delicious (tiny) food.

last time i made bread, i used the miniature 

bread pan my mom bought for me.

so naturally, i had a lot of tiny bread.

here's what i made:

tiny grilled cheese sandwiches:

 tiny grilled cheese sandwiches with apple slices:

(shown here open-faced)

 tiny breakfast sandwiches:

(with bacon, eggs and cheese)

and in the spirit of tiny food, here's another (less-flattering) picture from my birthday cupcake concoction on super bowl day. sean was obviously very interested in the game and not in my birthday celebration. i think someone took this picture just as i was saying "thanks."

"think you can get done with work early today?"

^ that's what sean asked me two weeks ago when he peeked his head into my edit bay at about 2PM on a thursday -- right in the middle of the week-long murder trial i was covering. 

"umm...sure?"

less than three hours later, we were on the road to madison.

it was the indiana hoosiers (sean's fav team) going up against the hometown badgers in a big ten battle for bragging rights. too bad neither of them is as good as my buckeyes.

we got to go down on the floor for a bit. later we watched from the press box and it was a actually a really good game.

 

 much to sports boy's dismay, indiana lost.

but we still stopped to take a picture of how famous he is --

 

we turned around and headed back to wausau a little after 11PM.

we got back in the wee hours of the morning.

 and i was back at work at 7:30AM.

you're only young once, right?

 finally today, for your viewing pleasure -- 

sports boy tries to wear my winter coat.

 

the skiing (black and) blues.

i don't usually bruise very easily.

that changed when i went skiing for the first time last week.

enter: my good friend, danger phil.

he came from madison for the day to hang out and teach me to ski. if only he would have known how much of a task that would be...

we started with the bunny hill for a few runs (highlighted below in green) and then danger phil thought it would be a fun idea to take me on a more difficult route -- "miracle." it is a blue trail, which means the difficulty level is medium. we skied down it twice and honestly...it's a miracle i didn't die. 

looking back, i had a really good time learning to ski. it was fun watching kids half my size whizzing past me at a zillion miles per hour as i crouched over my skis, silently praying that my bones wouldn't shatter into a million little pieces each time i went tumbling into the ground. danger phil says he's taught three people to ski on granite peak and i was the best. is anyone surprised by that?

i like to think i'm fairly fearless, which would explain the multiple bruises i've developed during the past week, but i turned out to be not-too-bad at skiing and hope to do it again someday (when someone else wants to pay for my ridiculously priced lift ticket and rental skis).

after our adventure, we went to the great dane to meet up with some of my little sister's former flames -- 

( :

they danced on the tables.

i watched.

AND NOW FOR THE VIDEO YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

here's me skiing.

enjoy.