one day older

I'm one day older than yesterday, but legally, I'm also one year older. What have I learned since yesterday, if age purports to engender wisdom? Well, I've learned that when you start drinking at 1 pm, you have to continue on a steady but moderate pace. If and when you stop, you will be down for the count. I've also learned that I might have a chance with Karma, because I woke up to birthday weather that was out of this world. Sunshine and fresh powder all day. Like the dreams you have where every track is fresh, and the sun is glinting through the trees in the glade, waxing golden on your ride as you float along. Except this dream was real. I've learned that a drive through liquor store is probably one of the best innovations that I've discovered recently. We drove up after dinner and the birthday girl simply rolled down her window, ordered three tall boy Pilsner singles and some shooters. No getting out of the car, going into the cold cooler, showing ID or anything. AWESOME. And lastly, I've learned that unlike my first birthday away from home when I cried like a baby in my dorm room- age has mellowed me out and I was cool with the chill day that I had yesterday.

Three things I'm grateful for as a 24 year old, so far:
1. Powder, sun & beer
2. An awesome father, who as described in the words of dude at the hill; "It's pretty cool that your dad is willing to get crunked to celebrate your birthday". Well said.
3. That the rest of my family, maxing, relaxing and chilling by the pool in the Canary Islands, put down their drinks to give me a call and tell me they were thinking of me on my birthday.

the whore farm

Sooooooo...this weekend was as exciting and as awesome as I thought it would be. My sister and I took off for banff with some baileys and gin in tow and checked in to our cute little hotel. Immediately the prospect of room service was extremely appealing. "Ummm yeah, I'll have a jug of tonic water and some cut limes." At least the guy was cool about it, his only response to ask "Would you like ice with that?". After some scary visions in the hot tub, we set off to the Rose and Crown for dinner. My sis was just sloshed enough to dance with the 'lone wolf' on the dance floor. Quite entertaining. The rest is r-rated and a little bit fuzzy, needless to say, we woke up quite worse for wear.

Looking around the room, you would think a rock band had inhabited it for several weeks. A little embarassed when room service guy #2 came in, as the room also smelled like a bar-or bottle -for that matter. Anyways the excitement for riding suddenly sunk in, but was quickly quashed when the snow report told us that both mountains were closed due to extreme cold weather. That was probably warning number one. Warning number two was when the car almost didn't start. But nooooo we trucked on, and now I have facial frostbite. It's quite attractive, the white blisters look like some exotic form of herpes.

We did have a fun day nonetheless, with some interesting characters riding the gondola with us. Our favorite was the guy convinced that strippers (and the like) came from a whore farm. "They pluck them when they're really little, then they send them to the farm where they learn to be good whores." Seriously.

Sunday we had a photo shoot with my sis, taken by my bestie. It was really cool, and we're giving out the photos for xmas. It has to be a little vain, I mean, "Merry Christmas, here's a photo of me looking ridiculously hot." Sounds like a great gift for my ex. But it was fun, and we continued on to participate in the 12 bars of Christmas. A pub crawl in Kensignton designed to visit almost every drinking establishment in the vicinity. Monday morning was accordingly fun.

Tomorrow is xmas eve, and I have one wish from Santa. All I want for Christmas is my technology back. I now have lost my cell phone as well, thus leaving me alone in the cold with no music (as my ipod is broken too). Sounds like someone needs an iphone. Seriously every year around this time, I lose my phone in a snowbank. Must be a Canadian thing.

This holiday season I am glad for lots of things. The last three that come to mind are:
1. Facebook, because then how else would you get all of your phone numbers back.
2. My family, as even though they are crazy, my mom is out right now buying margarita mix for christmas eve.
3. Yoga. Keeping me sane and limber.

Happy Holidays, I hope you look forward to the party as much as I do!

excitement abounds

my sister is coming home today. I was so excited this morning I was up at six. My racing thoughts- as per usual, included:

what was I going to wear that goes from day to night, that would include my coated nudies and new fur lined jacket (these items to make her green with jealousy- although I'm sure she'll have MANY items that make me green with jealousy). This point may seem vain, but I think that being pulled together and expressing my individuality through my clothes is very important, and most of my friends recognize this as an endearing (?) personality trait.

thinking about the weather (it's really wintery out there as I mentioned in my last post) and hoping that it doesn't delay her arrival.

getting really really excited about the trip we're taking to Banff tomorrow. - we're staying in a hotel room with the intent to party friday night and ride (both of our first times out this year!) saturday.

I decided last night would probably be the last time I would have time to do domestic duties before the holidays. So i did them. Grudgingly. Three loads of laundry, some cooking so I'd have leftovers and a slight closet clean up. Okay, that last one is a lie. I seriously have started to lose things in my closet, resulting in many panicked moments and wasted time trying to find 'lost' items. So any slight clean up just means re-evaluating what the piles contain.

So to wrap up, three things I was grateful for yesterday:

1. That my work is very flexible and because of the horrible weather and road conditions, I was able to work from home for a couple hours in the morning. It was DECADENT. My own home brewed coffee, no traffic gripes ( i tend to have slight road rage) and a great movie in the background.

2. That my sister is coming home today!

3. That I kinda thought my slip peeking out from my dress might be interpreted as trashy, but I got major compliments on the look.

This day is moving exceptionally slow, probably because I have to wait till 7:30 pm to see my sister. I need to press the fast forward button!