Happy Birthday, Mike!

[Mary Ann Jennings]

>>>Mike:

Thanks Mary Ann!

Say, How's your Baroque kitchen coming along? Have you
got it finished? 
Or did you bake up some of those Vodka Mousse Eclairs
for your workmen, 
figuring that would be a onetime treat and instead
they drug out the 
remodeling forever, hoping to con you into a second
batch? ;D<<<

Mary Ann:

Hee, Mike, my kitchen's not as "Baroque"/broke as it
used to be but it's still not finished.  Our friend,
who's going to finish the work on the kitchen, is
having a helluva time in his own house; in December
there was a bad leak in his bathroom resulting in his
kitchen ceiling collapsing and earlier this week,
during the usual UK winter rainstorms, his roof sprung
several leaks.  The poor guy's having no better luck
with his runt of a house than we're having with ours. 
I'm not superstitious but, man oh man, I hope that
"everything happens in threes" doesn't happen in this
case.  I fear that would mean his entire house blowing
up!

Mary Ann, who sees house renovations as an extreme
form of masochism, and wishes she actually had a
recipe for Vodka Mousse Eclairs because she
desperately needs one