Arthritis: My latest flare was at least nicely-timed. I saw my rheumatologist three days into it and started a steroid pack that day. He also gave me a rather immense amount of prednisolone and pretty much told me to experiment with it. The literature suggests that one per day is within normal variance for naturally produced corticosteroids and ( Read more... )

Skate Nashville was fun. I actually had competition in the freeskate. There were enough adults that it wasn't just me in my division ( Read more... )

LJ: I've been crossposting for years and plan to continue doing so. You can comment at either place, though I suppose I would prefer you do so at DW if only because I have a paid account there and can use different icons. LJ will, I suppose, keep tottering along.

Skating: BF and P are both very happy with my program for Skate Nashville next ( Read more... )

Cranky Pants are officially on. My skates are breaking down. I noticed the beginnings of a crease at the ankles of both boots today. I've only had them for two years! This is half the time I thought they'd last ( Read more... )

Oh my God, I finally finished a fic!!

(This is the one I've been working on since I was preparing to test Pre-Bronze. It's been my little coping mechanism through three Moves tests now.)

Playing by the Rules (7405 words) by icepixie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Cutting Edge (1992)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters ( Read more... )

Prednisolone is a revelation. 24 hours of pills stopped the flare in its tracks, and it's done so without making me ultra-hyper (and starving) like prednisone does. Too bad all steroids have heart, metabolism, and other bad side effects when used long-term, because if they didn't I would take this forever ( Read more... )

Oh my God. The city is planning to build a rink in my neighborhood. I literally live ten minutes, if that, from the proposed site. AHHHHHHHH ( Read more... )

Oh my goddddd, BF decided to take issue with my forward spin technique yesterday, and now I have no idea what I'm doing. I assume that ultimately I'll wind up with better technique than I had before, but right now I'm in the no-man's-land of knowing I shouldn't fall back into my bad habits but not being practiced enough at the good habits to get a ( Read more... )

Skating: Third back spin lesson with BF today. We tried a couple new techniques, and I did something resembling a back scratch spin at one point! He's given up on teaching me the start-with-free-leg-turned-out method, claiming I have so much turnout that it's counterproductive, as it winds up pulling me toward the inside. Or something. Anyway, ( Read more... )

Skating: Yesterday I did the entire Silver forward inside-back outside three turn pattern, down the entire rink on each foot, without a single step down on any of the back threes. HOORAY ( Read more... )