Listening to: Black Eyed Peas "Don't Funk With My Heart"

Getting older is just a problem of mind over matter.
If you don't mind it, it does not matter.

And in other news. I have always had an aversion to gallery openings, especially when my work is included. But in this case, I should have stayed for more than the ten minutes, I won 2nd place! And that's with a photograph that my proff had declared "one of my worst prints". Ha! That was a slap in the face with a white glove. That was a great bday present, G.R.E.A.T.

Your Inner European is Italian!

Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is.

Who's Your Inner European?

Your Japanese Name Is...

Naomi Imaidegawa

What's your Japanese Name?

Your Irish Name Is...

Eva Barry

What's your Irish Name?

Erika Magdalena Garcia's Aliases

Your movie star name: Chocolate Luis

Your fashion designer name is Erika Paris

Your socialite name is Flaca Mexico City

Your fly girl / guy name is E Gar

Your detective name is Tiger Dulles

Your barfly name is Bread Tequila

Your soap opera name is Magdalena Manchester

Your rock star name is Twix Rocket

Your star wars name is Eriche Gartak

Your punk rock band name is The Alright Boot

The Amazing Meganame Generator

Your Brain is 66.67% Female, 33.33% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

Your Seduction Style: The Dandy

You're a non-traditionalist, not limited by gender roles or expectations. Your sexuality is more fluid than that - and you defy labels or categories. It's hard to pin you down, and that's what's fascinating about you. You have the psychology of both a male and a female, and you can relate to anyone.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

and finally...

ERIKAMAGDALENA
E	is for	Earthy
R	is for	Refined
I	is for	Insane
K	is for	Kinky
A	is for	Animated
M	is for	Moral
A	is for	Astounding
G	is for	Godlike
D	is for	Distinguished
A	is for	Adventurous
L	is for	Lively
E	is for	Extreme
N	is for	Naive
A	is for	Articulate

What Does Your Name Mean?

sry. one more and that's it, promise! this is for all you houston folk.

You Know You're From Houston When...

You're on your way to work one February morning and suddenly you're trapped in a traffic jam caused by a chuck wagon and fifty horses -- with riders -- and you look around to see that everybody in the cars around you is wearing a cowboy hat. The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes. If you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you can go to a Randall's Flagship, a Kroger Signature, a Rice Epicurean, or soon, an HEB Central Market to buy bread and milk (but you have to dress up!) You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a low of 29 degrees. You have a Roach Story: You opened your flatware drawer to find a roach the size of the Taco Bell chihuahua. He stood up and looked you in the eye. You closed the drawer, bought new flatware -- and stored it in the oven. When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, you don't think he's won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes; you know he just stepped in a fire ant bed. The name "Bud Adams" makes people snarl, and "Bum Phillips" doesn't mean a bad screwdriver. "Luv ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out of town. You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth Wonder of the World. You come to work in short-sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a "blue-tailed norther" has blown through, and the temperature has dropped 40 degrees in a matter of minutes. Your neighbor's Christmas yard decorations look like a re-creation of the gunfight at the OK Corral, complete with a ten-foot tree decorated with boots and cowboy hats, and a Santa Claus who looks a lot like Wyatt Earp. You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs because they're written in Asian characters instead of English, but you don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer merchandise there. You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two cross-dressers on roller blades, holding hands. The "Killer Bees" are not stinging insects. You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to window-shop. You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your father's failure to practice good dental hygiene. You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more than one person. For a Chili Cookoff, you'll use anything from armadillo to frog's legs, but you know that the only GOOD chili is made with chopped -- not ground -- beef, and it has NO beans and NO tomatoes. Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the year. Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair, and faces that have gone east, west, and north rather than south. You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still haven't left the city limits. (During rush hour, you haven't left your neighborhood.) You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under-construction -- and you've lived here for 20-30 years. If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a good hair day. You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile transmissions. "The Dream" is not a fantasy. The only real Mexican food is Tex-Mex. A 747 with the Space Shuttle riding piggyback has actually flown low, right overhead, and nobody paid any attention to it. You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more than the U.S. Treasury has. You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but you'd rather that they keep the title of "Smog Capital." You see nothing unusual about an 80-something former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses, mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and screams, "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, EYE-witness news" into a television camera every night. "Luv Ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out of town. You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs because they're written in Korean instead of English, but you don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer merchandise and great food. You think y'all is a perfectly good word when you're referring to more than one person. You see nothing unusual about an eighty-something former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sun-glasses, mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and screams "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, iiiiiiii-witness news" into a television. You see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, and you don't think he's won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes; you know that he just stepped in a fire ant bed. You're on your way to work one FEBRUARY morning and suddenly you're trapped in a traffic jam caused by a chuck wagon and fifty horses with riders and you look around to see that everybody in the cars around you is wearing a cowboy hat. You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a low of 29 degrees. The name "Bud Adams" makes people snarl, and "Bum Phillips" doesn't mean a bad screwdriver. You come to work in short sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a "blue-tailed norther" has blown through and the temperature has dropped 40 degrees in a matter of minutes. You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two hand- holding cross dressers on roller blades. For a Chili Cookoff, you'll use anything from armadillo to frog's legs, but you know that the only GOOD chili is made with chopped (not ground)- beef, and it has NO beans and NO tomatoes. You know that Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the year. You know that Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair and faces that have gone east, west, and north rather than south. You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still haven't left the city limits (during rush hour, you haven't left your NEIGHBORHOOD). You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under construction, and you've lived here for 20-30 years. You think that the humidity being below 90 percent makes it a GOOD hair day. You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile transmissions. The Dream" is not a fantasy. The only REAL Mexican food is Tex-Mex. You've seen a 747 with a Space Shuttle riding piggyback flying low right overhead, and nobody paid any attention to it. You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more than the U.S. treasury. You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but you'd rather they keep the title of "Smog Capital." You know that the Astrodome will always be the 8th wonder of the world. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Houston.

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