Melina! Since she probably will not name herself TWOM, I shall gladly do the honors. Because it is her birthday; because she embraces the Anglo-Saxon Victorian Christmas with her whole heart, right down to yorkshire pudding, despite a dislike of most things English (including the English themselves); because she is generous and joyous; because she serves ginger ale in wine glasses and always with a marascino cherry; because she is full of good sense about other people; because after 25 years she regularly sends me into wheezing, crying laughing fits - because she and me be sisters.
So, as with all the powers vested in me as a former TWOM (May 2004), I dub thee, Skipette, Trophy Wife of the Month, December 2004