It's been a while...

since I published this. And I'm beginning to wonder if anyone besides me will ever provide any input here besides me. What say you?

My news is that 1) I survived the last round of layoffs at work and 2) Joshi and I went skiing!

I've been looking forward to skiing with Josh, so this year when we had a bus trip organized through work, we broke away and went. It was kind of touch and go, as I was in Tucson until Saturday morning and had to rise well before dawn to catch the bus. But we made it and I was glad that I wasn't doing the driving. Josh was excited to go, but as could be expected, after his first few falls decided he didn't like this falling down and not knowing how to get up again. He did like riding the 'wonder carpet' though, which was basically a conveyor belt he could stand on to ride up the hill. He liked his first ski down too...until he realized that he had no idea how to stop! He also made abundantly clear that he didn't believe MOM was the person to teach him to ski. While MOM was telling him about making pizza shapes with his ski, he overheard an instructor telling another kid and next thing we knew, he had edged away from mom to join the lesson! He had his own lesson after lunch. He needs some time to work on it, but he's more than ready to go again. It was a really fun day.