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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 2:04 pm
Congratulations, Texannie, you made me go buy two pairs of shoes today. I felt like a failure at Female 101, and it turned out that Colossus has more good shoes than I do, and he was ashamed to realize that he'd never known me to buy a pair of shoes. So I made him drive me to the shoe store and I got 1) a solid pair of insulated, waterproof winter boots for the impending icebox sandwich that the Farmer's Almanac insists is about to descend on the midwest (I've worn my old pair since college. No lie); and 2) a cutecutecute pair of black pumps with gray and black plaid inlay and laces. Perfect with black slacks. I can be a shoe person, too. It's just that the whole experience was painful. Now I have to learn to like it LOL.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:47 pm
LOL GAL!! Congrats!! the black ones sound cute. i don't know from winter boots! LOL
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 4:43 pm
GAL, you are in the midwest? For some reason I thought you were in CA. If you were nearby, I probably could have made those pesky cakes for you.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 9:15 pm
I have several pairs of winter boots, and I don't even stay anywhere cold in the winter, but just in case I would happen to be home in the winter, and it snowed, I would be prepared.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 9:24 am
GAL I am in the Boston area so it sounds like we will be freezing together. At least I know that I will be in good company when I am freezing this winter.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 9:28 am
Freezing?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 9:42 am
Juju, LMAO, I do have one pair of ugg style boots for when it gets cold here in California.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:13 am
Dfennessy, have you cased portable generators yet? We gave away our two generators a few years ago, so we're now looking at a 7000 watt Honda generator ($1000.00 at Sam's go figure). We're also going to get a portable hot water heater and self-contained room heater (the situation that hit Colossus' parents in Arkansas earlier this year really was instructive on what one needs for a serious outage). Sugar, I'm in Indiana we're all going to freeze together. I wouldn't have it any other way, though, I'm a true-blue midwesterner. I wouldn't know how to live anywhere else.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:16 am
Farmer's Almanac Winter 2010 outlook
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:24 am
Dipo Me too!!! I had them on the other night.
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:42 am
GAL I have never in the past had to invest in those things.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 1:42 pm
My sis lives in Boston but she is rarely there in the winter, she works in Kenya so she can avoid most of what Boston gets. But I remember her winters out on the Cape, whooo-buddy the kind of cold you guys get there is a whole nother level of cold - we don't get the iceburg winds whipping off the ocean. The only time in my life I wore a fur coat inside-out was when I visited her at Thanksgiving one year. It was truly beautiful at the Pilgrim's monument, but I remember the cold MUCH more vividly. It was deep and abiding. I would have generators, oil tanks and electric backup full time if I were you LOL.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 3:26 pm
Dipo, I have three pair of Uggs type boots, which do not count in any way, shape or form as snow boots. I had one pair on yesterday in the house after I packed my ankle-length cuffed ones to take to Texas for the winter to wear as slippers. Then I have another brand new pair in a box waiting for the tall ones to wear out. Did I mention that the last pair I wore out lasted almost thirty years?
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 3:33 pm
I am very disappointed in Goddess for going out and buying new shoes.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 3:45 pm
I am too, Dogdoc, but if it helps I only spent $60.00. They might get me to buy shoes, but they can't knock the bargain ho out of me. 2-fers at a clearing warehouse are the bomb.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 4:16 pm
It can't be good when the words used for the Great Lakes regions include "brutal" and "frigid" multiple times!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 4:23 pm
Ya, when you consider that they're using those words in comparison to what you're used to . . . it equals "we're hosed."
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Gumby
Member
08-14-2004
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 4:56 pm
Thanks for the almanac Gal. I'm in the GL region and can't wait for the cold weather. I love winter!! The colder the better.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 5:54 pm
Bwahaha! Can't argue with that, GAL. We had 150 inches of snow last year, so we might as well buy our snow shoes and build igloos this year! (The kids who drive snowmobiles to school loved it, though. )
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 7:26 pm
shoot, my daughter wears Uggs!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 9:44 am
I can't stop listening to/watching the You Tube of kd lang singing Hallelujah at the 2005 Juno Awards. It is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE I'm almost like a little kid with a Disney/Pixar video.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 10:16 am
Thanks Sugar. Very nice!
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, October 05, 2009 - 8:38 am
Well you can't see the shoes ( I went with black) but these are a few pictures from the reunion. It was great.

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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Monday, October 05, 2009 - 9:12 am
Very nice pictures, Escapee!!! you look beautiful as always!!!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, October 05, 2009 - 9:13 am
Escapee, is that you with the beautiful long brown hair?
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