<p>Oh samosas! I don’t every buy cookies normally, but the sweet faces on the doorstep make me buy GS cookies every year. All for a good cause, right? Sort of akin to the garden of eden have an empty house, samosas, thin mints and a late night on CC converge with decreased willpower. Well, several late nights. I’m walking it off, slowly.</p>
<p>I went out last night for my semi-monthly night out with my gal pals, some of whom I have known for 40 years. Guess what was on the table??? Thin mints! We ate them all and downed them with local beer - an odd combo but we were pretending we were in college. haha</p>
<p>I exercise by turning the steering wheel. Keeps up my upper body strength.</p>
<p>Yes, and driving also works those legs by pressing the gas pedal and brakes. If you have a child getting a license, it also works all of the muscles…neck, right arm for clenching the door handle, and the right leg for braking. I think we can also say that it is an aerobic exercise, since I am sure my heart rate climbs :D</p>
<p>Despite the fact that I have been in constant heart failure since my eldest got his pilot’s license at age 17, the worst moments have been since my twins got their permits. OMG!!! They are two insane young men and I strongly advise everyone to avoid their haunts in scenic western PA. You put your life in danger by being in the same county as those two maniacs.</p>
<p>Where are those thin mints??? Forget that - where is that vodka?</p>
<p>Vodka and thin mints!!! Why choose?</p>
<p>ooooohhh. I might have to forego the milk for the vodka. And yes, jym, we still had a box out the freezer, which I got out yesterday to verify that “4 cookies = a serving” post. ALL DAY and NIGHT yesterday I kept hearing those little buggers calling me. (and now they are in the “inside” freezer).</p>
<p>As for my mid-day LTS toast, since I’m not an anise fan, nor do I find the idea of “wet spaniel” appealing, I’ll just dunk those mints into the Stoly.</p>
<p>I’ll join you, and since the bar is so well stocked, make mine Belvedere, please. Cheers!</p>
<p>Next we need to invent a drink named Cherry Blossom. (Or has theat been done already? I’m new around here.)</p>
<p>I’ll take one of those Cherry Blossoms, with a toast to LTS!</p>
<p>And my neighbor’s azaleas have started to explode with color! It makes standing at the kitchen sink quite pleasureable these days!</p>
<p>^^^Hmmm, outside my kitchen window the only thing “exploding” is, well…, nothing is exploding. But I sure would like to see the piles of snow explode. It is, btw, no longer a pristeen snow-white, but rather a coated with sand and car exhaust greige. </p>
<p>Not quite the joyful view of astromom’s azaleas. </p>
<p>I will have whatever drink brings on warmth and flowers. I guess that Cherry Blossom will do.</p>
<p>Cherry Blossom</p>
<p>1 1/2 oz brandy
1/2 oz cherry brandy
1 1/2 tsp triple sec
1 1/2 tsp grenadine syrup
2 tsp lemon juice
1 cherry</p>
<p>Moisten rim of a cocktail glass with cherry brandy and rub rim in powdered sugar. Shake all ingredients (except cherry) with ice and strain into the sugar-rimmed glass. Top with the cherry and serve.</p>
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<p>sounds yummy to me</p>
<p>bravo DeniceC! that looks excellent, I’m in too.</p>
<p>I’ll have mine over ice cream!</p>
<p>Uh, I love samosas, but not as cookies! The GS cookie is a Samoa. :)</p>
<p>fencersmother, I also happen to have two young men currently in possession of Learner’s Permits. Aarrgh! I silently “brake” from the passenger’s seat, and try to keep my hands beneath myself so that it isn’t obvious that I am clenching the side of the seat or anything else. I had one of them out on the road about an hour ago and in my attempt to pick a “different” route ( I am SO bored taking both of them out) I let my mind wander and suddenly realized that we were approaching an intersection I didn’t want him near! (I had an accident 3 years ago at the intersection when someone turned into me.) I made a very quick decision, told him to throw the car into park and we did a Chinese fire drill! ;)</p>
<p>Youngest got her learner’s permit today. Luckily I have a stick shift so our new drivers always get to start on H’s car. With H in it. I had forgotten that learner’s permits are only good for instate driving… so much for hoping to hand over all those boring trips on the NJ Turnpike. Give me one of those Cherry Blossoms to go –</p>
<p>Good work, DeniseC. Here’s to you! Here’s to LTS! And here’s to all my new friends at Sinner’s Alley!</p>
<p>(I’m getting pretty plastered here at work as I toss back these Spandrels, vodka and thin mints, and Cherry Blossoms)</p>
<p>DeniseC, you speak Russian? 
Wow, your drink looks yummy! I’ll have one, too.</p>
<p>A Cherry Blossom - to LTS!</p>
<p>
with Thin Mints on the side!</p>
<p>BB - just enough to drink heavily with friends ;)</p>
<p>A Learner’s Permit is only good for instate driving? Since when? oops?</p>
<p>I’m thinking of not only our family, but our friends. We have both been guilty of letting kids help on those boring interstate drives. Gotta get those 50 hours of practice in somehow.</p>