Today is . . . Today

I felt like making a post but I have nothing really significant to say. . . Happy late Easter and Passover. Hope everybody is in good health, I myself am sick. That's all I really have to say so...see ya later I guess.

PI DAY ! ! !

It's here! Pi Day 2015 is here!  π! Happy Pi Day everybody!

Pi Day!

For anyone who doesn't know (as if) tomorrow is pi day! For the first time in 100 years the first ten digits will be represented. 3.141592653 or on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 So really it will happen twice (a.m and p.m). I find this extremely fascinating and exciting but unfortunately most people disagree. None of the kids at school get it except my best friend and only her and my math teacher are as excited as I am. Anyways, that doesn't really matter but I am looking forward to the day when I can tell my grandchildren "I was around for the Pi day when the first ten digits were represented." And they will say "Wow Grandma, you are so lucky, can you tell us all about it?" When I told another person at school this they said "Yeah, your grand-kids probably won't care and will be texting the whole time." And I said "If they are really my grandchildren they are going to think it's cool because they can't be related to me without being nerds." So in short happy Pi day (I am posting this early so nobody misses it) and I have to go convince my mom (who is not happy that I am spouting out Pi digits every five minutes) that we have to make a pie to celebrate.

I hope everybody had a happy and safe holiday season and is getting off on a good start to the new year. Left floundering for a resolution I decided to go simply with "Live Better" it applies to everything, eat better, sleep better, drink more water, be calmer, reflect more, be more empathetic. It encompasses whatever I need to make myself a better person and hopefully progress as a person in the new year. Isn't that what resolutions are about? Making yourself a better person? Maybe by 2016 the world will be a better place because everybody in it has made themselves a little better. A lot of little better in the world can make the world a lot better.

As this my first blog post I want to tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Katie, I am a farm girl, a distance runner, a skier, a birdwatcher,  a trumpet player and now a blogger! First I would like to talk about skiing though, I have been skiing on a school team going on my second year now and although I love it there is something to be said for sitting on your butt in the snow not really sure how you got there. Today my Mom and I went for a ski at a local outing club, the trails were nice and it was a beautiful day but the same could not be said for my confidence. It has of course been a long time since I skied last winter and I was not what one might call swift nor graceful on skis. 80% of the season I was somewhere face down or on my butt in the snow. I got out there today though and after some hang ups I was classic skiing pretty well and my skate skiing was well, I was trying. A couple whitewashes and some of those painful falls were you land on the edge of the ski but I was okay. Going down hills isn't my best but I was trying really hard. After we'd been on the trails for about two hours we got kind of tired and my Mom and I decided to go. I went for one more downhill and I wasn't slowing down well. Next thing I knew and I was upside down with snow down my jacket and vaguely aware that one of my feet had come out of it's boot. Upon sitting up I realized both my boots had come off and I was sitting in my socks in the middle of the trail. The bars on my boots were still clipped to the skis and so it was a body less set of feet skiing down the hill. In spite of myself I laughed and upon the strenuous journey back up the hill I announced to my mother that I was definitely ready to leave. The thing is although, it may be frustrating and hard  I love to ski. You may not be into to skiing but I hope there is something that all of you love even when it is difficult. So long for now from Katie.