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I’m stuck at home for the second day due to ice and snow and let’s admit it – even if you didn’t have to go anywhere, knowing you just can’t, can get annoying. Just as when we were school age, playing in the snow is a great, new experience at first but then, “we have nothing to do” creeps in.

The adult version of “we have nothing to do” seems to involve poking fun at others who are dealing with their same version of “winter.” If you’re living in Boston or other parts of the northeast US right now, snow totals less than 4 feet don’t even catch your attention. In DC yesterday, 4 to 6 INCHES of snow shutdown the Federal Government. At my location in Central North Carolina, 2 inches of snow topped with a inch or so of ice – shut down EVERYTHING.

Niagara Falls – Frozen Solid!

Around this time of a winter event – for lack of better word, people start to get a bit touchy about their weather – almost defending their ability to live in a nearly hostile environment. People in Boston are making fun of those in DC and I am sure DC would be or is making fun of those of us “down south.” I don’t play this game because I never WANTED to win the “Who has more snow?” contest. It’s why I don’t live in Boston – lovely city that it is.

To all those who get too personally involved in the snow totals contest I say “Chill out.” I have friends in Arizona and Southern California who think we are ALL crazy for living anywhere where the temperature ever gets below 60 degrees! They get their digs in now regarding my close-to-zero temperatures but I will get payback when Arizona residents are dealing with 100+ degree heat in mid-summer and I am sitting in North Carolina on a balmy and perfect 80-degree day.

I’ve never seen a situation so appropriate for the statement, “It is what it is.” If your roof hasn’t caved in from snow pack and you are relatively warm, fed and healthy, just enjoy the day, or the week, or in the case of the northeast, the month – and know that this too shall pass.