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so screw january first, it seems like september's the time of new beginnings. and a new beginning it is for me; mike's finally convinced me that ontario will be a-ok, and so we're leaving my dingy little one-bedroom for his two-bedroom-one-and-a-half-baths condo. i know, i know, the usual migration for boarders is east to west, not west to east, but can't a girl follow her heart as well as the snow sometimes?

 

what on earth am i going to do in ontario, you may ask... well... um... yeah. here are my options:

 

a) collect cans from people's bins at 4AM on recycling day and return for refund

b) shovel snow for little old ladies

c) be a snowboard instructor

d) be an artist

e) stay at home mom

f) collect EI and sit on my duff

g) make home movies

 

and after a lot of thought, i came up with reasons why i couldn't do any of them...

 

a) because people in ontario are terrible at recycling

b) snow? what snow? it's all ice dammit, and i don't own an ice pick

c) see above, minus ice pick

d) i have no artistic talent whatsoever... whoops

e) not pregnant, too broke to be preggers

f) i quit, so therefore no EI cheques

g) no camcorder, no one would want to see a time lapse of how fast my hair grows anyways.

 

 

 

in all seriousness, though, i'll probably end up looking for work in my same field, care. i'm contemplating going back to school, too. the horrors of last go round of university has worn off some, so i feel like maybe i could handle more school, this time for a masters of psychology. masters degree = more job opportunities = more money in the long run. but, masters degree also = staying in ontario for at least two years. decisions, decisions. i have until december at least to decide if i want to make the enrollment deadline or not.

 

as for right now, i'm bloody sick of packing. we've used up every single empty box we own, and even a few we don't own (they showed up in front of our door this morning magically), and now we're on to garbage bags. what can i say, we're classy movers. tomorrow's the big move day, luckily my parents have lots of storage at their place (once i reclaim my room anyways), so we can store it all there for when we can finally move back. it's amazing how much stuff gets accumulated after a year and a half... and how much i'm not allowed to give away!

 

so, in other news, mike and i both quit our jobs at the end of august, with the intention of taking some time to actually enjoy ourselves before we leave. and it's worked out pretty well i might say! we went sailing for 5 days, which was awesome. visited a few of the gulf islands, and even though the weather didn't cooperate at first, it turned lovely and we had some great sailing weather (we actually got the sail up this year!).

 

we rested for a few nights, then went off to tofino (green point campground) for two nights and three days of the best weather tofino has likely ever seen. we really lucked out, it was gorgeous. lots of sun and sand, with another day we might have had time to rent surf gear, but we had to be home to pack and move. in the near future we have a three day trip to ontario planned, for mike's grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary, then another camping trip to strathcona park, and then it's the big drive to ontario. really looking forwards to the drive, should be great.

 

ANNNNNNNNNNNNNND... so here i was, making all these plans for the drive, working on the 27th being the day to leave, heading up to whistler for a night, blahdy blah blah... and then i find out that my sister's bought me a ticket for def leppard on the 27th in vancouver as a birthday gift! and mike's got us a hotel room 400m from GM place or something, and styx is opening for them, and yadda yadda yadda! definitely going to be an awesome birthday celebration, that's for sure! and so totally worth pushing back the departure by a day! i'm so impressed the two of them kept it quiet for so long (eryn bought the tickets months ago)!! super super stoked, i can't wait (THANKS GUYS!)!

 

so all in all, a super exciting month i'm having, it can only get better from here!

Team Dirtbag over in Finland has been killing it this past month. Here are a few photos from Ilari. Joe Sexton just got back from a month long trip over there where he has been riding with Fredu, Risto Ruokola and friend of StepChild Torsti. In between Joe getting all artsy with his new digital camera and living off junkfood he was able to get some bangers for the movie.














Here's Joe's trip story and then some artsy shots from Joe with dead birds and shi*t.

JOE WROTE...

As soon as I stepped off the plane I was greeted by two of the biggest dirt bags I had ever met, one I had met before and the other I had not. The first was Ilari Suhohen or however you spell it, the Defective filmer and my baby sitter for the trip, the other was named simply "Pops". I think they pronounced it douche bag though. Pops was a digi filmer and was pretty new but did a good job.



Anyways after gathering all my luggage it was off to check out some spots. We hopped in the booze wagon and we were off, I had no idea what to expect before coming to Finland. I thought it was going to be a cool spot for rails, but when I actually got there it exceeded all my expectations. Just minutes from the airport are all the spots I have dreamed of hitting, every rail seemed perfect, I was quickly told these were "played out" and they were right.



After that we met up with the rest of the boyz, Fredu Sirvio, Risto Ruokola, and simply Torsti. I won’t bore you with what hammers went down on the trip and when Risto did a benihana worty pickle revert, or when Fredu busted out the switch barracuda roll and at the last second reverted it to fake-eye. And of course you don't want to hear about Torsti’s Swedish chili rainbow and how he brought it back to reggys, yea you probably don’t want to hear about that.

So instead of explaining everything I just made list with all the highlights and low lights of the trip... enjoy. Thanks to Ilari, for letting me stay with him and putting up with me for a month, and all the bros for fun times shredding.



These were the highlights of my trip highlights of my trip:



- Meeting three amazing snowboarders Fredu, Risto, Torsti, 2 amazing filmers, Ilari, Pops and making 5 good friends.



- Making every spot ride-able, whether it was cutting down a post or bending a rail.



- Using a flamethrower even when we really didn’t need to.



- Eating so much candy and drinking so much pop, I actually built up a tolerance.

- Not knowing what anything says and asking my Finnish brothers for help 24/7.



- End of the trip when everyone got sick except Ilari and me.

- Wearing a long sleeve and no gloves in -30 weather.

- Having Chi Guy come visit us for a week, and really getting to know him. Thanks! 



- Having the most fun on my snowboard. 


- Late night coffees and donuts

- Eating McDonalds and Hesburger

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- Being there for a month and getting kicked off of 2 rail’s the whole time.






















www.defectivefilms.com
www.stepchildsnowboards.com
www.nomisdesign.com

 

Source: http://gizmodo.com/

 

 

 

 

I sprained my ankle earlier this month. Its frustrating. The sunshine is out, everyone is getting shots, and i'm doing nothing.  There is little variation in how I spend my days. Sleep in, watch some olympics, spend 2 or 3 hours drinking coffee, cook dinner, watch movies and pass out. On exciting days I hang out with the girls at physio where they zap me with fancy machines, and use ultrasound to reduce the swelling in my foot.

I watch people in the village.  The skater kids peddling drugs, locals chugging beers on the nearby patios, and the weekend wariers stomping down the village stroll in thier ski boots. I listen to The Scissor Sisters and imagine everyone is part of a timelapse, as if I am just watching from an outside perspective. Sometimes friends will grace me with their presence, and we converse about local happenings.  Its now an American long weekend... maybe I will avoid the village altogether; to busy for my liking.

I will be back riding soon enough, my condolances go out to anyone who has had to deal with more serious injuries this season.

- j