Running on Empty

There are a lot of scary things happening right now at work. We are in the middle of building a new library which is supposed to open on April 1st and I don't have staffing for our increased hours of operation, I have to pack up soooo many books, and I was just told I won't have bookshelves until May (a month after we open) so, as you can imagine, I'm under a lot of stress and the anxiety is at an all time high. I was looking forward to waking up this morning and hitting the ice because, when I'm skating, I can't think of anything other than what I'm doing. It's nice to escape for a bit.

Edgez & Movez - After warming up, I started right away with edges (forward and backward) and the circle 8. Everything here feels really good. So much so, in fact, that I felt like I just wanted to do the circle 8 for the whole hour. It's like meditation to me now. I ran through the rest of my bronze moves spending extra time on the power 3 turns to really focus on that shift of weight and putting more power into it. I'm not sure if anything improved in this regard but I did the things.

Spinz - I touched on everything today including revisiting the two-foot spin just to see if I still had it (it's been a while). I did some one-foot spins, attitudes, backspins and sit spins but mostly I worked on the camel spin. I'm getting two revs max but no more. I feel like I'm just not positioning my body parts where they should be. I'll keep working on it. I'm kinda hoping that one of these days I'll have an "aha" moment like I did with the toe loop and things will just fall into place from there.

Jumpz - So yeah, things are scary at work so, by comparison, the flip jump seemed like cake today. Absolutely no hesitation to work on this at all. Zero fear. It was more like "my soul is dying so how much harm can a flip jump do, right?" I lost count of how many I did but I do know that I packed as many as I could into a 10 minute time span (because that's really all the time I had left after everything else). They were small and slow but they were landed on one foot. I should be more excited but I'm feeling pretty numb all over at this point. Meh.