Mom's Orders

My mom is apparently sick of seeing that ear-mouse every time she checks my journal and requested that I update. I was waiting to see if my friends posted any photos yet from our Breckenridge trip, but alas they are slackers. ;)

So really, I have to get to the gym and am not feeling particularly conversational on here right now. Tim's home sick from work, he's so darned cute when he's sick. ;)  I just submitted an application to be on the fire crew here at Rocky this year; I'll only do it if I get a GS-05 position, but I am afraid I might only be qualified as a 4. We'll see. Otherwise, still gonna hope that maybe hazard tree will fly some more terms; or I'll go back to special projects and work on my construction skills at 13,000 ft. Who knows. Tim and I are still waiting for a few houses to open up in the park so we can move in together. His birthday was just on Monday so I surprised him with an ice cream cake at the Rock. We are supposed to be going to Alta, Utah in 2 weeks to go skiing but we'll see if I go. He's way way better than me obviously, since I'm just learning how to telemark and it's NOT easy, and I would hate to just sit around on the bunny hill by myself the whole time.

That's kindof how Breckenridge went. 18 people came out from Michigan and we rented that huge house. We'll just say with 18 people comes 18x the drama in some instances. :P  I tried to go out snowboarding and alas, my knee was still screwed up. I had to ride the chairlift back down to the bottom and just cried because I couldn't hang out with my friends! Tim spent more time with them than I did. I did realize I could miraculously telemark, except I don't know HOW to telemark and nobody else there does it. So I went out by myself at the nordic center and got used to having skiis on my feet (which was probably hilarious to most bystanders) and then one day Tim took me on the bunny hill to teach me basic skiing skills. He was so sweet and understanding, and stayed home with me one day so I wouldn't be sitting around all by myself, but I felt terrible that I was holding him back! Him and Amadeo hit it off pretty good, sounds like they were both sick skiers and hit the trees and bowls together. Then sad little me, with my new skiis and no idea how to telemark... Don't worry, I finally took a lesson last weekend. Not that I'm doing proper tele turns, that could take a year or so... but the basics are coming together! Apparently I'm doing pretty good considering I have NO skiing background whatsoever. Hey, they just seem like big ice skates when it comes down to it...?!?

I guess I should back up a bit. Christmas was delightfully lazy and uneventful. I think Tim and I sat around and did nothing but watch DVDs (Seinfeld, Netflix) for 4 days. I made a nice meal for X-mas eve and opened presents from each others' families. X-mas day, we opened our presents (I had tons because of my huge family, I felt like a little spoiled brat! ha ha) and Tim helped Logan open his gifts which was way too cute. Tim surprised me 100% and got me a nice snowboard/ski bag, a waterproof Pelican case for my camera, down North Face booties which are the only thing that has ever truly warmed my feet up!!, and other random stuff. I got him a nice Philadelphia Eagles Brian Westbrook throwback jersey that he had been drooling over (though I (and most people) think they yellow and pastel blue are kindof... weird), a sushi making kit including rice, wasabi powder, etc, a ski wax iron and tuning kit, and Seinfeld. It was excellent. :)  There are some rich people in town that sponsor a free turkey meal on X-mas day so Tim and I went to the restaurant, and it was pretty good!! And one of our friends (who is coincidentally from Michigan also) walked in as we sat down so us three ate together. Low key and good!

My friends came out on the 27th and we stayed until the 1st. New Years Eve, we didn't feel like dealing with the drama of 20 people going to the Breckenridge Brewery so I set up a  small sushi dinner plan and 6 of us broke away for a way too expensive meal at Mountain Flying Fish. The fish was excellent, but $17 for one roll... !!! And the service was not good, and not a lot of different rolls. I guess we got lucky though, because a lot of other restaurants were low/out of food since I-70 closed and their deliveries couldn't get through. Afterwards, everybody just met back up at the house and played drinking games and stayed up until 3 am. Much cheaper that way!

Here's our X-mas photos (yes Mom you've already seen them). Hopefully I'll have some Breck photos to post soon!

From X-mas 2008