Frustration and Fun

With the Benazir Bhutto assassination 3 weeks ago, and the 

subsequent fallout, I neglected to wish my friends and readers

a very Happy New Year....so Happy 2008! Personally, it could

have started off a little better. My beloved Dallas Cowboys, 

who had the best record in the NFC and held home field advan-

tage throughout the playoffs with a first round bye, blew it by

losing to the N.Y. Giants, a team Dallas had beaten twice this

season. I know it is tough to beat the same team 3 times in the

same season, but after the year Dallas had had, and the advan-

tage at hand, it could - SHOULD - have been a victory. Yet we

Cowboy fans have to suffer through yet another year without a

playoff victory, a streak that reaches over a decade now. Very

frustrating.  :(  On the positive side, we got our first real snow

fall of the year, much to the delight of my dollbaby puppy Lady!

(yes, she is still a puppy, despite her having reached 60 pounds

recently!) The Siberian Husky side of her definitely came out

with the cold white stuff; she was bouncing and prancing around

in it, attacking the snow balls I was throwing, sticking her nose 

in mounds of snow and tossing masses of it about. Lady enjoyed

the snow so much she was hesitant to come in when I called her,

taking her sweet time while looking back over her shoulder 

almost lustfully! The fact that most of the snow melted away the

very next day was, I am sure, rather disconcerting to my big gal!