so tired..

I learned something this weekend. Tired is a bad place for me to be. I didn't get to bed till 3 am this saturday and instead of sleeping in I somehow got up at 9. Before I knew it I was up to WaWa by 1.

Being tired is one thing but yesterday it was a little beyond being tired. I was cranky and snappy. I didn't have my usual store of patience either. I enjoyed a little riding but the clinic got annoying quick.

I wanted... it is unusual for me.

I guess I just need to be a little more intentional about things.

my wayward life

"This is Will, he has good hair."

That was probably one of my favorite ways to be introduced. It was not my idea but I found it hilarious. But life has been interesting recently. Between resigning from my job as a youth pastor, which is my dream job. Explaining over and over why I did. My brother getting engaged and then promptly moving up the date to accommodate the Corps. needs. In all of this I've been looking and praying for housing. I think I finally found it.

The snow sports scene, at least for me is such a family. Every year it just seems like the instructors are getting closer, and more dependable. There is for the most part more trust and honesty. But along with that I every year come more into my own there. Every year I feel like I'm more towards the top of the tier. Which is a great feeling for me. I've never been this good at anything and I don't want to walk away from something that comes so naturally to me.

But housing just came through! I had mentioned it in the locker room and someone had said yah we got a place. I just went over last night to check it out.

It is amazing.

I feel like at least for a bit life will be fun. And for the first time in 2 years I'll have a really cool place to live.

Of course school still looms like a specter over my shoulder. I just want to finish and be done with the nagging unspoken words I hear.

News isn't good or bad it just is

It has been an interesting holiday season full of ups and downs. As much as I wanted to avoid drama it seems to be all around me and somehow involve me. Although I am tending to stay on the peripheral these days.

One way or another I'm moving soon.

At first my brother was getting married in march, then he was getting deployed in march, now he is getting married in Vegas this month.

I've realized that I don't so much flirt anymore as I just throw out 'awkwards'. It seems to work just as well.

Still single though.

Winter time is most definitely my favorite time of year. If I could find church people as good as the folks in ski school, the world would be taken care of.

New Tradition

Yah so it looks like I'm developing my own new tradition. This morning I woke up to everything covered in that beautiful white stuff we call snow. Not to much, just and inch or two. So I got ready to shovel but it had already been done and I resigned myself to relaxing for a bit. Finally I headed out to get my car cleaned up, but unfortunately no ice scraper. No problem, because I had the same problem last year around this time. The solution was simple, walk down the street and buy a new one at the convenience store. After a brisk walk of snow crunching under my feet I found the scrapers and headed home. I was glad to have any amount of snow decorating the city but very sad that there was so little of it. Two years of this in a row is a pretty good start I think.

Bummin' week 2

Last year I was riding on the 22nd. Which means they were making snow a few weeks before. First week of ITC got going and we were already shredding. Now it's the coming up on the second full weekend and it has been snowing for a few days now. It was in the 50's today! And in the 7 day forecast we are only looking at a high of 41. This is no good for a guy with that itch. I'm thinking it will be near Christmas before I get on snow. ridiculous. Not only that my friend Katie is home from Tahoe for the holiday, and she informed me that they got 4 feet in Tahoe. Lamesky.

Also I learned a new thing from someone at the bonfire. It's called "sauce" and all you gotta do is brush the bottom of someones chin and say sauce. It's so weird but it makes me giggle!

Bummin'

Thanksgiving is a few short days away, and I get to hang out with a dear friend this week. That is all that is going well right now. Final projects are looming near. The temperature is still to high to make snow. On top of that it looks like it will rain all week. My least favorite kind of precipitation. Not to mention the perilous nature of my housing at the moment. These last few years I've lived for the snow. At first it was just to fulfill a promise and then it became much more. I fell in love all over again with the sport. Then this past year I found that teaching it may equal or surpass the actual riding itself. And what really sets it apart is how at the end of most everyday I can just sit and be happy as a clam, with no wants but more vertical on our mountain. I get the exercise I need and the endorphin boost with it.

Now I don't know if I have the seasonal depression like some folks in the grey northeast do. I'm not one to add disorders to my mostly normal brain, unlike one of my teens who insists on short-term memory loss. But if saying I do lets me ride more I'm all for it.

Starbucks

There are those who drink the sludge obsessively. I however cannot. I rarely go to any Starbucks but the one at the Mtn. However I recently went with a friend to one in Quincy. I wasn't quite sure if I was 'hip' enough to even darken the doors of such an establishment. So just to make sure I put on a scarf like any good yuppie. I however do not make good money and only appear to be such a person. With the scarf warming my apparently cold neck the barista quickly came to ask me for my order. I presume she observed my scarf and wanted to assist me warm my frigid throat. Of course I was quickly found out to be an outsider when I was unable to order a drink using their measurement units or string several words into a massive compound word/sentance. My friend embarrassed, covered for me by paying. It signified my true alien nature but her expertise overshadowed my ignorance.

Why we got coffee at 9pm I have no idea.