slinking into the weekend
Saturday, 17. October 2009, 05:18:30

So anyway, I was thinking about a mojito all day, just knowing I had everything at home to make one, until I opened the fridge and discovered I had almost nothing to make a mojito. It was hard to face that after my mouth was watering for one all day, plus we are out of beer.
At this point we had to go into "plan B", which was a Margarita. It was a good one, but I decided I didn't want a second one, so I opened a bottle of something called "Verdi Spumante." The Verdi website describes their product as this:
VERDI
SPARKLING ITALIAN FUN.
Verdi Spumante is a natural, sparkling beverage imported
from Italy.
Deliciously sparkling and zesty, it has a soft and fruity flavor.
Serve chilled to fully enjoy its balanced, clean, delightful taste.
Verdi Spumante is a perfect crowd pleaser for every occasion.
Its elegant taste appeals to all…and its re-sealable cork closure preserves the sparkle until you’re ready for the next glass.
It’s the new fun drink alternative and the fastest-growing sparkling Italian Spumante in the U.S.!
Yeah, it was really sweet, but interesting for a change of pace as I've never had this type beverage before. I'm not sure what that bottle of Verdi was doing in my refrigerator anyway. I think it's been in there for over a year.
*SATURDAY*
I think all I have on tap for tomorrow is maybe a nice dog walk in the park, then some shopping at Target. Halloween candy is on sale, and I need some khakis for work
Tomorrow night is "Sex Kitten Roundup" at the local club/disco. This is just a bawdy and borderline ridiculous show that they put on every once in awhile. We like to go just to see who else turns up, and it's a prefect excuse to drink some Coronas.
*SUNDAY*
Sunday will be a hunt for some good food day.
That's about it for the weekend.
Oh, I was napping on the sofa earlier with the television on. I kept sort of waking up and hearing somebody talking about "boning a chicken." For just a moment I was confused about what they meant.








Carol # 17. October 2009, 19:14
Green # 18. October 2009, 01:47
eh mojito are alllllright, but anything with cranberry juice it is considered "the shit", like vodka and cranberry juice...
slackwrdave # 18. October 2009, 02:19
Originally posted by operainchicago:
"A mojito is traditionally made of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime, sparkling water and mint."
The guys in the pic we nicknamed "the mojito boys." They had a mobile pedal-powered mojito bar that they took around burning man and made mojitos for anyone that asked. They made us bunches of them. Really good stuff.
Originally posted by GuiltyGear:
Yeah, they were rather flamboyant, and they often made jokes about that themselves. They were great neighbors.
daxonmacs # 18. October 2009, 15:43
Originally posted by slackwrdave:
It must have been your dreams and reality coinciding that caused the confusion.
Mojito is hyped here, too, since last summer. They now sell it ready made ( Bacardi and even other brands ) which is a total disgrace IMO.
Carol # 18. October 2009, 16:24
slackwrdave # 18. October 2009, 16:34
Originally posted by daxonmacs:
I don't think Ernest Hemmingway would have approved.
I think the rum industry is enjoying the current trend. Awhile back it was cosmopolitans and martinis.
I don't know what happened to martinis. I always thought of them as a strong sipping drink of mostly gin and vermouth, or sometimes vodka. Now I hear of chocolate ones and other flavors. Yuck.
Sometimes I like a sweet, juicy, tropical-like drink, but when I think of a cocktail, I usually think of a drink with little more than one liquor/one mix in it. That's just my preference.
Green # 18. October 2009, 23:37
daxonmacs # 18. October 2009, 23:55
Nice expression.
slackwrdave # 19. October 2009, 01:41
Originally posted by daxonmacs:
One I mutter frequently as I am driving hours before dawn.
Originally posted by GuiltyGear:
They were fun, made great mojitos that they gave away with gusto, and were just generally warm-hearted neighbors. We don't discriminate.
Carol # 19. October 2009, 01:45
slackwrdave # 19. October 2009, 01:51
Originally posted by operainchicago:
Monday is "Moe Monday" with a burrito-chip-drink special for $5.55. It's better to get there before 5pm as at that time, the parents with herds of children roll in which slows everything down to a crawl.
Tonight I had Chinese take-out. I've got to stop eating those chicken wings before my cholesterol goes crazy.
Green # 19. October 2009, 03:45
slackwrdave # 19. October 2009, 07:24
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slackwrdave # 19. October 2009, 07:37
Green # 19. October 2009, 07:38
Carol # 19. October 2009, 13:04
slackwrdave # 19. October 2009, 22:09
Originally posted by GuiltyGear:
Of course you know this was our first fight.
Originally posted by operainchicago:
Yeah. Screw the state. I declare myself married, so I am. We've seen a lawyer to get some important stuff in place, but a lawyer can only do so much. Waiting for North Carolina to change anything would be like watching a glacier "swoosh" by. The elections and voting laws here are clad in steel. Only a narrow range of candidates gets through, usually. If it weren't for Asheville, Charlotte, and the northern Pamlico Sound area, it would be even worse.
slackwrdave # 20. October 2009, 06:42
Green # 20. October 2009, 08:08
slackwrdave # 20. October 2009, 08:35
daxonmacs # 20. October 2009, 10:20
Originally posted by slackwrdave:
Green # 21. October 2009, 00:06
daxonmacs # 21. October 2009, 00:29
Green # 21. October 2009, 21:40
slackwrdave # 22. October 2009, 03:49
Green # 22. October 2009, 04:08
slackwrdave # 22. October 2009, 04:13
Originally posted by GuiltyGear:
Cancel out the triple negative in that sentence and you get "that's the sounds of something i would do"
hot dayyum! lol
j/k
Green # 22. October 2009, 04:16
lol of course you would