off again

I can’t help notice how strange it is to be snorkeling in a glowing turquoise sea one week, and packing WINTER CLOTHES to be off snowboarding the next.

(“strange” here referring to the most unique variety of awesome.)

It’s been hard to catch up on life lately, but that’s hardly surprising with trip after trip after trip. Wish I had time to organize my head and desk back into their neat little color-coded binders, but I can’t really complain. I know that the waterfalls of Tennessee and blue grasses of Kentucky REQUIRED exploring, as did the beaches of Tortola…and now apparently the streets and slopes of Vermont?

I’ll be gone tomorrow through the weekend at Mt. Snow, getting some quality snowboarding and face time with all sorts of swell people. (one in particular, but more on him later.) This is the first year in a lonnng time that I haven’t gotten a snowboarding pass, and that’s been sad. I’m hoping there’s enough legit snow left to make the most of getting to ride somewhere bigger than Pennsylvania. I was starting to feel guilty about taking so many VACATIONS, (the work-shunning scandal of it all) but decided since 83% of the rest of my weekends are tied to work, it’s simply my responsibility to live it up while I can. (And that’s a job I can take seriously.)

And for most heartwarming bit of awesome you’ve probably ever seen – National Geographic wins every game for bringing the Up! house to vibrant life.

Hope you’re well.