What’s your favorite toast? Normally I do, “Drink Cold, Piss Warm!” I didn’t come up with that on my own– I am not that creative. At all. I heard it in a movie. A dirty movie. Henry and June. I saw it in college. This evening, as I poured the 3 Buck Chuck, I said, “I love how 3 Buck Chuck smells… like Freedom and La Femme Nikita!” And that’s how we toasted, “To FREEDOM and La Femme Nikita!” When I first got this place, my Aunt Helen gave me a case of 3 Buck Chuck and I remember spending my evenings reveling in my freedom by drinking wine and watching episode after episode of La Femme Nikita– so it’s all intertwined.

I also do “Na zdorovje” Which sounds like, “Nahs DRAH vie YA” At least that’s how I pronounce it. My cousin Lenka might disagree. I say it when I am drinkingSlivovitz or Becherovka.

Speaking of favorite liqeurs– my newest fave is Domaine de Canton French Ginger Liqueur. It is heavenly! Ginger-flavored liquer.. it’s like drinking a Dark and Stormy without rum and without Barritts Ginger Beer. LOVE IT!

Yeah.

(FYI, I have created a new category for this type of post, I’m calling it BOOZE)

We stayed just south of Myrtle Beach in Surfside. There’s a Holiday Inn there that we like. Our time was spent sitting on the beach or boogie boarding. I love riding the waves in to shore and I am really good at it. In fact, I should take surfing lessons. I think I’ll put that on my wishlist.

After Myrtle we went to Charleston. I’ve been there before when I was younger but for some odd reason I have no recollection of this gorgeous city! I loved walking around looking at the beautiful buildings. It was not anything like Philadelphia, that’s for sure!

We went to two restaurants in Charleston– Magnolia’s and Jestine’s. Magnolia’s was unbelievable. It was a top 5 meal in my book. Jestine’s was supposed to be even better– especially because Anthony Bourdain was there not too long ago. But honestly, I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was disappointed.

Yeah, so I ate moon pies, Charleston Chews and drank RC cola. Walked all over the city in 100 degree heat. Toured the USS Yorktown Aircraft carrier and saw dolphins frolicking in the water below. Enjoyed the Aquarium in Myrtle Beach– felt like I was scuba diving without having to immerse myself in water. Body surfed some tremendous waves and just missed a shark attack that occurred only a mile north. Feasted on catfish, fried green tomatoes and grits. And had a great time.

I’m going away for a few days and my plan was to try to schedule out some posts– but each time I should have clicked the schedule button I hit publish instead. So you’re getting a weeks worth of posts today. Pace yourselves.

I’m off to South Carolina for a few days. If you have any trip suggestions or want to try to meet up- leave a comment.

Okay, I know you guys totally aren’t into this fixation of mine of trying to replace Nikita in my viewing habits… but whatever. Here’s another reason why I don’t like Alias. The man they have playing Sidney’s father, a hardened, cruel, heartless man, double agent, espionage expert, is portrayed by Victor Garber. Yes, this Victor Garber:

I just can’t take him seriously!!!!

Gosh I love GODSPELL! Especially the God Save the People number. Dang it, now it’s stuck in my head… probably for the next year!

I’ve been in a bit of a 60′s music mood ever since rocking out to The 1910 Fruitgum Company on Wednesday. What I find so difficult to believe is that for a 10 year period tons of bands produced tons of really great music! And then the 70′s hit and music shifted but there was still some pretty good stuff. The 80′s saw some great music but right around 1992 it stopped. Sure there were a few good songs produced but nothing that matches the old stuff. Did we just run out of songs? Does someone need to invent some new chords or notes or something? Is the fault of this dearth cause by my generation, those born in the 70′s? Maybe our brains really are totally rotted out from all those I Dream of Jeannie reruns and we are just incapable of coming up with anything…good?

Found this video of the Association on Youtube. They actually played LIVE! No lip syncing as far as I can tell. Good stuff!

This evening as I tried to clean my room, I watched the first disk of the first season of Alias. There’s a lot of Nikita in there. The main difference is that Nikita was awesome and Sidney isn’t. It’s the whole Jennifer Garner thing. I don’t think I can get over her in the role. She’s not a bad actress and I actually kind of liked her in Juno, I just find that she doesn’t convey Amazonian strength to me. That and I find her annoying. I may queue up the next disk and see if I warm to her. Might as well give her another shot because I can’t keep watching Nikita over and over and over again. My obsession with that show has gone from cute to sick to creepy.

I just found the Website, Ask Peter Tork. It’s exactly what you suspect, Peter Tork has an advice column. I am toying with the idea of asking him a question that has nagged me ever since January 25, 2004. That was the night Peter was unbelievably RUDE to me and broke my heart. I want to ask him: WHY WERE YOU RUDE TO ME!?! I wasn’t acting weird or asking you to go above and beyond! EXPLAIN YOUR ACTIONS!

In other more exciting news, I met The 1910 Fruitgum Company on Wednesday! Their songs include such hits as Simon Says, Indian Giver, 1 2 3 Red Light, Goody Goody Gumdrops, Special Delivery, May I Take A Giant Step (Into Your Heart). Can I tell you these fellows were just LOVELY!!! Friendly and kind! The total opposite of Peter Tork! In fact, the guys were so nice, they even posed for a picture with me:

How awesome is that? Peter Tork needs to take some lessons from The 1910 Fruitgum Company!

Here’s a video of The 1910 Fuitgum Company singing Goody Goody Gumdrops:

I am tired. I didn’t go to bed too late. I slept fine. The alarm roused me at 6 and I stayed in bed until 6:30. There’s a presentation I’m registered to attend and I gotta get myself ready for it but my eyelids feel like there’s weights taped to them and I keep making silly mistakes. I decided to wear my gray pants… so I went to the hallway and checked my purse for them. As I was wading through my purse it hit me, my pants aren’t going to be here! I know why I was checking my purse. I had the gray pants in a bag in the hallway the other day… so it’s not like I am totally insane. Just a little.

I was supposed to meet Von Hayes last night but he hurt his back playing golf. It didn’t matter much to me because I have no idea who Von Hayes is anyway.

Yeah, I was at Camden’s Campbell’s field last night watching the Riversharks lose to visitor. All I can say is that Campbell’s field is GORGEOUS! Or at least the view is gorgeous! If you are in the Philly area and haven’t been there– definitely check it out.

Guys, I have to get ready. My makeup isn’t on and my hair isn’t done. All I want to do is stay flopped here on my ugly, faux leather chair with duct tape holding the seat together. But this presentation is important. It’s all about YouTube and I think there’s a good chance I might get some good stuff from it. Plus, the guys who’s presenting is an NLPer and Toastmaster and I want to contrast his presentation style with my own. As much as I want to believe he will be almighty– hypnotizing me with his preternatural skill– I am sure he’ll just be okay. And if he does hypnotize me with his abilities.. it will get me all the more ready to join my local Toastmasters group.

Google Alerts delivered this link to my inbox this morning. How odd? I guess there are other inhabitants of Donnaville. And they are even weirder than me!

At long last I finally watched the first disk of the first season of Burn Notice. I quite liked it. There was a small La Femme Nikita vibe that I appreciated. And Bruce Campbell was in it and that’s always a good thing. I also like how the love interest wasn’t an 18 year-old girl but rather a mature woman. Unfortunately, I wasn’t happy with her connection to a notorious terrorist organization. Whatever. I’m not going to be picky. I might be able to fall in love with it… just gotta queue up some more episodes.

Tomorrow I am getting the first disk of the first season of Alias. I so want to love this show but I just despise Jennifer Garner. There is something about her I don’t like!

But I am going to try to look past it… Could some big time Hollywood producer please make a remake of The Fugitive and cast Peta Wilson in David Janssen’s role? PLEASE!?!