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Here's another one from my old blog. This one's comin' atcha from February 2006 when I went to Steamboat Springs, CO for work. I read it and thought about how beautiful Colorado is. The snow and mountains are so peaceful. I really love it there. Anyway, we haven't had much snow here in Oklahom this year - mostly just ice. Here's to winter white days with snow boots and warm cocoa. Hope you have a wonderful rest of the week - coming up soon, my adventures in sleep study - complete with pics!
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February 4, 2006

Wow, it is beautiful here. I am here for a forum on aging that begins tomorrow evening. I arrived today about 9:45 am and the forum doesn't begin until 6 pm tomorrow. I am staying at one of our board members homes right off the slopes!!! They have a ski in and a ski out built into their home! Enough with the exclamation points! However, there's about 5 feet of snow in front of the door where the "ski out" is. I doubt I'll get to ski - but it is mucho fun to watch the skiers go down the slopes from my bedroom window. This house is amazing. It's big enough to sleep 20 and it's oh so spacious. You could probably sleep a Mexican family of 40 here. They recently remodeled their home and there is now an extension. So my bedroom is the old master bedroom and their bedroom is gorgeous. (so is mine though)

I'm writing this in the hopes that I will have internet access once I get to the hotel where the forum is. There's none here. The addiction will have to subside for 2 days. That will leave me plenty of time to catch up on some knitting. So I'm typing away on my laptop and I'll post it later. For those of you that care it's Tuesday January 31, 2006 4:58 pm MT.

So, I was nervous as hell b/c there was a possibility of having to ride a propeller plane from Denver to Hayden. Stu said, "let me look at your ticket, nah, doesn't look like it." It was. Ugh. I had a bad experience on a prop plane once so I wasn't looking forward to the flight. I took something to calm me down and it was bumpy at first but not too bad once we got in the air. This one was bigger than the other one I had been on too. So, here I am safe and sound and my hostess informed me that the prop plane was safer than a jet. She is pretty darn convincing too.

So now the only real demon I have left to face tonight is one of sleeping alone for the first time in almost a year. So far it just feels like sort of a work day, but this evening when he's not there to keep me warm, I'll be sad. It's not that we can't stand to be apart - this is just the first time in 11 months!

One more thing. When we arrived my hostess took me to Winona's for breakfast. Mmmm. We both had eggs Benedict and it was very good. They even had Cholula (good hot sauce).

I'm off to knit and I'm sure I'll be exploring Steamboat this evening. My hostess said our goal was to sleep in as late as possible tomorrow. Mmmmmm.....sleep.......

Champagne wishes and caviar dreams everyone!