Tennis Skirt is Official Uniform for Sex and the City Fans

This Overheardian e-mail came in late morning and made me laugh out loud:

I’m sitting in the theatre right now waiting to watch Sex and the City, there are at least 100 “tennis players“, visors and all, here sitting in the theatre.  I am feeling overwhelmingly compelled to ask one of them where they play and if today was some sort of “field trip” for the tennis club.

24 More Hours Left in Our Contest

Don’t forget. You have one day to get in your entry for a chance to win some delicious Newport’s food.

Preston Center Dance Recital

From Merritt:

Graduation events are over and the parties have started. But I’m sweating my ass off because I ran (along with hundreds of other moms)straight to dress rehearsal for tonight’s Preston Center Dance recital. You can tell the private school girls from the HPISD kids because the public schoolers didn’t have time to put on the costume, very rebel looking.

Buzz at Coffee Park on Saturday

Chris Murzin, the crusading father about whom Merritt has written several times,  is hosting a fundraiser to make Coffee Park more fun for kids with physical disabilities. It’s a worthy cause. Check it out. Here are the particulars:

Help us make Coffee Park barrier free for those with
physical disabilities!

Join us for free coffee, donuts, buzz cuts for boys and hair
braids and painted nails for girls. All donations received
will help support the purchase and installation of a Barrier
Free Playground at Coffee Park.

Saturday, May 31, 2008
8 am to Noon
Coffee Park (Hillcrest & Northwest Hwy)

Also, purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win a bicycle
and accessories compliments of Bicycles Plus in Snider
Plaza! Drawing to be held on June 7 at the Fishing Derby
in Caruth Park.

Factory Food

Would someone please let me in on the secret of The Cheesecake Factory?  After all this time, the place still has lines out the door and a long, long waiting list.  Why?  The byzantine menu is okay, but it doesn’t strike me as anything special.  I give them credit for honesty in naming, though, as it does appear to be a “factory.”

Sorry if I’m stepping on toes, I seem to be extra-opinionated today.  Maybe I’m feeling frisky because school’s out.

It Was a Field Day at Hyer

Here are a few photos from the Hyer Field Day yesterday.  They are kindergarten-through-second-grade-centric, because that’s where the photographer was located.

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Dramatic car chase through Tarrant County

I’m only writing about this in jest because no one was injured, but last night’s car chase through Tarrant County was something straight out of The Dukes of Hazzard. (more…)

Re:Today in the Park Cities

More importantly, have today’s elementary school kids ever seen a film strip?

And the fact that you never had field day as a kid explains a lot, Jason.

Have the Park Cities Gone Blue?

A reader is concerned:

Why do so many people in the Park Cities support either Hillary or Obama? Both propose socialist ideals that would completely destroy the foundation of hard work equals success that the Park Cities is built on. While some in the Park Cities are so rich that they will be able to ride out the change, most will suffer under the tax and legislate equality programs that they propose.

Today in the Park Cities

It’s a busy day, the last day of school before the summer:

1. Armstrong Elementary is having their field day at 9 a.m. I don’t remember getting a field day on the last day of school in elementary. Our special treat was getting to stay inside and watch movies. Remember when movies were only watched on VHS? Do today’s elementary school kids know of a time before DVDs?
2. UP Elementary fourth-graders are graduating at 12:30 p.m. Whatever that means.
3. Merritt says she’ll be too busy to blog because she’ll be at the fourth-grade graduation. Whatever that means.
4. The real graduation is taking place at Moody Coliseum, as the Highland Park High School seniors walk across the stage before retiring to Dallas Country Club for an all-night party. Let us hope no golf carts end up in the creek.