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#DrinkUpLinkUp — Cupcake Angel Food

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Angel Food Cupcake WineSome nights I just want a glass of wine. Last week, I battled terrible insomnia, and one night as I laid staring at the ceiling I went, “I would loooooooooooooooove a glass of wine right now.”

The liquor store closest to my house does 10% off all wines on Mondays (which basically comes out to being tax free with our high sales tax here.) I went in and went straight to the cupcake wine display. I absolutely LOVE their Red Velvet wine (and I am NOT a red wine fan in general) and had been dying to try their Angel Food wine. I did a little dance to find it available, and I MIGHT have kinda danced to the register. (I’ll never confirm or deny.)

After a night of house work, I settled in with a glass of my purchase.

I was very surprised! Pleasantly so. To me, it was nice and sweet, but it had a dry finish. Not unlike an actual angel food cake.

Confession… I drank over 3/4ths of the bottle in one night. Going to sleep was NOT a problem that night!*

 

 Wine glass

 

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*I don’t recommend using alcohol to help you go to sleep. While I fell asleep easily, I didn’t STAY asleep… which is exactly a danger of going that route for sleep. The next night I just did a hot shower, turning off the tv early, and reading before bed. Best sleep in ages.

christmas

No tree

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The last several years, my husband and I have not put up a Christmas tree. In fact, in our almost six years of marriage, we’ve only had a tree once, and that was just because we were having a small housewarming/Christmas party.

We’ve always traveled for Christmas, and we are on the run so much during the week, that we just figure it isn’t worth putting it up. We won’t be around to enjoy it anyway.

So, since we don’t put one up ourselves, we enjoy decorating the tree at the bar where I work. And the family tree wherever we go is our tree as well.

But I’ll be honest. I miss having a tree of our own. I have a box full of beautiful ornaments, collected through my life, just sitting in the basement. It remains boxed up year after year. Last year, we had a little basement flooding, and I did lose a few ornaments when the box they were stored in got wet. So I did at least get to go through them last year, reminiscing over when I got each one.

I look forward to the day we put a tree up again. I don’t let it get me down that we don’t put up a tree. It doesn’t upset me, as I know logically it just makes sense to skip it. (Plus our house is small and I’m not sure where I’d put it anyway!) But, it IS a special piece of Christmas decor that I can’t wait to do again.