I Got Glasses!

Ok, I have a LOT of glasses. BUT apparently not enough...... The Tom Collins and the Highball..... Both are glasses that are named for drinks. You know what I mean, like how there's a martini and a martini glass. Now we do have martini glasses, but it's the Highball/Tom Collins glass I've been lusting after. So far as I can tell there's not much difference between the two. Basically they're both tall, very straight glasses, rather narrow and sooooooooooooooooooooo necessary for my continued existence.
However unlike regular water glasses, martini glasses and oh yes margarita glasses that you can find EVERY WHERE......(the damn things must multiply by themselves, taking up precious highball and collins glass space on store shelves...grrr....) the highball glass has eluded us. UNTIL yesterday! On a marathon shopping trip (we undertake one every once in a while) we visited about 6 different stores in a few hours and lo and behold we found not one but three different sets of High Ball Glasses!!!!!!
At the first store the glasses were lovely, clear, heavy bottomed and ohhhh so deliciously narrow and tall...but the price was tall as well. $30.00 for 4 glasses. Then at the next store we found not one but two different sets of high ball glasses! EUREKA!!! The first was only $12.99 for a set of four! WOWSERS, how fantastic...but...alas...despite LOOKING like the perfect Highball glass they were scarily thin, seemed like I might accidently bite a hunk of glass right off whilst using them..... So I suppose you could say these glasses were *too cheap*??? Like Goldilocks I wanted the set that was JUST right!
The last set was only 20.00 for a set of 4....hmmmm....good price we think. At first glance I was slightly dismayed. They were covered with what looked like frosted patterns, lines, dots and swirls. ICK. I imagined dry scratchy afore said ickness when I touched the frosted glasses. But we decided to give them a chance and opened a set up, right there in the store...ohhh we're such rebels. And lo and behold it wasn't frosted but etched.... Ohhhhhh ETCHED!!! And if I'd bothered to read the box they came in I'd have seen that right away....the difference between frosted glass and etched is like the difference between holding a radioactive piece of sand paper OR A SMALL CRYSTALLINE PIECE OF A STAR! The glasses are tall , 7 inches high to be exact...and narrow, a little less then 2.75 " in diameter. AND heavy bottomed, if you haven't experienced the delights of a heavy bottom...then oh my you ARE missing something.....
Normally we stay away from any coloured glasses, or glasses with frosted designs (my hands literally claw up at the thought) as we like the drink to be shown off in all it's true glory. How would you know my tea is green if the glass is blue? How would you know my glass is so full of ice there's barely room for the drink if the glass is.....*shudders* frosted???? BUT these etched designs I'll make an exception to, they hardly obscure the drink at all and FEEL most lovely on the finger tips.

We celebrated our new highballs not with a Tom Collins OR a Highball drink but in fact some delicious iced coffee!Remember you can click on any of the images in my blog to see them larger.


If you click to see the close up of my drink in it's new highball glass that's fine, just keep your fingers outta my coffee and the drooling to a minimum. Have I mentioned I Lovvvve Coffee?

See how much more complete our glasses collection is with the addition of the high balls? You'll note how all the coloured glasses and even ick frosted glasses and ack NON glass glasses are banished to the backs and upper portions of the cupboard.... where I don't have to accidentally look at them or even worse...touch them!

p.s. apparently there IS a difference between a Collins glass and a Highball, apparently the Highball is a little shorter and "unfrosted" OH MAN.....thank goodness I found the highballs....
I won't be having any frosted glass in my house, thank-you very much.
p.p.s frosted glass has been addded to my list of evil things