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Note: I have every intention of posting my thoughts on my recent trip to London. I really do. It’s just that every time I think of London right now, I feel forlorn and homesick (even though it’s not my real home) and it makes it extremely hard to concentrate on anything for the next several hours. So this post will be a little more on my current level of mental acuity.

Two things. First, on my recent trip to England, several times I found myself saying, “Wouldn’t it be cool if I lived then so I could have seen _________.” Second, I’m always playing mental games with myself. Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe it comes from my parents trying to keep me quiet and/or distracted. Regardless of the purpose, I’ll always find myself playing games with words and phrases. Combine those two and you get this post.

To pass the time during one of my many delayed flights, I started thinking of all the creations and conveniences that make it better to be alive now than at any other time. Then I started to alphabetize the reasons, making sure that each letter was represented by a single glorious item. Everything listed below is a result of a careful weighing process conducted in my head during many flightless moments. (Also, really important things like the Church and friends and family aren’t listed because it’s really not fun to have to choose one of those things over another.)

Airplanes
Books
Computers
Denny Crane
Electricity
Fleece
Guitar Hero
Harry Potter (really, did you expect anything else?)
Indoor plumbing (I deliberated on this one for a bit, but I decided I’d have a much harder time going without indoor plumbing than I would without the internet.)
Jeans—especially the ones that are stretchy
Kissing (I know that existed before, but it belongs on the list. Plus I was having a hard time thinking of a k.)
Luggage with wheels that have a 360 degree turning radius. Seriously.
Microwaves (I’d probably starve without them.)
Non-smoking areas
The Office (The doesn’t count in alphabetizing, so my favorite TV show is going here. No battles.)
Photoshop CS3
Quacking Mounds
Restaurants
SCUBA diving
Tampons
Universities (Especially BYU)
Victoria’s Secret
Washing machines
X-Men (Especially Gambit…mmm…)
You-know-who
Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz, as you can plainly see (Thank you Dr. Seuss)
So that’s the list as it stands now. It is, of course, subject to change as much as I’d like. Any suggestions?