Snow Retreat

Let me start this retreat by saying that I just saw a guy who had a goatee tattooed on. Awesome. It gave me an idea, as thats about the only way I will ever get facial hair. Actually, I don't care to have facial hair, but I think I would look awesome with a soul patch...

The youth group that I have been hanging out with here in Salt Lake had a snow retreat this weekend up in the Wasatch Mountains. A couple at the church owns an awesome winter cabin up in Big Cottonwood Canyon that they let us use. It was fun hanging out with the kids and celebrating President's day in style.



On Saturday most of the group went skiing but a few of us stayed back at the cabin. When the youth leader needed a chaperone to stay back I obliged, as I'm pretty much terrified to go skiing because of a bad accident several years ago...I guess I will go eventually so as I don't waste the mountains here in Utah.

While back at the cabin I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood. It was an adventure, as the mountains get lots of snow. Luckily they plow the street in this little community or my walk would have been very short.



This is where I found out that "compacted snow" didn't mean what I thought it did. Coincidentally it's also where I found out that ankle socks and tennis shoes were not ideal for taking a walk in a neighborhood that get about 150 inches of snow each winter.



My adventure was truly an adventure, as I had a close call with this bear! Rar! I didn't scare it too much though. My favorite part of this picture is the outhouse in the background.



Finally, I took about 50 pictures like this one, trying to get a good shot of me with the mountains in the background. Sadly, this was about the best one. Who am I kidding. They were all good. I was in them.



Okay, I'll say it. I am dead sexy.

p.s.

So...what was with Grey's Anatomy tonight?

Meredith can't die, right? RIGHT?

Does it make me a loser that both of the posts today have been about tv? I for real have only watched these two hours of tv the last two days...but I digress...

MEREDITH CAN'T DIE!!!

Yay!

Just in case you were worried:

Matt and Julie got back together last night! Whew...

I love Friday Night Lights.

Sad News...

Thanks everyone for the calls, texts and emails today. There was some sad news out of SLC - 6 dead, others injured in a mall shooting. While the mall is about half a mile from my house, I have never been. But still sad news...

I just wish that the majority of the calls I got today weren't "You didn't go crazy and shoot up some mall did you?" The better question would have been, "Adam, you are the most important person in the world to me - you and your friends are okay after the tragic events of last night aren't you?"

Now you know...

Now to tie up a few loose ends in the form of shout outs:

I wanna give a shout out to Sean Paul, Paula Abdul, and The Fray for always keeping me hype during my workouts. I couldn't do it without you guys.

I wanna give a shout out to my girls who had a little reunion in Pulaski last weekend and called me so I could join in on the fun. It was great fun all the way around

I wanna give a shout out to the folks at Lean Cuisine. You do it almost as good as Marie Callender and I don't feel so guilty afterwards. On the negative side I have to eat 4 Lean Cuisines to fill halfway up...

I wanna give a shout out to the good folks at Franzia. Who knew that boxed wine could be both tasty and economical?

I wanna give a shout out to my new best friend, the crockpot. Fajitas are so easy now!

I wanna give a shout out me. I am probably the greatest person I know. Not to mention the most humble person I have ever met. Really, I am a great friend. I aspire to be like me someday...

It's a love/hate thing...

I love that I am 1/6th of the way to sexy.

I love that I can drink diet drinks and Crystal Light and not even miss real cokes and Kool-aid. I can't believe I don't miss Kool-aid...

I hate that no matter how hard I pedal I can't get the elliptical machine to let me do less than a 12 minute mile. Not that I could do less, but I have an excuse now...

I love that I can google "julie and matt back together" and see that there are several other Friday Night Lights fans who have the same concerns. But seriously...they have to get back together!

I hate that I didn't give the writer of THIS NEWS STORY my phone number when she asked how to spell my last name. (You should click on the link to see a quote from me) For real...the writer is super hot. Angie, if you stumble upon this, this isn't the Adam who works at Crossroads Urban Center with CORC and AHAC. It's a different one, so you shouldn't think it's weird that he wanted to give you his phone number - business purposes only. However, I do know the Adam that works at Crossroads Urban center...he is a very nice young man who acts like a gentleman. You would do well to ask him out. Again, things shouldn't be weird because this isn't that Adam.

I hate that most of the Utah state legislators drink coffee and lean in close when they talk to you in the halls. I think I might make a lobbyist gift of a pack of altoids to all legislators. Plus, more than half of them are old and have bad breath anyways...

I love avocados. Who knew that they were edible if they weren't in guacamole?

I love that there is an extreme obesity awareness bill up for approval this year at the Capitol. I especially love that some of the advocates for the group are extremely obese and that we are cordial with each other - head nods, smiles, and what. I love this because if I ever forget my lunch or am out of cash, I should be able to count on these acquaintances for tasty treats.

I love that I will have all expenses paid to go to Princeton Theological Seminary...to go to a Fund for Theological Education discernment event. Did anyone think for a second "Yay, Adam got a full ride to grad school!" ? ...cause that's what I was going for...

I hate that I have to quit this very interesting post...but I have to go to the gym...

I called it!

Colts Win! Man, I am good. If you simply subtract 6 points from the Colts final score, 8 points from the Bears final score and add one interception to Grossman's total - I was right on. Go me! I think prophet is the word for what I pulled off in the comment section of my last post.

One disappointment from the Super Bowl is that I went from one party to the next right before half-time, but because of bad luck with traffic lights, missed both Vinatieri's missed field goal and the first half of Prince's concert.

Sad times...I even left my first party before the first half was over so I could see all of Prince...