Cotton, movies, beer, and fire....

It's about that time.  They are plowing the fields and busting ass trying to get everything harvested in time.  The cotton is blossoming as well:

What a week.  What a week.  I survived though.  I decided to go see a movie at Jen's theatre...I took mom, Uncle John, and Aunt Melissa with me.  I wanted to see how Jen would react, so I played up the femme in me. I showed up at her theatre where she was hustlin' because it was a busy Friday night....(she looked great as always and I have to admit, seeing her in that take charge environment is always a turn on, lol)  This is what I opted for femme wise...

 

My hair is long enough in the front and on top to actually use a straightening iron on...crazy.

We watched Couples Retreat with Vince Vaughn, which was freaking hilarious, but didn't beat out The Hangover as my favorite movie this year... afterwards we headed to a sports bar and grille for a beer.  I had talked the fam into this prior to leaving the house and they were game.  Uncle John is always game (he used to go with me to the Lipstick Lounge, a lesbian bar in Nashville, TN for drinks on the weekend)... so a sports bar doesn't even phase him.  He likes getting out.  Mom and aunt melissa aren't old bitties but have their moments. 

Aunt Melissa agreed to be the DD for the evening.... we started drinking, we stuck to a pitcher of Michelob Ultra, nothing too crazy, plus lower in carbs and did our first toast to me graduating, which was cool.  Jen stopped by for a minute (she couldn't stay because she had to pick up lil man from the sitter).... well three pitchers later we were feeling fabulous.  I'm going to have schedule a celebration evening where Jen can participate and drink too ;)... I walked Jen to her car and didn't realize how buzzed I was until I yanked her hair to pull her face to me for a kiss and did it a lil too rough and totally caught Jen off guard.  But I digress.

We decided to head out to my brothers house--he was having a bon fire.  By this time I had a nice buzz and mom and John were toasted, lol.  The fire wasn't really burning because the wood he was using was entirely too green... piss poor planning, lol... that didn't keep me from taking pics and drinking a few more beers... My mom like NEVER drinks.... she took my camera and took a pic of herself and I almost pissed my pants when I was flipping through my camera looking at the pics I took and found this one:

How could I not love this lady.

 

Uncle John's drunk ass... my goofy ass, and my lil brother Jeff.

 

For us to have been drinking, this pic turned out pretty good.

 

Me and Uncle John...

 

Needless to say, mom slept hard (aka passed out) last night...

 

Me and Karen (Jeffrey's Girlfriend) I like her best in very small amounts :)

 

Can we discuss the fact that my brother is drinking out of a freaking Mason Jar... seriously dude... does it get anymore country than that????

Tomorrow is a trip to the Peanut Fest...if it's not raining.... for now... more sleep is on the agenda.

Bzzzzzzzzed.

Jen knew something was up when I met her in the driveway when she got off of work Saturday night and told her to set her stuff down, "let's chill out here for a bit" while I unlocked my car and grabbed my emergency pack of smokes (Marlboro Smooths)... She Looked at me questionably with eyebrow raised a look that translated to, WTF? is wrong with you, you never wanna hang outside in the dark and you like NEVER smoke...

Hehe... I shared a cigarette with her and sat on the hood of my car, happy go lucky, chatty Cathy style... just full of randomness... She wasn't used to me in this manner.  I admitted that I had misjudged when she'd get to my house and started drinking too early, lol.  While I had bought my customized six pack on Friday, I didn't drink it until Saturday... I saved the Purple Haze since she had never tried it so we could "share the experience..."

So what was up?  Well I was on beer 5 and 1/2 (and for me who only occasionally taps the rockies a beer or two at a time that was crucial)...lol. So I had a nice lil buzz, was excited Jen had made it to my house... I had already put lil man to bed so he was knocked out...that meant a few more beers to unwind and we'll just see what happened...(side note: Jen has requested that from now on when I refer to "tapping the rockies" it should be code for having sex with her since she's from colorado/Rockies....but I don't know how I feel about that since I've always referred to her as an all you can eat mexican buffet...but I'll consider it)

She finished off the last of my Wild Blue blueberry Lager and wanted more, but all I had was Purple Haze which I told her tasted like a fruity beer with a "bong hit" after taste--she disagreed but didn't hate it, lol. Long story short, as the night progressed we got sillier and sillier....

 

Jen in my Yankees cap-- I love this pic of her...

 

After a few Purple Haze(s) :)  I'll take this is good shit for 1000 Alex

 

Purple Haze commercial?? Come on give it a try, everyone's doing it.

 

I looked over to see lil man's Spongebob shoes and just HAD to try them on... (you may recall, he's FIVE!!)

 

Pepper snuggles with Jen, Jen offers some Purple Haze, pepper declined.

The evening concluded with some X rated deeds (I'm sure everyone can use their imagination if you even want to go there....) The funniest thing is that I had this whole kinky fun evening planned (alcohol and waiting on Jen to get off of work definitely contributed to my master plan)... My kinky bubble was almost busted when I was in the middle of some stuff thinking "Yeah I'm a rock star...you like that huh...and she randomly looks at me and says, "So um, do you want me to get the step ladder..." HAHAHAHAHA.... I could have died.  I felt three feet tall to her eight... In real life I'm like 5'3 to her 5'7 or 5'8, I dunno... my plotting prior to her arrival had failed to calculate the height difference  in some areas of my "master plan..."  I love that the two of us can laugh at even the most inappropriate times and still love each other in the end.

SUNDAY:

We spent the day with Grandma, taking her on a car ride and running errands.  We all had lunch together, made a few stops, visited some folks and after dropping Gma off at the house for a nap, ended up at mom's house for some burgers on the grill.

 

My brother the grill master??? His shirt was too short and his ensemble was rather scary, seriously dude--you left your house in camo slippers, boardshorts and a shirt that was way to short.  YIKES.  The regulator is going out on mom's grill so it took like three hours for the burgers to cook.

 

Sunset from mom's back porch.

A fabulous weekend indeed.

Beer Review

 

I feel it's important to start at the beginning.  Friday night I started getting a little stir crazy.  I should have been writing a ten or a twenty page paper, both due within the week, but I wasn't in the mood.  I needed to get out of the house.  It's hard to go anywhere and actually drink because the drive is too far and I'm not trying to get a DUI or kill anyone on the way home, ya know.

Well I sent Jen a text at work and asked her to meet me at IHOP when she got off, before she picked up lil man from the sitter.  I invited my sister (I knew that with her being whoa pregnant she wouldn't be able to resist pancakes, lol.  (I'm so evil, I know)... Well I knew if I was already going out that I'd have an excuse to go to Farm Fresh and buy beer.  Farm Fresh has way more beer selection than most places around here, but it's a pain in the ass to make a trip to since I live in the country it's a damn hike to go anywhere... but I digress.  I wanted Purple Haze.  One of my favorite beers EVER. They sell it in 6 packs there, though it's always better on tap.

I get there, Mandi with me, very pregnant and due any day now, standing in the beer cooler and discover that I can BUILD MY OWN SIX PACK....um, exciting.  I couldn't resist.  I bought the Purple Haze and built my own.... YAY.  Mandi helped me pick out a couple...I was in the mood to try something new.

  

My customized six pack consisted of:

 

Saranac Adirondack Lager : I picked this one because Adirondack chairs are one of my favorite things... it, like the chairs point of origination is the Adirondack Mountains (NY)... This beer was pretty fabulous, but probably not one that I'd drink all the time.

 

Starr Hill's Northen Lights is brewed right here in Virginia (about three hours away around Charlottesville--where UVA is)... it turns out that this beer's original name was STINKY-- and they should have kept it that in order to prevent me from buying it, UGH....HORRID. I picked this one because I liked the bottle, haha.

 

 Starr Hill's Jomo Lager was actually picked by Mandi.  She thought for sure that the J was prounced H (like in spanish) and she felt that drinking "Homo" lager was appropriate since I'm a homo she told me... I played along.  This one was actually pretty decent.   But again, not one that I'd drink all the time.

 

Hoegaarden is a Belgian White Wheat beer.  Not bad, but not my favorite among the wheats... I picked it for obvious reasons...it's called Hoe Garden (with an extra a, lol)  It's website claims it to be the "drink of gods"--I wouldn't go that far, but it was eh...alright.

 

Road Dog Porter by Flying Dog was my choice because (I don't know if you can make it out in the picture I took) but it's slogan says "Good beer, No shit"...How could I leave that one sitting there on the shelf and not give it a go. It's a very dark malty beer with hints of chocolate and licorice...it was pretty damn good in my opinion.  It turns out that it's brewed in Colorado (where Jen is from) so in telling her all about it and how they faught the state of CO for the right to put "good beer no shit" on the label for FIVE YEARS....wow, I thought the Commonwealth of Virginia was uptight... Jen shared with me that she knows of many breweries near where she's from and how the next time we go to see her folks she'll take me on  a tour where I can sample all kinds of beer so long as I sign a waiver saying I won't drink and drive... um, check because I don't drive there anyway...why should I when Jen knows where everything is already, haha.  I'd drink this one again, probably before I'd drink Guiness (which I go through phases in drinking) (but not sense my sleep walking incident, that's another blog though)

 

Wild Blue Blueberry Lager was my FAVORITE OF THE EVENING!!! Jen enjoyed this one as well...I may have to venture back to Farm Fresh to buy more in the future...I need to start and finish my papers first though... lol.  This one was super fabulous and it's purple from the blueberries and real fruit juice its brewed with.  I'd recommend this one to EVERYBODY...anytime.  Mandi picked this one for me :)  Good job--now if she'll just pop this kid out already, breast feed for a while and then get back to able to drink every now and then we'll be in BIZNAZ...I'm thinking that come May for our birthdays she'll be drinking again....EXCITING.

After the time spent on writing this blog, drinking all these beers, and getting overly excited by the concept of customizing my own six pack...I have determined that I NEED A HOBBY.