I made it home! It seems the power was off at some point in the last 36 hours. And my car didn't fare as well as Brenda's. [link]

Brenda, I might be able to join you if my dinner break lines up with your plans.

I have been in bed for an hour and a half, and although the wine and valerian made me very relaxed, I cannot fall asleep. This is very frustrating.

Perhaps I will get a snack. I ate a very late lunch at about 3:30, and didn't eat dinner. Maybe eating something will let me fall asleep.

*facepalm* New family drama.

I am so sorry. It really sucks.

Steph, are you missing the kashi chocolate pillow? Those were da bomb. Not TJ's fault they stopped carrying them. IIRC Kashi is based out of LaJolla, and SD peeps wanna go protest the discontinuation?

That's what these were! Except, like with so many TJs products, they had a TJ label instead of the brand.

I forget to say this earlier, Consuela, but I am sorry about the job crap. I hope it gets worked out soon, and well.

aurelia, I am glad you made it home! yay!

I have another snow day tomorrow. Doesn't make me sad.

I actually had to clean off my car today. Blizzard? Sure, but I park in covered parking. It was so bad that the trucks had to plow out the covered parking lot and I had a good 3-4 inches of snow on my car. That's bananas.

Consuela, I'm sorry about the job stuff. It's just too bad of them. I'll bet if it was their jobs they'd be doing something about it in a hurry. I hope you're employed again soon.

ginger covered cookies - I don't know what they are called - but they were delish. She said they had come packaged with some chocolate covered, choc/peanut butter covered, and peppermint covered cookies. But the ginger were the bestest.

Ah yes, the mythical, mystical chocolate covered Jo-Jos Holiday collection. They come in a festive six-sided box, and next holiday season I swear I'm buying six boxes just for meeeeee. And a dozen bars of their dark chocolate almond bark, which is also holiday-only.

There are four cellophane sleeves in the six-sided box, containing chocolate-covered peanut butter JoJos, double chocolate JoJos, candy cane JoJos, with crushed candy cane bits in the chocolate coating, and the white chocolate covered ginger JoJos. I agree the ginger were best, and I'm the one saying "If there's calories, they'd better be chocolate".

I don't know if I can last till next Holiday JoJos season.

Cashmere, I'm sorry about the family drama.

Consuela, I hope the job stuff gets straightened out asap.

My TJ's is about a five minute drive away. There's another grocery store that's about a five minute walk away, but if I'm getting a week's worth of groceries, I'll be driving rather than walking anyway. And the parking's a bitca at the closer grocery.

Code red is used for fire almost universally. Code brown is for what? Weather?

Emergency codes: [link]

CNN reports on the OB Black market.

Code Blue in Baltimore is when it gets below a certain temp. Emergency shelters open up and whatnot.