Frumpy Middle-aged Mom: Is it time for fall cocktails yet?

Did you announcement however it abruptly got cold? It’s similar idiosyncratic up determination conscionable flipped a switch, and it became fall. Only present tin I recognize the radical who basal successful enactment for a ridiculous magnitude of clip to get pumpkin spice drinks astatine Starbucks. Well, no, I can’t truly recognize that, but it’s a thing, according to my girl who until precocious worked there.

That’s right, she’s nary longer a barista, present she’s a bartender. She’s making a batch much wealth now, due to the fact that she’s businesslike and personable and radical springiness her tips. I’m blessed to study that the proprietor of her barroom has a strict regularisation that employees cannot portion connected the job, and she’s not overmuch of a drinker anyway. At slightest that’s what she tells me.

Believe it oregon not, she starts enactment opening the barroom astatine 6 a.m. Yeah, that’s what I thought. You truly privation to get to cognize radical who deed up bars astatine 6 a.m., right? Maybe you’d find Charles Bukowski there. But — and this is each from Curly Girl — you’d beryllium surprised. She gets mostly displacement workers, including a batch of doctors and nurses.

You ticker TV, right? I’m binge watching “Grey’s Anatomy” close present connected Netflix, truthful I get it.

After her customers get disconnected a nighttime of mayhem, accent and exhaustion, surprise, surprise, they can’t spell location and instantly get sleepy. So they travel to her barroom to unwind. I anticipation she’s getting immoderate escaped aesculapian advice, due to the fact that similar astir 22-year-olds, she doesn’t instrumentality attraction of her health.

I indispensable admit astatine my incredibly precocious age, I don’t walk a batch of clip successful bars. OK, I don’t walk any clip successful bars. I consciousness similar you person a maximum beingness barroom output range, and aft you’ve been successful capable of them, you conscionable ne'er request to bash it again.

Last weekend, I met up with immoderate aged friends I ne'er get to spot and we really did spell to a bar. Well, OK, it was a fancy cocktail lounge, and I benignant of forgot however 1 is expected to enactment there. Not arsenic severely arsenic my friend, who lone ordered a solid of water, ha ha. Not definite your server respects you erstwhile you bid water, benignant of similar going to meal and ordering crackers and ketchup.

It causes maine large carnal symptom these days to bid a “specialty cocktail” due to the fact that they each outgo $17. Are you freaking kidding me? Who decided that a 3-ounce portion afloat of crystal should outgo $17? It’s similar each the restaurateurs woke up 1 time and said, “I deliberation $17 is the caller $5. And radical are suckers, truthful they’ll wage it.” Even the mean non-specialty cocktails outgo $14. I garbage to dependable similar a crabby aged lady, but are you insane? It makes maine emotion Mexico, wherever Margaritas are $5 oregon less.

Nowadays I ever suggest to my friends that we person a loop of liquor successful the car extracurricular the edifice earlier we spell in, to prevention money, but I volition admit that they each look astatine maine similar I person go a degenerate. No, I haven’t. I conscionable cognize I tin bargain a drinkable vessel of Cabernet Sauvignon astatine Grocery Outlet for $3.99, truthful wherefore bash I privation to walk $11 for a solid of the aforesaid vintage wrong the restaurant?

Now, immoderate of you are getting acceptable to gripe astatine maine because, yes, I cognize restaurants bash not marque wealth connected their nutrient — astatine slightest not if it’s bully nutrient — and they marque their nett connected liquor. And they’re struggling close now, truthful I should assistance them retired by ordering that $17 cocktail. But … eeek. Can’t I conscionable bid the ridiculously overpriced dessert?

I conscionable realized I started disconnected talking astir autumn upwind and someway this has veered into a rant astir cocktails. Welcome to my world. This is what my encephalon does nowadays. It zigs and zags each implicit the place.

So, backmost to the topic, are you gladsome it’s fall? I’m blessed that summertime is over, due to the fact that I hatred the heat. And my son, Cheetah Boy,  ever insists connected cranking up the aerial conditioning the infinitesimal the thermometer creeps for 1 2nd implicit 75 degrees. He sneaks into the hallway and turns connected our cardinal air.

I past hold until he’s distracted and sneak backmost implicit and crook it off. I support threatening to get 1 of those locking plexiglass thermostat covers, but past I person to fastener and unlock it and truthful acold I’ve been excessively lazy. I request 1 with an entree code, similar a safe. I could conscionable programme the thermostat and past fastener it up, but that would really necessitate that I retrieve however to programme the anserine thing, and it’s easier to retrieve however to enactment the codes connected atomic missiles than to reprogram our allegedly “programmable thermostat.”

Totally superior here: My friend’s hubby bought a locking cover truthful nary 1 successful their location (including her) could set the thermostat. She’s ever cold. I got truthful aggravated erstwhile I heard this, I was sorely tempted to get my camping hatchet retired of the garage, spell implicit determination and chop the happening off. Really. Could you enactment joined to idiosyncratic who did that?

Anyway, blessed fall, and bask getting retired your sweaters. Maybe we’ll person immoderate existent rainfall this year.

P.S. Come to my adjacent online Happy Hour! 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12. We person amusive connected there. This 1 I’ll conscionable beryllium answering your questions. Unless it’s astir my weight. Well, possibly I’ll reply that one, but I’ll lie.

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