Time to brush the dust off of my xanga and write in it

Tahoe was amazing. I decided to try skiing instead snowboarding. Totally worth it. It's like being on skates going really fast down a hill. We hit up Northstar on friday morning and night skiing at Squall saturday. We stayed at a tricked out cabin that had a sauna, jacuzzi and a hot tub, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 16 people. What we lacked in food was made up with the cases of beer that lined the top shelf of the fridge. I mostly stuck with orange juice, though I took a shot of vodka and patron and a few sips of nasty tasting red wine. Pics will go up later.

I also have a new computer that I picked up around Christmas. Makes playing TF2 look like a pixar movie.

Spike came back from the grave. Apparently she's spent the past 15 months living in the neighbor's front lawn, and the cul-de-sac next to ours. I heard that some of the neighbors tried to feed it, bought cages (but eventually decided to let it live in the wild) and named it flower :-p Once we repair the fence that the storm knocked down, we'll most likely try to bring it back home.

I'm also fairly broke. I need to find work, so if anyone knows of any job openings, let me know.

I've been in UCSC for the past 2 days, and here are some of the more interesting things I've experienced;

Waking up in Ben's car realizing we're driving in the middle of the road on a really curvy path going really fast IN THE FOG!!!

UCSC is in the middle of a forest. Complete with all the hills. It's really really spread out. That, and it's pretty cold here. It's as if someone took a map of the area, randomly pointed, and they built a single building at that spot.

I'll add more later

I'm going to miss hearing the laughter of my house-mates when I leave

I've been growing spiritually a lot this quarter. I think I've finally just begun to see God in the proper perspective. It's exciting. (yay for 2.5 word sentences) I'm praying a lot now, reading my bible a little more, and these things don't feel forced, awkward or obligatory. Exciting times.

I went snowboarding for the first time yesterday. Well, it was more like snow-falling. I still havn't really learned how to stop, or to control my board, so it's more like a go down the hill....FALL! It was still a lot of fun, but I'm trying skiing next time. I heard it's easier, and there's less falling.

I had a pretty bad fall yesterday. I was going really fast, suddenly I lost control, flipped over. I landed with my fist on the ground, my elbow pointing towards my body, and I ELBOWED myself in the stomach. I believe I also hit my head as well, as the first thought I had was "my head feels like its on fire". My second thought was "I hope I didn't lose any teeth". And then my third and most powerful thought was "OMG OMG OMG MY STOMACH HURTS!!!!" Seriously, never been hurt that badly in years. I still got up and went down one more time, but I was really scared, so I mostly just sat on my butt and kinda sled myself down.

Christmas was decent. I got very thoughtful gifts, but my family lost the idea that Christmas was supposed to be "Merry"