Stiletto Diaries™

Leave The Gun, Grab The Cannoli

Posted on May 25th, 2008 in Does All Her Own Stunts, Made In Ontario, Tie Me Up

Just dashing off a quick post before I gulp down some supper and head over to Deja’s house for a night of bondage and hopefully plenty of beatings!

The weekend has been fabulous thus far.  Yesterday we decided to test out the new margarita machine that was given to me for Mother’s Day!  We invited Nia over for a light supper and to test out some frozen drinks with us.

We started out with about a cup of sliced strawberries (from frozen) and put it in the blender part of the machine with three shots of tequila and 3/4 of a shot of triple sec.  The blender thing mixed up the alcohol and strawberries, then added shaved ice, and then blended it more.  The taste wasn’t as sweet as we like it, but the consistency was perfect!

Next round was raspberry sourpuss, blended with lots of shaved ice, and then 7up added.  That one tasted a lot like pink lemonade, but super sweet, so I might go with a little more ice, less pop and booze next time.

Third round was the strawberries again but this time I added an extra shot of tequila, a full shot of triple sec, and three tablespoons of sugar.  Nia and I reeeeeeeeeeeally liked that one, but Jack found it a little strong (the tequila, LOL).  Each pitcher filled about 5 of my margarita glasses, so we all had at least three drinks, I think I had 4 or 5 though, LOL.

It was so good   What a fantastic gift!  I plan to be drinking a LOT of frozen beverages this summer, LOL.  We also used it to make slurpees for the kids with concentrated lemonade mix and they quite liked that, so everyone can enjoy it.

Today Nia and I went to a hand-drumming workshop together.  It was my first time, and we met a the home of a friend of Nia’s who was really so very sweet.  It was a good group of us, with two instructors.  They taught us quite a few really nice rhythms and there was tons of laughing and it just sounded so amazing, all of us drumming like that.  I played an ashiko style drum, and they also had some djembe drums that I would like to try sometime.

After the workshop was over, I commented to one of the instructors/drum makers that it was my first time.  He couldn’t believe it, he said that I caught on really fast and that I definitely needed to get a drum of my own.  I was really flattered, and pleased with myself that it seemed to come so easily to me.  The idea of drumming around a fire with a bunch of other drummers and people dancing and hollering makes me want to get a drum to practice on soooooooooooooo bad.  I’m hoping Jack will let me buy one sometime soon   Drumming really made me feel good inside, and I’ve always been told I have good rhythm, and it felt really awesome to be part of a group like that.

Nia’s friend wants to start a regular drum circle that meets monthly to practice and play, and then have other workshops so we can learn some more techniques.  I hope I’ll get to join in on that once I get my own drum, it would be a really neat way to get to know Nia’s friends better and maybe absorb some of them to become my friends too   Hee Hee.  Felt great to be out and be social and hang out with a group of really fun women.

Anyway, I have to eat before it’s time to go play!  More blogging to come on that I am sure