One of my most favorite songs…

We have wine tastings at work occasionally. It’s great doing what I do. This week we tried some Luigi Bosca wines. They were excellent. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take pictures that day. I have been so busy lately I’m amazed I remember to breathe at times.

The second tasting we had was with St. Supery. Again, excellent wines. This wine tasting we tried something a little different from all other tastings… we voted for our personal favorites from the large selection we tried.

The overall winner of the group was Virtu.

It was very good. Luckily, I was able to get a bottle to bring home. After I finish the open bottles I have (which I am happy to talk about as well) I will thoroughly enjoy this wine again.

And how cool are those labels? I was able to take an empty bottle of the Elu for my label collection as well.

If you have a chance to try the Virtu one evening out, jump at it. The wine is well worth your time and your tastebuds will be VERY happy with you.

For some reason this song always makes me cry.

I haven’t been able to get my Fridays going yet. And I’m a couple of days late here this week. But I am still going to include this.

Friday evening I was craving Mexican food and a margarita after a VERY long week at work… but Sailor Hubby wasn’t interested in going out after he got home. I was able to convince him to go for lunch on Saturday, though.

We ended up at PURE in Woodstock. It was a little more expensive than I really wanted to spend, but we got more than enough food. We were both able to finish about half of what we got.

We started with mango margaritas – frozen for me, on the rocks for SH, and a shot each of pineapple infused tequila. Mmmmm.

Then our appetizer, Queso Fundido with Chorizo. So delish!

And last, but certainly not least, the entrees. SH got the pork gorditas while I had the chicken taquitos.

So happy, and finally relaxed. At least for the rest of the afternoon.

You may have seen this image over there in my Flickr stream already, but this is, hands down, one of my favorite pictures.

Both Munchkin and I were off today for Presidents Day. I let him invite a friend and we met Marine Da at the movie theatre to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. I thought it was quite good and the boys seemed to enjoy it. Even Da stayed awake through the whole thing (though he was unable to keep his mouth shut… gah, I hate it when people talk in the movies.) Anyway, in remembrance of a certain scene (mostly because the song was unexpected if apropos), here is Lady GaGa’s “Pokerface”.

My new Monday postings… Music Mondays.

This once was my Monday song. I would listen to it every Monday. Since then I have fallen in love with other songs by the Boomtown Rats. I will be sure to share some of them over the upcoming Mondays. In the meantime, enjoy Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats singing “I Don’t Like Mondays”.

Well, I didn’t make it all 31 days of January, but that’s okay. I got better at sitting down and writing something. And I’ll get better about my subject matter as well. I just didn’t anticipate being so worn out! Work is so much busier right now.

<sigh>

And Sailor Hubby’s foot is still on the mend… making for extra work at home, too. (and he hasn’t been the easiest of patients)

I have an idea to do a few things differently starting this month. I would like to continue Wordless Wednesday, hopefully with a picture from the week to give an idea of how my week is going. I’m thinking a Music Monday, sharing a favorite song every Monday (and no, it won’t always be U2 or “I Don’t Like Mondays”, but sometimes it might be). Then I was considering either some kind of recipe share on Fridays. I have a couple of cool cookbooks that once belonged to my Mom and thought a recipe a week might be fun. I’ll come up with some kind of title, like Foodie Friday. Yeah, I think that’ll work just fine.

So join me tomorrow for the first installment of Foodie Friday. I better go round up those books.