  If I had to add up all the good times I've had and divide it among the friends I have, the times with Abby would be disproportionately greater. Not because we have known each other the longest of any of my friends (we have), not because we know how to have fun better than anyone else (but we kind of do, as long as it involves eating and Nintendo), but Abby is a pirate.
Pirates make me laugh. In honor of yesterday being National Talk Like a Pirate Day, a tribute to Cap'n O (with much love from Admiral Eyecandy). 10. "Hitting the deck" in an Indianola, IA, hotel, when there were boys being frogs outside of our room. 9. Her never-ending war with nasty Jason Walters. 8. Sombrero in our bed. 7. The Jem backpack (AND matching fanny pack).
6. Breaking up with our best-friend-boyfriends on the same day without planning it. 5. When Stevie Wonder takes over her body and she has to "feel her surroundings. " 4. Eating one cake a week in the attempt to be a combined weight of 300 lbs. 3. Putting the skirt of a formal dress over her head. 2. Being the Paul McCartney to my Michael Jackson on the way to and from Iowa. 1. The Annie Get Your Gun theater spectacular. 
