Worry Wart

Well, my passwords haven't been stolen for a little while, so here's hoping that they gave up on tormenting me. Now I can continue to worry about what I usually worry about - Everything! Just kidding.....sort of. I do have a tendency to worry a lot, so I have to make a conscious effort not to. Usually I do pretty good at it.

Right now the thing that causes me the most worry is the gigantic amount of snow we have been getting. I seriously don't know how people survive in places like Alaska. We get a couple of feet of snow and I start worrying that our cars will get stuck, or break down, or smashed in an accident. I worry that the heater in my house will stop working or that we will get so much snow that I can't get into my own driveway. That last one is a major possibility because our driveway is gravel, so we can't use a snow blower unless we want to be shooting rocks at our neighbors. There is no earthy way I could keep up with shoveling it. I did a small section just tonight and I already feel like my arms are going to fall off.

There is also the very real possibility that Mike and I could become sick and not be able to shovel or do much of anything else. Our workplace seems to be a breeding ground for all kinds of nasty sicknesses. In the past few weeks, more people have called out sick than I can count on my hands. Even as I write this, I feel I am fighting off a multitude of sicknesses that all those people brought back to work with them. I'm not officially sick yet, so I hope I can just sleep it off. (Also, I have been eating those Airborne anti-cold tablets like there is no tomorrow.)

But there will be a tomorrow, in spite of all my worrying. So I better lay my worries to rest. If the cars break down, we will work something out. If it snows more and more, someone is bound to help shovel our driveway. If our heater breaks, we will use coats and blankets until we can get it fixed. If I get sick, I will recover. (Besides, nothing can be as bad as that one year where I was sick for almost the entire winter.)

I think it is time to banish my worries for the night, take a shower, and snuggle in bed with a good book. Awwwww yeah, isn't this the life?