Rant #3,064: Point of No Return

Snow.

What’s that?

Until this morning, in my neck of the woods, we hadn’t had any measurable snow for well more than 300 days, setting a record for the longest period of not having any snow.

But today, that record has been broken, as the white stuff is on the ground and on the cars.

It isn’t much, but I guess you can say that it is enough.

Other places have been pummeled this year, including in other parts of the Northeast and in New York State, but prior to today, we had nothing.

Now we have something.

As I have said time and time again, as an adult, the snow is nothing but a nuisance to me.

It is not fun, and just leads to nothing good.

If this is the amount of snow that we are going to get, I can live with it, because after a bit of a cold snap here, it is supposed to be in the 50s next week, so if we have to get snow, this is the snow that we need to get.

A slight covering is so much better than a monsoon of the white stuff any day.

And if I can make a successful sequeway into another topic, then let me do it now …

I hate doing the laundry almost as much as I hate shoveling snow.

We do the laundry three days a week in my house, and it is truly amazing how many clothes we go through during that time period.

But the laundry must be done, and while my wife starts the laundry before she goes to work on Wednesday and Friday—we also do it on Sunday—it is left to me to fold everything and put it all away in the proper place.

(My wife’s stuff I just fold; she does not like anyone but herself putting away her clothes, so I just fold her stuff and leave it to her to put away.)

And then we have the extraneous stuff, like the towels, that have to be folded and put away, too, so over the course of one wash, we can have a massive amount of things to fold and to put away.

I am sure that some people out there find doing the wash very relaxing, but I am not one of those people.

I find it very pedantic, doing the same thing over and over and over again, and I find it boring, I guess, taking away time from other things that I prefer to do.

But I do it, because I cannot leave it for my wife to do when she gets home.

I didn’t do it too much when I was working full time; we both got home later in the day, so whoever got home first won the prize and did it; or at least one of us helped the other do it.

But now, at least on Wednesdays and Fridays, it is my responsibility, and I hate doing it.

(On Sunday, I usually do it good amount of it myself, but my wife and I basically do it together.)

I guess it is just not my thing, but it is something that needs to be done.

Like shoveling snow, it just isn’t my thing.

But in life, you cannot always do exactly what you want to do, so you do get stuck doing some things that you would rather not do …

And doing the laundry is one of those things.

Heck, I don’t like to shave, either, but unless I want to look like Man Mountain Mike, I have to shave a few times a week.

The same thing with the laundry; it has to be done.

Now that I have mentioned snow shoveling, doing the laundry, and shaving, what else don’t I like to do?

I guess you can add paying $4 a gallon for gas, an eventuality which is coming right up the pike during the next few weeks.

Now, the worst thing would be a day where I had to shovel snow, do the laundry, shave, and then have to fill up my gas tank with $4 a gallon gas.

Let’s hope that that particular nightmare does not happen.

Individually I can get though it; but to have it all happen on the same day …

I think not.