HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

December is the month of Birthdays on my calendar - there is no other month in my year, where I have so many birthdays to remember!
This post is in dedication to the girl who traipsed all over town with me in search of the single last Chocolate Log - all because I had an all consuming craving for one.

You're the cotton to my candy, the pop to my corn and the brownie to my avalanche! Dude, I think I loved you since the day you drank copper-sulphate in grade four - even I wasn't crazy enough to try that. And over the years, you just kept on giving me reasons to love you even  more - your dimples for one, the way you talk so fast that even I sometimes can't understand you (and you know that's a stretch considering how fast I talk myself), the way you always have a smile on your face and the way you look as if you have a nuclear bomb about to go off inside you when you have something to tell me.

This girl, lovely people of planet Earth, used to bring lunch for me to school every day; she used to pitch up at my house at 8am with KFC for breakfast; she used to bake me a batch of blue cupcakes just because I said that I had a craving for them. She's one of the most selfless people I know. A true friend.

I remember the days of surfing on sunshine - when nothing I did was too crazy or outlandish, when even looking like a drenched out, half drowned raccoon, she still looked at me and said, "you know, I do quite love you too". The same girl who, when everyone thought I was mad to spin around in the rain, she ran out to spin with me too. Oh Bob, what would I have done without you all these years? That's a question I don't think I can possibly answer, because she's become so integrated into my world that it's like wondering, "Oh what would I do without you Left Arm?"

So the point of this is me, proposing a toast (common, raise your virtual glasses everyone, nobody is watching I swear), to the only girl I know who will kiss a camel to say thank you for the ride instead of just patting it on the head: may Life bring you new and unexpectedly pleasant surprises, may your dreams come true and your aspirations be realised, may you forever be wonderfully healthy and happy.

I Love You, Bob the Builder.

XXXO
Your Smurf.