The Mouse, The Snowboarder and the Wardrobe

Time: 11:22pm
Mood: Tired and in pain
Song of the moment: The Killers - Mr. Brightside

What an eventful few days! Tuesday evening I was chatting on my computer when I heard my roomate Rosie scream. The thing is, we're having a bit of a mouse problem here at my house, and Rosie is scared of mice so I knew it was a mouse. I ran downstairs to find Rosie standing beside the kitchen sink, with the water running, looking scared. Apparently this tiny mouse made it's way into the kitchen sink and was sitting among a few stacked dishes. The mouse was running around the dishes, trying to jump out of the sink. While I was thinking about how I would remove this mouse from the sink without having to touch it, I watched it. It began to bathe itself in the running water, and drank some water sitting in some dishes. I remembered I had a old pasta sauce jar sitting in my shelf, so I took that, placed a piece of cheese it in, and tried to lure the mouse into the jar. At this point I had an audience. Fatima and Kathy came down to check it out. The mouse ran into the jar, and I quickly scooped it up and twisted the lid on. Kathy and I went outside to release the mouse.. we were going to release it at a park about 3 blocks from our house but we got cold and tired and let it out after walking 2 blocks! haha! I still can't believe I caught a mouse in a jar... acrobatic little thing it was! It kept trying to jump out of the jar, and if I didn' t have the lid on.. I think it woulda jumped out!

So yesterday night I headed up to Collingwood with Alex, Marta, Laura, Jen, Dave and Art to go snowboarding at Blue Mountain (which was today). Dave has a place up there that he and his friends rented because the do ski patrol there, and he offered to let us crash there so that we wouldn't have to get up at 6am to catch the bus from school to get to Blue Mountain. We got to Collingwood around 11:00pm after a long drive through side roads (which was interesting). It was a small one room basement apartment, but it managed to fit all of us. It was such a cozy place! It was very nice :D We stayed up, drank beers and watched tv for a bit before crashing at 1:30. But I couldn't sleep until 3:30 :( Me and my semi-insomnia.. sucks ass! The next morning we got up at 8:30, got changed into our gear and waited for the ppl that took the bus to arrive. The thing was, we couldn't get equipment until the bus arrived with the organizer of this trip cuz he had all our money for the tickets. So we waited around.. apparently they hit traffic and were going to really late. But the guy pulled some strings and we got to get our equipment early! Hooray!

I chose to snowboard this time because.. well.. I felt it was time for me to try something new. Let me tell you.. it was so much fun! but I'm gonna be so sore tomorrow morning! I can't count the number of times I fell... on my ass and doing face plants. I think I hurt every joint on my right arm! There was this one time I fell on my ass so hard I felt the pain in my head! hahha! Hilarous! I did this awesome face plant after going down a bunny hill.. my legs flew up in the air from the mometum of my fall! hahaha! I couldn't get up for 2 minutes cuz I was laughing so hard at myself! Because of my need for speed, and being numb from falling so many times, I headed to a larger (but still a green circle) hill where on my last run of the day, managed to go down without falling. Yes Jimmy.. I know you're proud! hahha! It was so much fun but man my knees hurt :(

The drive home was brutal! We were hit with drifting snow and snowfall.. made visibility quite low. Well it was enough to keep Dave awake so he kept me company throughout the drive (and he was the only person that knew how to get back.. so that was good!). We gave up on the sideroads cuz they were too risky, and headed into Brampton to catch the highway. We stopped for gas, where Dave went into the store and bought a Bingo ticket. It was hilarous because he actually yelled out the numbers he got as if he was at a bingo hall! haha! He managed to win $6! So we stopped by another gas station so he could get 2 more tickets.. and guess what? He won $3 on each ticket! Lucky!!! haha!

Ok I'm beat.. must head to bed :S