Sitting here adding pages to the websites I usually play music.  Typically I will switch between artists on my collection of MP3’s — one after another, whatever strikes my fancy. 

Today I uploaded two new pages — in Weekend Party Drinks I added a quick recipe for Sweet and Sour (Homemade is FAR superior to the store bought schlock) and on my Tradition Cocktails Squidoo Page I added a Classic Pina Colada Recipe (The Squidoo page is what we call a “feeder” page.  It’s designed to introduce people to The Weekend Grillers.  Do me a favor — if you get a chance CLICK HERE and visit it.  Give it a rank and maybe a comment.  Every “bump” up in rank can get us more Weekend Grillers to join in the fun.  Thank you.)

Back to the music — today instead of flipping through dozens of songs, I put on Blood Sugar Sex Magik by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.   I had forgotten just how good this album is.  They were at the absolute height of their powers here.  The tracks are well known to anyone who listened to the radio or went to bars in the ’90’s — The Power Of Equality, Breaking The Girl, Funky Monks, Suck My Kiss, Give It Away, Under The Bridge – but the best song on the album is a salute to one of my favorite cities on Earth, New Orleans — Apache Rose Peacock.

“Yes, my favorite place to be,
Is not a land called Honah Lee.
Mentally or physically,
I wanna be in New Orleans.”

Wish I was there right now.

PART TWO

Yesterday we talked about how the three new Party Sections of The Weekend Grillers came to be, how I hate to let anything go to waste and how some people like to compare their big toes.

Today we talk more about how Adults REALLY Party

If You Do It Right, Partying is Better When You Get Older

A few months back, one of my younger friends, Mandy,  told me that she was glad to see how my friends and I still liked to party and enjoy ourselves — because we were her parents’ age and they didn’t do anything!

After I recovered from this “compliment”, I told her that in my opinion, if you do it right, partying is BETTER when you get older.  My friends and I still do many of the same things we did as teenagers and 20 year olds, we just do them better.

When we were young a party food usually consisted of 20 bags of chips and a refrigerator full of cheap beer.   Now we have a table full of Smoked Salmon, Roasted Peppers (Atomic Buffalo Turds), Green Chili Wontons and more and, while the refrigerator is still full of beer, it’s now Sam Adams and Blue Moon.

We use to cram 80 people into a 2 room apartment with no A/C.  We now have kitchens bigger than that. 

We very seldom have anyone drink too much and pass out on the bathroom floor – but if they do, we take care of them (we’re Mommies and Daddies after all) and the bathroom floor is clean.

We use to listen to really bad ’80’s Rock and…okay, no one is perfect.  We still listen to really bad ’80’s Rock.

Party!!!

I could go on and I’m sure you have some good stories and ideas, but the point is, The Weekend Grillers is designed for the way we REALLY Party today.  Always has been.  Not funny costumes and silly games.  Just Good Friends, Good Food, Good Drinks and Good Times.

So what better place to include Adult Party Ideas and Recipes – even if they don’t necessarily include the Grill? 

Join us tomorrow for Part 3 of this Post.

Mark