I've been busy.  It amazes me how hard it was to get cracking on my to-do list during the off days this week.  I did manage to do a tiny bit every evening.  I got enough sleep during the week (AMAZING!) but was still incredibly tired last night, probably because I mostly buckled down at work.  Thanks to the energy boost from our WIN (yeah!!!) I stayed up late and slept REALLY late this morning, so here I am at 3:00, having just finished "breakfast." Now I get to try to accomplish something, anything, between now and the game.  Tomorrow will be a marathon of things like belated birthday shopping, e-mail replies, and the decluttering I sorely need to begin.

Something to look forward to, other than more wins for us.  I have an order from CafePress on the way, namely this: clothing.cafepress.com/item/hot-coco-hooded-sweatshirt/302573446 plus a matching coffee mug.  Couldn't resist.  And if anyone can tell me how to make that URL link have text like an LJ cut (I'm in Rich Text format at the moment), I'd be much obliged.  I can't figure out how to make it work, and the LJ FAQ section is useless as usual.  Sorry for the technodummyness.  One of these days I'll try again at HTML, much as I hate it, but right now I don't have time.

I did see the multiple taggings by my f-list on that question meme, and I promise to get around to it in the very near future.

Off to my next task...

ETA: Looking through the pictures from last night's game, I was really struck by something that I hadn't noticed before.  It's probably just the playoff scruff, but ESPECIALLY from the side, Jason Bay looks very much like a guy who was a "long-distance occasional friend with benefits" of mine during the first few years after I moved to North Carolina.  They have very similar profiles, and the same sort of deep set light eyes, and the facial expression is pretty close as well...you know, the sort of deadpan expressionless look (not that I don't love JayBay, but that really IS how he comes across, at least to me).  I haven't seen my old buddy Jim in quite a few years, but that realization both startled me and made me chuckle a bit...

I'm sure some of you have wondered about the meaning of my screen name.  Well, long story short, during the mid to late 90s when I was still watching a lot of college basketball and had just discovered the Internet, I found myself hanging out on a UCLA Bruins basketball forum, posting with a bunch of female college students from California, several of whom were attending UCLA at the time and knew the players personally.  Lots of fun stories there.  Anyway, I didn't know the first thing about screen names (I had office e-mail under my real name), but I caught on quickly, and as the lone person from east of the Mississippi, I decided to call myself East Coast Lady.  After awhile the gals there dubbed me ECL, and it stuck.  I tacked on the year of my birth to make a full-length screen name when I started signing up at various places on line where I didn't want to post under my real name.  And there ya have it.