My birthday is a week from today. Hooray. I really haven't cared about my birthday much since I was 18. So last night while watching TV, this conversation happens. I'm sure you can guess who's who:

"What do you want to do for your birthday?"

"I don't know."

"Oh, come on. There's got to be something you want to do."

"I might take the day off work, I guess."

"That's it? You don't want to go eat or do something fun?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know! You decide. It's your birthday!"

"I'll think it over."

*two minutes later*

"Ok, well, what do you WANT for your birthday? I have no idea what to get you."

"Nothing." (note: with sfaJill, 'nothing' is never an acceptable answer to this question)

"What if I got you a pair of fuzzy pink slippers then? You'd be ok with that?"

"Only if you think I really need a pair of fuzzy pink slippers..."

"Well, if you don't tell me what you want, you just might get some then."

"Did you see that Circuit City is offering 36 months of no interest financing on all TV's $999 and up?"

"No. So what?"

"So there you go. That's what I want."

*she thinks this over for moment*

"You want me to buy you a big TV for your birthday?"

"Yes."

"Hmfph. Good luck with that one."

Ah, wedded bliss...

---------------------

Jason Garrett has apparently turned down both the Falcons and Ravens head coaching jobs and will stay on as Offensive Coordinator in Dallas for at least one more year. Good. After four years of Bill Parcells's conservative style and the overall futility of the offense the five years before that, it was refreshing to see Redball (as he's affectionately known) open the playbook wide open and actually use all of the weapons available to him.

Sure he didn't run the ball enough at times and apparently went insane in the fourth quarter of this last Sunday's loss to the Giants (calling a 65-yard bomb into triple coverage on 3rd & 20 from your own 40 with just over 4 minutes to go when you must score a touchdown and then sending everyone into the endzone against a dime defense on 4th & 11 instead of having one guy run underneath the defense and get the first down when you still had time to spike the ball and run at least one play into the endzone before the game ended is the definition of insanity), but there aren't too many guys I'd rather have running the Cowboys' offense for the near future than Garrett. Good move, Jerry Jones.