:: Brinna's ::

:: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 ::

Well, I'm getting to the point where I ask why I bother writing. I can't do it every day, and when you don't do it every day, it's hard to come up with something important enough to you to write about. Snowboarding was exciting, but I don't think anyone else cared about it, and since it was about the only exciting thing I had to write about, it got old fast. The season is over anyhow.

The last couple weeks I've been feeling very down, as if everything (except taking care of Alice of course) is pretty pointless. I'm feeling better the past couple days though. My family thought maybe my recent 'depression' might be my hormones starting to kick back into drive, since I still haven't gotten my period since Alice was born. I hope it doesn't last as long, if it happens next month.

My car is doing weird things...the check engine light has come on again (last time was right before I went to Korea), but the engine still sounds normal. The brakes are a different story. It's making really bizarre noises every time I press the brakes hard enough to stop. Not squealing...sounds fluidic. Kristi said they sound like Willy Wonka's bubble machine from the first Wonka movie.

I'm going to the dentist tomorrow, I haven't been in about a year and a half. I finally started brushing my teeth more regularly, so they're cleaner, but I think I might have at least one cavity. I know for sure I tend to clench my jaw and/or grind my teeth in my sleep. Runs in the family.

Alice did great in her first swim lesson last night. She never cried. She fussed a bit when her face got in the water, but doesn't everyone? The water was a bit cold, for some reason they fill it with cold water and then heat it, instead of also heating it a bit before they put it in, as is my experience with most heated pools, so we were all cold.

It's now definitely less than two months until Andrew returns, and only a couple weeks until my mom's side comes for a reunion. At least something's happening!

:: Brinna 11:22 AM [+] ::
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And now for my weekly (or so) snowboarding update...as if you all care..

Last week it snowed 3-4 in. the night before I went. I thought that was great, near perfect conditions. So I invited my big sis along, and paid for her lift ticket. We had fun, despite the fact I forgot a part of my breast pump and was painfully full. (Thought you all wanted to know that...) My board wasn't waxed, but there was just enough powder to glide through the snow and turn well, without getting slowed too much. We went on a couple black diamonds, my first try at the hard slopes. It wasn't really enough powder to cover the sheet of ice which was the slope on the black diamonds, because other people had scraped the powder off the moguls (bumps/hills). I was doing really well on the blue and green slopes, though, and I was actually going between the trees a bit, on little short trails. Some of those places there's little dips and jumps when you come out. I usually fell down following these jumps, as I didn't land them well, but still fun.

Anyhow, yesterday I went by myself, and I really should have waxed my board since last week, because it dumped the snow the night before. And it was snowing the whole day I was up there. There's a cumulative foot of snow. I got a real workout. You have no idea how hard it is to stand up in nearly a foot of dry powder with a snowboard strapped to both feet. And I had to do it again and again and again because once you fall down, it is really hard to get started again, to get back on top of the snow. But fortunately mostly just on the first run, after that I figured out how to board with powder. Much funner and easier than learning to board on ice. Then again, if you can board on ice, you can board on anything. It was torn up halfway through the day, which was also fun, because it was bumpy, and challenging to stay up. I fell down a lot, but it never hurt. And since it didn't hurt, I felt rather fearless, so I went down 4 black diamond trails, which at first was probably a mistake because I hadn't quite figured out how to do powder yet, that if you go slow, it's even worse. The thing about black diamonds, at least at Powderhorn, is that they're basically straight down the mountain, so you can do quick laps...but, they're also short runs, so they're over quickly.

Last time on Lost..
How much of you all watch Lost? Isn't it crazy lately? For awhile I was really hating Locke. And I still think it's not right for him to be moving in on Claire. And how can Claire forget Charlie like that, all that he's done for her? I understand her being confused and hurt, but I think she's gone a bit far. I was sure we'd see him this past Claire episode. I'm pretty sure he hasn't been using.

And the other--I'm sure he's an other. His reactions to things, when only the camera sees, and especially his lapse about his wife's burial. Not to mention his similarities to Wizard of Oz. Also, do you think it's plausible that a balloon like that could carry two people and all the supplies that entails? Another thing: if Gale has been transmitting a distress signal for weeks, why didn't Hurley and Sayid pick it up when they got that music? They only got Danielle's signal.

Raise your hand if you spotted a Dharma logo on the tail of the shark who went after Sawyer. Well guess where else that logo turned up? Ethan's canteen last week. That makes 4 logos we've seen, out of a probable 6. Someone has theorized they match up with the constellations surrounding Apollo: Cygnus/Swan, Orion (on the canteen), Snake (the Caduceus/medical symbol), Arrow (the tailies hatch), Crater, and Crow. There's a reference to a Crater on Rousseau's map.

All the Lost info to keep you enthralled for hours: lostpedia.com. Crazy stuff.

Other things happening (not like Lost Others):
Alice has been pulling on things to stand up, and is creeping backwards. She's starting to get up on all fours too, hopefully she can actually crawl forwards soon. : ) She's no longer safe sitting on the couch, she basically pulls herself over the edge.
It WAS super warm here, in the 60s, before Tuesday's snow. Once again it feels appropriate for March in Colorado: literally freezing.Which is supposed to continue all week. And I was so ready for summer..

:: Brinna 11:11 AM [+] ::
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Andrew recently talked to someone actually in Georgia, and it turns out all the ATCs (Air Traffic Controllers) go to Hunter Army Airfield, which is actually in Savannah, rather than the base. I'd hoped we'd live in Savannah. If I have to live in the south, might as well live in the thick of things, eh? Not to say that the south is terrible--but I have heard tales of humidity. : )

Also, the current news is, he won't go to Iraq until late 2007. I'll actually get to live with my husband! For a year and a half! Wonders never cease. So, we've been looking online at houses. We found a few really nice looking ones, but all at least an hour away. We'd like a more Victorian style house. Hopefully it won't be too hard, around there...

For Memorial Day weekend, and some other days around then, my family is going on a road/camping trip, to the northern regions of the country. They'll go through states like the Dakotas and Michigan. I've been wanting to go up there for awhile, so I can have visited all the continental US states. (I want to go to Alaska and Hawaii too, of course, but they're not as easy to get to.) However, that's about the time that Andrew comes back from Korea. So we may or may not go along. We're supposed to visit his grandparents in Washington, which I enjoy doing, for a couple of days first. Hopefully we then go down to the Tillamook Cheese Factory (note to self: remember an ice chest..) and Mo's for some clam chowder. And maybe this year we can go to the Celestial Seasonings factory near Denver. Or, this great italian buffet place called Cinzetti's...it's one of those places where you can watch them cook the stuff, and there's a million choices. And at least 15 different types of desserts, much less flavors. They'll custom make cannolli for you, with fresh cream and fruit...yum. The only thing I don't remember them having is granita, but perhaps that was on the drink menu?

:: Brinna 8:53 AM [+] ::
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