What would you like in the new year?

TOTALLY forgot to mention the funniest part of the day! I had to pick up stuff at our local store and decided, since one of the items was in the liquor section, to check out there. What did I get?

*Cynar
*Prosecco
*Drain Cleaner

I swore to the cashier that they were NOT all going into the same glass!

#cocktails

@Waitnwallflower We're sipping cocktails and watching After the Thin Man.

ETA: @rockmastermike is laughing at me for JUST realizing this flick is set on NYE.

drinking a delicious non-A soft drink adapted from something a nearby restaurant used to mix. This mix is quite close to how theirs used to taste

In a pint glass:
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 small barspoon of turmeric powder
(stir well!)
1 oz orange juice
(stir well AGAIN to get the turmeric powder in full suspension)
6 oz goslins ginger beer.
(use 4oz if using fever tree)
top the pint with tonic water.

They called this the Golden Hour. There's another cocktail with this name but I'm keeping it.

Optional: oz of gin or light rum
note: this is very bright yellow and will stain clothing

The Lemon Guineapig wishes you good grazing in the new year #guineapigs #lemonpig

Happy to stay in tonight watch odd movies. My mom is going to a party at her senior living building. She’s already told two men to back the fuck off, so here’s hoping they stay away from her at midnight!

Taking my mom to the neurologist this afternoon. What a perfect way to end this mindfuck of a year.

I’m watching Season Two of Wednesday and Enid is making me want to break out my hair chalks.

@detondev I've been in Ohio for 20 years, so unless the master plan includes aggressive Wawa openings in the Midwest...

My mother has been living in my city for less than three months, and I'm noticing my Philly accent is creeping back into my speech. Considering my mother is originally from the Allentown area, I'm dreading the day I spout a full sentence in Pennsylvania Dutch (her father's dialect).

Am I the only one who takes advantage of an old extended holiday by reading four books at once? All different genres, and only one for an online book club. #bookstodon

@WrenArcher Also, I'm hoping your WrenDay was beautiful and full of nothing but ass-kicking joy.

@WrenArcher I'm sorry it takes an insult for you know others see you as you are. I've seen enough pics and videos to know you have embraced and BECOME the embodiment of who you have always been. I say this as a GenX cis/fem who has never met you but kinda GETS you.

Weird dream that I was forced to audition for a really bad play.

Scary thing is that this has actually happened to me in reality a dozen years ago. Such a painful production of Woyzeck, I asked friends and family NOT to attend.

I'll explain this... later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM

@rockmastermike ALSO, two Christmas films in a row featuring Thomas Lennon.

@HG @rockmastermike It saved on long distance calls? This was back when I had a landline and a dial up connection.

@HG I met @rockmastermike in person back in 2000, but we kept in touch on IRC and message boards. Not sure how that counts.

Once again, McSweeny's comes through with a holiday doozy. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rudolph-the-red-wont-guide-santas-bourgeois-sleigh-tonight

@Waitnwallflower I say this as someone who used to sob through jewelry commercials that nobody would ever notice me.