Spring Break

Wow, so much happened this last week. My family went to Mammoth last weekend. Katie and my dad left Sunday morning, and my mom, Robert, and I stayed till Monday. Saturday and Sunday were both wicked days.



Anyone up for a blizzard? I think somewhere around 2-3 feet of snow dropped on Sat. and Sun. making most of Sunday and all of Monday powder days. Monday's weather was a lot better. Clear skies with a little bit of a chilly breeze, but still great. There were so many awsome powder runs. I even convinced Robert to take a few runs through the trees. And for those of you who know the mountain, the Face of 5 was all ungroomed powder. I am talking knee deep the entire time. It was so much fun. I fell so many times this trip. Possibly because even though I couldn't see/read the snow half the time, I didn't let up too much. So every now and then the mountain got the better of me. Falling couldn't have been better though. Only one fall really got the best of me, and that's because I fell hard, and lost my goggles, and got a lot of snow in my jacket and all over my face, making me a bit numb. With the exception of that one, falling in powder is fun. I had a blast the entire time, including the time spent in the car. We boarded Monday morning, and got back in town Monday night.

When we got home Monday night I unpacked then we to Patrick's house. We killed time while waiting for Brandon to get off work, but we ran out of ideas, so I left. Then Tuesday my mom and Katie went to Vegas. Robert and I basically had the house to ourselves until Thursday. We went to Best Buy so I could get headphones and the Incredibles soundtrack and then to Starbucks. Robert doesn't drink coffee yet, but I'll get him to one of these days. And then that night we went to Chili's for dinner with family. Then it was off to Patrick's afterwards. We played xbox until around 1:00 am. Wednesday and Thursday we relaxing days. I got kinda sick Thursday afternoon, but it didn't last long. Friday I didn't do much either, just stayed at home. And today, Robert is going back to school, and then I think I am going to hang out with friends before they go back to school. So there you have it. That was my fun-filled spring break which unfortunately comes to an end Monday morning.

On a side note, Robert just showed me how to post and edit pictures today. So now I hope to provide visuals for really cool things, like my new hockey sticks, or more pictures of Mammoth, or anything else I find appealing.

My Wonderful Weekend

Wow, so much great stuff has happened since my last update. Where to start...on Thursday Kristen and I studied for 3 hours for our sociology test. We even skipped out on child psych. Not going to psych, that was nice. It turns out I am really glad I studied the extra hour and a half, because it made the test a lot easier. On to my weekend, Friday night around midnight I was playing CS and Dan told me I should go down to his place this weekend since he wasn't working. And so at 8:00 am Saturday morning I drove down there. I had so much fun. We went out to lunch, played some cs, watched Southpark and Dodgeball, played a little ps2. We also went to the driving range. All in all, it was just a really fun weekend. Then I drove home Sunday afternoon so that I would make it home in time to rest a little before my hockey game sunday night.

Sunday Hockey- Game 10: We played the black team. They're good. I was really wanting to play though, so I didn't care that they were good. Oh, I got another hockey stick, this time it was the Koho Revolution, 1-piece stick. I'd post a picture, but I don't know how to, and I haven't really bothered to find out how to. We lost our game 7-4. The refs were horrible, and I mean h o r r i b l e. Holding the stick penalty with 1 second left in the period...bs. Tripping because the guy dives for the puck and someone does a good acting job as he falls...it was just bad. OH! To add to my pretty bruise that I got last week (which is almost gone), I got a new one. This one is worse though. I blocked a rocket of a slap shot maybe 6-7 feet from the shooter. It hit my leg on the side just missing the top of my shin guard and going right under the bottom of my hockey pants. Needless to say I have another pretty purple-ish bruise once again. The ice was really bad too, meaning there were lots a divots and stuff. It wasn't smooth and tough to skate on. I will be gone for this weeks game, but then we have one the following week, on Easter Sunday.

This week I had a midterm tonight but that's about all. I went out to lunch today with Matt and Kristen, then we hung out for a while. That was fun. I'm just excited for spring break. Robert is coming home, and then we are going to Mammoth for a few days. I haven't been to Mammoth since I think February. I can't wait! And Patrick is coming home, so we'll get to hang out, maybe golf, and do other stuff. A week to relax, have fun, and not worry about school is just what I need right now.

Ow?

I didn't mention this in my previous post, but at my hockey game Sunday, I blocked a shot with the back of my leg (where there are no pads). Yeah it stung and hurt a little, but I didn't think it was going to be that bad. It turns out, Monday morning when I woke up my leg hurt a little more than I thought it was going to. I think part of the reason is because the puck hit the joint on the back of my leg, so whenever I stand up or sit down my leg bends right where the puck hit me. Anyways, this morning I didn't feel it at all. However, when I looked at my leg, I noticed I have a wicked bruise there. It's kinda big too. No big deal for me though...I think I have had my fair share of nasty looking bruises. Let's see: getting hit with a tennis racket senior year, yeah that sucked, wakeboarding...that was bad, constantly being hit in the shins with a puck playing inline hockey, not wearing shin guards...no comment. So yeah, I thought I would bring that up because now I have this rather attractive bruise on the back of my left leg.

As for other things that have happened in the last 2 days: My philosophy test was really easy for me, mainly because I used last semesters test to study from. And the test I took was nearly identical to last semesters...it's not cheating. Child psych is still really boring and super easy. Sociology is so-so. It's not bad, I'm just not as interested in the class. And as for my cultural anthro class...all I have to say is meh.

Also today, I went to lunch with Matt and Kristen, and then went to Borders afterwards. I think one of these days I am going to compile a list of movies that I need to see because I have noticed that compared to a lot of people, except for Robert (I don't think I am too far behind him in my lack of movie knowledge), I don't know nearly enough random movie stuff.

Sunday Hockey- Game 9

Hey, we finally won a game. Woohoo! We held our losing streak to only 4 games. As for the game itself, we played really well. Going into the third period the score was 3-1 us, so we were confident. I scored the first goal in the third period to make it 4-1. It was a wrist shot from the top of the left circle. It felt great to finally score after having so many opportunities. The final score was 7-2. It was a clean game for the most part. I almost leveled a guy in the last minute. He shoved me kinda hard in the back, and so I turned around, contemplated laying him out, but decided to just put my stick between his legs and give him a shoulder. He wasn't too happy about it. I know this cause he yelled something at me. Other than that though, I think there were maybe one or two other hits. To sum it up: we won, it feels great, and we have some momentum going into next week.

What to Wear

Just a few weeks ago I started to think about what I wear, and how I come to my decision on that. What got me thinking is, I woke up one morning a couple weeks ago, looked outside and noticed it was sunny, so I put on a shirt, shorts, sandals, then left for class. I walk outside, get in my car, and leave. As I am driving down the freeway it starts to rain. Sure enough, by the time I got to school it was cloudy and rainy...so much for a sunny day. Now there have been many more occasions, especially during the "cold" months like December, January, February, and I guess you could throw November in there too, when I would go through the same thought process in the morning. Wake up, see that it's sunny, and put on "summer" clothes. Now when I had my golf class last semester I would suffer more. Sure it was sunny outside, but it wasn't even semi-warm. It was more like frikkin cold or something along those lines. And not to mention that I wore sandals, and the grass was wet and cold, and so my feet weren't particulary warm.

Off on a tangent now. I have a good reason for wearing sandals almost every day last semester. Typical me, I only have 1 pair of shoes. So last summer when I went deep sea fishing I wore shoes (beacuse I didn't want a fish hook or other sharp obeject to stab my toes). It turned out, not to my surprise, that by the end of the trip my shoes had a fishy smell to them. Not to mention the tuna blood stain that was left when one of the deckhands drug a tuna along the deck and over the toe of of my shoe. The tuna was bleeding because once it was brought onboard it had to be knocked out, so it was clubbed or something, and the blood was from that... or maybe from where it was gaffed.

Where was I....oh yeah, 1 pair of shoes. There you have it, my reason for always wearing sandals when it was cold outside. Eventually I decided to wear my tennis shoes, the ones I bought for playing tennis. I really have no explanation for not wearing long-sleeves or a sweatshirt more often though. I guess that's just me. Anyways to conlcude my point about what I wear, I have come up with this: I base my judgement on what it looks like outside. I don't bother to acutally step outside and see if it's sunny-warm or sunny-cold. And I go from that first obersvation. I don't get dressed, then look outside to make sure it still looks about the same as it did whenever I got dressed. The funny thing about this is I am aware of it, and that the weather decieves me more often than not, but I still haven't changed much. I have noticed I tend to wear long-sleeves a little more often now because I don't trust the weather as much as I used to. Oh well...such is life. I think this post is long enough, maybe some other time I will enlighten you as to why I don't wear pants unless required to or that occasional social event where pants would be more appropriate.