Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Cascading Events

Roof repairs and new wall put in in laundry room →

Pouring rain onto vulnerable roof in the midst of repairs →

Exciting leak springs up directly over closet, where our lovely wooden closet pieces were installed after painstaking hours of work →

Hours of work to install closet equals 10 minutes to disassemble and store in dry place. Wet clothing and towels abound →

New wall in laundry room is finished but washer/dryer not reinstalled until today when →

Jackhammer for a drain burst a water pipe. No laundry for you. Or me. Or whatever.

Amaretto sours are calling my name. What time is it? If you replace the words Bali Ha'i with the phrase amaretto sours, you get a good song:

♫♪ Amaretto sours may call you,
Any night, any day,
In your heart, you'll hear it call you:
"Come away...Come away."

Amaretto sours will whisper
In the wind of the sea:
"Here am I, your special drink!
Come to me, come to me!"

Your own special hopes,
Your own special dreams,
Bloom on the hillside
And shine in the streams.
If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea.
"Here am I your special drink
Come to me, Come to me."

Amaretto sours
Amaretto sours
Amaretto sours!

Someday you'll see me floatin' in the sunshine,
My head stickin' out from a low fluin' cloud,
You'll hear me call you,
Singin' through the sunshine,
Sweet and clear as can be:
"Come to me, here am I, come to me."
If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea.
"Here am I your special drink
Come to me, Come to me."

Amaretto sours,
Amaretto sours,
Amaretto sours!


Yes, I have gone a bit crazy.


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jess - Do you have a recipe for an amaretto sour?

Jess said...

I think my bar book advised equal parts amaretto, lemon juice and orange juice.

I like fresh lemon juice for these drinks, the bottled kind has a taste I can't stand, so I got a citrus juicer and now when the call for amaretto sours becomes strong, I juice 2 lemons and an orange and add some amaretto until it tastes good. Sometimes I get it wrong (too much lemon) which is why I no longer have any enamel on my teeth. Shaking it all over lots of ice is also a good idea.

gibber said...

Oh my god. that sounds AWFUL!!! When it rains it pours. Ugh. Sorry #badpun

Jess said...

Nice one gibber :þ

That was a bad day.

I am done with it now. I have cleared it from my mind. Puppies and sunshine and cotton candy only from now on!

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