Thursday 13, Favorites Edition

1. Favorite vacation spot – Ulua Beach, Maui, Hawaii. Snorkeling! I’ve vacationed in many places, but I keep going back to Ulua Beach. You snorkel there until about 11AM and then you hop in the car and ride over to the other side of the island and hike in the jungles in the afternoon. Glorious!

2. Favorite song – The Girl I Knew Somewhere, The Monkees. Don’t ask me why, I just love the song.

3. Favorite sports team – The New Orleans Saints. I’ve been to N’awlins once. For one day. How I got to be a Saints fan is a story for another post.

4. Favorite drink – Abita’s Turbodog beer. I make a good martini and a good cosmopolitan, but I prefer a cold beer to those.

5. Favorite food – My own homemade Jambalaya concocted mostly from Terry Thompson's Cajun-Creole Cooking cookbook. I love to cook and I love throwing New Orleans Saints parties. You can’t scream at the TV without a bowl of jambalaya and an Abita! I’ve perfected my jambalaya recipe through years of research.

6. Favorite place to live – San Diego, California. I grew up an Air Force brat and lived all over the place. I love the weather and the neighborhood where I live right now.

7. Favorite hotel – Marriot Courtyard in Alexandria, Virginia. It’s a modest, no-frills hotel. I just want a clean place to sleep that is conveniently located with wired Internet in the room. I travel a lot for work and this is my ideal hotel.

8. Favorite time of day – First thing in the morning. Coffee and blogging. Yum!

9. Favorite color – Blue. Blue like the sky, royal blue, teal, any blue at all. Just no pastels!

10. Favorite newspaper – The Wall Street Journal. I’ve given up reading anything else. The more I learn, the less I get out of the other newspapers. I find TV news to be worthless.

11. Favorite restaurant – Southside 815 in Alexandria, VA. This was a close one, with Sushi Ota in San Diego second, but Southside’s menu is just nonstop good. Every coworker I’ve taken there has raved about it.

12. Favorite BBQ Restaurant – Buz and Ned’s in Richmond, VA. I love good BBQ. Everywhere I travel I try new ones. I was driving through Richmond once and I called the Richmond Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to ask for the best BBQ in Richmond. They recommended Buz and Ned’s. Awesome.

13. Favorite blog visitor – You!



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