#GeekSpeak: The sometimes random misadventures of @Abby_Cake

<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Abby. I met her in Chicago at the #20SBSummit, and this chick is raaaddddd!! She considers herself more of a nerd than a geek - but I think she's just all shades of random and awesome. Oh and FTR, the TNTML stance on nerds versus geeks are that nerds are products of a genetic predisposition, and geeks are raised. BOOH-YAH!!! I only have one more thing left to say ... HIT IT ABBY!!! </editorsnote>

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Abby_Cake

Does anyone else watch Mad Men?

I don't know WHY it took me so long to discover this damn show, but it is amazing. I've spent several afternoons binging on Don Draper and candy corn lately. I finally finished all of the seasons offered on Netflix, and then I reached that point where I was done and was all, "my life is over!!"

Instead of sinking into a never-ending pit of despair (inevitably followed by more candy corn -- why do I love that shit so much??), I began brainstorming how I could continue my Mad Men obsession without seeming crazy.

Initial ideas included: make Jared dress up like Don Draper, invite my friends over and act out scenes from the show -- either through script handouts or trickery, find a Joan Holloway wig to wear all day, take up smoking.
However, fortune smiled on me when we discovered two bottles of 1960's alcohol tucked away at Jared's mom's house. Seriously. FROM THE 60'S. That may not seem like a long time ago, but how did this shit not get drank?

I spent a few minutes Googling "Mad Men drink recipes" -- and found out AMC has a site devoted to just that.

(I'm not alooone!)

But then I discovered Bacardi had a bunch of recipes listed on the back. Apparently, rum wasn't super popular back in the 60's, and so we postulated that the recipe list was meant to encourage people to drink it.

Or maybe I am just thinking like an ad man.

Anyway, we found a recipe for a Bacardi Collins:

• 1 jigger rum (I made it a generous one)
• 2 teaspoons frozen lemonade concentrate
• Mix in shaker with ice. Pour in cup.
• Top with club soda & two ice cubes.
• Garnish with cherry and lemon slice.

The gin we just mixed with ice and lime concentrate. I was incredibly intoxicated because YES that bottle says 90 proof and it's basically been fermenting for 50 years. No Big!

IT WAS DELICIOUS! I thought the rum was extra sweet and, I am not a gin fan, but that particular vintage was smooth. I handed my concoction off to Jared's sister and she told me I had to be an alcoholic because she couldn't drink that (I'm not, calm down!)

If you get a chance to try some 1960's liquor DO IT (and I still might be Betty Draper for Halloween.)

xx, @abby_cake

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