{"id":954,"date":"2007-01-27T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T07:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2007\/01\/27\/what-would-meridith-vieira-do-aka-wwmd\/"},"modified":"2007-01-28T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T22:17:08","slug":"what-would-meridith-vieira-do-aka-wwmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2007\/01\/27\/what-would-meridith-vieira-do-aka-wwmd\/","title":{"rendered":"What would Meridith (Vieira) Do? (Aka WWMD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight, in case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t run by yet (and why haven&#8217;t you? her day! it&#8217;s almost over!) is Nana Moosie&#8217;s birthday! Yay Nana! So tonight, Papa Moosie invited me to tag along for dinner at her favorite restaurant where there they serve Mexican food at it&#8217;s finest, as well as lovely marguaritas!<\/p>\n<p>Now, me, being all responsible and shit, I left my kids home alone while I headed toward marguarita-ville.* Well, except one that was at a wild party. ** Anyway, I met the parental units (Aka, Nana and Papa) at the restaurant and we settled in for a good meal and talk and laughter.<\/p>\n<p>And Tequilia. Whee!<\/p>\n<p>So, I asked for my margaurita and the BEST THING HAPPENED! Dude, I totally got asked for my ID! I was so excited, Nana took pictures to commemorate the occasion:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571368\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/139\/371571368_12094e8907_m.jpg\" alt=\"ID'd\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571424\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/123\/371571424_99a6c2a4e1_m.jpg\" alt=\"ID'd!\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/center>So once it was discovered that I was, indeed, old enough (like THAT was in doubt!) the lovely waitress brought me my maguarita. With tequilia. blended. with salt.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571562\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/188\/371571562_fe6cffadc1_m.jpg\" alt=\"marguaritas\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/center>So then, we continued eating, and I filled Nana in on all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16818362\/\" title=\"Oh like you don't have a Nanny! Bet SHE drinks...\" target=\"_blank\">WWMD Playdates and Wine bru-ha-ha<\/a> and we had a good laugh over the Doctor with the Nanny who&#8217;d never drink, and growls over how Meridith bowled over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suburbanbliss.net\/suburbanbliss\/\" title=\"Go Melissa! Have a Momtini on me!\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Summers<\/a> and stuff. All the while I drank. IN FRONT OF MY PARENTS. Like. OMG PEOPLE. You think maybe I learned that kinda behavior from THEM? Probably at a PLAYDATE?***<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, then it was time for dessert, and the wait staff to come and sing to Nana and bring her ice cream and make her wear the hat &#8211; her FAVORITE PART of the whole thing, of course. Well, next to the cutie patootie hottie cook&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571341\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/180\/371571341_7070dd9f85_m.jpg\" alt=\"The Hat\" height=\"240\" width=\"197\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571667\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/171\/371571667_5b7f4eecac_m.jpg\" alt=\"The Cutie Cook\" height=\"240\" width=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/center>And who wouldn&#8217;t want to be next to the hot cook, huh? And, for the record, I may not have been the only one drinking &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t hard at all to imagine this gal with a lampshade on her head!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571525\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/182\/371571525_07ad96a010_m.jpg\" alt=\"Whoo! built in lampshade!\" height=\"240\" width=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/center>So then, we finished our deserts, Papa paid, and we headed outside (be sure to ask Nana about the phone number and the hot cook!) and I put my stuff in the passenger seat and Nana went &#8220;oh YEAH! You are such a good kid, not driving even though you only had one drink as big as your head!****&#8221; And I accepted the praise because hello! Just because my kids have been in bars before and I drink on occasion I can TOTALLY do it responsibly and have a designated driver and shit. So take THAT Meridith Vieira!<\/p>\n<p>And see? The kids were totally passed out when I got home.*****<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eclat\/371571811\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/187\/371571811_063ef3c964.jpg\" alt=\"aaaawwwww\" height=\"354\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center>A night well spent, I think *grins* Happy Birthday Nana!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>*Oh please. The boy is almost 15. More then old enough to babysit.<br \/>\n**Ok, she was just spending the night with a friend. Sheesh people. This honesty stuff&#8230;<br \/>\n***The answer would be no &#8211; I don&#8217;t recall drinking and playdates. HOWEVER! They totally did teach me responsibility. And what kind of tequilia makes for the best margaritas. So there.<br \/>\n****Not quite as big as my head, but for such a fluffy gal, I&#8217;m sure a lightweight!<br \/>\n*****Again, not really. They roused when they realized I brought home desert. Totally a bribe for going out to dinner without them. Worked, too! Whoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight, in case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t run by yet (and why haven&#8217;t you? her day! it&#8217;s almost over!) is Nana Moosie&#8217;s birthday! Yay Nana! So tonight, Papa Moosie invited me to tag along for dinner at her favorite restaurant where there they serve Mexican food at it&#8217;s finest, as well as lovely marguaritas! 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