This weekend, I bought two things that I never buy: vanilla vodka and pineapple juice.
The vanilla vodka was on a whim and the pineapple juice was because my two year old chunked it in the cart and I didn’t realize it until AFTER I had already paid for it.
Never one to let a good bottle of vodka go to waste, I started looking for cocktails that sounded yummy and included both vanilla vodka and pineapple juice.
After much deliberation, I decided to create a cocktail of my own. I don’t THINK that this is out there but it probably is and …read more

Man, it’s a good thing that I am my own boss. I have this uncanny knack of going out on on a “school night” and staying out far later than I should. Far far too late, with far far too much alcohol.
Last night was no exception.
Jeremy Wright, the head honcho for b5media (aka Capt. Fancy Pants) was in town. Tris came over from Victoria, and we met Jeremy and started drinking at about 3 pm. Give or take. Everything was fine until we moved bars.
I knew I was in trouble when I opened my big mouth and said, like the …read more