Friday, January 26, 2007

7 Days....

Can you feel it??? Your pulse races. The hairs on the back of your neck stand at full attention. Your breath becomes shallow and loses rhythm. Your eyes are WIDE OPEN.
Your liver weeps silently.
Can you feel it???

I can...

Friday, January 19, 2007

14 Days...

What about it kids!?! Are we ready?!? I sure as shit am! 2 weeks... 2 immensely long weeks for 3.5 days that will go by too fast. What a rush (sounds really good if you say it while growling)

LET'S FREAKIN GO ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, January 12, 2007

21 Days...

It's Friday... exactly 21 days from now until I hop in a car and follow my childhood back to Gatlinburg... my adult childhood that is. The days before waking up at 5:30 in the morning and working the 7-5 (it seems soooo much longer when you see it in print). The days when, if you did have to wake up at 5:30, it was probably in the afternoon.

In 21 gut-wrenching days I will be a kid again. I can't express in words the anticipation that I feel right now. I want to go now and never, never, ever come back. I want to sit in the hot tub until I just melt away. I want to play pool and choke at the winning moment. I want to sing horribly and have everyone laugh at me (and you will). I want to drink until I don't really remember any of it and then get to relive it again in videos and stories.

I am sad for the 3 years that I didn't attend. I feel like I lost a part of my adult childhood. I feel like I neglected my innocence. I wonder what would have happened had I been there and how many bones I might have broken. I wonder how many times Amber would have tried to push me down the stairs... I wonder...

I'm bringin' the camera this year. I'm ready. I'm willing. I'm able. I'm strong. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and damnit... I AM A SKI TRIPPER!

The gauntlet is down... the invitation is out... Bring it on!