Ouch!!! As most of you would assume I went skiing this past weekend, what a surprise. On the way up Friday, I decided to try a different route, and perhaps avoid the traffic on Route 26, and the new route worked. It was a lot more fun too, especially with my new car, which for all of you in the contest now has 5080 miles. I got to the apartment and then headed to Suds. Travis told me he was coming up and never showed, so I ended up staying up late waiting and then just fell asleep. I called in the morning to make sure he was okay and he answered the phone and said, “Yeah I’m not coming up.” I was less than thrilled. Anyway then I headed up for some skiing and about halfway through the day was doing a jump onto like a rock face thing and fell flat on my face. It knocked the wind out of me and my chin got all scratched up. I would put up a picture, but I am an idiot and left the camera at home. Stupid, stupid, stupid. So I basically bled all day long and now people look twice at me because of the scar. I did continue to ski though and although it was very icy, I had a great time skiing. One good thing to mention was that I hit a very large jump on Saturday and dialed up a 360, this was quite an accomplishment since I had never tried one of a jump so large.

Day 2, more injuries. The weather yesterday was very similar to the prior day, and the trail conditions were actually a little better since they made a lot of snow over night. Now I need to tell you about this annoying girl, I always see around the lodges. Apparently her name is Ashley, but every weekend I have seen her at some point. She basically walks around and in her boy crazy state, goes up and talks to basically anybody. This past weekend she finally spoke to us and let me tell you it was weird. I thought she was going to say something about the fact that we are always looking at her, but no she said, “Just a tip for you guys, before you accuse somebody of stealing your bag, make sure it isn’t stolen first.” She then walked away, barefoot, with pajama bottoms, a t-shirt and goggles on her head. Once again I would provide a picture, but I am stupid and left the camera at home.

After the encounter with the girl, we headed back up to the mountain for some more skiing. Now it is starting to get dark and we head for the terrain park. The first time through everything went well, I hit the rail all good, hit a couple jumps great, we then went back up to do it again (BAD IDEA). I came down to do the rail first and almost wiped out, after recovering I headed for the second jump and launched about ten feet into the air and came down hard. The result of the crash was two sprained thumbs, a bruised hip and two bruised shins. I was able to get up and do a couple more runs, but that was all the jumping I would be doing for the day. I got back home last night and of course, my mom was all about giving me a hard time about my face. I know I deserved it, but I still don’t think a helmet would have made a difference.

Had some nachos for dinner and then headed to bed early to try and heal for next weekend. I hear a big snowstorm is coming on Wednesday, it may mean a holiday trip up to Sunday River. Oh yeah, I almost forgot that Christmas is here, boy I can’t wait. Maybe I should finish up my shopping. Well everybody who has tomorrow off, enjoy the holidays. Appropriate subject today, for a couple reasons.

Dave Matthews Band Lyrics of the Day
Song title: Busted Stuff
Not enough,never too much, baby look just like love
Rolling stone gathers no moss but leave a trail of busted stuff
You know she’s going to leave my broken heart behind her
I’ll take what she’s giving up
You know she’s going to leave my broken heart behind her
I’ll take what she’s giving up yeah

Moving to kiss, sweet sugar lips, baby look just like love
Without a care she floats above me, she got me down here looking up
You know she’s going to leave my broken heart behind her
I’ll take what she’s giving up
You know she’s going to leave this broken man behind
She’s the one for me

When she move, she move so cool got me feel just like a fool
But inside is where the devil rides woman look just like love
You know she’s going to leave my broken heart behind her
I’ll take what she’s giving up
You know she going to leave this broken man behind
She’s the one for me

You know she going to leave this broken man behind