Please help me get to 800 so I can get back to packing

[ashling]

[ashling]

1. I guess I could just post

the same thing over and over, but isn't that intellectually dishonest?

Anyway, I can't do it.

I am in the middle of packing boxes preperatory to moving back to Texas as soon as my daughter gets back from the Democratic Convention in ... uh ... where is it again - OH Yeah!: in Boston. :silly:

[Mistress Quickly]

3. Where are you moving from?

and Texas, huh? Hopefully for you the Austin area.

[ashling]

7. I was born and raised in Texas

I've lived in Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, and, of course, all over the Lone Star State - well, Henrietta, Galveston, Houston, Conroe, Montgomery, The Woodlands, Llano county, and Austin - and now Washington State - seems I'm always going home to Texas. This time for good !

You know, you get up about half a hundred years old or so and you just want to go home and stay put.

We will be moving back to Austin - my wife is alresdy down there working for the state - and we have a place out in the country in Llano County we call Ashling ("dream") Ranch.

[flamingyouth]

21. Where are you living in Washington now

?

[ashling]

22. I'm in Oly

well, Tumwater actually.

[flamingyouth]

23. I know the area

Best of luck in your move!:hi:

[ashling]

24. Thanks

:hi:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

5. What's your favorite color?

[ashling]

8. Don''t really have one.

All the colors of the rainbow are beautiful on their own.

My daughters best friend lives in North Carolina.

[Mistress Quickly]

2. Hello

don't tell, but I am almost out and never said a word about it.

How's the weather where you are?

[ashling]

10. Last few days it has not been hot

I might as well be home. :)

[cjbuchanan]

4. What did you think of the convention last night?

What speech do you think was the best?

[ashling]

11. Hard to say

they were all so good. I saw Teddy's speech - most of it, but only read an excerpt from Obama's and then heard part of it on NPR today - sounded great.

Theresa's speech was magnificent too! ! !

I get so sick of pundits and others saying that the convention is scripted or is obsolete. Hell, if they want a mystery they should read the 9-11 Report, I hear it reads just like one . . . and I promise not to tell them the ending. :evilgrin:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

6. Bush = Chimp, yes or no?

What do you think?

[ashling]

13. Now there is a question of monumental importance

(just kidding) Actually, I think that upon further study, science will find that though he may be just a chimp of the ole blockhead, that W is in fact another species altogether. Interesting proposition which requires further (and immediate) study for the good of the country don'tcha think?

Of course, they will need the skull first. :evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

9. I need to lose 5 lbs this week.... any suggestions?

I'm thinking a week of South Beach diet.

[ashling]

15. I lost 20 lbs. once on the hospital food diet

Had endocarditis and was in the hospital for a couple of weeks about 12 years ago.

I don't suggest it as a weight loss regimen.

[Bruce McAuley]

12. So where in Washington State are you now?

Just wondering why you would leave Paradise for Hell?
:hi:

Bruce

[ashling]

14. I will not dignify your suggestion with a response

[Bruce McAuley]

16. Just wondering...

Did I make a suggestion?
:hi:

Bruce

On edit, I guess I DID suggest Texas is hell, but to a cool climate kinda guy who was born in Washington State, it sure seems close to hell to me. Wasn't it William Tecumseh Sherman who said, "If I owned both Texas and Hell, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas", or some such statement.
That said, I'm sure many people love living in Texas. I even have a step brother who lives in Austin.

Bruce

[ashling]

17. OK, I forgive you

Your subject line was . . . how shall I say . . "inappropriate"

Washington has its merits - when you can get out of the rain -

and TEXAS is far from the "hell" you assume it to be. I was born and raised there and have a deep love for my home state.

on edit: and, with all due respect, I will not sit idly by while you or anyone else casts aspersions her way.

Now to get back down there and kick those damn imported fire ants out of the statehouse! ! !

[Bruce McAuley]

18. Sorry, I moved away from the rainy side myself..

I now live in the dry side, but up in the hills. It's perfect!
:hi:

Bruce
On edit: My wife, who was born in Oklahoma, has more than enough stories about tornadoes, snakes, bugs and humidity to keep me away from the entire region.
:hi: :hi:
:hi:

[ashling]

19. I have not been over there

my wife has traveled extensively for her job with the State of Washington. She was a monitor for a program through the Dept. of Community, Trade and economic development.

I understand it is beautiful.

I really do think this is a pretty place, but I want to go home!

[Bruce McAuley]

20. Oh well, home is where the heart is...

As a native Washingtonian, I can empathize with wanting to live where you were born, except for that pesky RAIN all the time, and the slugs...
Yukk!
No slugs or mold over here!
We need some more Dems in Texas, that's for sure, just like we need some more Dems in Eastern Washington. It's pretty Republican here.
:hi:

Bruce

[GOPisEvil]

25. Hurry up, ashling!!!

Get down here!!! :bounce:

[ashling]

26. I will be leaving early next week

Barton Springs, here I come!

Oh, and thanks everybody for helping me reach 800 posts

now - back to packing dishes!