Shoes are bought more for comfort level than for looks (3 inch heels? Who are you kidding???--not unless there will be a blade attached)...
After a session at the rink, you go to the bank, the store, etc. wearing not only your skating dress and tights, but with your crash pads still in place...and the strange looks you get from people never bother you--in fact, you don't notice anymore.
Your skating jewelry is now amongst your most precious pieces, like your engagement ring and wedding pearls.
You bore your brother to death with e-mails about skating--sufficient payback for all those breathless missives about his motorcycle collection (all of them named--I still don't know which one is Banshee, which one is L'il One, which one is Kennedy etc. Geez, I guess I should have named my boots and blades??)
You go to your lesson despite a late night working, and have a perfectly smashing good lesson.
You rope you best friend into helping out with costume repair at a competition a couple of years ago, and she's now an ISI competitive skater currently at Beta level.
It doesn't occur to you that there are going to be limitations to what you can do at age 44--you want to learn everything you can, even if it takes forever.
Friends/co-workers no longer ask if you are "still" skating...instead they ask how your skating is going.

Beth

You answer the phone at 9am on a Saturday and the guy on the other end apologises in case he's got you out of bed. You tell him you are just back from the skating rink. He tells you he is Canadian and skated as a child - you spend 10 mins talking about skating and then discover he's in a call centre and actually rang to ask you to switch Energy companies (Lots of this about in the UK). You agree to think about it since he is a skater even though you'd normally put the phone down on cold callers!

You visit 'Claires Accessories' - a shop aimed at 8-18yr old girls and you buy the most outrageous spangly hair things and they are NOT for your 10yr old daughter.

You don't do housework because it wastes time that you could be skating.
Your house is a total mess but you don't care because you are at the rink!

The phone numbers for the rink and your husband’s office have the first few numbers in common and you frequently dial the rink by mistake when you meant to call your husband (don’t tell him I do this!!).

-- wannask8

[quote:f41892777e="Chico"]That stupid little centered circles on the ice can send you into happy hysterics.

Crossing your free leg in the back scratch makes you scream with excitement. Skating pals scream too at the silly accomplishment for you, and they GET why they are screaming.

Chico[/quote:f41892777e]

GASP! I do this all the time! Nothing gets me happier than a good spin day! Hehe, and people think I'm weird too!