Good morning to you all! I have to hurry as Jack is up getting a shower and he likes to sit at the computer and play cards while he eats his breakfast in the morning.


Gail: I couldn't stand it that cold in the house in the daytime. My hands and feet get too cold as it is and I wear two pair of socks. Of course, our condo is drafty because it is old and needs lots of energy upgrades that are too expensive to do. We can't do stop measures like putting plastic over windows and such because the association prohibits it. I just do the best I can with blinds and curtains over them that I keep shut. I used rolled up towels under the doors but air still seeps around the sides.

Maggie: I had a little potpie at Ruby Tuesday's that used the phyllo dough and actually liked it better than crust. They make their quiche that way too, though i am sure them use butter, which is really ridiculous because the spray is a lot easier and faster besides the calorie value.

Susan: Hope your boss gets out and away ok. They had a lot of snow and ice up that way and it is pretty bad I hear so I don't expect him to be on time. Most bosses are like yours, expect miracles out of their assistants. When I worked for the law firm I used to give them what for, but then I could because I didn't work directly for them. When they would get unreasonable or say something that I knew to be untrue I would let them have it. One of the attorney's that all the secretaries dreaded working for because he was a tyrant, I told off big time not long after I worked there. He thought he could push me around like he did my sister, who worked for him at the time, and I told him in no uncertain terms I would do the best job I could for him but if he ever spoke to me again like that and in front of others, I would turn him from a rooster to a hen. From that day on he loved me and I was his favorite. I came back to visit there a couple years after I had left and when I came into the door to the second set of offices where his office was, he came out and hugged me like a long lost relative, said how he missed me and how good I looked! Of course, he couldn't fire me, because I didn't work for him, but he could give me lousy evaluation marks. I got the best ones from him, actually! lol Thanks for the bulgar info, I thought it was something like that.

Jean: We have the same issues here with the Indians owning the Baskin Robbin's stores. I really don't understand it, but they are really rude to their customers and don't seem to care. We quit going there and hunted out other ice cream places because they were so darn rude.

Well, better go as Jack will be down in a minute. The snow has melted but the cold temps made it icy so we have that to deal with first thing this morning.
Faye

Good (Thursday) morning to you all. For the first time in a long while I got an uninterrupted EIGHT HOURS of sleep last night. Actually 8 1/2 hours now that I count correctly because I woke up with the alarm clock this morning at 5:30am.

Maggie, I filed your cereal snack mix recipe away in my hardcopy file and plan on using that at my youngest grandaughter's birthday party in a couple of weeks. She turned 5 years old yesterday but the actual party isn't for a couple of weeks. Wayne was saying this morning when he came back in from taking the garbage can out to the street that he's afraid he's going to slip and fall. It's still very slippery outside today.

Susan, when I talked with Dad last night he said the temperature in Va. Beach got up to 68 degrees and that he's wearing a short sleeve shirt. It's amazing how just 200 miles can make such a difference in temperature. 1969? I remember the FIRST time I joined WW and that was in 1971. I had a grand total of 15 pounds to lose...and I thought I was fat! I remember at that first meeting they handed out the program printed on one sheet of paper! And if I remember correctly the weekly fee was $2. I am so sorry for another friend of your's passing away. Bless your heart.

Jean, Wayne would not have retired if it weren't for the plant closing. It was either retirement or staying an employee and by now we would have been moved to some Detroit suburb. Wayne hates the cold and I'm afraid he would have gone crazy there...or I would have from listening to all his moaning and groaning about the harsh winter! Even though his early retirement was penalized, we are glad about the decision we did make for him. We've often joked about handing out smiley faces at Walmart...but...who knows...I may be doing just that if our electricity/gas heating bill keeps going up! Because believe me that bill from Delmarva Power is no joke!!!

Donna Faye, believe me...I am cold. We do have an electric space heater that follows me around in the house. Neither father (both in Va. Beach) will come visit us right now. Both tell us to sell our house and move down there with them. That is not going to happen. For one thing, no houses are selling in my neighborhood. Good thing I learned how to knit mittens and gloves.