Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Give a girl a computer, she'll show you the world. O.k, maybe not the world. Maybe just pictures of cocktails and cake.

A few random pictures from the last week or so...

As you probably all remember, we had a major bridge collapse a while back. I was driving by the construction of the replacement the other day and snapped a pew pics of the progress, as I thought a few of you might be interested. They aren't great, as I was taking them while driving, but as you can see it's a pretty gargantuan project:



I also experimented with a new cocktail consisting of copious amounts of vodka, vitamin water (power-c flavor) and lemon. I'm calling it "healthy cocktail that feels good in my belly #1 superstar drinkie":



Want to see the "microwave safe" Michael Graves bowl I bought at Target that kind of heated up to a million degrees then sort of "popped" in the microwave? Holy hell the noise scared the crap out of me, and I may or may not have peed a little when it happened. Well done, Tar-jay- well done.


And why have I not had time to catch up on anyone's blogs, let alone actually have a weekend where I relax and pretend to be productive, you ask? Well, let's just say that if someone ever asks you to make 200 petit fours and a cake for them- say no. Actually, say HELL NO! whilst laughing maniacally and running away. Seriously. There goes two + days of my life I'll never get back.


I'm tired and cranky. And it's only Tuesday.
Crapety-crap-crap.

30 comments:

3carnations said...

Oh, but those sure look tasty...

Nature Girl said...

I could sure go for a cocktail like that..it's healthy you say? Count me in! 'cept I hate vodka..could we make mine with rum?

Petits fours are the devil!
(but they sure look good)
Stacie

-R- said...

What if I only ask you to make ten petits fours? They look so good!

I have cracked a plate or two in the microwave, but the plates I cracked were made in like 1975. New plates should be able to be microwaved.

LaLa said...

But they look so pretty! I can't believe you put all those perfect little rosebuds on them. Mine would have started perfect and by rosebud #22 they'd have become little blobs and before I was halfway done I'd just stick cocktail toothpicks in them.

Chiada said...

Mmmm, those petit fours look scrumdiddlyumptious. What a sweetie for taking time out to make them.

Whiskeymarie said...

chiada- trust me, I got paid for it. I'm nice, but not THAT nice.
;)

gorillabuns said...

They look beautiful just like your vodka concoction. I'll drink anything Magenta.

lizgwiz said...

But petit fours are so yummy...

Why is that? Why do they taste better than a piece of cake? 'Cause they're so goshdarn cute?

Stacy said...

OK. This should have been a point in your life where you would have placed your index finger against your temple and said, "I know! I'll call Stacy! She'll help me make Petit Fours From Hell, she'll do it for free and we can drink and bitch while we create tasty bastards."

But you didn't.

*le sigh*

Next time?

punchlinewalking said...

Damnit...now I'm hungry. I wonder if the vending machine has petit fours? Also, is there a glowstick in that drink?

wafelenbak said...

Tsk. You should have never posted that picture because you are going to have hundrends of random bloggers knocking on your door demanding petit fours at all hours!

Stacey said...

Say, WM could you make me 400 petit fours and a cake ?

What's that you say "No...I must be out of my facking mind"

Ok, I guess I'll take that as a no.

McGone said...

Sweet Fancy Moses, that drink is almost hypnotic. Let's try to come up with a better nickname for it besides the one that sounds like the title of a Japanese Variety Hour.

Actually the only thing I can come up with is "Pink Power Ranger." Stick with "healthy cocktail that feels good in my belly #1 superstar drinkie."

H said...

So, the healthy cocktail tasted good? I bet it paired nicely with the petit fours.

Moi said...

Those little petit fours are simply DELIGHTFUL!

Oh good god, it is 9:25am and I now have a craving for pretty cake...

DShan said...

those petit fours look so delish. i want some!

Domestically Disabled Girl said...

You just reminded me that I never posted about the glass pan I managed to explode on Thanksgiving day. Note to self: Do not pull glass pan of dinner rolls out of oven, place on top of HOT BURNER on stove, realize burner is in fact ON (and burning the bottom of said rolls) and quickly slide pan over to cool side of stove top. Holy hell did that thing ever explode into a million pieces of shrapnel!

Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein said...

How about 50 petit fours, two cakes, and a jug of gin and Gatorade?

Nocturnal said...

Damn WM, those things look deeeelish and I'm starved. No fair.

Cheers

Lollie said...

That cocktail looks like the antidote to Kryptonite. Someone may want to alert Superman.

Question: When one is Petit Fouring, does one cut the pieces from a whole, or are the tasty little cakes made in separate pieces? Just wondering.

Whiskeymarie said...

lol- cut from a big cake. The other way would make me want to slap myself repeatedly.

Katrin said...

The cocktail and cake looks soooooooooooooooooooooooooo good, especially as it is lent and I've decided to go off sugar again.
And my loving mom sent me to a bakery today to get cake. Bakeries in Austria are filled with creamy, sugary, chocolaty delights that made me drool.

We used to make petit fours in school, I liked doing that kind of work, like making marzipan-roses.

Iheartfashion said...

the drink, the petits fours...impressive!
Wish you were my friend!

Inarticulate Fumblings said...

See, this is why we'd get along. We could both justify vitamin water as a healthy alternative to mix with our booze while we used our culinary skills to drunkenly slop together petit fours.

Why don't we live closer to each other?

minijonb said...

i will toast you with my vodka and Red Bull drink... your shade of pink is better than my yellow swill!

Stefanie said...

I'll just have five of -R-'s petit fours, please. (I'm sure she won't mind.)

Also, you took pictures of the new bridge while driving?? I can't even get a good LOOK at it while driving! Thank you for driving carelessly in order to get a visual for me. :-)

Renaissance Woman said...

love the pictures. Thanks for sharing.

nancypearlwannabe said...

I got my package of awesomeness in the mail yesterday and the first thing Chris said was, "When can we start putting it together?!"

I think he was a closet New Kids fan.

Butrfly Garden said...

My tarzjay dishes held up fine in the microwave. It was slamming them angerly into the dishwasher that they didnt' like so much.

Lara said...

But....those petit fours look freakin' delicious! I think they want to fly to Philadelphia and live in my belly.