Great Balls of.... ICE??

I don't think spring is ever going to come...   EVER!  Ice is pelting away at my window as we speak and I hear a terrible blizzard is on the way...  Great...  I've always heard that hell is a fiery furnace where the damned are doomed to spend eternity.  I have news for you, Dante was right!  Hell is not a fiery wasteland - it will be full of SNOW and minus degree wind chill factor!  Every blessed day for the rest of eternity it will be cold, windy and snowy!  Oh wait...  That's my life!   Oh Virgil, I am in HELL!!   At this point, I would give a kidney to see blue skies and something green.  I'm so desperate that I've taken to talking to my cacti these days.  Their personalities are a little prickly (sorry about that), but at least they're green.  I'm sitting here in my igloo  watching the ice pelting the windows, forming a frozen mass of glaze over the glass.  Have you ever just sat and listened to the ice balls beating against your home??  It sounds really interesting.  Not like rain or hail, just a steady tapping on every window, the roof - everywhere...

OK, this awful weather has finally driven me over the edge - now I am waxing poetic over the miserable balls of ice that are beating against my home!  Someone please...  send me a pink iced drink with an umbrella poking out of it - STAT!

The equipment collection for Special Olympics was a great success!!  The ski club came out huge for the event.  The picture on the right is the Hubs truck loaded up with clothing and equipment to take to our Olympians!  And get this!  This is the second truck load!!  Can you believe it??  There was yet another load of just ski gear for our friends who lost their equipment in the fire at the neighboring ski resort too!  We've heard that the resort is planning on rebuilding which is wonderful news!  It's such a terrific hill for racing - for skiers and boarders alike!  They are definitely hosting a race there in a few weeks, "Come hell or high snow" is what is being said!  So it was a good weekend all around.  Terrific food, drink and wonderful friends getting together to race and for a good cause - can't think of too many ways to enjoy the (hellish) snow then that!

On the eating front, I haven't been doing too bad - but I haven't been doing too well either.  I just can't stop being hungry!  I'm sure it's head hunger but it seems like I've not been doing the things I should be doing - Like...  eating slowly, chewing my food to mush, drinking water, and eating meals at the appropriate time of the day.  It is way too easy to fall back into bad habits.  I resolved today that it all just has to stop and that I need to get back on the bandwagon.  I'm not going to beat myself up, but I am glad to see that my handy-dandy notebook I'm using to track my food and fitness has paid off.  I'm seeing a trend beginning to happen and I'm able to focus on what I need to do before it gets out of hand.  Thank you for the food journaling tip!  It really does work!

Welp, here's to blue skies and sunny weather..........
...I can wish, can't I?

Until next time!