Nick ‘n’ Heather

So Heather is down here on “vacation” for the next couple days. She’s all done with finals and school for a few weeks and she says that she needs a break. I sure wish I could just jet off into the sunset and relax.

Today was evidently “Lazy Day” on the vacation itinerary. She didn’t haul her butt out of bed until I got home for lunch. The best part of the whole deal is that I’ve created a new game to get her motivated. I’ve declared that once your feet touch the ground you have to get up. This works quite well because Heather is 5′5″ and I’m 6′5″. I also outweigh her by at least 150 pounds. So it’s not really a fair fight, so far Heather has gotten up every time we’ve played the game.

So we’re taking it easy during the week and probably heading back Friday night or Saturday morning. There we will be bouncing from Ada to Moorhead to make sure we hit all the high points and don’t miss out on any presents.

Heather also has snowboarding on her mind. It sounds like she’ll be hitting the slopes tomorrow morning while I slave away at the office.

In not such great news, an old friend from high school, Amanda, is now working on her tan at the lovely sand beaches in Iraq. I wish her the best of luck and to get home safe, and it sounds like she’ll have internet access while she is working there so she’ll probably be even more responsive than usual!

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas, not sure how much I’ll be blogging over the holidays but who, knows, I have a new labtop so I’ll might pop up from time to time. I’ve even been able to keep Heather blogging by pestering her a bunch about it. Good night, all.

So yesterday we got up and lounged around for a while until Tim got here and we went to the ski hill. We got to Buck Hill around 6:30 and I picked up my boots and skis while they grabbed their lift tickets and we hit the slopes. I skipped right on past the bunny hill, I’d done this before.

We went down the easy run a few times and I was really starting to get the cut of things. Although we all felt really out of place because it was mostly overrun with 12 year olds. But who cares, we were having fun. After a few runs down the easy slope we went in to warm up for a few minutes. After some much needed warmth, we went back out and jumped directly onto a black diamond run. I started out fine, going slow and not getting crazy. Then a dumb snowboarder got in my way while I was curving back and forth. Somehow this put me on a straight course right for the bottom. I picked up way too much speed and ended up coming over the last hill before the bottom. The dropoff after that hill was a little too steep and I felt my upper body tilt forward. I tumbled head over heels and just remember a cloud of snow all around me. I got back on the horse but told Heather I didn’t want to stay on the big people hill anymore.

So we downgraded to a blue square run. Took it just fine my first time and it was pretty fun to go down a bigger hill. Went back up the lift and started coming down again. Made it all the way down just fine, but somehow forgot to start slowing down. It was about that time I noticed a nice looking fence coming up. I can’t remember the exact moment I was doomed, but I do distinctly remember thinking, “I’m gonna hit this fence”. So there I was crashing into a fence at full speed. I remember hitting, and I remember looking up at the sky. I had busted through the fence. I ended up actually being perfectly fine, but all the little kids thought it was pretty cool.

At this point I thought I’d better stick to the easy run for the rest of the night. So I stayed there and even went around a tree while Heather watched and I even jumped a little. It was a pretty fun night and the hot tub back in my apartment made it all worth it. Tim ended up staying over because it was so late and he was so tired. He took off early this morning and Heather and I lounged around for a while, baked some cookies and finally packed up and Heather headed out. So I’ve been relaxing ever since and trying not too move to much from being so tired and sore from our adventures yesterday.

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Urgh…what a week. Finals start on Thursday so it has been an EXTREMELY fun week… not really. So here is the deal. Last year, the department decided that the writing of the graduating seniors was not up to par. Thanks to that, we have had to write an average of 6 papers in each class! Let’s see… I have 6 classes… so that is about A LOT of papers. No fun. I am looking forward to getting done with my 19 credit semester and on the the last semester of my college career! WOOOOOOO! Bring it on.

Fun side note, I am being inducted into the Lambda Pi Eta honor society on Thursday afternoon. There are 10 comm studies seniors getting the honors and we are the first class to do this. Should be a good time and a good resume booster.

On a somewhat sad side, I told my boss today that I would not be able to continue being a supervisor next semester due to my class schedule. I have put it off for about a month now. I really love running the site and I am really attached to all of the kids. It is going to be really hard to say goodbye to them when I cannot work next semester. I will still be working in the morning because I need to make money somehow, even when I have to get up at the ass crack of dawn. On the bright side, not having to work in the afternoon will leave me some time to enjoy the last half of my senior year.

So much to catch up on. It has been snowing all week and this has got me super excited to go snowboarding! I called Tim on my way down to Minneapolis this afternoon and we are going to go tomorrow evening. I am stoked! Plus, Nick even wants me to teach him. Bunny Hill, here we come!

Tonight, I got to Nick’s apartment and took a nap while I waited for him to get home. We were guided by the almighty GPS to TGI Fridays, of course, and were expecting the three course menu to be there. It was advertised on the website but when we asked the waiter we were sadly disappointed. So when he left to give us a few minutes, we dipped like rock stars. That’s what you get for taking the good stuff off the menu! No Nick and Heather. Supper was at Fudrockers instead. After that, we moseyed on back to the apartment, took a dip in the tub of hotness, and then watched an episode of Kid Nation. Those crazy kids. So that about sums it up I think.