& that's the way life goes

Damn it.  Having 4 days off is fucking glorious.  It seems to go on forever and then all of a sudden you sit down and you think ‘shit, i have to go to work tomorrow’.  This fucking sucks.

*sigh

Anyhow, we went snowboarding again today.  It is expensive but you know what you only live once and it’s only pleasant snowboarding weather for a short period of time.  Soon it will be freezing with a windchill in the teens or below.  So I’m justifying spending the money.

I was sad today, my little friends weren’t there making their ramps so no jumps for me.  It was so cute on Friday, I came down the hill and stopped to watch C make the jump and then I chickened out.   The young boys were sitting next to it fixing it and they were asking me if I was going to go.  I get nervous when people watch me so I skipped it.  They were like ‘oh you should have did it your good.  it’s easy!’.  It made me feel good.  I know they were like 10 but I’ll take all the confidence I can gather   (I did hit the jump my next time down)

I worked on carving again today.  I’m getting better too!  All of a sudden it started snowing like mad crazy.  So we didn’t stay as long as we would have liked because we had driven the Lincoln.  (oh the Lincoln, if I was completely anonymous I’d tell you why we have the Lincoln)  It’s rear wheel drive and v8.  I gripped the door handle the whole hour it took us to get home.  Trying not to think of spinning out and hitting anything in the way.

Is everyone ready to go back to the daily grind tomorrow?

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And because I’m coming out of my holiday funk, I’m thankful for:

• my family
• my friends
• my dogs
• sunshine
• leaves changing color
• my job
• having money to do things i enjoy
• being independent
• freedom
• my health
• my imagination
• the past
• the present
• the future

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I ordered my first Christmas present!  You don’t know what a huge step this is.  Maybe I’ll write about it later but my first present is for my dad and I ordered it from HSN.  LOL.  I was flipping channels when I stopped on HSN, they had this knive set and I was thinking ‘hey that’s kind of cool’ pause, ‘hey i should get that for my dad’.  So  I called C in there and he was like you should order us one too.  Hehe so I did.  I felt like a little old lady shopping from my bed (it was 11pm and I was reading and flipping stations lol)

broke in our new toys

I forgot how much I love snowboarding.  We went to Alpine Valley today and spent 5 hours on the slopes.  For the most part snowboarding is like riding a bike.  I still have a teensy weensy problem with my front edge but I jumped a snow ramp not once but 3 times.  I fell all 3 times but damn it I did it and it felt awesome.

me carving the slope

c tries with the camera when he has it but it's a little blurry lol

C

upclose i like this shot

one of the jumps, c didn't get my picture

So I’m a little sore already but it’s that good feeling.  One I haven’t felt from snowboarding in 2 years.  It was awesome to get back out there.  Hope you had a happy friday!

I’ve been tested before and it always comes out the same: INFJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging)

What are you?

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Your result for The Brutally Honest Personality Test…

Freak- INFJ

13% Extraversion, 53% Intuition, 40% Thinking, 67% Judging

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For those of you who laughed when I say I am part Irish, I took this just for you.  I didn’t do half bad

IC I expect you to take this too   No cheating hehe

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Your result for The Ultimate TRUE IRISH Test…

A Brave Fenian

You scored 82 Common Sense, 59 Irish Facts, and 72 Irish Soul!

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(from an email I received)

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This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you’s.
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