Rejection on Ice
After several weeks rejection-free, I fell off the wagon. Two rejections awaited me at home this evening. With an ice storm coming, though, there wasn't a lot of time to linger around moping.
I scurried off to the grocery store to pick up some essentials in case I can't get out tomorrow and in case I lose power. The best part is seeing what other people think of as pre-storm essentials. I picked up the truly essential: cat litter, cereal and milk. If nothing else, I figure I don't have to cook cereal and I'm not going to have any trouble keeping the milk cold, even without electricity.
The family in line in front of me was buying: a case of Coke, a case of beer (got the fluids squared away), a bag of charcoal (in case you need to start a fire to cook), oh, and about a dozen frozen pizzas. Standing in line, I kept trying to visualize what cooking a frozen pizza on a barbecue grill would be like. At the library--no way I was getting stuck without some reading material--I saw the grocery store family's counterpart. They were checking out a bunch of DVD's, which will be great if we just get iced in. Useless in a blackout.
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Sorry to hear about the rejections.
Oddly enough, every frozen pizza I've bought in the last couple of years has had barbecue instructions printed on the package, right along with the conventional oven directions. Go figure.
Sorry about the rejections...but lmao at the doofi in line. I'm surprised you could even get milk. Around here, if they are calling for snow at all, everyone goes out and buys like 5 gallons of milk. And it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere, all these people live within walking distance of a Wawa or 7/11 or supermarket.
Well, at least the frozen pizzas will keep outside if you lose power and are iced in. Hope they bought milk and cereal too.
About ten years ago when the big ice storm hit Missouri, our power was off for over a week. We were the only ones still on the block because we had a gas stove and a fireplace with lots of wood. LOL
Now, we have the motorhome parked out front, gassed up and lots of propane to last a couple weeks. Told the Missus that we could live in it for a few days, or we could just pull a cord out and plug into the generator to keep the house furnace running.
As for food, well, I am the kind of guy who will always have something to eat. LOL
time to huddle down with the kittehs.
kzinti, several years ago, the same happened to us due to an ice storm. over a week without electric power. lucky we have a gas stove. the silver lining: teh SO got to buy the generator he had been wanting for years...
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Oh noes, sorry about the rejections. I hope the ice storm doesn't blow you in, though ... take care and be well-fed!
(Though it beats me how frozen pizza is any good in a snowstorm.)
one word:
generator.
Lisa, I am happily imagining you scouring your kitchen for something, anything that could be used to chop of coffee beans...
If you run out of reading material, I vow to hunt down teh best of the worst for you!!