Ahhhhhh so I ended up going to the rink for six hours yesterday. And today my legs hurt like hell. Aaand I went food shopping. Walking is kind of difficult right now 
And forget about squatting to get things on the bottom shelves, man. I usually feel this in my arms when I haven’t worked out in a while, and that’s only after 20 minutes of various weight training. Six… hours…
But I got a bunch of lovely food!
When I was at stores on Black Friday, one of them was handing out these candy canes. It turned out to be the BEST CANDY CANE EVER and I want more. Except, I don’t know where to get them!! They’re coated like a sour gummy might be coated, and really delicious because of it. Sour candy canes??? Yessss. I need to find them immediately.
I wasn’t gonna mention anything, but then I was embarrassed in front of my photographer when she got the news and she was excited… I was nominated Web babe/Starlet of the year by a little site called Xbiz. My site hasn’t even been out a year!! Plus I’m up against girls like Jordan Capri, Ariel Rebel, and Trisha Uptown, who deserve it waaaay more than me 
I just thought I’d throw it out there.
I’m planning on going to the ice rink again this afternoon, but not tonight. The rink is nice and empty in the afternoon 
The Office this week was really different. Some of it was hilarious, and some of it was hilarious but really out of character. I dunno. I don’t know if I want them continuing in that direction. Er while I was typing a random word got inserted in there. How weird.
OH YEAH!!! I woke up today and I weigh 95lbs again YESSSSSSS I knew it was random fluctuation YAAAAAAAY It’s funny because I was about ready to give up and just start eating myself to death. I love food! I refuse to join the ranks of everyone else with this “smart eating” business.
I pushed a guy on the ice today… the teacher was making us play some retarded ice tag thing, and I was going slow cause I was hungry and not really into it, and he skates over and tags me, so I shoved him He’s a decent skater but always falls down and this time he fell down… he totally had it coming, though. I still regret it. On the upside, I can now skate on one foot while holding onto the blade of the other?
One of my glass plates broke I have to go get a broom so I can sweep up the massive amounts of glass currently on the floor. I placed some sheets over it in the meantime. I never use them, don’t worry
Mostly I’ve been bumming around… crap, I forgot to go to the post office again… someone send me a reminder in the morning!!
I reinstalled my operating system, and now the cam works just like it used to 
I went to the ice rink tonight, and it was PACKED. So packed that after an hour they had to kick everyone off to resurface the ice. They looked like a herd out there, just going around in circles… I stayed in the middle, where no one really goes and the ice is actually usable after five minutes I’m doing better with some moves, and I’m supposed to be preparing a little performance to do in a month or whenever.
Yes, it does help if I hit the publish button. I started this entry at night and then didn’t go to sleep until 10am. True story
I haven’t written anything about my ice skating progress lately… you’d think I wasn’t in the class anymore or something. But I am! I’ve just been dragging my feet a little bit as I try to build up some strength in my one leg. It’s easy to have your left foot be the dominant one, but when you try to do tricks on both sides, it’s a lot harder. But I’ve gotten better at doing crossovers, and I can do spins pretty well, too, and a move called a “spiral” which is actually when you skate on one foot and the other foot is parallel with the ice. I told the teacher that I see people spraying others with ice when they stop, and I thought “I want to be that asshole” but it seems like I have to skate fast to do that, and I’m still scared of it!! Well, that’s how far I’ve gotten with that I bet my legs look really good! I hope I can get to tape my skating sometime
I’m almost done with Starship Troopers. Someone said that this book was satire. Like yeah, and maybe Ayn Rand wasn’t really serious about all that capitalism stuff, either…
Picture time!
My skating instructor and her assistant said they were talking about me today The assistant talked to me separately and said how good I was getting. And the instructor told me I was most improved Then she told me to just go get the skates that I thought were too small and bring them to her. So I did and she said they were too BIG. I don’t know what happened, but I actually see her point. She told me to get a size 3 1/2, which is insane… but fuck it, I did it. She made me feel really good when she said that I was so good because I had to work 10x harder to get where everyone else was, and it showed I had a lot of determination and was dedicated (and that’s why, she reasoned, I should get the right size shoe). It made me go awww. So I bought another (FINAL) pair of skates.
For some reason, though, I’ve been kind of having a not-so-good day. I felt stressed and ended up finishing up Oryx and Crake (so good), and falling asleep. My body just cannot handle naps and I felt groggy and sick… and then threw up. But I just kind of threw up my sickness, and I feel better now. I’d like to sleep my regular sleep now…
My ice skates are here.
But they don’t fit
Edit: They are too small I was so so so excited to see the UPS thing say that it was delivered and checked and it was there!! And I put them on and they’re too short in the toe, so my little feet are all scrunched up in them. It pretty much totally blows because I have to send them back before they refund the money.
I want my ice skates.
I had a crap day today. I don’t really know why. I had my class, and we were just reviewing stuff, but those rental skates were getting me down. I could tell the instructor was kind of getting annoyed at me for complaining so much… but she has professional skates that she has sharpened often. I wear the crap rental skates and when you start getting better, you can tell the difference between your own shortcomings and the inability of the skates to do what you want.
Sooooooo…
I bought my own! I got some Riedell Blue Ribbons, which are the best of the beginner skates. They should come in a week I bet I’ll be zipping around so fast. I’m really excited.
But yeah… I was just upset and didn’t want to head out for the rest of the day. I just kind of dragged my feet. I was planning on doing a crapload of shooting but was too grumpy to do much. I’m sure you guys don’t want a video where I’m looking totally bored and pissed, right? So I played some Persona for a while until I felt better…
Wow, I learned how to do this crazy two foot spin today! I thought it was going to be really hard but I turned out to be one of the only people to do it fairly well. I need a lot more practice at it, and it makes me really really dizzy, but it’s cool to do something I see real professional ice skaters doing Now all I have to do is learn to jump and spin like 50 times in a row and I’m ready for the Olympics!!
Thank god for the weekend, right? I’m so tired and I’ve been playing Persona 3 since I got in. I stopped by CVS to get new eyeliner. It’s always best when it’s new, because it’s really black and precise. Lookin’ good…
Oh yeah, and I’m doing some videos today…
Today is also pretty good, because today… I finally learned how to ice skate. Maybe they sharpened the blades, because they felt really good. And during class I found out that the next move to learn was something I had already done on my own because it felt fun. It’s called slalom, or zigzaging across the ice like you see skiers do. It’s a much faster way of moving, and seeing that I was ahead of the class, finally, made me feel really good I’m also to the point where I can stretch out my legs without wanting to fall over.
So I celebrated by buying some pretzels, and on the way there was a little farmer’s market set up, and I got a bunch of peppers and sweet italian plums. It was funny trying to get information out of them… it’s like they only ever eat what they grow, because I couldn’t for the life of me get them to tell me exactly how sweet the plums were and how hot the peppers were. They were both like “Oh… I don’t know… pretty sweet/hot.” I guess we’ll see when I make chili out of them, right?? (The peppers, that is!)