Is it weird that I like scraping out the lint trap?

I love laundry night for a couple reasons:

1.  I enjoy scooping out the lint blanket that the dryer makes.  I don't know why.  I just do...  (to all my fellow psychology majors - analyze away).

2.  Because of the supposed "clothing bandits" (see above) I sit upstairs in the hall outside the laundry room for a good two hours and listen to music, the low humming of the washer and the soft tumbling of the clothes in the dryer.  It's truly therapeutic when your days are filled with noise and all you want is peace and time to yourself.  While all the crazy kids are partying, I find comfort in the quiet.  Tonight's playlist went a little something like this:

Death Cab For Cutie
The Arkells
Counting Crows
Dashboard Confessional
The Weakerthans
Tegan and Sara
The Trews
Onelinedrawing
Jack's Mannequin
Matchbox Twenty
Bloc Party
Damien Rice
Nine Inch Nails
Pilate
Coldplay
Jack Johnson

If you have any laundry night music recommendations for me, just leave them in the comments section below.  I think I need to refresh my ipod a bit and I'm always looking for new artists/bands to get into.

This is the Blenz hot chocolate that I am in love with.  Does it belong in this blog?  Probably not.  But doesn't it look delicious?  Can you tell I'm craving chocolate?  Can I still call this a caption if it's this long?  Have I asked too many questions?  I think the sleep deprivation of the last two days is catching up with me.

In other news, after two days of training at Rendezvous (the restaurant I work at on Blackcomb Mountain), I've been promoted to lead hand (more responsibility and hopefully a pay raise to go along with it).  I'm quite excited about it.  The members of the management team have been awesome and it seems like a really great work environment.  I'm going to be learning the role as I go.  So it appears that just like my last job, it'll be initiation by fire... and that's the way I've come to like it.  After three months of unemployment, I'm ready to embrace a new challenge; I'm really itching to get going.  We open up for business tomorrow.  So with a bunch of snow in the forecast for the next few days, it looks like it'll be a crazy weekend.  Wish me luck; I'll let you know if I make it out alive.

This photo is here because I didn't have a segue from the last paragraph to the next one... and because i like this photo.

Coming to Whistler this year was probably the best decision I could have made.  I've been here three weeks now but it feels like I've been here a lot longer than that.  Everybody who lives in or visits Whistler chose to be here, so it's such a friendly place.  I've met some awesome people, made some great friends and hope to make many more.  I can see why so many people who come here find it too difficult to leave and just end up staying.  For now though, I need to leave this blog and go get a cookie... or four.

Nat