I’m sick!!!! after 13 days of straight skiing I have finally been beetin!!!! Last night I woke up with a sore throat and my ears felt congested! Then this morning my throat felt flemy and sore… YUKY!!! So as a last attempt to stay healthy I ran to Target this afternoon to buy Airborne and Echinacea… so far its not working!
Of all of the times to get sick this is a crummy one. I have an interview tomorrow at noon for a hostess position at this resturant called Montana Ale Works… I really want/need it! Then after that I am suppose to rush up to the mountain for afternoon training… which I have really been looking forward to since I just got my NEW SKIS!!!! yes thats right I got the Icelantic Pilgrims I have wanted so badly for so long!!!!! Then this weekend we have a race at home, and training. If you couldn’t tell this is my busy season, don’t get me wrong I love every minute of it, but I am worn out and now I am SICK!!!!
Filed under: Work
I don’t have time for a long post, but I wanted to leave my loyal fans with a little something!
This has been a great week… a long week, but a great one! Tomorrow makes the 7th day in a row that I have been skiing (which in my case is work).
We have a 17 year old girl that will be leaving in the morning for Jackson Hole WY. to compete in a college FIS race. She is an amazing skier, and I am so proud to be her coach! I have been training with her as well as with Eric Haffernan, who left on Friday for Italy to compete in the Toplerone ( I know I just spelled that wrong). I have some amazing athletes this year and I am proud of them all!
Although I love my job (with all my heart… I think it is my one true love) I am absolutely whipped, I woke up this morning and literally had no idea what day it was! I have a coaches meeting tonight, and then its back up to the hill in the a.m.!
Peace & Love
As most of you know I have been in White Sulfur Springs Montana for the past five days on a ski race. It was a great time, especially since Showdown is one of my all time favorite mountains in MT.
Wednesday:
The day started out pretty crazy, I had to run around town and finish up some last minute homework. Then at 11 Ty picked me up and we headed over to Rogers house where we picked up all the benches, and equipetment. Then we all headed up to the mountain for one last afternoon of training. Then at around four we hit the road (the winding road) and made our way to Showdown. After we got there and unpacked we drove three miles out of town to a shed where we would be waxing skis the next four nights. Once the tuning was done we headed to one of the “many” resturants in White Sulfur.
Thursday:
Thursday was the training day before the three days of Super G races. Ty, Rog and I got up bright and early and left for the hill around 7:00 a.m. Its about a 30 minute drive to the mountain. The sunrise was amazing, and of course I had forgotten my camera that day! Once we got to the hill it was time for the coaches meeting. It is tradition that on the practice day the order of the teams are picked out of a hat. Once a team is picked they are put in order 1-10 and that is the order they will run (be sent down the course). I was chosen to pick names out of a hat (2nd yr. in a row). Of course I picked my own team LAST… not on purpose. And Silver Run (my almamatur) 2nd to last! So I spent the rest of the day at the top of the course watching my kids go fast, and wishing that i could too! The only good thing was that it was 40 degrees and sunny, which literally NEVER happens there! The kids were given two runs and an inspection, our second run was suppose to be reversed (BSF would have then gone first), but they changed their minds and we went last AGAIN. That night we went back to the shed and tuned 11 pairs of skis, which took quite some time. After that Ty, Rog and I went for pizza and beer at the local movie theatre and pizza place (the movie theatre is in a basement of a restaurant). That night we were all pretty sore so Ty and I went for a dip in the hot tub, and I took a long shower. Around 10 p.m. Gina arrived to help for the next three days!
Friday:
Friday was the first of three race days! The four of us headed to the mountain just in time to make the coaches meeting, and collect the tickets and bibs. The kids were all pretty jazzed, as was I. When leaving the lodge that morning I had an accident. I fell down the stairs while carrying my skis and bag. I fell right onto my bad hips, which as you can imagine was not how I wanted to start my day! So not only was my pride shot, but so was my back and hips. The rest of the day ran smoothly, the kids did great and I was very proud of all of them. Erica, who is 13 took first place, as did Abbie, who is 14. Evan took 3rd, and all of my little girls placed within the top ten in their age groups. That night we got back to the hotel played some soccer, watched video of the kids skiing to prepare for the next day, and went to the shed to tune skis. Dinner that night was an interesting occasion, we ate at the truck stop, which was not worth the stop. I ordered a salad that had more dressing that salad. Gina ordered a taco salad that only had meat in it, and Ty’s clam chowder was really potato soup, with one clam. When we returned home Gina and I took a dip in the hot tub, and then it was lights out, and off to bed!
Saturday:
Saturday with stuck with our routine, and surged through the day pretty fast. That afternoon after the race was finished we took the kids free skiing, which was great cause the night before the mountain got 6 new inches of snow. G and I took Elizabeth for a few free runs, she broke her collar bone a few months ago, and Sunday was going to be her first day back in a course. While G and I were with Elizabeth, Rog and Ty took the others to huck some cliffs. Rog even got it all on video. Once our free skiing fun was over we took in the awards ceramony and left for the hotel. That night we played some kick ball, which was so freakin fun, then we watched the video from the race, and the cliff hucking haha! That night after we waxed all the skis it was off to the coaches bonfire. It was awesome they had a huge fire, and tons of food, loud music, and NO kids. I think we all had a little too much fun, and a little less sleep.
Sunday:
Sunday was our last day. Rog and Ty left for the mountain around 6:30 a.m. since Rog was setting the course that morning. G and I followed shortly after loading up our car and eating a quick bite to eat. The meeting this morning was pretty crazy. the officials got the start orders and bid numbers all wrong, I had to pay for all four days of lift tickets, and two of our racers went MIA and decided not to show up! The race ran pretty well, and our kids continued to place in the top 5 which makes me very proud and happy. Elizabeth ran the top secssion of the course, just enough to count, and then pulled out. A wise move by a very smart lady! The race was offically over and the it was time to drive home!
Filed under: Work
well with i title like the one above you can only imagine the mood that i am in right now! today marks an all new point in my life, today is the day i can officially say i have been let go from a job! no i did not quit, and no i did not get fired. i went to work like it was any other day… dreding every moment of it, only to be stopped half way through my day and told that i no longer have a spot with the company, and that as of December 23 i will be “jobless”. well i guess i really won’t be jobless cause i have my job with BSF, but i will for sure be poor, and on the market (the job market that is).
its really scary to think about, i guess for the first time i am starting to see the very real effect that the economy is having on our nation, and on my small town of Bozeman. not to mention the extremely poor timing of this loss, i mean really two weeks from Christmas, i best be getting my Christmas bonus!
now don’t get me wrong, in no way was this my perfect job, and was i in no way wanting to stay there (not even for another week), but to have my job taken away, without a choice is really scary! the truth is i had been looking for other work for the past few weeks, and planned on leaving there as soon as the next oppurtunity presented itself, or when it was time to go to school i was out of there, but that would have been because it was my choice… not my bosses!
well i guess everything happens for a reason, and i trust God to provide me with a new, hopefully better, and more fufilling job. BUT no matter how i look at the situation i can’t help shake the fact that TODAY (2 weeks before christmas) i was let go from one of the highest paying jobs in Bozeman.
well hey at least my blog will probably suffer a little less!
As most of you know at the end of the ski season (about 6 weeks ago) i took a job with a local rafting company!! i was so excited for this job, although i was not going to be guiding i thought it was pretty much the perfect job for me, not to mention with such great pay i would be able to just work one job!!! YES!!! so for six weeks i have been looking forward to this job, counting down the days until i could not only start work, but also until i could get my first paycheck… which by this point would be MUCH needed.
Well after over a month of waiting it was finally time to start training and preparing for the season. I did 2 office training days, and got set up to go down the river (all office employees are required to raft the river before answering phone calls about the river). the day before i was suppose to go down the river and start work i get a call from my boss telling me that they had a girl from last year come back, and that they would no longer need me for the job!!!! WHAT!!!! i can’t tell you how upset i was, if blood could boil mine would have! not only was i super pissed, and really annoyed, i was scared, i had no idea what i was going to do for money, not to mention this was the first time EVER i didn’t have a job, and i hated it!!! My boss continued to tell me that i was welcome to come rafting with them tomorrow, in which i quickly, and very nastily replied “actually i’m going to have to spend that time looking for a new job, since i have relied on this one for the past 6 weeks!!”
So now here i am a few days later, and much calmer, and i know its for the best, sure i’m still mad, but what can i do? i have a job interview tomorrow, and in the mean time i have taken a paper route. haha ya i know i feel like i am seven when i say that, but it should be pretty sweet, its an extra $800 a month, besides its only 2 hours a day, and i will be done by 6:30a.m.!!!
