February 23

first and foremost...  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUM!!!!  i love you so much!

and then, less important...

carol posted this on facebook today, and it made me giggle, so i'm making my own list:

Top 10 Fictional Characters I Have Had Crushes On:

Top 10 fictional characters you choose to be perfection, or close to it. This is not necessarily all based on looks -- think overall package. Could be movie or television character.

Predictable or surprising?

What do your choices say about you?

10. Cookie Monster

9. Tycho Potter (from the teen novel The Catalogue of the Universe)

8. Underdog

7. Skip Skipperton (as played by Jason Lee in Mumford)

6. Steve Brady (as played by David Eigenberg on Sex and the City)

5. Oscar the Grouch

4. Lloyd Dobler (as played by John Cusack in Say Anything)

3. Ed Chigliak (as played by Darren E. Burrows on Northern Exposure)

2. Max Belmont (as played by Chris Eigeman in Kicking & Screaming)

1. Albert Milo (fictional character based on Julian Schnabel as played by Gary Oldman in Basquiat)