Skydiving
Arizona Dreaming
For Christmas this year, we decided to spend it in the skies over Eloy, Arizona. It was the perfect 4-day getaway (with the only problem being that it was far too short!). We flew down to Phoenix on Friday night, picked up our rental car, stopped to get some groceries, and made our way to … Continue reading
Somewhere Over the Prairie
Ah, my beloved Lost Prairie – how wonderful it was to be there for (almost) the full boogie this year. Sean was a trooper and did ALL the driving, so I got to experience the joys of the RV without having to do much of the work. He left late Wednesday and got a few … Continue reading
Feelin’ Fine, Prairie Prep, Paleo Guests
As we’re in the homestretch before Lost Prairie, I’ve spent some time recently making sure I have enough clothes to make it through 10 days of Montana weather – hot in the daytime; chilly at night. It meant digging through my entire closet to see what fits these days, and hitting Target and Macy’s for … Continue reading
Back in Love Again
After this past weekend, I have this song stuck in my head. I do believe I’ve fallen “back in love” with skydiving. Oh, I never really fell totally out of love, but after coming back from my injury, I can’t say we were in that mad, passionate relationship state that we were in last fall … Continue reading
Night and Day and Boogie Fever
It’s been a tough week. Even though it’s only a 3-day work week for me since the American Boogie at Davis is this weekend, my body has decided to be unkind. For the sake of not getting into TMI I’ll just say it’s been “women’s issues” and leave it at that. But yesterday was a … Continue reading
Our First Real Estate Purchase
Okay, not really “real estate” per se, but we did buy an RV yesterday. A couple months ago we’d started to think “wouldn’t it be fun to go to Lost Prairie this year for the full 10 days?” but we also thought the only way we’d want to be there that long was if we … Continue reading
Morbid Musical Notes
I happened upon the Internet Wayback Machine site today through a random series of clicks and started looking for archived versions of my blog. Sadly when I changed hosts I did it in a huff and didn’t execute it well and have (I’m pretty sure) lost everything before late 2008. Most of what’s archived is … Continue reading
I’m Back
So, after all that angst, I made a skydive today. It was rather non-eventful, a moderately successful 12-way (exit funneled, but we got the first point back together). Unfortunately, the wind picked up and I decided to scratch the second jump; as the remainder of the group (many had dropped out because of the wind) … Continue reading
Focusing on the good stuff
We went up to SkyDance yesterday for Safety Day and with the hope of jumping (the forecast was iffy but turned out to be totally wrong as it was a gorgeous day). I also say hoped in my case because I was waffling between ambivalent and apathetic about getting into the air, and I’ve always … Continue reading
The News from 4,500 Feet
There weren’t too many seminars today that I was interested in, so I came back to the hotel after the first two this morning and got in some gym time. Monday and Tuesday were pretty full; yesterday and today have been a bit slower just based on how things have been arranged on the schedule. … Continue reading