Happy Birthday, Pegs!

Not everyone is lucky enough to be married to a Greekie. Sure, we non-Greek spouses might confuse casual phone conversations for heated arguments or be tricked into eating lamb intestines at extended family gatherings, but that's a small price to pay to spend the rest of your life with a Hellenic god or goddess. In celebration of Pegs' birthday today, here are the top ten reasons why it's awesome to have a Greek spouse:

1. Celebrating new and exciting holidays that non-Greekies don't even know about, like name days and Second Easter.
2. Greek food rocks.
3. The story of how you met was made into a movie.
4. When visiting the motherland, you'll always feels tall and skinny.
5. Greek TV channels are a wonderful cure for insomnia.
6. The ability to tan is carried by a dominant gene.
7. Greeks invented everything, and the royalty checks are a real help at tax time.
8. Learning useful Greek tips, like how to cure warts with dandelion milk or convert hard-boiled eggs into diamonds.
9. Greek in-laws.
10. Greek sex.

Happy birthday, Pegs!