Happy 30th Birthday Rachel!

January is birthday time around the Chenry house and in honor the Queen of the Castle I present to you 30 things I've learned from Rachel:

1.      Mornings are a sacred time and must be cherished. The equilibrium of the morningtime calm can be shattered at the slightest provocation.

2.      Salsa goes great on everything. EVERYTHING.

3.      You can never have too many pairs of pajama pants.

4.      A Cherry-Vanilla Coke can fix almost any problem.

5.      Rachel Phrase: “Chu” adj. - a terrible smelling smell.

6.      Any weekend plans must be discarded if ABC Family is running a Harry Potter marathon.

7.      It doesn’t matter how much time she spends reading about Batman on Wikipedia, comics are not a good Christmas present for your girlfriend. 

8.      You can’t believe everything you find on Pinterest.

9.      Want to show your girlfriend you’re not afraid of commitment? Co-sign on a car loan.

10.    Undo it all by asking her to buy a house with you, without a proposal.

11.    Hurricane preparedness starts with Spaghettios.

12.    Driving is an art, full of subtle changes in the passenger’s desires which can never be fulfilled adequately by the driver.

13.    It is of the utmost importance where the mail is placed in a home. Kitchen counter? Bad. Small basket across the house? Precisely.

14.    You can never have too many TV shows.

15.    Rachel Phrase: “Nigh, nigh time” n. – the state of falling asleep.

16.    When cooking, make sure to forcibly remove all other parties from the kitchen or they might learn your secrets or worse, witness your shortcomings and try to help.

17.    Sunscreen is an important part of life.

18.    Milk instantly turns into poison after the expiration date.

19.    Classically, a mounted deer head is not normal home décor.

20.    You pronounce it Crick`et, not Cry`cut.

21.    If you feel like you are losing an argument, start yelling. Volume levels should correspond in loudness with the degree in which you are losing.

22.    Legal services should never be “pre-paid”.

23.    A cordless screwdriver and breathalyzer is not a good way to say “Happy Birthday”.

24.    Striped shirt, plaid pants? No sir.

25.    Growing your hair is hard. Cutting it is easy.

26.    Compost it, unless of course it’s a “compost ready” bag of Sunchips.

27.    Rachel Phrase: “EMERGENCY!” n. – state of discovering a spider, or lizard, or small bug.

28.    True power is knowing that you want to eat food, but not having to make any decisions regarding where, what, or how to get it.

29.    Also, food tastes better when someone else orders it for you.

30.    Being happy and chasing your passion is worth it.