Happy Birthday, Didi!

Diane, Stacia, Billy.  Diane looks... concerned.

This is what I know about my sister Diane:

• It is her birthday today.  This is her present.  Yeah, not so good to be my sister this year, huh?  Don't worry...Christmas is going to rock.  I bust arse on that.  Usually.  Sometimes.
• She bugs me a lot about updating my blog.  (Your birthday wish has come true, Didi.)
• I call her Didi.
• She was not impressed when I came into this world when she was 5 1/2 years old.  In fact, even when I was older I would bug my mom into FORCING HER to take me to the mall.  She hated it.

Diane, Stacia and wee little me

• She talked me into keeping her smelly guinea-pig in my room when I was 6.
• Didi and I started spending most of our time together when she hit college, where she: tried to get me electrocuted and mauled by giant rabbits in one go; introduced me to crappy college beer; taught me how to drive a standard; brought me to bars; let me march in her place with the Rice Mob.  Good times.

• She has an infectious laugh.  If she really gets going, she stops breathing all together and turns bright red.
• She also turns red if you poke at her or pretend to poke at her.  She hates this.  I would not recommend it.
• Didi can beat teen-age boys (and anyone else) in Wii boxing.  While intoxicated.  

• She once brewed her own beer.  It is still the only beer I truly enjoyed in my life.
• She makes magnificent braided bread and can cook the pants off of anyone I know.
• Left to her own devices, she will eat only carbs to sustain herself.  And mustard.  
• Didi always seems to own crazy, tiny dogs that obsess over her. 

• Her house is impeccably decorated.  She inherited this from my mom.  I did not.
• She is Auntie to 2 sets of twins and one very crafty, funny college boy.
• She has embraced being the "funny" Auntie that fills them with sugar and makes "snowman poopy" jokes.  It's a hit.
• Her favorite joke starts, "Why don't sharks walk on land?..."
• Her most annoying habit is eating popcorn... each piece of popcorn... in multiple, open mouthed, teethy, crunchy, annoying effing bites.  She loves popcorn.  She'll eat a bucket in a theater... just to bug me.
• She likes to bug me.
• She has more degrees than I can count... even from ivy-league universities. It's impressive.
• I never tell her I love her enough.
• I love her.

(Both of my sisters - Diane and Stacia)

Happy Birthday, Didi!