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There's an old saying: "Time flies when you are having fun". Since I'm flying and having fun I'd like to know where the time is actually going.. Especially since I'm not seeing it fly by me when I'm in the air.. I know I know.. That's a bit corny on my part.. However it seems the older I get the faster time "flies".. As a kid I couldn't WAIT to get older and would constantly wish time would just hurry up.. I was having a lot of fun then too.. Now that I'm older I'm constantly wondering where the heck my time is going (since I never seem to have enough of it).. All that to say I wish time would slow up a bit now!
Now that I've got that out of the way on to the flying part.. In 2 more weeks I'm officially going to have my heli license! 2 weeks! That is if I pass the final test.. I better pass as HOLY SMOKES have I worked hard for this.. I thought flying a heli would be a whole lot easier than this.. However it has proved to be challenging in the most unusual of ways.. In fact hovering has proven to be the hardest.. You'd think not but let me tell you it is alot like standing on a beach ball balancing while patting your head and rubbing your stomach while reciting the alphabet, all at the same time... My brain goes you want me to do WHAT!?!?! And for some reason every now and again while I'm practicing my left foot gets a twitch in it and presses just a wee bit harder on that pedal.. I think every now and again it has a blond moment.. Laughing.. The first time I got full control of the heli I thought I was going to pass out from one part fear, one part adrenaline and one part pure pleasure.. All in all I am having the best time..
Hope everyone is enjoying their spring as much as I am enjoying mine.. And CONGRATS to Mike and Kendra on their wedding! I'm so psyched for you guys! May you have a long full happy marriage ahead of you!
Call me crazy but I find LIFE to be one giant opportunity for adventure after another.. We can either park ourselves on the couch or we can get up and chase an adventure.. I feel saddened for all of those people that choose the couch.. Me, I'd choose adventure everytime..
So in the sense of another adventure I enrolled in flying lessons.. That's right people the fairy is taking flying lessons so that soon she can be flying the big blue sky in a helicopter.. At the moment I'm in the "learning the machine process".. I can't wait to get up in the air!!! My instructor is pretty cool and very patient.. He's very serious about his job which is good cuz lets face it I'm hyper and if he lets me have my way I'd be all over the place.. Hopefully he's got a strong heart cuz I'm sure I'm going to give him many "moments of near death experiences" once I've got control of the heli!
Woohoo!!! I can flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!! (okay so not yet but soon lol)
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A touch, A sight, A smell.. However small can often times trigger an explosive memory..
After dance class last night I went out to this bar with a couple of the students.. I don't drink so basically I was there as a DD if one was going to be needed.. Plus I was craving a bit of fun..
There was some dancing.. Lots of gossip.. Lots of laughter.. Fast forward a bit...
I was at the bar waiting for a couple of drinks to bring back as the girls hunted up a table.. I was doing my usual feel the music vibe as I scanned around the crowd.. This guy catches my attention farther down the bar.. As my eyes hit his he holds my look and gives me a smile.. I was about to smile back (as that's my sunny nature) when he pulls on his lip with his teeth and licks it as his eyes drift to my mouth.. Then he looks down at his beer knowing he's been caught staring and day dreaming..
Instantly my mind conjured up the one guy I loved with all my heart.. One of the few guys that knew how I liked to be kissed.. Hard and rough with a bit of bite.. HOLY WOW! The memory was so vivid I could almost feel his bite..
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it..
So I basked a minute in my memories.. Then I walked over to my friends who'd made it to a table..
I'm not on the market..
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I won't be back on for a little over 2 weeks.. Going to be spending Christmas with family in North Carolina (driving down today so wish me luck through the storm). Then Saturday I'm flying out with friends heading to Alaska for a week and a half.. I soo can't wait to jump into the Alaskan back country!
My Christmas wishing is for lots of snow..
Lots of love to everyone over the holidays!! And may all your Christmas and New Years plans be jolly good times!
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
I decided to say heck with working this morning and took off for the mtn!!! 15 minutes into my journey to make first chair I realized I had forgotten to grab my Season's Pass.. There went first chair.. At least I realized it before I got to the mtn.. Laughing..
When I finally made it to the mountain there wasn't a whole lot of people there.. PERFECT! I flashed my riding clothes on in record time and off to the chair I went.. Let the havoc begin.. I searched out any sorta fluff I could find.. After a couple of quick test runs to reacquaint myself with the board I'd brought I hopped into the trees.. Ooo I found FLUFF! AND all sorts of hidden "treasures!" Tree stumps, rocks, roots Ooo my! Laughing.. Good thing I can bend like gumby..
2 hours into my seek and destroy fluff mission I heard the music of my cell over the music of my ipod.. Drat my vehicle for ratting me out.. Now I could pretend not to have heard it but since I'm not good about making up missed calls I answered.. I get a "Hey Doll meet us at the park".. Hmmm.. Now I could pretend they were breaking up and I couldn't hear them.. Then go back to my seek and destroy fluff mission. Alas I'm not good at acting either.. Soo I s_l_o_w_l_y made my way to the park.. I told myself the WHOLE WAY I was just going to watch them have at the rails.. I was just going to watch! Yeah uh huh right.. And into the trap I fell.. I'd ask where my brains went but alas they were still in my head fully intact..
All my friends know I don't like to ride rails (back during my halfpipe competition days I saw a kid break his jaw on a rail.. Lots of blood..).. And to give my friends credit they never push me to ride the rails nor give me crap about it.. However there wasn't only rails in Birch Park.. There was a 25' culvert.. And there spelled my doom.. "Come on Doll you can ride that".. "Look it's easy".. Ooo they definitely made it look easy.. And the nifty little tricks they were all pulling.. Looked fun.. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB BLONDE! I jumped up with a feeling of WOOHOO.. Charged that sucker.. I was sliding and feeling elated that I was going to make it.. Got 3/4 of the way through it (with my teeth chattering the whole way) and next thing I knew I was taking a snow sample.. The only comment I heard was a snickered "Want me to kiss it and make it better"..
I swear to God they set me up..
After all systems were checked and found to be in good working order.. The dumb blonde that I am tried again.. And took another snow sample, and another and another.. But you know what.. I finally made it! Laughing.. Take that BOYS!
I made them buy me lunch..
I had a great time on the snow.. I can't wait until it starts dumping..
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
We had the first real snow fall of the season! 8" fell last night into this morning.. Too bad everything that is not on the mountain tops is melting. It was however beautiful to see. Most resorts are not opening until Dec. 13th here but who knows.. If this snow and cold weather keeps up we're going to have an early season!
LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW!
Sometimes I wonder if I have a disease.. Could be something simple as having ADHD or it could be something more complex.. All I know is that after extended periods of time (mainly a couple of months) of doing the same thing I get bored… I constantly crave excitement.. I am prone to boredom if I’m not doing something and without a doubt an adrenaline junky.. However I think my "disease" is more complex than just simply being addicted to the rush I get from an adrenaline spike..
All that to say that after several month of working 80 plus hour work weeks I have given myself 2 months off.. Time to let loose and run away a bit from responsibility.. Thus far I’ve spent 1 ½ weeks in CO visiting beloved family and decompressing.. Even played a bit of tourist.. Even though I spend A LOT of time in CO every year it was still fun to play like I’d never been before.. Many of us often forget how exciting life can be and the beauty of all that surrounds us.. Now I’m in CA.. Again visiting family but with some long time friends thrown in.. Thus far I’m practicing being a beach bum and have been spending time wakeboarding.. This morning I was sitting at my cousin’s kitchen counter cruising through a bowl of cheerios and scanning over my e-mail.. In a cheerio induced daze I spotted a strange species.. Said species gave a grunt as it strolled in with that long, long lean, edging toward gawky body dressed in navy boxers and a tattered Yoda T-shirt.. Sun streaked brown hair rumpled and messy with sea green eyes all groggy and maybe just a little bit cranky before its morning coffee.. Laughing.. Sad to say it’s been a while since I’ve seen a man in boxers (hence the strange species) and I’ve got to admit my eyes were a bit riveted to the sight!!!! And NO said man was NOT my cousin! Tomorrow I head to the X-Games.. Can’t wait to throw myself into that mash of excitement.. I’m hoping one of the boys might fall victim to my baby blues and let me toddle around on their dirt bike.. After X I’m headed to New Orleans to aid on a house construction for Habitat for Humanity.. I may look girly but I’m such a tomboy.. Granted my aide will mostly involve yard rehab and interior painting.
Update.. After New Orleans I headed to WY to hang with my brother and visit friends.. I let my friend Mallory, talk me into getting my hair cut.. OMG.. I look in the mirror now and go "WHO ARE YOU"?!?!" Laughing.. Later on my gal pals and I went mtn biking at Jackson Hole.. OMG is that mtn HUGE on a bike.. We girls were freakin flying! It was a blast.. Even when we got a wee bit off trail and did a bit of "adventure" biking in the woods.. Woohoo.. My poor brother.. He's the other half of my heart but soo not the freak of nature energy wise that I am.. Laughing..
And now.. HOME SWEET HOME.. The best place in the world!
I can't believe it's been a month since I've been on this site. I work WAY too much.. I've been craming in 80 plus hour work weeks in an attempt to train a new therapist and secretary.. Since I plan on taking ALOT of time off this summer (to play) I've let my perfectionism have freedom in the training of my new employees.. I'm sure they can't wait for me to stop nit picking!
Not much new has been going on in fairy land.. Since we've had beautiful summer like weather (record breaking high temperatures) I've got more freckles than I thought possible on a blonde and a jigsaw puzzle of tan lines..
My dirt bike is currently sitting in my garage giving me accusing looks of abandonment everytime I walk in there.. I feel his pain..
And this next little blurb is for a certain someone out there.. We're all trained to believe we should cling to one person only.. Yet there are soo many people who pass in and out of our lives.. Good people, worthy people, interesting people... Most of them stay for a little while and then move on.. Some of them find a place with us and, if we let them, they enrich us.. We should never close ourselves off.. If we find someone who can make us understand a little more, laugh a little more and give us new experiences, then we should never feel guilty.. We'll just have more to give back to those who are closest to us..
Late last night a trailer pulled into my center with a stallion in tow.. I thought they'd brought me a donkey instead of the QuarterHorse stallion they'd said they were bringing in.. This poor boy was sickly.. Abused by his master then starved..
I know the ugliness of human nature all too well especially from one human to another.. I understand the mechanics and the psychology behind cruelty.. But never will I truly understand.. Especially why anyone would want to abuse an animal..
Freed of the perversities of humankind, horses are peaceful and curious.. If you show patience, they will accomodate you.. They have unconditional acceptance.. Horses are without judgement or malice..
After tending to the stallion I tucked myself into bed.. Sometimes my unconscious knows best.. In that in the twilight of sleep I'd remember things I was best off not remembering.. So as usual sleep evaded me.. I ended up slipping out of bed and staring out my sliding glass doors.. Peering out my bedroom into the horse pastures.. There was my beautiful Gypsy Vanners, Tuff and Lady, nibbling hay in the snow.. I held my breath and watched them.. They were perfect and peaceful.. Oblivious to me and my chaos.. It soothed me to watch them as they meandered around the pasture.. It's times like this that I know I did the right thing opening Morningstar and leaving everything I'd been trained to do behind...
Monday, February 11, 2008
My beloved powder filled December was a distant memory at the start of last week.. January had come in the form of rain and warmer than normal temps.. Our January thaw had decided to stay through out most of January.. Making for typical East Coast icy slopes.. Throw in a couple of -10 days in between the rain and the warm temps and you had East Coast Cement..
Ooo woe was me.. My snow spirit was SOOOO in the dumps..
In an attempt to appease the snow gods I borrowed a technique from a loved one and started flushing ice cubes down the toilet.. With each ice cube flushed I kept up the mantra in my head of "LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW".. Hey I was desperate!! What's a girl to do.. Laughing.
Mother Nature must have gotten a kick out of my attempts cuz Wednesday dawned with flurries.. Thursday dawned with 8 inches of snow and still dumping.. Friday dawned with 16 inches of fresh powder.. Ooo la la.. My snow spirits were back in over drive.. I cleared my hectic schedule and zoomed up to the mtn on Sunday.. It was snowing when I got there at 8 AM.. By 10 it was a freakin blizzard and WHITE OUT conditions.. It just kept dumping the whole time I was up there.. I spent Sunday with a perma powder grin as every wooded run yielded fresh pow after fresh pow.. I wimpered off the slopes about 2:30 with that wonderful used and abused feeling..
When all was said and done we'd ended up with over 3 feet of fresh pow.. And OOO look there's more snow in my forecast.. Oo yeah I'm definitely going to flush some more ice cubes..
"Although human sublety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous" - Leonardo Da Vinci
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Last year we got a whopping 10 inches of snow in the month of December.. This year we've got over 5 feet and still falling!!! With a Nor'Easter set to hit on Sunday.. How much snow is anyone's guess.. It all depends on which way the wind "blows".. Usually though when that beloved word is thrown around the snow accumulation is in feet and not inches.. Last year it was 4 feet in one day... I've got my fingers crossed that we get freakin DUMPED on!!!
I'm definitely greedy when it comes to powder.. LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW!!
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Published by ravishingfairy: 11:59 AM
Updated On: 12/14/2007 at 3:51 PM
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I had a minute yesterday to thumb through the Jan. '08 issue of TWS. I came across this on the second page..
Deer Valley and Alta in Utah, New Mexico's Taos and Mad River Glen in Vermont are the four remaining U.S. resorts where trails sculpted from the mountains are reserved for skiers only..
I think Burton's "Poach for Freedom" is hilarious.. Does it bother me that there are 4 resorts that don't allow snowboarders.. Not really.. If I had my way I'd send most of the skiers to those 4 resorts!!!! Except the fun good natured ones anyway.. Then there would be a lot less traffic on my beloved mtns.. I've run into more than my fair share of skiers that are drunk on the mtn.. Nothing like getting on the chair lift with a guy that smells like he took a bath in beer and looks at you like you're his next meal.. Can't say I've ever run across a snowboarder who did that.. They just skip the beer. Laughing..
People tend to close their eyes to what is going on around them when it suits their purpose.. Which is what I think those 4 resorts are doing..
The only other thing of note is that Burton's could have come out with this "reward" a couple years ago seeing as how I'd poached Mad River Glen with a bunch of friends then.. AND OOoo YEAH.. It was a BEAUTIFUL poach ride! Laughing..
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Published by ravishingfairy: 12:02 PM
Updated On: 11/28/2007 at 2:13 PM
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Friday, November 16, 2007
The season has officially kicked off for us in Vermont. While the temps have been perfect for snowmaking they have also been yielding NATURAL SNOW!!! I woke up this morning to watch those BIG FAT HEAVY FLAKES dance merrily down from the sky.. We're supposed to have 8" more by Saturday (which is in addition to the 20" that just dumped on us!) and if my snow dances are working then we'll have ALOT more on the way soon..
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Published by ravishingfairy: 10:49 AM
Updated On: 11/21/2007 at 4:22 PM
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I rarely watch TV but had the news turned on this morning while I stretched in preparation of my morning run. Low and Behold I hear the words S_N_O_W. My ears instantly go into radar mode and my eyes whip to the TV.. And yes there again is that beautiful word. Apparently it's going to snow in these here mtns. this weekend. While it might be just a dusting it is the beginning.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Just when you think you got life all figured out it throws you for a loop..
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
I can not begin to describe just how sweet it is to be home after spending 2 months on the California coast. Seems like forever since I stepped into my barns and was greeted by the sound of whinnying horses..
I had a lot of fun out in California but there is nothing like being home.. And OMG my own sweet bed.. As soon as I got home thats the second place I headed for! It was like being reunited with a long lost lover.. They know your body Ooo sooo well.. Laughing..
My thoughts don't seem to want to flow in any given order today.. I’m attributing it to my lack of sleep last night and to the continued mugginess here.. So in my usual style I'm just going to open my mind and let things come out.. I might ramble so be prepared..
Once again I awakened from the same nightmare I’ve had since the accident.. Fractured pieces of a turbulent mind. I truly believe that the unconscious knows best.. That it’s best to not remember.. But is it a memory or a dream.. I still struggle with this thought.. The memory has a gauzy, nebulous quality to it.. It does not have that non-reality to it, that impressionism that dreams do.. Maybe it is reality.. Sigh.. I truly believe that grief is worse than death. When someone you love has died it’s almost impossible to get your head around it. The totality of it, your utter helplessness against it, it makes you feel as if you could burst into flames from sheer emotional agony .. I still hurt.. Will it ever end.. You’d think since it’s almost been a year that the hurt would fade into the vast expanse that is nothingness.. That has yet to be the case..
So running on little to no sleep last night I did what I always do.. I sought out my horses and let them ease my soul.. And as usual put myself to work.. It was such a beautiful morning I didn’t mind being up before the birds were.
Then the humidity swept in.. Aye how easily it zaps ones energy.. One minute I’m cheery and singing the next my tank top (along with all my other clothing and hair) is stuck to my skin like a second layer and my cheeriness is slowly deflating.. Today was not the day for Texas to come pulling up in my driveway bearing his 2 horses I specifically told him I thought his vet was better off handling.. His next strike came when he thought I was a lowly farm hand and tried to charm me into unloading his horses while he went to find the "owner".. Though it felt more like he was attempting a seduction and I was the main course.. I didn’t correct him as it happens all the time cuz apparently I look like I’m a kid still (laughing) and let him wander off into my barn while I sneaked in to exam his horses.. I’m a sucker for deep brown soulful eyes and both his horses had em in spades.. As I touched their satiny coats I knew I’d attempt to help them.. How could I resist.. So I unloaded and had them in my outdoor arena before Tex came back with my top therapist. Who pointed out to him that his horses were already in the hands of Morningstar’s owner. Laughing.. The look on his face was priceless.
Now I’m in my office guzzling energy enhanced vitamin water, which tells me that I can have the energy of a raving lunatic and will be yelling "goooooooooooooooal" soon. I guess that’s better than the Mtn. Dew I was craving.. That would have been Hello Energizer Bunny on Steroids! Laughing.. No one needs me in that mode on a humid day such as today.. Or ever really. Looking out my office windows I notice the sky looks black above the lake so I'm assuming relief is on it's way in the form of breezy cool winds carrying a thunder storm quickly on it’s heals.. HELLO SWEET RELIEF!! I soo love the violence of a thunder storm.. Heck getting poured on is a thrill..
All this rambling to say ~ Is it snowing yet?!?!
You feel like a candle in a hurricane
Just like a picture with a broken frame
Alone and helpless
Like you've lost your fight
But you'll be alright
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand, Then you stand
Life's like a novel
With the end ripped out
The edge of a canyon
With only one way down
Take what you're given before its gone
Start holding on, keep holding on
Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break
Cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong
Wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand, Then you stand
Everytime you get up
And get back in the race
One more small piece of you
Starts to fall into place
~ Rascal Flatts
Since I'm going to tell you all the same story I figured I'd save time and just write it once.. Lazy eh!
As most of you know I just came back from spending a week visiting family and friends in CO. My last ditch effort to prolong the snowboarding season since it is winding down here in VT.. I had an absolute blast riding (Vail, Breck and Keystone) and even managed to sneak in a spring blizzard at Breck. Total fabulous white out conditions! For those of you who ride with me you know when I get in the pow I happen to lose people!!! Especially if it's a tree run.. I lost my friends at one point riding off resort. What can I say I saw a pow line and took it! I did manage to hook back up with them before they sent out search and rescue looking for me.. Laughing.. So maybe it wasn't one line it was several lines before I made my way back down!! I even got in some park action at Keystone though I spent ALOT of time on my bum.. I figure if they'd angle the kicks more like a halfpipe I'd be awesome at it and spend ALOT less time on my bum.. For all the brains I seem to have (or think I do) you'd think it would not be that overly hard for me to convert my pipe prowess into kick skills. I might however be more blonde than I realize!
I came back to find everything running smoothly on the home front and to find out Stowe was still opened cuz they got a 20" pow dump while I was away! SWEET! Managed to free up some time (its amazing how quickly you can get caught up work wise when snow's involved!!) and got up there Saturday.. Ooo what sweetness it was. 70 degree sunny temps and deep snow. Girls were riding in tank tops and as were a couple of guys. There were several fur carpets in attendence. Ewwwwwwwww!! You could tell spring fever was in the air.. I somehow managed to pick up a slope stalker! He did however have the best pick up line I've ever heard.. But the glorious conditions made up for the interesting sights and overly frisky men.. You would dig 6" trenches every time you carved! And then they opened the Gondi and the runs off it.. Sweet madness! The snow hadn't been touched since the storm. It was deep and with the temps like cement. After 2 runs we headed back to the quad cuz our legs couldn't take turning in all that cement! Best spring conditions I've had in years. Then Sunday the boys FINALLY let me ride an mx practice track with them.. Got to see how my new dirtbike could fly! For all my adrenaline junky urges I managed to keep things at an even pace.. For a little while anyway! Then the speed demon in me snuck out!! Laughing.. I freaked all my friends and the other guys practicing there when I had to bail off this table top... I was fine and laughing. But the guys looked like I'd given them a heart attack.. I find it amusing how they all come running to rescue the wee downed female but laugh and make jokes when their buds take a spill.. Anyway.. Awesome times this weekend! While I'm already sniffling over the snow leaving I am however glad to see the sun back out. Though I'm turning into a giant freckle. And will be more so since I leave for Wellington, FL tomorrow. Some inflated ego of a polo player is paying me to fly out to get my hands on his polo ponies. Oo la la..
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