Maureen Cummings: I'm just trying to be honest. That's what friends do.

-Center Stage, Law Penny's sad movie obsession

This is a very special Happy Birthday! post for Law Penny. In order to celebrate her birthday, she gets today's entire post. And don't laugh too hard Geo, you're next.

I met Law on the first day of moving into our attic. We spent an entire year together in the attic of an eighty year old house. It creaked, it squeaked and ominous unexplained things happened constantly. It was a bonding experiance.

Things everyone should know about Law that explain just how awesome and loveable she is:

1. This girl is intensely smart. You know, one of those people that you start talking to and realize you are conversationally way over your head because she could mentally beat the shit out of you without breaking a brain sweat. Which makes 2 and 3 even funnier

2. In one of her first librarian classes, she was asked to do research on a hobby. And she couldn't think of anything! Seriously, girl had no hobbies or interests according to her. I pointed out that she had approximately four gazillion old maps in her ten by ten room and she took it from there, but seriously, for ten minutes she was dumbfounded.

3. She is forever and permanently lost. Bad sense of direction doesn't quite cover it. We lived in the same neighborhood for a year and she very frequently had no idea how to get to the supermarket that was five minutes from our house.

4. She has blue eyes of DOOM and wears blue and has blue sheets just so they look even bluer. It's crazy.

5. Despite hating chocolate, which is something I will never ever understand, she love cupcakes. They are her kryptonite. If you put one even close to her, it will be consumed within a matter of minutes. Cheesesticks also make up 99% of her diet, which leads to six...

6. Early in our friendship we were having one of those very 'deep' conversations where you decide what kind of animal that person would be. I chose kangamouse for her and it stuck like glue.

7. She picked out my birthday card six months before my actual birthday, held onto it and managed to get it to me exactly on the day of which given the postal system in my neighborhood is insane. How do you get a better friend that that?


So happy birthday Law Penny! You rock my tiny world.

Catch you on the flipside,
Chic Geek Librarian