All flights to New York were canceled on Saturday. What I thought was a horrible incident may have been a blessing in disguise. Instead, I have been able to enjoy beautiful SoCal weather, meet some really nice people, have a job interview or 3, and see Hot Tub Time Machine.

I've managed to do a bit more work with Patty and All Girl Skate Jam, and am getting some work done on the kini website as well. It is amazing how much easier it is to work on sites when I'm not trying to work on 5 other things as well. But I will state, this weather is incredibly distracting.

So I'm a little sad that I didn't get to go to the MET, but I did get to see a really horrible band at the HOB, hang out at 2 loft parties, go on a very silly "date" with a former child star who will remain anonymous, and have some very educational job interview experiences.

My mom sent this to me today. Apparently I drew this. I was probably around 8 considering my amazing artistic ability. Who knew it would become a life long obsession?

I may not be flying first class, but at least I'm flying. I'm headed to New York next week for an interview for grad school. Upon landing back in Los Angeles I'm heading straight for Las Vegas for skiing, gambling, and insurrection of daily life. Then back to Mammoth to get a few spring days of skiing and a last bit of work in before flying into Geneva to make way to Chamonix, France. I'll be making an excursion out to Paris and Italy before heading back to Los Angeles.

Of course this entire time I'll be working to some degree, hopefully less in France, but I'm sure I'll have some sort of project to work on. In the mean time, I am starting work on an Orange County bikini company (Killer Kini Bikini.) Seems like a pleasant project to get my head back into the mindset of sunshine and tan lines instead of spf 50 to avoid goggle tan lines.

Ah... the future. She is being kind this year.

I feel like I have done so much and yet so little in the last month. I have been far too entertained to spend any significant period of time on the computer. Maybe 5 hours total last month. I suppose that is a good thing. It means I have spent less time in the mundane world of status updates and internet drama.

Instead, I did my first backcountry skiing, spent 2 days demoing 10/11 skis, booked my New York adventure, am making plans to hit up Chamonix in April and have worked countless hours at the shop.

I feel like I should go into depth about how much fun it was having no idea what I was doing skiing/falling down the back side of Mammoth, or how much I love Stokli's new Stormrider for women, but I much rather just let you know that there are 2 feet of fresh snow here, I get to ski all day tomorrow with blue skis and fresh snow, and that my creative abilities have returned.

Maybe i'll write something else later.

I went skiing today. It's been a while due to the pneumonia situation. It was nice but difficult to breath... But hey, I survived right? It was actually pretty fantastic. I only made it about two hours before my lungs began to protest -- a great two hours.

Anyway, I took out the Salomon Shogun today in a 164. Really fun ski, wish I had had more time with it. I was just amazed how well it handled the groomed runs. A few of the rocker skis I have taken out have been less than stable when entering the "slow" zones. I will say I think I still prefer the Phat Luv on less steep terrain. I noticed myself sinking a little more than I would have liked. It could have been the snow conditions; over 4 feet of fresh heavy snow. On the steeper terrain they were fantastic, had I been up for it I would have loved to try some spins, but my body wasn't feeling it.

I would definitely like to give these skis another shot when my lungs are more capable. We are supposed to have a break in snow and then more Monday - Wednesday. Maybe next Thursday will be the day and I can give them a proper review.

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