where's it going...

work has really been taking over my life as of late. i have two weeks left before i head to guatemala for six weeks. project need to be finished up and/or handed off. i'm currently working on three big resort project and one smaller project i call my own, it's a harley davidson dealership. this project was almost yanked from me but i requested that i kept it and volunteered to work additional hours so i could keep it. what was i thinking?

this past weekend was our company xmas party. my company rent out ally's cabin up the mountain at beaver creek. we end up taking a sleigh to and fro the cabin. open bar, amazing food, you can probably guess how the night was. they rent us hotel rooms in vail and bought us lift tickets for vail the next day. we get treated quite well around xmas. the party is always enjoyable, conversing with co-workers from our denver office that we seldomey see and only speak with on the phone. i know most of the voices but i cannot put a face to the voice/name.

three days of hard snowboarding this weekend was fun. all except the last day, yesterday. i rode the basin in which i'm not a huge fan of anyways, but some friends really wanted to go there and considering i have not rode there in some time i thought i'd tag along. the day was going fine, besides the poor terrain park the basin represents, until we started waiting in line at the 'polly lift'. wondering why there were so many people waiting in line, we noticed the chairs were stopped. soon they started up again and not clearly thinking of why they were stopped to begin with, we got on. two and a half hours later the ski patrol rescue teams had to evacuate us from the chair lift. now we were on the north west face which is probably the most difficult part of the mountain, so this was no easy task. i've never experienced a situation like this so i was quite interested on how they planned on evac'ing the people stuck on the lift. i found out shortly. they ended up draping a rope over the lift chair's cable and on one end of the rope was a small chair with a circular loop you enclose yourself in. once you have the chair wedged between your legs and the rope under your arms and instructed to, you jump off the chair and the rescue team slowly lowers you to the ground. i was impressed with how well the rescue team did their jobs. unbelievable actually, how they climbedthe towers so quickly and with all the clothing and ski boots restricting easy mobility. for all of our inconvenience, waiting, we ended up getting a free cup of hot chocolate (in which i passed on b/c i just wanted to get home) and a free lift ticket which was awesome considering i already have a season pass. i overheard that the last time this happned was '95. at the end of the day we were safe and i give props to the rescue team who did a great job fighting the cold and the time frame as it was nearing the end of the day. my amazing luck continues!

two weeks before i leave, on xmas day, for guatemala city. time is passing without notice and i'm only becoming more busy as xmas nears. i don't' have time to do all the things i want to do which leaves me with altering my priorities which will all know isn't that easy. where's time going...