Wednesday, March 25, 2009

My New Wine Glasses

About a week ago, I broke my last wine glass while I was washing it.

So for the past seven evenings, I was drinking my half a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon out of an orange juice glass.

I’m sorry, it’s not that I’m a wine connoisseur or anything, but drinking vino from an orange juice glass doesn’t quite do it. It’s like trying to cut a steak, using two spoons. It didn’t even taste like wine. It tasted more like petrol.

I also noticed that I had a tendency to gulp it like water, rather than sip it.

The whole experience seemed schizophrenic, and it totally antagonized my OCD tendencies.

Anyway, I finally made the time to go shopping for some new wine glasses. And I was ecstatic to find them on sale, so I stocked up on them.

Now the only thing that wasn’t great about the glasses, was that they were the size of a goldfish bowl - they were HUGE. I prefer using a smaller wine glass, because I’m a lightweight when it comes to alcohol. And if you can believe this, I’ve never been drunk in my life - tipsy - but never falling down on my ass-face drunk. It usually takes me a good hour to sip a half a glass of wine. And since the glasses were on sale I wasn’t about to pass them up. So I nabbed them, and just figured that I’d fill the glass BELOW the halfway mark.

I was all excited that evening, because I had just purchased a brand new bottle of Cabernet and was going to enjoy it, using a REAL glass.

So about 9:30 I uncorked the bottle and poured.

And poured. And poured. And poured.

It seemed like it took me 10 minutes to fill up half the glass.

But I checked…and yup!…it was only half full.

So I took my glass of red wine and some delicious munchies over to my desk, and then proceeded to go online; answering emails and searching the Internet for future blog post photos.

I guess maybe an hour and half had passed before I noticed that the glass still had good deal of wine in it, but I was having such a SLAP HAPPY time online, while listening to Mary J. Blige singing, “Just Fine”… I just kept sipping and sipping until it was all gone.

It must have been a little after midnight, when I began to notice that I was quietly staring at the computer monitor and not doing anything except staring at it, and smiling.

And slowly blinking.

The google search page had suddenly become enthralling for me to watch. And I really don’t know why, because I wasn’t even searching for anything…I was just starting at it and watching the white pixels dance.

I have no idea how long I was staring like this, but I did notice that my eyes began to lose focus and it took tremendous effort to keep my eyelids open, so I used the palms of hands to hold my head up; preventing it from falling into the computer monitor.

But I must have been having fun though, because I was still smiling.

However, you better believe that the next time I had my evening glass of Cabernet…

I filled the glass below, below, below the halfway mark.

Yet, I did learn something from this experience…

….the google search page looks so much more interesting with wine.

Please Note: I will be driving into NYC tomorrow on a business trip and the day will VERY long, therefore, I will not be posting on Friday. I will resume posting again on Monday, and who knows…it may be about my trip to NYC!? I haven’t been there in awhile, so I’m very excited. Thank you for your patience and understanding, folks! X