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