Thank you very much! You are all very sweet. I have been surrounded by very supportive family and friends, which has made this easier to get through. And when my body heals, me and my husband will try again. The doctor told me to wait at least three months, which just seems like such a long time.

Mrs. Redboots, in the meantime, I took your suggestion about ice dance while I was pregnant, and I actually reallly enjoyed it. My coach's wife teaches me, and she was absolutely THRILLED that I wanted to learn dance. We've been having so much fun with it, so I decided to continue learning those first three dances, and who knows, maybe I'll do a little testing before the end of the year.

After Peach Classic, I'll start back into the jumping and spinning. I was about to start on the axel, so now we have three months to work on that before I can get pregnant again. I have lots of stuff now to keep me busy to help the time pass.

Take care of yourself, and enjoy being with friends.

I hope so! Dance is fun, and it can only do the rest of your skating good. Maybe you'll be competing dance next year, if you aren't otherwise busy by then!

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Ice-T:
I am very sorry to hear of your loss. At least getting ready for the PC will help in a therapeutic manner. Take care of yourself!

As for my week of lessons/ practices:
Frightful: The sit spin! UGH! Coach #2 showed me what I look like, there will be off-ice, off-ice and more off-ice !
Still have a two foot takeoff on the toe loop- how am I supposed to convert the RFI3 from alternating 3's for the toe loop? Advice anyone? It's basically a upper body issue !

PMS invaded and took my consistent backscratch!

Fabulous: Forward crossovers on the 8 pattern! No more toe pushes!
Flip attempts are going well- just got to get the guts to add some speed going in!

Still a litttle frightful, but progressing toward fabulous:
Alternating FO3's
Back crossovers on a 8 pattern

Take care all. TerriC

Just looked and the "as of" date for the Peach Classic schedule has changed. Not sure what changed yet, though.

...I'm not entirely sure of this, but I think the only thing that has changes is the listings of competitors and the numbers in each category. For example, when the schedule first came out there were 10 listed in my Bronze FS group and 5 in my Pre-Bronze spins, and now those numbers are 11 and 4, respectively.

Everyone who's going though please be sure to check the schedule every few days up until you leave just in case.

Anyone else practicing on the 6-7pm sessions on Friday night?

I haven't decided yet. I'm flying down Wednesday afternoon, so will have time on Thurs/Fri morning to practice.

I saw on the website today that there are 125 competitors from 21 states, and one skater from England. Does anyone know who the England skater is? Is is one of our Rinkside members?

I am driving up on Thursday. I am taking my lesson Thursday morning and then leaving from the rink! I am going to try to make the public session that Thursday night and will skate that Friday. Does anyone know if there is freestyle ice we can guest on Friday morning?

I am excited!! My flip-loop-loop is trying to happen!

Hugs!
Danielle

ps) Flutzilla - They moved up my moves event.
pps) Hey everyone, still reading? ;-) My freestyle event and my MIF event is about an hour apart, should I just plan to skate in the same dress or should I go through changing?

I called, there's freestyle sessions all Friday morning according to the employee I talked to. I believe the pick-up fee is like $9.75 but don't quote me on it. I'll probably be wearing my club jacket at the FS sessions.

There's also a 10-noon or something like that public session.

I'm staying with friends so I won't be at the hotel(s) with most of the other out-of-towners.

Dani -- you've got PLENTY of time to change. Trust me. I changed from my waltz dress to my tango dress in about 3 minutes back in June and still had time to get a good breath before my warm-up for that dance.

Thanks!! I will try to guest on one then, I don't have a club jacket, so I guess you can recognize me by that ;-) Seriously, I am a total amazon (5' 10") so that is how I can be picked out of a crowd.

Now I am worried, I should have a waltz dress *and* a tango dress!! Oh no! I have a killer tango dress and just planned on wearing it for both. 1/2 ;-)

Hugs!!!

Danielle

Nah... I wouldn't worry about it. If you have a basic black dance dress, that's enough at Prelim. I was competing Silver Dance with my coach at that competition. For my PreSilver event, I just wore the same dress for both dances.

I'm short and chubby...can't miss me.

If it is who I think it is, no, she is not a Rinkside member!

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Mrs. Redboots, the way you said that, now you really have my curiosity going! (By the way, I was hoping it was you that was coming so that I could meet you in person

Do share! Do share!

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I'd do this competition myself, but travelling on Labor Day weekend can be H---! Anyone ever have this problem?

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I'm traveling a couple days before and after... taking extra vacation.

I've found Memorial Day to be nasty traveling... especially driving thru western Kansas/eastern Colorado in the late afternoon/early evening.

And Thanksgiving has to be the worst for air travel. Much worse than Labor Day.

No, I just think it probably is the person Flutzilla mentions, but I don't care to mention people's names on a public forum without their knowledge and consent. After all, most of us use nicknames rather than our own names, even if our names are common knowledge.

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That's a good point Mrs. Redboots, I will edit my post accordingly. I do remember her from last year and look forward to watching her skate again this year!

That's fine. You could just use the screen name. That's probably the only way I would know who you are talking about anyways.

I was watching her skate on Thursday evening, and she now has a very new Axel jump! A bit clunky still, but she was landing it.

Incidentally, although we aren't going to the Atlanta Peach competition this year, we certainly don't rule out going another year, maybe even next year. That's not firm yet - don't count on it - but we will certainly come one year! We haven't yet visited Georgia; together we have been to New England, and Robert has been to Kansas City, and me to Boulder, Colo, and San Francisco and Los Angeles (I came with a friend to visit the 1998 Adult National competition, which was fantastic, and lovely to meet so many people who, until then, had just been e-mail names! This was before the Mountain Cup started, and I got to meet a whole load of new people then....).

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