Hey Doug! Happy Birthday! Hope this is the best year ever for you. I've been so curious to ask you: what is the significance of 2a5t2f7 and what about your Avatar? Are you a clarinet player? Is this a picture of you?

I'm hoping that you and your soon to be new buddy, Oscar really live it up this year. All the best. Thank you for what you bring to the neighborhood.

Sincerely,
Sandi

Here's to a great HUGE Birthday Shake!!!!!
a li'l Isopure.... a banana...a few strawberries!
I'd make one for you if I could!
Have a GREAT birthday, Doug!
It's gonna be an AMAZING year!
ENJOY!!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Doug!
This is your year! Have a great one!!!

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. The birthdays seem to be coming much faster the last few years. As my mother always told me, "life is like a roll of toilet paper. It goes faster toward the end". I always thought that was pretty cute. Now I'm starting to understand it better. Surgery is next Friday, so send me positive thoughts...(Little nervous, but not too bad)

Sandi - the avatar is a Phillip Sage drawing of Pete Fountain. It's appropriate for me to use, though because not only do I look like Pete, I am a clarinet/sax player. Sure wish I played more like him. The 2a5t2f7 is just an old assigned employee number. I used it so long it sort of became second nature.....

Doug, happy, happy birthday! I can only tell you also that this is going to be the best year for you! You will do marvelous through surgery and recovery. I love your avatar cause I love clarinet/sax music! It is so good to know that you play them!

My grandma used to say that about the toilet paper too. I always thought it was cuter than the Forrest Gump chocolate line.

Have the most wonderful of days!

Ah mystery solved!! I always sensed that you are a fascinating person, now my "spidey senses" are tingling to know the rest! But we have the rest of our lives for that...

So...

This is your last birthday as a pre-op, so I hope that you live it up a little. Not too much though. From now on, your life will no longer center around food and gorging yourself. From now on, you will actual taste and enjoy the food you eat, and your celebrations will be so much more profound than just a food orgy.

Happy Birthday Doug! It is so great that you get to start the new year and your new year on your new journey!

Congratulations and keep us posted!!!

Happy Birthday Doug! And a huge wah-hoo about your surgery just being right around the corner. What a terrific way to begin this next year of life.

Have your cake this year! Stick a candle in it, make a wish...and then see it come true!

Aloha Doug...............
Hauoli La Hanau to you.

How exciting your surgery so soon after your birthday. A true gift to yourself.

Us Capricorns are strong, determined, take charge people.....................you'll do fine.

Please let us know how you doing and just remember when you are on that surgery table, we standing right there in spirit and prayer.

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupah duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupah Birthday Hugs !!!!!

Meliss