Tag: Colorado

Winter is the Best Season

How do you feel about cold weather?

As a resident of the Midwest, I absolutely love Winter. I know a lot of people who hate it, but it’s definitely my favorite time of the year. To be fair, I don’t actually like being cold. I hate being cold, but I absolutely love being in the cold. I love it when things freeze over. I love it when it snows. It’s just my favorite time of the year.

One reason I love the cold so much is because I do play hockey. While I do play hockey indoors (most of the time), I do like skating outside and occasionally playing hockey outside. This winter, I had the opportunity to play hockey outside three times. It was nice because it reminded me of where I started. I learned to play on a pond over 15 years ago, and those were some of the best winters I’ve ever had.

Secondly, I love skiing, and I ski at least once a winter. I usually go skiing with some family and friends. We try to go to Colorado, but it doesn’t always work out that way, mostly because of the cost. Colorado is expensive and we go for a week. Not to mention, ski lift tickets are way more expensive now than they were five years ago. If we don’t get the chance to go to Colorado, we just head up to Wisconsin. Our resort of choice in Colorado is Winter Park, and recently, we’ve been going to Granite Peak in Wisconsin.

As for Wisconsin, Wilmont is too easy for us. Alpine Valley is ok, but still too easy. Cascade is fun, and we spent a lot of time there over the years. We started going to Granite Peak more recently because we wanted something new in Wisconsin. It’s a fun time there, but nothing in the Midwest can compare to Colorado. Colorado is just magical. We did make it to Colorado in January of 2025, but unfortunately, we all took turns with the Norovirus. It was not our most fun trip.

I am still editing a ski trip video that you’ll be able to watch on my YouTube channel here. As of posting this blog post, I have not finished editing the video yet. I’ve definitely been slacking on it, but you can watch ski trips from past years. They’re all up there, from Wisconsin to Colorado.

Overall, I love the winters here even though they’ve gotten warmer as time goes on. I don’t think I’d ever move somewhere warmer, though. And if I did, it would be to Colorado. There’s just something magical about winter in the Midwest that I don’t think I could ever leave behind.

I’m Just Exhausted

So, I pride myself in being a content creator. I stream on Twitch, I edit gaming videos for my gaming channel on YouTube, I write short films and comedy sketches, but recently, I just haven’t felt like doing any of that. It’s not that I don’t like doing it, I’m just tired. And things like streaming and editing video have felt more like a job than fun. I already have a full-time job, I don’t need another. Even coming up with and writing two blog posts for March has been a challenge.

My trip to Colorado in January was my last real break. It feels like I’ve been working non-stop since I got back. I was registered for a film production class too, but I dropped it about three weeks ago. I just don’t have the time to dedicate to it. At the end of April, I should be taking a weekend off to go camping. I know for a fact that’ll be fun and relaxing.

Life doesn’t suck, though. Yesterday I went to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. I always loved going there. They have a new exhibit called The Art of the Brick, where it’s all LEGO sculptures. To be honest, it was both amazing and emotional. Why emotional? I played with LEGO sets since I was a kid. I still buy them sometimes. But to see that someone made a career out of it made me realize that I can still do fun stuff with them too. I can go back and make stop motion LEGO films, something I’ve wanted to do, but haven’t done yet.

Life gets busy. Life gets hectic. Sometimes, we just need a break. That’s why today and tomorrow I plan on not doing much of anything. I just want to sit at home and relax. Being able to not do anything will be just as good as going on vacation. I’ll probably play some video games, watch TV or movies, read comics (I have a bunch of those left to get through). I’m sure this feeling of exhaustion will fade, I just have to power through it.

Snapping Back to Reality

At the beginning of January, I went to Colorado for a week with two of my friends and one of my brothers. It was an amazing week. I’ve gone there every year for the past five years except 2021 because of Covid. I didn’t know what Colorado looked like at the time, and I didn’t want to risk getting sick. To make up for it, we went to Wisconsin instead.

The trip to Colorado was broken up into two parts. The first half of the week we spend on the mountain at Winter Park. While I can’t compare it to other ski resorts in Colorado because I haven’t been to any, I can say that I really do enjoy going there. It’s not super crowded and we’ve been there enough to know our way around pretty well. It feels familiar.

We skied for 3 days, which is the usual, and then we headed down to Colorado Springs, a place none of us have been to before. While it wasn’t all that exciting, we did go to the Garden of the Gods. It is beautiful there. What made it better was the fact that it was sunny out as well. Colorado truly holds some of the most amazing views in all of the United States.

I can go into more detail on the trip, but that would take way too long to do. Instead, watch this video if you’re interested: Colorado 2022. I basically made a whole video about the trip including some footage from on the mountain while skiing. There’s a part in it where I fall into a big pile of snow. It’s great!

What I really want to say is that Colorado this year was different. It was harder to come home. Covid had us locked up for so long, we forgot what it was like to be free; to do what we want. We went to Colorado and started 2022 off the best way possible.

I’ve been home over a month and I keep thinking about that trip. The fun we had. Living life without worry. Waking up knowing the next day would be filled with fun and excitement. Now, every day is the same. I wake up, do some stuff, go to work, then go to sleep, and do it again the next day. On my days off, I’ll play some video games or do some other random tasks. But I’m not truly free. I’m free to do what I want in a very confined space.

It’s not that I don’t like playing games or my job. I love the life I have, but to be able to just travel, see new places, do fun things all day every day, it’s not a luxury I have. Humans weren’t put on this planet to work all the time. We aren’t here to be miserable. We should be allowed to go out and have fun too. We should be able to enjoy the things this planet has to offer before it’s too late.

In September I’m supposed to go to Germany for a week. That trip will be absolutely amazing, but I already know it’ll be so hard to come home. I’ve never left the United States. The farthest I ever traveled was to Hawaii almost 20 years ago.

Germany will be a completely different experience that I can’t wait for. The things I experience there will most likely change how I view things. And while I’m excited to go, I’m afraid it’ll change my mentally. Not necessarily for the worst, but change it in a way that’ll make me want more. I’ll want to see more. I’ll want to travel more. I won’t be happy just sitting at home and and going to work.

In the meantime, I can only remember the fun times and enjoy the present. We all need a break from reality every once in awhile. My next break won’t be until April at the earliest, maybe July. It seems far away, but it really isn’t. Life is meant to be enjoyed for the short amount of time we’re here. We should all take advantage of that when we get the chance to.