BEING SNOWED IN IS JUST NOT HELPING ME OUT. TRYING TO STAY FOCUSED N NOT LOOK AT MY SNACK PANTRY. WE GOT HIT HARD HERE IN CONNECTICUT ..

Oh no!!!!!! I don't miss those days now that I'm living in balmy Florida. Take care and drink lots of hot tea or broth. And keep talking to us!!!

I have not yet had the surgery but I can relate. I am from Chicago and now live in Dallas. Whenever an ice or snow storm was coming my first priorities were getting gas and loading the pantry so I didn't have to leave the house. I would get excited to just eat the good stuff and watch movies, but now I guess we have to find a different coping mechanism through the storm. I was thinking about this the other day: cleaning, new projects, something to keep busy in the house.

BEING SNOWED IN IS JUST NOT HELPING ME OUT. TRYING TO STAY FOCUSED N NOT LOOK AT MY SNACK PANTRY. WE GOT HIT HARD HERE IN CONNECTICUT ..

I'm so jealous....It's been 75 degrees here... I feel cheated every "winter"!

Let me live vicariously through you - take some pictures and post them!!

Just watching the news and Long Island got smacked too. Focus! Find an activity that will keep you busy, don't give into the pantry.

dig your way out and go play in the snow . that will keep your mind off the pantry. love snow!

Those where the good old days.play and trek half way across town to a frozen pond and skate.

doors frozen shut, parking lots some covered over top cars at my apt. building.

I have mixed emotions. I feel bad for you having been raised in Iowa and spent years in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio. I have also lived in Alabama, Louisiana, and now am living in Florida and can truthfully say I prefer the south. Apart from family attachments and job situations I couldn't come up with one valid reason to put up with winter any more. I brought my family with me and retired so there I was.

So my mixed emotions are feeling bad and empathising with you yanks, but sitting down here in 80 degree weather, sipping coffee on my lanai, and feeling good. I guess when the hurricanes hit things could reverse, (except I am quite a bit inland).

I will say.... be safe! Don't push hard shovelling snow! It almost killed me a couple of times.

gman,

I know no other, I smile from it but while others flounder of it that don't know it well, its all added atmosphere to me.

Pushed a dang shovel for my olden old school pop when I was a kid for a blizzard I was lucky to get $2.50 out of him, most storms zero to 0.75 cents, I would tell him this is not 1930, he would say a recession is the same as that any way.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT. THIS IS SO BAD....I CAN'T EVEN SEE MY CAR. ALL I CAN DO IS WAIT UNTIL OUR GOVERNOR LIFTS THE BAN ON DRIVING AND MAYBE I CAN GO OUT TO CLEAN OFF MY VEHICLE. SAD THING IS...NOT ONE PLOW TRUCK HAS COME BY SINCE LAST NIGHT. IM SO TIRED OF BEING HOME. I FEEL CONFINED. BEEN HERE SINCE THURSDAY AND IM JUST READY FOR SOME FUN N ENTERTAINMENT. ITS WORSE THEN SOME PPL THINK. ALL IM THANKFUL FOR IS HAVING A ROOF TO BE STUCK IN..UNLIKE THE HOMELESS...AND FOR HAVING POWER. IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE. THANK YOU ALL AGAIN...IM THANKFUL TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT.

When I lived in the frozen north in my pre-surgery-vain-fat-fight-days, my family doctor used to tell me that winter adds weight. He accounted it to some primeval instinct to eat more and an invisible bodily reaction that puts fat on to survive the cold and deprivation. That was a good enough excuse for me to justify my large cast shadow.

Now I think that I could have stayed warm by exercising more rather than taxing my heart with the fat equivalent of an extra body to provide for.

be safe dat! just saw how much snow you got, that's crazy! i am in chicago and 2 years ago we got 2 feet and i thought that was bad. some of the drifts were even worse of course. stay safe! at least your power is on! (i assume).

In the past I would bake during snow storms. Now that I am post-op WLS I satisfied my need to cook by making a big stir fry, made some greens and then a pan of sautéed zucchini & summer squash. I put the music on and sipped my water and then my herbal tea while I did this. The end result - I have a bunch of healthy foods for the week. 27" inches here in MA so far and still snowing. No driving ban, but people are walking everywhere. I like to look at it as an adventure. We'll be back to our usual routines soon enough. It's going to go into the 40's on Monday and be above freezing all week. Having lived in NE all of my life, maybe I am just used to it. Stay warm and stay safe.

in Ct we get the luck some times of being in a preasure pocket and get way less snow or none as the higher ups region of New England gets smashed, no wonder the New Hampshire is no ban, we kind of got sandwhiched between two fronts sea and from the west on coast this storm though,

gotta use the thermostat up more now that the natural wrapper is gone, real darn chilly here.

I at times envy the Fla. and Cal., but thinking because, my folks had been and my brother and sister live in Cal., I think to leave here, unsure about 100% sunshine verses seasonal changes, our Springs and Fall are very nice too, very scenic and our ant's are dead and dieing but there is a need to keep them from having had raiding homes for nesting in such cold as seasons change.

fire ants bite, don't they ?

Oh yeah! They bite alright!!! I know! I live here in Florida. The are bad on South Carolina too. Grrrr. That's one thing I miss about Ohio is no fire ants. I miss Ohio alot actually but it's pretty great to be in Florida this time of the year!!!!

Oh yeah! They bite alright!!! I know! I live here in Florida. The are bad on South Carolina too. Grrrr. That's one thing I miss about Ohio is no fire ants. I miss Ohio alot actually but it's pretty great to be in Florida this time of the year!!!!

....lol, how do you deal with that.

We have black carpenter ants, they burow into wood and doors building nests inside and trek in through your kitchen next for crumbs.