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For those of you who aren’t aware of my bartenderly prowess, now is the time to read back a few posts, or even the About Me area. Years of bartending experience, and years of actually…er…partaking of the drinks themselves. Just to make sure they’re okay for the customers you see.

I’m thoughtful that way.

Anywhooo…this is one of the easiest and yet tastiest drinks I’ve ever invented. Anyone can make it, as it requires NO skill.

Take a BIG glass and fill with ice. Pour in a shot of Pomegranate Schnapps. Top with a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade.

Yes, that’s it. Although, you can add a straw if you wish.

And maybe one of those cool cocktail umbrellas.

See, wasn’t that easy?

Enjoy!

=)

carrie

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Did it! 25 friends on facebook! My new FB url is http://www.facebook.com/smartassromance.

I’m tickled pink.

thank you!

=)

carrie

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Facebook. Gotta love it, gotta hate it. People I haven’t seen in years are now my “friends.” My family stalks me. I stalk my employees. I get to see all the new babies, weddings, graduations and prom dresses I ever wanted to. I know what my friend in Vermont had for supper, I know my friend in Canada is going on vacation, and I know my friend in California had to wait two days for the repairman to show up.

Love it. Hate it.

But it’s necessary, especially as an upcoming writer, to have a facebook page. Mine is called, unbelievably, SmartAss Romance. Go figure eh? =)

Anyway, here’s the point I’m taking the long way to get to. I need TWO, count ‘em, TWO people to like me as SmartAss Romance on facebook so I can get my official FB name.

So if you have a few moments, umm…can you be my friend? =)

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Winner of the Bulwer Lytton contest, encouraging people to write the worst opening line since, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

”For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss–a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
Molly Ringle
Seattle, WA

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Ah, bartending days….I miss them. I prefer the money I’m making now, but bartending is so much fun!

Here’s another happy drink special I made back in the day.

Large wine glass
Fill half full with Arbor Mist Blackberry Merlot
Add in a shot of pomegranate or peach schnapps (or both!)
Fill with half orange juice and half sprite

Garnish with fruit of your choice.

Sweet and delectable.

=)

carrie

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I’ve decided today should be fun quote day….why? because someone emailed me these fun quotes, and I just gotta share. I’m generous that way.

Enjoy! I did!

Inside every older person is a younger person — wondering what the hell happened.
~ Cora Harvey Armstrong ~

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.
~ Unknown~

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
~ Helen Hayes (at 73)~

I refuse to think of them as chin hair. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
~ Janette Barber~

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
~Bette Davis~

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
~ Caryn Leschen ~

If you can’t be a good example ~ then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
~Catherine~

I’m not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on.
~Roseanne Barr~

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman
~Maryon Pearson~

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over!!!

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We’ve all seen the publicity shots of famous authors. Nora Roberts is always dressed as a class act. The photos of an RWA conference show people dressed in business suits, high heels and pearls. But…what does an actual writing writer who’s writing right at this moment wear?

I’ll tell you what *I* wear. Anything elastic waisted and cuddly. At this particular moment I have on sweat socks, blue fleece pants with little Frosty the Snow Man’s on them, a 3XL men’s gray fleece sweatshirt and well…comfy undies. So I’m not going to be America’s Next Top Model, but hey, I’m comfy.

So what, you say, what does that have to do with a hill of beans?

Not much to do with beans, but a lot to do with distraction. If I was wearing a pearl necklace with my ensemble, I might be spending more time running my fingers up and down the pearls than up and down my QWERTY…..I might have to re-adjust my thong a few times, and squirm in my seat (ok, toomuchinformation!) rather than just plop down and start to write.

For me, I need writing with no distractions. No music, no cats dancing in front of my monitor, no television blaring in the background. I write especially well between 2-3am. Now no two writers are the same by any means! But go ahead and try it some time….put on those comfies, turn off the blare, sit yourself down and let your brain kick in.

Tomorrow’s ensemble will be the extra fleecy navy Christmas tree pants, the hooded pink sweatshirt with IOWA splattered across the front and again…the comfy undies.

What’s your favorite outfit?

carrie

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So I ran across this the other day, Wordle. And I can’t stop playing with it. Kind of like when you chip your tooth and your tongue just digs and digs at it. Anyways, here’s my wordle for my blog.

Isn’t it cool? Don’t you just have to have one too? Well go here…Wordle and start creating your own.

And kiss goodbye to any free time you might have once had.

carrie

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