Martinis at Midnight

The Red Hot Heart Martini

The Red Hot Heart Martini

What is it that gets you really hot? This was a night where I needed to get warm! This was an evening prior to one of the most overrated nights ever. It was the night before Valentines Day. This is a day that every single woman in the world dreads. This is a day where commercialism takes on a whole new meaning! I have had a hate on for Valentines Day since my early 20’s and I have a custom of total and complete self indulgence on this day. So this year I decided to try and embrace Valentines Day by trying a martini that might just but me in the lovely dovey mood.

The Red Hot Heart Martini is a very simple mixture but packs a punch. A blend of Vodka, cherry juice and cinnamon liqueur. This is a martini that gets your heart racing! My ritual of self indulgence includes a carton of ice cream, a big bubble bath and a bottle of champagne, all of these things I indulge in all by myself! The ritual started years ago when an old roommate and I where feeling sorry for ourselves because we were both dateless on Valentines Day! But now I view this ritual as a time where I show myself some love. However, this year I decided to spice up the bubble bath with the addition of the Red Hot Heart martini.

“As I lie back in my tub and let the warm bath oil wash over me I took my first sip of this martini and ……”.

Wow! This martini packs some heat! I was taken back by the sensations that this martini stirred within me. There was a definite sweetness from the cherry juice but then right behind that was the warm and tingly flavor of the cinnamon. I liked it! Plus it was beautiful to look at, as it was perched on the edge of my bathtub! As I started to relax into my hot bath, my mind started to drift to the fact that it was so ironic that every Valentines Day I was on my own. Even this year, I supposedly have a new boyfriend but he is away and I am again celebrating by myself. Part of me thinks that if I did have a special someone to celebrate with it would be kinda weird. Besides there was no room in the bathtub!

I kept sipping my Red Hot Heart Martini and thought how delicious these cherries where,when I realized that I actually missed my kinda boyfriend. The reason I say he is kinda a boyfriend is because I have not decided if he has "boyfriend status" yet. The conversation had come up a few days earlier when he made the comment that he would like boyfriend status, I was shocked because I never expected this from this guy. I thought he was all Mr. Casual and did not want a commitment. What did this mean? And did that mean that I had automatic girlfriend status. I panicked and avoided the comment and now I was left wondering exactly what that meant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How does it happen that two people go from dating to boyfriend/girlfriend status? Some people think that it just naturally evolves into a more permanent thing when you end up spending more and more time with one person. Others think that it occurs when you realize that you are having fantastic sex with this one person and do not want to have sex with anyone else. But what does it really come down too? Monogamy? It is kinda like when we where in high school and you asked a girl to "go steady" what you where really saying is that you did not want that girl to be anyone else’s. So what motivates us to move from dating to status?

Is the motivation from the fear that the person we are really starting to care for, is going to go and sleep with someone else? Or is the motivation that we are scared that if we do not make a move to be exclusive then we will lose this person to someone else? Or is the motivation purely from the infatuation and lust that we have for this person? What ever the motivation it does not really matter, all that does matter is that if you are really into the person it will feel totally and completely natural to have the status! When you use the term boyfriend/girlfriend for the first time it should actually make you feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside, it is the verbal affirmation that you are one with this other person. The status is more than just being monogamous with the other person it is saying that you want to see each other or talk to each everyday, it also is saying that you are important in each others lives and that you can confide things to each other that you would not confide to friends and family. Sometimes the status needs to be verbalized usually when distance or a difficult schedule prevents the two people from seeing each other frequently and sometimes it just occurs without it ever being discussed. It does not matter how you get there as long as it works for the two people involved.

Conclusion:

The Red Hot Heart Martini is a drink that will make your heart race and stimulate your senses. The combination of vodka, cherry and cinnamon is tantalizing and gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling. It is the same feeling that you get when you refer to someone as your boyfriend/girlfriend for the first time. It is that feeling of wow ness when you realize that you are with this amazing person, it is the jolt of reality that you are actually really into this person and they are into you! Infatuation and falling in love is one of those amazing emotions that make us hot and crazy it is just like the Red Hot Heart Martini when something makes you sit back and say "wow" then you know that it is something that you just need to go with.

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