This Isn’t Sweet or Loving

Skiing alone is a joy. Totally unfettered by the needs or desires of others.

Hubby laid up by previous day’s parking-lot fall. Good wife would stay home giving TLC. Bad wife went skiing. Good hubby totally supportive! Wife not worthy…

Alpine Meadows 1/5/13. (38 degrees Fahrenheit, sun mixed storm front, on little girls, old Rossie Mach 2s about 50 or 60 centimeters underfoot? Old but quick.)

  • Wolverine Bowl – sweet, easy.
  • Waterfall – bumps like volkswagons.
  • Lower 3 Sisters – good bumps.
  • Pete’s Peril – steep, sweet.
  • Palisades – terrifying (needed big girls… Volkyl Aura/Aurora? 162 underfoot).
  • Lower Our Father – Lord’s Prayer not enough, too big. Go skier’s-far-right.
  • Counterweight Gully – scary thrill, sweet on skier’s left. Skied like a dork. Searching for video of good run here from previous season.

All info obsolete by the time you read it.

Moment skis are in.

The Wedding From Hell: Book Review of When We Touch, by Brenda Novak

Brandon is a champion SKIER. (Be still my heart.)

The tension in this novella (100 pages) rocks.

Intense conflict for him (total hunk of a hero) and for her.

When Brandon’s somewhat estranged mother comes over to see him in the beginning, I felt all tensed up inside because of the way she treated him growing up. And then she expects him to put on a happy face about the wedding from hell.

For Olivia… the situation is just the worst thing ever… but no spoilers here.

This is a quick read. For full enjoyment, go into it without reading the blurb, any reviews (besides this one), and let Ms. Novak take you on a fun ride.

Five Reasons Not to Take Up Skiing

  1. It’s hazardous.
  2. It’s cold.
    cold
  3. It’s expensive.
  4. It’s a hassle.
  5. It requires a lot of stuff that makes clutter in the off-season.

So why do it? 

  1. It’s fun.
    Fun
  2. It’s good exercise.
  3. It feels amazing to slide and glide.
  4. It’s pretty.
    Pretty
  5. You get to know things about people by how they ski.

Dialogue of the day:

“Did you have fun today, honey?”

“Yes, until I fell in the parking lot.”

(See reason #1 not to ski.)

What do you find fun that others might find… not so much fun?