the bla bla bla blog is ba ba ba back

yes my friends it is the greatest day of your lives, the oakland hustle blog is back in action

im typing from beautiful lake tahoe, california but ill get to that later.

i hired two assistants to help me while I played cards at home



christmas break was wonderful, got to see the family and then the extended family a bunch which was great. i drew kyle's name this christmas and forgot his birthday earlier this year so I gave him 60 $1 dollar bills taped in a line which was fun. leah drew my name and hooked me up with an itunes gift card and some fresh threads that will surely melt the ladies hearts in oakland (thanks leah!)



that picture is shamelessly stolen from leahs blog. So I had a great time in NC hanging with the family, eating wonderful meals, getting owned at scrabble, owning at settlers of catan, being awesome at singing vocals in rock band, playing with the niece and nephew, etc etc etc



ANKLE BITERS. tara is crankin em out in batches of 2 every few years so give it a while and we will have an army (just kidding td)

big EZ also had a birthday on dec. 31st so we celebrated like we always do, eating delicious food and taking a picture of us around the table. I think we have a picture like this for every one of our birthdays back to who knows when. and that birthday poster and blow up cake would be in every single picture, hahahahahahaha



Mom dropped me off at the airport on the morning of the 1st (thanks ma!) and i made my way back to oakland. Sabo and I decided to take it easy the night of the 1st and leave for tahoe the next morning early, so we went out to eat with scott and his friend emily. we went to this really good korean place that scott had heard of (i had never had korean food before) and we got this crazy combination meal for 4. it was a ton of food and they filled up our table with plates of food that I couldnt pronounce, but it was all delicious

scott and emily, who is visiting from nyc or maybe minnesota where shes looking at med schools:



sabo and I, each looking great after having 12 hour trips back to oakland (can you tell where we went to school?)



so we pounded that, went back to our house, and talked with sean and mithil for a while who had just gotten back from jackson hole. we unpacked our bags from christmas and repacked them for snowboarding and crashed around 1 am with our alarms set for 4:45 am (kill me)

by some miracle we didnt snooze our alarms the next morning and got up and drove the 3 hours to tahoe.



kirkwood was closed because their generator literally exploded and they had no power, so we crushed sierra for the day (there are tons of resorts around lake tahoe, like kirkwood, heavenly, squaw valley, alpine meadows, sierra, etc etc etc).

We decided to stay here for all 4 days instead of going over to mammoth because we were worried about getting snowed in and missing the national championship, so we went to sierra yesterday, kirkwood today, hitting heavenly tomorrow, and then squaw valley on tuesday. Then we will head back to oakland, pit stop there for the night, and head to socal to keep living the good life

weve had 2 great days of skiing/snowboarding, but ill give details about that later because sabo and I have to go watch football games and crush the casinos for 10 trillion, PEACE

byebyeybyebyebye