During the Blizzard of 2010?
Funny how Mother Nature has a way of telling you she is in control. Mother Nature must be
Mrs. God.
We got about two feet more or less in winterwonderland Connecticut. Metro North cancelled service after a minor almost accident where everyone had to move to the left of the train to put enough weight to one side to move it along the snowed under third rail in parts. All of New Jersey is apparently in a state of emergency as they clear roads and the red cross sets up emergency shelters for people either stranded in broken down vehicles or without power.
After watching Cupcake wars on TV I took to making odd creations such as guiness chocolate, and brandybutter mini-cupcakes with clementine icing (doesn't everyone have a box of clementines hanging around till they rot over the holidays?) and coconut snow flake icing. Hillary may not bake cookies but I make awesome gourmet mini-cupcakes better than you find in Wholefoods (Whole Paycheck.)
I have now watched an entire DVD library full of classic cinema from my sister and bro-in law's DVD library. My favorite- Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn. If you haven't seen it in about fifty years it is worth renting. Classic Rome shots and the Papal Nuncio makes an appearance at a formal state event. She plays British Princess Ann who like a poor little rich girl with a soul suppressed makes a bee-line from the embassy residence when she gets to Rome
in the back of a pizza delivery truck to discover all the delights of the town like a commoner where Gregory Peck finds her sleeping at the edge of a fountain for having been given a little something to put her to sleep by her royal highness' personal physician prior to leaving.
It's quite clever and part of the ending was borrowed for a Julia Roberts film where the love of her life is staring at her during a press conference while she delivers the Royal line on things such as whether Europe should all join in a federation of sorts (something apparently discussed a long while ago!).
If you are snowed in rent it- perhaps Netflix?
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