My thoughts are with you mAlX. Have a safe trip, hun

This post has been edited by Andrea: Nov 23 2012, 02:02 PM

That PS3 keyboard is horrible! I could never write anything of any length with that.

Have a safe trip mALX, you'll be in my thoughts.

Okay guys got a bit of a personal puzzler.

I've made some possible avatars for my profile but i can't decide what one to use.
I'd love it if you could give me your favorite of the three (including my current avatar) to help make my decision!

Current

New 1

New 2

As you may have noticed the person in the picture is the same. She is my favourite TV heroine who coincidently has the same name as me (Andrea is my real name... she stole it. Haha)

Personally, I like your current avatar best.

Me too. The current one.

Haha I didn't need to think long as I actually very much agree.
SO the current avatar stays! But it was a shame to waste the others, so i created a siggy from them
Thank you guys for your views!

I was going to vote the second one XD But they are all great

I'm really sorry to hear about your mother, mALX; I wish you all the best, and a safe journey up there.

And your current Avvy gets my vote, Andrea. The way the light falls on it or something, it just looks good.

So tonight I was starting dinner at the same time The Boy was unloading his backpack. I was head and shoulders in the fridge digging for the last of the turkey feast that I planned to feed the whole family, when I heard the unmistakable sound of my leftover containers hitting the counter. Empty, ALL of them. In addition to the substantial lunch I set out for him this morning, he took and ate the rest of the turkey!! And fixins! I guess Thanksgiving really is over. (Although he did leave one container of cranberry sauce.)

Also, did anyone else succumb to the Hostess madness? I hope we are not the only family harboring a pile of snack cake boxes that everyone had to have but now no one wants to actually eat.

Never been a big snack cake fan. I read the ingredients list once and that was enough for me!

Usually there's a fight of who has to eat the rest of the turkey here at our house. This year we visited instead of hosted so we got to leave it behind!

I fully plan on making the twinkie homemade if Hostess doesn't sell the recipe to Little Debbie's or something XD

The Girl informs me that Little Debbie is making “Cloud Cakes.” Tonight when we were passing around the box of Hostess Cupcakes, someone noticed that they have an expiration date! Who knew that this stuff is considered to be food?

Regarding the demand for leftover turkey in my house, I should point out that I keep making more batches of gravy until everything gets eaten. It’s more gravy with turkey than turkey with gravy. So I’m picturing The Boy spooning it up cold out of a quart container in the school lunch room. Yikes.

Yum, twinkies with gravy!

I learned that from Zombieland. My family isn't a consumer of Hostess, so we aren't bothered.

This week's been mad this far, absolutely mad! And it's not looking as if though it'll get any better. Day before yesterday, I got home early from school and was sitting on my bed when all the power went out. And in Sweden at this time of year, the sun's gone down by that time. So I get my flash-light out and head upstairs, and voila, there wasn't a single light on in the entire neighbourhood. So I lit candles for the animals and then my sister came home a while later to tell me that apparently, power had gone out in the whole of southern Stockholm. 81 000 homes without power, malls being evacuated, and chaos on the highways since that includes the street-lights. We got our power back three hours afterwards, but I know other people were without it longer, and they still don't know what caused it.

Today, I get up and mom tells me that there's chaos again. No planes leaving or arriving at the airport, traffic just getting longer and longer, and most of the buses in Stockholm weren't going. You know why? The snow, the blasted snow had been pouring out of the sky, and it's continued all day. I'm lucky, I managed to get onto a bus and then to the subway which took me to school. But the radio was on in the bus, and they told people with cars to pick up people standing at the bus stops and help them, when they'd earlier asked people not to take their cars. Most schools quit early, and if it doesn't get better, many of them probably won't open again tomorrow. They said there'd be around 20-30 cm snow today. Yeah, more like 40-50 cm. As far as I know, there's barely any buses running at all. No, the ones that have tried to get somewhere are now blocking streets and intersections, because they're not able to get anywhere. No trace of the trucks that are supposed to remove the snow either, and earlier a class 2 warning was issued in Stockholm. The police can't get anywhere, and my dad spent two hours stuck under a bridge with his work car. He's now taking the subway home, because the roads in our neighbourhood are covered by between 30-50 cm of snow. So he has to leave the family car at work. And last thing I read, three people had died because of the many accidents this has caused in Sweden.

There was a lot of snow in 2010, but it never got this bad. The situation was annoying this morning, it's really quite scary by now.

You can read some about it here:
http://www.thelocal.se/44872/20121205/#.UL-JgoOCplg

This post has been edited by Saquira: Dec 5 2012, 05:51 PM

Brrrr! Glad you're okay for now and I hope you and your family stay warm and safe!

Does it say something bad about me that, when faced with a similar situation, my first thought would be something along the lines of 'Oh good, now I've got an excuse to sit around all day playing Skyrim in my underwear.'

Yeah, it says something bad, doesn't it?

Yes, if you haven't figured out that you can't play Skyrim without power, and it's also going to get cold if it's snowing, and you'll need more than underwear. I'd recommend at least a couple of Ring of Frost Resistance as well.

I wonder if eating Twinkies and gravy makes you feel warmer?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Dec 5 2012, 07:44 PM

Well, since vomiting makes me sweat, I’d say probably yes.

Stay safe, Saquira!