretty good.
Thank God I had ate lunch earlier!
Next thing I know one of my friends and I decided
to go make a short visit at one of our friends little
gatherings. We weren't driving so she called her son
to be our chauffeur. Thing is my friend had to lie
to her boyfriend about where we were going. You see,
the gathering we were makiing a quick stop at, was
an exboyfriend of hers. So we said we were going to
pop by a restaurant called Sal's so I could have
we could have a real good martini. (Martini's are not
the speciality of the pub we were in, as you know
pubs are beer and shot slinging places). We arrive
at "Sal's". LOL. Make us a drink. We visit. We mingle.
Not a big crowd but it's fun. We stay about an hour
and her sons comes to pick us back up. They drop me
at my home. I realize once home that I didn't go to
the grocery. I wanted to start a New Year's Eve tradition
of eating crab legs. Well, stupid me, decided that I
would drive. Honestly, I didn't feel too inebriated.
I still shouldn't have but I went to two grocery stores
and both were closed. So you know what we had for dinner?
Frozen White Castles and Andy Capp Hot Fries from our
local convenient store! I know you are salivating at the
thought!
So my evening was a good one. I stayed awake well
into the New Year! I didn't see the ball drop, I didn't
even see the clock switch over to 12:01 a.m. I remember
hearing motorbikes on TV and some Aussie named Robbie
Madison who jumped over some made up football field in the
Rio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, I was too busy.
:::smile:::
So it was a good evening!

Now I want to hear about yours????????