On the road....

This morning my dad and I embarked on what Stef called "a surprise ski trip!". Unfortunately, this "quote" is far more amusing when I say it to myself than when I see it typed, as Stef is one of those people that can make otherwise mundane things actually brilliantly funny. Also, this was said to me face to face in her bed, the morning after a wild night of sriracha-coated popcorn and black cherry vodka sodas! Woo! Anyway, my dad and I had not even discussed this ski trip but it was one of those things that I had kind of decided, or, expected, rather, was going to happen. We went to Windham Mt - a hefty 2.5 hr drive from home. To start things off on truly brilliant note, I dropped my mitten the first ride up the mountain! There's nothing quite like watching something you're fond of just fall oh-s0-slowly out of reach. Of course, the damn mitten fell within the realm of the barely traversed and taped off whistler, and after a 45 minute bout to get back the mitten was gone. And, in the process of slowly taking each mogul one by one, some NY doucher yelled to me from the lift chair above "IMPRESSIVE!" What pissed me off more than this dumb, insulting comment was the fact that the 1.5 second period I had to say something clever back passed before I had so merely responded with a half assed smile. A SMILE! Rob is right, I need to speed up my game!

SO, I skied all day with a bare right hand. My dad offered to buy me mittens, but I am hoping that someone returns the thing and the nice folks at Windham get it back to me. Perhaps I'm living in a fantasy world. but new gloves wouldn't have been cheap and it was a mild day on the slopes. In the past 4+ years I have skied in VT, at Whiteface, and Chile. Needless to say, Windham didn't exactly blow my mind. I am not the greatest skier and got really thrown off by the crowds and icy trails. Also, while I am bitching, I'll throw in that I'm not a fan of the party-like atmosphere that is Windham mountain. I really don't need to have John Mellencamp blasting accompanied by some mountain DJ making announcements about "supporting our troops" and the "wounded warrior" program. Oh well, I am too critical. Thas fo sho. It was a very nice day, as it always is with daddy-O. And....dun dun dun-a!....we ate at Santa Fe in Tivoli, NY, for dinner, the restaurant that my lovely best friend Danielle works at! As I put it, it certainly was a hoot.

And, I suppose, this is where I'll tie it all to wine - always in search of Bacchus, right?

We started the meal off (aside from wolfing down red, white, and blue tortilla chips, of course) with margaritas served up. Dad had his with salt, mine without. yummy stuff. ill skip descriptions of the food, as I am super tired and ... yeah. For such a nice place, I wonder why they neglected putting good wines on the wine-by-the glass list. What's the deal with "bad" wine, anyway? I had a glass of Shiraz, figuring it would by best bet at avoiding flat, single dimensional, overly velvety, even chalky, wine. It wasn't bed, but incredibly generic. I feel that it's just laziness on the part of the restaurant to not buy better wines - which I know you can get at price points of $8 or around that. What the dilly, yo.

Alcohol is so fascinating.

Yesterday I had a slight mental breakdown about not having a job, decided to hop the next train to Short Hills, and made it to the Wine Library by 4:30. Only to find out that they are no longer hiring!!! Just hired 3 or 4 people. Just my luck. I gave the guy a very brief auto-B and feel that I made some sort of impression, so I Think I'll get my shit in asap anyway. I would love to work there. Aside from being a mega store of fantastic wines and people who know what their talking about, the food section is mind-blowing! I tried http://www.gourmet-food.com/gourmet-cheese/bettine-grand-cru-cheese-102430.aspx - voted best cheese in the world 2006!!!! so good. Wine library tv is awesome, too. http://tv.winelibrary.com/

ok, feels like all im working with is MY portal to an empty head!! must sleep!