Let it snow, and some more and some more!

So this week has been pretty uneventful. We haven't seen the sun in over a week, I taught my first week of classes, and I worked way too hard on an assignment that I later found out was only supposed to be a bit of calculation and no writing. ( I wrote 2 pages of text and added 7 tables of data, oops! ) As you can see it snowed yesterday at work. The morning started off as a warm, cloudy day. I taught a group lesson of two adult women in the morning. But get this. If they bought an "adult lesson" then it is only an hour, if you have fewer than three students. If you have three or more, it is two hours. If someone comes up with a "day one/two/three" ticket, it is two hours. If one person comes up with one of those tickets and the other person in your group has a "normal" ticket, you teach a two hour lesson. So confusing, and I'm not sure why, but I can tell you that one hour lessons are hard. It has been so long since I have taught a one hour, and I taught two yesterday. Later in the day I had a one hour private. I had another one hour no show me, but again I got paid for it. FANTASTIC! I had another two hour private as well. So, it was a easy 5 hour day ending in snow, Snow, SNOW!

As I said, it was a totally different day in the afternoon. About 130 it started snowing, and I was thinking it was just windy and cold, and that there hadn't been that much snow. By 430 when I got to my car there were three inches on it and slow moving traffic. It took me almost 45 minutes to get out of the "mount snow" area, about 4 miles from my parking spot (which by the way isn't that far from my locker, which is nice). The snow had begun to pile up on the road and cars were slipping everywhere. The whole time I was thinking how lucky I was to have a Jeep. All those poor people from CT and NY who had Infinities, Hondas, and Toyotas were having a lot of trouble. Ultimately it only took me 2 hours to get home, which is amazing. If you knew where I actually go that would amaze you. Sure it is only 62 miles away and in another state, but it seems like a whole different world. That is just the way this place is, everything you want to do is close, so you can do so many things in a day. Since I work I don't really have a day to go off and explore around here in the winter, but that is ok, I get to drive to Vermont EVERY WEEKEND! We have received even more snow today and we are expecting more all week long. So, president's day WEEK should be fun. Maybe I'll have funny stories for you all.

Oh, I do have a funny story. I was teaching a little girl on Saturday who was really funny and kind of fun to ski with, although I did have to yell, "Sydney, slow down please!" a few too many times for my health. But she loved to hang on the "strings" in the lift lines. At Mount Snow we get a "service" line that we share with the ski patrol. No matter what type of class you have you can use the line. She was a private, so we went in there no mater what, but we would be in there all by ourselves waiting for the lift operator to tell us we could go. I had strategically put her on my right every time, but she could play with the "string" on that side anyway, even though I would ask her not to. On the final ride, the string on the right was down, and I had slid to the left. Being pretty quick, she said I'm going to go on this side this time. I said, no, no, I need you on my right. She said why, there is no string over there? I said, I know, but i need to be able to help you get on and I can only do that with my right arm. She asked, WHY? I told her that my thumb was hurt and that I wouldn't be able to lift her. She said let me see. I told her if she moved to my right I would show her on the lift. We got on pretty uneventfully. I then took my glove off to show her my left thumb all taped up, and even showed her the lovely dark bruise in the crick of my joint. She looked at me and said OH. I asked, did you think I was teasing you? She said (with a sad look on her face) yes, I just thought you didn't want me to play with the string! It was a pretty good exchange, and hopefully she learned that not everyone is teasing her :)!

OH and by the way, yes, I did re-injure my thumb. It totally bruised up and I have lost a lot of my motion. I went to Urgent Care last night and I got a brace for it and a referral to a hand specialist. I won't have anything done until after ski season if anything has to be done, but I'll keep you all updated on the "thumb status." :) But it is true, I've returned to being half a lower life form: no opposable thumb! :)