dang it

why didn't i think of this. dang.

my fave san antonio toddler has an announcement

congrats, jill, gardner, and kyle!!!

speakers

about three months ago, my personal laptop's power cord said goodbye. when the powercord is gone, so is the laptop.

yesterday, a replacement cord came into my life unexpectedly.

a little background, my work laptop has no sound card, therefore, no sound. in the last three months pretty much all of you have changed your songs on myspace and i didn't even know it. itunes: home laptop. i haven't added a song on my ipod (until last night) since christmas.

all this to say, work laptop sucks, and i'm back in business, people. it's like losing your hearing temporarily and then, one day, like a flash...there it is again. ahhhh. bliss. i'm happy.

giggle

jim wallis

just read an interesting article by jim wallis, from sojourner magazine. an exerpt below...

"In places such as the U.K., Christians are rallying around the call to "Make Poverty History." Many are comparing that call to the cry of British Parliamentarian William Wilberforce and an earlier generation of evangelical revivalists in the 18th and 19th centuries who changed history in England and America by their steadfast commitment to end slavery. For many, poverty is the new slavery. Again, this is especially true for a new generation of Christians. The connection between poverty and all the other key issues - the environment, HIV/AIDS, and violent conflicts around the world are increasingly clear for many people of faith.

The sacredness of life and family values are deeply important to these Christians as well - yet too important to be used as partisan wedge issues that call for single issue voting patterns that ignore other critical biblical matters. The Religious Right has been able to win when they have been able to maintain and control a monologue on the relationship between faith and politics. But when a dialogue begins about the extent of moral values issues and what biblically-faithful Christians should care about, the Religious Right begins to lose. The best news of all for the American church and society is this: The monologue of the Religious Right is over, and a new dialogue has just begun."

MFFL

i walked into the loon last night only to find the future NBA MVP, dirk nowitzki, sitting at the table next to me and owen wilson at the jukebox.

GO MAVS!!!

the blue knight

so i was extremely excited about the prospect of putting pictures up from my wild night on the town last night until i woke up this morning to the realization that the world's best camera had been lost. i hate losing things, it totally urks me. oh well. moving on...

so i was at jay's new campaign office yesterday afternoon when a few of his d.c. co-workers came by and announced that we were all going to medieval times. if you have ever seen "the cable guy" you will understand the sheer excitement that surged through my body. yes, i realize the random-ness and dorky-ness of that place, but, well no but, i just had to state that before i went on.

it was fun. very fun. i laughed aloud when the lady came by asking me if i'd like pepsi or tea (waitress: "there were no utensils in medieval times therefore there are no utensils at medieval times. would you like a refill on that pepsi?" matthew b.: "there were no utensils but there was pepsi?"). the guys that work there as "knights" all have very long, curly hair and are WAY into their roles as a knight. it was just pure comedy. i highly recommend it for a good laugh, but only if it is paid for by your company.

st patty's on greenville

we all had SUCH a good time on saturday!! for those of you that don't know, every year in dallas we have a big parade, run, and party on greenville. living close to greenville gave my friends and i an idea...have a party of our own!! what a great time...we were expecting about 40, which quickly grew and grew and grew...it seems that everyone we were expecting invited about five other people, which, i might add, only made it more fun. it was good to see so many friends and have the chance to relax after a very difficult week. hooray for st patty's!!!

celebrity look-alike

so if you are on myspace, you have no doubt seen this, but in case you aren't...it's silly and fun!

go to www.myheritage.com and upload a photo, then request to see your celebrity look alike. i did it with a few different pics, just to see which celebs came up the most. it's really funny. probably not too accurate, but funny. some of them i could kind of see...just because i've heard the resemblence from other people before, like sarah jessica parker or robin wright penn...but heather locklear? i wish!!