My dream last night:

I was in an old fashioned library and Derek Jeter was looking at books on ASL and then started talking to me about it. I told him I could sign and talked about my students that I sign with. There was another Yankee there too, I think it was Nick Swisher, but I can't be positive, he never spoke. Then Derek and the other Yankee ( Read more... )

Today's skate is brought to you by the Winter Olympics and the letter E (for exhaustion).

I can't tell you the last time I skated that hard. At the ends of some of the songs I couldn't do much more than than glide. And for the first time, hockey players weren't my inspiration. Figure skaters and speed skaters were in my head. I wanted to skate ( Read more... )

Two stories from skate that were too long to Tweet ( Read more... )

Today's Smile: Skating countless laps with an old hockey get talking about the Red Sox. I've become the go-to person to ask about how the team is doing at my rink, and I had a blast talking to him about how the guys are doing.

Also? Josh had a good game.

Today's Smile: I just had the best skate since ever (without a stick). I felt freakin' amazing out there. I think I'm ready to get back to playing.

Also, "Fun With Lyrics" cracks me up. (See: My Twitter.)

Today's Smile: After I got off the ice, the window washer says "You had a good workout, didn't you?" And you know what? I did. I had a great skate at a kinda sad rink. (It's new and it was completely empty. And it wasn't completely done being constructed so there was junk all around. And window dudes watching me.)

Skate went well today, except that I didn't wear my brace, so yeah, ow. The rest of the day was kinda crappy 'cause of that. But the Sox managed to pull a win out of nowhere, so that's good.

Today's Smile: I bet you think I'm gonna let it slide. / The way you're flashin' me those puppy dog eyes. / Right? Right? Right? Wrong!

There is a very sweet little girl at the rink where I skate. She is a figure skater and she's nine. She's going to be in a competition on Saturday and so she practices her piece a lot and she's quite good. The routine is set to this.... AND I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD! And all of you that dared to click and listen can suffer right along with me. ( Read more... )

CALGARY?! Oh why? That's just wrong. *dramatic sigh*

In other news, I got back on the ice today after almost two weeks not getting a chance to. I skate for two hours and it felt fantastic. I'm tired now, and I have to work for eight hours after this, but I don't care, it felt so good. Totally worth it.

I had the weirdest thing happen. Last night when I was watching the Bruins game, I was laying in bed, with bare feet. All of a sudden, I could feel the vibrations of the ice under my feet. For those of you that have never been skating, when you're on the ice and it's choppy, you can feel the vibrations caused by going over the ruts. I could feel ( Read more... )