Respect: The program is a million times more comfortable now that the flip is kicked to the curb (for now). I want to think that translates into it looking better, it felt like it might. I'm not one to thrive when I've lowered the bar for myself, it's usually the opposite, but that stupid jump was turning me into one big breathing heap of neurosis. So bye bye flip for now, enjoy your vacation while it lasts

Hard times: My sit spin is weird right now! My free foot has been making its way toward the ice again, in fact twice I caught the back of my blade on the ice while spinning. I didn't realize I was still doing that OK that's something to work on.

Totally unrelated hard times: I want to go throw my skates at my upstairs neighbor right now for forcing me to hear his bass on his stereo through my ceiling.

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Revised Official 2010 Goals checklist
Skate __
New boots __
(lowering the bar for 2010 as I haven't skated in a year)

Hard times: had my competition yesterday....and I'm wondering why I even bothered. I was feeling really really really cr*ppy with a bad head cold, all congested and having a hard time breathing.

drove the almost 2 hours to get there...

started on the ice, skated 3 seconds...

and forgot my program

I realized what I had done and spent the remainder of the 1:35 seconds trying to recover...switching around elements so it wouldn't look too bad.

I think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill though (aren't we our own worst critic?). Saw some ladies I skated against last year, they were one level up from me...(FS3, I'm FS2) if only I had been able to skate more, harder, etc I would have had someone to compete against (we are the same age).

Debating whether or not to continue; coach wants me to do ISI regionals. I don't know. These past 2 years have not been good to me.

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Skate@Delaware
Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

Been there, done that, read the book, bought the T-shirt...... Bad luck, it's rotten when that happens. You get off the ice and really want to say to the judges "Could I do that again, please? I made a nonsense of it!"

And yes, you will compete again, and yes, you will do better....

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