Happy valentines baby!

Valentines Day, as a teenage girl, always inspired thoughts of some sort of "love miracles". Filled with wishful dreams each year that some boy may just express his undying devotion to me, usually made v-day a big bust. But i must admit, my current boyfriend has a way of turning v-day into a terrible event....for the second year in a row, he has not disappointed.

Mike decided to go skiing this year on v-day with his lab. It was about one thirty in the afternoon while i was plugging away at work that he called to let me know he had had a little accident.

Problem is, mike's lab is chalk full of extremely talented skiers, those post docs who ski'd the alps put utahns to shame. Being it is only his second season of skiing, he reminds me of a kid trying to be one of the big boys as he runs off willy nilly to throw himself off of double blacks and ski until he can no longer stand. So yesterday after hours of intense skiing mike decided to go on "one last run" down honeycomb canyon. As far as he can remember, he was trying to turn, lost control of his skis, started sliding, hit a tree, fell for a while, hit a rock, heard some screaming, fell a bit more, and landed. Turns out his little fall was about a thirty foot cliff right under the chair lift. The screaming were people terrified that they were witnessing this poor boy's demise right before their eyes.

It is oddly fortunate that mike mainly ran into things on the way down head first. The times his head "bounced" off of rocks probably kept him from breaking legs and arms and slowed his decent. It's a miracle he didnt snap his neck. Since he had a helmet on he came home with only a minor concussion, some pretty bad scratches, and very sore muscles. Our valentines date consisted of me making sure he didn't fall asleep and slip into some sort of catatonic state. V-day always inspired some sort of hope in me for that v-day miracle. The funny thing is, I always knew when i met the right guy, my valentine's day would feel like i had always imagined when i was young....i guess concidering my boyfriend didn't die, i can say i finally got my miracle.

love you babe, wear a helmet!