Hello all,
Awoke to a chilly, overcast day--which is lovely, as far as I'm concerned. I'm definitely NOT a hot weather person--well, not a 90's F and humid weather kind of person, at any rate. Give me minus 10 F and snow any day, ha-ha, I'm a northern girl, I laugh at sub-zero temperatures (just before I curse them, after I go outside.)
Still feel a bit...bleh, but whatever happened to my body yesterday seems to have gone on it's merry old way. Overheard one of the ER doctors saying that he's seeing virus' lately, with "weird" symptoms, like he's never seen before. Maybe global warming is having more of an effect on us than we think?
We're having a tomato scare over here. No, they aren't attacking us...well, they are, in a way. Seems tomatoes from all across the US and Mexico, are suddenly full of dangerous e-coli bacteria. Over the weekend, the NY state Dept. of Agriculture and Markets, assured us that our state's tomatoes were unaffected. Wrong. Two days later, the Federal government issued a warning and added New York tomatoes to the banned list. Ah well...knew I should have grown some container tomatoes on my balcony this year---could have sold them at the office and made a fortune.
But, tomatoes aren't the only produce concern here. The corn crop for much of America is now under water---what isn't being affected by droughts, elesewhere.
Not only has gas reached 4.39 a gallon, over here, now the cost of fresh veggies are going to sky-rocket...and I'm sure tinned and frozen veggies, and any product containing tomatoes--such as spaghetti sauce and pizza, will eventually go up, as well.
Already the middle class is whining and moaning about how hard up they are....and in a way, I really feel for them, but on the other hand, their slightly poorer counterparts (such as myself and many of my co-workers) have been living like that for many months more than they have, and we reeeallly don't want to hear it, know what I mean?
I'm teaching myself to play gin rummy (with the computer game) but haven't a clue how scoring works--and what the heck does "knock" mean?
Gonna' listen to some music, do some morning chores and then bustle off to work.
Anyway, have to have some breakfast at the mo'. I'm temporarily ordered off milk and other dairy products, on account of the stomach bug, so I suppose no honey-nut shredded wheat, this morning. Toast and juice will have to do--but I'll be starvin' when I get home late this afternoon. Ah well, that's life.
Have a good afternoon, all. Cheers.
