Ten Things:

1. Chris and I started dating a year ago today. Happy anniversary to us!

2. Port wine. I cannot recommend it enough. It is red and sweet and will not bite you. It is like ice-wine, but not HOLY HECK expensive.

3. Last year I had a prof from northern Ontario who used the word 'y'all.' I'm jealous of her and her third-person plural pronoun. 'You' just doesn't cut it.

4. Did you know that men have clitorises? Mmhmm, it's true. Without male clitorises, there would be no erections. Also: men require more pressure in stimulation than women because there's a bunch of stuff around their clitoris, whereas ours is right out in the open, so be gentle. Anatomy is fun! I have plenty of other secret trivia about clitorises too. For example: did you know that clitorises are shaped like a wishbone and their legs wrap around the urethra (and vagina if you have one)? Now you do!

5. Olives = not so good. Stuffed olives = better, but still not quite a favourite.

6. It's taken me 24 years to realise it, but brie cheese is just about the best thing ever. Brie cheese and baguettes. Take me to France!

7. I've completely adjusted to life without anti-depressants and am still uncrazy. Yay!

8. A brief guide:
Weak atheism: doesn't believe in a god
Strong atheism: believes gods are impossible
Agnostic: believes you can't know one way or another
Deist: believes a god made the world and then left
Theist: believes a god made the world and still interacts with it

9. Mimi Smartypants gets caked. I need adventures like this. Also, her daughter has a Darwin boat:

"No one pissed me off this Thanksgiving. All was smiles and relaxation and wine and pie. What's with that? Where are the dysfunctional holidays of yore? The absence of Redneck Racist Stepbrother-In-Law, to whom I once memorably said "If you don't drop the subject I will pour gravy in your lap" (tight little ha-ha giggles all around as everyone tried to pretend I was joking), and of whom LT once said, to his father, "If he comes, we don't," may have had something to do with the peace and quiet. Or maybe children really do mellow out the world and smooth over the pricklies. The most tension we had all day was when LT's stepmother brought out some toys for Nora to play with. One of them was a stuffed Noah's Ark, and when I saw it I cried, "Look Nora! A Darwin boat!" Ignoring the dirty looks from The Saved, secular Nora and her secular mommy happily pretended that Noah was Charles Darwin, back from the Galapagos with breeding pairs of animals to study in captivity."

10. My cousin is four. When I went home for his birthday, we had the following conversation.
Erik (sliding down the stairs on his bum): "See? I can slide like THIS!"
Me: "That's pretty cool, Erik. Melissa and I used to do that when we were your age, did you know that?"
Erik: "Really??! You were MY AGE??! I didn't know that!"