OMG...COFFEE!!!

We just got electricity back on after Gustov and the first thing I did after turning the air conditioner on was to make a pot of COFFEE!  OK, I'm just now starting to feel human again!

Ya'll may find this hard to believe, but guess what...I stayed on Atkins INDUCTION for all of the hurricane preparations and DURING the hurricane.  I made a huge bowl of cucumber salad and was eating that all day Sunday.  Even my friends, one who shall remain nameless, were telling me that cucumbers were not proper stress eating food...that I needed chocolate.  Hey, maybe I'm maturing when it comes to food because it feels good not to have GAINED during a hurricane. 

Bren, check in when you can.

Mary 

YAY FOR ELECTRICITY!!!!

It must have been hard to hang with induction through this.. but you're certainly the better for it.

When I lived in NJ, we'd either get outages from summer storms or winter ice.. so I'd use the gas stove to boil water and pour it through the filter by hand. LOL   Here, it's the GRILL! 

I'm sure that coffee tasted REAL good after being without!!

Hey you, I just got through reading your post about where you live.  I'm coming to live with YOU!  I'll help you finish painting the house, OK?  I'm pretty good at it if I do say so masself.  My husband is from Atlanta and if I said I wanted to move near you, he would be thrilled!

What a time to be stuck without a grill with a burner, no?  As soon as I take the buggy to town, I'll take care of that little discrepency.  This certainly cannot be allowed to happen again!

Mary

 

Yea.. I grew up in small apartments (Bergen County.. um.. about 15 minutes outside Manhattan).. played in the street and there was no privacy or space.  Florida was ok.. huge house with pool, jacuzzi, wet bar.. yanno - but it just wasn't "me" and the homeowners associations in those deed restricted communities are just not my style.  This house is smaller.. but cozy and I just LOVE the bay window off the back of the house and the porch in front and the gardens and fireplace and woods and animals.  I like being able to hang some of my guitars on the wall in the living room and it WORKS and use scarves on the windows and letting the sun in cause there aren't people walking around looking in the windows.  It's cool here!

I've only been to Atlanta a couple of times.. the airport.. hmm.. worse than Newark.  I think it's about 3 hours from here.  I'm about 40 minutes from Augusta.

Um.. Mar... what's the buggy?
 

How weird is this?  This is saying that you posted your reply on December 31, 1969.  Same thing happened one time when I was talking to Neecee.  *cue the Twilight Zone music*

Your place sounds like mine.  Woods and critters everywhere.  I call it my li'l shack in the woods and my Avalanche is the buggy!

There is definitely something to be said for privacy when one is sunbathing 'nekkid'! 

Mary

Oh wow.. I just flashed back to 1969!  YAY.. I just remembered 1969!!  LOL  Yah.. this is truly weird.  Maybe Neecee and I went back somehow just for the posts...  crazier things have happened (while trippin' anyway).  LMAO

Hah, you were a baby in 1969.  Were you like in the first grade?  Now my sister is the one who can't remember 1969! 

Mary 

Hadda be second....   I remember my brother leaving for Nam.  I remember being with a bunch of other little 7 and 8 year olds sitting on the curb telling ghost stories and singing Get Together by The Youngbloods... I REMEMBER!

Sounds like   "Hot Fun in the Summertime"! 

Of course I remember that ninety sixty nine was when Creedence did "Proud Mary"!

Mary 

Of course.. our favorite Creedence was Lodi since we lived in Lodi.  I still listen to all of that stuff daily.. isn't that sick?  I'm a throwback!   I was born 10 years too late.  I used to play my brother's 45's when he wasn't around.. that's where I learned about music.  When I die I want to be cremated and have someone drive through Woodstock with the box open for the ashes to fly out!! LMAO