I GRADUATED!!!!! (that's all for tonight)

Bartending School

Ok, so some of you may know this and some may not, but I've recently done a bartending course at Worlds Oldest Bartending School: The Professional Bartending School in Chicago...and I LOVED IT! Every week you learn drinks, and at the end of each week you take a test where they time you. Week One...5 drinks in 5 mins. Week 2...10 drinks in 10 Mins. Week 3...15 drinks in 10 Mins.

The final week also brings the written exam (which I'm studying for now...hence this monolog)

Here's a recap of my weeks:

Week 1: 100%
Week 2: 100%
Week 3: 99% (Who know a cherry is not a good garnish for a Perfect Dewer's Rob Roy)

So as I'm hours away from my exam...I thought i'd leave you some famous quotes of interest...

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they are going to feel all day."

-Frank Sinatra

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."

-Ernest Hemingway

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

-Henny Youngman

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't event have the decency to thank her."

-W.C. Fields

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

-Bengamin Franklin

"Twenty-four hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?"

-Stephan Wright

"The greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. The wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does nto go nearly as well with pizza."

-Dave Barry

Well I gotta get back to the books!

Chocolate Boxes

According to the National Confectioners Association, there are several ways to "read" an unlabeled Box Of Chocolates. Wrapped chocolates usually have liquid or soft centers. Large bumps on the surface indicates the presence of nuts; small bumps tends to signal coconut. Square and rectangular chocolates often contain caramel.

Back In the States/Expansion of blog

Hi everyone!! It's been SOOO long since I've updated this, but a lots been going on....after school, I worked in Ireland for a month, my grandad passed away (pic below):( and I've been and come back from Italy. I spent a month there...it was great, but I came back to Ireland for my uncles wedding, and have since moved back to Chicago. Since I've been back ...I've got a job at a restaurant that is opening up, so now we're doing menu testing/training/etc..and i've decided to go to bartending school so I can get some MONEY! It's been a lot of fun, I love being behind the bar...def a lot of fun.

Mum, dad and I went to the annual Condor's booze cruise..here's some pics.






So you might be wondering about the expansion of the blog...well since i'll be staying put in Chicago for awhile, I thought I'd start adding some tidbits of triva, did ya knows', and funny/interesting things. I'm sure most of you know I have a lot of random thoughts and trivia ...so I figured this is as good of a place as any to let it all out lol.

So for now...here's something you might find funny...certainly made me smile:
(stay tuned for more blog action soon)

Ode to a Martini Drinker
by Sold Cober

Strankel, strankle, little twink.
Who the hell you are I think.
I'm not under what they call
The alcofluence of incohol.
I'm not druck as thinkle peep
I'm just a little slort of sheep
Tee martoonis make a guy
Fool so feelish, don't know why.
Rally don't know who's me yet.
The drunker I stay the longer I get.
So just one more to full my cup
I've all day sober to Sunday up.

Week 7

We'll its week 7 here, and to be honest...I'm loving every second of it.

We just did our herb & salad exam which included some techniques on Friday. I think I did pretty well, I'll find out the results tomorrow. For the technique part I had to: chop and sweat an onion, slice and saute mushrooms, make mayonnaise and make a paper piping bag....all in 20 mins....I think I got it all done and in more than enough time.

After the exam we had a winter bbq here and a bit of a party ...then on Saturday I was in need of a quiet night home....so I decided not to go with the group to Cork. Sunday was really nice, we went on a cliff walk (photos are attached) then went to lunch at a restaurant that overlooks the bay and then worked/toured a bakery in Middleton. Really a great day.

Hope all is well with you lot

xoxo

As Promised

I know I said I'd give you some pictures of the school/grounds, here's some photos...to keep you going.

I'll have to remember to bring my camera into the school.

Enjoy...I'm heading up this weekend to see Mum at KD's (I'M SO EXCITED!!)

Week 4

How's everyone...sorry I haven't posted anything for awhile, but the Internet has been down.

Last Friday after school we came back to our house and the alarm was going off, and we had no power. After about 3 hours someone came out to figure out what happened....apparently my toilet was dripping into the fuse box..causing the "melt down." So, the solution=wait til the fuse to dry out.....no problem what-so-ever with no power for a night, the problem I had with the whole situation....the bloody alarm was not turned off...for 36 HOURS.

Sleeping through an alarm is not a fun thing to do...luckily Charlotte and I left to go to Kilkenny...so we avoided some of the alarm, but not all of it.

We got to Kilkenny, and had a fun time...did some shopping and had some dinner, met Marc and Barbara for some drinks...only to find out Barbara's car had been stolen! So we had a full session then went back to Marc's for the best home-made curried chips I've ever had!

On a positive spin for the weekend, I got to see KD..went to Dodo's grave to say hello...had a lovely meal at Paul's restaurant and had a good drive back down to Cork.

I'll have to load pictures next time because the internet is REALLY REALLY slow right now, so until then...I'll leave you with this thought:

A bowl of Corn Flakes, has more salt in it than a cup of Sea Water!