Thank you, hair, for behaving today, which happens to be my birthday.* You are now forgiven for the other 364 days of the year.**
The league is full of Ovechkins, Khabibulins, Rafalskis, and Frolovs, and I get Johnson and Brown
On Saturday, the beau drove me to Los Angeles to see the Kings play the Calgary Flames. He surprised me with seats directly behind the Kings bench. We couldn’t really see either end of the ice, but I got a front-row view of what NHL players do when they’re not on the ice, which apparently involves chewing on their mouth guards and staring into the middle distance. The Kings ended up losing 5-2, but it didn’t matter, because OMG. Erik Ersberg looked at me! And Drew Doughty did, too. I was glanced at by professional hockey players FOR MY BIRTHDAY.***
After the game was over, we walked around downtown L.A. for a while, gawking. We ended up at Cole’s, where we sat at the bar and were each served a delicious Ginger Rogers. This got us talking about signature wedding drinks, and whether we should have them.****
One of our criteria for selecting a venue was that they permit liquor on the premises, so we’ve got that straightened out. Now we just need to figure out the drinks. Will we have a full bar, or a couple of select mixed drink options?
The beau is interested in liquor infusions, and I support this wholeheartedly, especially if my contribution involves sitting on the couch while the beau brings me delicious, delicious samples. He’s already done bacon-infused vodka (so good in bloody marys), so he’s looking for something new. Something like… ginger-infused gin? Ohhh, I would be happy if the Ginger Rogers was one of our signatures. We have some friends that aren’t into gin, it’s true. But if we had a basic bar to go along with it (whiskey and coke, vodka and tonic), no one would miss anything, right? Right?
Can we have signature drinks and a bar? Can we have both? Is this too much booze? Is that a dumb question? Are you having signature drinks? Is it to save money, or are you just interested in maintaining a unified theme?
* I secretly love the fact that my birthday falls on the same day as the fictitious, ill-timed wedding of Roger Sterling’s daughter Margaret on the show Mad Men. Yes, I am one of those crazy Mad Men people. Please carry on about your business.
** No, you’re not.
*** Have I mentioned the beau is awesome? For he is awesome.
**** I love how anything and everything in regular life gets turned into wedding fodder, these days.
1. There is no such thing as too much alcohol.
2. Everything does revert back to wedding chatter. I can’t go into a store, even a supermarket, without looking for wedding inspiration. It’s an illness, I tell you.
who cares if you could see the ice? you and i both know that watching nhl players on the bench is one of your favorite pastimes.
i forgot to tell you – at drinks on friday my detroit-raised friend and i discussed hockey, don cherry, and that tippy-tappy tic-tac-toe bullshit.
Would that I could have joined that convo…
Im a douche with poor reading skills. Totally forgot to say happy birthday. Read right over that.
HA! Thank you! It was a great day.
Seriously. EVERYTHING sets it off. I see a bouquet in a market, and I think: wedding flowers. I see a retro picture of a lady baking a pie, and I think: wedding dessert. I see clothespins in a cabinet at home, and I think: what if we hung up pictures around the wedding reception site using clothespins?
It’s completely, utterly ridiculous. Wedding brain indeed.
I blame wedding brain