so that's where i get it from

mom: sunday is our anniversary.
me: oh yes. do you have plans?
mom: well, i bought some vodka. and i also bought a bartending book. you know, your dad bought all those juices so i thought we would try a few drinks. so i guess we're going to get smashed on sunday.

now you may not have cracked up from that exchange as much as i did, but then again you may not know my mother. this is a woman who gets tipsy from half a glass of white zin and has only recently started ordering the occassional seabreeze when eating dinner at a restaurant.

and the only reason she thought to buy a bottle of vodka was because my dad has recently bought every type of juice they sell in the grocery store and i spent a good portion of sunday whining that there was no vodka in the house to mix it with. although they seldom drink, my parents have a stash containing every type of liqueur, a few bottles of rum to mix up the odd pina colada and some gin leftover from some party they threw in 1995 (probably).

well, now they have vodka, too. and also, i have plans for sunday.