Hectic Holidays
I can't believe it's December already. YIKES! This is a busy time of year, especially since I've barely started my Christmas shopping and I have tons of projects to wrap up before the end of the year, including a web site I'm designing for a landscaping company and my cousin Joan's wedding invitations (sorry Joan, I am a slacker with those Save-the-Date cards)! It's been busy at work as well, especially because we have a shortage of web designers but a surplus in projects. So I've been running around frantically, attempting to keep everything in order and trying to ward off the inevitable winter cold season.Thanksgiving was wonderful, the Tofurky came out great, and I even got my dad to try some! We ate lots of great food and I even got to have pie twice. Mmm.... pie.... I arrived back in Moscow just after our first snow did, and it's been freezing and snowing ever since. We have about 6 inches or so on the ground, blanketing Moscow in sparkly white goodness. Unfortunately the roads have been very dangerous, and I heard the sad news after coming home that a wonderful Moscow friend, Stephanie, died in a car accident on icy roads. :( She was on the Hempfest committee with me and recently had a baby (who was also in the car and probably won't make it either, very sad). What a crappy way to start off the holiday season. Every winter there is news about people dying or getting hurt on the roads up here, mostly students, and this is the second time since I've lived here that I have known someone who died in an accident. Did I mention there are some very dangerous highways around here? Anyway, Stephanie inspired me to get new tires, so Sen & I took the car in and got some nice all-weather tires. They were damn expensive but well worth it, I feel much safer.
We've been enjoying the snow and even got a chance to go snowboarding at Silver Mountain this weekend. It was beautiful, the powder was awesome, and hardly anyone was there. I also did a little shopping in Spokane and replaced my camera at last. My old one had fallen into a glass of wine & was doomed, so I made sure to get the extra warranty that covers stuff like that on my new camera. I basically upgraded and got a very similar camera to the beloved one I lost - the Nikon Coolpix L6. As someone who carries a camera around everywhere, I had to get a replacement as soon as possible. It's much lighter, has a big huge screen, and takes the same memory card & batteries as the old camera. 6 Megapixels & 3x zoom should be just fine for my needs, and it had a higher ISO rating than most of the cameras I looked at. So I'm excited to try it out & take some snow pictures! :)
My house is decorated for the holidays (thanks to my mother's endless hand-me-down decorations) and I'm slowly getting some Christmas shopping done, but other than that, I am so not ready for the Holiday chaos. Can we just slow down the entire month of December?
