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i love the letter a
2006-12-20 : 2:32 pm

Yeah, people are dumb at work today, and I'm leaving early ~~so I can get all gussied up for my Christmas Surprise tonight~~ because I have a Dr. appointment, which leaves me a half hour before I go, so in lieu of doing any actual work I'm going to do a little dootdeedoo here, as I have been tagged by the wonderful and jaded Claudia. That was a long and grammatically annoying sentence.

Here's how it works, should you, dear reader, decide you'd like to play along. I give you a letter and you have to write 10 things that you love that start with that letter. I promise I won't give you X. (That's what the frat guy said, but he was lying, too). My letter is A.

Here goes:

Amusement Parks I luuurrrvvee to ride the rollah coastah! I love the rides, the cotton candy, the having to lie down in the grass for an hour and a half because your friend finally convinced you to ride the Turkish Twist. Actually, I don't like that so much. I love the log flume ride and especially the wooden coasters. They are my favorite. If my life was filled with roller coasters and pahpooie (who knows how the hell to spell that) I'd be the happiest person ALIVE.

Adding Machines Not being an accountant before the age of computers or calculators, I rarely, if ever, get to use adding machines, but when I am given the opportunity to use one of these very clickety clackety machines that make lots of satisfying crunchy noises and spit out those long pieces of paper with faded blue dot-matrix-esque numbers, I'm feeling pretty psyched. It's a tactile thing.

Apres ski parties I don't ski well, but there's something about coming inside after a long day in the snow to a fire and friends and big leather couches and warm drinks, which later lead to beer... It's all very cozy. And I likes me some cozy.

Andies The candy, not the mountains. Though the mountains are nice, too. Yay for chocolatey-minty-yumminess!

Arrested Development The TV show, not the hip hop group (Tennessee... Tennessee!) This is, in my opinion, the absolute funniest television show ever created. Hands down. No competition. Even funnier than Family Guy, and Family Guy is some damn funny. I'm still amazed at what came out of that show. The humor was constant, self-referential, obvious and subtle all at the same time. I could make all sorts of anti-American comments about my country letting this show get cancelled, but this isn't about that.

Apple picking Autumn is my favorite season (AUTUMN! THAT'S TOTALLY AN A WORD!!! Okay, I'm changing)

Autumn Autumn is my favorite season and I love all the things that go with it. The crisp air, the smell of wood burning, the leaves, the crunchiness as you walk, the need for sweaters, watching kids play outside, apple picking, Halloween, etc. All of it. I get really excited when Autumn comes. Unfortunately that wonderful and, again, cozy feeling is always accompanied by a deep undercurrent of dread for the winter that is to follow.

Abuelo's Tequila I went to Mexico with my sister, my bro-in-law, my friend Jack, my cousin and his friend one day last spring. We started drinking at about 11:00am and didn't really stop until the next morning, when I had to get on a plane to come back to New Hampshire. In one of the several towns we visited on our day trip there was a little tourist shop that we went into, which was selling flasks, among other things. The old guy who worked there told us that the flasks came filled with the tequila his grandfather made. Abuelo's Tequila. He gave us all a free shot of it, which, stupidly, we took (we were lucky. Don't EVER go into a small foreign town and just ACCEPT the drink that some guy gives you. Jesus we were lucky we weren't robbed, kidnapped or killed.) Fortunately, this guy was completely sweet and just wanted to sell us his flasks. This was the most amazing tequila I had ever tasted. It had the slight taste of amaretto to it. Sooooo so so good.

Arts and Crafts The activities, not the artistic movement in home decorating. I love to make crafty things. It's kind of who I am.

Alton Brown Alton Brown is my foodnetwork boyfriend. He's geeky and silly and totally goofy and makes REALLY dumb jokes, but he's soooo cute and he COOKS! What more could a girl ask for?

Afros I mean the BIG kind. A BIG, HUGE AFRO. I always wanted an afro. If my hair would do that I'd TOTALLY ROCK THE AFRO. Finally, for Halloween one year I bought one and wore it for days. I was in Missoula, MT. You can do these things in Missoula. I wish I had an afro. They are so cool.

ADDENDUM (which also begins with A, but is not something I have feelings about one way or the other) Anderson Valley Summer Solstice This completely escaped me, as we usually refer to it as "The 'Stice" but my dear man Ken is right. This is one of my favorite things. It is a microbrew coming from somewhere in California which tastes like really good beer and really good cream soda all at the same time. You can only get it in one restaurant in Boston during the summer, and it's iffy if they'll even have it. Even if you call ahead and they say that it's on tap that night, by the time you get there it will probably be kicked. Just warning you.

Well! That's it. 10 things that begin with A that I love. With four minutes to spare! Off I go, out of the office, to my apartment where it is time to get all out, balls to the wall PROM PRETTY!

Comment if you want to play!