#snowboard mountaineering

[nature-hiking]

Fresh snow on the mountains - Zillertal, Austria, february 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

[sibmakesart]

*distant panicked screams echoing in the mountains*

day 14 of the OP Advent Calendar

[victoriapedroza]

Big Bear sunrise. 2019

purgatorie

[wildernesswanderess]

Bogus was so beautiful yesterday ❄️

[tippenfunkaport]

Beautiful art by the wonderful and talented @taracandycorn

Tumblr, in an effort to bribe myself to write, I commissioned Tara (my beloved) to draw the climactic scene from my novel in progress as Glimmer and Bow with the condition that I could only share it once I finished the draft as a reward. And tonight (this morning? idk it's 3:30 am here), clocking in at 134k words, I finished this godforsaken draft at last and Tara doesn't have to murder me in my sleep because it's totally still winter, TARA, so there!

Normal people get fanart done of their OCs and I get my OCs done as fanart, it's fine.

This is the longest novel I have ever written and it will take me nine billion years to edit it in between everything else I have to do, but right now? I am celebrating!

(Paranormal romance. Yes, she's an angel. And if you're worried it does have a happy ending, but only after I emotionally devastate you a little. Shut up, you'll love it.)

And because this strategy of self-bribery actually worked so well, I have actually commissioned art of Glimbow as the three other novels I hope to finish this year so you all have that to look forward to.

But now? I sleep.

[theminimalisto]

[scooby-doo-exploration]

pedralvas

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[unspokenmantra]

Travis Rice 🏂

[livwritesstuff]

So I’ve made a few references to Steve being an Excel guy as an adult (because someone had to be in charge of Steve and Eddie’s money and it certainly wasn’t going to be Eddie).

He’s got the classic spreadsheets – monthly budget, college savings projections, income tracking because he and Eddie both work jobs with variable incomes (Steve is a counselor and Eddie is an author), the whole nine yards.

Steve also has some “extracurricular” spreadsheets. I’ve talked about how Steve has a spreadsheet tracking the combinations of Mario Kart racers/vehicles he tries out (there’s a ranking system involved, it’s very complex). He’s got one for his fantasy football league, obviously, and he and Moe put money on their March Madness brackets so there’s a spreadsheet for that too.

Eddie’s personal favorite is the one comparing monthly expenses by kid, which isn’t exactly a necessary metric per se, but from it stems a game Steve and Eddie secretly play: who is the most expensive Harrington daughter?

The winner tends to rotate throughout the year, but Hazel is usually their least expensive child in the long run. She does ballet, which isn’t too bad when she’s little but then she graduates to pointe shoes, and Steve had no idea that not only do pointe shoes set you back $100 minimum, they also wear out ridiculously fast, and, as he’s been told many times, you can’t wear the dead ones.

Moe usually takes that top spot in the winter – elite basketball teams aren’t cheap by any stretch of the imagination, and then in high school she gets into snowboarding, which is somehow even more expensive. She’s also consistently the reason they hit their health insurance deductible every year. 

Robbie is their overall most expensive kid by a mile. She drove up their car insurance by getting into an accident a month after she got her driver's license, had braces for five years, and the prescription on her glasses has changed every eighteen months since she was seven. She’s notorious for breaking her phone, so she racks up quite a tab in that regard too (the one year they got a protection plan was also the one year she had no phone-related incidents, so they didn’t even bother renewing it – they just make her suffer with a cracked screen for a few months before they finally drag her to the mall to get it fixed). There’s also the year Eddie bought her an electric violin which was, naturally, not cheap (Eddie argues it shouldn’t count because he was the brains behind that operation).

[petitecroissant]

Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia | Canada

[snowwflow]

[nature-hiking]

fresh snow on the mountain - Zillertal, Austria, february 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

[erkmurray]

[mreinberg]

Skiers on Trorey Glacier, BC. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.

[wildernesswanderess]

Snowboarding from sunrise to sunset 🏂❄️💕

[o-xytocin]