Snowboarding @ MindSay

I know I want to blog right now but I have no ideas as to what to blog about. Does that ever happen to anyone else? Alright. I've been wanting to let out my excitment for my week off next week, but I didn't want to kill it before it happened. Oh well, gonna let it out (gah, preposition!).

Saturday I'm flying into New Haven, CT to spend 4 days with my brother. We'll be spending one day in NYC, two days snowboarding, a possible trip up to the Orange Country Choppers headquarters, and pretty much anything else we can squeeze in (again!). This is wonderful because this trip will combine many of my favorite things. I have a lot of favorite things but don't think that that makes them any less special. Anyway. I will name these things in list format.

1. airports and flying.
2. snowboarding
3. Museums!
4. The fuckin library
5. my brother
6. Guitar hero
7. I don't have a 7th but even numbers really bother me.

So yes. I'm excited. Texas is a bitch to drive through (!!!). A BITCH. Anyone who's ever done it can attest to that. It blows my mind that I will soon be in such a tiny state. I wish I could explain it. Really the only places I've been east of Texas are Louisiana and two days in DC (this excludes a roadtrip to Wisconsin when I was younger that I do not remember). OH! I'm also going to H&M. I've never been but I hear good things. I'm kind of thinking itll be a let down but oh well. Alright blog accomplished. If anyone knows of some shit I should get into up in the CT area, please share. The end.

That was just weird.

I'm waiting on a phone call from my friend Shelley to see if we're going to go snowboarding tomorrow (it's not looking good in my mind, because she's not calling back and also tomorrow is a holiday and watch, the mountain's closed), so my phone is in my pocket.  A few moments ago, it rang.

"You have a call from (unintelligble male voice, speaking for less than one second)".  The message repeated twice.  Then the automated voice says, "Do you accept this call? If so, it will be at a rate of $9.99 for the first 20 minutes.  To accept this call, press 1 on  your phone.  If you do not accept, please hang up".  So I hung up.  But I looked at it, and it was a 561 number not stored in my phone.

I have a word document (okay, it's an excel sheet, don't judge) of everyone's phone #s from when I got my new phone and the old one didn't transfer them over and I realized 'hey, I might want to have that stuff written down somewhere in case my phone ever craps out and I need a phone number'.  Then I used my Master's Degree and said, 'why don't I check that since I never put all the #s into the new phone?'.  So I did. 

I knew instantly that 561 was a Florida area code (weird tidbits like that stick with me:  area codes, zips, birthdays...), and when I looked at them, they were indeed Floridian friends' numbers that showed up.  Unfortunately, this particular 561 phone number wasn't one I knew.

Then, very briefly, I said, "oo! Ryan lives in Florida!  Maybe it was Ryan!".
Ignore the fact that Ryan lives in Miami, which is not in that area code.  Neglect for a minute the fact that Ryan and I stopped communicating in...August.  Also neglect for a minute that we never exchanged phone numbers, and though we're friends on facebook, I don't list my number on there so he didn't randomly write it down.

If you DON'T neglect all that, you might be with me at the right level of disappointment when I realized 'hey, that wasn't Ryan calling me (collect) to talk'.  Yeah.  Sucked.

::sighs::

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Snowboarding is so much easier than skiing. I m at Brian s house in Fort Collins, and we drove a couple hours to Loveland Ski Resort this morning. I saw more snow than I ve ever seen, and my mom freaked out about the possible bad combinations of our car and large amounts of snow. She gets nervous very easily whenever driving conditions are even slightly underpar. Snowboarding is pretty fun.

I was sitting upstairs on the comp a little while ago and decieded it was 9 o'clock or so and I was getting the kids out of the hosue for a while!

 

They dont' have school today because they go to Catholic School and it is the Holy Day of Immaculant Conception of Mary!  Yes I already got a phone call from Sister Frances (the one I made cry earlier this year)!  See I didn't point anythign out to the kids and DeLaney figured somethign out on her own and went straight to Sister Frances and got really upset that Sister Frances didn't answer her!

 

DeLaney:  Sister Frances?  We have Friday off because Mary got pregnant with Jesus right? 

 

Sister Frances:  Yes, DeLaney.

 

DeLaney:  Okay so if a woman is pregnant 9 months, then Jesus's birthday isn't in December or did she preform some magic and have him in less then 3 weeks after getting pregnant?

 

Sister Frances:  Not now DeLaney will talk about it later!

 

Then I got a phone call:D  I was laughing so hard.  Leave it to my lil Pagan kids to fluster a Sister!  I asked if she has an answer prepared for DeLaney and she didn't.  I strongly suggested that she get one prepared for the next time she sees DeLaney and that I wanted to hear the response before she gave it to DeLaney.  Father Mike called a little later and was laughign just as hard as I was.  Explaining that he would be the one explainign things to DeLaney and that he would make sure that he ran things by me first before he said anything!  I said you might as well pull Coltin in on your explanation cause he would be wondering also!

 

 

My toes are cold because I had the kids bundle up in snow pants and such to go outside for a morning of sledding and snow boarding.  I was also debating if I started the van up and ice skate up my lane to see if I could make it up the hill.  I still have to call my dad to see if he can pick me up to go get my truck from the mechanics!  While we were getting ready to go outside my Uncle Gene showed up with a tractor and loader to clean out the drive and lane!  Yay!

 

I will still have to ice skate up the hill he said but now I dont' have to worry about breaking through snow drifts on top of it!  My Uncle Gene was laughign his ass off at what I was wearing out in the snow and cold though!

 

I have a black tshirt on that the sleeves are ripped off of (old basketball practice shirt), a pair of black sports shorts, a pair of softball socks that are white with black stripped, and a pair of chucks!  And since I was outside I had a black butt and hip covering sweater on!  My toes are cold now!  While I was snappign pictures of the kids going down the hill and Uncle Gene climibing down and off the tracotr to come chitter he snapped a picture of me and my outfit on his camara phone!  Said it was too goofy sexy to pass up not to email to Randy!  I informed him Randy already saw my get up cause this is what I had on yesterday and used as night clothes!  He started laughign when I said DeLaney snapped a picture and had me email it.  He goes well this time you are in a sweater also with chucks he'll really appreciate it!

 

I am having my knee surgery before Christmas and come to find out my Uncle is having one of his knees replaced after Christmas!  We are going to be gimps together!  Plus we are going to go gang up on my dad about getting his knees replaced after his Guillium Barrers Syndrome is completely cleared up and his back is operated and healed up from! 

 

But I strongly suggest if you go out in the cold and snow to at least have tennies on and not chucks!  my toes are cold and sore now!