Doug84 wrote...
Btw, how did your skating go today hun?
Here, Doug. Hopefully it won't get lost amid the flurry of posts this time.
It means: I did pretty well at everything except the ******* spins,
which was unbelievably frustrating for me. Meanwhile, everybody else
who was at the rink at the same time as me is ridiculously good, doing
spins I can't even touch at this point and double and triple jumps. So
I'm incredibly frustrated and mortified at the end of the practice
session. One of the people at the arena comes up to me and basically
explains that this time is for the national-level skaters and next time
please to come at a different time. That on top of everything else was
just too much, and I end up needing to spend a few minutes in the
bathroom composing myself while waiting for the skate shop to open.
Then
I walk into the skate shop and (third time's the charm, apparently) get
helped by somebody who knows what he's doing with figure skates. He
takes one look at my current skates and basically says, "You're trying
to do waltz jumps and spins in those?!" So he measures me for a new set
of skates and tells me what I already know: my feet are unusually large
for a woman, and unusually wide relative to their length. So he didn't
have any skates in my size in stock, but was able to order a pair in my
size and (miracle of miracles) they were in stock in a warehouse up in
Hollywood. So they should be in tomorrow, and I'll have to go back to
have them fitted to my foot. Then another day or two to have them give
the sole a good waterproofing treatment and I will get to see what it's
like to skate with the proper equipment for my ability level.
So
basically: Very bad skating to incredibly excited about the new skates.