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I’m done with you.  You’ve given me more snow than I care to see for the next 5 years combined.  Enough is enough – it’s only the beginning of February, let’s not over-do ourselves.  I think just to spite you, I’m going to crank my heat up to about 80 degrees, open up a corona, insert a lime, and plop myself in front of our fireplace to dream about living in the South.

Love, Tina

The morning started off with a lot of snow (so bad we couldn’t get out of our driveway), but little did I know that was nothing yet:

Check out the mondo icicle outside our bathroom window:

In the afternoon it started getting a little worse:

Then by dusk it looked like nothing I have ever seen:

Here is what it looks like from my front door:

Looking down my sidewalk – it looks like the sidewalks are shoveled, with just a dusting of snow, but the snow on the sidewalks is up to my knees at this point, and the mounds of snow are almost as tall as me (and I’m no shorty):

I do have to admit, it looks pretty with all the snow:

Jay and our neighboor shoveling out our driveway:

Looking left down my street (keep in mind this road was plowed about 5 times already):

Looking right down our street:

And one more shot from our front porch:

This past Saturday we got 23 inches, and today I think we’re up to 12-18 inches already.  UGH!  Jay and I are going to attempt to take a walk and check out the area – I think we’re both getting cabin fever and just have to get out for a while.  I’m just happy we still have power!  Hopefully everyone is surviving the storm ok!

Sometimes, I get overwhelmed.  Sometimes I feel like I have so much to do, and no time to do it…..that my life is go, go, go, go with no break.  So then I decide to not go out on a Saturday night, or not have a date night with Jay, because that means I can cross things off my to-do list.  But I started thinking lately – that’s ridiculous.  I can think of SO many nights recently that Jay wanted to hang out or go do something, and I just flat out said “no, I don’t have time”.  I realized that has to stop – I also realized my to-do list will NEVER go away, but it can wait.  But sometimes, I really need to just put that list to the side and realize it will get done somehow, some way, but it doesn’t NEED to happen RIGHT NOW.

So that’s just what I did last night.  Is my laundry basket spilling over with 5 loads of laundry that need to be washed?  Yep.  Is my sink full of dishes I haven’t gotten around to washing?  Yep.  Is my diswasher full so even if I WANTED to do my dishes, I’d have no where to put them?  Yep.  But instead of crossing more things off of my to-do list last night, I went out to dinner with my friends Sarah and Mary.  And as we sat there for a 2 hour long dinner, drinking wine, talking about life, work and guys, I realized how lucky I am.  I’m ashamed to say I sometimes forget that.  So thanks Sarah and Mary, for making me remember how lucky I am (even though you probably didn’t even realize you were doing that!) – our dinner last night made me realize how lucky I am to have such amazing friends….life long friends that I love more than anything:)  So here’s to not forgetting that, and taking a step back to enjoy life.  Even if Jay did run out of clean shirts:)

Here is a picture of Sarah and I probably from back in 2007 with an old point and shoot HAH:

And MARY – I realized we have NO pictures together!  And we have NO pictures with just the three of us!  That will have to be corrected next time we get together:)  Love you girls!

**EDITED TO ADD:  Mary was able to find a picture of the three of us!  Woohoo!