  GT Drive home from work. Think about how nice it would be to have a drink. Consider beer, find it tiring. Head to grocery store. Peruse liquor aisle. Think that being able to buy all sorts of booze in the grocery store at damn near any time you want is a small perk to living in Missouri.
select 9.00 bottle of Seagram's gin add 2 bottles of Vess tonic water and 2 limes Head home. Realize it's been about 2 years since you've made ice and unless the ice fairy magically visits your apartment in the next 5 minutes there won't be any. Stop at 7-11. Scrape change out of cupholder in car and buy a bag of ice. Go home for real this time. Slice lime into wedges, beat the ever lovin shiznit out of the bag of ice to dislodge pieces to fit in short tumbler. Fill about 1/4 of the glass with gin. Pause. Ponder. Fill about 1/3 of the glass with gin.
Open bottle of tonic water. Curse as it spooges all over the counter and the floor. Fill the rest of the glass with the tonic water and squeeze a bit o' lime on top. Drop lime in glass. Sigh. Chill out on futon. 
