Cocktail of the Week: Cranberry-Vodka Lemonade

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My downstairs neighbor is not quite what I would call quiet. Especially at, say, 4 am. As a matter of fact, that is when his techno-DJ-aspiring-self is loudest. Some of you may have noticed (then again, I doubt it, since no one really pays that much attention to such things) that a lot of my posts occur in the wee hours of the morning. That would be because he has me up and I can't do a durned thing to get back to sleep. (Thump, Thump, Thibbity-Thump-Thump)

So with limited options, (I am not the police calling type, and the building manager is a friend of his.) I have opted to move.

Yup. I am leaving this huge, chic, bright, SE corner-lit, cross-breezy, high on a hill, view of downtown, lots-o-closet space, low rent abode behind to re-settle my self and my things elsewhere.

Of course, it's not just so easy with me, since I am fussy about where I lay my head and whatnot. Plus, with my limited budget, it has driven me to make a huge, huge, HUGE life change. That's right kiddies, I'm getting...a job.

Sigh. I know, I know, it's madness, cutting into my ladies-who-lunch lifestyle all for the sake of a silent retreat, but alas, it has to be. (You should have seen my friends faces at this news. The shock. The dismay. The abject horror. And finally, the laughter at the mere thought of me putting in an honest days work.) So instead of spending my days at the spa, the gym and Barneys, shopping for food and cooking up delightful dinners, then drinking the nights away; I will be clocking in at some cheerless office and counting the hours until Friday. Whoa, whoa is me. (I can sense you feel my pain) It's been a long time since I actually worked in an office, but part of me is quite excited for the change of pace. And while I will still offer my cooking classes, (the "job" I have had for the past few years) it will be on a much more limited basis.

So that all being said, I ask you to join me in a moment of silence for my last four years of blissful "self-employment" (ahem) and bid adieu to this gainfully-unemployed girly-girl world I inhabit. It's off to the salt mines for me. And that my friends, calls for a drink.

Cranberry-Vodka Lemonade

1 75o ml bottle organic sparkling lemonade
1 750 ml bottle cranberry vodka
1 cup cranberry juice
Ice
Lemons

Combine the lemonade, vodka, cranberry juice, and ice, stir to combine, garnish with lemon, drink and repeat

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