While lying awake late at night I often plan tomorrow’s day.  Think about all the things I want to get done.  Things that will be good for me, maybe good for Katie the dog too.  It’s going to be a busy day tomorrow, oh yea, lots of stuff to do!  Things that have needed to get done for a long time, possibly for years.  And since I’m not working I have all sorts of time to get these pesky tasks done.  Right?  Sounds good in the warm darkness, under the blanket, with sleep seeping around the edges of my consciousness.

But in the morning, with it’s chilly air,  cold floors and empty fridge it’s just a bit more difficult than I had projected to get moving and actually accomplish anything.  At all.  I haven’t been out of the house since a couple of days before Christmas.  Laundry piles up.  The dishwasher is clean but full.  Dresser drawers needing to be sorted remain untouched.  The news cycle runs over and over on the television…planes being threatened, storms across the country.  I think I might need a nap.

I never took a physics class but I believe that inertia creates more inertia and it’s harder and harder to move once you sit down.  Unemployment is a lot like sitting down and I think today, even in the face of another snowstorm, I need to unstick myself and move out into the world.  Cause a little snow never used to hold me back.  And those of you reading this from “up north” would laugh at the small amount of snow that is currently thwarting all my plans of dogs and parks and walking in the woods!

So…onward!  Let’s venture out!  In the spirit of my northern friends…it’s time to get off the sofa, turn the TV off and find something interesting to do.  Might organize the dresser drawers too…but probably not until tomorrow.

When I woke up this morning we had perhaps 5  inches of snow on the ground. This is what it looked like first thing before the sun came up.

This was out the back door, with an outdoor spotlight lighting up the poor bent birch tree, sinking low beneath the heavy wet snow.  The front didn’t look much better:

This was my poor pot of pansies:

The snow has melted off the pansies now, and they are just fine.  Sigh.

I don’t know how long this snow is going to stick around.  The weather report doesn’t sound like it’s going to warm up for awhile.  So we’ll have to wait and see if the sun will ever come out again and melt all this white stuff.  I am trying to appreciate it for its beauty…but I’m pretty much over the prettiness of snow by this time of the year.  We’ve had so much of it all winter it seems like it’s time for us to catch a break.

I’m hoping this is really the end of winter.  Really.

But you never know.