Last week of not using my brain!

Hello once again from the Aspen Street Coffee Shop in Fruita, CO!

I was reading my friend Stephanie's blog of her current adventure in Central America and then clicked on my blog. I was appalled to see that in 2004, I had over 130 entries; after that year, I haven't even written HALF that amount, and last year was just embarassing - 14 entries in all of 2008. I'm not as big into writing as I used to, but I can certainly find time to write more than 14 days out of 365!

Next Tuesday I begin my stint as a "real" student (I only had one seminar and one correspondence class last semester when I started, so not much studying or homework or time on campus). These are my last few free days. Not that I haven't been busy, but skiing at Vail and working out 1-2 hours a day aren't the same as studying theories and reading and using my brain for something besides vampire books on Kindle. ;) Tim, myself and hopefully some other folks are meeting at Vail this weekend and I have a feeling I'm going to find myself drinking Irish coffee while the rest of them are playing in the back bowls. I still suck at telemark. I went on Tuesday and did worse than when I went with Lindsay and folks a few weeks ago. And since my knee injury and apparently my cyst in my knee, I'm not the snowboarder I used to be. Boo.

The biggest thing going on is of course the Philadelphia Eagles! Since my Lions set history with 0-16 (I still want to get a commemorative t-shirt), at least I have the Eagles. Sure, I became a fan through Tim but I think after 3 seasons I can call myself a true fan. Though I am absolutely sick of hearing the same crap on sports radio OVER and OVER again. I don't know how Tim can listen to it. It's always a different way of saying the same thing: "Really, the team that wins the game is the one that gets the most points. It comes down to who's defense is better, and who's offense is better. The one that throws the ball, catches the ball, and can get the ball into the end zone more is always going to win the game!" DUH!!!! Or lately, the big news about the Denver Bronco's new 32 year old coach. Ok apparently he's young. "But it doesn't come down to age, it comes down to what he does with this team." OBVIOUSLY! Seriously, I just summed up 2 weeks worth of radio show "analysis" into a few simple sentences. Then there's the announcer that insists that everybody else was wrong with their predictions last week/month/season/years/35 years ago. But miraculously he was the only one that had his prediction, and he's the only one that was right. Whatever! One guy did that a couple weeks ago, and guess what he was WRONG! But you know what he said? "I've said this all along, despite what everyone else thought. And I was right!" Tim gets a kick out of my announcer impressions (when he's not turning it up to try to drown out my smart ass remarks... which are of course always RIGHT ON!)

Anyway, with that said, GO EAGLES!

Tim and his crew out here are now famous. Look at the GJ Sentinal! And notice, everybody else is wearing gloves (which they are supposed to) except Tim! What a rebel.

Logan and I went for a nice hike yesterday to a former mica (a type of rock) mine in the Bangs Canyon area. It was a pretty easy hike in the bottom of a canyon, tall walls of red rock on all sides and huge sage bushes. I haven't yet uploaded my photos but they are on the way!

With that said, I'll be back in Estes (Drake) next Monday night, before I have to roam around CSU like a dork and try to find all my classes!