saef - This weather forecast has to seem like some awful instant replay. Prepare, keep safe, and ... if your gut tells you to go for higher ground, then go! I suspect you'll have a lot of company.

allison - I haven't been there in quite a while. Thanks for reminding me about the coupons - hopefully I will find just what I want, and will be spending a bit of money. Since every dime passing through my fingers makes me choke a little right now, a coupon would help a lot. I haven't been near 140 for at least 20 years! I'm 100% not unhappy where I'm at. Yeah, there's some overly soft spots, and lots of room for improvement in the fitness arena ... but I could learn to be content right here between how I'm eating and how I look to others and myself. Sustainable. That's the word I want. I am becoming sustainable.

michele, the engineer in me is dying to know the cause of the electrical gremlins! Even though electrical stuff scares the bejeezus out of me, it's still a puzzle with a root cause. Can't help it! Great job killing off the extra 5!

145.5 this morning, lowest in at least a decade. Cool.

Great news !!

Wowza!

pret-ty nif-ty!

saef- I actually logged on to touch base and say I'm thinking of you

me? flipping out b/c I have several high stress conversations scheduled for tomorrow, that are best had for tomorrow, scheduled tons of patients to make up for taking some time off for Halloween (i hate this fing holiday, btw)...that now, likely are being put on hold, d/t sandy. not a convenient time for a hurricane, thank you very much!

Kitty, thanks. Hope you're out of the way of the wind & rain.

I am already getting bored in my motel room and am alternating online sessions with back issues of the NY Times Book Review. At least I have not been raiding the vending machines down the hall.

Yet.

I feel alternating boredom, terror and grief. I'm determined not to eat, which won't help. I got my bathroom scale out this time, but it's packed away.

I'm about a mile or so from my home, but on a hilltop. Thus I will get to the neighborhood gym while I can & to the hotel's doubtless crummy exercise room if I must.

Just a flying visit to say that I've got my fingers crossed for you, saef. And for you too, kc.

silver ! It is so good to hear from you !!! I have missed you !!!

Lots of warm and fuzzy thoughts headed east for Kitty and Saef.

Silver! and Midwife!

Sometimes the rain is blowing sideways, in visible shimmering waves through the atmosphere and there are leaves sailing by that I keep mistaking for birds.

I am not sure how long the power will hold out.

I am trying to breathe as I feel vaguely sick & light-headed. I am just plain scared. I am at the point where I am thinking less of my apartment and more about peoples' physical safety. I mean, I do feel safe here but I think it's something about collective consciousness, the certainty that many other people aren't safe.

Knowing full well that my food choices at this weekend's jazz festival would be limited and probably not that healthy, I'm happy to say I didn't give in to (much) of the bad stuff. There was a vendor selling cheeses, fruits and crackers and DH and I shared one of these for our lunches. What kind of cheese is green--not blue--and veined like a blue cheese but very mild and creamy? We did NOT get any of the fried chicken and fries (but ALL the overweight African Americans did--I heard the line was an hour long!). We did have some smoked chicken in a wrap and a chicken sandwich and some nachos. Yeah, the nachos were the worst thing. We also each had one small ice cream cone but no other desserts.

I'm not sure what to expect with tomorrow's weigh in.

Alas, the number did not repeat. But thank you for the cheers!

Glued to the weather channel. This is what the word "awesome" should be used for. 45mph gusts in mid-Michigan tonight; a 9-hour drive away. Damn!

Saef ... Be safe!

Checking in post Sandy. My family qnd our home is safe. i know of 10 homes with trees thru the roof. Thankfully no flooding in my town. All power is down.

Have read about many horrors.
On the other hand, one new family called me from the hospital. They just had a bay boy. The world is falling all around them and they are in a beautiful baby cocoon.

Glad that you are safe, kitty. Been worried about you guys.

Kitty, glad you are safe and pray that you continue to be out of harm's way.