RIP Friday Freestyle

Last week I was so excited about my 6:00am Friday Freestyle session because I was the only one contracted for that time and I had the whole ice to myself. I should have known the joy wouldn't last. Everything I love goes away; celebration pie from Village Inn, Potatoritos, pretty much every favorite TV show, Volkswagen Beetles. So it wasn't a big surprise when I got the email from the ice rink's office manager telling me that they cancelled my Friday session because it was a liability to have only one skater on the ice without a coach or skate mom monitor. So, I was moved to Thursday mornings for the duration of the contract. And yeah, it's not even close to private ice. It's actually pretty packed with higher-level skaters working on doubles while I'm just trying to stay out of their way. Alas.

So, I skated this morning and started with running through the entirety of my Moves test, including spirals. I spent a good chunk of time on the waltz 8 trying to get my free foot to be closer to my skating foot while maintaining the proper count. Then I worked on sections of my program. Mostly I was just focused on trying to orient myself to where to place everything on the Blue Rink. Everything is flipped around from how I learned it on the Red Rink so I'm finding it a challenge to try to place everything in the right direction to where the judges will be sitting on the Blue Rink.

In other news! My pink dress came in and it fits!!! It also oozes glitter (which I love but for some reason my husband has this whole anti-glitter campaign going on). I made sure to hug my cat right after trying it on so she could sparkle too! GLITTER FOR EVERYONE!