In the transition from my favorite season (fall) to my least favorite season (winter), I inevitably get bummed out. Fall is all full of life, vibrant color and New England tradition. In contrast, winter is barren, dead, cold, dark and extremely boring. I do not like being locked in my house for months on end in the dark. I have tried making holing up fun by buying lots of good movies and learning how to bake homemade cookies but my efforts are to no avail. There is only one conclusion to make. Winter sucks.
Now that it is officially November, Daylight Savings Time is over causing 4:30 darkness and having witnessed my first snow storm, I cannot deny that winter is coming and fast. So this year, I have decided to fight back against the blues. I have decided that I am going to find something to keep me occupied and turn those annoying blizzards into something to celebrate.
My big epiphany? I am going to learn to snowboard.
I have skied in the past with some rather disastrous results. I have actually fallen off a lift (they had to stop it to pick me back up), made physical contact with trees on 2 different occasions and had to have ski patrol come rescue me after ice formed in my bindings and I couldn't clip back into my skis.
My last attempt as skiing was a few years back when my family rented the penthouse condo one Christmas at the base of Mt. Snow. After one and a half days of skiing, I literally could not walk. I took off my skis and threw them very dramatically, my homage to Happy Gilmore. That was the end of my illustrious skiing career.
For some reason, I have deluded myself into thinking that snowboarding will be different. I will not fall as much, won't look like an ass and definitely won't break anything.
Yeah, right.
No matter what happens, I have to believe that my attempt to keep myself from going mental for the next six months until the sun comes back out is a noble one. So I plan to bundle up, pull my Powerpuff Girls hat down low on my brow, suck it up and give it a go. Otherwise, I may end up a crazed Jack Torrance clone. All work and no play makes McDougall a dull girl.....
5 comments:
Partner, I join your quest! I too will throw caution to the wind, strap on a snowboard, and attempt not to kill or maime myself in the process. I think I can still do my job in traction...
The three of us can play on the slopes! However, I will be on skiis laughing as you have to sleep with ice packs on both your ass and knees as you try to learn how to master the art of snowboarding.
Come with me and Mooseski. He is competent. I am not very good. If Mato is not in Philly by then, I'm sure she will come too. She has never been and has been telling me for the last three years that she wants to go. We'll all look like idiots together!!
Sounds like a plan. We may cause an avalanche if there are that many of us all falling at the same time.
Okay...you failed to mention the one good thing about ski patrol...the cutie pies! Hello, if you want to meet a cute guy skiing is for you. Fall as much as you like and maybe someone can assist putting the ice packs on your coolie!
-Pooh
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