One anniversary celebration complete. Now it is time for some real pomp and circumstance. Ready the confetti. Ready the balloons. Ready the dancing girls, parade floats and marching band tunes!
365 Days of Jazz Hands turns 50% this coming Monday, making the forthcoming weekend our final days of steady incline. I'm not certain what descending Jazz Hands will bring, but I happen to know one inevitable fact...all good things must come to an end. These Jazz Hands will expire on December 31st of this year, which begs the question...how's it all going to end?
First things first, we must decide how to properly celebrate the completion of 50% (also known as the end of the beginning), and to properly usher in the second act, 50% Part Two (also known as the beginning of the end).
Obviously, some ecstatic hand jazzing will be in order. I've mentioned the confetti, the balloons, the dancing girls, parade floats and marching band tunes...what else could there possibly be?
How about this...
I propose a toast. Since Mondays are drab and routine commutes yank the pomp right out of circumstance, take a moment this coming weekend, raise a drink, and deploy Impaired Jazz Hands. For those that need a refresher course on Jazz Hands terminology, Impaired Jazz Hands consists of having a foreign object in one hand while attempting to deploy two handed Jazz Hands. Otherwise you're merely deploying singular Jazz Hand, which is likely to be mistaken as a wave hello gesture (or wave goodbye gesture, depending on which way you happen to be heading).
Context is everything.
In this case of celebratory Impaired Jazz Hands, the foreign object should be a drink. Deploy. Drink. Then enjoy the confetti. Enjoy the balloons. Enjoy the dancing girls, parade floats and marching band tunes!
And since we will all raise a glass to properly salute this 50% anniversary of 365 Days of Jazz Hands, it seems an appropriate to make an official announcement.
Are you ready to have your mind blown?
I have put my Gin and Tonic days firmly behind me, so I will not be raising a glass of G&T for the purposes of this toast. No. Instead I shall raise a glass of a drink I have dubbed the Palm Harbor!
A Palm Harbor is not unlike a Gin and Tonic and varies slightly from a Gin Rickey. For starters, no tonic, that stuff has a fairly strange, bitter taste, which conceals the beautiful, subtle flavors of good gin (Bombay Sapphire is my personal preference). Plus, tonic has corn syrup, and let's face it, sweet is the new gross.
A Gin Rickey on the other hand consists of gin mixed with club soda, but adds sugar and juice of citrus, most commonly lime. Now we're getting somewhere. Again, sugar equals sweet equals not for me.
Remove the sugar adding process from the gin and club soda, squeeze the juices from one fresh lime and one fresh lemon and you have yourself a refreshing Palm Harbor.
For kicks and giggles, say it with a Boston accent (pronounced: Pawm Hobba). Now raise your perfectly dry, adult beverage to toast these 50% festivities with what will now be considered the 365 Days of Jazz Hands official drink. Youngsters may raise a juice box. That will suffice.
Today's Jazz Hands are nearing the summit and are thoroughly enjoying the view from way up here.
Day one-hundred and seventy-nine complete.
Context is everything.
In this case of celebratory Impaired Jazz Hands, the foreign object should be a drink. Deploy. Drink. Then enjoy the confetti. Enjoy the balloons. Enjoy the dancing girls, parade floats and marching band tunes!
And since we will all raise a glass to properly salute this 50% anniversary of 365 Days of Jazz Hands, it seems an appropriate to make an official announcement.
Are you ready to have your mind blown?
I have put my Gin and Tonic days firmly behind me, so I will not be raising a glass of G&T for the purposes of this toast. No. Instead I shall raise a glass of a drink I have dubbed the Palm Harbor!
A Palm Harbor is not unlike a Gin and Tonic and varies slightly from a Gin Rickey. For starters, no tonic, that stuff has a fairly strange, bitter taste, which conceals the beautiful, subtle flavors of good gin (Bombay Sapphire is my personal preference). Plus, tonic has corn syrup, and let's face it, sweet is the new gross.
A Gin Rickey on the other hand consists of gin mixed with club soda, but adds sugar and juice of citrus, most commonly lime. Now we're getting somewhere. Again, sugar equals sweet equals not for me.
Remove the sugar adding process from the gin and club soda, squeeze the juices from one fresh lime and one fresh lemon and you have yourself a refreshing Palm Harbor.
For kicks and giggles, say it with a Boston accent (pronounced: Pawm Hobba). Now raise your perfectly dry, adult beverage to toast these 50% festivities with what will now be considered the 365 Days of Jazz Hands official drink. Youngsters may raise a juice box. That will suffice.
Today's Jazz Hands are nearing the summit and are thoroughly enjoying the view from way up here.
Day one-hundred and seventy-nine complete.
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