Emily Meets Mojitos

The story so far:
On Friday night I went to to McGuinness landing and ordered a pomegranite mojito. The waitress, who was pretty busy since it was friday night and there was a rush after the power came back on Friday, brought me a Raspberry Mojito instead, in a delicious twist of fate. It was so ridiculousl, delightfully, amazingly good that i had another with dinner. The ingredients were listed as cane syrup, mint, raspberry vodka, and lime. My mission was clear: Recreate that drink!

Goal:
The mojito I had at McGuinness Landing was, as previously mentioned, delicious. The best thing Matt and I could think to compare it to was a white freezie. But... a fresh, delicious, alcoholic white freezie. Not that you could taste the alcohol, which was awesome. It was refreshing and slightly minty. The Mojito was presented in a tall, thin glass. It had sprigs of mint in the bottom held in place with ice cubes, the drink was poured on top, what looked like a raspberry slightly muddled (bar terminology for smashed) on top, and a fresh raspberry or two and lime wedge as garnish.

Round 1:
Found all ingredients, except cane syrup. Discovered that many recipes call for "simple syrup" (water and sugar boiled and cooled) or sugar. Simple syrup is preferred because it dissolves better, but I chose to use confectioners sugar because I thought it would dissolve well and save the mess of boiling sugar water.

The recipe so far:
1. Placed mint leaves from 1 sprig of mint in bottom of glass, muddled with back of spoon
2. Put some ice on top
3. Mixed 2oz Raspberry Vodka, somewhere between 1.5 and 2 oz lime juice, appx 1 tbsp confectioners sugar and a little bit of water in cocktail shaker.
4. Like a dummy, poured it in the glass without tasting. Added raspberries, tasted. Not even close to sweet enough, vodka flavour too strong.
5. Dumped whole mess in cocktail shaker... screw presentation. Added more water & 2 more tbsp of sugar. Shook, poured back in glass.

Result: Tasty, but not quite sweet enough

Round 2:
1 & 2: Same as round 1
3: Mixed 2oz Raspberry Vodka, probably 1oz lime juice, 4tbsp confectioners sugar, water to appx. 3/4 fill cocktail shaker, shook
4. Poured into glass, topped with raspberries.

Result: Close, but not quite. Sweetness seemed right, but vodka flavour came through more than the first time, likely due to the drink not being diluted enough. Hypothesize that same lime juice as round 1 with slightly more sugar and water will do the trick.

Now to finish my drink, so I can get on with round 3...

How Girly am I? (yoinked from Kama)

How Girly Am I?
Do you:
[x] You own over 10 bottles of nail polish
[ ] You own a designer purse
[ ] You own perfume that cost over $60
[ ] You had/have fake nails
[x] You have more body/hair products than you can use
[ ] Your pet is a chihuahua/Pomeranian/Terri
er/Siamese
[ ] You have clothes/shoes/accessories for your pet
[x] You have enough clothes to cover an entire refugee camp.
[X] You have enough pictures to create your own wallpaper.
[x] A pink comforter, carpeting, walls or sheets.
total so far: 5

Do you:
[ ] Spend more time at the mall than you do at home/work
[x] Have a hair color that is not natural
[x] Have "blonde moments" at least once a day
[x] Buy stuff because it's awesome and then never wear it
[ ] Constantly keep your phone at your side
[x] Dance around in your room when nobody else is home
[ ] Have a name for your car
[x] Know what celebrity is dating who and who broke up this week
[ ] Refuse to go out in public without makeup
[ ] Prefer to be called "princess"
total so far: 10

Do you adore:
[x] Makeup
[ ] Glitter
[x] The Color Pink
[x] Shopping
[x] Jewelry
[ ] Mirrors
[x] Chick flicks
[x] Shoes
[x] Rainbows
[x] Unicorns
[x] Disney Movies
[x] Candles
[X] Flowers
[x] Stuffed Animals
[x] Purses
total so far: 23

Do you shop at:
[ ] Coach-the outlet store
[ ] Forever 21
[x] Victoria's Secret
[ ] Guess
[ ] Claires
[ ] Express
[ ] Delias
[ ] MAC
[ ] Sephora
[ ] Bebe
total so far:24

DO YOU SAY:
[x]Bitch
[x] Whatever
[x] Oh my gosh/goodness
[x] Honey
[ ] Fugly
[ ] That's hot
[ ] Dunzo
[x] Darling
[ ] Psh
[ ] Cutie
[ ] Hottie
[ ] Skank
[x] Totally
[x] For Sure
[ ] Fantabulous
total so far: 31

Do You Read:
[x] Cosmopolitan
[x] Glamour
[x] Marie Claire
[ ] Elle Girl
[ ] Teen Vogue
[ ] People
[ ] Us Weekly
[ ] Star
[ ] Self
[x] PerezHilton.com
[ ] Dlisted.com
[ ] 17online.com
[ ] people.com
[ ] usmagazine.com
[ ] popsugar.com
[ ] Pink Is The New Blog.com
total so far: 35

Do You Love These:
[x] Legally Blonde
[ ] Elizabethtown
[x] Mean Girls
[ ] Now & Then
[x] The Notebook
[ ] A Walk to Remember
[x] Sweet Home Alabama
[x] Where the Heart is
[ ] Just My Luck
[ ] John Tucker Must Die
[x] Centerstage
[x] Bring it On
[x] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
[x] Mona Lisa Smile
[ ] My Girl
total so far: 44

Are you Addicted to...
[ ] America's Next Top Model
[x] Project Runway
[ ] Desperate Housewives
[ ] The Simple Life
[ ] 8th & Ocean
[x] Sex & the City
[ ] Grey's Anatomy
[ ] The O.C.
[ ] Laguna Beach/The Hills
[ ] Nip/Tuck
[x] Gilmore Girls
total so far: 47

count how many you checked, multiply by 2, and that is your girly percentage!
I'm apparently 94% girly.

Love. Love. Love.

Something about these makes me giddy and stupid. One day they shall be mine....

My Mother, the Engineer

Backstory: My mom bought a spiffy new flat panel tv when our old one died but (as I discovered today) couldn't get the remotes set up properly

Tonight's Events:
Mom: "Emily, were you watching TV today? The TV's not working."
Em: "Yes...?"
Mom: "Could you come up here please?
When I got home the tv was on but the cable was off"
Em: "Doesn't the cable remote do both?"
Mom: "No..."
Mom: *Fiddles with controls on the remote, bringing up various menus*
Em: "So you tried turning everything on and off, right?"
Mom: "Yeah and that's all that comes up..." *gestures at screen that is blank except for menus* "..maybe because it's burned into the screen from you leaving it on! All I wanted to do was watch my thousand dollar TV and now you've wrecked it!"
Em: "If there was an image burned into the entire screen then why would you be able to see the menus?"
*Mom continues to lecture me about... whatever, as I fiddle with the tv, changing the input and testing out a dvd, which obviously worked*
Em: "Is the cable out?"
Mom: *calls rogers*
*a few minutes go by*
Mom: "The cable's out."

Is the vehicle you are currently driving:

Very long?
Devoid of Seatbelts?
Yellow?
Driving children to school?

If you answered no to any of the above, you are not driving school bus and therefore do NOT have to come to a complete stop before a railway crossing.

Thank you!

A Crime Against Fashion & Business Etiquette

This morning at starbucks, as I sipped my white chocolate mocha and read my book, I noticed an impeccably groomed woman in a (gorgeous) tailored white suit sitting across from a younger man in a flaming neon green flece sweater. Upon further covert observation, I discovered that the young man was a web designer and they were discussing a website for the woman's business. I also discovered that the man had paired his hideous fleece sweater with tearaway pants.

Ugh!

In honor of my last full day of co-op...

I present the two most offensive jokes I've heard since I started working here:

1. Q: "Which two fingers pleasure women the most?"
A: "These ones, 'cause they're MINE!"

2. Q: "What food cuts a woman's sex drive at least in half?"
A: "Wedding Cake"