It's still grey and cloudy here but it has warmed up some, so I guess that's sorta new. Yes, there are some spring flowers coming in, crocus and daffodils and some of the shrubs are starting to sprout new leaves. The park near by had cleared out an area where they will form a 'community garden' but I'm sure it'll be full of over grown and unloved tomato plants after a few weeks. Not to sound to pessimistic over it but the attention span here is pretty short. This other park where I used to take the dogs for a mid afternoon relief walk has some ragged lavender plants. A neighbor came over and asked me to keep my dogs out of the plants and showed me how the plants were struggling, she passed blame on dogs walking through them. I think she needed to realize that it's winter and most plants aren't going to look very good in this climate. So I don't take my dogs there anymore. I do miss the sunshine and warm weather.We're headed to Courchevel on Sunday for a 4 day ski trip. We've not been skiing for 2 years, last time was Northern Italy in 2010. The tour company we used is not going to get a good review from me on TripAdvisor or any good word-of-mouth either. They really need to figure out how to make things easier for people to transfer from the airports to the resorts. But we're excited to be going skiing again. I would have never guess that I would be skiing in Europe. I love and miss Mammoth Mountain very much and wish I could be there. For now I'll just have to be happy to be skiing even if it's in the French Alps.
We're also trying to plan our other trips. I would love to take a trip to some very exotic places like Istanbul or Morocco but that will take a lot of persuasion skills on my part, Kevin isn't that adventurous. I'd even like to go to Egypt but that won't happen unless I go alone. For now it's Eastern Europe and I hope it doesn't turn out to be like Scandinavia where we went to 2 countries and realized they'll all start to look alike.
Still plugging away at finding a job. I have had some success with getting interviews either in person or over the phone and have moved to the 2nd interview stage and even had a 3rd meeting with one firm. I'm going to keep going with this for a little while longer then shut it down. The frustration is just not worth it and it'll get to a point where the gap in unemployment will be too much and firms won't even bother.
I did have 2 auditions with London 2012 for the Opening & Closing Ceremonies and will know more in a few weeks if I made it or not. I'd love to be a part of that even if it's being a human wall. We can't afford tickets for the Ceremonies and it may be just fine to sit at home and watch it from the couch, but if I have a chance to be a part of this I'll do it.
So I guess I did have something new to post.
