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.

Code brown is for what? Weather?

No, it means a patient had a poopy accident. Clean up on aisle nine, basically.

The United States of Beer. Wisconsin got shafted. If Wisconsin gets Miller, then Colorado should get Coors.

Never heard of Stone, is it any good?

Stone IPA is very good.

aw man, they installed new firewalls at work and now facebook is blocked. I can sort of get to it on my new phone (while i have 3 free months of internet access) but the interface is crap and the connection is sloooow.

THANK GOD I can still get here and to my email and to IM. How tragic would it be if I could only work at work??!!

In other feh news, I fell on black ice last night and bruised the very tips of my ring and pinky fingers on my left hand. They have like crazy little blood blisters on them. It's horrible! And hurts to type (some...it's not that bad).

Those are my super minor complaints of Thursday morning!

No, that's all TJs. Add careening kids with non-attentive parents on weekend afternoons, as well.

Ha! That's why I take a long lunch and go to TJ's during the week. If I get there before 11:30, I can be in and out in half an hour. Of course, this will probably all change with the new job, and I will have to go on the weekends. Ugh.

Okay, Tim Roth's character in Lie to Me this week? Complete bastardy. And very sweet.

I stopped watching Lie To Me for a while, because Lightman was SUCH an asshole and I don't like the other characters enough to compensate. It's been better lately, I think.

I definitely flirted with him by accident.

Accident? Um, I call fiction.

Code grey might have been unarmed person (congregate) and code silver armed person (disperse).

I got sucked into Grey's Anatomy by their ads during the Superbowl a few years ago, with Isaiah Washington, saying intensely "Tell the hospital we have a Code Black." I just wanted to know what the Code Black was (unexploded rocket/bomb) and I got sucked in. Of course, I'm the weird one who's favorite moment is when two characters are drinking bourbon and the label says "Door River" and it looks exactly like a Knob creek bottle.