Happy New Year Everyone! Probably not quite ready to start drinking again, but after coming out of the holidays and entertaining alot of guests, I started looking for an easy way to make drinks from the hodge podge of liquor that I store in my liquor cabinet. You may be partied out, but have fun with coming up with your next big drink for 2009.
We're always on the lookout for free stuff. If you are DIY'r. Do It Yourselfer...Why did I even write DIY if I was going to write all this? If you are DIY'r then you know what DIY means... I digress.Â
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In all the stress of wedding planning, its important to reflect on what's important...
As if by fate, Jan was the only one home as she was jolted from sleep to the shrill and deafening sounds of the smoke detectors. She stood on her lawn and stared in a trancelike state at the fireball that was once her home. She watched horrified as the new drapes that she had just purchased for the living room seemed to dance around in a burst of flames around the still glowing Christmas tree. Even though there was a chaotic flurry of firefighters attacking the beast that was growing inside the house, she knew that her home could not be saved. As the activity swarmed around her, Jan was strangely reminded of the wonderful memories of camping and staring into the campfire as a child and how precious those fleeting moments are. That relaxing feeling of staring into a fire and feeling the warmth on her skin was now replaced by the emptiness of just losing all of her prized possessions in what seemed like a dazed nightmare. Had she left the curling iron on, was it the furnace, a faulty wire on the Christmas tree? The reason seemed so unimportant compared to the result.
She so wished that her husband of twenty six years was there beside her, but he was arriving home tomorrow from a business trip. She also thought of all the papers she had laid out on the kitchen table in anticipation of being able to spend time with her engaged daughter to plan her upcoming wedding.  The last 5 minutes she had acted purely on survival instincts to get out of the house safely, fighting the urge to want to try and put out the fire herself. As she began  to replay those moments in her head, she noticed that she had been hugging and clinging to an object that she had grabbed at the last second as she exited the house. Subconsciously, she had grabbed the one possession that she knew she couldn't replace.    She loosened her grip and looked down on the one priceless item that she saved from the fire...
