Thanks, everyone, it has been a long time coming and I am so excited to finally be leaving current job! One more week to go
musculargirl wrote:Can the last couple days get any better? First it's a job opportunity, now the packer's win the superbowl, what's next? You might want buy a few lotto tickets!
I must say it was a great week for me
Maybe I should have bought lottery tickets - LOL!!!
It has been a very hectic week since I gave notice. I have had to put in a ton of hours to help train everyone so I haven't been working out as much as I would like. And food has been ok this week with the exception of dinner - I haven't had a lot of spare time to cook so that has taken a dive
Yesterday was nephew's birthday so whole family was home. We decided to take the kids downhill skiing last night (in the end it was just me, one sister, two brothers-in-law, 6 year old nephew and 12 year old niece). I should note that it has been 16 years since I have been downhill skiing
We started out on the bunny hill (just getting there was quite a workout, and the rope tow was a crazy workout on the arms!). That got boring pretty quickly. brother-in-law used to be a pretty avid skiier so he told us which ski lift to use to get to the easiest hill. Apparently his memory is pretty bad because we got to the top and realized that the hill was named "Damnation."
Well, once we got up there we had to go down somehow. So I went first to show niece that there was no reason to be scared - I think I terrified her
I spent more time on back and tush than on skis
At one point I was on skiis AND on back sliding down the hill. Another time I was backwards on skiis, legs straight, bent at the waist, with hands on the ground - and the strangest part is that I was actually skiing like this. I heard someone on the lift say "how is she doing that"
Believe me, it wasn't by choice that I was in that position
By the time we got to the bottom of Damnation, I had more snow in clothes than there was on the slope
And I had laughed more than I think I ever have
We got some crazy stares, but we made it in one piece ( niece cried for part of it I guess, but she lived through it).
We were going to give up when brother-in-law said "Oops, sorry, that wasn't the easy hill." Really, we hadn't noticed! So we went to the beginner hill and had a blast for 3 hours
I actually was beginning to look like a real skiier
I can't wait to go again.
I should add that I am really sore today, that was definitely a 3 hour full body workout
This time it was aunt ( dad's brother died 5 years ago, this was his wife). The funeral was today, very sad