TGIF - Favorite Drinks (Read 904 times)

After hearing about the possible depantsing (is that even a word??) effect of more than one chambord martini...my husband wants to make me a couple. Hmmmm, I wonder why! TGIF

After hearing about the possible depantsing (is that even a word??) effect of more than one chambord martini...my husband wants to make me a couple. Hmmmm, I wonder why! TGIF

Ha! I think that one I had was 2oz. gin, 1oz. Chambord, a bit of fresh squeezed lime and the garnish was a couple of blackberries. I could not taste the booze...at all!

Beer: Delirium Tremens Hubby's Homebrewed Hefeweizen Miller Lite (in the summer heat) Wine: Montepulciano Shiraz (not from California) Cabernet Pinot Noir Love trying new full-bodied reds Mixed drinks: 7 & 7 Red wine spritzer (cheap red, on the rocks with ginger ale)

Sadly - I have done a terrible thing. By giving up drinking completely to focus on my running (I know, snerk,snerk, gal's on the bench & all), I have completely lost all pleasure in the taste of anything alcoholic! For my birthday I tried beer (yuk), wine (not a cheap bottle either, a $60 Villa Maria Carbernet/Merlot) - yuk, and finally gin and tonic -yuk. My counsellors in the rehab would be proud. I can at last hold my had up high and say 'I am Claire, I am a fully recovered alcoholic, it has been 78 days since my first running day of abstainance.' Balls. Claire xxx

Claire....I think you are AWESOME!! My ex is a recovered user (cocaine mainly) and after some ROUGH years and then support of rehab and NA and AA meetings, he has been clean from drugs and alcohol for two years now. He's actually a sponsor for NA, he runs and attends meetings about 4 times week. It's a wonderful thing. He's successful with work (a top sales manager fora Toyota dealership) and lives a happier life. He's closer to our three children than he's ever been. He won't touch alcohol now, out of respect for that I won't even take a sip in front of him. But he's already said that he is perfectly fine (at this point) if Scott (my husband now) and I drink in front of him (we all go on vacations together with the kids), but we don't. He said that beer doesn't even sound good to him anymore. We have a unique relationship - one night while at Disney we ALL got virgin drinks and told him it was in honor of him, and then we all laughed, took a big long sip of our frozen non-alcoholic drink and got a brain freeze. It was funny - even without alcohol it still went straight to our head!! ---- Now if only he would quit smoking and start running.

Zoom-zoom: Just re-read your post about Blue Moon Belgian White. That stuff is delicious. Had it in Iowa City, IA and Chicago, IL. Love that it is served with a slice of orange. So good in the summer. Enjoyed it so much I picked up 12 and brought them back to Canada with me.

When I tried it there wasn't an orange...maybe that's why it tasted so icky. Guess I'll have to give it another try sometime.

It sounds like we need to have a big RunningAhead gathering so we can share our drink recipes!!! So, where should we have it... How about Chicago on October 7th? (Marathon!)

It sounds like we need to have a big RunningAhead gathering so we can share our drink recipes!!! So, where should we have it... How about Chicago on October 7th? (Marathon!)

I could do that... k