Citrus vodka, a splash of real lemon juice, sparkling water over ice. Garnish with lemon or lime. Very few bars carry bottled lemon juice behind the bar so several slices of lemon squeezed into said concoction also works.

edited because "slash" and "splash" are apparently two entirely different words.

I've always been a gimlet girl.

For me, it's an excuse to drink lime juice. Gin gives me headaches, so I drinks the waaaadka.

Gimlets are the only drinks in which I like gin, though I don't know what the good gins are so I may revisit that at some point if I have new data to test. I would be fine with Rose's if it wasn't full of corn syrup.

And I like a lot of vermouth in my martinis. If I want vodka straight up then that is what I will order. 7:1 is the ratio I learned and it remains my preference. So very not dry.

Et ask: should that be "weren't" up there, last sentence first paragraph?

Canadian whiskey with a splash of water, pleaseandthankyou.

Or, if I trust the bartender, a Perfect Manhattan: [link] But on the rocks, not in a cocktail glass. Those tend to spill.

I miss my laptop so very very much.

Not nuch of a drinbker anymore but if I do, it's bourbon or tequila. No nasty gin. We hates it.

I also adhere firmly to Daisy Jane's belief that a drink made out of vodka, vermouth and either an olive or an onion may be a delightful libation but it is not, strictly speaking, a martini.

Shit. Don't even get me started on the chocolate martinis. Not a martini! Mine (back when I was allowed to have them) had the vermouth rolled around the glass, Bombay Saphire and a squirt of olive juice shaken and poured into the glass with the ice crystals on top, garnished with almond stuffed olives.

Damn. Now I want one.

I finally got my laptop back from the skeevy repair place. When did computer shit get so shady? Unlike their promises, they never called to tell me it was ready. I showed up 1 minute before closing and waited FORTY FIVE MINUTES for them to just finish up.

And then I had to pay them with my debit card because their credit card machine can't handle transactions over $100. Oh, there's something behind that.

But the Powerbook's back! And now it will play with my server! Yay! It's like a sleepover with printed circuit boards.

Citrus vodka, a splash of real lemon juice, sparkling water over ice. Garnish with lemon or lime.

Sounds yum. I don't like gin, so no martinis for me. I like the olives, though.

This conversation reminds me reminds me of my conjecture from a while back that a Crown Royal and Royal Crown Cola seems on first pass as if it ought to be a high class drink, but I doubt that it actually is.

Citrus vodka, a splash of real lemon juice, sparkling water over ice. Garnish with lemon or lime.

...sounds a lot like my drink (citron and soda with a twist). Now I'm wanting a gimlet though...

So, I could go see a lot of people tonight. I miss people, because I've been out of town. BUT, it would require me sitting through spoken word, which I am bad at and hate. And vowed after last month that I really shouldn't do it again. What to do???