HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MICHAL!

This is a little dedication to my big sister (and by big I mean 'oldest'). As yesterday was her birthday, (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAL!), and I forgot (oh the shame) to email her or skype her a happy birthday, I have decided to write a little about her on my blog. There is so much to write about Michal. Michal is 11 years older than me, which means that she is now 34 (congrats!). She is a flamboyant, artistic, goofy, kind, strong, optimistic, vivacious, generous, adventurous, introspective, and crazy woman.


Let me tell you a few interesting things about this girl...

1. Michal is a painter. I particularly like to tell people that she paints nudes, because she does. She also paints a lot of other stuff, but it was very fun to say for a while that my sister's a nude-painter. Ha ha!
No, but really, she's incredibly gifted. I remember her doing some sketches in highschool when she was in grade 8 or 9... I was amazed by them then, and still am when I see them now! She has always had crazy talent there.

2. Michal used to be obsessed with all things medieval & fairy-tale-ish. Yes, she dressed me up in a princess-dress one day, put dried flowers in my hair, and took very 'Ophelia'-like photos of me. She also collected and sewed many a medieval dress (often she would convert a value-village frock into one.) She was responsible for a lot of my fantastical imagination... she would always tell us sisters made-up stories.

3. Michal is a crazy world-adventurer. Yes, right out of highschool, Michal took off to Haiti, then to Kenya a few years later, and has also lived in Italy, different cities in Canada, and England. She has a gift of making a 'home' wherever she chooses to live, creating a little life for herself as if she always lived there. She is able to adapt to wherever she is.

4. Michal is an amazing cook. She can whip up a batch of homemade perogies in an hour! That's a record among our family... she is such a good cook, and she's always having people over for food.

And just in case you're reading this and you happen to be a single man around her age who thinks this Michal woman is sounding pretty good, TOO BAD! She's engaged. Happily, to Nigel, our new brother-to-be from England. And he's a really good one, so you're really out of luck.

Okay, so michal, I love you. Happy birthday.