{{{{{Miracleborn family}}}}}

Jessica, my thoughts are with you.

About the cold, this is what I think: There's something not quite right about walking out to your car, thinking, "Well, I'm glad I started earlier to warm it up, but really it's not too terribly bad out here," only to look up at the thermometer on the outside of the garage to see that it was 10 degrees Farenheit.

Sometimes the best way to have a splendid day is to have it sneak up on you.

Happy Birthday, Bev!

I can tell an enormous difference when The Boy takes Ritalin vs. when he doesn't. (Though every once in a while he's in total "Oooh shiny" mode and I'll ask him if he took his Ritalin and he says yes, and all I can do I shake my head and conclude that the shiny was extra-mega shiny that day.)

ION, the combination of (1) my paranoia, (2) my father's fully founded paranoia, (3) IBS, (4) a strenuous workout, and (5) a new antidepressant's side effects have combined to make me consider whether I was having a heart attack.

Not in a hugely serious way, but still. My dad is total gloom-and-doom Eeyore (though with good reason when it comes to the ol' ticker), and so he attributes any and every twinge to a heart attack.

Cymbalta's most common side effects are nausea and fatigue (2 of the more common, frustratingly vague heart attack symptoms).

I worked out hard today, including the press-ups (like push-ups, but not) that I have to do for my back; if I haven't done them in a while, they make my arms feel weak later.

My tummy is gaseous, as always.

In conclusion, the nausea, fatigue, stomach upset, and weak arms (including the left one), combined with my dad's doom and gloom prophesying, made me a little freaked out.

And then I remembered that there are strong, attributable, closely time-linked antecedents for each of those symptoms, and I need to perhaps chill out. So I'm chilling.

And ND, since you've just recently posted, you wouldn't happen to have the Nav System DVD for your car would you? I need to reset my nav and have found every single piece of documentation for the car other than the blasted DVD. Would you, by chance, have a copy of yours and be willing to loan it?

I do have the DVD but for my NAV system to work it has to be in the DVD drive in the dash. What year is your 335i? Mine is a 2007 and I don't know if they changed the way the NAV works in later years.

I do have the DVD but for my NAV system to work it has to be in the DVD drive in the dash. What year is your 335i? Mine is a 2007 and I don't know if they changed the way the NAV works in later years.

Argh. Mine's a 2008 and the way I recall it working was that it was inserted to download the local maps, but the DVD didn't need to be 24/7 for it to work.

I may have to ahem the files and see if that works.

Hmm, unless they moved to a Hard Drive based system in 2008 the DVD needs to be in the player in the dash so that it's got the maps. The moment I pull my DVD out I've got nothing from my NAV system.

If anyone wants a Mac Widget that counts down the time until Spring starts, let me know.

tommy, me. I'm kinda desperate at this point.

What's your email addr?

username dot one at gmail. I hate winter now.