snowboarding

A friend of mine volunteers on the Ski train from Denver to Winter Park (it's a ski resort if you're not from CO), and offered to let me tag along on Saturday. On the days you volunteer, you can bring a friend at no cost. Sweet deal!

So Saturday morning I got to go snowboarding at Winter Park. This is only my 5th time snowboarding in the last year, well it's only my 5th time ever actually. I am not to the point where I can completely enjoy it, since I am still learning and tend to fall, and get bruises like you wouldn't believe.

Anyway, it was a blast, even though it was a frigid day! Check out the pics!

celebrating six months of blogging

Whoa! 6 months?!

So much has happened, much of which has NOT been documented in this blog. This year has been tumultuous, draining, trying, and yet incredible.

I am planning to post more in a couple of weeks (post-Christmas), a reflection of this year, I guess you could call it.

I know that I really have been down on the holiday season experience this year. But, I will say I am very excited that our family has decided to cut our spending for each other this Christmas and re-allocate our funds toward a needy family in our area. None of us really need anything this year, so we figured it's time for a change! Stay tuned for an update...

Merry Christmas!

Just breathe...

What a week it has been.

Monday is what started it all off. Tuesday followed suite, and Wednesday, and today just seem to want to extend the chaos and gloom.

Monday morning I had to deal with my first death claim at work. Not fun. Monday evening, I made a cash deposit in the ATM, and the machine malfunctioned and ate $160 of my hard earned, hard to come by cash! Don't worry, I filed a claim, they're working it out...

Tuesday morning, on my way to work, I sped up to get by an RTD bus not 5 minutes into my commute and got pulled over for speeding! This is on top of a ticket I received about 6 weeks ago. I have a total of 8 points pending on my license. In case you aren't aware, Colorado's point system kinda sucks.

Wednesday, the gloom held on for dear life. Thankfully, I had Jazz dance class last night, and the endorphins seemed to cheer me up a bit.

Thursday, (today), it is full on snowing. There's supposed to be 8 inches by the time it's all said and done. Oh what a lovely commute we'll have in Denver this afternoon.

If you've read my last few posts, you know I've caught a case of the "ba humbugs" this holiday season. Seems like I need to just take some time to breathe, and let life settle.