i’m now in denver, at my father’s former phD students’ home, typing away at their very neato looking sony vaio. we left this morning from breckenridge…having one very large breakfast before taking off….and then did the usual shopping at the outlet mall and driving off to denver, arriving just in time for dinner. my dad’s student has so many cool gadgets around the house…reminds me of..well..me (that is, being gadget girl). the rest of the time in breckenridge was great—i skied the rest of time, which was definitely worth it. the view from the top of the mountain was magnificent. i just love how i can ride the lift to…

[sigh] i just got out of a nice, steaming hot tub in the middle of a blistering winter here in Breckenridge, CO…ooooo….my muscles are sooo sore. my family arrived here late Saturday night, where I met up with Ben and hung out with his relatives over in Vail. On Sunday, I attempted my 2nd day ever at snowboarding–over in Keystone with Ben…and boy, was it hard. I wiped out so hard and bruised myself everywhere. I hurt myself in places that I never hurt myself while skiing…including banging my head on the ground several times and getting the wind knocked out of my chest. My brother and I stumbled back…

’tis the season for holiday parties. jed had one at his place on saturday night–lotsa fun. he and 3 guys got together to sing some a cappella xmas music. Check out pictures from this event.after the party, i went to a rave with betina and ben…which was kinda disturbing. The overall ambience was cool and the music was great. But I was so shocked to see all the young children, high on ecstasy, numbing their minds with twirling neon lights..so disheartening. see for yourselfspoke to matthew on sunday to see how he was doing down in fernley. he apparently won nearly $1000 at craps and then took that money, rented…

i haven’t written anything since i was in kansas. a lot has happened since. it’s weird–there’s so much to write about…yet, i feel odd writing about it in this weblog. how private do i want to be about the events in my life? anyhow, after getting back from kansas, life moved on and i was back in seattle. had a really really rough week with matthew right afterwards. it’s definitely tough to try to continue a friendship with someone who you’ve shared your life with for the past year. when is it time to move on? how long does it take to heal? do i have the right to cry?…