Places I would like to kiss Richard Armitage, New Year’s Eve edition (and a little story)

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I had just left dad in the hotel (he was starting to doze off) and decided to head to my coffee shop for a few more minutes of blogging (turns out it is closing early). I thought, I’m not going to finish my “year in review” posts for 2014 tonight, I will have to do them tomorrow, but I can do a quick “places I would like to kiss Richard Armitage post.”

I had the photo above on my screen and was starting to annotate it when one of my favorite baristas, L, walked past.

“Oh, my G-d, is he sexy!” L said, and “that beard, I wish my beard grew in like that!”

“You have a good beard,” I said.

“Yeah, but it’s still a little patchy,” he said.

He wanted to know who was in the picture, and I said, “Thorin Oakenshield” (L is a Hobbit fan, too).

L said, “No way!”

“That’s what he looks like without the prosthetics,” I said.

“Soooo manly,” L said.

We spent some time looking at my computer screen and making admiring comments about Armitage’s beard, eyes, jaw, mouth, and hair and general masculinity.

“I am wet,” L said, emphatically.

Another one of my favorite baristas, C, was mopping the floor and listening in on our conversation.

“Can men get wet?” I asked L, in genuine ignorance.

C burst into laughter. “That has to be the best line of 2014!” she said.

“The closing line,” I remarked.

“Happy New Year, Serv,” L said.

“Group hug,” C said, and we all put our arms over each others’ shoulders and stared some more at beautiful Armitage, with big grins on all our faces.

Whether your evening is quiet or bombastic, whatever emotion you are feeling this year, I and the baristas at my favorite café send you our best Armitage wishes for 2015.

~ by Servetus on January 1, 2015.