New Booties

As you can tell, I have new ski booties from the experts at Sure Foot at 69th St and 3rd Ave. No better boot makers exist, I do believe.

The process of selecting and making my boots took 2 hours in total; it began with multiple foot scans, analysis of my ski level/style and what shell I should use, moved into building my pads, then they put me on a ramp and shot foam through the boot's pads via tubes to make it meld to my feet, and ended with shaving off 2mm at my left toe b/c it was a bit close.

Needless to say, they are a beautiful baby blue (or maybe periwinkle, i haven't decided), and fit like a glove. I am SO excited to try them out. An east coast ski weekend is now desperately needed!
Below: a picture of a cute boot for the little skiers hitting up the slopes.

Drugs & Utah University

Learn about drugs from mice, without hurting any real mice! Credit for finding this site goes to Scott in the office.

Dressage Riding at it's Best

This amazing & beautiful & I highly doubt any of my readers (aka 10 to 20 close friends) will have the patience to watch the entire thing but it's great:



Reminds me of the Lipizzan horses I first saw perform as a little girl when on a family holiday in Spain. Last fall 2006 I was fortunate enough to see them again at Wemberly Park's mini stadium for a second time, with my mom in tow. Even the Queen came, and we all had to stand up when she entered, which I found rather silly.

Not that I'm tooting my country's horn but...Americans did rescue the Lipizzan horses from Hitler & Co. in World War II. I've read they even had special stable bunkers for when bombs were dropped.

$20

Two very interesting facts about $20:

First, there's a conspiracy theory which I believe someone with way too much time made up.

Secondly, there used to be a $20 coin! Minted from 1838 to 1933, these one ounce gold coins were finally recalled in 1933 to be melted down. Now they go for about $100 on eBay. But I haven't figured out why the government melted them in the first place.