Wine crisis

[GirlinContempt]

So, today I was picking up some wine for a dinner I am hosting tomorrow (A lovely Chilean cabernet), and also grabbed a magnum (1.5 L bottle) of my usual cheap Sangiovese (a south italian wine that I tend to enjoy more than most expensive stuff).

So, I'm home, with my wine in my hands.... no corkscrew. I am hunting high and low, tearing drawers apart, accusing my cat of eating it, accusing my room mate of using it to scrape res, generally trying very hard to find it. Ah hah! There it is, on the windowsill for some reason. I head back into the kitchen, and start opening the bottle when.... the cork breaks. I love that they still use cork instead of plastic, but, it broke. And just would not come out.

A steak knife, a pair of pliers, and a whole lot of cursing later, I have a glass of wine.

How's all yalls peoples nights?

[Droopy]

1. Took some Tylenol PM about a half an hour ago

Waiting for it to kick in. I've got some sort of insomnia. I get enough sleep when I do get to sleep. The problem is getting to sleep.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I'm right there with ya, droop.

I was, until very recently, taking two different pain killers a day to help calm the insane itching and burning of an ulcer on my shin that is healing up. Now that it's about 90% better, almost all the discomfort is gone. But, I was dependent on taking a morphine and a hydrocodone every night so that the sensations in the leg would dull enough for me to sleep. I still have plenty of both medications, but I refuse to take anything I don't actually need, and now getting to sleep is a major pain in the ass. :(

[Droopy]

5. That sucks

I'm not sure what my insomnia is caused by. I quit smoking and drinking. I don't drink near as much caffiene as I used to. I don't eat late at night usually. It's possible that it could be due to some psychiatric meds that I take, but I've been taking them for 2 years and have not experience the insomnia until recently.

[GirlinContempt]

Awww

good luck to ya

[Southsideirish]

12. Nice hot bath, good book, snuggle into the "woolen market" as we used

to call the bed in my family (must have been an Irish thing.) Before you know it your noggin will be noddin' and off to sleep you will go. No pills needed.
If that doesn't work try counting backward from 1000 (after the hot bath, of course.)when you are all snuggled in. That never fails.

[In_The_Wind]

2. I don't have any wine crisis going on

not since I switched to martinis

I'm happy to be back home. I accompanied a few friends to a concert tonight and it wasn't exactly my cup of tea. So the peace & quite of home is beautiful music indeed.

[GirlinContempt]

9. I drink a lot of Martinis, and scotch as well

I'm basically my Dad but younger ;)

Glad you're enjoying the hometime, sorry the concert wasn't so hot

[In_The_Wind]

13. I was looking forward to Johnny Winter

I got Paul Winter


not bad but nothing at all alike ... except they both blow (wind instruments)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Nah, switched to pills... the bottles are easier to open

and they don't stain the carpet when I pass out on it.

[GirlinContempt]

8. Hmmm

good point

[swag]

6. It's good. Thank you for asking, GirlInContempt.

I'm watching a film of the first Ali-Frazier fight. They give you about an hour of Vietnam era, pre-fight build-up. Then a solid hour of two guys beating each other so hard with gloved fists that they both spent the next week in the hospital.



Is that fucked up, or what? Is watching that fucked up or what?

Anyway, quite a deal.

[GirlinContempt]

7. Probably both, m'dear

Glad you're enjoying ;)

[swag]

16. I'll burn you one of these if I am able

There is a moment at the end of round 6 where Frazier has Ali against the ropes, after having delivered to Ali what looks to have been a tremendous pounding. A pause, and then Ali playfully taps a punching-bag pattern on Frazier's head.



After that, Frazier had no choice but to murder Ali. Hence Round 11. Round 15.

[GirlinContempt]

18. Will you personally deliver it?

[trackfan]

10. I used to break a lot of corks

but haven't in a while. I would give up, once I realized it was probably a lost cause, and just push it into the wine with a pen. I always have my Swiss Army Knife corkscrew with me, so I often come in handy at parties.

[GirlinContempt]

11. I hate pushing it in

especially when you end up with little bits of cork in the bottle... and I might need to reseal this one... it is pretty huge

[JVS]

22. heh heh huh heh heh, she said "pushing it in".

[girl gone mad]

14. Lovely Chilean cabernet?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

lol.

I mean... I drink Chilean cabernet from time to time, but strictly for the health benefits. :P

Edit: There's this little rubber cap thingy you can buy at crate and barrel for a couple of bucks that has the added benefit of straining out any bits of cork for you. I've found it well worth the investment.

Edit: her'e's a link: http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=210&f=1053&q=wine&fromLocation=Search&DIMID=400210&SearchPage=1

[GirlinContempt]

15. ppppft

Chilean wine rules. It never drools.

Thanks for the link

[Floogeldy]

17. All wine crises are human crisis.

No wine crisis ever arises unless a human being fucks something up.

I'm just sayin'. :)

[khashka]

19. Had the same problem last Sunday

The damn cork would not come out! And then it broke! And it was a rather nice Sauvignon! I was pissed.

At least with vodka the cap just screws off.

Khash, some It's damn easy to open a baggie full of pot guy.

[benny05]

20. Sangiovese is a Southern Italian wine?

Geographically, what do you consider as "southern" Italy? Curious.

[GirlinContempt]

21. This one is from western Sicily

the Province of Trapani. Thats pretty south. What do you consider "southern"?

[Dastard Stepchild]

23. ohhhh..... another sangiovese fan!

I simply love that wine. Not too many people have that one on their list.

:hi: