I am keeping cabin fever at bay (along with my seasonal depressive tendencies) with Vit D. Now that I have increased to 5000 IU daily, I feel so much better cognitively! I have not needed my light visor this winter at all!

Also I am doing my seedlings for the summer gardening plans I have this year, and many have sprouted already (perennials are going first). Today I am transplanting the first variety, which surprisingly sprouted after only 2 days! I expected 3 week wait on these and all of them are going faster than that.

I have portable grow lights that I use indoors. And a cool temp room for them.

Baltimore expecting 1" snow before 10pm tomite,
then 12"-18" by tomorrow afternoon. I've walked to work for 2 days
and shoveled cars, home and work areas in 2 days.
I'm sore and hurt all over. Woke up this a.m. and as I rose to get out of bed,
exclaimed '...ouch !, so sore !, oh, my back, my neck !!..."
Sidewalks are difficult to maneuver, side and cross streets are impossible.
Walking is a balancing act (and I don't have any sense of balance)
Falling is a given. I went down (gently..... kinda) 3 times,
getting here this a.m.
I'm pooped-out !

I have a bad headache. It is snowing here, the Low is in Iowa. Ugh.

Glad to hear that you are doing all that you can to keep the winter blahhs at bay... My neurologist just prescribed 50,000 U of Vitamin D - once a week for ? I have a six months prescription. I don't know what my level is but I have been deficient before. Perhaps, this is not such an unusual condition. I have always protected my skin because I am fair and I have the connective tissue disease.

Is Vit. D deficiency known to cause cognitive difficulties? I am so frustrated about my cognitive dysfunction. And, hoping that the therapeutic dosage will help ...

Mere

Cyclelops, I completely understand your not feeling well. This damn weather does not help one bit. On Saturday when the storm was coming through, I had a whopper of a migraine and my joints all hurt... Now, we are having another storm. Enough, is enough!

Mere

I don't know if I can blame this on the weather, but for lack of a better target....let's do just that. We did not get as much snow as predicted which is usual...we only got around 6", but more is coming overnight. I think it will be light tho.

Now out east, looks like they will get more due to picking up moisture from the Atlantic.

We got some lake effect, but normally it doesn't get to us here very often....we got some, but not like along the 'coast' of the lake...

The East Coast is going to get nailed again!

I am going to go stick my head back under the covers.....ugh...all I can say is ugh.

My husband has been home for the past two days because his company follows the Federal Govt. rule (no work because of snow).

Today, we drove into Washington DC (to my husbands office) for a couple of hours to take care of something and you would not believe how quiet it was. Kind of like Armageddon. Very strange.

Mere

No planes flying overhead...buzzing and sounding as if they'll crash into my roof. Thank you very much!. It's also soo quiet! Peacefully so. We get so used to such noises that we tune them out...until they aren't there.

Got about an inch so far outside the beltway.... more to come...SIGH or Take your pick... WEATHER HAPPENS! Not much I can say or do about it?

Except hibernate until.... Hugs to all and hope!'s - j

--looks like we are going to get blasted this time; a foot or more of snow. The mayor closed the schools today--actually, he closed them for today yesterday (the worry was the kids could get to school but not get home later, when the storm deepened).

Not much snow on the ground at 7AM--but it was up to 40 degrees here yesterday, and it's not that cold now--in fact, on the radar the rain/snow line is really close to NYC (Jersey shore is getting rain right now) but as the low pressure system moves it's supposed to drag in a lot of cold air and turn all to snow.

Really looking forward to digging the car out later--at least 11-year-old is home to help (if he can be persuaded).

Hi everyone. Finally recovered from this last week and too tired to fill in any details, but flights were cancelled, we were stuck in Tampa, finally decided to rent a car and drive non-stop from Tampa to Pittsburgh (20 hours). We arrived home at around 3:45 in the morning to this:

http://community.post-gazette.com/me...5/default.aspx

Had to dig out our car in the airport parking lot wearing mesh-top sneakers. I really hadn't thought that one through at the beginning of our journey.

And then I had a job interview yesterday, and sure was at my best, youbetcha!

My snowbound comfort food of choice: spaghetti, meatballs and garlic bread.