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Thursday, May 25, 2006

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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16 comments:

  1. Oh No!
    Out of all of them I have only ever heard of the Monkees, except I can't think of the song!
    Maybe I need to get out more.... :-)

    Nice list.

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  2. Mmm, jambalaya and barbecues... This is so the wrong time of day for me to be reading your T13! I think I’ll have an early lunch! Speaking of good BBQs, have you ever been to Virgil’s in NYC?

    And Hawaii is another good idea for my January birthday trip...

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  3. Anonymous4:59 AM

    My favourite time of day is about 4 in the afternoon. Not really sure why, but I like it.

    Good list!

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  4. San Diego was one of the best places I had ever been in my life1 I loved Old Town and La Jolla and of course Coronado Beach *sigh, still sitting in Sweden with the heat on*

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  5. Anonymous6:05 AM

    Great list. I've only ever really lived in two places, both within the same province...

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  6. I loooooove the color blue as well! Happy TT!

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  7. Jambalaya...good idea for dinner tonight..Thanks..

    BBQ..I miss good BBQ places.

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  8. I can never pick favorites...

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  9. Great list!

    My favorite time of day is now (6pm ish) as just got in from work.

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  10. I love me some bbq! calhoun's in Gatlinburg is my favorite though. Got to get my fix in a couple of weeks.

    Thanks for visiting my T13

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  11. interesting list - I should blog in the morning - instead of leaving it till evening when I am tired!

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  12. Anonymous11:18 AM

    That is a great TT list! San Diego is a nice place. I liked visiting the San Diego Zoo. Blue is a good color like the sky and the ocean. :)

    Thank you for visiting my TT.

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  13. I also love blue...

    ...but mornings and I do not get along!

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  14. Hi, KT Cat! This is my first Thirteen Thursday! :)

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  15. You have a very interesting list as well. Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. I do seem to be pretty diverse in what I read as well as the music I listen to. I also love San Diego, but only visited there. Happy TT!

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  16. Anonymous6:51 PM

    Great list. I totally agree with the morning - I am not so good at night. I always fall asleep when we watch movies.
    I like good BBQ places - yours is just out of the place for me *sigh*.
    Thanks for stopping by this morning.

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