Sue in NJ

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First of all, I did my exercise tonight. I'm glad about that. I always feel better after I have worked out. Just makes me feel more energetic. And I'm going to need it moving...snicker!!

Sue, I remember those old oil burning stoves. We had one of those in our living room. You know the one that you controlled the oil with a simple switch in the back. OMG it heated our house so hot we always ended up almost turning it off. But when winter hit, gosh you really did go through the oil. I'm thinking of looking into a product called "Hydrosil". It is a very interesting electric heater. You can get them either portable or permanently in the baseboard of the wall. It seems pretty nice. A friend at work has one and she purchased a 3 foot portable and she said it heats her entire upstairs. But then when the heat is on, heat rises so its hard to say how much of that is actually the portable heater. Good luck with the landlord replacing it. And I hope you have heat now.

I don't miss having a landline phone. I have one of those IP phones hooked to my computer. If I ever need a phone I have my cell. And I have a car charger so I'm not worried about not having electricity to charge it back up. It works well.

KEEP WARM now.

Carolina

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On 12/26/2010 5:28 PM, ABrite@... wrote:

I hope you and other members of our group in the NJ/NY/PA

area and others affected by this round of storms are doing ok.

Be safe! Stay warm and dry.

None of the trains, buses or light rail are running; drifts cover

our car parked on this side of the street but the station wagon

parked on the other side *could* be dug out if we had to. Thanks

goodness we don't have to! The winds blew everything to this side

and we have drifts over 4 feet high.

See that car in the lower left corner? That's the hood of our Tiny

Toyota, as buried as the 2 cars parked in front of it.

You can't even tell we have a flight of steps leading from the

sidewalk to the landing - it's one big snowdrift. The landlord

climbed out his window to get to the garage for the snow-blower to

do the driveway so he could get to work, the snow drifted to the top

of the ground-level back door. The gov called a state of emergency,

yet by 6am I saw from my window 4 different cars being dug out and

moved.

I was supposed to have a doctor's appointment to get lab work

results at 10am, but the office is closed up - no answer on the

phone and my husband walked past while going for the newspapers and

not a creature was stirring, the sidewalks and steps completely

covered with virgin snow. I'll try phoning again later to make a new

appointment for later in the week or next Monday. I can't go any

longer than that - my last thyroid pill will be taken then and I

need a new prescription in whatever dose he decides on based on the

new lab work.

The ladies in work laughed at my husband when he told them we were

going grocery shopping on Christmas eve in anticipation of the

storm. None of them thought it would actually hit, we've had so many

near-misses over the years. I have a fully stocked freezer, my

pantry is overflowing, and I have a few boxes of canned &

packaged goods tucked around the computer room so I don't have to

leave the house to shop for food for a month. And Santa brought a

new bread machine so I'll always have fresh bread, too. Who's

laughing now? LOL

I better go - my poor husband is pacing the floor like a trapped

animal. Maybe I can talk him into going for another walk, or find

the car under the snow, or something. ANYTHING to get him to stop

pacing back and forth while I try use the computer!!

How are the rest of you doing? As buried as I am? Not as much or

much worse? Our total was 19 inches with drifts 4-5 feet high, but I

read that the Boston area was even harder hit. Anyone from here live

up that way?

Stay warm and dry, everyone. I'm off to drag my husband the the TV -

maybe a DVD will calm him down.

Sue in snowy NJ