Simple

I'm beginning to believe more and more that the simpler you get, the better things go. It seems that we feel this need to make things a lot more complicated than necessary, and I think it's time to break the habit. I did three things today, that honestly made my day tough to beat.

The first "day-maker" was Nordic skiing with my close friend HB. Today was the second of many to come, that we will relax post school on the bike path, with skis clipped to our toes. We got a nice new layer last night, and the groomers hadn't packed it out for us, so we decided to blaze a path. We should have gone snowshoeing, but that would have been too easy for our style. We made it a little ways north, deciding to venture into the neighborhoods close by. I'll tell you now, our xc skills are a sight to see; we ended up walking across the street with our skis on our feet and climbing the snowbanks to ski on top of them. If you've never been out before, I suggest you try when you have a chance. There will be pictures soon, I promise.

After skiing, I enjoyed some down-time with my mom. My mom and I have become really close this year, it's been really nice. Along with our close friendship, we share a taste for Weeds. If you haven't seen the show before, you're missing out. As I said, I came home and had some down-time watching Weeds with my mom online, until the internet got a little feisty ending our tv time. Sitting there with her is very fulfilling for me, without these times I would hardly see her. It's nice to spend time together aside from the passings in the morning and evening.

Finally, the topping to my post-school-great day was skating. A pal of mine, Miles has a knack for sharing the coolest times with me. Last year this time we had a picnic via snowshoeing, we've been evening fly fishing at a widdo pond, and this year we skate. So what's the big deal about skating? We weren't able to simply waltz out and do our thing; there was snow on the ice from the dumping I talked about earlier. Anyways, there was a guy out on the ice plowing the snow off of the surface who entertained us for a little while. We watched him go to town until the ice was mostly clear before we went out. Miles didn't have skates and the trailer with the skates was locked so he went out and slid around while I skated. It was fun, but we both knew that something was missing: music. We got the tunes, but they weren't what I was expecting to hear at all, he had put on Ray Charles. Now, this brought out a dancing side in my pal I hadn't really seen much of; Miles is a dancing fool. I couldn't not dance as well, so I shed my skates and we danced away a couple of hours.

These highlights in my evening all seem really simple to me but left the greatest feelings and impact. Keep it simple and have a good time.
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