Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Time for a *hic* celebration!

Today I just passed a major milestone for work, and might have some room to breathe for awhile. There is just so much to celebrate in this world and one of the better ways to celebrate is to drink heavily.


And what a surprise because today I received my quarterly Wine Club shipment from my favorite winery, Humanitas Wines. For those of you who haven't been around me after I have a sip of wine and become a completely insufferable know-it-all, Humanitas Wines is a non-profit winery that donates a portion of each sale to a food bank based on your ZIP code.

So while I'm chugging away this delicious wine, hugging strangers, and telling them how much I love them and how freakin' beautiful they are, a portion of my money goes to a North Texas food bank.

So I feel good.

Anyway, bundled in with today's wine shipment was a nice little note from the Proprietor of Humanitas Wines, Judd Wallenbrock, telling me that he now has a blog. A blog about whatever he wants to talk about, which includes wonderful, wonderful wine.

So here it is:

www.drinkcharitably.com

In case you hate wine and think it is strictly for snooty snoot snoot snobberbums, I will also let you know that I also mail order beer. Beer not available in North Texas. Specifically, Moose Drool.

I drank Moose Drool on a vacation to Portland once and absolutely fell in love with it. Unfortunately, the distributor does not deliver to Texas. So I mail order it from a place called Liquid Solutions. You, too, can order it here.

And, wouldn't you know it, Liquid Solutions also has a blog.

I think this is a wonderful idea - booze and blogs. I now follow both of these blogs.

The only downside is that now I will be tempted to drink and comment.

So if you decide to follow these same blogs and see a comment from me to the effect of, "YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND I LOVE YOU!!!! LOOOOOOOVVVVEEEE!!!! Um.... uh... BLLEEEEEAAAARRRGH!" you will know I am in my happy place.

8 comments:

heather said...

blogging and commenting while under the influence of mind altering substances is a long standing tradition.

it's about time you joined in.

M. Robert Turnage said...

Heather, who says I haven't been doing this all along?

I think it is time I came out of the closet and admitted it.

NoRegrets said...

Your happy place is hugging a toilet and puking?

NoRegrets said...

BTW, they've started something up here where you can go 'wine tasting' at a store. They have wine in these machines that you can stick a card in and get a portion of a glass. You pay for every taste. Way to rack up some money. But I did have a dry gewurtz. there that was really amazing.

Judd Wallenbrock said...

Robert - thanks for the post -- and this whole blogging while enjoying adult beverages...it's a good thing!

Courtney said...

Congratulations on the work accomplishments!!!!!

I love the idea of drinking for charity. It's going to help with my Christmas shopping for sure. Thanks!

Churlita said...

"I drank Moose Drool on a vacation to Portland once and absolutely fell in love with it."

I'll take your word for it.

Tera said...

Yeah, what Heather said.

And Moose Drool? The phrase in and of itself...Pukage.