Meeting A Girlfriend For Drinks

"Girlfriends are therapists you can drink with."

-- Unknown

Drinks 7-18-14

"More important than the food pairing

is the person with whom you drink the wine."

-- Christian Moueix

Red Wine

 "I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany,

wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better."

-- Barbara Crooker, More

Wine corks 7-6-14

"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup.

All wine should be tasted."

-- Paulo Coelho, Brida

Dinner On Someone Else's Dime

"The idea of getting high on someone else's dime 

sounded like the right and necessary medicine."

-- Amber Dermont, The Starboard Sea

Chocolate coins 6-18-14

I love it when someone else picks up the tab.

We had dinner last night at a pretty fancy French restaurant with pretty fancy food and pretty fancy wine that cost someone a pretty penny.

But we didn't have to drop a nickel.

We were guests at a dinner event hosted by a business associate of my husband's who paid for everything -- the food, the drinks, the giant Wonka-sized chocolate bars they handed out at the end.

We ate way too much of the good food. We drank way too much of the good wine. We had way too much fun with the good people sitting around our table.

The timing was even good. We both needed a night out, and a night off.

Going out to dinner with my husband is always good.

Going out to dinner with my husband on someone else's dime is like chocolate pennies from heaven.