booze-mas

you might find this hard to believe…

…but while the bulk of my “night before xmas…” bit was written mid-1990’s (or possibly even 1980’s) and then finished for this site in 2K-whatever i didn’t have it to start the site, so xmas eve used to just be normal bits like this one:

02/24/2003: “let the citrus fly!”

i don’t have a problem with limes or lemons. really, i don’t…i just don’t see why they put them in almost every alcoholic drink you can imagine. only the martini seems immune, and that’s only ’cause it comes with an olive. what’s the deal with salad fixin’s and booze? at least beer drinkers don’t have to go through this…

when kramer and i used to do our “guerro’s wednesday” thang where i would go with him to guerro’s taco bar on south congress and get shit faced (or damn near) every wednesday, my standing order was “frozen margarita, no salt, no lime”; and if there happened to BE a lime in there, it went air born to about the middle south bound lane of congress avenue. every time. keep in mind, we were on the front porch when this happened, so it’s not like we were indoors and i was winging it out a window. i do have SOME class, ya know. the “no salt” thang they never screwed up on. but the lime? they maybe got HALF the time…and i don’t know why that’s so hard to leave off.

when i used to go drinking at chacho’s in sa (still happens on the odd occasion, but not as much as it used to) i used to get their margaritas (before they got those cool, refreshing frozen jack & cokes). the margaritas there come with a slice of lime. occasionally a slice of lime and a cherry. or two. or lime, some cherries, AND a slice of orange. who needs food? just order a drink and live off the salad floating in it…

fast forward to sunday, when we decided to spend the waning hours of a gorgeous sunday at the san marcos river pub after seeing old school (which is DAMN funny). the drink du joir? bloody mary’s. why? ’cause it was the cheap booze at the joint we were at. round one came with a lime and an olive (my bad for not being specific on the veggie content, but i forgot these can come with olives and never expected the lime…but i decided to ride it out). order round two, and get an olive, a lime, AND a stick of celery. round three came with celery, lime, and TWO olives. round four came with just the lime and celery, and no olive. and this was all from the same bartender, further proving my point that NOBODY really knows what veggies are supposed to be in what drinks; they just heave stuff in as it leaves and that’s what you get. i guess it helps make the calories not quite so “empty”…plus at least it all fits into a distinct food group. josh and i could never figure out if corn chips were bread group, ’cause their chips, or veggie group, since they’re made out of corn. good thing booze took over any debating skills, or we’d probably still be on that deck…and freezing our ASSES off at this point. yesterday’s high? 78. today’s? 38. welcome to texas, folks…hope you brought a change of wardrobe. or two.

and twelve years later it’s in the 70’s and the house is opened up (writing on this xmas eve – xmas and the day after are scheduled to be in the 80’s)…and they global warming is bullshit?

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