Timelies all!

This morning was quite the...adventure. Had a devil of a time getting out of my parking spot because the snow that piled up behind my car had iced over . At one point I couldn't go forward or back. Got the snow shovel out of the house, but had trouble hacking away at what was there. Luckily a neighbor passed by and helped me by shoveling and pushing the car. Once I was clear of the spot I returned the shovel to the house, only to realize when I got back to the car that I couldn't find my keys. After a fruitless search of the path I took to and from the house, I went back in the house and found my spare key.

When I got home after work, my car keys were on the ground between the screen door and the front door. Guess someone spotted them.

Yay, for good guy neighbors!

I couldn't find last year's pair of YakTrax this morning, so after lunch I bought another pair at the sports supply store in my building. They are phenomenal on icy sidewalks -- even in the dark I didn't have a single slip on the long uphill slog from the bus stop to my front door, as opposed to the partial skating I did to get out to the bus in the morning. You only want to use them a couple of days a year, but damn if they don't earn back their price (which was $14.16 with a discount) right away.

I just had the perfect attitude antidote for someone facing a potential $500 car repair bill and an annual review tomorrow: dinner with lisah and megan walker. The latter of which will do very well in her interview! Heh. It was a lovely lovely time, and must happen again!

I had a crispy duck with blood orange something sauce (as you can tell, I'm well versed in the gourmet) which had some sort of green lettuce-family cooked lightly with it that I could've eaten a whole plate of. And wine. Thank god, I had wine.

We sent megan off with a cheery "ok, we gotta go shoot our cats now."

Now I fall down in front of the tv.

Yay for lovely dinner!

This is totally random, but I have two questions relating to babies and cars:

1. How do hugely pregnant people drive? Do they have to push the seat way back? Or do you not really sit that close to the steering wheel anyway?

2. How do people with babies and no cars deal with child seats if they're taking a cab? Bring their own, that they then have to schlep around?

1. How do hugely pregnant people drive? Do they have to push the seat way back? Or do you not really sit that close to the steering wheel anyway?

I sit way close to the wheel, being short, so driving while enormously pregnant was awkward for me, especially because I was all belly and right up front. I definitely had to push the seat back a bit.

I never dealt with the second issue, but I have wondered about it. If a baby is young enough to be one of those strollers where the baby seat lifts out, it acts as the carseat, too, but you have to have the base to put on the actual seat of the car, so I don't know.

I've never encountered a cab in NY that offered a baby seat, but then I've never had occasion to ask.

Jesse, I can answer the first.

Practice, practice! Ha ha ha.

I sat a little further back than normal, but not much.

To the second, if we ever took a cab, then we took a carseat and hooked her up in the cab, but it's only ever happened a few times.

Freaking NWA (not that one, the airline) is RIDIC. I mean, their flight alerts service is stupid. Their whole website is hard to navigate and forces you to know airport codes, they assume I want to sign up for alerts of when a plane departs (which, I mean I could sort of see why someone would maybe want to know that, but why make that my default? Instead of when the plane lands ? And why make me go through three error screens to change it?) And this is freaking last straw, the email I just got:

8:26 pm (2 minutes ago)

NW 536 February 15 DELAYED - now estimated to depart DTW at 6:44 pm and arrive LGA at 8:25 pm Gate 7

You still don't know when it departed AND you are telling me it is delayed two hours after it left?! What the fuck, NWA!

but, if it didn't get better, parents wouldn't have more than one kid, right?

Er, mine didn't...

Oh, I just meant, in general, in the history of the world, second babies happening and wished for and stuff. It wasn't meant as any insult to only childs.

Ugh, bon.

Thanks, you guys! These are the things I wonder about as I go through my day.