So this is 2008 then?!

Happy New Year to you all.

So a week of 2008 has slipped by and the world doesn't seem to have altered dramatically in any way, shape or form whatsoever. With all the fan fare surrounding New Years Eve you'd be forgiven for expecting to find streets paved with gold as the dawn breaks on the 1st of Jan, or the twelve horsemen of the apocalypse riding into view, or the end of famine and poverty. Maybe next year!

School resumed today much to my chagrin. All the kids were grumbling about being back at school - but I was grumbling a lot louder than them and sought an irritable free day taking out my misery and anger of being back at work on any student who wanted to enthusiastically inform me of all the expensive gifts they were spoiled with over Christmas (only three detentions given out though - 2008 isn't a great start for some of the little whiners).

We've been battling off the flu for the past week. Had a little ski-ing cross country and a whiteout day at Sunshine. The weather's warming up - highs of minus 4 ish are making for a very pleasant week (pity I can't get off to the ski resorts this week - perhaps I feel a sick day coming on!). Not hit the back country due to ridiculously high avalanche risk conditions persisting throughout the Rockies - 2 guys were in a slide at Lake Louise on Saturday and 3 people in a slide at Big White in BC. Both of these places are resorts where you shouldn't be getting avalanches as it is all well patrolled / bombed etc... So you can only just imagine what the back country is like at the moment!!!!

Had good fun playing on a Wii at Brad and Julie's last week. For the none computer game literate, a Wii is a computer game thingy with no wires, just a 'stick' you wave around and the character on the screen mimics your movement - tennis, baseball etc... were a hoot (but never before has my arm ached so much from playing on a computer game - couldn't brush my teeth properly for days afterwards!!).

Big Red Dan from work came over at the end of the hols and treated us to his culinary skills, although he was well fuelled with a bottle of Macallan...

He also brought along Scout - you can tell she's a Canadian dog because she wears stuff made by roots! Even the hounds have to dress up in chilly Canada to go for a walk....And on that note I'm off, still waiting to be highly inspired by 2008 (hopefully it's just a slow starting anum that'll kick into gear before too long).

Hoping that 08 is already full of boundless cheer for you all,

S&S.