In a recent game of Apples to Apples with friends, I was forced to choose between three of my favorite things in relation to the word, “cool.”  If you, the reader, are unfamiliar with the game Apples to Apples then I don’t know you and refuse to let you read on until you familiarize yourself with the rules.  Because my friends know me so well, giving me perfect Shannon options, I had to make one of the biggest decisions of my life.  I’m the judge, the word is “cool” and these are my top three choices out of a stack of well formulated attempts:

Vampires

Board Games

Sharks

My life flashing before my eyes.

After an upsetting, core-shaking, soul-searching 15 minutes of contemplating, I decide that sharks are the coolest of the three.  I mean, I love board games–obviously–but sharks and vampires have sharp teeth so they beat board games rather quickly.  Now deciding between sharks and vampires left me reeling especially at the suggestion of a vampire-shark (!)–yet another possible expansion of Bit Lit emerges from the depths of the human imagination.  I just said Bit Lit.

I choose sharks because they’ve been around so long.  They’re the grittiest, oldest, most classic fear-inducing set of teeth on Earth.  That’s cool.  Some understand my choice, others don’t.  I do talk about vampires a lot and am ready to play a board game at the drop of a hat so, “why sharks?” is an understandable query.

A new friend says to me, “I’ve never even heard you mention sharks before this story.”

I simply think, “Well, you haven’t known me that long so soon enough I will.  Whatever.”

I don’t think another thing about it until I start researching for a blog update.  I have posted about vampires and board games, but never sharks.  Sigh.  I do not want to admit to being wrong so I’ll qualify myself by sharing with you my love for aquariums, The Little Mermaid and Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  Also, I own a pair of shark socks and maybe a glow in the dark shark shirt.

To round out of my life (blog), I give you a $15 shark tie available on Etsy:

Embroidering with sea creatures is fun.