how did i miss these as possible drink options?

pineapple upside down cake drink, which apparently i'd have to find a recipe for since the pin just links me to custom walls...


 http://mochachocolatarita.blogspot.com/search/label/red%20wine

red, red wine sangria.

but maybe i could do this without alcohol? i just realized, a) it's kinda a drive for people and the more alcohol i provide them with the more i'll food i'll have to stuff in them and b) what if people don't want to drink at 2 in the afternoon? stupid people, why can't they just be me?

Amy's Bridal Shower: Bevs

decisions, decisions

while in the middle of the dress crisis of 2012, my thoughts go to: oh no! what are we going to drink at the shower??

yep. what's more important than games and attendees? booze. ok that's a lie but it's definitely right up there.

plus the invitations have already been mailed/emailed and i can't control who will say yes or no. so now the question is, what shall we drink?!

do i go for something everyone can enjoy?

http://thepoorgirl.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/poor-girl-sangria/

easy, prepared ahead of time, almost punch style but not sangria with fruits of the season?

http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/14357?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ezrapoundcake+%28Ezra+Pound+Cake%29

something just for amy's taste buds? but that probably has to be made by the glass...



http://www.yumsugar.com/Happy-Hour-Redhead-Bed-3075384

something for my taste buds?

http://www.marthastewart.com/

 something easy? (it better be easy anyhow since i can't find a recipe for it. it's called champagne punch. looks like champagne with fruit in it. easy enough right?)

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/lime-sorbet-margaritas-10000001618645/index.html

 this looks easy enough but am i the only one found enough of tequila? and then i would have to worry about glass prep.

speaking of glass prep, am i going to have get glasses? i guess techinically i could use glasses that i already have but then i have to worry about them. or i could buy cheap glasses... added expense + who knows how crappy they might look. hmmm... if i do a punch i already have a punch bowl though it's not that big. so many decisions. it's like planning a mini-wedding here.

friday is apparently bar night with the at&t crew

even though we have no money, my options this weekend were to desperately wait at home for erik to come home from work at 4 am or spend some time out with my coworkers indulging in some $4 long islands and learning more about them than one person could possibly want to share.
i really didn't feel like being out too long. kaylee was going to pick me up and then we were just gonna hang out for a bit. i figured i'd be home long before erik, but out long enough so i didn't really notice he had been gone for so long.
i didn't think i'd be out long enough for him to be able to pick me up at denny's on his way home...
i think the start of the night was what doomed me. we were all supposed to be meeting up at this place called the caboose which is basically like a dave and busters- not that i've ever been there either but this place is a sports bar on one side and a family restaurant with games and what not on the other. and they have $2 margaritas on tuesdays and $4 long islands on fridays.
kaylee and i got there around 10:30 and couldn't find chase or steve anywhere so we decided to just get a drink while we were waiting. moments after receiving our beverages, steve texted me to tell us they were in the restaurant bar. not realizing we can take our drinks into the next room, we started pounding our long islands.
i spent my evening educating texans about what a REAL long island has in it as well as introducing the crowd to grateful deads. mmm...
by the time that bar closed we were all pretty happy and mosied over to this other bar called jakes where i think chase spilled his beer all over tiffany, kenda lost her phone only to find it on the floor after sending steve back to the other bar and we all decided we need a girls dancing night and sung journey at the top of our lungs.
from there we headed to dennys where kenda lost her phone again and chase told me all about how he's been engaged twice and he may have a baby by this woman. we also all texted each other across the table and switched seats a bunch.
i work with some interesting people.
and next friday is my birthday. pretty exciting stuff!

"If we can get through Adolph's, we can get through a sandstorm!"

erik and i had big plans for our friday night. i sit in a building all day doing mostly nothing but staring at a screen and he spends most of his day hanging out in our townhouse, so i made the big suggestion. let's go for a walk when i get home!

needless to say when other plans came up with the people i work with, we jumped on the bandwagon.

the big plans were to go to this karaoke bar by the mall called adolphs. place your world war two jokes here.

kaylee felt the need to warn me as she and i are two of seven people out of our twenty-one person class that do not smoke. thank goodness.

erik and i show up around 10:15 pm. before even parking we got a glimpse of the type of people we were about to encounter. honestly, i wasn't sure if this woman was dressed to a T for the area or a transvestite. either way this isn't the type of bar i was used to.

as we walked in the door, the bouncer wearing a pink shirt and cowboy hat announces the fact that we are a long way from home. you're telling me...

we stood at the bar but apparently not at the walk-up which was the only place we could actually order drinks if we weren't sitting there. it seemed to take forever. in this time, the two people from my work that had already arrived noticed me: chase, the ex-marine californian and lisa, who's roller derby name is psycho sweettie.

both smokers.

next to arrive was jane, the excitable teacher and her husband of two years. then steve, the new mexican who says wicked and his girlfriend, kenda. kaylee and tiffany. and finally rocky. most of the gang.

lisa introduced us to her friend, shooter who continued to hit on tiffany all night even after she told him that the fact that he wanted to take photographs of her was creepy. might i add that shooter looked like a 60 year old scary version of kris kristofferson with sketchy glasses.

sketchy guy #27 at that bar got up to sing my girl to apparently every woman in the room. his arms were approximately as long as his body and he could be compared to a hillbilly cowboy umpa lumpa.

by the time chase was up to sing his second song (ice ice baby- unfortunately sketchy guy #27 also dirty dances), my eyes felt like little ash balls rolling around in my head. red, scratchy and squinting, i was blinking to try to keep some moisture away from the amount of smoke that was overwhelming every orifice of my body. after finishing our cheap pitcher of water beer, i think we were both about ready to leave. being the troopers that we are, we stayed until a little after midnight. endured as much as we could, inhaled around 90 cigarettes a piece and came home to try to brillo off everything.

i'm pretty sure if i burned the clothes i wore last night, people 4 states over would still get a nicotine fix.