Sunday, March 6, 2011

Wilde Things

It turns out (and this is what happens when you drink and blog)that I wrote two blogposts and didn't press publish.... DAMN!
Anywhoodle I shall update now. Fresh as a daisy and stuck in a house that's waiting for carpets. So well it's hard to go back and rewrite what's gone before. I'll tell you about yesterday. I met up with Musings, we had our wings (not the spicy wings but the buffalo wings, they're so much better and in their special Jack Daniels sauce... delightful! Anyway we had them with some cocktails, many cocktails, the drinks cost more than the meal. We had Long Beach Iced Tea, if you haven't had one of these get thee to a TGI Friday's - stat! Delicious drink, it had vodka, rum, gin and lemon tequila... with a dash of cranberry that's a real drink, so we had 2. Then we had a 77 Sunset Strip, that was... well it was a shirley temple but with same alcohol as the L.B.I.T. and it was super sweet. As in, I'm sweet toothed and I found it too much. So we went back to our auld dependables. Then when we got the bill and I dished out the last of the money I have (that's not a joke or an overexageration we were enjoying ourselves and didn't think about the money side of things) we left thinking ok we'll have one more drink (on Musing's card) but somewhere else. Then I made a joke, "What about up there?" pointing to the Westbury. We laughed and then Musings looked at me with a certain glint in her eyes, "I have a credit card... pay later??" So off we giggled to the Westbury, in our skanky clothes surrounded by glitter and pazzazz. Seriously the clientelle other then one woman didn't seem put out but the staff just stared. The waitress really expected us to do a runner. In my defense I'd been looking after a baby all day and then had travelled from the North (a different country so I was just tired and not in the mood to be at my best, Musings was straight from work).It really is a nice place though and then we looked at the menu, and ummm they were expensive (I'm unemployed) it was 16 yoyos... yeah for one drink, which was served in a martini glass (not even to the brim), with a little mint leave floating prettily on top.
We sucked the mint leaves hoping to get the full amount of the alcohol, cos it was 16 big ones each. We also considered taking the glasses, they were grey goose, so I mean the hotel got them free, right? But we refrained (Musings really wanted some more renumeration for the price of the cocktails). But the thing is the cocktail was called 'Wilde' yup like the wonderful playwright and the man who famously enjoyed and advised people like us to live beyond their means... so we did.
It was worth it, even if I can't afford to buy milk for my tea... As I said to darling Musings "We were made for that life, it sadly wasn't made for us"