Category: Uncategorized

i reapply my lipstick.

i haven’t really talked about sports on here very much. but here you go. i am a huge, huge, huge basketball follower. not fan, follower. it requires discipline and sacrifice (like staying up late for west coast games…) i played basketball all throughout my childhood and in high school, and was at first a giant knicks girl…back in the day with ewing and starks. i was watching when the OJ chase interrupted the 1994 finals. then when the triple j’s (jimmy, jamal and jason) came out with the mavericks right after i moved to dallas, i quickly moved my loyalties. every since then, i have been a mavericks addict.

a sadness overwhelms me. i know this round isn’t over yet, and i know the mavs are capable of a comeback. but i have to admit i’m a little worried. i think in order to win this, they have got to do a couple of things. they have been playing a lot of man-to-man defense and i think with golden state, they really need to go to a 2-3 zone. golden state (except for baron davis) really can’t shoot from outside the paint and i think if they kept them out in the perimeter, it would disrupt the rhythm they’ve been showing. dallas is great at rebounding, and this would really put them back in the game for some possible fast breaks…which they have NOT been doing much of. i think offensively, they REALLY need to tighten up. they are throwing up weak screens, making sloppy shots. i think after having so many fouls from game 3, they were playing extremely scared tonight. both jerry stackhouse and dirk were not at the top of their game. they know better, and they should be playing much, much better.

anyway, i am going to try and go to sleep now. sigh.

some days it’s just good to be silly.

Besides being one of the worst officiated hockey games I have ever seen, it was just sad. Hopefully the Mavs can pull it together and take it all the way…

as i am digging through my junk drawer at work, i find a misplaced and forgotten 1099-R form for my retirement plan. crap. crap. crap. now i must fill out form 1040x for federal, and since it was money put in when i lived in kansas, i must fill out a kw-5 form as well. just when i thought my tax filing woes were over. like one can remember every 1099-R she receives…

so, how’s your monday?

so, who would have known a texas officer of the law lurks on my blog? not i! until i received an email from him. with his generous help and investigation into my driver’s license status, he discovered i will not have to take the driver’s test and provided me with some documentation to take to the DL office with me when i go.

to that unspoken hero, i say a public THANK YOU for helping me out!

eleven years ago, i received my driver’s license. it was two months after my 16th birthday, as i broke my wrist on my birthday and was unable to drive to complete my driver’s ed test until 8 weeks later and my cast was removed.

fast forward to march 2007. LAX. 5am. a quick stop at McDonalds outside united airlines terminal. a wallet left behind on a fork/knife/napkin/straw kiosk. GONE.

because i am such a procrastinator, i had my kansas driver’s license in there, and have never gotten my texas one, even though i’ve lived here over a year. and because i can’t get the kansas one replaced, here is the process i must go through at some point (until then, keep praying i don’t get pulled over as i have NO valid driver’s license in any state right now!)

get new social security card
go to DMV and take written test
go to DMV and take driving test
gather current title/registration of my car
take all above documents to driver’s license office
smile, flash, photo

and once again i will be legal

a driver’s test? are you serious?

i can’t parallel park.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman’s plan to turn her dead father’s ashes into a diamond was thwarted Tuesday by her grandmother.

A district court in Wiesbaden ruled the 19-year-old could not take the cremated remains to Switzerland where a company creates synthetic diamonds from ashes.

“The daughter of the deceased could not provide sufficient proof that it was his final wish to be pressed into a diamond,” the court in western Germany said, ruling in favor of his 86-year-old mother.

The court said the daughter’s views on the care of the remains took precedence over the wishes of the dead man’s mother but ruled that any decision had to be in accordance with the expressed wishes of the deceased.

The ashes are placed in a press under intense pressure and heat, replicating the forces that create a natural diamond, over a period of several months. Synthetic diamonds have been manufactured from carbon since the mid-1950s.

What are two things that make you happy? Ecstatically happy? Smile for the rest of the day happy?

Mine are surprise chocolate and lots of pillows.

Deep, huh?