Happy New Year from this New Country Girl!

A week has gone by and I am still alive (just barley). First and foremost, I want to wish everyone near and far a very Happy New Year. I hope the first week of 2009 has treated everyone well up to this point…

As for me, the snow has stopped (for now) and now it is raining. So instead of having Winter Storm warnings, we are having Flood Warnings. Fantastic, right? If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.

Before I go into my crazy New Year’s Eve story, I have to tell you about the hell I went through yesterday. It was 7:30 am and I had every intention of going to work easy-breezy, right? Nope. My little Toyota Yaris moved literally two feet before getting stuck. I couldn’t go forward and I couldn’t go backward. I dug and scraped snow and ice for over an hour and a half. I threw in the towel with my car only 2 feet from the garage. Talk about having a case of the freaking Mondays. Later in the day I thought I would try again to move my blasted car into the garage. Again, nothing but frustration came of this. Near tears (actually, in all honesty the tears were running down my cheeks by this point) I was pleading to get my car into my garage safely before nightfall. Literally when I was about to give up for the night, one of my neighbors arrived in his white pickup truck. (It might have well been a white horse for all I cared!) He dug the wheels from the ice and helped push my car out then navigated back into the garage. I found out during the shoveling that he is a GU Alumni (a bball player as well), good to know the family takes care of each other----job hunting or digging out a car. I am indebt to this nice country neighbor. I think I will have to bake him and his wife brownies this weekend.

As for my New Years Eve and Day, I finished Harry Potter #7 for the second time…and had my very own Sex and the City Marathon. Normally this wouldn’t make me laugh, but one of the episodes I watched on NYD was entitled, “Sex & the Country”. When Carrie goes to Adian’s country house for the weekend in an attempt to be a better girlfriend. At the very end of the episode, Carrie had one quote that stuck out to me and made me smile ever so slightly, “City girls are country girls, with cuter outfits.”

Hmmm….. it makes me believe that I can do this. I have the resources to feed animals, use a snowblower or bake an apple pie all within me…I am just going to wear really great shoes when I do it.

My knitting project is coming along well. It should be finished by the time all of the snow is melted!