Mount Washington

We are heading up the Mountain for three nights to stay in a chalet with some friends. I am pumped! Last time I went snowboarding I discovered muscles that I didn't know existed..I am bringing my skis up to so I'll be switching between snowboarding and skiing. I look forward to the peacefulness up there and there is a ton of snow up there! I get to try out my new Jacket too..I love my new jacket its cozy.

'The Big Gust'

Yesterday afternoon we were getting southwesterly winds and arctic air was on its way in from the north. So I think the two fronts met and we got a huge gust of wind and it knocked trees down everywhere. It travelled through Sooke, into Colwood and My parents up in Nanaimo got it about half hour later. It was the weirdest freakish wind gust ever. A single mother with her newborn baby one block up from us had a tree come right through her roof destroying the entire house and they somehow thankfully were spared and got out safely. Across the street from us, as we were watching the huge wind gust hit, we saw a group of four trees roots and all be taken over just missing the house and then another huge fir tree luckily missing the two homes across from us by maybe a cm. Maybe a part of the roof was damaged thats it. So lucky. All the wires came down. Scary stuff....these two photos are taken from our house looking across the street.

The Tragically Hip Concert

A few words from my favorite artist, BY FAR, of all time and for all time

I want them all back. The Iraqi kids, the American kids, and the kids that tied their stars to some idiotic fundamentalist crusade and traveled to Iraq to do what they were convinced was the will of God. I want the All Mighty to get off his ass and start sending some tsunamis at the Palestinian/Israeli coastline just to see how long it takes enemies to become necessary friends when all the bullshit that people create to divide themselves is no longer of importance.
I want them all back, every single one of them, along with every ounce of blood that flowed through their bodies, their dreams, their fears, their good, their bad, their truths, and their lies.
I want them all back because it has never been our right to take them.
Emancipation is the goal of all humanity. The greed implicit in controlling the emancipation of others is the goal of half of humanity. Looking the other way is the pastime of the other half.
In the end, everyone climbs thirteen steps, criminals or not.

-A few words taken from Matthew Good's 'Thirteen Steps'


oh and the Hip concert last night was oh so good....they were amazing and they played a lot of old stuff, my favorite stuff. To all you people who sat through the entire show....come on its a rock concert aren't you into the music enough to stand up and get into it a little more???I think we are a little lame here in Victoria...I don't ever remember this happening at one Vancouver show. What up with that?

well there's always more cat photos

Ike was is one of his loving moods which only come on his terms...he can sure be a cutey when he choses to be..and then there's Mikah..the picture says it all lol!

Sunrise Photo from our bedroom window and Tess and Ike photos from last night

My My Hey Hey

our computer is being so sloooooooooooooooooooow. It needs a cleanup. A laptop would be nice ..but must spend money elsewhere. Like on a hot tub..yup. I have hmm lets see here...I have 300.00 in my hottub account.I am slowly on my way....this same account was my previous Kayak fund...(dork)remember I spent the money on clothes though cause I desperately needed stuff. Hope I can let this actually accumulate enough to get a hottub. mmmmm hottub...sounds nice right about now.

Exciting month ahead..on Sunday The Hip concert, and then we are going skiing/snowboarding at Mnt. Washington for three nights (on the 13th) with some close friends and then January 30th Ry is taking me to Vancouver for a CANUCKS GAME!!! My first one too, Im physced! Ry got us tickets for Christmas. And then I bought Ry, for our 2 year wedding anniversary, a two night getaway to Galiano Island (one of our favorite places to camp), we have a ocean front cabin this time though with a hottub out on the deck and the puppy girl gets to come too! So we will be a little broke after it all is over but what the hell right..We don't do these things often. I look forward to getting away. Life has been tiring lately.

I was listening to the radio and they were about to give away hip tickets and I already have tickets but front row ones sound better so I am trying to win..anyway I call in cause a Tragically Hip song is playing and when two play you have to be the 9th caller and you win tickets, so I call and I get almost interviewed by the radio dude... asking me Tragically hip questions and what my hip memories are...and I knew he was prob recording me to play afterwards. So after I was off the phone he plays our conversation on the radio and I sounded dorky. I didnt win tickets though. That was my excitement for the day. Oh then I called Rich and Leah to help try win and they tried for me also but didn't win. Thanks for trying guys. And they aren't even Hip fans what nice friends!

Neil Young was just on...My My Hey Hey Rockn'Roll is here to stay better to burn out than fade away My My Hey Hey

I procrastinate too much. With my own life not at work though. I am actually quite efficient and get things done at work, but at home I am really really bad with procrastinating. I really want and need to change this and some other bad habits and such thrown in there too. I know what I need in my life to make me happier but why don't I do it. I want to finish painting inside the house but I haven't. I want to paint and draw more, I want to frame my photography. I need to work on my artistic side more. That is me, I am an artistic person and I havent been doing enough. I feel better just writing about it maybe it will help me change.