1. Eddie
2. Autumn
3. Winter
4. St. Patrick’s Day
5. Hanging with my gay friends in seedy bars
6. Our critters
7. Painting my house blue with white trim
8. Inheriting cool stuff from a long line of pack rats
9. My dad’s WWII Marine camo jacket
10. Stiletto heel pumps
11. Going to Baker Street Pub every Saturday
12. Wandering around the Rice University Village shops afterwards
13. Knowing the words to obscure St. Paddy’s Day songs
14. Staying in tune while drinking
15. Finding gorgeous wood floors under the puke green shag carpet in our house
16. Living near a Lowe’s AND a Home Depot
17. No state income tax
18. Having a steady job with a smidgen of recognition
19. Bartending
20. My best friend Michael
21. What’s left of my family
22. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
23. The movie Picnic at Hanging Rock
24. Boomerang Channel on Sundays
25. My best friend’s venue
26. Seeing bands at said venue for free
27. My birthstone
28. Air hockey
29. Ice hockey
30. PS2 hockey
31. Remodeling I don’t need help on
32. Going to out-of-town Highland Games
33. Dickens on the Strand in Galveston
34. My 22” waisted steel-boned Victorian corset, even though I can only stand it for a few hours
35. Dark cold rainy days
36. Gardening
37. Cycling at dawn on weekends
38. Our black iron 4-poster bed
39. Being a redhead
40. Reading in the hammock
41. White cotton goth shirts
42. Molly Ivans’ column
43. Resale shops
44. The ocean
45. Visits from my Wisconsin buddy Shana
46. Hearing how my ex looks like hammered pig shit
47. Chasing our dogs through the sprinkler
48. Our Jeep Cherokee
49. Having a lesbian mechanic who finds great cars for us
50. Planning a low-key wedding Eddie’s family can’t fuck up
51. Knowing somebody who actually won $10 million from Publisher’s Clearing House
52. Getting out of work early before a holiday
53. Halloween
54. Fresh cherries
55. Really fast steep roller coasters
56. Getting the sillies and laughing so hard I can’t talk
57. Greek food
58. Hellsing
59. Living in an old neighborhood
60. International online shopping
61. Weekday morning quickies
62. Being able to drive by the house I grew up in because it hasn’t been torn down for POS yuppie hive townhouses
63. Wandering through our haunted hospital
http://www.hal-pc.org/~lfa/BB01.html64. Riding horses on the beach
65. Hearing owls in the backyard
66. Sandalwood soap
67. Dark bittersweet chocolate
68. Practically everything Ultravox ever recorded
69. This implications of this number
70. Bonus time at work
71. Eating on the wharf in Galveston
72. Turn-of-the-century houses
73. Asshole drivers getting stuck in the slow lane
74. Working outdoor festivals
75. Burt’s Bees stuff
76. The Doggie Happy Dance I get when I come home
77. Bat Boy: The Musical
78. Finding something cool on Sundance Channel like the animated shorts
79. The sycamore tree in the backyard
80. Our cats sliding on freshly-waxed floors
81. Dreaming about people I’ll never see again
82. Brick walls covered with vines
83. Gloriosa lilies
84. Improved HIV drugs so my brother stays healthy
85. Window unit air conditioners
86. Barq’s diet root beer
87. Walking through old cemeteries
88. The good ship Elissa
89. X-Men before it split into 50+ dangling plot lines
90. The History Channel
91. Nuri’s Forum
92. This indescribable house I’ll have to take a picture of that makes me weak when I look at it
93. Never having to go through my twenties again
94. Good grilled salmon
95. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
96. Silk pajamas
97. Jewel tones like emerald, peacock blue & burgundy
98. Staying in nice hotels
99. A weightlifting buzz
100. My Celtic design non-diamond engagement ring