I feel accomplished.

I was going to hire someone to plow my driveway tomorrow, but I decided to man up and shovel it myself today. It took a little more than two hours, but I was able to shovel 90% of it to get my car down. I left about a car length at the bottom to shovel out tomorrow because the plow truck will be by a few times today and I only want to shovel the resulting ice mountain once.

I realized I don't want to be the typical American who is afraid of some hard work. Why should I pay someone $50 for something I can do myself? I was already going to work from home today and we all know I need the exercise. It was tough work and I could've done without the ice pellets, but I feel pretty good. I didn't cop out.

I still might get a snowblower this year because it'll be something I own which is worth money. I'm ok buying goods, but I want to cut down on buying services.

I don't really like the media hype about these kinds of storms. It's the Northeast and it's winter. It's going to snow and 12" isn't really all that unusual around here.