It's been a great 10 years, Livejournal, but I'm not the girl I was when I started this little blog. I'm all growed up, confident and comfortable in my own skin, better able to withstand life's buffets. (But not buffets. I am still susceptable to endless food.) So...I hiked the Appalachian Trail, came home, and started a new blog. I'm closing the ( Read more... )

There is a long, bumpy black diamond trail at MRG called Canyon. I made it my goal to ski Canyon top to bottom without falling before I leave Vermont ( Read more... )

I'm "sloathing" on myself. That's my word for "self-loathing." Sometimes I just get down on myself, and here's why, tonight ( Read more... )

I started going to Planned Parenthood for medical care because I could get exams and birth control there for free when I lived in Washington and was poorpoorpoor, and I continue going because the quality of care is consistently high. I've now visited four offices, one in Washington and three in Vermont, and every experience has been positive ( Read more... )

Skiing is all I want to think about, talk about, and do. Unfortunately, no skiing tomorrow--finishing up the Three Mountain Cafe employee manual, then an appointment with the "female doctor" to find out why my vagina hates me and is waging war. (Hey, if you didn't want to know, don't read the blog.) And then I make sandwiches and clean up the ( Read more... )

There's a huge fire in the fireplace. We're all swapping stories of this amazing ski day, and Bo's playing my favorite song in the Bo repertoire, "Kathleen," which I love because it's so pretty and because the first time he played it, sitting out on the porch on our last warm evening of the year this past October, he put in my name instead. Girls ( Read more... )

The winter doldrums, combined with a cold, have enveloped me. I come home from work, fix dinner, turn on my comptuer, and mindlessly click until bedtime. It's starting to seem like an addiction. There are things to do, too, like planning my hike ( Read more... )

Heating this house is crazy expensive, especially as the roommates aren't taking advantage of our cheapest heat source--huge piles of wood outside the house--for unknown reasons. Laziness? Don't want to bring it in? I keep telling them there will be a day of reckoning, like when the propane tank is empty and they find out I'm not kidding when I ( Read more... )

My eyes hurt, my head hurts, my throat really hurts, and I think the only thing for it is to get vertical and stay that way for about 12 hours. But first, as they say on NPR, the news ( Read more... )

So I completed my first ever solo backpacking trip, in January no less! I hiked over two mountains (Vermont-style mountains; in other parts of the world, they're known as "hills") to get to the Birch Glen Camp shelter, which is a pretty cushy shelter, by the way. There was a semi-enclosed front room with a picnic table, and a back room with bunks ( Read more... )