It's been an up and down month
Dec. 25th, 2025 04:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaZ's nasal surgery was successful; he had the stents removed the day before we left for Lake Placid, and I sat in to watch. Hoo boy I had no idea they were going to be that big. How did they fit??? He still had some stuffiness thereafter, but after a few weeks, he was pretty much recovered. He is able to breathe properly now :)
We had a great time in Lake Placid and Skamerica. It was actually a little weird to go online after and see the negativity, some of it felt like people were looking for a reason to be mad about the location, like when people claimed that nobody in town knew it was happening (you could hear locals talking about it everywhere, and there were tons of signs) or were freaking out about how a town in the Adirondaks was going to get a few inches of snow the day after the competition and how that was going to cause broken legs and stranded skaters. Can't remember ever seeing that before about other competitions. (There was one vaguely sketchy road going out of town; the highways were entirely clear.) I saw people begging for it to go back to Boston, but as someone who wrote a long email to the Boston organizers about the safety issues and baked-in ableism we faced at the event to zero reply, Iiii can't say I'm eager to ever return to that arena. Norwood was okay, but you couldn't walk to the event very easily due to its location.
Anyway, I will try to do a separate writeup about it, but the arena was cozy, very well-lit, and easy to navigate. The security people were nice and made no fuss whatsoever about my camera. I said hi to someone from my skating lessons. None of the seats would have had a bad view. I'm not usually a big skater-spotter, but it was hard not to see anyone in such a small town - I think I saw Alysa grabbing lunch one day. Overall, good experience! Lake Placid being quite expensive was the main downside. We also explored the town a little, and they have a beautiful public library with a reading area set on the lake.
This week, we were planning to see my mom again, along with my dad and friends at home. Unfortunately, Z developed a sudden case of vertigo, and even with medication, he's not up for that long of a car ride, so we're putting it off until he is feeling better. When will that be? We have no idea. He is scheduled to get PT on his vestibular system the first week of January, so we are crossing our fingers that will help.
So we have tried to have a cozy little Christmas here; we put his itty-bitty Christmas tree (it's about six inches tall) on our cat tree and put our presents to each other under that. We bought a log cake from the grocery store that we knew would not be as good as the bakery version, and it turned out to be pretty bad lol, but I baked some other sweets instead so I'll just have those. His parents came by today to say hello and bring us some food. One upside is that since washing dishes makes him dizzy, we finally got to work on the dishwasher the people who renovated the house left half-installed, and now it's working.
We also had the holiday show at my skating club! My coach and I did a variation on the Dutch Waltz with some original choreo thrown in, including a lift. Even made a bit of a costume this time with some net and a leotard. I biffed it on the spiral of all the things, but we ended on a good note, and I had fun :)
We had a great time in Lake Placid and Skamerica. It was actually a little weird to go online after and see the negativity, some of it felt like people were looking for a reason to be mad about the location, like when people claimed that nobody in town knew it was happening (you could hear locals talking about it everywhere, and there were tons of signs) or were freaking out about how a town in the Adirondaks was going to get a few inches of snow the day after the competition and how that was going to cause broken legs and stranded skaters. Can't remember ever seeing that before about other competitions. (There was one vaguely sketchy road going out of town; the highways were entirely clear.) I saw people begging for it to go back to Boston, but as someone who wrote a long email to the Boston organizers about the safety issues and baked-in ableism we faced at the event to zero reply, Iiii can't say I'm eager to ever return to that arena. Norwood was okay, but you couldn't walk to the event very easily due to its location.
Anyway, I will try to do a separate writeup about it, but the arena was cozy, very well-lit, and easy to navigate. The security people were nice and made no fuss whatsoever about my camera. I said hi to someone from my skating lessons. None of the seats would have had a bad view. I'm not usually a big skater-spotter, but it was hard not to see anyone in such a small town - I think I saw Alysa grabbing lunch one day. Overall, good experience! Lake Placid being quite expensive was the main downside. We also explored the town a little, and they have a beautiful public library with a reading area set on the lake.
This week, we were planning to see my mom again, along with my dad and friends at home. Unfortunately, Z developed a sudden case of vertigo, and even with medication, he's not up for that long of a car ride, so we're putting it off until he is feeling better. When will that be? We have no idea. He is scheduled to get PT on his vestibular system the first week of January, so we are crossing our fingers that will help.
So we have tried to have a cozy little Christmas here; we put his itty-bitty Christmas tree (it's about six inches tall) on our cat tree and put our presents to each other under that. We bought a log cake from the grocery store that we knew would not be as good as the bakery version, and it turned out to be pretty bad lol, but I baked some other sweets instead so I'll just have those. His parents came by today to say hello and bring us some food. One upside is that since washing dishes makes him dizzy, we finally got to work on the dishwasher the people who renovated the house left half-installed, and now it's working.
We also had the holiday show at my skating club! My coach and I did a variation on the Dutch Waltz with some original choreo thrown in, including a lift. Even made a bit of a costume this time with some net and a leotard. I biffed it on the spiral of all the things, but we ended on a good note, and I had fun :)
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Date: 2025-12-26 06:00 am (UTC)I need to get better at skating so I can join a club *___* One of my IG moots just posted some videos from her club's show and it looks like so much fun.
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Date: 2025-12-27 12:41 am (UTC)Good luck with your skating, and if you get to participate in a show, I hope you enjoy it! IME it's a lot of fun to pick out a song and learn some choreo.