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Happy Birthday Love!

December 19, 2009 by The Chatty DM

AlexIt’s become a tradition on this blog to wish the woman of my life a happy birthday.  She’ll turn XX+1 tomorrow (Sunday).

This year has been a  particularly trying one for us and I’m eternally grateful that we made it through intact.  I owe a lot of it to Alex’s resilience and willingness to believe in us and in me when I stopped doing it myself.

Needless to say that each morning that I still see her sleeping by my side fills me with joy and a sense of peace.

I just wish I could tell her the words that so easily come to me when I write.

Alex, you are the coolest, sexiest, most beautiful,geek girl I have ever met… We’ve made it 13 years and I still hope to write these yearly posts for 30+ more.

Oh and I understand and respect why you are in team Edward… I’m fine that Robert Pattionson and the two Supernatural boys made it on ‘The list” 🙂

(Go team Jacob!!!)

Dear readers, Alex is a huge part of Chatty’s success. She believes in my dreams and pushes as hard as I do to make them come true.  She plans around my mad moments (thankfully more manageable now) and gets that I need to spend hours writing (she spends the time doing her own geeky cool things).  She truly is the Patron Goddess of gamer friendly wives.   Heck, she didn’t veto me when I mistakenly planned a Mouseguard game on her birthday tomorrow…

I’m the luckiest man alive and I’m well aware of it.  I love you Chérie-belle.

As is now tradition, please send her your birthday wishes, I’m sure she’ll appreciate.  If you have sexy-cool vampire/Supernatural Youtubes, send the links!

Thanks everyone.

Phil/ChattyDM

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Comments

  1. greywulf says

    December 19, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Happy birthday, Alex!
    .-= greywulf´s last blog ..Free Orc Ambush Desktop Wallpaper! =-.

  2. LordVreeg says

    December 19, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Happy Birthday wishes, may there be dozens and dozens more posts in this series.
    .-= LordVreeg´s last blog ..edited what money can buy =-.

  3. Jeremy says

    December 19, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Happy Birthday!

    jdg

  4. Mike says

    December 19, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Happy B-day Alex! Seeya tomorrow 🙂

  5. Stef says

    December 19, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    I wish you many mopre years of joy and happyneess. Long relationship are getting sparse. For you Alex I am wishing all the the best and many years to come of joy. Hope to see you soon, you look like a tai chi master to our sensei, best luck for this year, hope your deam come true.

    stef

  6. Matt says

    December 19, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Happy birthday!! Thanks for supporting my favourite RPG blogger 😀
    .-= Matt´s last blog ..Damaged Reputation =-.

  7. Doomdreamer says

    December 20, 2009 at 1:40 am

    Many Happy Returns! I don’t have an awesome vampire link per se… but if you have ever LARPed with Mind’s Eye Theater for Vampire: the Masquerade, this movie my friend’s and I created may atleast make you laugh like crazy go nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDypbEISI1k

  8. Dave T. Game says

    December 20, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Go go late December birthdays!

    Happy Birthday Alex, thanks for not killing Phil 🙂
    .-= Dave T. Game´s last blog ..First Impressions: “Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space” RPG =-.

  9. Colmarr says

    December 20, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    Happy birthday Alex!

    If Phil’s Mouseguard game doesn’t involve a beautiful, kind, forgiving queen, he’s obviously not writing about what he knows.
    .-= Colmarr´s last blog ..SSTL 35: Through a Portal Blind =-.

  10. JesterOC says

    December 22, 2009 at 1:42 am

    Happy Birthday!

  11. Gray Wolf says

    December 22, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Happy B-Day! The best wishes and many more years of geeky happiness, understanding and success.

    And yes, December B-Days are the best. 😀
    .-= Gray Wolf´s last blog ..Y se acerca el momento de nuevo =-.

  12. Stef says

    December 22, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    No comment from Alex… Je suis decu

  13. ChattyDM says

    December 22, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    Alex n’a jamais laissé de commentaires sur un blog. Elle est plus du genre Facebook. 🙂

  14. Sandrinnad says

    December 22, 2009 at 11:43 pm

    Happy Birthday Alex!! (a wee bit late, but still hope you had a wonderful day and have a fabulous year! 🙂 )

    Supernatural youtube links….chances are you’ve seen anything I can recommend, but still:
    I’m a big fan of the vidder lsketch42 so here’s a link to her channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lsketch42 🙂

    but I think this is my absolute favourite one ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M56NvAs547s (it’s darn funny 😀 )

    hope you enjoy!

  15. wrathofzombie says

    December 31, 2009 at 7:51 am

    HOT WIFE ALERT!!! :):) Happy Birthday! You deserve a medal for putting up with Philippe all the time 🙂
    .-= wrathofzombie´s last blog ..I’m back… You Missed Me.. I Know You Did.. =-.

  16. ChattyDM says

    December 31, 2009 at 10:35 am

    She gets a lot. The HOT part. 🙂

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