Another trip up the Mountain...

Anyone own a neckbrace they could lend me? I went boarding yesterday, this time with my brother Scott and his girlfriend Megan. We had a pretty good day but we all had one accident, if you will, each. Me first! Somehow I did a face plant with no warning whatsoever and got really bad whiplash. I'm so stiff in the neck today not even two trips to the hottub are helping. Next was Megan. She hyperextended her elbow - an old injury that hadn't healed fully. Today she is walking around with an ice pack attached to her elbow by a tensor bandage. And finally Scott, we had a little trouble getting on one of the chair lifts - thanks to me getting stuck on a metal thingy prior to loading - and somehow the sharp end of his ski pole pierced his knee and actually bent his ski pole a bit. We looked at his knee at the end of the day and it actually made him bleed - OUCH! So other than those few issues the day went well. We packed a lunch and ate it in the snow, a tail-gate party if you wil :) And I actually have pictures from the day.

Kyla is now a BLOGGER :)

Wahooooo I did it! I recruited a friend, that I know in person, to the blogging world! Ok ok I may have forced her by making my way onto her laptop here at school to start filling it out, but none the less she carried on filling it out and just made her first post! Way to go Kyla!!! Now I'll have someone else who will leave me a comment - I love getting comments!!! Well that's all just wanted to say a big fat, warm welcome to my best buddy Kyla! Check out her blog at http://www.kmthibeau.blogspot.com

Here lurker lurker lurker....come on out!!!

Okay, so apparently this is officially blog "delurking week". So at the risk of embarassing myself, do I have any "lurkers"? Please reveal yourself if you read but don't comment :)

AND......Thanks for my comments Christy and Angella! So exciting to see the number 2 next to my comments!!! Teehee....I need to recruit some friends to this blogging world...I keep trying.

COME OUT AND PLAY LURKERS!!!

*UPDATE*

Okay so it's been over 24 hours and I don't have any "lurkers"! Isn't that hilarious? I do find it funny! Anyway, I'm sure all in good time I'll acquire my own bunch of lurkers :) Please don't feel sorry for me, just laugh that I thought there might be a chance I even have a lurker hahahaha!

A fun day of SNOWBOARDING!!!

So today I headed up the moutain with two of my friends, Kyla and her boyfriend Christopher. They were both experiencing snowboarding for the first time today :) So I was the instructor. Chris was doing pretty good for a beginner...Kyla...umm...well I'll tell ya this, it took us 45 minutes to get down the bunny-hill and one set of tears :( Wahoo we made it the to easy green chair, but uh-oh someone is afraid of heights (not me) no worries we made it to the top....ready Kyla? We're going to get off the chair lift now...WHAMO! And she's down for the count! And here are the tears again...let's go sit down on the bench Kyla. So Chris helps her over to the bench...she then wants to know if there is another way down other than boarding...hahaha Chris says, "yeah, walk!" So Kyla mustered up some courage and was off to a good start. We are almost to the bottom and home free in Kyla's eyes and WHAMO! Yard sale hosted by Kyla! Uh oh...tears again...and she's done! We took a lunch break at that point and Chris and I thought we could convince her to try skiing instead...umm NO! Well, not today anyway...her butt was a bit too sore and well thank goodness she had a helmet on or she would have had a really bad headache to accompany that sore bootie! Kyla was a good sport and let Chris and I hit the slopes for a couple more hours :) Good thing Chris got her the Pink Nintendo DS she begged for :) It kept her entertained! Kyla, I think, was a bit bummed out that she missed out on some fun so she would like to go back up next weekend to try tubing! I think that's a great idea - so tubing on Saturday it shall be! And I know she'll rock at that!!! Just like she's going to rock at skiing when she goes! Oh and incase you're wondering she did get a free day of rentals and lift ticket because she only did one run - wahooo! Well, that's all folks...until my date tomorrow night...he's so cute, already he made us reservations at The Keg :) And asked me when I thought would be a good time...love that...caring what works for me too! Wish me luck, most have been duds lately hehehe.

PS When Kyla sends me some pics I'll finally post something in visual form :) I never think to bring my camera anywhere...I know crazy hey?

Just get to know them...

So today I was waiting to see my Doctor and this elderly woman walks, slowly, into the office with who I am assuming is her care giver and there was one seat left beside me that was closest to where you go to see the doctor. So the care giver told the woman to sit next to me because it was closest. I told the woman to take my seat so she could sit next to her and I'd just move to the other side - I didn't mind at all! So then then the care giver said wow, you don't see that happen too often and gave a little chuckle and then said her mother raised her right! And I giggled and told the woman I'd tell my mommy she said that :) Which I did! I think they thought I was maybe a teenager and they probably have a slightly assuming attitude about the teenagers in society today and maybe, just maybe, I showed them that the vast majority of teenagers are great, caring, involved in their community kind of people; even though I'm not a teenager I think it still had a an effect :) I'm lucky enough, as a student teacher working at a high school teaching PE, to see how great teenagers can be!!! The stereotype of teenagers = trouble really bothers teens and I wish people wouldn't assume things about them and instead get to know them as a fellow human being :)