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Well. Its monday. Its supposed to snow like hell today. My dumbass is at work. Why? Cause it hasn’t snowed yet and they’re not gonna shut anything down till it does. So my prediction is that I may be out of here before lunch, but we’ll see. I came in early so I could get some stuff done, in peace and quiet, on my first day back from my 3 day weekend trip.

So my weekend trip. Oh my god! I sooo needed to get the hell out of town. I just needed it. It was just a compound of so many things, alot with work, alot with everything else. Come friday morning all I was thinking was, “i need to get the heck out of dodge”. Now yeah this was a vacation. Don’t let that word fool you though. I’m completely drained and exhausted from this vacation/trip. It was so worth it, but I’m just plain beat now. What was I doing? you may ask. I was skiing, the whole weekend, Friday afternoon till Sunday around 3pm. Now keep in mind, I’ve ski’d ONCE in my life, when I was like 12 i think in the scouts. I don’t think I made it off the cheesy slope, and I don’t think I learned anything from it. So effectively this weekend was the first time I have really ever ski’d. By saturday… I was doing black diamonds, I was pretty impressed with myself. I guess all my years of inline skating and jumping around and doing crazy stuff, like skate parks and half pipes with that, payed off in giving me enough know how of my balance to just transfer nicely into the arena of skiing.

So how’d I end up skiing anyways? Well I guess you could say it was sorta through Boehm, my roommate. But really it was a trip that a girl, Brie, whom I know through Boehm, had planned for this weekend. I’d met her first at a halloween party that she threw, that Boehm, his GF (erin), and myself, went as Mario, the Princess, and Luigi. It was the best costume ever. (as seen here) Then I was over Brie’s place with Mike and Erin, and Brie’s friends Katie and Gabe, for a sort of pre-christmas dinner/snack get together. At that point Brie started talking about the ski trip she was planning and asked if I wanted to come along. Well ok asked is sort of a loose term here. What happened was Boehm asked her about the trip, and who was going, and she said pretty much everybody here, and then looked at me and said “i assumed you’d be going, if thats ok”. What can I say, of course I’d go, sounded like fun (thinking to myself, i have no idea how to ski but whatever!). The ski trip pretty much ended up being myself, Brie, her 14 year old cousin Arianne (god i think thats how you spell it, its said Air-ee-anne), Boehm and Erin, and lastly Katie and Gabe.

So the weekend turned out great, the cabin we were in (ok more like a condo next to the ski resort), had a hot tub. Which came in ooooooh so nice after a day of skiing. My muscles would probably be in even worse shape then they are now, if we hadn’t had the hot tub. As it stands, my legs were pretty fatigued by sunday around 3pm when we wrapped things up, but over all my calves are a little sore this morning but nothing bad, and nothing I haven’t felt before after doing really physically strenuous stuff for long periods of time.

Ok speaking of the hot tub. Sort of funny aside with that. Of course the tub is outside, its freazing outside, and there is snow on the ground right next to it. So whats the brightest idea you can think of at this point? Of course its getting out and laying down into the snow for fun so you can jump back in the hot tub and get warm. Brie started it, by jumping out and laying down for a split second, ( i think she may have convinced her cousin or Gabe to do it first, I can’t exactly remember). So pretty much i had to trump the rest of them and jump out and do a snow angel, and jump back in the hot tub. Keep in mind we’re all in bathing suits. Damn that was cold. It was pretty funny though. My snow angel was still there when we left on sunday, even though it had snowed a little saturday morning ;).

Now, back to skiing. Don’t get me wrong, I fell a few times. Once was really bad but thats cause a dude rammed full on into me on a black diamond and i went skidding for about 20 yards or so down the hill, at that it didn’t even hurt. I guess i fall well (thank god for all my years of wrestling, knowing how to fall right lol). Other than that the only thing that stopped me was muscle fatigue, from not being used to doing all that work on the muscles it takes to ski. So overall it was a pretty awesome weekend, a great escape with great people, some of whom i definately want to see more of, well all of them, but meh you can infer what you want lol.

Also, sorry no pictures, I totally forgot about my digi-cam, and not much a chance i was gonna bring the SLR, since no way I was taking it on the slopes. But Boehm took some pictures with his digicam, Brie had a video cam, that I may eventually see the video of, and Katie was taking pictures with a disposable, so I may see some of those pics at some point. If I get ahold of any I may end up posting some if I can up on my gallery, but we’ll see when I can. Thats all for now. I think this post has gotten a bit long.

ciao.