Happy Birthday to my bessie mate!

She's awesome, she's funny and she lives across the ocean, sheeeeee's Kathy! She's the only person I can talk to for 90 minutes and not wish for the time back. She's got a 10 year old daughter who's so smart and responsible, I'd hire her to babysit my 3 kids. She's married to my convoluted cousin (convoluted in that I can never remember exactly how he's my cousin) so she's family.

I love her like the sister I never had. She has a sister so I don't know how that works for her but nevertheless, she's my bestest friend and I miss her every day.

She'd kill me if I revealed how old she is today but I think I can get away with mentioning that she's 39 plus tax.

So, Happy Birthday my friend. You are special and lovely and I hope you get big and fat. You know what I mean. I love you!

kxx

Thank you everyone!

I just wanted to extend a really warm thank-you to everyone who sent me a birthday wish. Honestly, my inbox has been clogged for 2 days with people showing me the love. It only took seconds to write something as creative as "Happy Birthday (insert various numbers of exclamation points here)" but I really felt loved. So Thank You.

My family knows me so well. I got a Star Trek DVD, a crossword game and the best... a USB record player. It'll play all my LPs and 45s and turn them into iTunes mp3s so I can put them on my iPod. The idea of having to buy mp3s that I already had on vinyl drove me bananas. But that isn't to say that I didn't do it. I re-bought all my Smiths, Big Country and Violent Femmes stuff. But now I don't have to buy the B52s, Cure, Depeche Mode and Cult stuff I've been itching for.

At work I got not one, but 2 cakes, a song, and a card that everyone signed. They're really getting to know me at this job... a lot of the comments in the card were totally me. It's definitely a keeper.

My friend Kathy was so awesome. She lives abroad and sent me a wonderful bunch of links related to August 10th. It was very thoughtful and I enjoyed it more than she probably thinks I did. My favourites were learning that my special day is the 222nd one of the year (except for leap years) and that I share a birthday with Daniel Hugh-Kelly (only she and I and his mother know who he is... 3 words: "Hardcastle and McCormick").

Anyhow, thanks again for the love, people. You rock me down to my socks.

kxx

Today is MY birthday

And while it is too early to let you know what booty I raked in from the family, I can tell you that a drinks/movie night that I tried to set up for Saturday was woefully under-attended. I had a good time nonetheless. Always do. But despite the small crowd, I had an awesome time with the girls that did come and the movie was cute. The Bellinis, however, were stellar. I'll just chalk up the low attendance to short notice and not to the sad fact that I sometimes feel like even though I have over 250 virtual "friends", I have no real friends. Nope, I'm not going there.

Okay, so I'm feeling maudlin on my special day. Hm. Time for a song. Here's another tune I prefer to the regular birthday dirge usually sung when the cake comes out.

Happy birthday to meeeeeeee!

kxx

Happy Birthday, Lovey!

Today is my Honey's birthday. Here are 47 interesting things about the man I married. Why 47, you ask? Dunno, just a random number. Wink.

I'm aware that 47 things are a lot to get through if you don't know him but this is my blog so tough.

1. He loves me and the kids

2. He fixes stuff around the house. And I mean almost everything from the roof down to the basement floor and everything in between

3. He makes a mean pie crust

4. He's got 11 toes (I said these were interesting, not that I liked them)

5. He's got a terrific family (I mean sisters and brothers... not us. Well us too but... oh nevermind)

6. He makes me laugh every day

7. He puts up with my constant stream of shit and abuse

8. He pays the bills and only yells a little when I spend too much

9. He's got 2 motorcycles and looks really hot in his blue jacket

10. He lets me drive the car while he takes the bus

11. His eyes twinkle

12. He's good at math

13. He lets me have control of the tv in the livingroom

14. He gives good hugs

15. He's really handy with computers

16. He's got lots of cool scar/accident stories

17. His birthday is 3 days before mine

18. He plays hockey and never gets tired of telling me that he can keep up with the 20 year olds

19. He hates tattoos but doesn't moan (too much) whenever I show up with a new one

20. He likes my hair even though it's 1/8" long

21. He likes Star Trek

22. He got me into Coronation Street

23. Wow, 47 is a lot

24. Just checking to see if you're still reading

25. He likes my cooking

26. His eyebrows sometimes look like vine tendrils (again, interesting, not like)

27. Five words: Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches

28. He can't set the timer on the PVR

29. He's got a fake front tooth

30. He pinches and squeezes the people he loves (excellent Grandpa potential)

31. He's a Monty Python fan

32. He's a chubby chaser... well, he chases me around, anyway

33. He's photogenic

34. He's got a feminine-strength sweet tooth

35. He sneezes in the sunshine or bright lights

36. He almost completely quit smoking!

37. He gets restless legs

38. He's got a nearly completely inactive Facebook page

39. When I sneak down and try to catch him doing something unseemly on the computer in his office, he's always either watching airplane footage, checking real estate, playing flight sim, scanning eBay or on some classic motorcycle site.

40. I'll always be older than me. HA.

41. He never reads my blog

42. He's easily irritated by technology

43. He prefers books about true stories

44. He's awesome... seriously, he is very well liked

45. He has an easy smile and a great laugh

46. He married me (what's not to like about that?)

47. He's a happy man (at least he's putting on a great show)

So happy birthday to the best man I know. It sounds trite but I'm serious. I think he's pretty great.

Love,

kxx