B is for Bunnyhug

bunnyhug n. Cdn (Sask.) a hooded sweatshirt.

So says my bunnyhug, which comes from Saskatchewan. It's a lovely, self-referential bunnyhug. Regional colloquialisms are sort of cool. My bunnyhug is very warm and fuzzy on the inside -- Canadians do know how to choose a good bunnyhug. It was given to me by my boyfriend.

B is also for boyfriend, a topic I generally avoid. My boyfriend also comes from Saskatchewan, and he is an expert on bunnyhugs, snow, and curling. He'll arrive in Austin on Christmas night, and he'll spend the next ten days traveling around Texas with me. I'm hoping for sunny, warm weather, especially in the week following Christmas, which we'll spend mostly in Corpus Christi. I imagine we'll go to the beach no matter the weather, but sun would be better, as far as I'm concerned.

B is also for beach, that smelly, gritty, sandy expanse of land that lines the Gulf of Mexico, of which I am particularly enamored. There are many things I'm looking forward to showing Scott on this, his third trip to Texas, but I'm especially looking forward to showing him the gulf coast, the landscape of my childhood, in such contrast to the landscape of his.