it’s a new year……
Secretly…. I’m stoked that the holidays are behind us. The new year is staring at us, and we are humbly at it’s mercy, with high hopes of good health, lots of hope and just all around peace and hippy love. We just got back from California on New Years Eve, and well… I was asleep on the couch by 8:45pm… NOT my typical style of ringing in the new year to say the least, but I was drained. Drained drained drained in the membrane.. Me, the hubby, and the kids AND the dog were in California for a total of 9 days. Oddly enough, I slept like a champ while we were down there tho’…. however, I don’t think my pops was too happy about getting kicked out of his king size bed thanks to me and Eric and Maggie…. Mom kept assuring me that they were “fine” in the small full bed in the spare room, but I still felt a wee bit guilty. Their bed is one of those pimped out high beds with that cushy top thingy. The crappy thing,, is now that I’m home, and slept two nights in my own bed, I realize that YAH,,, I want a new bed. But I got totally spoiled for Christmas, so I think I need to wait until a few months go by before I spout off things that I want, need, and hafta have. ;c)
While in California, went skiing a couple of times. Super nostalgic skiing on my old slopes. The slopes where I learned to ski as a wee lad. The resort has changed quite a bit since I lived there as a kid… they’ve added a few new chairs, tons more runs… but the same Sierra Summit feel was still there. I worked there as a teenager too, in the hotel and the lodge. Things are all different now tho’… On the second trip up the mtn, we took my 12 year old nephew, Maxan up with us and I was hellbent on getting that kid up on skis. And while it was tough sacrificing a day shredding and tearing it up my way, to teach someone how to ski, at the end of the day when he looked at me and said, “Can’t we go up just one more time?”… it was allll worth it. He got it…. and he craved more apparently, as my sister and her husband went up again yesterday… makes me feel good. No bug bites harder than the skiing bug. For me anyhow….
I stamped all day today catching up on orders from the 16th of Dec. I had all these whacky plans of stamping while I was on vacation, but I just couldn’t bring myself to focus while we were down there. The weather was nice, puzzles needed to be done, food needed to be cooked and eaten, and bonding needed to happen. So I just said to hell with it, and laid the hammer to rest while i was there. Neen got out a pretty big order for Stella E Luna in New Jersey, but other than that, shop was closed. And… it…. was….. soooooooo nice… needed and nice. It’s bittersweet tho’, because even tho’ I was enjoying the time off (as well as my joints in my hands and my knuckles) I knew that I was going to have to come home to a buttload of stamping to do. But I know that when I dedicate a solid chunk of time to my work, I can get it done efficiently, and that’s exactly what I did today. Ummmmm but my hubby got me the Mario Bros game for the Wii for Christmas and well… that friggen game is going to suck A LOT of precious time out of my day as soon as the kids go back to school…. ADDICT!!! I should know better…… ;c)
But as soon as I get all caught up on orders, you can bet that I’ll be skiing most weekends now. There’s something about flying down the hill on sticks, in my own little world, with Eddie Vedder blasting in my ear drums that trips my trigger and gets me high on life. And even when I stop in the middle of a run to take a breather, and I can see the people on the chairlift up above me, it doesn’t stop me from singing along to my ipod at the top of my lungs….. good stuff… good good stuff. Clarity is good.
Hubby just popped in here in the office to ask me if I wanted to play a round of Mario….. blog some more or go play Mario??
Doo do doooo do doooo dooo duh… ba bum bummm bu nuh nu nuh… doo do
laters…. and HAPPY NEW YEAR… I’m choosing to say “twenty ten” instead of “two thousand ten”… sounds more profound er’ something… more striking…
January 12th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
dude, king size sleigh bed, beauty rest type for christmas. I will never have to touch my wife in our sleep, and feel those wicked cold little feet in the middle of the night again. do it, treat yourself
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