Mondays really are the longest days of the week. Sara had a full docket of 5 classes on Monday with no skiing and I started off the day with 4 straight hours of phone conferences. The brain starts getting a bit goofy after about three hours with head phones on. I was pretty productive throughout the afternoon and managed to stay focused and to caught up on a bunch of outstanding work. The day ended with yet another spec review, that one was not so bad with the time in between to recover.I had set up a Facebook page for Sara on Sunday to surprise her when she got home. She was in a super mood when she returned from going to Portland with the whole crew on Sunday, having schemed to meet up with her pal Margaux, who lives just outside of Portland. She set right to expanding her friend list and since then has seen it grow rather quickly. Her approach has been very mature so far and to date she has managed to limit her time online fairly responsibly.
By the time I got her home on Monday night we were both completely wiped and were in bed and asleep just after 9. I woke up crazy early at around 4:30 AM on Tuesday morning. Maggie needed to get a walk in so I dressed in my ski stuff and took her for a walk all the way up and around to the top of the quad by way of Dreammaker and the access road. The snow squalls from the last two days have started to amounts to something and the mountain is all around frosty.
They have been pounding out the snow and there is a thick coating from the top of North Peak all the way down to the base lodge at South Ridge. None of it is groomed yet, but it is all prepped and looking good for the weekend coming up. I finished my mini hike by 6:30 am and got back in time to start picking up and helping get Sara's packing for the day started. I woke her at 7 and we ate breakfast together and had her delivered to the Competition Center by 8:15. Back to the condo for an hour long meeting with my boss by phone and then a few clean up items. I managed to sneak out to the slopes for a few runs and be back long before lunch. The afternoon was filled with reading and reviewing and some writing. It ended with two hours of phone conferences and a bit more reviewing.
I made myself some dinner (salad and pasta with marinara sauce) and then I headed down back down to Bethel to pick Sara up for 8pm. She had stayed late tonight to take the Impact Test which they use to manage head injury. The idea is that you take the test now and it establishes a baseline so that if you get hurt later it is possible to gauge your recovery. This is a great thing to do for any kid that plays competitive sports...
She looked very pretty in her dress up clothes tonight and I am really proud of how well she is handling this all. She had her late night snack and we got all of her stuff put away and organized. Now it is really late, and I am ready for bed once I finish folding the laundry.
Wednesday is not normally going to be a ski day for me, but there are 9-14 inches of snow predicted!! It may be a decent ski winter after all..
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