delusion [di-loo-zhuhn]- noun, a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact
Remember when I was knee-deep in snow yesterday? Shoveling, snowblowing, heaving, grunting? There was a moment when I asked my neighbor if she knew what the rest of the forecast for the week looked like. She replied, "Cold. The snow should be ending, though." Yet, even though she said it would be cold, I was thinking of warmer days, melting snow, and even had a brief vision of actually seeing our driveway again...my poor car looking less like a popsicle than a car...
Wait. What? Melting snow? Warmer days? Huh?
It hit me last night...after 7 years in Colorado... I was just expecting the snow to go away sometime soon...melt in a few days, a week, soon. Oh, Heidi. Poor, poor, Heidi.
It was bitterly, squeaky-snow cold today. So cold that the dogs kept alternating which paw they'd hold up to give it a "rest" from the cold snow. My windows are all frosty and I worry that my back screen door hinges are going to snap when I open the door.
The women at work reminded me that we'll have this snow until March.
It's gonna be a long winter...and I may be in for a bumpy ride.
Maybe my delusions are a form of self-preservation??
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