Grilled Cheese Blizzard

I moved in with Jay and Deana until I leave for Thailand.  The house is rented and I wanted to move out as soon as possible so I’m not putting the final packing and cleaning off until the last minute.  I was going to do the final cleaning on Sunday, but I slept for 18 hours instead.  I went up to the house yesterday and did about half of it, but I also needed to help out at work too so I didn’t get all the house stuff done.  So, I got up early this morning to finish it up.  I awoke to a blizzard.  It took me over an hour to go to the post office and back.  By the time I got back, I decided that driving up to my house sounded too exhausting.  I would just work here and deal with it tomorrow.  Around lunch time, Deana suggested we have grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.  Apparently I kept forgetting I had soup and then would buy more soup so I when I moved in here it was me and a lot of tomato soup.  The idea for grilled cheese and soup was so perfect that no other lunch was going to work.  But, there was no cheese.  As much as I didn’t want to go fight the bad roads to get cheese, I was coming to conclusion in my head that it was going to have to be done.  Just as I was coming to this conclusion, Jay demanded that I move the truck out of the driveway so he could take the motorcycle out.  Huh?  We got at least a foot of snow and it’s still snowing.  Did he say motorcycle?  Yes, yes he did.  He explained that it’s so fun in the snow and asked if I wanted to go too.  Then I remembered he has a motorcycle with a sidecar. Ah, yea, I want to go.

It was so much fun doing donuts in the middle of the road and riding through the snow to the store.  And then we had grilled cheese and soup and it was perfect.  The End.

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First Snow

I woke up to snow.  Oh my god I love snow.  Just seeing it on the trees and shuffling it around with my feet made me so happys.  What problems?  What stress?  Who cares if I’m alone?  Job Schmob.  How does frozen water do this?  It must be magic.

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Still no interview for Antarctica.  The HR guy said maybe next week.  Next week I have to pay for my TEFL class or not.

Today was run errands day.  I went for a hike.  Not sure why, but lately when I hike I do it with my glasses off.  Everything is blurry, but I still feel compelled to do it.  Maybe one day I’ll figure out why.  The pictures do not represent the way I actually saw it.

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Ouray, Silverton, Telluride

I had planned a trip to Ouray with a friend of mine that I haven’t hung out with in a long time.  We were going to go climbing and mountain biking and I was so looking forward to reconnecting with him.  It would have been last weekend, but after I made campground reservations, he told me he might not be able to go and he’d let me know when he found out.  Time came and went and he never gave me a definite answer.  So, I made plans to go to Grand County last weekend instead.  The campground let me reschedule my reservation for this weekend and Cynthia and I went.  Again, this is part of my plan to spend some quality time with Colorado before I leave.  It was also great to spend quality time with Cynthia.  We spent a day in Telluride too.  I have never been there and fell in love love love with Telluride.  And surprise! It was the weekend of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.  Oh, small mountain towns…..  I’ll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

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That was a fun weekend.  I’m out of shape and got my butt (well my lungs and heart really) kicked on the “easy” mountain bike run we did.  I got to see Mike race on today which made me happy as I’ve never seen him race.

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I did my Emergency First Responder class tonight.  It’s similar to the Red Cross First Aid and CPR classes.  I have to take that before I can do the Rescue Diver course.

Now off to a weekend in Grand County with Mike and Lisa!  I’m looking forward to mountain biking and hanging out with them.  I’m also looking forward to spending some time with Colorado Mother Nature as I will miss the Colorado mountains when I leave.

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