My good pal Toni is also participating in this Nablopomo madness and I am totally appropriating the concept that she posted today — things that I love from A-Z. I’ll stop short of just copying and pasting her own excellent list.

I’m not burning out yet on the daily postings.. it’s just a million degrees out and I am busy and hive-y and perhaps a nice, ordered list will help my brain work.

PS, Nablopomo participants are hard workers and we love comments. WE LOVE COMMENTS!

A lot of these are sore-shoulder-relief- and/or dairy-related.

A – Advil. Wait, no, my sister Annie!
B – Bob, my masseur. He of the Magic Hands.
C – Cabaret!
D – Deviled eggs made with lots of mayonnaise. I dream about them since I don’t allow myself to have them. Speaking of which (gads I’m hungry)
E – Eggs, of the cloaca-fresh variety. I had my first (and, to date, only) fresh eggs at the beginning of the summer and I can’t get them out of my mind. Dieting people can be boring and one-note.
F – Tina Fey, girl genius.
G – Dr. Glenn, my chiropractor.
H – Honey butter. Our local after-show hangout is a cafe and bakery. Their bread basket comes with fresh butter that has bruleed honey mixed in. Oh dear sweet moses. I do allow myself the honey butter at times.
I – My iPod Touch. I hope I don’t lose it like I did with all those others.
J – Javier, Javier Bardem. [insert SFX of growly pussycat noise]
K – Krampus!
L – The LGBT Networking Mixer every first Thursday in my town. So happy I’m allowed to attend as an honorary GM.
M – Margie boots by Lassen. Referenced here. Love them so much I bought them in two colors. Now if it would just be cool enough to wear them.
N – Netflix Watch Instantly.
O – The Office. Taken over from Friends as my TV comfort watching.
P – Patti Smith‘s beautiful memoir, Just Kids. Made me look at her, at New York, and at Mapplethorpe with a whole new eye and a whole new level of love.
Q – Quilting, duh.
S – My secret lover. Yes, I have a secret lover. A secret, that is, to the internet at large. I cannot supply any more details, internet, sorry. And when I say I LOVE my secret lover, that’s a little serious. Let’s just say I like my secret lover a lot. And this is a human lover, not a made-up one fabricated from butter and eggs.
T – Toni Tabora-Roberts! She’s just the bee’s knees, and not only as a source of material to rip off inspire.
U – Upper Horsetail and Triple Falls at the Columbia River Gorge. Okay, so I stole this one from Toni. I trust her taste, so if she loves Upper Horsetail and Triple Falls, then I do, too!
V – Ventura, you old bag, you. I do love you, though I complain about you all the time.
W – WFMU, the best aural experience on this good green earth.
X – XTC. No, really, not just because they start with X! Admire my hipster cred when I tell you I saw one of their last live shows ever.
Y – Yogurt, Greek style. Apparently, dieting makes me put dairy items on my favorites list, three times.
Z – Zoot Suit by the Who when they were baby mods, the High Numbers. I’m the hippiest number in town and I’ll tell you why.