Happy Leftovers Sandwich!

Hi there Southerners,
It was quite the Turkey Day yesterday. I skied in the morning and ate like a champion in the afternoon. For some reason the family I had dinner with eats at 4:00pm. It was a little to late to have room for leftovers that night, but a little too early to be a real dinner. I went along with it though. I not going to complain as long as there's lots of good food and people. Three other coaches and I ate at the house of a couple of our skiers, so there were plenty of hungry people.

Acadian Thanksgiving is a bit different than what I picture around Thanksgiving. There was leek soup, no pumpkin pie, and the stuffing was made out of potatoes... Don't get me wrong, everything was delicious, and I stuffed myself. It was just a little unusual; like eating bizzarro Thanksgiving maybe.

I'm up to my eyeballs in leftovers today! It's great, but I also have to prepare for a camp that starts this afternoon. I'm going back to the grocery store to get ready for a few more huge meals. I've never shopped for 25 people before, so it should be interesting. I might need a couple carts and a caddy to help me get around the store.

I hope you all enjoyed a happy, healthy Thanksgiving.

Love,
Toast

Hi friends,

Not too much to report but I have a huge stack of worksheets and tests to grade so I figured I'd procrastinate by updating you all on my life.  School is still going well although I sometimes think its slowly killing me.  My kids are awesome though and make it worth getting up every morning.  On Friday I actually had a kid ask me "can we learn now?" when I thought I was being nice by giving them donuts and letting them chill out for the first few minutes of class.

Life in Denver is good.  I got to go skiing a couple of weeks ago which was exciting even though only two runs were open.  It was more about getting out on the slopes in October which I've never done before.  There's been a lot of snow up in the mountains (and a little down here) lately but I haven't been skiing and probably won't until after Thanksgiving.   I'm also getting REALLY excited to see people over New Years, its going to be great.  I'm getting back from Portland at 9:30 on the 28th so anyone else with a similar schedule send me an email if you want a ride up to the mountains.

I wish there was more excitement to report in my life, but unfortunately teaching pretty much takes up all my time.  I could tell you about 50 cute stories about my students but I'm trying to avoid becoming that annoying obsessed teacher so I won't.  Hope everyone is doing well.  Those of you on the east coast, I'm planning a trip back there this summer (during my three month paid vacation).

Hope to see you all somewhat soon,

Val

Happy Birthday Miss Anna Birnberg! Everyone write an embarrassing comment about her, and we'll reminisce...
Mine: All the kids here want to be friends with Dave on facebook because he ate a dead bird's head! That has nothing to do with Anna, but she was there for it and was grossed out just like the rest of us.

SNOW here too...!

Hello folks, not to much to say, just that those of you who don't live out here should come, not just new years but whenever.  My roommates are all assholes, but I'll argue you can stay with us... In other news, Im heading East for a week, wednesday till tuesday, probably won't leave PA, but who knows, give me a shout if you are around.  Cheers.  Let the snow keep falling!

Quick Update on Life

It's been a while since my last post, so I just thought I'd let you know what I've been up to. Lots of planning for winter, and lots of exercise. I'm really excited for winter. None of the townfolk are though.

It's funny how many times a person can have the same conversation. People remark that it's getting cold. I tell them it means winter is coming soon, and I'm excited for that. They try to tell me how much snow they got last year. I tell them I'm not scared cuz I like snow. The tell me the Farmer's Almanac said there was going to be more this year than last. I'm still not scared. They look at me like they think I'm about to fart on them. I think I've had that conversation upwards of 30 times in the last three weeks. I wish it would just be winter so that people would stop trying to scare me about how much snow was on the way.

In other news, there was a lobster bake here last weekend. Some random guy got in touch with a lady here, and they arranged for him to bring 500lbs of lobster up to town and sell it for $5.50/lb in the K-Mart parking lot. Leave it to the Madawaskans to cook up a scheme like that, but it was great and we all at lots of cheap lobsters. They said they want to have a rib-eye steak party next. I'll be shocked if they convince a guy to drive up from Texas with 500lbs of steak, but I guess it could happen.

I bought plane tickets last night to come home to Steamboat for Christmas! I'll arrive on the 22nd an leave on the 29th. I realize that those dates probably don't coincide with the plans to go to Tays Condo, but I had to take what I could get as far as time off from work during race season. Anyway, many of you live in Colorado now, or have hosted me in the past, or you're my friends and that's reason enough, so please come visit me in the 'Boat. Mama and Papa Toast love to have my friends visit, and I love to go skiing/drinking/half-pipe kayaking with friends (Sophie, this might be your chance to have my mom get you liquored up).

I hope you are all happy, healthy, and well-fed.

Love and Adventures,
Toast