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moved to Leeds...don't like it
I've left morzine and am back in chatel........... doing some good riding while the snow lasts. I feel i'm back at home now!!!
gonna be a bum out on Lake Tahoe next season, trying to decide whether to go to Heavenly or Squaw Valley........ will be back online in a few weeks to get some tips and advice
ciao x
Thursday, December 21, 2006
MADE IT TO MORZINE
KNACKERED NOW THOUGH
Thursday, November 30, 2006
than a week and i hit the mountians
Saturday, November 11, 2006
 My Second Beanie 
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Published by jspacegirl: 6:54 AM
Updated On: 11/11/2006 at 6:55 AM
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
I'm all completley sorted, my flights are booked for the 7th December 2006! Hoping it begins to snow real soon.
I've also got my boots and bindings on order, - no new board at the moment my Isis is still in amazing shape. (its not even needed p texing yet!)
So, can't wait to get on the slopes. Looking forward to my favorite runs. & I'll be able to explore lots of new ones cause my location on the PSD is gonna be a little bit different.
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Published by jspacegirl: 6:39 AM
Updated On: 11/9/2006 at 6:40 AM
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Monday, November 06, 2006
I complete my first beanie last night and its massive! any one got a really big head? will post pics soon laters!
I'm gonna be in Morzine!!!
i'm claiming incapicity benefit because i had an accident am unable to work. its a temporary disibility and its the first time in my life ive ever been unemployed. i've never been the type to sit around doing nothing im always really active and doing stuff. this whole situation is really annoying for me as it is without being looked down on my small minded folk, because im not working. I went to the job centre today to hand in a form, was pretty pissed off that i had to fill the form in, in the first place. It was a form to jugde whether i habitually resided in the UK. the questions were really taking the piss, asking stuff like why i was back in the uk and if i had a bank account and WHY. who i was in touch with whilst i was abroad. For f*cks sake i was only out of the country for 6 months. and i pay my national insurance contributions and tax to the bloody government whilst i was there. anway so the form pissed me off. but what made it worse was the treatment i recieved at the job centre, nothing like being tainted by the same brush. Its as if everyone who walks through the door is scum. in front of me in the queue was 2 chavs who couldn't fill in a form between them and a guy who was so doped up that he couldn't remember his own name. all i was doing was saving some time by taking the forms in, giving them my sick note. and i get patronised and treated like a second class citizen.. some people are seriously self important, like bouncers in clubs who are really nasty to people jsut cause they can't get themselves a real job. honesty if they were as f*cking great as they thought they were would they be working at the job centre in the first place?
All i can think about is snowboarding now! i'm getting really excited to get back in the mountians! Been watching my latest snowboard DVD purchase Storbis VI! Lovin the song "Away From The Sunshine" by a band called Automatic Eye. (you can download it from thier website www.automaticeye.com ) although the lyrics are not the happiest its got a 'feel good' tune and i reckon it will be one of my theme tunes for the 06/07 season! - oh and the Storbis dvd is quite wicked too!
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Published by jspacegirl: 6:54 AM
Updated On: 10/7/2006 at 4:04 PM
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Friday, September 29, 2006
13 weeks - the bone is getting better! Doc reckons its gonna be a few more months till its right. I'm still not anywhere ready for riding. But should be by winter. So i'm celebrating the comming of winter, the colder weather, changing of the leaves wicked rain storms and all that!
I've got my job sorted out for the season, i'm gonna be a hotel manager bloody hell! I kinda decided that i'd rather be out on the mountian than not, especially when the other option is being in the UK in the rain. The extra hours and work = extra cash which will pay for my next adventure which is going to be 12 months "down under" in New Zealand! I'm going with my gal pal Yen - (photo of yen dresses in a sari at the wedding) and although it limits my time on the mountain it also minimises my chance for injury. - a bit sad but being injured totally sucks!
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Published by jspacegirl: 10:27 AM
Updated On: 9/29/2006 at 10:29 AM
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After a day out at the races, I tripped over a stool, my mate who tried to grab me to stop me falling fell on top of me. The result was a very nasty break in my collar bone. I've been out of the game for 6 weeks and I've got another 6 weeks to go before they decide to plate / pin it. At the moment i'll be lucky to board again next season. Single again now and life's making so much more sense!
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Published by jspacegirl: 1:39 PM
Updated On: 10/6/2006 at 7:14 AM
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I'm in a total sucky mood today - really can't be assed to do any work or anything really!
It totally hurts to look out of an office window to see blue skies!
bloody hell do i have friday fever????? I'm dying to go riding, my energy is on top form today and i'd like nothing more than to strap on my board and mess about. (spent all last night watching snowboard dvds!! maybe thats why)
but some familly issues have occured and i'm road trippin down to s'set - reckon i'll climb the tor smoke a bone and contemplate life. (its glasto w/e not that its on but i always end up there this exact weekend. whether i got to the festival or not, its not planned just was chatting with a mate who's going there for some MTB and offered me a lift. strange huh?)
got a fugi bike frame some suspension forks & seat pole thing  at a bargian price......... hey hey nearly got a bike!!!
well, life has some odd things going on. why did i ever leave chatel to work in a dirty city??? think i'm gonna get evicted - apparently I had a ragin party that went on all night & all my guests parked all over the street and disturbed the neighbours...... its a dam shame i wasn't f*cking there! cause it sounds like it could of been fun! I'm really impressed how the house was cleaned up before i got home too - cause ive not seen any evidence of this party. I'm so pissed off but i'm in a good mood and it might just be the kick in the ass i need to get back on the road.
Jspacegirl
xxx
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Published by jspacegirl: 6:41 AM
Updated On: 6/23/2006 at 6:44 AM
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Not much going on, still not hit the "fake" UK slopes, nor have i hit the water on a wake board yet.
Trying to make a decision between spending next winter snowboarding or travelling about NZ with the man.
REMEMBER SUMMER SUCKS!
Likely i'll choose snowboarding, - he'll understand!
Also on the hunt for a new freestyle board to play in the park with, liking the Rome Detail or the Ride Fever. Any suggestions?
Well, ok not gonna keep moaning about being back – its nearly been five weeks! I guess its time to GET OVER IT Partying always needs to be kept under control, so at the weekend im gonna go wakeboarding and MTB – my summer substitutes for snowboarding!
on the subject of MTB and following on from what i was trying to say i found this...
My bike will not disappoint me or let me down because I expect nothing of it - it is down to me to ride it. My bike does not like me or pretend to be my friend because of who I am and what I do, it's just a bike. I ride because that is me. I am a bike rider, my friends all know I ride bikes 'cos I ride my bike with them. I'm not going to set the world on fire with my riding, I'm good but not great, but I have nothing to prove to anyone only myself 'cos that is who I ride for, me.
2006 howies® All rights reserved
www.howies.co.uk (for the full article
Well on an interesting note, I read some astrology article than was going on about times changing, according to this article there is a reason for not being interested in “setting up house” and that’s because of a higher spiritual evolvement. ≈ basically, we’ve done it loads of times already. Obviously this explanation depends on whether you believe in the idea of karma or not. There’s a sociological theory that it has to do with “Armchair Nomadism” a simple explanation is that people are enticed into traveling due to the false nomadism that they are presented with from technologies such as television and www. Another theory is that due to globalisation people’s sense of belonging disappears. There are more theories based on lack of fulfillment. Decide for yourself
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Published by jspacegirl: 10:18 AM
Updated On: 6/8/2006 at 10:36 AM
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Living in the city and working 9-5 means totally “living for the weekend” & the time that I actually get to myself where I’m not totally knackered from this “hellish” existence that us humans seem to have got ourselves into.
And I must say: hegemony is real!!! I get so much shi*t from the parentals, friends & people who don’t even know me, who are like “when are you gonna get a proper job?” “you’re never gonna settle down are you?” But, I’m sorry people NO life on the road is definitely a much more fulfilling experience than sitting in a damn office answering phones and emails! How people can get satisfaction from buying a house, a nice car a few kids and possibly some pets and 2 holidays a year – WHY WHY WHY?
I’m sure this all sounds totally angry and negative, and honestly I don’t mean to be like that at all. I’m sure that there are other social disputes that are far more important to shaping society and maybe people like me won’t cause a revolution. I do feel quite bohemian, I don’t really fit in, and there are few people around who understand or accept this is the way I want to live my life. Hey! I’m like this modern “outcast”
I want to travel the world in pursuit of the endless winter, to live my life in the tribe of the snow nomad. I want to live my life for happiness, not wealth or possessions, I don’t want children because it seems cruel to bring a life into a place as corrupted as this! Where the worship of beauty is based on construction rather than nature.
Well they’re missing out - they won’t experience waking up to see the sunrise over the mountains, feel the rush of riding on a powder day, breath the fresh mountain air. Riding is a personal challenge, and you can only get out of it what you put into it. Done in the most beautiful places in the world, to me that is what life is about!
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Published by jspacegirl: 7:08 AM
Updated On: 6/7/2006 at 7:11 AM
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So after all the excitement of the wedding i had my own celebrating to do...... "The Bank Holiday" I went to my usual place of worship to commemorate the event good old Sankeys Soap! i parited the rest of the weekend away with a load of my best mates!!! woo hoo long live the bank holiday!
Obviously i feel like shi*t now and hit earth like a ton of bricks tuesday morning!
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Published by jspacegirl: 10:25 AM
Updated On: 10/6/2006 at 7:18 AM
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well, been back nearly five weeks now and apparently there's been snow today in the resort! Sometimes i think i can hack the grind untill next winter but i reckon i'm gonna crack and get on the first plane out of here!
So, the Wedding was this Weekend - to those of you who are ignorant a good friend of mine got married, and i have been looking forward to this.... I got all dressed up in a sari and had the mendi on my hands! shopping in Manchester on saturday wasn't fun and i kinda went OTT on jewerly and accessories, God my mate mark was all like "you spent £40 on those shoes?" Men - they know nothing! but all the vain pampering, nails, tanning shopping all paid off its worth it for a one off event!!!!
well, im back in 'The Rat Race' it took me all of 11 days to achieve........ Monday 8th May i was walking through Piccadilly (MCR) all suited up on my way to work, and i tell ya its more dodging than a French piste on a Saturday afternoon in February.
Being back wasn't all that bad, im busy, working and catching up with peeps......this is all good, but my fav club in Manchester (Sankey Soap) is closing down  and the dryslope that i ride at have change thier opening hours for the worse. 
Anyway the best news is ive got next season fixed:
MOUNT SNOW VERMONT USA......................
Yeah Baby
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Published by jspacegirl: 6:06 AM
Updated On: 6/23/2006 at 6:51 AM
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i have to admit that after going out partying till 5:30 am getting 2 hours sleep and working for four hours, serving breakfast and cleaning rooms, you really dont feel like going riding. I'd get back to my room and my bed would call out to me to return for a few more snuggly hours, and often the temptation got the better of me. But during the last few weeks of the season i decided not to choose between partying and riding, and did it all woo hooo!!!!!!!!!!
before my season i thought id come back with all these park tricks dialled out, but no i went to Chatel with a broken wrist and an even more broken confidence. the wrist stayed in plaster for 2 1/2 months of my season making drag lifts impossible and it was difficult just doing up my bindings. I kept on riding keeping to the piste and not really pushing myself. except for a few jibbing tricks, i made a promise to steer clear of the park untill March and then only went a few times, - not having my crew there pushing me and helping me out made a lot of difference, and although riding on my own was great it didnt seem to work in the park.
 with my new snowboard xxxxxxxxx
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