It's, like, uh, really cold

We had ourselves a little bit of an ice storm today! Throughout the whole night l, I could hear tiny little ice pellets bounce off my window (which can be maddening after a while if you let it.)
Given this ice storm, I had myself a free day, as work was closed. Not bad! It did, however, feel like a Saturday, which sadly it isn't.
I didn't do all that much, so to make up for my day of slack I'm going to write something.
I finished reading Yes Man last night, and what I got out of it is that people create their own opportunities by being open and positive. One doesn't need to necessarily say yes to everything, but it's a good thing to be open to the possibilities and to determine whether your choices create positive or negative effects. I guess it's kind of like karma.
I don't want to spoil anything of the book, so I'm not gonna say what part of the book possessed me to look at flights to California.
I've always wanted to go, and I've said many times that I was planning it, but I never really carried it out. I think I made the process much too complicated and tried to plan too much, when all I needed was to get on a bloody plane and figure it all out when I got there (ok, maybe I'd reserve a rental car first). I put these ideas on pedestals and I want and require them to be perfect, but things never are, so the idea doesn't become reality. Sometimes things just need to be what they are. At least things happen that way!
Well, I looked at flights for this weekend, and not too surprisingly, they were quite expensive. They got a bit better over the following weekends, but the further away they were from last night, the more hesitation I had. I'm not the most spontaneous person in the world, but if I found a good flight for this weekend, there would have been no hesitation whatsoever. I would have loved to have been gone this weekend, as it ain't getting any warmer here! However, $1100 seemed quite a chunk to part with for spontaneity.