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Happy birthday to Gina! And 2009? Don’t let the door slam you in the butt on the way out
By Christie Keith
December 31, 2009
It’s exactly one minute past midnight on New Year’s Eve here in California (apparently our blog is set, for reasons passing all understanding, on Mountain Time), which means it’s Gina’s birthday. And I’ll be the first one to incur her wrath wish her every happiness of the day and in the coming year!
Gina was going to celebrate her day here with me in San Francisco, but I have managed to bang up my left leg somehow, and can’t do much more than hobble. We’ve decided to put it off until later in the month, when I can presumably keep up with Miss FayBee on her first visit to the big city.
This is one year I’m glad to see over, and I’ll bet Gina is, too. We’ve both lost a parent and a beloved dog, and possibly become just a tad overworked.
But I’ve decided to be optimistic about the coming year until proven utterly wrong, and I invite Gina and every single one of you to join me at least long enough to say Happy Birthday, Gina, and Happy New Year, everyone!
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Wow Gina. They seem to be throwing a lot of parties tonight to celebrate your birthday. Hope it’s a good one!
Comment by Debbie — December 31, 2009 @ 3:23 am
Happy Birthday Gina !
Comment by Leslie K — December 31, 2009 @ 6:29 am
Happy Birthday! And Happy New Year!!
Comment by K.B. — December 31, 2009 @ 6:47 am
Happy birthday Gina! Let the Flatties spoil you rotten today.
Comment by Theresa — December 31, 2009 @ 7:17 am
I was excited there for a minute. Something defaults to mountain time??? Really? But no. This was posted by “Christie Keith @ 1:01 am” here in God’s own timezone. It’s OK we are used to having to add 1 or subtract (or do I have that backwards?) to figure out when it is.
Anyway yeah the 0’s sucked. Glad to send the whole lot of them packing.
Happy New Year’s everyone.
Comment by schnauzer — December 31, 2009 @ 7:27 am
That picture, taken for the L.A. Times article on this blog, is the cleanest my office has ever been. And it only got that way because two friends answered my frantic cry to help toss everything into boxes than were then tossed into the garage.
Thanks, everyone, and Happy New Year. If 2009 doesn’t turn out in retrospect to have been the worst year of my life, I hate to see what will top it.
Miserable year for so many of us!
HELLO 2010!
Comment by Gina Spadafori — December 31, 2009 @ 7:46 am
Happy Birthday, Gina!
Comment by Susan — December 31, 2009 @ 7:47 am
Happy Birthday, Gina! Happy New Year to all!
May the new year be decidedly better than the last.
Comment by Rori — December 31, 2009 @ 7:51 am
Happy Birthday Gina and if it at all helps, I appreciate all the help and information both you and Christie have provided to me and and other pet parents in 2009. If anything good happened, it included getting helpful information and learning new things. So even though your year sucked and I know how it feels (I had that kind of year in 2007) you should at least know how much you have helped many of us!
Comment by Sandi K — December 31, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Happy Birthday! I wish you many happy, healthy returns of the day!
Comment by Liz Palika — December 31, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Happy Birthday, Gina! Wishing you a glorious 2010 that you so deserve!
Comment by Nadine L — December 31, 2009 @ 11:35 am
Happy birthday to Gina! And yes, welcome to 2010!
Comment by keenwell — December 31, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINA!!
Hope 2010 is everything 2009 wasn’t!
Comment by Dr. Tony Johnson — December 31, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
Happy Birthday, Gina and many returns of the day!
Here’s to the end of a truly sucky year, and may the new one be wonderful for us all!
Comment by Anne T — December 31, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
A very Happy Birthday to you Gina! Happy New Year! May 2010 be much, much kinder!
Comment by C.L.H. — December 31, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
Happy Birthday, Gina!
And good-bye to a terrible year and a terrible decade.
Comment by Lis — December 31, 2009 @ 2:14 pm
Well, I will join in, since you are having a birthday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have enjoyed this blog and learned so much that I cannot thank you enough, Gina and Christie and the whole rest of the Pet Connection Staff.
And yes, Gina, you were right. Sophie, my cat, has accepted the fact that she now has to stay in the whole yard protective fencing instead of wondering in everybody’s yard and getting me into trouble with my neighbors.(Also has been prevented from getting herself into a whole lot of trouble, too, by me bankrupting myself for this wonderful fencing).
Most of all, I appreciate the pet food information, because we have to prevent another food-poisoning year of so many pets.
Gina, have a ball on your birthday—you deserve it! Oh, my, I am using up so much space—ye gads!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Colorado Transplant — December 31, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
Happy, happy birthday to Gina!!! 2010 is going to be great!
Comment by Cate — December 31, 2009 @ 5:28 pm
Happy belated Birthday to you Gina - thank you and Christie and the Pet Connection - I’ve been so lucky and grateful to have you all in my continuing pet education and more…the very best to you for 2010.
Comment by mary frances — January 4, 2010 @ 11:56 am