Back in Business!
Wow. It's good to be back!
I've been a busy little beaver lately.
Saturday I went skiing at Devil's Head in Wisconsin. Aarti and I got there about 10, but we didn't actually do anything until noon, when our class started. We met up with T and her friend Jess, and started learning to ski.
The class was a bit slow-moving, but good. I practically yanked my arm out of the socket on the tow rope, but I learned to snow plow and do the matador and do turns. Then we mastered the lift (and the best part? Aarti and I didn't buy lift passes.... we bought tow rope passes, which were $15 as opposed to $40, and looked *exactly* like lift passes save for the red "R" on them. No one questioned us). We tried the Green hill, and did pretty well at it after a few times down. Then, T's husband talked us into the blue hill.
So. It was all good at first. And then we rounded the curve, and WOWEE. Practically straight down. We started going this way and that way, weaving across the entire path as to make the angle less severe, but I really didn't have nearly enough control for that. I ended up giving up and just FLYING down at about three thousand miles per hour. It was like, hold on for dear life and stay on your feet! But I did it. More than once. And I didn't even fall! Go me.
I came home, though, and was so completely sore I couldn't move, let alone climb the stairs. I ended up taking a bath in the jacuzzi bathtub, which helped some. Then I zonked out on the futon at about 9 pm. Heh.
Sunday was the Oscars. Wheee! I love the Oscars. I do. Serious love for the Academy Awards. Had a bit of a partay, which was good fun. Nice group of people, I think. Yeah? We had themed food, like Master and Commander Pacific Deep Sea Punch and Lord of the Rings Pretzel Rings. One for each movie. And then Meghan brought A Mighty Wind chili dip, which... ahahahaha! Yummy, too. Here are the little cards I made to go by the food.
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King totally swept. Eleven of eleven, baby! Man, I'm so glad I was enlightened to those movies this year, because otherwise, I'd have been pissed. As it is, I realize what a masterpiece they were, and I think they deserved every one. Although I would have liked Seabiscuit to have won something (*wink*, Jamie).
Monday, I hung out with Karey. She's in town from Connecticut this week. I picked her up at Shelley's and Karey, Jess and I went to Woodfield to make Build a Bears. I made a Dominic Bear! (That second picture is of Dominic Bear with JC Bear... they're pals! They'resocute!)
After BAB, we ate at John's Garage, browsed the mall a bit, hit a used CD store (where I got some GREAT finds... Train, Five for Fighting, Lion King on Broadway, Nsync Christmas, and Cutting Edge on DVD...), ate at Sweet Tomatoes, and took Karey to her swank hotel downtown.
Good times.
So, that's about it lately. Back to the grind, I guess.
I'm so glad my blog is back!
::hugs blog tight::