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I’ve got a few new pictures from our skeleton weekend at Whistler Sliding Centre a few weeks ago. Tink was there for the whole session taking pictures so we all got a few new ones of ourselves from different vantage points than what we can do on our own, which is pretty neat.


This picture shows Maple Leaf start. That’s our coach in the red jacket. You can see the launching board  on the ground that we put our sleds on to get ready to slide (then he pushes us off by our feet). To the right of the picture is a shipping container that we can stand in to keep a little warmer while waiting.


Me carrying my sled over to the launching board and getting myself mentally prepared.

Ready to go, just waiting for the all-clear from the people up in the box. At this point I would just be exhaling deeply to relax my whole upper body.

A nice shot of the Whistler sliding track.

Happy after another skeleton run!

Can’t wait till next year.

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Scott and I went to see the Hunger Games movie last night. I was pretty excited for it but I think I forgot about all the things I really didn’t like about the books. The movie was OK, but not great, in my opinion. I really could not care less about the whole love triangle thing. Some parts were sooo corny! The whole theatre cracked up a few times, like every time the camera was on Gale. Ha. Also they didn’t talk about food enough.

This review basically says all the things I would like to say but better: http://winebibber.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/can-we-talk-about-the-hunger-games-movie-edition/ It even includes a picture of ROCK-PEETA which was pretty much the best part of the whole movie.

And this article was kind of interesting too: http://io9.com/5896475/everything-the-hunger-games-movie-left-out

Today was pretty miserable with allergies, but I’ve had another little breakthrough and am feeling better at the moment. If I walk around pinching my nose with my fingers until I can’t hold any longer it really clears things right up!! Apparently it has something to do with CO2 build up and vasodilation. http://www.normalbreathing.com/art-stuffy-nose-clear.php

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On Friday night we watched The Descendants, last night In Time, and tonight we will go see Hunger Games!

The Descendants was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD. I cried A LOT. That did not help the swollen eyes situation. I miss my mom. To counteract the sob-fest we chose a dumb movie for yesterday, and yeah… it was dumb. I’m very excited for the Hunger Games movie tonight though!

We’ve seen a lot of Rosemarie lately. It’s so nice. Yesterday she came over to pick up her sushi helmet and her and Scott went to play basketball for a bit and then they played the NHL game while I worked on some homework and rubbed my eyes.

I like seeing them doing stuff together without me. :’)

We also played a game of Carcassonne and ate the dinner that Scott made (slow cooker potato soup and olive bread).

I’m feeling a bit better today. I’m well stocked with Halls and Claritin and anti-histamines and eye drops, plus I’ve been putting a damp wash cloth over my eyes when I would usually rub them and that feels really good. We’ll see how tomorrow goes– the forecasted alder pollen count is THREE HUNDRED (>85 is considered HIGH)!!!

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It’s super nice out again today. Too bad I can’t go outside.

These allergies have been really horrible the past couple weeks. My eyes burn and itch, my mouth itches, my face is sore, and my throat hurts really bad. Wahhhhhhhhh. I’ve been taking a lot of anti-histamines and trying not to touch my eyes. BUT IT FEELS SO GOOD TO RUB THEM. GAhhhhhhh.

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Rosemarie gave me a fun project to work on this week. She bought a white rock climbing helmet last week and wanted me to paint something on it. She decided that she wanted it to be a big piece of shrimp sushi.

I ended up using Sharpies because the texture of the helmet (matte, not shiny) seemed like it would well with markers, and I had a surprising number of pink and orange markers already.

I like the back a lot.

It was kind of a fun challenge to work in 3D. I was able to blend the colours a bit, because of the plastic-y surface. It’s dried up nice but I’m not entirely sure what will happen if/when it gets wet. I sprayed it with Scotchgard, but I don’t know how that will work since that is for fabric, not helmets. Fingers crossed!

I’ll have to get her to send me some pictures with the shrimp sushi helmet in action!