blue diamonds are scary

i ain't talkin' bout no blingy bling son!

I originally took the day off yesterday to go to this meeting about a super intense grad school program that would totally consume my life for 15 months and then i'd be set for a while and able to do and go pretty much anywhere i want.  Well that meeting got cancelled a little while back and i decided to still take the day off and either sit on my ass or do something fun.  I decided to do a little of both.

I went for some PM snowboarding up in Nashoba Valley, it's kinda pretty up there and by pretty i mean yuppie.  It's way out there on 495 past Worchester, for exact longitude/latitude i suggest google maps.

It was not too cold and not windy at all........but it was damn icy up on them real mountains.

  I really needed to practice my turns and stops/falls so we spent a good amount of time on the papoose/powwow hills getting the tech stuff down or at least trying. I fell a few times, of course aggrivating the existing tailbone injury, making my flexibility somewhat limited.  I had an energy drink and then i was kinda game for taking the lift up the least threatening mountain, which apparently was nonexistent.  I coulda handled the challenge had there been powdery snow rather a sheen of ice. It was a bit much for me, only made it half way and my body was like fuck this.....so i walked the rest of the way down. Val went down like a champ, she did start off on the less icy side, and had her own board...and better control.  I wasn't about to break my ass to get street cred. Eff that. I know my old lady limits.

After the snow excursion i decided to venture to a Trader Joe's to stock up on grub for the supposed insane snow dumping we're getting any minute now....... it was only 5 miles down the road and then i might have miscalculated my where abouts and went on a scenic tour of Acton.  Then i was home safe. And now waiting for the mammoth snow storm.....roar?  meow.