Happy Birthday, Richard!

December 6, 2007 /

Today is my brother Richard’s birthday, and even though he doesn’t read blogs (I don’t think), and certainly doesn’t read mine (he’s too busy making groovy cg art on his computer), I’ll wish him a wonderful birthday here.

The sucky part of living so far away from your family is that you can’t be with them on special days.  Like today.  If they hadn’t all deserted me by moving to Alaska, we could all go out to dinner tonight, and he and I could tease our poor mom mercilessly, or, perhaps, his lovely wife, Kathy, my mom, and I, could all gang up on Richard and tease him mercilessly.  Ted and Maya would join right in for some ridicule, perhaps, and we’d be laughing and having fun.

So, dear Brother, have a great day.  Eat some cake, or some pie, or whatever it is that you would like best this year. (Used to always be angel food cake…perhaps it still is…that’s the sucky thing about living so far away from your family…you may not even know their current favorite kind of cake.)

Stollen Update…found one at Cost Plus yesterday, from Germany.  We had some for St. Nicholas Eve (last night), and we loved it.  Ted thought it was food from the devil, since he hates dried fruit, and it’s pretty much a fruit cake.  Happy St. Nicholas Day today!

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