Afraid I have waited too long

[nit84]

Maybe I am too worried about the small stuff but I will put it out there.

My 180 has been to do more around the house and more often. For instance, shoveling the driveway more than once in a day sometimes 2 or 3 times. Before I would let it go completely sometimes and let Mother Nature take care of it or do it once and that would actually take a longer aggregate time than doing three times before a lot built up.


Anyway, I have been doing this since I moved home. The W who doesn't start many conversations with me said about a month ago " Thanks for doing the driveway but why didn't you use the snowblower(she bought an awesome one for me for Christmas a few years back). I said "There wasn't that much snow and it was good exercise." The conversation stopped and nothing further was said until a couple days ago.

I have been getting up early and shoveling before work or on weekends.

Recently, we have had a lot of snow so I have been trying to keep up with it by doing it more often.

The W says "Why is the snowblower still in the shed?" I said " We haven't had enough snow to warrant bringing it out." We have but I guess I was happy doing it my way.

She said "I'm glad I spent all that money to have it sit in the shed."

Normally, this might have brought out a smart a$$ remark from me or started a fight.

I have been able to let things go like this because I know better than to start an unproductive conflict.

I thought about this overnight and decided the W had a correct point. We have a snowblower why not use it.

So yesterday after work, I pulled the snowblower out of the shed and cleaned the driveway.

I feel like in a little way this might let the W know that I heard what she was saying and took her opinion into account. This is something she said I never did. I disagree but that doesn't matter it is her feeling.

Am I sweating the small stuff and not seeing the overall picture?

Any thoughts?