Tomorrow is my mom's actual birthday, but she likes to say you celebrate a birthday week, not just one day, so I thought I'd get things rolling by revealing the ten most little-known facts about my mom:#10 You know that Bon Jovi song Shot Through the Heart? She's playing rhythm guitar in the video.#9 She and her three sisters were the original Marx Brothers.#8 Mom once beat Gary Player in a Skins game in South Africa (though in fairness to Gary, she was playing from the Ladies' Tees).#7 You know that 1 out of 5 Dentists who refuses to chew Trident? Brainwashed by my mother.#6 Every time you hear "Girl from Ipanema" in an elevator? It's always her playing it.#5 She once killed the president of Paraguay with a Spork.#4 Mom invented the Internet.#3 She owns 324 pianos, 503 giraffes, and 36, 412 snowmen. (But she always wants one more.)#2 At night Mom dresses up in a patriotic leotard (with cape!) and thigh-high boots to fight crime.and the number one little-known "fact" about my mom.....#1 Along with Stephanie Powers and Mary Tyler Moore, one of the co-founders of the North American Academy of Ninjas. Yes, that's right: Mom's a Ninja, so watch your step when you hate on me.up next: more of my mother
