Ok, for those of you who live North of the Mason Dixon Line or those of you in the Mid-West, I have a question…

How in tarnation do you deal with this weather and these arctic temperatures?

I feel like the biggest pansy on the face of the planet.  Seriously.

I was okay with all of it really until I went to get in my car and courageously drive back to the hotel from the station.

Note to anyone who owns a car rental place where it ever snows or ices… please spend a little bit of money and equip your rental cars with ice scrapers… my credit card works fine for the snow/ice we have in Virginia but not for the cake of ice that I came out to this afternoon.

It was solid.  And so I turned the car on and the defrost on and then attempted to go and wait in the warm building.  Except I forgot the code and everyone else had already left… or so I thought.

As it melted, I would get out of the car and scrape a little until I could no longer feel my fingers and then I would get back in the car.  It was just about all gone when one of my co-workers came out and asked “Wish you were back in Virginia?  I bet it doesn’t get like this.”

Well, the reality of it is… it does.. just not as often or quite like this and when it does get like this, I don’t have to go anywhere… I work from home.  I can walk to the grocery store if I need to.. AND I have an 11 year-old who LOVES to go out and start the car and clean it off for me.

There, I’m spoiled.

He rescued me… in reality, I would’ve been sitting there another 20 minutes had he not scraped the rest of the car off.

I made it back to the hotel without killing anyone or wrecking which was way cool.  I made it into the building without falling on my toosh, which was even cooler.. because you know how I like to wipe out in front of hot guys in hotels….

Then I ventured out for dinner with one of the trainers that is here.  I let him drive.  I wasn’t going to.

We went to HuHot Mongolian Grill.  Awesome… way outside of my comfort zone in that you basically cook your own stir fry and there are way too many choices.  For my ADHD brain it almost sent me in to a tailspin… but I did it.  And it was awesome.  Now I wish we had one back home.

And now I’m back here.. I’ve talked to the kids and the BFF and she’s doing an amazing job… I told Matthew not to get too used to her cooking and he suggested that maybe I let her teach me how to cook.  She’s tried… I didn’t have the heart to tell him that.  I think they are enjoying her.

And Sam’s eating… and not complaining.  I’m working very hard on not taking any of this personally.

So…. I’m off to work on my Bible Study that I’m missing this week since i’m here.  And then I’ll read.

I should’ve rethough the no TV for Lent… which everyone here is laughing at me since I gave it up and I work for a TV station.

Then I’m going to get nice and toasty because I know that when I leave in the morning, it’s going to be cold.

Heather

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