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.