OT - Honey, I'm home!

I'm very glad you AND your bootcamp boy are home safely...did he not leave you ANYTHING to eat?

Sarajane

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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 10:58:36 -0500, Sjpolyclay wrote (in message ):

Come to my house. I have inherited my grandparents' habit of having a fully stocked grocery store in the house. Bob has this strange Italian propensity to keep 25 different kinds of pasta in the pantry at all time, plus at least a case of every ingredient necessary to make sauce. (In case there's some horrible tragedy that befalls tomatoes and cheese, maybe) In my grandparents' case, I can understand - after the war, they went hungry for a long, long time. Even if they'd had money, there wasn't anything to buy. Heck, even at 90, Opa still grows a good sized plot of potatoes, "just in case."

But I live 1/10 of a mile from a large, fully stocked supermarket. I have money, and it's open 24 hours a day. As far as I know, no one has ever gone hungry in this house. But still, the pantry and freezer are full all the time.

The only concrete benefit from our strange habit is that we spend very little on groceries. We have all our basics in stock all the time, and buy supermarket loss leaders in quantity. We rarely pay full price for anything in the pantry. Unless of course, we're out of rigatoni or ziti (with lines)

-can't be without any particular shape of pasta for a moment, no siree. What if there were an emergency that could only be solved by linguine or cappelini? Kathy N-V

P.S.: As I was getting dressed today, I commented to Bob that I am feeling very Ruebenesque today. Not Ruebenesque as in a voluptuous angel, but more like Ruben in American Idol, in that I should have a 205 across my chest, because I'm as big as an area code. Bob told me that I should knock it off, and that I'm nowhere near that big. I conceded that maybe 205 was off the mark, but that I'm a 401 at the very least. He stuck his tongue out at me.

(205 = area code for Alabama, 401 = area code for Rhode Island)

Welcome home! Tina

Welcome Home!! :)

Nothing that he likes! And no red meat. The child is a Tyrannosoaurus Rex, masquerading as a Marine...... Barbara Dream Master

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~~ Albert Camus

oh, I think red meat is part of the Marine Corp thing---helps keep that yang/youngwarrior/testosterone thing flowing. Sarajane

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He's always been that way. A pound of room temp. steak lightly seared on each side is his favorite appetizer. Barbara Dream Master

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. ~~ Albert Camus

Tell him "Happy Other Birthday!". I already wished Mary one.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on