Rating: Granny

You know, Swears and Drinks and Drinks the Good Stuff should know better than to get together without us…

(Oh, I don’t think this can be read in one sitting; it can be said in one sitting but otherwise, it is way too long…)

Mrs. Thong: Are you there?

Cheap Sweet Wine: Hey girlfriend! I am.

MT: Haven’t been on all day except to post.

CSW: I haven’t talked to anyone either.

MT: So, what is up with you? What did you get done today? Grin.

CSW: Not a thing. I decided it was a conspiracy that no one was online today so *I* would not be distracted. Lessee… I got my room done and most of the laundry. Lot of paperwork and a lot of depression when it hit me that I have to clean the fridge and freezer for the movers.

Hey is it the weekend? Cause I said I wasn’t drinking until then, but… Laughing.

MT: Grin … I was contemplating a margarita myself.

CSW: OH! Love it. I’m back with Gewurz… not spelled correctly I’m sure.

MT: I looked for that yesterday…. don’t have it at my store.

CSW: What about the grocery? I mean, it’s just at my regular grocery. Do you like sweet or more dry wines? No idea why I’m asking… I’ll tell you the Fetzer is dry and you’ll get it and say “Sweet!”

MT: Grin.

CSW: Well, DTGS likes it. I guess that’s a recommendation. Although she recommended Nobilo and I can’t drink that to save my life. Okay, I did drink it once and didn’t remember a bloomin’ thing the next day.

MT: I lean toward sweet.

CSW: Me too. But not as sweet as strawberry wine?

MT: I have just finally admitted to myself that I don’t like reds. No, not that sweet. Laughing. Hang on, getting booze. Too lazy for margarita — Pinot Grigio.

CSW: Does it matter the label too much? I guess it does. HOW do you know good wine, for crying out loud?

MT: Wanna know my two favorites? Grin.

CSW: Yes, I do!

MT: Don’t you dare tell those two wine snob friends of ours.

CSW: Puh-leeze. If you’re doing anything above strawberry wine, you’re golden.

MT: They are both Reuniti lables. Laughing.

CSW: See? I don’t even know that’s supposed to be bad. I guess they’re just cheaper and popular?

MT: Uh, yeah; just one notch above wine in a box.

CSW: Laughing OUT Loud.

CSW: I have been told that Principato Rosato, served at the Olive Garden, is supposedly good and it’s mostly cheap. Hey, isn’t there a song… Reuniti makes you feel so nice, or something like that? Grin.

MT: The advertisement jingle, from the commercials.

CSW: That’s as much of wine as I know. Commercials. If I didn’t have help, I’d be drinking freeze-dried coffee too. I seriously lack class. I just try to hide it.

MT: Yeah, Swears and Drinks and Drinks the Good Stuff have not been good for my pocket book; they got me hooked on good tea. And my Amazon bill tripled.

CSW: No. Kidding. But I bought the freakin’ expensive teapot. And the expensive tea and I STILL DON’T LIKE IT. I think I’m hopeless.

MT: Laughing. Which pot? The one with the gold filter?

CSW: Hmm… you would ask. Yes, definitely a gold filter. I was NOT worthy of a gold filter. But I own it. Because *I* have more money than sense.

MT: Laughing. I have always liked tea…. just was blissfully unaware that what I drank was the crap of the tea world.

CSW: Lipton’s?

MT: Yep; dh still uses Lipton’s for his iced. Even though I bought him some lovely loose Irish Breakfast.

CSW: Who doesn’t? That’s good stuff. Grin. I freak DTGS out with sweet tea. I’m thinking, what do you EXPECT? I was raised in the South!

MT: Laughing. I know, in the big pitcher A. uses two cups of sugar! (He is from TN)

CSW: And with a gold filter… I mean, what’s not to love? Don’t all rough and ready men wake up and think, “Ah. Lovely loose Irish breakfast tea in a gold filter…”

MT: Rolling…. I had shopping success today.

CSW: Did you? Love that.

MT: Yeah, I found a great linen skirt and a sleeveless top at Eddie Bauer for the wedding breakfast.

CSW: Excellent. Sounds great for a wedding.

MT: No, the wedding is a formal. And my sisters bought the dress. I haven’t even seen it.

CSW: Pray it fits/looks good/that sort of thing? I hate being a bridesmaid for that reason.

MT: They both have REALLY good taste, though. The things they have picked out for me or given me always end up favorites.

CSW: My best friend from childhood did too; a dress I really, TRULY wore again. Excellent champagne colored long sheath.

MT: Well, thankfully I don’t have to stand up for her.

CSW: No? What part are you playing?

MT: I am hosting / cooking the wedding breakfast the day after.

CSW: You are COOKING the wedding breakfast? Seriously thinking you have mad skills of which I possess none.

MT: Laughing; we are all cooks.

CSW: That’s great; although to be perfectly honest… it’s a skill I’m glad I *don’t* have. It’s a planned incompetence thing for me.

MT: It is one of the few things that I am TRULY good at.

CSW: I doubt that. I bet you’re good at lots. Beating folks up, for one.

MT: Laughing.

CSW: Taking you with me to Chicago. Men downtown scare me.

MT: Yeah, it can be freaky. I got lost once and ended up in Bowling Green or something like that and was truly frightened.

CSW: Chicago really is a scary place. Got to stick to where there are lights.

MT: Yeah, I do love Chicago, though. I could spend days at the museums; especially the Institute of Art.

CSW: Oh you’ll have to show me!

MT: Navy Pier is fun… that is what S&D and I did; the stained glass museum there is amazing.

CSW: I’ve been once. We did the ferris wheel; of which I am frankly terrified.

MT: Have you been to the restaurant at the top of Hancock tower?

CSW: I haven’t!

MT: I ate the best meal of my life there.

CSW: No joke? Well, thereyougo. We have to do it.

MT: Absolutely! Ever eaten at Ed Debevick’s?

CSW: Never heard of it.

MT: It is a really fun theme restaurant. 60’s style sockhop and they insult you mercilessly. It is great fun.

CSW: Had my 21st bday at a place like that; but they were kind to me. They shouldn’t have been. I was dressed in some outrageous early 90’s outfit that just screamed out “Make FUN of me.”

MT: Laughing. I look at old photos and think two things: #1. I was skinny then! and #2 . Look at my hair. What was I thinking?

CSW: Rolling. I KNOW!

MT: My hair was as wide as my shoulders!

CSW: No. Kidding.

CSW: I remember telling my mother that Michael Jackson would NEVER go out of style (thinking I may have not been too far off on that one…) Although, as a Southern… I still get into big hair a little. Grin.

MT: Laughing. Well, my SIL lives in Texas and she has a serious case of big bar hair and the red lipstick to go with it.

CSW: Laughing. Big bar hair. I love it. Oh. No way.

MT: Do they sell any other color in TX?

CSW: We must have photos.

CSW: Kidding; but no accounting for nostalgia.

MT: Yeah, I had a Rex Smith poster on my wall in Jr. High. Grin.

CSW: That sounds familiar.. Moon rider maybe?

MT: I can’t even remember.

CSW: Hang on… googling.

MT: But I do remember those lycra pants he wore and the feathered hair.

CSW: That’s him! But what was the name of that show!?? Gotta look it up. I remember anything in lycra from the 80’s. Street Hawk!

MT: Maybe it wasn’t lycra…. stretchy stuff.

CSW: It’s ALL good. (yes, I’m kidding.)

MT: Here.

CSW: Laughing. Jesse Mach.

MT: Laughing. Oh, that is just sad.

CSW: I’d forgotten about Street Hawk. 1985. That and Battlestar Galatica. NOT to be missed.

MT: There should be a law against publishing photos of heartthrobs after they have gone to seed.

CSW: Rolling.

CSW: Try this. I find myself getting hot over older men nowadays….

MT: Yeah; laughing. I would take my clothes off for Sam Elliot or Sean Connery. But I think that is more their voices than anything.

CSW: “Would y’all pray for me? Every time I drink I relive the 80’s?” Seriously laughing. It hurts. But Sean Connery? I am THERE.

MT: Have you heard 1985?

CSW: No.

MT: Oh, my. I must find you the lyrics.

CSW: Please do.

MT: Here you go.

MT: You can listen and watch the video.

CSW: Oh will do. That video wasn’t meshing with the lyrics, which were absolutely hilarious: “When did Motley Crue become classic rock?” Hmmm.. Gonna check again because the lyrics were freakin’ hysterical. Can’t believe I’ve never heard of it.

MT: It was pretty popular about the same time that “15 years” by Five for Fighting was popular.

CSW: Okay. Now I *know* I’m not hip. 1985. I’ll be buying that at iTunes tomorrow.

MT: I have GOT to get an ipod. 2112.

CSW: Okay, I’m not hip. What is 2112?

MT: WHAT? Okay, were you kept in a cave in jr. high? 2112, the GREATEST concept album of all time?

CSW: YES! My mother was still alive.

MT: Laughing. Very hard rock then and even somewhat now; the entire album is a story.

CSW: My first purchase when she died (God rest her soul) was Peter Cetera and my younger brother thought I was going to HELL for that. 2112? Okay. More money than sense. I’ll buy it. I feel like a virgin.

MT: Laughing. I am going to have to send you an album.

CSW: I mean it. Peter. Cetera. and I was headed to hell.

MT: That cracked me up!

CSW: Oh good. We’re good together when we’re drinking cheap wine.

MT: Indeed. So your family of origin was also N______?

CSW: All the way back to the tent revival. We go back to the origins.

MT: Wow; our AP used to be N______.

CSW: What is AP?

MT: Associate pastor.

CSW: Oh. I’m sure with less to drink that woulda made sense.

MT: Most likely; laughing.

CSW: I must tell you that I have to check out soon. K. is about ready for my full attention, damn man.

MT: Listen to one more song; this one won’t shock your sensibilities.

CSW: As if. Grinning. Dadgum it, the Mac isn’t working it properly. Tell me what it is.

MT: 100 years by Five for Fighting; LOVE that song.

CSW: In the AM, I’ll get my PC. Not so persnickety. Thank God for web IMing. It saves my history. Of course, that means all of our drunken rambling is saved for our posterity, if they can handle it.

MT: Super! Wonder what they will make out of it when we are dead and gone…

CSW: Oh, they will be SO embarrassed. As J. says … hell. What did D.O. say that one time in IM? Something about “Yuckers, Mom!”

MT: Laughing out loud!

CSW: It was funny. I think I saved that IM. I save everything usually. Way too drunk now. If you could see the typos… I’m Catholic. I have an excuse.

MT: I save nothing.Yeah , I am just a wanna be.

CSW: Laughing. You need a REAL excuse. Get with it.

MT: I still have to hide my booze in the bottom of the cart under the tampax.

CSW: ROLLING. Okay. Must go [be with husband], but I didn’t say that. I’ll talk to you later. Really enjoyed it!

MT: Jedi mind powers only work on the weak minded………. Laughing! But, okay, you didn’t say that.

CSW: Remember that. Or rather… don’t.