"Why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three?"

[torino10154]

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Minerva McGonagall

Portkey

Sex on the Beach

Lost Luggage

Sweater Weather

Trains, Planes and Automobiles


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Torino plans to start with a rum and Coke while Shelly has had something come up at the last minute and probably can't make it tonight. That's all right though, Torino will drink enough for two! :D

Let's get our drunk on!

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Just now arriving here at close to 10 PM Chicago time. My regrets to all who have been posting comments for hours, but I can only cope if I go forward from right here rather than backtracking.

For those who don't know why I've been missing so far today from FWF: My laptop was in the repair shop all week because I was having crash dumps and artifacts. I was so worried about not getting it back in time for FWF, but I got it back yesterday, so I thought all was cool. Then when I got it home I discovered that the repair tech had only done a partial job and that there was still something wrong with it so I took it back and hung around the vicinity of the repair place for many hours, dreading the thought that if they didn't get it right I would be losing over a decade of fannish stuff, vids and docs and fanart. Now I gotta say THANK FUCK it's all fixed with everything saved and the laptop functioning so I can be just late for FWF rather than absent.

I was gonna make cocktails during this FWF, but with this late start I gotta move faster on the drunkening. I'm working on drinking this whole bottle of Huckleberry Wine. It's a fandom-related bottle in that every year when I go to Con*Strict in Henderson, Nevada a few of us fen stay a day longer than the con and go to some of the wineries in Pahrump. This is one of the bottles from Pahrump.

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[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, ugh, that sounds super stressful. I'm done with my drunk fic and am in the process of sobering up (which for me means I'm now in that phase where I want to eat everything in the kitchen), but I'll be loitering online for a couple more hours.

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[ride_4ever]

Glad you are still here and hanging around for a while. I'm still sloshing through my first drink of the evening and don't even have a frakkin' plotbunny yet.

Me, I don't wait until the sobering-up phase to reach the eat-everything-in-the-kitchen phase. As soon as I'm drunkish I lose all inhibitions about food.

What did you have to drink tonight?

food

[oldtoadwoman]

Well, I started by eating all the toast in the house and then had some microwave cheesy-mac and then (still drunk and typing) talked my roommate into ordering food. So, yeah, I didn't wait until post-drunk to start eating, but I'm very much still in binge mode because I ended up microwaving another frozen pasta thing and my body is insisting it's still hungry even though I know I basically ate three dinners tonight.

I had Fireball whiskey with Pepsi and then later on I had rum with fruit syrup to sweeten it up.

I had zero plot bunnies too. Oddly, I think that made the writing go faster this round, because I went into it with no expectations. I just accepted that this one wasn't gonna be good and to just roll with it. (Often I go in with the story half-formed in my head, but I always miscalculate how much time is required to get those ideas into words so I'd still be writing at this point.)

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[ride_4ever]

Yes, I had seen your earlier post about not having any plotbunnies for this, and it actually inspired and encouraged me. I too am now gonna just jump in and roll with it without expectations (the first time I'm taking that approach).

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[songquake]

rah rah! hooray for finding plot bunnies amid the discussion of missing plot bunnies!

Re: food

[oldtoadwoman]

Sorry, I literally got distracted and wandered off and only just remembered I hadn't finished responding to people.

My brain feels like marshmallows.

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[ride_4ever]

Your pretty icon is pretty. Is that a pic of drinis you made?

icon

[oldtoadwoman]

Oh, I only wish I had fancy cocktails like this.

(Icon was made by lilly_c for sunshine_challenge.)

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[ride_4ever]

They look like the ones that are made with Skittles or Jolly Ranchers.

What did you drink tonight?

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[oldtoadwoman]

Someone else was talking about skittles shots tonight. :-)

I think I already answered this in another thread, but my traditional Firewhiskey drink is Fireball. It just seems appropriate. I kick things off with a shot of Fireball and then followed it up with Fireball mixed with Pepsi. And then when I got bored of that, later on, I mixed some rum with lemon syrup (and lots of ice to water things down a bit).

I really want the fancy cocktails like in the icon, but I'm always too lazy and disorganized to get all the ingredients I need to make them.

[songquake]

Glad you made it! I’m re-drunkening at this point, so maybe we can keep each other company over the next couple hours!

[ride_4ever]

Heya long-time writing friend! Glad you're still here for a couple more hours. I'm just getting started and was hoping I wouldn't be all alone here. Tell me about your REdrunkening.

[songquake]

WEll, it seems I have more of a tolerance than once I had, and the two servings of Ouzo burned out of me pretty quick. So I made myself a hot toddy with an excessive amount of rum and am back at it. Though clearly my typing is still too good. Alas. (As I tell my niece, who is 2.5, "Alas is something you can say when you feel disappointed.)

but i'm feeling a little more light in the head, w;hich i figure is a good tme to sart rewriting agin.

What I re-drunkeded weiht was a revision of a hot toddy, using ingredients i actually ahad on hand:

Juice of an entire lemon
an excessive amount of maple syrup (probably 1.5 oz)
an excessive amount of rum (possibly 4-5 oz)
a bunch of hot water, enough to fll my rather large mug.

[ride_4ever]

I approve of your hot toddy recipe, especially the excessive amount of maple syrup because Canada.

I also like ouzo.

I am also still too coherent.

[impala_chick]

Glad it's functioning. I too just joined and I have to catch up a bit :D Cheers to drinking wine!!

[ride_4ever]

Yays! Glad you're a late starter this time too and I won't be alone here. It's the first time I'm a late starter at FWF -- I've been the right-on-time-or-earlier starter at the previous ones.

What are you drinking?

[impala_chick]

A red blend that the salesman at Costco recommended. It's pretty decent for <20 bucks.

[ride_4ever]

I know of Costco but have never been inside one. Do they give samples when you are deciding on a wine?

[impala_chick]

No unfortunately not. There were no food sampls either since it was saturday. I don't think they do that on weekends.

[songquake]

Your costco sells wine? Mine has a liquor store next door thts pretty good. But New York sitll has blue lawas that mean that the only alcohol sold in grocieries is beer and sometimes malt beverages. Not wine, nor liquor.

🤍

[oldtoadwoman]

I'm always fascinated by the variation in liquor laws state to state. Everywhere I've lived, regular grocery stores can sell liquor, but at various times in the past, I've lived places where the liquor aisle would be gated off on Sundays because of random blue laws.

[impala_chick]

That's a bummer! We have everything at our costco including gigantic bottles of vodka and it's so cheep

🤍

[oldtoadwoman]

Rah rah!

Re: 🤍

[impala_chick]

Yay cheers!