Snowed In

***UPDATE***
I'm sorry to say that I will NOT make it home for Christmas. The airlines are already at near capacity for the next few days including Christmas and simply wont be able to add most of us whose flights were cancelled due to the blizzard. I'm sad I wont get to make it home for the holidays to be with my family and friends, but the spirtit of Christmas lives on and am looking forward to the holiday nonetheless.

Christmas makes me reflect on how lucky I am to have had so many amazing people in my life. I'm gratefull for all of them even ones I haven't seen for a while, are not speaking too currently, or will not spend time this holiday. I'm grateful to all of you that've you've blessed my life. Thank you!!!
****OLD POST****
So we've been hit by a blizzard.I was supposed to fly home tomorrow morning for Christmas and the airport is closed until at least tomorrow night at 7:00. They say we'll get at least two feet of snow and they are not sure if I can another flight home before Christmas.





So far Denver's gotten 24 inches of snow and Boulder has 33 inches of snow. My area got a little less. My car and other areas weren't as bad as it could have been because the wind was so strong it blew a lot of the snow off.


Here are some pics of the roads a block from my apt. The sun has started to come out and it is getting better. I am so gratful I didn't get stuck in the airport like so many people and that I have a grocery store two blocks from my apt. as well.





I've been looked up in my apt all day and clearly I need something constructive to do with myself.

Life after the campaign!

As the excitement and drama of the campaign fad, I’m beginning to put my life back together. Having done this a few times now, it’s surprisingly a similar experience regardless of weather you win or not (we lost this time). It takes time for me to learn how to have normal relations with people again as my blood pressure slowly returns to normal. What do you talk about if you’re not talking a candidate/ staff/ volunteer off of the edge, debunking the latest attack, bitching about the lack of proper media coverage, or struggling to stop a train wreck of campaign activity from happening?


I visited DC and Boston with Rosia. I have to say it was so nice to get away and be reminded that I had life before the campaign and will have another one now that it’s over. It was also great to see my family and old friends! My twin brother has turned into a computer geek and I couldn’t be more proud of him for it!




My biggest surprise of the trip is the degree to which I missed Boston. Up until the moment we stepped out of Logan airport I was fully prepared to return to Colorado and begin my life as non-political hack living the life of a happy Coloradian. I’ve started to learn to ski and have slowed down everyone who has taken me hiking, but I loved it nonetheless. The low cost of living and 300+ sunny days a year here go a long way in making me happy.

Yet, as much of a shock as it was to me, I cannot deny that after spending just a couple of days back in Boston I felt more at home and more excited about a city then I have in a long time. Boston has so many unique qualities that it’s hard to list them all here, but I was taken back by the architecture, culture, food, and energy of the City. Boston is easily the most beautiful city I’ve ever been too.



I was excited about living in Colorado because I wanted to live in the mountains. I wanted the experience of looking up everyday at those beautiful and amazing works of nature and be reminded that “oh yeah, there is something much bigger then me at work here.” Boston and Colorado are too different to even compare and I can’t say with any certainty where I’ll be in three months, but I’m throwing it out there that the temptation to move back east has set in!

PS

More pics to come