@Blue_Bird Glad you got that much needed sleep Are you back to taking your meds?

@Blueberrybook do you think you could still enjoy it even if your previous skill level wasn't there? Just kinda do write or sketch for fun instead of focusing on the quality of whatever you make?
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I'm kinda grappling with that question myself with skiing. I think? four years ago I had a crazy fall** and my hip was really messed up. Towards the end of 2022 I was able to get back into running a little bit, but one day I pushed myself too hard (8 miles at a ~9min pace) and it hurt way too much after that, and I didn't want to rest and then be stuck running stupidly short runs forever to build back up.

But I've hiked a 4000 footer and a bunch of 52WAVs since so I'm thinking my hip shouldn't hate a few easier cruisers, right? I have such an itch. I know skinning backcountry would be stupid (especially considering I don't know anyone who isn't a rapist who skis right now), but maybe I can find a place that's not insane with their prices....MAYBE I CAN GO TO CANADA!

My buddy locked himself out of his car this morning, after starting it, on his way to the hospital. He almost had me drive an hour out to him to shove a hanger in his door, but someone in his town got his back. That boy....

I had some fun this morning too. I ran out in my backyard this morning up a hill to watch for my med person to come so when she pulled up I could scare her I saw kitty tracks! Big kitty tracks! Bobcat sized! We had snow. It's great.

Also, how likely am I going to get sick later today/tomorrow/eventually if I grabbed a jar of alfredo sauce from the fridge and ate it if it was opened like four months ago? I'm a bad judge of time, and it tasted weird.

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**In the past some of y'all have said you'd read some of my writing and I'm just having a little fun here with my fall if anyone's bored:

Alright, I'm at this lovely little place called Cannon Mountain where everyone hates because it's cold, windy, steep, and icy. (Or that's what the locals say because on the good days it's probably the best ski area in NH to be. I don't think so but I won't say where my spot is in case my stashes get found )

Anyways, today it WAS cold, windy, steep, and icy. I was also not sleeping AKA manic AKA believed I had some Bode Miller blood in me and was entirely capable of skiing like an Olympic champion who has been said to ski at Cannon every operating day for 3 years straight. I had a couple fun warm up runs around the main base, I think I did one off of the summit, but damn if Franconia notch had brutal winds that morning, a couple thousand feet higher was savage!

They have this area called "The Front Five" which is like a taste of Western terrain (wide, steep, mostly straight) but with Ice Coast conditions. That area faces a different way and the lighting was better so I figure, hey, I'll do a few laps and maybe after lunch the summit will be more tolerable. From right to left the main trails go Gary's, Rocket, Zoomer, Paulie's Folly, and then Avalanche. This is also the order they go in if you rank them by steepness. Naturally, my elevated ego said "AVALAAAAANNNNNNCHE!" and just started bombing! There's this little knoll about 1/3 of the way down the trail with a path that leads to some easier stuff no one ever really skis unless they're heading to the tram (a lift that goes to the summit, which was not open today). I have so much speed when I get to that point I catch air. A lot of air. I was not prepared for air. I land, and I'm as balanced as a two legged stool on skis. BUT I DID NOT FALL! At that second. I turn to the left attempting to correct myself, but, no, that didn't work. Down I went. And down. And down. And across the slope that's so wide I'd call it more a slope than a trail. I'm also spinning around one second head-uphill, one second head-downhill and trying to get and keep my feet downhill. Thankfully, I stopped. Unthankfully, I was stopped by a tree.

My thoughts? Thank God I have my DIN cranked!

Of course there was no one around, I was solo that day, and more to that I'm not on the side of the ski area I parked at (it's a different exit off the interstate at that!). Yup. Just get down to the Zoomer Triple (pretty easy, I had already came 3/4 of the way down), take that up, and cruise back to the main base on some easy circles.

I swore SOOOOO much the next day from pain.