Drinks that make you go...

I love The New Yorker, I often wonder what my life would be like without the eminent whit of The New Yorker and its many contributors...it is genial, there is something for every interest.

This week's "featured" cartoon is a mouthful, the tagline makes me giggle: "When life gives you lemonade, make a highly caffeinated, alcoholic lemon-flavored drink."

...it brings me back to the days when I would over-indulge in many a great latte and martini. Today I have graduated to green tea and can hardly finish a cocktail all by myself, thus I had to post this is as a tribute to all of my friends who help me finish my boozie drinks (and enjoy every sip) and that don't constantly tell me about the latest coffee drinks they load up on...Thanks for not rubbing it in...I love you guys too!

The Great Outdoors

I recently went to my first Polo match in Greenwich, CT. I had a great time, I got to learn about a completely new sport that I knew very little about. Seriously it was very nice, very chic,  all so sophisticated until of course I had to go find the bathroom...or rather in this case, a porter potty. They tried to make it as respectable as possible, but really you can't ever really hide the obvious fact that a porter potty is a porter potty and will always be a porter potty.

But this isn't about my experience at the Polo match porter potties, but rather about much more unfortunate mishap with a row of porter potties and hot air balloon air show. A friend of my friend's friend who is quickly becoming a new friend sent me an email about this mishap after he learned about my fascination with bathrooms.

The email was titled:  Air show Disaster, Aircraft crashes into four buildings (hehe)

Apparently, the pilot  lost control of his aircraft. OMG, imagine the horror of the people inside the buildings (the potter potties)....as if using a potter potty isn't humiliating enough.

My heart goes out to the people in the porter potties.

Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Decent Toilets

This is it...I'm creating a Public Bathroom Bill of Rights

1. There should always be a healthy supply of Toilet paper
2. Ample provision of purse hooks and shelves for oversized purses or shopping bags
3. Treat the public bathroom as if it were you own (I hope you clean & keep a neat bathroom at home)

To be continued...

Kiss & Fly, NYC: To Pee or Not to Pee (with the door open)?

I love New York, but sometimes, I wonder how much I really missed it when I was in LA...

We ventured out down to the Meat Packing District last night and as usual, ended up a couple of places...At any given point we all eventually have to make a trip to the WC and wait in line (if we are not at home), it is just simply a part of the game. These trips are especially harrowing on any given Saturday night that you find yourself at a packed club, and you have to wait in the torturous lines for the ladies bathroom (the men's lines tend to move a tad bit faster, so men don't usually have to deal with the same agony).

Last night the ladies bathroom line at Kiss & Fly was actually moving at a decent pace, which was of course GREAT, but which makes what happened even more perplexing.

Out of nowhere this woman (or as my good friend Adam would say: this silly slut) decided to pee in front of everyone in line on a perfectly working toilet that wasn't really being used by anyone else because it also happened to be fully exposed to the sink area from one angle and on the other angle was fully exposed to the open door that was facing the rest of the club...OMG, Ahhhh! The funniest and saddest thing is that this woman actually thought her little peeing number was cute...or maybe this is the way she picks up guys at the club...I have no idea, are guys really attracted to girls peeing in public, is this really the deal-maker?

(Sorry there are no associated pictures...pictures would mean that I was condoning her behavior...hehehe, which, as a Lady, I can't)

Kisses!

The Acapulco International Airport

They have a separate one for "handicap" people, but I didn't feel like waiting for the woman who was in there to get out, and well then my flight was leaving, so I only visited the one for regular folk :) I didn't want to go into the other anyways...hehe.

It was clean...one of my favorite qualities!!!

Fairmont Princess Hotel - Acapulco

The lobby bathrooms. I liked them a lot...always a pleasant experience, loved the lighting, conveniently located and always very clean.

Fairmont Pierre Marques Hotel - Acapulco

I have been a bad guru, I've been taking pictures but I haven't been posting...oops

The Pierre Marques guest rooms

I decided the toilet was just a toilet

Niner Winery: Paso Robles, CA

I absolutely loved the actual bathroom door  to get into the ladies room: it was a beautiful wood door with exquisite hardware, very rustic. I was also a big fan of all of the little details throughout the bathroom, but the "aluminum" plastic stalls completely killed it....Seriously I just couldn't think afterwards the stalls were such isores.

I liked the tiled sink, the ambiance lighting and the blue tile along the wall (also found behind each stall).

The bathroom was clean, very clean, and that is always a big plus for me, so I was very happy there because I just hate going into a beautiful dirty bathroom...seems like such a waste.

The quality of the toilet paper was not the cheapest kind, which made the whole bathroom stall material situation even more of a poor management design decision. They should have cut corners on the toilet paper not the bathroom stalls...wood stalls to compliment the door could have made the bathroom absolutely gorgeous and then I could have given it a 10...instead I'm going to give them an 8 for lack of effort and poor design decisions.

Proof Tijuana Airport - A 7

I love the mood lighting

                                                   

The Volaris Terminal @ the Tijuana Airport

...pictures to come...I need to download, and well I'm on vacation

The ladies bathroom at the airport are much nicer and cleaner than some US airports.

The renovations from 2-3 years (at most 5 years) are still holding up well, except for the fact that two faucets need repair, water doesn't seem to want to flow out of them!

Overall it is I would rate it a 7, because I expected a 5...it's a decent airport bathroom, that I don't mind running to after I get through security.

Everything Has A Beginning

...I have been my friend's Bathroom Guru for over 10 years, and today Finally I will start blogging about all of my favorite bathrooms and my bathroom hunting journeys.