Tonya and PQBON's WebLog

My memories of this year

1. New years at Steve Strange's house, where Gina insisted, no baby this year....
2. Flying to NJ with my little sister when my maternal grandmother died suddenly.
3. Getting stuck in NJ and shoveling snow with no shirt on in a blizzard.
4. Skiing with Paul, Emily, Shane, Alyssa, Seni, Carolynne, Ken, Metamanda, and Eric. This was the weekend that the shuttle blew up. We watched it that Sunday morning before leaving to come home.
5. Skiing with John and Jay at Cathy's birthday party and breaking my leg in many places.
• Drinking a half gallon of beer on the ride up to Tahoe.
• Breaking the hot tub.
• Taking the bus to heavenly.
• Eating lunch of typical ski food.
• Blowing a few turns earlier in the day while getting my skills back.
• Hearing the bones in my leg turn to chips when I blew a turn.
• Yelling at John and Jay that my leg was broken even though I didn't crash.
• Laying in the snow trying not to hurt Jay's hand while waiting for John to arrive with the ski patrol.
• Crying while on the sleigh ride down the mountain because I knew my life had been irrevocably changed and I really wanted to talk to either Mike R. or Mike T. or Cathy but knowing they were not in a place that I could see them.
• Having a cool paramedic who talked to me about his son and gave me morphine and laughing gas to make my pain more bearable.
• Being told they would not reduce my fracture, just do the surgery then having them reduce it and put me on an ambulance.
• Mike R. giving me his prized possession (his iPod). The hospital let me bring it in to surgery and listen to it while they drugged me. I listened to Dar Williams a lot in Reno.
• Being dropped out of the back of the Ambulance in Reno by an inexperienced paramedic.
• Getting yelled at by a nurse for taking out my nasal canula. Then showing her it wasn't connected to anything.
• My mom being with me for a whole week, while I didn't eat or move much.
• Shelly and Alyssa coming to pick me up in the PT Cruiser. On the way home I kind of snapped while we went down the Sunol Grade and started laughing hysterically for about 5 minutes.
• Having all of my friends support and help me get better... Including Shane, who got a ticket bringing me to work one day.
6. Watching my youngest sister graduate from High School.
7. Mike T. and Cathy taking Nicky and Brian and MJ to england to hide from the law!
8. A very chill and small July 4th party.
9. Planning and throwing Shane's bachelor party.
10. Being an usher at Shane and Alyssa's wedding.
• Meeting Christine the FOB and her man Alex.
• Running the party room with Mike R.
• Flying across the country with Shelly and Mike.
11. Buying my 2002 Yamaha YZ250F (Casey Lytle's former race bike.)
12. Sailing my boss Mark's boat on the bay.
13. Going to see the Dixie Chicks with Tonya the day before my third leg surgery.
14. Finding out that my leg is actually healing and crashing my prized BMW R1100S Boxer Cup Replika destroying the bike and my arm.
• Being treated as a full trauma case by the ambulance and the ER.
• Getting more surgery, where the nurses cut up my Lucas Arts tshirt that was older then I was and a childs large.
• Having Ken and Metamanda at the hospital the WHOLE time I was there (that they were allowed to be there).
• Calling my boss on his cell when he was out sailing with his peers and boss to tell him I was in the hospital again.
15. Finding out my R1100S was totaled.
16. Helping plan and throw Mike R.'s Bachelor party.
17. Mike R. and Bernadette's wedding. (Shelly get sick from drinking!)
18. Buying my Triumph 2002 Daytona 955i.
19. Going to Leguna Seca and not crashing in turn 5 as I did one year ago.
20. Spending thanksgiving with my family and my girlfriend Tonya.
21. Spending the final two weeks of the year with my girlfriend and family.
22. Having all of my friends help and support me in what turned out to be a VERY rough year.
23. Getting back together with Tonya after 8 years apart.
24. Becoming better friends with Ken and Amanda.
25. Watching 4 of my friends get married and be very happy.