Foods

• Thai from Thai Sa On. In fact Robyn wanted to have her favourite dish (what she called) “Tingly Beef” here today, but we thought it best for everyone just to go there and have a plate for her!

• Mexican Chilé Releños.

• Dim Sum at the Silver Dragon Restaurant in China Town, downtown Calgary

Ice Cream

• Hagen Daas Swiss Vanilla with chocolate covered almonds

• Cherry Cheesecake

• Pistachio anything

• Maple Walnut

• All Gelato

Candies

• Sour soothers

• Sherbert Fountains

• Coconut Ice

• Violet Crumbles

• Butter Menthols

• Black Licorice (the REAL kind)

Wines / Liquors

• White Zinfandel

• Amarula

• Dark crème de cacao

• Blackberry brandy

• Spice rum
  

Places to eat

• Thai Sa On

• The Balkan (Banff)

• Maurya

• Sushi Boat

• La Caille

• Phils (for breakfast)

Vegetables

• Potatoes

• Brussell Sprouts

• Red Cabbage (the way mum makes it)

• Radishes

Fruits

• Watermelon

• Yellow, then red cherries

• Gala apples

• Sweet oranges

• Rose apples

• Dragon fruit

• Mangosteens

• NOT EVER DURIANS!

Cookies

• Tim Tams (also known as “Arnotts Originals)

• Chocolate Digestive cookies

• Cocktail buns (especially the ones form Silver Dragon)
  

Chocolates

• Bernard Callebaut (any kind but Sambuca)
  

Coffee

• Sumatra

• French

• Chocolate raspberry

• The kind of ‘cooked’ coffee from Genoa

• St. Paul du Vace

• Vietnamese coffee on ice

• Full bodied coffee with flavour, not bitter
  

Music

• Mid to late 70’s.

• British Glam Rock, like the Glitter Band

• Queen

• Elton John

• Early David Bowie

• Selected Mushy songs like “Because you love me” from the movie “Up Close and Personal”, by Celine Dion. Click here for the lyrics.
  

Classical

• Baroque Music

• Bach’s Brandenburg

• Concertos

Authors

• Robert Sawyer

• Mike Resnik

• Dave Duncan

• Alan Dean Foster

• Robert Aspirin

• J.R.R Tolkien

• C.S. Lewis

• Anything from IFWA

• Anything from 7 of 40

• Rebecca Bradley

• Marie Jakober

• Candas Dorsey

• Adrian Bedford 

Cartoon Characters

Movies

• Shawshank Redemption

• Field of Dreams

• Music Man

• The Court Jester

• The Princess Bride

• All of the “Lord Of The Rings”

• Singing In The Rain

• First 3 “Star Wars” movies 
  with Harrison Ford / Mark Hammill

• Mary Poppins

• The lion King
  

TV Shows

• Buffy

• Angel

• All ‘Trek’ shows

• Prior to Chemo West Wing, CSI et al

• After chemo something more fun like Beat The Geeks, Starsky & Hutch (the original), most Sci Fi Shows
  

Books

• Santiago

• Paradise

• Ivory (sorry but these Mike Resnik books, I could have read over and over again)

• Captain Underpants series

Flowers

• White carnations

• Yellow roses

• Anything with a nice smell like Jonquils

Cars

• Aussie Holdens from the mid 1950’s

• Auburn

• Cords & Dusenbergs from the 30’s et al.
  

Perfumes

• Demi Jour

• Anais Anais

• Saphire & White Diamonds

• Anything fresh, citrusy or floral

• “O”

• A new one form Las Vegas called Halloween

Things to collect

• Pocket Dragons by Real Musgrave

• Loose gemstones
  

Gems

• Anything bi or multicoloured

• Ametrine

• Tourmaline

• Imperial topaz

• True morganite

• Alexandrite

• Kunzite
  

Sports

• Ice Dancing / Pairs Figure Skating

• Water Polo. I did this for the South Australian State team. Yes – I was on a state level sports team!
  

Artists

• Impressionists – mostly Monet & Renoir
  

Quotes

• Just Do It - Nike

• Do or do not, there is no try – Yoda

• Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive – Bugs Bunny

• We can’t buy time. It’s a gift from God

• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows your scared to death – Earl Wilson
  

Places

• The beach with rolling surf

• Any place with rambling water

Places to Visit

• Ko Samui, Thailand

• Big Island, Hawaii

• Cancun

• Vancouver Island

• Las Vegas
  

Weather

• Thunderstorms with great lightning

• Rain showers

• Fog