Good Drinks for Bad Days - Kerry Colburn [0]
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Glassware & Garnishes
BAD DAYS: WORK
Bad Day: Nightmare commute
Bad Day: Bombed interview
Bad Day: Heinous meeting
Bad Day: Humiliated self at office party
Bad Day: Got fired
Bad Day: Annoying coworker got the promotion
Bad Day: New job blues
Bad Day: Assistant quit
Bad Day: No raise
Bad Day: Computer virus
Bad Day: Presentation from hell
Bad Day: Monday
BAD DAYS: LOVE
Bad Day: Ran into evil ex
Bad Day: Hooked up with totally wrong person
Bad Day: Bumped into crush while looking awful
Bad Day: Stood up
Bad Day: Awful blind date
Bad Day: Wedding invitation from former flame
Bad Day: Bad sex
Bad Day: Big fight with main squeeze
Bad Day: Worst kiss ever
Bad Day: Stolen date
Bad Day: Struck out
Bad Day: Best friend is in love
Bad Day: Ugly breakup
BAD DAYS: HOME
Bad Day: Noisy neighbors kept you up all night
Bad Day: Rent hike
Bad Day: Household disaster
Bad Day: Cable on the fritz
Bad Day: Cleaning day
Bad Day: Cranky relatives staying with you
Bad Day: Moving day
Bad Day: Screwed over by roommate
Bad Day: Actually home sick on sick day
Bad Day: Party aftermath
BAD DAYS: LIFE IN GENERAL
Bad Day: Car broke down
Bad Day: Flight cancelled
Bad Day: Fashion faux pas
Bad Day: Got arrested
Bad Day: Called “sir” or “ma’am” by teenage salesclerk
Bad Day: Totally unfair speeding ticket
Bad Day: Hangover
Bad Day: Buyer’s remorse
Bad Day: Tax day
Bad Day: Gained weight
Bad Day: Sold out by friend
Bad Day: Got into a fight
Bad Day: Crummy birthday
Bad Day: Painful grooming treatment
Bad Day: Sports team got crushed
Bad Day: Miserable weather
Bad Day: Last-minute holiday shopping
Bad Day: Fender bender
INDEX
About the Author
Copyright Page
For Rob, who always knows exactly how to fix a bad day (and a perfect Manhattan).
Introduction
No matter how you slice it, some days are just losers. You can put forth your best effort, try to keep your chin up, channel inner peace, and still—wham! Life comes up and smacks you upside the head. Others might give you all sorts of advice for how to deal with the ugly and unfair mishaps that befall you: meditation, jogging, being “zen” about it. They might offer you nuggets of wisdom like “tomorrow’s another day” or “better luck next time” or “got to take the bad with the good.” Yeah, right! The reality is, when the day really sucks, forget about all the ways you might rise above it—you have the right to wallow in it.
In this book you’ll find more than 50 delicious antidotes for myriad miserable circumstances. If your boss has screwed you over, your date is a disaster, your rent’s gone up again, or your car broke down on the freeway, make the most of it—make a drink out of it! Look up your bad day in this book—handily organized by Work, Love, Home, and Life in General—and find the magic recipe to make it all better. You can rest assured that drowning your sorrows in a potent and perfectly paired cocktail will counteract any everyday disaster better and faster than yoga, therapy, or the power of positive thinking. You may have had a bad day, but here’s to a much better night.
So open the liquor cabinet, get out the good glasses, and mix away. Tell yourself your problems and give yourself some much-deserved sympathy. Make yourself another round on the house. You deserve it! Soon you’ll be your own best bartender, the one who can really cure whatever ails you. And that’s a very good skill to have on any very bad day.
Bottoms up!
Glassware & Garnishes
Let’s get one thing straight: there are days so heinous that what you drink (and how quickly you can fix it) is infinitely more important than what you drink it out of. On those occasions, a strong martini with no olives in a marginally clean plastic cup might be just fine. But, when possible, the proper glass and garnish can elevate your cocktail—and your mood. So, if you’ve got access to the proper tools in your house, treat yourself to a nicely executed beverage now and then—God knows you deserve