I just helped my dad shovel out the cars. Three cars, over two feet of snow. It's not perfect, but I think we got enough snow far enough away from them that we'll be able to get them out even after it melts and re-freezes.

~ma for Burrell's MIL

And fingers crossed that either the snowplowing improves before Jessica's child makes its debut or that the child decides to delay its premiere...

Onerous task for the day done. Although the ongoing saga isn't. PT bill that charged me a late fee when they'd been sending the bills to the wrong address (I gave them the right address at the time of the appointments). I paid everything but the late fee in Nov. Now they're keeping that late fee on and adding interest to it. Plus acting like I didn't pay the bill in the first place. Unfortunately, this is a small PT office that outsources its billing so you end up having to talk to two different places and it's that much more chance of bureaucratic errors. Anyway, I talked to someone and even working up the oomph to do that, even though it resulted only in leaving a mssg for someone who wasn't there, was something.

Dylan in the snow, day 2.

Anyone have home-remedy thoughts for teeth grinding?

something like this. Most drug stores have a varietal. Won't stop the grinding, just grinds the soft plastic instead of enamel. The only thing i've found that stops grinding is prescription muscle relaxers.

A co-worker once recommended keeping a pencil in my mouth (when awake) to make it obvious when i clenched or ground. But that tasted icky and looked silly.

I hope your MIL is ok, Burrell

Timelies all!

Healthma to your MIL, Burrell.

Thanks for the tip, erin! I will get one of them.

Healthma to you MiL, Burrell.

All the snow we had is melted due to the rain, rain, rain. I wonder what my own home is like, and if my catsitter had to shovel.

Nope, Hil. It had something like banana and peanut butter and carob.

Whoa, Natalie Portman is pregnant. And engaged to a choreographer, Benjamin Millepied.