It's been a while, I know.....

Lots of newness. X-mas in Aspen was a hell of a thing. (No pictures, oddly enough... Didn't take a one.) Good snow the first couple of days, but no big dumps. I skied solo on Christmas day and it was SO much fun. I think the entire fam had a great time so... same thing next year?

I made off with some decent booty too... 2 more seasons of Kids in the Hall, A Nintendo DS, and an antique pond yacht fixed up and rebuilt by my parents:



I have been back in Seattle for the past week and am loving it. I think the biggest piece of news is that I got a STUDIO! woot! I found a listing on Craig's List for a artist studio downtown. It's like two blocks north of Pike's Place Market. I had been working with these people since before the break, and went down and saw it on Wednesday. Its a pretty cool place. It can house about 10 studios, has a loading dock off the back, high ceilings, lots of storage. and is above a cycle shop. I told them I'd take it on Thursday, and signed the papers on Friday.

I decided to push the lease until February after finding out I've got a second trip this month for Chihuly. The first is to St. Louis for the MOBot de-install. I leave tomorrow for that and am super excited about it. (Seeing friends!) The second is only five days after that and is to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. We are replacing all the pieces on a tower for all new pieces. The pieces with silver leaf on them all tarnished, so we are exchanging them for clear. Fun!

I guess this is the one:


Thank god there are three of us going for 5 days 'cause I really don't know what I'm doing.

As for this weekend, I had a great time climbing with Kristin and Jeremy on Friday night, and then Noonan joined us for drinks at the Sloop. Yesterday we spent watching disappointing football and and drinking Budweiser Select (which our taste tests prove it's exactly the same thing as Budweiser.) We went to Phuket Tia for for dinner (I guess it is supposed to be pronounced FOO.ket, but I like it better the other way) and finished watching the not as disappointing Seahawks game. I hate Texas.

The night concluded nicely with a 1:30 AM migraine which I'm currently shaking off, but that's really the only bad thing lately, so I'd say not too shabby.