It's a mood thing for me. Sometimes I want flavor, sometimes really really not.
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
It wasn't my niece I was worried about, although she's put a pea in her ear. Then there was my youngest sister who as a toddler used to shove a penny up her nose; another sister shot a needle through her thumb, and another whose accepted a fellow 7 year-old's dare to lick a fence pole in the middle of winter and got her tongue stuck, another who .... well, you get the idea. Licking tape just didn't sound that un-childlike to me.
My "thing" was eating rocks. Red clay rocks, specifically. I later moved on to paper. When you're growing up in a crowd, you'll do anything to stand out. You also get ignored a lot.
Voda is water in Russian, too, and the suffix -ka is an affectionate diminutive (f'rinstance, Mishka = "sweet little Misha"), so "vodka" is not just little water, but more like who's my darling little water? you are!
Oh, and I'd like to propose that we do a watch-n-post when the New Horizons spacecraft does its flyby of Pluto. Mark your calendars for July 14, 2015.
That's my birthday! Coolest present ever.
Whiskey means water in Irish. Gaelic? Yeah. Uisge.
so "vodka" is not just little water, but more like who's my darling little water? you are!
Quickly followed by "I fucking love you, man!," right?
I thought whiskey was shortened from uisque-bah, water of life.
And then the chorus, "And I'm not just sayin' it 'cause I'm drinkin'. Swear."
I'm drinking Pilsner Urquell and making milk-and-white-chocolate chip cookies.
I am sleeping in my real bed!! First time in almost a month. WHEE!
Who wants to take bets on when I am joined by mac?
msbelle, my money is on sometime around 2am, when you're too tired to maintain your stance.