The rest of my summer vacation

Well, a lot of people have said to me that my vacation didn’t sound too relaxing due to the 200 mile ride from Seattle to Portland in two days. The way people repeat to others what I did over my summer vacation, I can just hear the quote marks surrounding the word “relaxing.” Well, really, [...]

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Happy St. Patty’s Day

Some lush-ku for you in the spirit of the “holiday.” Light-weights drink green beer And speak with emerald tongues; Hop-heads drink Guinness. (If I had more syllables, I could have added “and grow hair on their chests.” Which is what my dad claims happens when you drink a stout.) I’m neither Irish Nor Catholic. But [...]

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Happy hour at Wolf Creek

As it was rainy and cold, Michael and I meandered down to Wolf Creek Winery in Norton for a little Friday evening relaxation and chilling out. We bought Subway sandwiches and enjoyed the *last* bottle of Exodus for the season. It was delish. One of the Wolf Creek cats, sensing my affinity for cats–or rather, [...]

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The season of pumpkins

I know fall is here when Blue Moon’s Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale becomes available in stores. This is Mars Girl’s favorite beer. Coors (the brewer of Blue Moon) is not the only beer company to come out with a pumpkin ale. Oh, no; the beer section of the local grocery store is filled with all [...]

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Berghold Merlot

On Saturday, the bf and I went to a performance of the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls for my company’s picnic. I decided this was the perfect moment to open the bottle of Berghold Estate Winery’s Merlot that I purchased while visiting Lodi, California in May. I remembered that this was [...]

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My birthday: a hung-over adventure with sexual inuendo

Warning: This post is not rated. Parental guidance is advised. At this point in my life, you’d think I’d know better than to match drinks with my father, the expert beer drinker. But, of course, I didn’t listen to myself, yet again, and on Good Friday, I took my dad out for dinner because I [...]

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