I want

to cut my hair. I'm tired of having semi-long hair and I want to cut it all off.

Anyway I am sitting at a coffee shop right now. The goal was to finish my JVC essays for a second year and instead I've had 12 ounces of coffee, searched and stalked some people on facebook, and sang softly to some really good songs. The weather right now is amazing. I walked to the coffee shop this morning around 9 and the sun was just coming up over the mountains. I love mornings which are crisp and cool and it still seems like the whole word hasn't woken up. Now instead of sitting inside I could be on my way to snowshoeing with some housemates and FJV's but I have a semi twisted/bruised ankle. Now how did I twist my ankle some may ask? Well I don't know how much of the story I really want to tell in order to not lose all respect from the few people that read this blog. Well just one side note before I talk about that...this morning when I was walking I heard a rustling and I turn and a see a moose not too far eating and then I look some more and I see another one a few steps to the right. Times like those really make me happy to live in Alaska.

Well anyway as many know yesterday was my birthday. And as for birthdays go it was a really fun one. I got a really yummy cake delivered to my doorstep in the morning by a very nice lady. Then some of my housemates and myself went skiing downtown. Downtown is only a few miles from our house so it took only about an hour and the weather was great. A little chilly, but I was fine in a t-shirt and jacket. Once downtown we went on with out plan to go to Snowgoose and get a pint. It was funny because we kinda had a weird waitress. Snowgoose has 3 dollar pints during the winter months and we asked her what the special was and she was like "oh we don't have that anymore, that's only during the winter months." Hmm? Winter in Anchorage doesn't really end till the beginning of May. But not only that but Molly had been there the night before and gotten the special beer. So one of my housmates asked if winter was over which I thought was a valid question. And then Molly asked if winter ended at midnight last night. Anyway it was funny, but anway I guess the reason they ended the special was because fur rondy is coming up and a lot of tourists come in and thus no more specials. It's crazy here in the summer. All the hotel and motels double their prices and all the homeless people are displaced by the tourists. Right now there are weekly discounts so many of the homeless can afford to sleep indoors. And most of the restaurants have good deals/happy hour specials right now but that also all ends in the summer.

Well anyway on with the story, so the housemates and myself all have a pint and just sit back and chat for a few hours. It was really nice, snowgoose has a great view of the mountains and it was so clear that you could see Denali which rarely happens. Anyway as we are about to leave we go to the bathroom and then all of a sudden someone suggest we go to Darwin's as a joke. But the joke turns into reality. Darwins is a local bar down the street that has free popcorn and also place where most of the locals go. I've only been there once before at the very beginning of the year but it's a great place to go with friends. So the goal was to have one drink there, eat some popcorn and leave to ski back. Well lets just say that the locals here are very generous, especially the ones that pay with one hundred dollar bills. So anyway we ended up staying a little longer than expected and on the way back I fell while skiing and bent my ankle a little farther than it wanted to go. But we all made it back safe and sound and went back home to have some cake and talk some more. All in all it was a great birthday, I felt really loved.