ONE MORE CREEPY COCKTAIL FOR YOU!!! IT'S EASY!

HALLOWEEN HYPNOTIST

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Hypnotiq
• 1 oz super premium vodka
• dash of lemon juice
• glow stick for Embellish

Preparation:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain the Halloween Hypnotist Cocktail into a chilled cocktail glass.
4. Embellish with a lit glowstick.

This drink is not only simple, but pretty darn delicious.  You can also add a dash of gingerale to give it some fizz!!!

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN. . . DRACULA'S KISS

DRACULA'S KISS

INGREDIENTS

1 oz. Black Cherry Vodka

1/2 Oz. Grenadine

Cola

Maraschino Cherries for Garnish

PREPARATION

1.  Coat the bottom of a highball glass with grenadine.

2.  Add ice and vodka.

3.  Fill glass with cola

4.  Garnish with Cherries

Sometimes it is the easiest of creations that are the most delicious.  Happy Halloween!!

YOU GUESSED IT. . . Another recipe!!! SUGAR HILL PUNCH!

What a better way to forget the worries of life than to drink to life and good friends at a great party or social gathering.  This punch is a welcoming symbol of prosperity and hope for all who taste it.

SUGAR HILL PUNCH

Ice
2 Oz. Amber Rum
1/2 Oz. Apricot Liqueur
2 Oz. Mango Nectar or Juice
1 Oz. Fresh Lime Juice
1/2 Oz. Simple Syrup (its just equal parts of sugar and water numb nuts!)
4 Basil Leaves, torn plus 1 basil leaf for garnish
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
1 Mango Slice, for garnish

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.  Add all of the remaining ingredients except the garnishes and shake well.  Strain into an ice-filled highball glass and garnish with the mango slice and basil sprig.

The Death of a Job: Celebrating the Birth of Choices

What I think about all the time is the amount of energy wasted on things that don't make us happy.  I worked at my current job for two years and realized how ineffectual of a person I was becoming.  The joy was starting to slip away.  IT BECAME A JOB!!!  A job is something you do for someone else, where a career is something you do for yourself.  I woke up a few weeks ago and dreaded another day at work.  Please explain how this is possible for someone who is in the industry they love?  It's easy actually.  It was about focus and I had absolutely no idea what I wanted.  How can someone just go digging for a treasure without some sort of belief that it is there in the ground they are digging in?

Happiness is where money, success, and prosperity lie.  Do you know that the average person's dream only gets off the ground until they get their first rejection?  From there everything seems to come to a screeching halt.  Well, that is not the way I envision a successful venture.  I finally have choices to make and even though I currently have left a job and have nothing lined up to follow it, I believe in the universe and its support of my choices.  I was meant to be rich, wealthy.  I have no right to be poor.

My invitation to you is:  Please start commenting on my page.  Put your thoughts out there.  Can anyone relate?  Share a little bit.

SIMPLE SYRUP RECIPE

I almost forgot to give you this recipe:

EASIEST SIMPLE SYRUP

Makes about 12 oz. or 1 and a 1/2 cups

In a bottle or jar with a tight fitting lid, combine 1 cup of superfine sugar with 1 cup of hot water and shake hard.  Refrigerate until ready to use.  This syrup keeps up to one month in the fridge.

MEMORIES OVER A DRINK: Friends, Family, Playing the Bad Boy or Girl

For many of us out there, alcohol was not always a vice to deal with pain.  It was also a perfect communal product to share with family, friends, and celebrate life in which you didn't care about troubles or negative thoughts.  This is an invitation to subscribe and follow my blog, but also to share your best memory over a drink or cocktail.  Maybe it was a party?  Graduation?  Drinking the communion wine with a fellow youth group member in the church office?  Let the memory flood pour out!!!

ALSO SHARE YOUR FAVORITE COCKTAIL RECIPE!!!  Let's build this blog up!  Thanks in advance !!!

Here is another recipe to savor and comes to us from World Renown Mixologist Sebastian Reaburn from his famous Australian bar, 1806 in Melbourne.

TENNIS REVIVER

Ice

4 oz. chilled brewed chamomile tea

1 oz. fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz. simple syrup (see recipe below)

1/2 oz. elderflower syrup (or sweetened St. Germain)

1 chamomile flower for garnish

Half fill a highball glass with ice. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the garnish and stir well.  Add more ice and garnish with the chamomile flower.

HOT TIP OF THE DAY:  Perfecting the ice:  For most drinks, the larger the ice the better.  The smaller the ice chunks, the faster it melts and dilutes the drink.  The one exception is the crushed ice for juleps and swizzled drinks.

The Death of a Job and the Birth of a Career

Yawn. . . . .slowly winding down and feeling the sting of yet another day.  Doing a job I am starting to resent with people who don't get me.  But I have a choice to make.  I can continue to go back to this mundane feeling of just getting it done, or I can actually enjoy what I do and still get paid for it.  Mind you, I still have yet to bring in the money I want, but my two week notice is in and its only a week until I am at the mercy of the universe.  I laugh because there is a calming sense in my heart that keeps me believing that everything will be just fine.

So, time to turn on what is left of my thinking cap and attempt to form an idea about what it is I am doing.  I knew I would never be able to take another day in misery, and that my friends has been worth another day before all else.  I am free to make choices more than ever, and I can close my eyes in peace.  The next move in my career will be to listen to my heart.  Nothing else matters.  Would be nice if I could get laid and zone out for an hour or two as well.