Pintershizz: The New Year’s Eve Edition

Here at the Sisterhood, we are huge fans of Pinterest. We have over 3,900 pins to prove it. But you have to be wary of the Pintershizz. It can lead you to lose your mind by goading you to go over the top or, more benignly, it can just be pure entertainment. Pure, disturbing, entertainment. The problem is when you fall for executing the Pintershizz and end up getting Pinter-punked. Pinterest fails are tragic, y’all.

Erin: Do you really want to start out the new year with such negativity?

Ellen: Well, how about this? We ended 2012 getting Pinter-punked?

Erin: It’s really more accurate. And it would be ABSOLUTELY accurate is you said YOU ended 2012 by getting Pinter-punked.

Ellen: All I wanted to do was bring a fancy schmancy cocktail to your house for New Year’s Eve. Pinterest was full of them and I had been so impressed when the Michalaks showed up at the last soiree with this refreshing gem of their own creation.

Raspberry-Vodka-Seltzer-Michalak

 

Erin: Why didn’t you just bring that?

Ellen: Because I wanted to be different and if you never DO or MAKE any of the crap you pin, isn’t it just electronic hoarding?

With a start this Martha Stewart-esque, what could go wrong?

Erin: Well your prep basket was Pinterest-worthy, but what made you choose The Kahlua Float?

Ellen: It looked gorgeous. I love Kahlua. It had champagne. What is more perfect for New Year’s Eve than a cocktail that has champagne??

Erin: Okay, but what about the coffee ice cream? I have to tell you, coffee ice cream makes me want to gag.

Ellen: You might be missing the point. What SHOULD have made ME gag was the thought of coffee ice cream IN white wine. Here’s the recipe: 1 scoop espresso or coffee ice cream, 1.5 oz Kahlua, topped with  1/8 cup champagne. Ew! Who puts ice cream in wine??? My only defense is that I was enchanted by this photo.

champagne and ice cream

 

 

Erin: Or maybe it failed because you rednecked it up. Nice plastic glass. And it probably would have been better if you had used chocolate sprinkles.

What??

 

Ellen: First, I expected you to have champagne flutes or at the very least, wine glasses for me to use. I really brought the plastic cups for the root beer floats for the kids. Second, it was not the sprinkles. So I got caramel jimmies instead of chocolate. Walmart was out.

Erin: Redneck point punctuated . . .

Ellen: You just go on throwing stones at my plastic cups. I was not going to multiple stores to find chocolate sprinkles. Have you ever tasted a sprinkle? By itself? No matter what flavor they say they are, they taste like nothing. They are flavorless hydrogenated calorie bombs. One tablespoon is 60 calories.

Erin: Get out! That’s crazy! So if you have an ice cream cone covered in sprinkles, you really could have another  scoop of ice cream for the same amount of calories? So I’m going back to my original statement, but with more venom. This drink failed because sprinkles are the devil.

Ellen: Okay, I’ll go along with sprinkles being the Trojan Horse of calories and they are miserable to drink through or around . . .

Erin: But it was super fun to pick them out of your scarf and I even think I got some in my hair. And down my shirt.

Ellen: Don’t forget getting them up your nose. But back to my points. This drink failed because it was ice cream in wine! Coffee ice cream, no less, in white FIZZY wine. What was I thinking?? I went back to the original blog post and there were lots of comments saying how pretty the drink looked, but not much about its taste.

We just realized we coordinated. How cute is that? Now you can gag too.

 

Erin: You were lured in by the pretty picture! We did enjoy the Kahlua over the ice cream, though. That was yummy.

Ellen: But it was hardly a cocktail.

Erin: Maybe you should have consulted me first. My Rein-Beer at the Christmas party was a hit. I have never been steered down the merry pathway of Pintershizz. I read the directions and can just tell if its going to be good or not.

So Proud

 

Ellen: Well, la-di-da! Aren’t you the Princess of Pinterest? You twisted some pipe cleaners and glued some googly eyes. Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back. I’ve never gotten steered wrong like this either. One of my superpowers is picking out good recipes.

Erin: I don’t need to pat myself on the back because I’m wearing the tiara. I think your “Super Recipe Picker Outer” cape would go nicely with it.

Ellen: And on that note. . .

Happy New Year from The Sisterhood!

May 2013 bring you health, wealth, and enough wisdom to avoid stepping in the Pintershizz.

 

 

 Read the entire Pintershizz series!

And while you’re at it, just follow us on Pinterest too. We usually pick good pins, we swear.

 

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36 thoughts on “Pintershizz: The New Year’s Eve Edition

  1. Kelly

    Hilarious! I love all your posts…makes me wish I had a sister to blog with…too funny.
    Happy New Years to both of you. Thanks for the heads up on how to avoid stepping in my own Pintershit!
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  2. sparkling74

    I like coffee ice cream. I like the smell of khalua. I like champagne. In a m illion years, you could not convince me to put those 3 ingredients together, I don’t care how pretty the picture. Never!

    I may pin on pinterest but I do not look at other stuff on pinterest. Ever. I am pinterselfish. I only pin my own stuff or things that I know for a fact I will make and dont’ want to forget about!
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  3. deborah l quinn

    big fun…and for future reference, a drink a friend of mine has been serving: pomegrante liqueur at bottom of champagne glass, then fill with champagne, then drop in a few pomegrante seeds into the glass. it’s delicious AND oh-so healthy! Happy New Year!
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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      My goodness, it sounds like a health potion. 🙂 I should have made that other cocktail you talked about once, but I’m having a hard time finding it. I think you wrote about it in a post AND talked about in a comment on our blog, but I can;t find it. ;/ Ellen

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  4. Kelly @ In the Mom Light Blog

    Lol, I’ve “pintershit” many a time in my day! I also get lured in by pretty pics and then I major flop. I also was worried about starting the New Year on a negative note as I am already failing on my resolution and haven’t even had a chance to post my blog about the resolution before I am failing it… I think reality is always better shared than worrying about positive and negative. PS – Thanks for the sweet comment on my blog Ellen.
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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      I think your soft spot would have hardened up if you actually gagged on our drink. (I truly had no intention of that previous sentence reading that dirty, but it just made me giggle, so I’m going to let it stand.) Thanks you for stopping by! Ellen

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  5. Farrah

    It’s really destiny that you come here. There is this stuff called Hagelslag that is sprinkles. The Dutch eat it on everything- but mostly kids on their toast. The sprinkles are also in 1 million flavors- and I can see that giving your, erm, confection some oomph.

    Loved your post. And I have to forbid myself from Pincrack. I just can’t go there.

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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      I have heard of those! But I don’t even think they could save — as one commenter put it, “our vomit in a cup.” I AM starting to think I hear the Netherlands calling. 🙂 Ellen

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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      You know what the best part is? My friends love me so much that most of them tried it. Out of that one communal cup. Once I saw it and tasted it, I refused to waste any more Kahlua or champagne. Ellen

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  6. Kerstin @ Auer Life

    I’m glad to know that “redneck” can be used as a verb as well!
    Really funny, ladies! (but what else is new? ;))

    I do love me some Pinterest, and curiously enough my following on one of my boards (Places, Spaces and Nature) has skyrocketed fom 100 to 2000 in two days ?!?
    Not sure what the heck is happening there….
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  7. Toulouse

    I loved this. It’s exactly how I would half-ass the same thing. The drink does look delicious but white wine? Yuck. I’m with you on the kahlua and ice cream. Drink the white wine separately. You don’t want to waste it!
    Thanks for linking up to Finding the funny!
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