Carol's random babble

Amanda, Cayla and I were making up new endings. ... take showers ... nail pictures to the walls. ... make babies. ... be nudists. ... go to the bathroom. ... sing a high C. ... light fires. What's your favorite ending to this saying? (Keep it as clean as what's already here, please.)

Doesn't that say it all? I was away from home from about Wednesday noon to 2 p.m. Sunday. I slept on Mom's recliner one night and on a foam fold out chair. Trust me, it wasn't very comfortable. Kent managed to drive into town Saturday and brought Cayla to spend the night at Mom's. I didn't drive home because I would have had to drive back to town to go to work and it just wasn't worth it. Today, however, was a different story. I went home on P59 and it was nearly completely cleared off. There was one car in the ditch, but Cayla told me she had seen it yesterday. I was able to drive 55 nearly the whole way to Coalville. Driving through the woods, I noticed the trees are overloaded with heavy, wet snow. Some trees have cracked under the strain. And, oh joy, I get to work tomorrow again.

My motto (for driving) is: I drive like an old lady so I can be one. Some rules occurred to me as I was driving to work today and others came to me because of things I heard in the newsroom - especially over the police scanner. 1) Make sure you need to go out. If you don't need to go out, then don't. If you must go out, make sure you know where you are going and why. Don't make extra trips. 2) Realize that the roads are slick and you can't stop on a dime. Give yourself leeway by slowing down before you get to the intersection. Also, you can't just start driving. Ease into it a little bit, or you will fishtail. If you have a car next to you, you could hit it if you aren't careful. 3) Be careful and assume that everyone else on the road isn't. Act like they are either first-time drivers who don't know what they are doing or that they are actively trying to kill you with their cars. Stay away from the other drivers. 4) Drive slowly with wipers going (if it...