ABC tag - for all you anxious fans out there.

A - Attached or Single: Attached and thankful for it. I'm pretty sure I would die of starvation or aspergillosis without Melissa.
B - Best Friend(s): Melissa and her three children (for those of you who may have stumbled on this blog and are now wondering if I married a woman with children from a previous marriage, they are my kids too, but from time to time I refer to them as her children. Usually when they are being bad.)
C - Cake or Pie: No cake will ever rival a good pecan pie.
D - Day of Choice: Saturday unless I am on a medicine or OB call then Saturday is my least favorite day.
E - Essential Item: Chapstick. My phone used to be essential, but ever since starting residency it seems to resemble a ball and chain and I leave it behind whenever I can.
F - Favorite Color: Olive (Melissa tells me that is a type of green and that I may or may not have a suit in this color)
G - Gummy Bears or Worms: Melissa doesn't allow me to eat these anymore as we had an unfortunate experience once when I left a bag on the dash of the car during a hot day. All the worms melted together and I was left with a sour gummy mass that I proceeded to eat over the next week. Melissa was thoroughly grossed out hence the ban on gummy items for me.
H - Hometown: Cedar City, UT - also referred to as Zion or the promised land
I - Indulgence: Blog tags
J - January or July:- This one might have been closer had I not just lived through a week of subzero temperatures. July for sure. If I can convince Melissa to spend a couple of weeks in January down in the southern hemisphere for the next 30 years it might become close again.
K - Kids: I like 'em most of the time. (Don't go commenting on how the tag wants to know how many kids I have, you all know how many kids I have. Heck some of you get to see them more than I do. It's my blog tag and so I decide what it wants to know and on this occasion I think it is asking me if I like kids.)
L - Life is incomplete without: Love - How's that for sappy? Though it is how I feel, being a man, I had to qualify the answer lest my manhood be challenged.
M - Marriage Date: Generally I think it is a good idea to take a date to a marriage so I have to say yes to this one. I took Melissa to a marriage before we were married and look how that turned out. I don't recall any of our guests bringing dates to our marriage 10 year ago.
N - Number of Siblings: 20 - 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 5 brothers-in-law, 7 sisters-in-law, 3 friends who are like brothers.
O - Oranges or Apples: it depends on the orange and the apple. Oranges in Brazil are tasteless. Red delicious apples are no longer delicious. A good fuji beats a bad florida orange, but in the end it all comes down to laziness and since eating an apple requires much less work than eating an orange I have to go with apples.
P- Phobias or Fears: Social gatherings by myself or when Melissa is involved in a discussion without me. Seriously I don't know how to take care of myself anymore!
Q - Quote(s): "(") .................................................That was very Ryanesque if I do say so myself.
R- Ring size: Depends on the finger
S - Season: There are a lot of seasons that Melissa uses that I like, but since I don't often know which tastes go with which seasons I'm going to have to say salt. For those of you who were looking for a weather season on this one you need look no further than letter J.
T- Tag 3 Friends: The three people I would like to tag would be Bob, Doug, and Ryan because I think their responses would be even wittier (I think highly of myself) than my own and there fore very enjoyable for me to read, but since I know they will never participate in blog tags I will tag no one. Plus the fact that I don't think they will ever read this (see next letter).
U - Unknown fact about me: I think I've done enough of these blog tags that I've pretty much gotten out all the unkown facts about me. Oh wait I've got one. I watched North and South the other day with Melissa and liked it. There goes that manhood thing again. It's a good thing that no men read this blog anyway.
V - Very favorite stores: Home Depot, Lowes, Ebay
W - Worst Habit: Blog Tags. Actually I am sort of an internet addict. I can spend hours on end surfing around the net jumping from news sites to sports sites to shoping sites (though I rarely buy anything). Fortunately we are now in American Idol season so I can surf in peace while Melissa watches the four judges critique the performances. Speaking of AI I can't stand the new judge. She's every bit as dumb as Paula but with an attitude which just makes her painful to watch.
X-ray or Ultrasound: Now this is the dumbest question I've ever come across in a blog tag. Who likes one radiological study over another, ironically I was asked by the radiologist yesterday which part of radiology I liked best, but that is another story. The point is that x-ray and ultrasound are used for entirely different reasons. Now if you were asking me if I would rather have x-ray vision or ultrasound vision I would have to say flying.
Y - Your Favorite Food: Alaskan King Crab. I must be getting less lazy because a few years ago my favorite food was Lobster for the sheer fact that eating crab is so much work, but it's just so good that I can handle the work to get to that succulent feast inside, or maybe it's because I'm wider than I was a few years back and eating crab gets the nod for the exercise factor.
Z- Zodiac: I hate astrology. Depending on the source for the calendar I fall into Aquarius or Pisces. Searching for both signs on wikipedia today I find Aquarius: January 20 - February 18, Pisces: February 20 - March 20. Hold on a minute wiki folks I was born on February 19th! Stupid zodiac. I think I'm going to make my own Mountain biking, dad, doctor, Ute fan sign henceforth known as mobaddorute. That's right folks my zodiac sign is mobaddorute. Any of you out there born on February 19th join me as a mobaddorute for we determine our own destiny...... mobaddorcougs not allowed.