The harvest is in
Sep. 14th, 2024 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaI went to visit my parents for my birthday. My present was, unexpected, a board game (Botany, which Z and I have played and enjoyed). We went for several walks while I was there, since the weather was so nice, and I helped them eat some of the delicious fruits and veggies from their CSA box. They also sent me back with some Filipino snacks and other nostalgic food gifts for Z.
I brought them a few of my eggplants, which they rated as 'okay, for an eggplant', but a few days after I came back, I did a more thorough search through my garden patch for fruit, and, well:
Z and I have almost entirely made it through that. I thought maybe twelve plants would be a bit too much even for me, but we're managing! I really like this variety and am going to try to save seeds for next year.
And last weekend, I went down to the city for new skates, finally. I spent over two hours trying on skates, and though I did buy some (and new blades... my wallet was not happy that day), I am wondering if I shouldn't have gotten semi-customs after all. The fitter kept telling me that it's normal for the heels to lift when you put your weight on the toepicks and focused instead on whether they lifted when I bent my knees, and I am still not convinced; if my heels lift when I do that, then they feel wrong when I so much as point my toe in them during forward stroking, and I just don't believe that everyone's heels move around when they jump. Once I've worn them a few more hours, I am going to get them punched out up front and see if I can get the heels pinched in any, and I'm still trying different ways to lace them to try and lock my heels in for real. They are definitely better than my old skates, but given how much money and effort goes into these things, it's disappointing to feel like the fitter isn't taking your biggest issue as seriously as you.
(The figure skate color gender binary is also very real, so they wouldn't let me try on skates with the "wrong" color because they kept said it would be a worse fit in the heels. I bought skate tape and am still thinking of how I want to decorate them once they've been punched out. So far, I'm leaning towards mostly covering them but cutting out some little star shapes from the tape to show through.)
I brought them a few of my eggplants, which they rated as 'okay, for an eggplant', but a few days after I came back, I did a more thorough search through my garden patch for fruit, and, well:
Z and I have almost entirely made it through that. I thought maybe twelve plants would be a bit too much even for me, but we're managing! I really like this variety and am going to try to save seeds for next year.
And last weekend, I went down to the city for new skates, finally. I spent over two hours trying on skates, and though I did buy some (and new blades... my wallet was not happy that day), I am wondering if I shouldn't have gotten semi-customs after all. The fitter kept telling me that it's normal for the heels to lift when you put your weight on the toepicks and focused instead on whether they lifted when I bent my knees, and I am still not convinced; if my heels lift when I do that, then they feel wrong when I so much as point my toe in them during forward stroking, and I just don't believe that everyone's heels move around when they jump. Once I've worn them a few more hours, I am going to get them punched out up front and see if I can get the heels pinched in any, and I'm still trying different ways to lace them to try and lock my heels in for real. They are definitely better than my old skates, but given how much money and effort goes into these things, it's disappointing to feel like the fitter isn't taking your biggest issue as seriously as you.
(The figure skate color gender binary is also very real, so they wouldn't let me try on skates with the "wrong" color because they kept said it would be a worse fit in the heels. I bought skate tape and am still thinking of how I want to decorate them once they've been punched out. So far, I'm leaning towards mostly covering them but cutting out some little star shapes from the tape to show through.)
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Date: 2024-09-15 10:00 am (UTC)Hope you can make your new skates work!
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:27 pm (UTC)Thanks - there's still lots of fitting things to try out on them, so fingers crossed they'll get there.