prelude to a birthday
Cathy (c) Cathy Guisewite
On the eighth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
Eight Maids a Milking
Seven Swans a Swimming
Six Geese a Laying
Five Golden Rings
my fabulous only sister aileen, is celebrating her birthday tomorrow. i asked her what she wants, but this girl has to save up [big bucks] to afford it. so i thought, i would blog, instead. obviously, she's blessed to have me... i love my sister's picture with our grandmother taken in england when she was still living there. anyhow, my sister's friend gave her a comic book titled, "cathy". it was as if the cartoonist created the comic strip entirely for her because in many ways, aileen is cathy.
Cathy is a daily comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. Featuring a single woman who struggles through the "four basic guilt groups" of life—food, love, mom and work—the strip gently pokes fun at the foibles of modern women's lives. Initially, the strip was based largely on Guisewite's own life as a single woman, but after her marriage and motherhood, Guisewite could no longer relate to the character as much as she had before... Ms. Guisewite breathed new life into her work by having Irving, Cathy's longtime boyfriend, propose marriage on Valentine's Day 2004.
-- Wikipedia
my sister and i are polar opposites, yet we have shared so many things... makeup, clothes (well, not all the time, i'm a size 2), hopes, and dreams. i'm looking forward to the day she marries the man who would make her completely happy. as a matter-of-fact, he's already doing that -- today, he sent her two dozen tulips.
Although her eye be not of blue,
Nor fair her locks, like English lasses,
How far its own expressive hue
The languid azure eye surpasses!
-- Lord Byron, George Gordon
May he give you the desire of your heart
and make all your plans succeed.
We will shout for joy when you
are victorious and will lift up our banners
in the name of our God.
May the LORD grant all your requests.
-- Psalm 20:4-5
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