Ice Skating-- Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

Today is special. Today means that nobody in this household has gotten sick in 12 hours. I'm one of the lucky ones who didn't actually contract the extremely contagious flu epidemic that went through the entire population of guests up at the farm at Christmas. Of which you probly all know, and probly all have experienced... So, now, I'm pretty happy that I don't have that comin' at me, except that every night I can barely sleep because I'm so scared I'm gonna wake up barfing...uhh, more than you probly wanted to know. Make a long story short, I'm proud of my super-dee-duperly-awesome immune system.

Next topic, umm... OOOhhhh! Today, we went skating! Ice skating! It was soooo cool! I love ice skating, and it's super cool when you actually have skates that fit you! (Not like I didn't have fun on the pond at the farm on skates that didn't actually fit me. I still had a blast.)

Okay, so I fell asleep after that there sentence last night:) I was mighty tired. Continuing on.... So, the ice skating now happens to be yesterday's activity. It was great, except for the part where I first got in trouble for bringing my camera on the ice and taking pictures of everyone who came with us(Dale, Amy, Emily, Logan, Sarah, Bryce and Weston Widhalm). After that, I got in trouble for being completely starving since I missed lunch, since I ate breakfast at 11:30, and I brought crackers on the ice. Yeah. He said it's not generally allowed. But there was no sign, so... ? Then I also got in trouble for helping Weston Widhalm. He's a little kid in our field and I don't think he'd ever skated on ice in his life. Anyway, we were all helping him and switching off helping him and by the time I got to him he was doing pretty good, but I decided he was going a little slow for my liking after 3 rounds of the rink took us at least 20 minutes. So I got him a chair. They use them at rinks for beginners, the beginner skater pushes the chair in front of them and the chair kinda stabilizes them and helps them learn the concept of gliding on the ice. Well, we did another 3 rounds of that, and it helped him quite a bit. He went a bit faster, but he got tired, and I didn't like going slow, so I decided to push him in the chair. Needless to say, that was the third thing I got in trouble for. It wasn't all bad trouble, just that the security or ice person came over and told me I couldn't do it. Anyway, we had a great time ice skating. It lasted about 4 hours and I could've kept going! Our old ice rink shut down several years ago, and I haven't gotten the chance to ice skating since then on an indoor rink. Oh, by the way, 2 times during the open skating hours, the zambonie came out on the ice. That's the monster that drives all over the ice putting warm water on the ice and smoothing out the cracks in the ice that mess you up. This inspired me when I saw the dude riding atop that majestic tower of steel, just gliding..... I'm gonna be a zambonie driver when I grow up. Just wanted to set you guys up for it. I wanted to be a crazy cat woman, but I guess I can do that later in life:)

Well, I've really gotta start downloading stuff off the internet, task sheets for my computer literature stuff I hafta get done over break. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have an awesome New Years'! Toodles!

Complete Randomness: this is for you, kirstyn

Well, here it is. The requested blog. I'm finally up at a computer with as much time on my hands as I want to stay up for and use, and I have no idea what to write that would interest y'alls. I'll start with one concert I've had for a while now.

I'm a sophomore in high school with no idea or direction as to what I want to do as a career. I've given much thought to being a circus performer, tho:) I'm thinkin' one of those people that drive motorcycles around in the giant hamster ball, or maybe the acrobats. I have terrific balance. Ah-hem. Except for the time about a week ago, when I was holding this awesome plastic cup that you can scrape your name into the black part on the side. Anyway, I was holding that in my right hand, the side near the hand rail, and Emily was on my left. I slipped on the ice and didn't wanna drop my cool plastic cup to grab the handrail, so I grabbed Emily with my free hand and we both went down, like heroes. Or, actually, Emily went down. With her violin. and her purse which had taken up all her hands. and her backpack. Me, I had regained my balance with the grab I made for Emily, and so I stood a safe distance away from Emily, until I realized she didn't know I was the cause of her topple. Mah-Ha! MAh-HAh!!

Next topic. I'm completely broke and actually in debt(nothin' new there). I'm excited to get my new snowboarding gear in the mail soon, tho...and I still hafta get some money so I can actually GO snowboarding. I'm completely and utterly hyped about Amy coming home this Friday!!!!!!!!!!! This Monday, as in two days from now, is an important day for me. It's the first Christmas concert I'll be at where I'll be playing at the Civic Center! It's a huge shin-dig where all three top groups(Chanteur Choir, Symphonic Band, Chamber Orchestra) all get together(along with the jazz band, Russ Tones, and the equivalent for choir, Russell Ayres) and put on a concert for the community. It attracts tons of people because we send out invitations to each of the people we sold fruit to for the music dept. (btw, it ended up going really good for me--my minimum was $700, and I made $834), and so every year there's more people who come and decide they want to come the next year, too, and the next and the next, etc. You get the picture: I'm excited.

Right now, I'm sitting at the computer at Darryl and Ruth Benjamin's house, after a day of cleaning for their special meeting company, and an entire day of snow. This is one of those rare, only 3 times a year snow storms we've just *graciously* accepted from the Zeus the weather dude, who poured about a foot and a half on us here in Fort Benton, just today and last night. The snow drifts(AWesome!) are like 4 feet tall. No joke. I'm just itching to go home and get my snowpants on, and jump off the deck into it. Yah-Hooo0!!!

I've decided I'm not good at blogging, cuz I'm way too tired, as it is 12:04p.m. right now, to be writing a post, and way too exhausted to incorporate any enthusiasm or humor into this. I'll try again some other time when I have way too much time on my hands and I don't feel like going to bed. One last thing in parting, tho. Last night was my first in about a month that I've gone to sleep before midnight! Yay-hoo! And now, I'm back in my schedule of late to bed, early to rise. :( Second thing, just in parting, I can't believe our Sunday morning meeting has the nerve to finally have a potluck. on the day I'm gone. Grrr! No, jk. I'm having great fun here, and that will not end when I get in bed and go to sleep. See, here at Ruth's house, I have a bed that has leopard print sheets that are just awesome! I probly dream about them and penguins at night! (btw, the penguin part was completely random. no, you didn't miss anything). Third, and hopefully last thing, before I sign out(no, just X-out; does Amber ever sign out?) for the night: check out my profile. I actually decided to put some stuff on there. Okay. G'night, y'all.