I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of the cold. It was nice for a little while, but now it's absurd!

Temperatures in the single digits and the teens are taking their toll. The other day I was involved in a minor car accident. I was pulling out of a parking space and hit a metal gutter pipe that was attached to a concrete pole. Given, I wasn't going that fast (and the pole was in my blind spot). I was traveling maybe 3 MPH at most...and my foot wasn't even on the accelerator. I figured I only scraped the corner of the back bumper. Not the case...the gutter pipe tore through my bumper like punching through a paper bag. Now I have a huge hole and a tear down the corner of the bumper. No amount of duct tape will cure this problem!

You're probably wondering why I'm on this rant. Well, when I took the car to various body shops for estimates, they all told me that due to the harsh cold, it doesn't take much to snap that plastic bumper like a twig. When this accident occurred, it was probably 11°F. I thought cars were supposed to be made better now? My old 1990 T-Bird could have taken a minor bump like that and survived with barely a scratch.

Anyway, let's say some prayers and get this cold out of here (or at least say some so that I become a better driver). Come on spring - you can't get here fast enough! (Just watch - I'll have a rant on hail by June!)