Monday

• 375 ml red wine - home
  

Sunday

• 375 ml red wine - home

Helvetica

• 1 bottle Corona - home
  
• 1 shot Tres Generaciones Anejo - home
  

The Ten Dollar Margarita

• 1 bottle Corona - home
• 1 bottle Estrella cerveza - Ocho, Ballard
• 1 Ten Dollar Margarita - Ocho, Ballard

Mmmm, the $10 margarita, made with El Tesoro Anejo tequila. The food was also tasty; especially 'shrooms.

Thursday

• 2 Coronas - home
  

Departure

• 1/2 bottle MHL - Michelle's house
• 2 margaritas - El Torito Grill, Irvine

Michelle and I took the dogs to Dog Beach, an area on the beach where dogs can roam free, as long as you pick up their poop. Later we rode the cruisers through Huntinton, Newport, and into Balboa. It was another beautiful day. We ended it by meeting Christopher at El Torito Grill in Irvine for some dinner. Above are some pictures from the day. After I left I learned that there was a 3.1 earthquake.

Baja Sharkeez! Baja Willies!

• 3 bottles MHL - Michelle's house
• 1 margarita - Baja Sharkeez, Newport
• 1 32 oz. Bud Light - Baja Sharkeez, Newport
• 1 shot Cazadores tequila - Baja Willies, Huntington
• 2 bottles Corona - Baja Willies, Huntington
• 2 Jim Beam rocks - Villa Nova, Newport
  

Michelle took Wednesday off, so we had the evening to party. We started at Baja Sharkeez after I picked her up from school and were there an hour or so. Everything about the place invites a party. We grabbed a seat outside and ordered their happy hour margaritas and beers and food. Michelle matched me drink for drink.

Later that night we hooked up with a few of her friends (who all happened to be teachers) at Baja Willies. Baja Willies is where Christopher and I learned how to make frozen margaritas. This is where we learned how big the hole must be when blending them. It's been a running joke since. After Baja Willies, we went into Newport to Villa Nova, an Italian place on the water with nightly entertainment. It's been voted the best piano bar five times in a row and the singer was great, singing many songs from Journey, Billy Joel, and others. It was a great night.

I really like this picture of Michelle and I above. It was taken at Baja Sharkeez and I took it. I like Michelle's expression and the lighting and the fact that neither of us were looking at the camera.

Main Street HB

• 2 pints Longboard Pale Ale - The Longboard, HB
• 1 24 oz. mug Newcastle Brown - Heroes, HB
• 2 Patron Citronage margaritas - Freds, HB
• 1 MHL - The Longboard, HB
  

A beautiful day today! I ran, I walked, I ate, I drank. It doesn't get any more perfect than that.

Easter Sunday

• 3 flutes champagne - The Hacienda Easter Brunch - Santa Ana, CA
• 1 bottle MHL - Michelle's house

Today is Easter, and it is also my mom's birthday. She would've been 63. My sister and I didn't really talk about it that much. We had a good day though. We started off with a run at Huntington Beach with the dogs, then made it to Easter mass at noon, then to champagne brunch at 1:30. The brunch was tasty and filling, so afterward we went by South Coast Plaza, but alas, they were closed. So, we went home where Michelle promptly passed out face down on the bed which left me awake to use her laptop. I made a movie, posted it the Title Pending blog and basically waited for her to wake up. We ended up not doing anything later, except Michelle worked on schoolwork while I watched "Ten Years Younger". Today was a special Easter however because it fell so early in the year. It won't happen again the year 2228. Read on:

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Based on the above information, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22)but that is rare.

Here's the interesting information. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95
years old or above). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here are the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.

So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

I know my mom would've really liked having her birthday on Easter Sunday. Happy birthday mom. :-)

the O.C.

• 3 bottles Miller High Life - SOJO's house
• 1 pint cask conditioned El Camino IPA - Pizza Port - San Clemente
• 1 pint Trestles Ale - Pizza Port - San Clemente
• 1 pint Wheat - Pizza Port - San Clemente
• 1 pint Belgium Ale - Backstreet Brewery - Irvine
• 1 bottle Pacifico - Taco Mesa - Costa Mesa
• 1 pint PBR - The Goathill - Costa Mesa

Good Friday

• 1 bottle Corona - home
• 1 Imperial pint Fuller's London Pride - Elephant & Castle
• 1 pint Manny's - Red Lion deck
• 1 margarita - Red Lion deck

Thursday

• 1 large glass red wine - home
• 1 bottle Corona - home
  

DONE!

• 1 glass (small) red wine - school
• 1 bottle Corona - school
• 3 glasses Zinfandel - home

Done with report cards! Time to party!

Tuesday

• 3 bottles Guinness - home
  

St. Patrick's Day?

• 3 bottles Guinness - home
• 1 Irish Car Bomb (light) - home

The Irish Car Bomb is made with a pint of Guinness, a shot of Irish whiskey, and a shot of Irish cream. The Irish cream is poured into the shot glass first and then the whiskey is poured over that, using a spoon so that the two don't mix (I didn't succeed in this). The shot glass is dropped into the pint of Guinness and then consumed very quickly. It has to be consumed quickly so that the cream does not curdle with the acidity of the Guinness. If done correctly it is absolutely delicious. Unfortunately, I am not a drinker with speed (although I tend to drink fast) and so there was a little curdling involved. My "light" version was made by only doing a half shot of the hard alcohols.

I spent the entire evening typing up report card comments. It is not fun. It is not festive. Is is fucked.

I did manage to make my own St. Patrick's Day however in the back room, which has become my cell for the past few days. Here are some pictures documenting my holiday.

• U2 - Achtung Baby

The Sunday That Never Was.

• 3 bottles Guinness - home
  
• 1 Bushmills & Bailey's* - home
  

Same sad story as yesterday. Didn't get as much accomplished today. I'm turning in.


*I'm using Caroline's, not Baileys.

The Saturday That Never Was.

• 1 bottle Guinness - home
• 1 24 oz. bottle Corona - home
• 1 Wild Turkey rocks - home
• 1 Basil Haydens rocks - home

It was a stay-at-home-all-day Saturday to work on report cards. I hate it and it's sucked all the energy from me. I can no longer type.

The Friday That Never Was

• 2 pints Olympia - the Canterbury
• 2 pints cask conditioned IPA - Old Town Alehouse, Ballard

There was an in-service (what us teachers call "we don't have to teach, but we have to be trained how to teach better" days) today at St. Joes in Capitol Hill. This was fortunate because the Canterbury is just blocks away. I waited until after the inservice to visit and it was perfect...quiet and worn-in. Brian was able to join me as well, so we had a few drinks and then went to Macy*s where they were having this Kee-Razy sale (for employees). I had planned to get some fun clothes, but they didn't have quite the fun clothes I was looking for. So I bought shoes. Which I was going for anyway. A $40 pair of All-Stars I got for about $20 because of Susan's discount and because the pair I was getting was the last pair and they had a scuff mark on them, so I got an additional 10% off! Yay!
Brian bailed and Susan and I headed to Ballard to meet Lisa, but Lisa had a headache and didn't feel like going out, so Susan and I went to the Ballard Loft because I had a craving for a brautwurst (why am I the one with the cravings?). We sat down and waited for almost 15 minutes and no one came to help us, even after Susan requested a menu, so we decided to leave and instead went to the Old Town Alehouse that had good food and beer. So we ate and drank and went home.
I started watching "Flip That House" while on the couch, but soon fell asleep sitting up. Finally after the show Susan woke me up and told me to go to bed, which I did.

Thursday

• 1 pint o' Guinness - home
  

Wednesday

• 2 glasses Dona Paula Malbec - home