Frozen Tundra

Bags packed. Arrive at airport. Pass through security. Board plane 1. Taxi to the runway. Take off. Land in Cleveland. Run up and down stair for some exercise. Find next terminal. Board plane 2. Wait in line at runway. Make small talk with chatty business man. Grab book and ipod. Take off. Land in Milwaukee. Find baggage pickup. Call Jason and Dad. Direct them to pick up area. Stand outside. FREEZE. Go back inside and wait. Get a call from Jason. Go back outside. Wave them down. Run into road. Shove my bags in car. Take off for Dad's House. Winter jacket and heat on high. Pull in garage. Let Annie out of her kennel. Jason hold onto Annie. I come out of car. Annie goes crazy. Annie tackle Megan. Welcome back to the frozen tundra.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that woman can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts her, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is her dog. A woman's dog stands by her in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. She will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only she may be near her master's side. She will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; she will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. She guards the sleep of her pauper master is if she where a princess. When all other friends desert, she remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, she is as constant in her love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. -Senator George Vest (1870)

Dogs are our link to paradise. -Milan Kudera

 Gma has made me breakfast twice already :)  I'm pretty sure I could have her breakfast every single morning but I'd have to run and climb like there's no tomorrow. But hey, it's worth it. The Monday after I came back, I went to Madison to visit those peeps and relieve them from studying too hard for finals. I went climbing with Aaron at Boulder's Climbing Gym, went out for dinner at a really good Thai place, watched a movie or two, drank some Spotted Cow (yum yum), got made pancakes for breakfast and then got out of everyone's hair so they could go back to the harsh reality of finals week. Then Wednesday, I made cookies and bread with Gma, ran a few errands for mother, and went to see Catching Fire. Friday, I went to work with mother to help purge files and archived old paperwork. Just for that, I got free lunch at Funky Bean :)

I miss my southern friends sooooooo much!! It's just not the same without Megan and Emma and all my climbing friends :/  Also, when we got that nice winter storm of 7 inches, Raleigh was in the high 70s. WHY?!

If at all there is any conversion, 
it should be from misery to happiness, 
from defilement to purity, 
from bondage to liberation, 
from ignorance to enlightenment. 

~ S. N. Goenka ~

By the way, Anna will be here in 

5 and 6 hours!!!