The other night, I was bored, it was late, and while perusing the latest blog postings, I came upon one with the title of Interactive Letter Game. Game? I like games. Especially, letter games. I kill at Boggle. So, I read the blog with interest.<\/p>\n
By agreeing to play, I would be given a letter by the poster and then have to come up with 10 words that mean something to me. Names, places, or things, it didn\u2019t matter, as long as they meant something to me. I couldn\u2019t just post 10 words though. I would have to tell why they mean something to me. Sounded easy enough, right? That\u2019s what I thought, but like I said I was bored and it was late.<\/p>\n
I posted my agreement to play and waited for my letter. Would it be a consonant or a vowel? Would it be something really easy for me, like a \u201cK\u201d or \u201cL\u201d, or would it be a tough letter for most anybody, like maybe an \u201cX\u201d or \u201cQ\u201d? I checked back every so often until my letter arrived. It was\u2026..\u201dA\u201d.<\/p>\n
At first I was taken aback. \u201cA\u201d? Although I attempted to acquire A\u2019s while involved in my academics, it absolutely was not the letter I adumbrated for this game. My first assumption was that this was going to be a bit more arduous than I anticipated. I was beginning to doubt my ability to accomplish my part of the agreement to this avocation. Then the first one came to me and the rest were abecedarian.<\/p>\n
1. Adam – My brother\u2019s first born son, who just so happens to be in the Army and currently residing in Arkansas. How lucky was that one? I could knock off three of these with that right there, but I\u2019ll go for the extra credit.<\/p>\n
2. Australia \u2013 The one foreign country I always wanted to go to and was lucky enough to live the dream for 28 days. As long as I am able, I would go back and do it again. This reminds me, I need to get the rest of my travel journal entries finished and posted for my four readers to enjoy.<\/p>\n
3. August \u2013 My favorite month of the year. The weather is great, it\u2019s usually the best time to travel, the water temperature at Lake Mead is perfect, it\u2019s the Baby Girl\u2019s birth month, and best of all at the end of the month the Boy goes back to school. Really, what could be better?<\/p>\n
4. Abner \u2013 The first dog my Man and I raised from birth. He was a blond Golden Retriever\/Labrador mix who was obsessed with tennis balls and old sneakers. His one really annoying habit was trying to save me from drowning. Not anybody else, just me. Every time we took that dog to the lake with us, the minute I would get in the water, he would rush off the shore, paddle as fast as he could to get out to me, and then swim circles around me. No matter how much he was called back to shore, or tempted with a tennis ball, or I pushed him away and told him to go back, he would continue to swim his circle until I grabbed onto his tail so he could pull me back to shore. Crazy dog!<\/p>\n
5. Adventure \u2013 With the Man, the Girl, the Boy, the Baby Girl, four dogs, a baker\u2019s dozen or so of fish, and a hamster in my house and in my life, this is the thing that happens every day I get up and out of my bed. <\/p>\n
6. Authority \u2013 The one thing I will always question and\/or fight, depending on the situation.<\/p>\n
7. Alpine Village Inn \u2013 One of the best restaurants that ever was in Las Vegas. It was a German\/Bavarian place that made the best creamed chicken soup and brown bread on the planet. The bread was a sweet brown bread, served fresh out of the oven with whipped herb butter. The soup was a divine, ultra-thick, cream soup that was delivered to the table in a cast iron soup kettle with heated, individual sized, cast iron kettle bowls. The soup came to the table so hot that it would usually take 5 minutes to cool down just enough that you could scrape the top layer off without melting the spoon. That soup never did get cold and waiting for it to cool was anticipation at its best.<\/p>\n
8. Ancestry \u2013 A sporadic hobby that I have trying to find the answers to family mysteries. So far the one concrete thing I have found is that I am not related to anybody famous, important, or of any historic or notable value. Yet.<\/p>\n
9. Alone \u2013 Something I am more than comfortable being. Well most of the time, when I can get time alone, and as long as I have my dog. Just in case somebody sees me talking to myself. I can at least blame the conversation on the dog. <\/p>\n
10. Antidisestablishmentarianism \u2013 I have always liked this word since the first time it was thrown out there as extra credit on a spelling test in the fourth grade. Even though I like the word, it is not one that would have described me in the heyday of its usage. I have heard it is the longest word in the English language, too. I guess supercalifragilisticexpialidocious doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my A-list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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