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It's just after six and less than an hour ago two of my friends from work texted they just got home. Today averaged about an hour drive for people living less than ten miles from home and up to five hours for those living about thirty miles away. I am so glad they are home.

 

It's definitely a good night to be inside. Here in Columbia, the snow is still coming down. A good website for checking out traffic and road conditions is right here, though obviously right now is not a good time to go out at all...just for future reference:

 

http://www.chart.state.md.us/TravInfo/trafficcams.php#

 

 

So it did turn out to be a big snow event and we were let out early from work and I am so glad I was able to face my fears of driving in bad weather and not freak out like I used to in the past. I think it's nice to have a role model in your life because you can think, "What would that person do?" and then you try and face the situation the way she would.

And facing your fears (even if driving in the snow may not be everyone's, most of us still have something we fear greatly) is awesome:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyanderson/2013/10/16/face-your-fear-the-result-might-be-amazing/




Chicken Little fever has struck Maryland with all the reports of impending snow. It's so contagious and a few people today are just a tad..um, unfriendly? ...so I am just needing to see this today:

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
― Maya Angelou

 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/self-acceptance