Up with two olives!

Okay, yes, I'm alive. I know I haven't posted in a while! Forgive me.

I have been surviving lately. All the summer travel, back to school, economy, search for income opportunities, relationship stress etc, had finally caught up with me.

Which brought me to this post so naturally....I need a DRINK!

And when you do, sometimes it's fun to stick to the basics and go DIVE bar. Don't get me wrong, I love going to the latest and swankiest watering holes, but sometimes the only thing that can cure a thing called the blues....is the dive bar.

Living in Seattle, we have a plethora of choices of such bars we call a DIVE. We can go straight old school with 5 point in Belltown, or a favorite in my hood...The Mecca (see photo of current marquis).

Next on the list is what to drink? Again, for me old school would dictate a good vodka cran. My current favorite that skips the phouf, and gets to the point...Greygoose martini, up, dirty with two olives...pretty please with sugar on top.

Another great thing about dives, is you don't generally run into people you'd rather not run into at the moment. You can just sit content among the rif raf, because for that moment, you are the rif raf.

Cheers.