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Hello, folks! I know it's a bit early to be calling it a new year, but if I know the Coffeehousers, we're filling our cuppas all ready! Happy New Year!

I need something warm in my cuppa. Someone was telling me about a drink called a Snow rose the other day. What was it? Warm cranberry juice and something potent? Anyone know?

I don't know ...but that sounds pretty good.
I've got a nice, hot cuppa Maxwell House right now, but just realized it's 5 o'clock somewhere, and maybe it's time for a glass of burgundy.


Cindy

Sounds good, Cindy and Bess! Warm me up a cup too?

Hi Bess,
My husband PROMISED me he'd bring home some Bailey's tonight, since he forgot to get it for me for Christmas... I am salivating as we speak!
Although he said he'd bring home Pizza tonight for dinner too, and I had thoughts of Pizza and Baileys' not too sure that's a good combo????
I will have to rethink that one...

Hmmmmmmmmmm??? Dinner or Liquid??? Hmmmmmmmmm???

I just bought some White Cranberry and Peach juice in the grocery store, it's a very light peachie/rosie colored drink, looked really good.
My kids don't like it, and they like just about every juice I give them, but I LOVED IT!!!!
I normally get my self White Grape Juice and Peach, but thought this sounded like a nice change.

Weezie

My mother in law bought a big canister of Folgers while they were here, and I still have almost half of it left. I like it. It's at least better than the cheapest store brand I can buy stuff.

Last night, I cracked open a bottle of southern comfort, and had about a 1/3 of a glass of it, with some ice. Mmmm. I think I could drink more of it tonight. It was tasty. I haven't had that stuff in a loooong time.

Meg

I got a bottle of Moet for Christmas that I'm dying to open...
But...saving it for a special occasion!


Cindy

Hot or cold it's Pepsi for me. I have started drinking green tea in the morning.

Sheri,
My sister~in~law swears by that tea..
(**well, I don't mean she cusses or says bad words by it, hehehehe )
But she likes it's cleansing ablilities and antioxidents...supposed to be very good for you.

Weezie

I do green tea in the morning. Acutally have a ice tea maker and usual make about 2 quarts and drink it over a week.

Over here, all that we can hope for is a good snow to keep our gardens from the frigid winds!

Hi Lady Bess ~

I for one am glad you started the new thread a bit early; I like talking to you!

I'm not much for flavored coffees as I like mine the old fashioned way: High Octane, fully leaded, strong and hot! With just a titch of the wimp in me revealed when I drop in a bit of half and half...

But someone gave me a small packet of Sugar Plum Coffee in my Christmas Stocking. Sounds good, doesn't it? Could be I'm just infatuated with the phrase "Visions of Sugar Plums Danced In Their Heads". Dunno.

Oh, Meg, just a tip for ya. When my budget causes me to buy inexpensive coffee that doesn't taste too good, I always mix it with a better quality brand. Use some of that Folgers you have got to doctor up the lesser coffee.

Anybody else sleepyheaded after the Holiday? I wrote in another post that all I can think of is naps and more naps. Makes me want to ask Santa to give me Naps next year....


Merme

Afternoon all,
I love the idea of a coffee right about now-- it is chilly and getting chillier right now- getting windy again....snow we got last week melted- mostly but we may get some more tonight...

I do the same as Merme- mix me expensive coffee with my regular brand - I keep the good stuff in the freezer too- wrapped really well...still have some Kona I got in Hawaii almost 4 years ago-- just a little but it is so good!

As soon as the boys get picked up I am taking a nap today- I have been waking up around 5 every morning and that makes for very long days for me--- got dinner in the crock - just chic and mushroom soup to serve with noodles but at least it is done...

Mmmm... that's all I want in the wintertime. SOUP! Just gimmee a nice, hot cuppa soup and some crackers and I can really enjoy life. Lentil, clam chowder, you name it. Oh, and when I don't feel too great, tomato soup picks me up like nobody's business. Just good ol' Campbell's made with water. Ahhhhhh...

Then a nap! But when is there time?

My husband and I were wearily wandering through a shopping mall some years ago and I came up with an idea to have a store that sold naps. You could pay $20. and just go in and lie down on a cot for twenty minutes. Don't you think that's be great?

I saw on a documentary that they actually do that in China. It was pretty weird...this one place they showed pulled this bed out, like in a morgue, and the person laid down on it and they closed it back up. WILD!

Cindy

Green tea is supposed to be great for all sorts of things. I start my day off good. I have Total or oatmeal with blueberries. I drink water and some green tea. Then it's downhill. I drink Pepsi the rest of the day - fully loaded. I've tried to get off the stuff but I just flat out like it.

So what's in everyone's planned cuppas for tonight?

And Bess, I'm with you on the soup. The kid and I eat soup all the time, all the time.

When he was quite young he wouldn't eat any vegetables on his plate but he WOULD eat them if I diced them real small and tossed them into his soup. He'd eat every last bite. You can't imagine the veggies I got down that kid in his soup.

Then one day when he was 3 1/2, I was in a hurry and I cut the vegetables into bigger chunks. I put the bowl on the table in front of my son and he looked down at it for a moment. With a small sigh of despair he said

"Mama, I HATE when there is food in my soup!"



That one still makes me laugh....

Merme

That's so great!
When I was a kid the only vegetables I would conciously eat were brusle sprouts because they looked so funny and my grandma always put them in her stew. I'd eat them whole most of the time. Other then that I liked celery but only if it was packed with peanutbutter and ligned with raisins
Remembering being a kid sometimes is almost as great as being one was!
I made this smoothy last night with mixed berries, banana, eggnog, mango juice, shredded carot, a bit of zuchini, crushed almonds, an a bit of peanut butter. It sounds a little off but it usually turns out really good, you just have to keep throwing berries in untill you get the right colour and if it smells good it (probably) tasts good. The peanut butter kind of took over though and it just tasted like refreshing peanut butter. Their's always next time to find the perfect mix, but it's always a guess.
I think I'll bendreaming in the new year as I've got a bad cold.
Going back a bit, If it were in the teens around here I might be running around naked It was -42 with the wind chill last week. "Luckily" it went up to the -2 all the way back to +3 and we have an ice storm starting! This is how it seems to go every year up here. We get a little snow around mid november, everything melts and it's unusualy warm with no snow untill a week befor christmass, then it gets so cold you can't go outside for more then an hour.
I kind of like the cold now. Just don't like waking up and having to crawl out of a nice warm bed into a refridgerated room, that's what you get for living in a basement.

Ok, I just ran across this, and just HAD to post it!!

Coffee Drinker\'s Prayer

Meg

Totally COOL,Meg...thanks for sharing that with all of us "Coffee Addicts"

G-Mom

Especially when mixed 50/50 with Bailey's!

Look at my beautiful daughter and neices. And keep in mind that they all look just like me.


http://pic6.picturetrail.com/VOL145/2152270/6128739/78666959.jpg

Which one is your daughter?

The one in the white sweater.

She's beautiful.
Actually, they're ALL beautiful!
They look so much alike!
(Just like you!)

I love those curtains.
I want them!


Cindy

Hey Meg...Thanks for that NEAT prayer...just had to have it for hubby...he is a FOLGERS addict!