Frozen Precipitation

I Skied the morning away in the bitter wind. All while tucking down straight aways with bits of majestic flakes finding temporary hiding places in goggles and boots. Admiring the snow globe in which I was so blessed to be in, good company and enjoying one of the many things I love about seasons, conversation. Topics floating from subject to subject in between floating to destinations.

Skiing is probably my all time favorite sport besides running along with countless others. There is something specific about alpine that just moves me in so many directions of thought, motion and heart. However it's not the snow, though it is beautiful. It is not the gear, or the slang talk of riding some wicked "pow pow" (if that's what you could even call it on the East coast). It's not finding loop holes to be able to ski for free or putting warm "comfy" boots on after they've spent a night in the hot room. I love this sport so much because of the people who share the passion with me. Gravity, force, adrenaline, spirit, body, breathe. These are just a few things people can relate to. To be sitting on a lift with people who get that same amazing feeling, that spiritual uplifting from playing in the Lords creation, fully being apart of its raw beauty, I get chills even though I left the mountain hours ago. There is something so unexplainable about standing at the very top of that trail, looking out over so many different things, feeling the cold air on your lips as your breathe in winter at it's finest. While massive flakes that you fall in love with all over again as they brush against your exposed rosy cheeks and nose. Hearing your own heart beat as the deafening sound of bliss and silence enters your ears in the midst of impacting skis to snow letting your toes lead the way.
I know there are many who understand and many who will one day understand. It is another home for me. With family to whom you can relate on many different levels. Appreciating the little things like the squeaks in the snow and smiling eyes behind tinted lenses. The feel of the carve and knees scrapping corduroy (those rare moments).  There are many things in the midst of this community that I have learned, experienced, loved, hated, laughed, cried, lost, found and just simply been blessed to have encountered.

I am finding that the more passion you have for the things that surround you, by truly enthralling yourself in the seasons you are given, you gain a lot more than you realize...You learn to embrace so much more than you can imagine during this short stay.


So I came home today to realize I was in the mood to clean...I'm telling you, I was a cleaning machine! I've found that when I am home my room is a disaster zone, when I'm not home I am usually an extremely neat person. Clothes folded, dirty laundry where it should be, vacuumed, swept, and organized. My room has been a war zone lately. Christmas gifts scattered and wrapping paper battling book shelves with a lamp post being used as a lovely coat rack. As I continued reading 12 Extraordinary Women, I suddenly had the erge to go crazy. I finished the paragraph, and headed straight to my room and began to sort. I got rid of so much stuff vacuumed the ever loving heck out of that carpet and threw a load into the washing machine. It was crazy how much stuff I had gone through and how much I still could go through...Since then I have lost my ambition.

While I was cleaning though, between ripping up old bank statements and super old receipts that you couldn't even read they were so old, I found this list of rather interesting facts...Apparently when I had worked at Kohls (yes...yes I did) I found out some really random information from who knows where, but just happened to stumble upon it 4 years later! Yikes

"Things They Don't Teach you in School":
1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
2. The longest syllable word in the English language is, "Screeched".
3. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
4. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
5.There are more chickens than people in the world.
6. An Ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
7. No words in the english language rhyme with: month, orange, silver, or purple. (Sorry Barney)
8. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
9. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
10. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
11. A Polar Bear actually has black skin, and clear fur.
12. More people are killed by Donkeys than in plane crashes each year.
13. Shakespeare invented over 1700 words used in the English language.
14. No president of the United States was an only child. (Is Obama?)
15. The average Chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
16. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
17. A ducks quack does not make an echo.
18. Woman nearly blink twice as much as men.
19. A cockroach can live nine days without it's head before it starves to death. (Sick!)
20. A snail can sleep for 3 years...(How do you even know?...Was he snoring?)

The random things you find amongst old memories...