My life has become a combination of sports and renovations. A good friend is moving and I'm helping him out with some apartment painting. I have more friends moving in February, and I told them I'll help them paint too. I'm also removing an ugly textured wall in my Dad's new apartment purchase this week - I've never done it before but I've watched a youtube video about and it seems easy, just lots of steps. I think the annoying part is behind me, I spent 5h sanding yesterday so I can put the first layer of gypse on today. In the sports part of my life, winter sports are the only activity that are not affected too much by the pandemic. I've Ice skated with friends and realized I'm not too good compared to my hockey playing buddies. I think I'll attempt to improve this year, add a couple moves to my repertoire. i'm pretty stable and can go fast, but my braking is shoddy and I can't do any of the backwards stuff. Already getting better at turning where you put a foot in front of the other. There was a big snowfall this weekend, and we drove up north to a friends cabin. Went cross country skiing, and just walked around. It was really beautiful, I love the pine forest there. We've been going to this spot for 8 years, and never explored the area like we did this year! I want to go back later this year and ski until I find the rapids, maybe 10km north. Photo does not do it justice at all: Also went snowboarding on Monday and the conditions were awesome. The snowfall provided a good coverage, and I caught amazing sunny views of the mountain. I've also picked up this book "Trick Mirror" that consists of essays about today's world, centered around topics of social media, feminism, capitalism and such and it's been not too bad so far. It's not the kind of book that I expect to age well, and it's not extremely insightful but it's nice to see in writing some thoughts I've been having packaged in a fun to read way. The essay I read last night had a lot about the success of Barre classes, a world I was unaware of somehow. Maybe this is a first step of breaking my curse of choosing only terrible books to read in the past few months.