how I rang in the new year

Since this is just gonna start off as your typical new year post ill start out with a brief look at my new years eve flowing into new years day. I started out New Years Eve heading off to work at around 9:30 am. After working 8 hours of a typical day as a ski instructor I switched boots and became a board instructor for the rest of the evening. The supervisors all left at 6pm, which isn't typical since there is always a supervisor around for close. However, since it was new years eve none of them wanted to stay around. At this point any lessons that went out were treated as normal, yet the 3 of us remaining instructors (all dual platform suprisingly) were paid under the table and given cash for the total cost of what the customer pays for the lesson. This was quite the nice bonus for staying late on new years eve in my mind. I took one semi-private snowboard lesson out, which put $55 in my pocket.After leaving work at 8:30, a mere 11 hours of work, I headed home to grab some cloths so I could stay the night in GR and wouldnt have to worry about drunks on the road after midnight. I then headed over to my Uncle Lee and Aunt Ruth's to see family I hadn't seen yet since I'd been home. Spent more time there than I had planned and finally got on the road at about 11:30 to make the almost one hour drive to Grand Rapids. Somehow I made it to my friend Kim's 30 seconds before the ball fell, so I was able to catch that. After the falling of the ball the group of us watched a movie and then headed out for our routine 2am walk. While on the walk we decided to head to the playground near Kim's house. Now this playground and I have a history. Last spring when they were building it we headed over there and I decided that I could still fit in the kiddie swings. Well this kiddie swings are particulary high, a foot or so higher than typical. SO after getting in, I was stuck. There was no way I was getting out of that thing. It took Kim, Phil and Ryan pulling me inorder to get me out of that thing. So lesson learned that night: no more kiddie for me. Now fast forward again to this year. We ran around the park some and then I decided I was going to swing, but on the normal ones this time. After swinging for quite some time I decided I was done and went to slow down the swing. Now this activity is typical done without mishap, ,but this time was different. Before I was able to get the swing stopped I flipped out of it and landed forehead first on the ground, getting my arm caught in the chain. Although this sounds quite horrible, it really didnt hurt all that bad. I was stunned at first but then I rolled over and started laughing. After that incident we headed back to Kim's. By this time it was 5am, so the boys decided to head home. Kim, Kelly an I then had some girl time and headed to bed. After sleeping just a few hours I woke up and headed off to work at 9am. Luckily I only ended up having to work until 3 on new years day. After getting out of work i went home, took a much needed nap and then headed off to Bekah's house to see her before she left for TN again. So was my fairly uneventful new year. Outside of that change of pace, I have been working a ton. Put in nearly 70 hours in the past 7 days. Yesterday I started J-term so I have the next 2 weeks off work while I sit in class all day. I think start working 830am-8pm 5 days a week and attending class 10am-840pm, plus chapels the other 2 days a week. It is going to be a busy winter.

In other news, I shoot a music video this weekend. Should be interesting.