Debate

Yes indeed I am posting again... or at least will have typed this up by the time you read it. Who is "you", and are you still watching this blog and others for updates? Or have you guys just given up on me?

Debate has finally caught up with me. And Boy Scouts. And Skiing. I have been gone... just about every weekend since January!! The most recent event that I was gone at was yet another NCFCA speech and debate competition, in Bedford. I was gone from Wednesday to Saturday debating and supporting debaters in the West Houston club (joined the club with an online extension). And out of 6 debates that should have happened, and at least three that I really think that I shoulda won, I only won 1, and that was by default because there was no negative side. A 0-5 record?? :( Not very good for one's self-esteem. (inside joke involving Rush Limbaugh) :)

And coming up this weekend is yet another event, something in preparation for a summer Boy Scout event. That will be over a week and many miles. This weekend we will be hiking 28 miles in three days. Quite hard on the legs.

So, who has not heard that I got a gerbil? Or did I already post that? The "Esther" matter. No big deal. I got a used gerbil from the Reeses. It mostly lies around sleeping, at least most of the day, and a good portion of the night. Strange rodents they are...

Mom finished my quilt! Yay!

No pictures for anybody yet. Can't bother with the time involved. :~D

Fairly short post. But aren't those the ones that get lots of comments, regular and... strange?

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HI!!!

Finally, some of you may say, I am posting again. Yes, I am indeed posting, but don't expect to hear much out of me after tomorrow, at least until this coming Sunday.

So, more pleasant details of my life. um... skiing? We went to Crested Butte, where Ross had a small "incident", as some of you may have heard. He went off a small large jump thingie and came down, surprisingly, on his skis, but lost his balance and hit his head on the hard packed snow. He was out for twenty minutes. The ski instructor was absolutely hysterical!! Probably something to do with legal matters, which we had the great pleasure of not pursuing.

That was five years ago. This year, things turned out significantly better, except for the snow conditions. They should've had around... 40 inches of snow up to that point, and they didn't have nearly that much. Temperatures were above freezing at the base area for at least half the week, but it wasn't quite so bad on the mountain, meaning it wasn't too bad.... In my opinion, a rather decent return trip, though we could've used a larger mountain with all the skilled skiers. Not nearly enough blacks, and nobody would go on the double blacks with me... *muttered*

Then more recently, just this past weekend there was that shooting camp trip, Boy Scouts, of course. We mostly shot off shotguns all weekend long. There was a small factor of eating and sleeping, as well as trying to keep warm in the really cold weather...

This has been a long post, at least from my point of view. I shall now retire to my bed.

Edit:It took a while to write, but now that I think about it, it isn't all that long...

Here go I

Again, I must answer the pressing question that JCP presents. (why must you always ask those weird pressing questions?!)

Why is(are) she and Ellentia on both link lists?
Why not? I mean, sure they live in OK, but that doesn't mean that they aren't still "friends of Texas". (should I maybe change the title to the links? I seem to never be sure of anything...) And besides, this is my blog, shouldn't that choice be up to me? ;)

So... I'm a gonna be gone for the next--entire--week!! Nobody will hear anything from me, unless I can manage to hijack a computer, which is very unlikely, so to all I say "BYE!!!"

And BTW, I'm going skiing in Colorado, in the same place that Ross "bumped" his head... I'll explain later.

So bye again!