Damn That Snow Plow

I didn't think of taking a picture until after I had started digging my car out. We got a ton of snow dumped on us yesterday and last night. When the plow went by it completely buried my car. When Mr. Man went to work this morning he just plowed through the snow with the truck, and here I thought he was out there shovelling.

So it just figures that as soon as I get my car back, we get snowed in. The kids haven't been to school in a week. There was exams last week, and then there was several snow days. So Little R and I shovelled the car out and went to town today. I was so nervous driving at first, it's been so long, but I did eventually relax. After such a wicked storm it was a beautiful day, sunny and almost mild. The nervousness cancelled out any feelings of freedom I expected to have. I am done with this winter and snow, I am ready for spring.

Yesterday was Mr. Man's birthday. Because of the weather I've been stuck at home even though I've had the car. So, he burned. I didn't even get the chance to get him a card, never mind gifts. There was no party. I did at least bake him a cake. The storm did start yesterday but was apparently much worse down in the city than it was here, which is odd. So when he got to work yesterday he thought it would be worse up here. I had a doctors appointment and was nervous about driving, so he made an excuse to leave work and came home to drive me. It wasn't neccesary. But hey, it was his birthday, we spent the day hanging out together, and he got to relax for a change.

I just finished watching an episode of Oprah that just happened to be about how a cluttered house can make you fat and unhealthy. Man, I can relate. It's too bad I don't have a crew of people to get rid of the clutter and clean up the house, like the people on the show did. But I absolutely believe it's true. I'm living it. The worse the house gets, the worse I feel and the less I do. There was a guy on the show who wrote a book about it, and he helped this family clean up their house. Oprah asked him, "what about the people who don't have a crew to do the work and can't just call Lowes for new appliances, what can they do?" According to him, I've already taken the first steps, by stopping shopping. People shop and buy stuff in excess to fill a need they may have. I'm not sure what my need is, but that is true. I figured that out myself and have stopped buying stuff we don't need. Since I don't have a crew to do it for me, I am slowly getting rid of stuff via Freecycle and I'm just waiting for spring to have a big ass yard sale. 2008 is the year I clear this place out and get my shit together. It'll be much easier in the spring/summer. We'll probably get a dumpster dropped in the driveway too. If not, we'll just be putting a lot of stuff out to the curb each month when they have large item pick up week. The guy did say the first room to work on is the kitchen. That I haven't done. My kitchen is a disaster. I do look at it every day and think about all the stuff there that I don't need. I know all this stuff, I know what they said on Oprah is true, but putting it into practice is a different story. All I know is, this year I'm doing it. It hasn't been this bad for that long. It's only been in the last year or so that it got so bad. I can't imagine living like this for any length of time. I'm giving myself to the end of this summer. By next fall I plan to have the place decluttered and cleaned up. I know I've been going on about it since last spring, but this time I mean it. It was that stupid community garage sale that screwed me up last spring. I won't make that mistake twice. By doing that I was only able to get rid of a fraction of my crap.

Well now that I've made myself depressed all over again I think I'll go eat some birthday cake. Yeah that should help. Actually, I'm going to post some stuff on Freecycle, then eat cake.