Jazz

Another busy week at work. For fun I have seen Shinta and caught up with her; this was a long time coming. I have gone out to the Little Nell for a great dinner and to see Paula West sing Jazz. The dinner and the show were wonderful and for the show I felt like I was in a smoke free jazz club in NY. She and her 3 piece band were fantastic. Today I caught up with things I needed to catch up on like changing the sheets, doing laundry, and dishes etc. Also I saw the movie Eating 3rd edition and have made an attempt to go Vegan. It is harder than you would think since if you eat at a restaurant there is almost nothing that doesn't have some animal products in it and even when you go to the store to buy healthy things like hummus etc there are animal products in them. We are so taught not to eat healthy in this country. Other than that, I did an interview regarding my Peace Corps experience that may be in put in a local magazine and in between 2 snow storms (Friday and Sunday) I got to sun bathe on my porch which was AWESOME. I am planning for another busy week coming up at work but with the possibility of getting Mercy (our new Mercedes Vista motor home). Pictures to come IF we get our vehicle.

Recovery...

So had a busy week at work and finally got to the weekend to recover. It is still on-season here and it is full on on-season. Right now in town are folks for fashion week, comedy festival and spring break! Also we have had some deaths in the family of some staff member's so have had to kick in and work extra (yesterday and will next week quite a bit). I have 1 more month of insanity and then 3 weeks of not so bad and then some rest. The next 4 weeks will be intense with many 90+ hour weeks... ughhh... Hopefully after October it will ease up a bit :). Did get to see some local stand up comics the other night and then a round robin of comics on religion... they had a mormon, albanian, jew, athiest, catholic and christian on stage who were all comedians and really funny telling their experiences with their religions.
Other than that life goes on. Hope you had lots of fun and laughter this last week and that next week is even better!
Also... thoughts go out to the people in Japan... may they have the strength to recover from their devastation and loss...

The Boys are in Town...

So this week has been busy. It remains on-season so busy at work and then my father and uncle came into town. I have been having dinner with them every night and got to ski with them the last 2 days. I am VERY impressed with these octogenarians at altitude. They have more spunk than I do. Tonight we had a very pleasant dinner with friends of my uncle's from WAY BACK and it was ALMOST as good as the meal my father made at home last night :). Tomorrow it is back to work for me. I am not looking forward to getting up in the dark again (daylight savings time kicked in this morning) but it is nice to get out of work in the light. Brad went to Crested Butte to see some old friends of his who are fabulous. I wish I could have gone but will see them another time. Their oldest daughter is in Japan and has survived the earthquake and tsunami but looking at the pictures the destruction was horrible. My thoughts go out to those who were affected. Until next week... Peace and Love!!!

Full on "on-season"

Sorry I haven't done this lately but have been very busy. It is truly on-season and will be until the end of April. Work is good except we had a MAJOR glitch in our computer system that was very scary. It doesn't give me much faith in our system which we have been using for many years and spent a lot of money on. Fortunately we did get them to fix the problem and let others know of the major issue they were having with their system. Other than that Brad has taken up telemarking and I joined him trying it. I have had rondenee gear (back country gear for skinning up and skiing down) for years but usually use the system as regular skiis going down. Today I tried using it to telemark. It was interesting but I don't see the advantage over snowboarding and skiing. We also had a friend visiting for a few days and although we didn't get to spend much time with him the little we did was awesome. I had delivered his first baby, Bella, but then they moved out of the state to be closer to his wife's family. His wife and my friend, Cindy, died suddenly within weeks of delivering their second baby, Zeva. Since then he has done an absolutely fabulous job raising the kids alone in a place he does not love but stays for his children to know Cindy's family and in a country that is not his native country (he is originally from Slovakia). I am just honored to know him. He is one of the strongest, kindest, most amazing and loving person I know. Hope you are all happy and healthy and thankful for what you have.