i Lose things

everyone who has known me for any length of time tends to notice this trend
small things just seem to disappear around me.
sometimes it can be explained
for example the other day i grabbed an apple out of the fridge and put it on the pool table so i could put my coat on
when i went to pick it up
it was gone

as you may have guessed
it went down the left hand middle pocket
and got stuck
noah had to take the table apart to get it back

tonight i was coming home from walmart
my first trip in two months
and i had to go back 3 times for stuff that had fallen off
so it took me around an hour to go 5 miles up the mountain by snowmobile
with my stuff
but i am still missing a chapstick
i leave chapsticks around the country like Hansel and Gretel left bread crumbs

i found a new skiing trail with a spectacular view



and i made it about a third of the way back when i realized that i was missing one of my mittens
that i'd taken off because my hands were getting too sweaty
i eventually found it all the way at then end of the trail

stuff like this happens all the time, so sometimes i get frustrated
and sometimes i just buy multiples of the same thing
so if you see me walking out of a store with 3 of the same shirts
you know why

electronics are a completely different story
they just stop working on me
4 cars, 3 mp3 players, and most recently my computer's cd drive..
this is why i havent bought an ipod

oh well..
at least i have some cute shoes...

full moon + snow = beautiful

over the last couple of days we have gotten about a foot of snow
and a lots of wind
freezing wind
when i opened the door of my cabin my breath was taken away completely
leaving me gasping as i made my way thru thigh high snow drifts to the kitchen

in other words it was our first day real winter weather

in which i promptly got my car stuck

which lead to my spending the better part of a half on hour digging
with a small plastic car kit scrapper
under my car
because i wasnt about to ride back up and admit i'd gotten stuck
i got stubbornness from both sides, i didnt have a chance

when i finally got all of the snow dug out from around the wheels and from under the axel
noah comes down, and drives my car right out...


it figures
stupid boys...wait till we do the grunt work...and then take the glory...

So thurday i got to go dog sledding.. and activity i've wanted to try since Iron Will came out (and yes i did just reference a cheesy disney movie)
We didnt get a chance to drive, but we got to ride in the sled. It was cold but it seemed like a better way to spend my day off, rather than watching Into the Wild for the umpteenth time, or reading silly books in which of over-identify with the main character.
We had a team of 14 dogs, lead by a nice but slightly odd musher from michian, who tended to go off on little rants.
the other couple with us had a team of 12 dogs led by the cute musher...sigh..
the dogs were friendly, and some had the most startlingly blue eyes.
I would just like to point out that Everyone looks awful in snow clothes
but i in particular look really ridiculous.
We went about 12 miles, which was great until about the last mile, in which i started to freeze.
at some point i'm going to have try driving one