discusion**

hmmm...
1. you begin doodling skaters while your supposed to be listening to teacher then draw a complex catalog of different jump and spin posistions with illustrations, then you make a tiny flip book on the bottom corner of your notebook of a skater doing an axel then you create another catalog, this time of every different mohawk, bracket, 3-turn and choctaw (not to mention rockers) followed by your own drawings of the moves in your rulebook. Eventually you move on to drawing the choreography for your own program then creating a program for the song that is currently stuck in your head.
2. You buy a kids book just because it has a skater on the cover (have done this several times- even if the book has nothing to do with skating.)

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I <3 Josh Groban!
I <3 Harry Potter (and Ron Weasley too!)

you know your obsessed when:
-your willing to drive an hour and half just to get your skates sharpened at the actual figure skating shop.
-your willing to get up before its even close to being light outside and then being able to get dressed/ make uped in the rink bathroom.
-you practice spirals/ program arm position in windows, mirrors and any reflective surface and your friends don't even question what your doing.
-your competition dresses cost more than any other item of clothing in your closet!!!

You know you're obsessed when:

The terms "Ice skating" "arena" "lessons" "(coaches name)" are banned from being said.

You know you are obsessed when:

Your synchro practice was cancelled, but you end up at the rink anyway for a skating B-day party. (Happened to me recently!)

Kristin

Also Robert Burgerman & Charlotte Clements - who's the 6th????

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I've no idea...I'm going to find out though. I'm really excited! It's rare thats there's skating on telly, and especially seeing as it's Hot Ice people! Daniel! Awww!

I think there's only supposed to be 5 pairs!

Jessica Taylor/Michelle Heaton (I don't know which) (Possibly Robert Burgerman)?
Scarlett Johnson (Partnering with Daniel)
Carol Smilie (Partnering with Oula)
Paul Gascoigne replaced by David Seaman (Possibly Charlotte Clements)?
Marcus Patric (Partnering with Leigh)

I think thats it.

It's Jessica Taylor with Robert Burgerman, that's for sure (they are practising at our rink!). Who on earth is Marcus Patric - never heard of him!

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Some celebrity then...
I've never heard of him either.

You're excited to move into your new place because there is an extra closet that you can put only skating stuff in!

I googled him and it appears he's an actor who is or was on some TV show called "HollyOak" or something like that.

You spend more on your skates than you have on any other piece of clothing (including wedding dress!)

(If you're a clockwise skater) You know the names of most of the elite skaters and local skaters who are also clockwise.

(If you're a really obsessed clockwise skater) You keep a list by your television of all the clockwise skaters that you see on TV, including those shown on regionals and sectionals!

You seriously consider wearing skating tights instead of pantyhose to work. (Pantyhose are EVILLLLLL.)

If in the last 12 months you have purchased new luggage and never used it in a non-skating context.

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1. Missing a few days skating can make me work myself into a panic attack.
2. I will move heaven and earth to skate.
3. I have put up with situations that I NEVER would accept normally to skate.
4. I have bee known to skate HURT or SICK to skate. (I have drawn the line and vomiting however. =-))
5. I have been known to almost kill myself trying to do...(fill in the blank) because I NEEDED to do it.


Could write a novel here. =-)

Chico

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you've gotten seriously hurt while skating, and you had to fight with the doctors about what would really happen iff you skate. really, what could happen if you skate with a concussion and fall again? can't be too bad, right? (don't worry, i didn't skate with my concussion, my roomate had to basically tie me down so i wouldn't go though.)

You have an operation and go back on the ice when you think you're ready, which is several weeks before the doctors would even dream of giving you permission to do so! (Not me, a friend of mine - in fact, come to think of it, two friends of mine!).

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

You and your dance partner end up in the emergency room 3 times within 8 days and the staff doesn't even ask questions, since over the course of the years you've been in often enough to be on a first name basis!

Okay, I just discovered a new one (background: I skate on near-deserted morning public sessions almost daily)...

You go through your skating bag and find TWENTY of the stick-on labels your rink uses as admission passes to public sessions.

Hmm, maybe this doesn't prove that I'm obsessed but merely that I need to clean my bag more often?

Good one.
In a lesser form, when I hurt my back last year, my doc told me I needed to take off for maybe 6 weeks. I said, "That is not an option." He just stared at me. I said, "We need to hurry this up and get me healed...I have a holiday show coming up!"
Is it bad that the doc's staff knows my social security number by heart?

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-Haha, I've *arrived*! I am listed as a reference on Wikipedia.

At the holidays, you discuss tendinitis, x-rays, and MRI procedures with your 80+-year-old grandparents while your same-age cousins look at you like you're nuts. ("You have tendinitis? Already? Aren't you a little young for that?)

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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. I had reconstructive surgery last fall, and the surgeon wanted me off ice until I saw him at six weeks post op. When I pushed to get back earlier, he compromised (like he had a choice!) and said once I was off narcotics. I took three (still have a bottle of Vicodin in my cupboard) and was back on the ice in ten days. He did tell me no spinning or jumping. I didn't for five weeks, five days...did my first jump and spin two days before my six-week appointment.

you know you're obsessed when:

1. you 'skate' to the radio when you drive
2. you drive everyone nuts because every time you hear music, you either want to know what it is, or you know who skated to it
3. you want to know WHY you can't skate with a long arm cast...

Then there was my first pair partner - when I broke my kneecap (requiring a cast from thigh to ankle), my partner wanted to know if I could get a walking cast with a blade embedded in the bottom... We still did lifts with the cast on.

... you just got off the ice from a freestyle session to get ready to go to work... and you find that the following freestyle session is essentially "private ice"... and you are STRONGLY contemplating coming in to the office just a tad late so you would stay for that "private ice" session. (Unfortunately, work did win out in the end...)

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jazzpants

11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I heard this one today - a skater I know:

• You need major surgery, fairly urgently, but you put it off for a month so you can skate at a competition!

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I love my computer because my friends live in it!
Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

Ooh wait I got it wrong! There IS another couple! The pairs are as follows:

Carol Smilie (presenter) and Oula Jaaskelainen
Jessica Taylor (Liberty X) and Robert Burgerman
Scarlett Johnson (Vicky Fowler in EastEnders) and Daniel Whiston
Roland Rivron (comedian and presenter) and Charlotte Clements
Marcus Patric (Ben in Hollyoaks) with Leigh Mack
David Seaman (former England goalkeeper) with Zoia Birmingham