Holiday: Have a Blood Orange Boston Sour to celebrate New Year’s Eve!

Have a Blood Orange Boston Sour to celebrate New Year’s Eve!

Coupe: Coupes, pronounced coop like where a chicken lives, we’re designed specifically for the drinking of champagne. They were not made in the image of any famous French breasts as many scandalous rumors would have you believe. The wide saucer shape makes this a subpar glass for enjoying champagne sip by sip, but that same shape makes it ideal for showing off interesting textures and colors in cocktails. 

If you want to enjoy a drink from a coupe glass this New Year’s Eve, why not try a Blood Orange Boston Sour. The ingredients and instructions required to make it are below.

What you will need:

2 ounces fresh blood orange juice

2 ounces bourbon

1 ounce fresh lemon juice

½ ounce ginger liqueur

1 egg white

Blood orange slices for garnish

What you do:

Combine orange juice, whiskey, lemon juice, liqueur, and egg white in a cocktail shaker, fill halfway with ice, secure lid and shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Strain into a coupe glass and top with blood orange slice.

This recipe brought can be found on Zestful Kitchens.

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COVID, economic hardships, systemic inequality, and even the weather are causing great harm as we leave 2021 behind. If we all made improving the lives of everyone our top priority we could make a titanic change in the lives of millions in 2022.

Do things to make the world a better place.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords: A locket from Four Swords.

 A locket from Four Swords.

Heart Container: In Four Swords heart containers are similar to and different from their counterparts in the main branch of the Zelda franchise. This is mostly due to the procedural nature of the game. In Four Swords, heart containers increase the total health max for all Links by one when found. Each stage has between two and four heart containers to find, but the added health is lost between stages.

Last Christmas they gave you their heart, the very next day you gave it away. This year, you’ll be in tears. ‘Cause they are coming to get you. 

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Big thank you to George Michael and Wham! For inspiring my Christmas music horror-themed post this day after Christmas.

Christmas can be an extremely stressful time for many for a lot of different reasons. Make sure the people you love and care about know that and hear that love in a way that makes sense to them.

Let’s spend more time worrying about making other people feel special and less time worrying about what new things we’d all like to own. That idea is the basic moral of so many Christmas movies you’d think we’d have gotten the message by now.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Holiday: A lump of coal for christmas.

A lump of coal for Christmas.

Coal: Given to the naughty in their stocking, coal is supposed to be a warning for those naughty individuals to change their ways. Based on current events, those naughty people just leaned into being extra naughty and then sold the coal to the energy sector and made off like bandits.

If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. If you don’t, today is the 25th of December, 2021.

Most people that know me would describe me as quite the grinch around Christmas, but I’m working on letting others have their holiday joy.

Hope they would also say that I’m no miser and strive to make sure that everyone has something to be happy about this time of year.

If you are in a position to make someone’s life better, you should do it. Every little bit helps in these ever difficult times.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Four Swords: A tablet of ancient power from Four Swords.

A tablet of ancient power from Four Swords.

Heart: As both the measure of Link’s vitality and the primary means of restoring it, hearts are a precious resource while adventuring. Especially if you are a jump first look later sort of player such as myself. Hearts can be found all over levels in Four Swords, but most often by defeating enemies, cutting grass, or breaking the right breakables.

In searching for anything that would cure their child’s illness, parent and archaeologist Dr. Evelyn Weisz has left the boundaries of traditional medicine and turned to the occult. While they studied at university they wrote a thesis on mystical healing practices in the ancient world, but that was just intellectual curiosity then. Now, with an ancient tablet in hand, they are attempting to call up a spirit to cure their child no matter the price.

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I won’t say that most of the text that appears in my drawings actually says something, but this tablet definitely says something. The problem is I actually forgot what I made it say.

The world is a crazy and difficult place. You don't need ancient magic to make it easier for others.

Be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph