Snow

I am not one to like snow at all. That is a fact. I hate to drive in it and I hate that it has to happen. Snow is depressing. You are stuck in your house with no place to go. Then there is the thought of the ice that comes with or after it. Also not to mention that there may be power outages due to the snow. All of this is something that I don't want to think about.

My friend Carol made an observation recently. She observed that I have made a change in my thought about Snow. I have mellowed a little. Fact is that I have come to the conclusion that snow is going to happen no matter what. That is a fact of life. I just need to get over it. I need to just deal with the fact that snow happens and puts a damper on my life.

I look back on my hate of snow and attribute it to my Grandma Rittenour. She hated snow. So much so that when the first flake of snow fell she stopped driving. She made Grandpa due all the driving. If she had her way she would not have even gone out of the house in Winter. It was that bad. I think all of this rubbed off on me.

In the past year or so I have had to do some growing up of sorts. When Mom retired I had to do more of the driving in winter than I had before. I am not the best driver by any means and to put me on the road with snow is not a good thing. I panic and get nervous. Once I drove home from work in a snow storm and kept talking out loud the whole way home to keep it together.

I think last Winter is what sent me over the edge about snow. We had too many snow storms close together for my liking. I think when we have little storms spread out I do better. This Winter has been better for me as far as snow goes.

So as far as snow goes I am getting over my dislike of it. I am moving on. I know that one day I am not going to have people to drive me in the snow and I am going to have to take myself places. So I need to get use to snow and driving in it before then.

As my sister says I need to have more confidence in myself than I do. I can do it if I set my mind to. I am going to get over this snow thing I have going on. It will take time, but it will happen.