Ice, Ice, Everywhere

Well it is a week and two days since the ice storm and I still have 2 or 3 inches of ice on my driveway. I used to be really scared to try and drive on ice.
It is Friday night (when Heather and I go to Mansfield, find a place to eat and go to the great wal-mart store to buy Heather's week of groceries) So, Heather calls from work, ( she doesn't get off till 5:30 and it takes her 30 minutes to get home) asks me if I'm on for the adventure. After being in the house for three days I am ready to get out. I say, "Call me when you get home." About 30 minutes later she rings me up and says she is home.
I have to find Daisy a treat, put her in the back room, pull her cage up into the doorway,( so she can't get onto any other rooms of the house, where we don't know what we will find when we get back home, if she has been free to wander the whole house) go get my boots and coat on, hunt for my purse for 5 minutes and find it on the kitchen table, (which is right in front of the door I have to go out) . I go to the window, where one of my garage door openers is, and try to open the garage door. I see the door shake but no movement upwards. I try 5 or 6 times with the same result until I realize the door had no chipping done on it on the day Adam and I chipped the driveway for 1 and a half hours to get Adam's truck out of the garage so thus the door on my side of the garage is frozen to the drive.
Fortunately for me I had cleaned most of the ice off the window of the Montana the day I chipped a path to the door to the house. But I hadn't gotten the ice off the wiper blades. My Becky always had a can of HEET with her in the winter and she convinced me to keep one in my car, too. So out comes the can of HEET and I spray those blades( which has about 1 inch of ice left on them) with about a half a can. Hit the wipers and ice flew off the blades with such force that they went into parts unknown.
By now I figure Heather has started wondering where I am, but I am doing my best to get there. IN the car, shift into drive and find out even though there was no ice under the van, it was surrounded by the three inch layer and I was going nowhere. NOw I am parked in the turn around and up against the hedge. By this time I am determined I am going somewhere. I think I can rock It just a little and maybe get it out, for I am NOT going to chip ice at this point. I can only go forward a very little because of the hedge, but it is going. So back and forth about 6 times and then watch out I am going for it and I mash the gas pedal to the floor.Tires burning and spinning and ice sprays all along the side of the van, and then glorious release. I am flying backwards toward the garage at a rapid rate of speed, but I have good brakes and just in time I am stopped. Put the car into drive and off to an evening of adventure with Heather
I have been driving on the three inch ice driveway ever since and I do a really great job even if I do say so myself. I did back too far into the snow bank on Sunday and got stuck up, the garage door on my side was still frozen to the concrete( on Monday I chipped it loose) and thought I would have to stay home from Church, but the memory of my success on Friday tugged at my mind and I prevailed. Once again the tires spun and burned but when you hold the gas pedal down and take your body and rock it back and forth ( this must really help because everyone does it) the vehicle has no choice but to move on down the road. I was not even late for church.
It is supposed to be int the high 40's on monday and the ice will probably melt a lot or maybe all the way. I don't know how long it takes three ichces of ice to melt. My only concern is, will I be able to drive on dry pavement again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!