Happy Birthday from MsKathy

Dearest Noodle,

It occurred to me the other day that some people might think of your nickname as slightly insulting – ie, “wet noodle” (Let's not go to the dirty connotations just yet, I've only begun.). However, it prompted me to think about why exactly I picked that name. Thus began The Great Gmail Search of 2011 (tm). When I searched in my email for “noodle,” I got … a lot of emails that matched (us? Chatty?). Diligently, I kept going, searching for the very earliest reference to this nickname. There are hilarious subject lines (“Piece of Shit Drabble”, “Just Need to Squee”, etc.) and meaningful subject lines (“You Made Me Cried”, “Body Image”, etc.), and of course, recipes.