Party Report: Cosmopolitan Seminar #1

[mishalak]

So I am writing about my party results while I am drunk. Way drunk. I was absolutely correct about the amount of alcohol that eight dollars per person would buy. The result is that I'm more sloshed than I have been since that time in San Francisco when all the dirty old men were buying me Long Island Iced Teas. Good gosh the Cosmopolitan is deceptively tasty. I have consumed about two and a half and my lips seem permanently numb. If my boyfriend were here I would be severely molesting him. I did not end up making a profit on the event, but that was not the intention. I just wanted to defray the costs to the point where I was not acting as an alcoholic potlatch.

So absolute success on that score. Six people, including myself, was a very good number. Having two or four more would not disrupt the good social conversations and might actually make people feel more comfortable. And mixing the cosmos worked out very well. We tried it two different ways. The totally high class version using premium vodka (Grey Goose) and Cointreau with lime and cranberry juice and also the less hoity-toity Skyy and Triple-Sec. I like them both, though I see why some would like the less sweet version using Cointreau. If making a Cosmopolitan for my own enjoyment I think I would use triple sec, but use less so that the orange flavor would not overwhelm the lemon vodka and cranberry flavors.

And right now I think I need a icon of me consuming alcohol. For drunk posts like this one.

Many, many thanks to all who came to the event. Marlena, Scott, Laura, and... oh damn.. I forgot some names. Well I'll just have to get those into my memory in time for the next one. Either in two weeks or next month. Now I'm going to have three or four glasses of water than then crash in bed. And next time I'm going to declare a 6:30 opening time based upon when people actually showed up this Saturday.

Whee!

Addendum: Oh, and I dread the number of dishes I shall have to wash tomorrow. But I shall try not to think about that tonight. It is one in the morning and I'm trying to get enough water into my system that I won't regret this in the morning. Ten more minutes until I crash.
 

Comments

[eiricmacbean.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. Wish I could have been there.
Maybe I can talk you into mixing me a Cosmopolitan for Mile-Hi...

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that can be arranged. Are you going to stay at the hotel or were you planning on crashing with people who'll be commuting to the hotel to save money?

[eiricmacbean.livejournal.com]

Probably won't be able to afford hotel on my own, crash and commute would be a nice alternative. I'll email you when I have more solid plans. I may have a con-going rider, and know I have a rider who'll be going back up to Boulder, so I'll be driving.

...and...

[marlinya.livejournal.com]

...Mark, Adam, Ryan...

We had a great time! We had good conversation!
It was lots of fun!

Mark= sunrithegreat
Ryan= enochxarr

Re: ...and...

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Yay! What is your preference, two weeks or next month on the second Saturday?

And thank-you for the names. I would have been dreadfully embarrassed without your help. Laura's LJ name is bureinato, BTW.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

You can't be drunk, you are still spelling perfectly.

I did warn you about the perils of cocktail parties, but it sounds like you avoided all but the sore head!

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I have to make about five passes to get my writing to come out this way. The first draft results in a whole bunch of misspelled words. On the second pass the spell check gets the truly egregious mistakes. Then I reread and then read again to catch the things that spell check does not help with. And finally I use magic pixie dust to uphold my usual high standards of writing. That's why almost everything is spelled correctly despite the fact that as I type these words the room is spinning and I've been watching a parade of pink elephants with tiny pink Macedonians ridding upon them on their way to defeat an illusory Persian empire. Good alcohol. And I need more water and food before I sleep or I'll regret it in the morning.

I think I am at the "tight" stage of drunkenness. If that means the stage where one seems still in control while being dangerously drunk. Holding onto an excessively careful simulation of sobriety. At least that is how I would describe my current state of loquacious inebriation.

Two glasses of water down, two more before I crash.

[eiricmacbean.livejournal.com]

heh..you missed one...'ridding' instead of 'riding'...
But I'll forgive you since the rest of the post is so well made. Loquacious Inebriation, indeed!

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Sounds like good times.
And I'm perversely pleased that I'm not the only person I know who still has to wash dishes by hand.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

We probably don't know (&/or have never met) each other, but I recognize seven names on your ljFriendsList, and am pleased to discover yet another Do It Yourself person who likes to do things directly, and to occasionally have Very Clean Hands. (I must confess, however, to generally using a Machine to wash the laundry.)

It has suddenly struck me that Mishalak's Mixed Drinks Party is a facet of the DIY Ethos much touted by many zinesters (& practiced by old-time fanzine fans & s-f fans in general) -- and that it probably has something to do with wanting to do things exactly the way you want them done (give or take the occasional flub or shortfall), as well as the sense of Personal Accomplishment this produces. And this is aside from the fact that it's usually cheaper.

Now _I_ need to go and wash the /w/e/e/k/'/s/ dishes.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that I would still wash my glassware by hand even if I had a dish washing machine. But everything else would be chucked in the dishwasher. Washing dishes by hand is not my favorite task.

But I am persnikity about my glasses. Particularly my wine and other liquor glasses.

[gomeza.livejournal.com]

Yes on the DIY. I've been known to make my own nuts and bolts for certain purposes.

also: oog. I have a pile of dishes from a monthly potluck dinner party (last night) waiting for me.

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

I have a dead dishwasher in my kitchen I've never replaced for about 15 years. Not that you know me.

[bureinato.livejournal.com]

Good party, but was crankypants all the next day :)