Oh, I'm sorry! I hope it comes back!


My niece works at the Texas Roadhouse in Harrisonburg, VA.

Get OUT! My sister and her hubby live just outside Harrisonburg VA. (Actually, I think they're closer to Bridgewater, VA now.)

What are the odds?

Very cool! My niece goes to James Madison University.

Yeah, i like how i get 'punkd' yesterday...by my own shippers. :shrugs:



I even live in the better half of California! ::cough:: Northern ::Cough::

I try not to have my political views get in the way of my beautiful state. Forunately, politics are not my life.

and i can say the same thing, except, 'how anyone could be liberal in the first place....'

Let's just say i am wise beyond my years for being a conservative at such a young age.

I have two nieces in VA - ladies - one in Springfield and I'm not sure where the other lives off the top of my head - I say we plan a road trip!!

Ha, my niece was born in Springfield! Now my brother and his family live in Ashburn, VA. But his two oldest, my niece and nephew go to JMU

My niece who lives in Springfield has her Master's Degree in Library Science and is a head librarian in Washington DC - her husband workis a topographer with the Navy. I LOVE VIRGINIA - it's so beautiful there and only about a 6 hour drive from my house. I can pick you up on my way through Maryland - we'll need to make arrangements for spook to meet us.

Will it be out of your way to pick me up in California?

If we can get you to Indiana, you and spook can meet me in PA and we can pick cluck up in Maryland - we can make it work.

Yeah! That sounds like fun!

Hurray! Road trip! Let's see.....I need Diet Pepsi, pumpkin seeds, and miniature Tootsie Rolls. I'm all set!

Oh oh! Ciaddict, since we live in the same state, can you pick me up and we can travel to Indiana together! I'll bring the beverages.

Ya know I was thinking the same thing. I live in Illinois which in turn is closer to Indiana so this would be one heck of a road trip. I was going to ask if they would accept shippers on the trip.

I always wanted to visit Indiana. To see some cool sights and take pictures. Since I live in the same state as ciaddict and the Captain, maybe I should tag along lol. I will bring snacks!


Tootsie Rolls?!? Eew...

*hope jryan likes my late greeting card. it's on back of the page*

Hey, I love Tootsie Rolls! LOL

Never tasted it in my whole life. In case ciaddict brings some for our road trip, i am sure she'll offer me one. Well she better bring LOTS... whenever I taste new ones, I easily become obsessed, then eat all of it! Nah... just kidding So youre coming with us? Cluck and Judy here will be so happy to tour us around. Don't forget cameras lol! We might see VDO or CM on the way

I can't come. My family's in the process of moving and I have to stay home. But if you see CM or VDO let me know. LOL

My sister lives in Virginia too...how small a world eh?

The Sound of Music is the greatest movie ever. Thank you for the link to the Julie Andrews board. My daughter's name is Julie. Totally after Julie Andrews.

HelloBobby, i miss you sometimes when you are gone for a few days.

No, not at all.

::spook flunked geography::

(Not really.)

Can we have Dr. Pepper and doritos, too?



Want to come along?



OK - if I pick up cluck in Maryland and then KimT and spook - we can head off to California for ciaddict. The neon will hold 5 comfortably if we play nice. And then we'll just take the LONG way to Virginia.

That will be a l-o-n-g long way to Virginia.

I only feed them dry food, but always make sure the water bowl is full.


OH noes! I hope they get home/are found safely soon. My mom's dog got out once, it was weird because he had never gotten out before, he was older so we didn't think he'd go far, but he ended up a 1/2 mile up the road... Someone called the police because he was sniffing at another dog that was being walked and the man kicked at our dog. The cops got called on the guy, not our dog.


You call it wisdom... I call it... something else.

Yeah but can you imagine the fun and adventure we 5 ladies could find on the way??

Really small world -- my brother lives in Richmond and works at Virginia Commonwealth University!

Here is my rant for the day. I work for a Medicaid program that pays caregivers to provide care to clients in their own homes. And we always do home visits--for an initial application and then once a year for a review (or more often if they tell us their condition has changed). So the client has requested services from a government agency. But when I send letters, call, go to their homes, and ask personal questions (as required by state regulations) they act like I'm a telemarketer who is harrassing them! I'm back in the office right now because my 10:30 appointment stood me up. And I am half-way expecting my 1:00 appointment to stand me up, since she has not responded to my letter or the two messages I left with her family to call and confirm the appointment. When I deny them services for "failure to provide sufficient information to determine eligibility", you can bet they will be calling me (and my supervisor). However, if I deny them services (or terminate their services if they are already on the program), its amazing how they suddenly find the time for me.
OK, I'm better now.

MMM doritos...used to be my favorite snack...I would LOVE to come along, but I am in Michigan, a bit of a way away from all of you...wait, is this a REAL LIFE road trip?



My sister used to live in Richmond..we visited her their a few years ago, pretty area...she lives in Ashburn now. I posted her pic on the picture thread. She looks like Scully from XFiles, to me at least.

It's like when the kids don't take me seriously until I punish them. BUT, I only have to do it once or twice before they get the message and take me seriously!

So sorry work stinks. At least you get more time to play around here...

Since I was not too far from my mother's house, I was tempted to go over there and just spend 2 1/2 hours here on the board. BUT I didn't! I was good and came back to the office to get some work done (and play around on the board!). I better get going and see if my next appointment will actually be there waiting for me or if her hostile son will sullenly tell me (again) he doesn't know where she is or when she will be home!

Calliffforrrniaaaaaa
Califfforrrrniaaaa

here weee comeeee.

actually im already here so that ruins the song.

Sorry that you've having a bad day, ciaddict. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for anyone that works with either the medical or mental health of anyone. My mom's a clinical psychologist at a not-for-profit agency, and I know there are certain times she comes home that I shouldn't talk to her that night because she's so emotionally drained. It boils down to whether or not people are willing to put the effort into utilizing the service that is there and willing to make changes for the better. I mean, there's also other factors that make things difficult, but that's the bottom line.

*looks at time*
Now I have to get a few things done before work tonight. If I'm on the board sporadically or rarely over the next week or so, it's because of school.

Ok this is a silly question, I always wondered, I have traveled a few places, and have noticed you can't find somethings we have here, everywhere, and when I saw the dr. pepper and doritos question made me think.

1 question. I love diet Barqs, is that available everywhere?
2. the only mayo I like is Blue Plate mayo, is that available everywhere.?


I just wonder since both are created in Louisiana.

We have Diet Barqs here in the ND. Can't drink the stuff, though. It's the aftertaste. But I don't think I've seen Blue Plate mayo. But I usually steal mayo packets from Arby's or Subway and stock up on those.

Diet Barqs is a yes for California.

as for Blue Plate mayo...can't say i have ever seen it.

im soooo boredd hehe

don't tell me, absolutelly!....ahhh

Ali:(

Funny you asked that, there was once this female who was looking for the same name at the restaurant, and the manager informed they don't carry that stuff in her restaurant. This female must be a traveler from another state. What I heard that there is Blue Plate Mayo in N.O.

Does anyone know what 'Errand in the Wilderness' Means...

It keeps being used in this book i am reading for school but im like o.O

Is the author by any chance named Perry Miller?

I don't think we have either here in TN but we don't have much of freakin anything. That is just plain old TN for you.

Nope it is Ronald Takaki

hey, it's ot, so....i found really cool song and i think it's perfect 4 B/A: Jesse McCarntey "Why don't you kiss her". really g8 song, i picture one of funfics: when Bobby comforts Alex, they both lie in her bad. no point in telling the whole story, just listen to the song. hehe

Ali:)

I have a song that is perfect for the never-to-happen B/A SHIPPYNESS...."Sounds of Silence" by Marcel Marceau (off his "GREATEST HITS" 4 CD BOX SET)

We have some stores here that carry Diet Barq's...but never heard of Blue Plate Mayo...its Helmann's or Mircle Whip here in Michigan.

SInce I'm pretty much chained to my desk at work, I'm thinking this is a forum road trip - pictures will be boring but it's the only trip I can make at the moment.




Yes to the diet Barqs -no to the Blue Plate mayo, at least in my neck of the woods in PA. I LOVE Barqs rootbeer - I actually thought it was a PA soda until I heard it mentioned in a country song.

I was hoping is wasn't RL and I was going to totally miss out...We are pretty much chained to work as well. The hubby puts in around 80 hours a week, normal time and I get called in usually several times a day...to "help out" and sometimes just relieve his stress by being there.

I actually prefer A&W rootbeer, to Barq's...that is, when I used to drink soda. Nothing tastes as good, on a hot summer day, as an A&W rootbeer float with vanilla ice cream....::sigh::
(Correction, maybe Vincent's lips might... )

Awwww, that's so sweet.

Aaw... your husband is so lucky to have a caring wife like you

I work about 50 hours a week on a normal basis - more if we have a 'crisis'. Come May, I'll be working 7 days a week through October. It's great that your hubby has you to help out and relieve his stress - that's wonderful.

I love rootbeer floats - but Vincent's lips would be preferable.