The birth of Poor Deby (part 1)

So, what started this Pity Party for Deby to begin with? I mean, we all have bad days where annoying and unfair stuff happens to us occasionally, and Deby is no exception. Only, one day (yesterday) it occurred to Deby that more often than not, crap in varying degrees seems to happen to her each-and-every-single-day. So yesterday, in the middle of a record breaking heat wave in Seattle (the "rain capital" of the United States, for Chrissake!!!) she had to wait for the Sears repairman to come to the house to fix the malfunctioning oven. (Now, you may ask why in the heck you would even need an oven when it's 108 degrees outside? Well, this appointment was made 2 weeks ago, when it was 68 degrees, cloudy, and drizzling out. You know, "normal" Seattle weather.) Of course, Deby was advised the repairman would arrive "sometime between 1:00 and 5:00" so she had to wait around the house, all-by-herself, since her husband, Dave, was out golfing with the boys. (Yes, even in a heat wave. This is not sissy golf, people.) Since Dave does most of the cooking anyway (at least the edible parts) the very least Deby could do was wait for the oven guy. Of course he didn't show up 'til 4:45, when the upstairs kitchen was good and heated up from the aforementioned heat wave. (Who needs an oven anyway? You could have baked cookies on the floor. Look out for the dogs!) Deby passed the day of waiting by trying to start up a blog (something that's been on her "to-do-list" for quite some time.) After spending hours and hours of trying to decide on a name, a template, a theme, what-the-heck-to-write, etc, etc, she quit for the evening once she realized she had essentially come up with nothing but a bit of a headache. It was only then that she discovered she had been wearing the wrong glasses all day long!!! No wonder she had a headache! When Dave returned home from golfing, she related all the trials and tribulations of her day to him and when she got to the part about wearing the wrong glasses he said "Poor Deby!" ... Do I hear a slap-on-the-ass and a baby's cry somewhere???? Happy "Birth"-day, Deby!!! (Just trying to make her feel better here.... Poor Deby!)

This definitely calls for a Cocktail of the Day recipe! Deby's been making this one for "special friends" for the past 15 years. She still has a couple of those friends left!

All photos by http://www.flickr.com/photos/debyc/

Poor Deby's Bloody Mary

What you need:

Vodka
V8 juice
fresh lime juice
What's-this-here-sauce (aka Worcestershire sauce) (***see Trivia question below!)
tabasco sauce
black pepper
celery salt

How to:

In a big* glass filled with ice, pour about 1-1/2 oz of vodka followed by V8 juice to about 3/4 of the way up. Squeeze a good squirt of lime juice, a couple of shakes of Whats-this-here-sauce, 4 or 5 dashes of tabasco (less for sissies) and a sprinkling of black pepper. Stir it up with a fancy swizzle stick, then add a generous sprinkle of celery salt to finish it off. Then "you" finish the whole thing off.
(* size of glass depends upon the Degree of Difficulty of the day)
Enjoy! And, thanks Deby! (She needs all the encouragement she can get. Poor Deby!)

**TRIVIA QUESTION: Okay, all you aficionados of Worcestershire sauce, aka "what's-this-here-sauce"..... On the Lea & Perrins bottle of "W"-sauce, it says "Unwrap the (blank)" Can you fill in the "blank?" Unwrap the what? What do they want you to unwrap? I've been using this stuff for years and I never knew! Oh, all the (blank) I've been missing! POOR DEBY!!

Degree of Difficulty of the Day: Cocktail Time!