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Jun. 30th, 2021 04:09 pmIt got very warm here recently, so I hope the weather forecast is right and the heat will break tomorrow. And that we'll get more of the rain that fell for about five seconds earlier.
Wrist is still hurting but is on the mend. I've been able to do some coding, then talked with my dad about it to refresh my to-do list. I called the IRS without my anxiety exploding and finally received my missing stimulus check. (Meanwhile, Z got me to try driving his car in a parking lot, as in letting my foot off the brake on a gentle incline, and I panicked and slammed the brakes again at 3mph. I think it will be a while before I can attempt real driving. Also, I already resent cars for making me do things with my non-dominant foot.)
I have also signed up for this thing called Tadoku, which is a challenge for reading in foreign languages; it's geared towards Japanese, but it looks like people are using it for a bunch of other languages, too. The challenge spans all of July, if anyone else wants motivation to practice reading.
Most excitingly - besides socializing the most I have in a year at con.txt - I got to go skating again!! Only twice so far before the rink shut down for summer maintenance, but it's a start. I think having the SnowWhites helped a lot even if I can't practice much in them, since I was able to get my balance back much more quickly this time. My mohawks might actually be better than before. I started doing consecutive three-turns in circles before I even realized that I was going to do it. Muscle memory *_*
I'm not 100% back yet, but it's close enough that I should email my coach and say hi. I think my spirals will get better on their own with some more practice, and so will swing rolls. Both times I went, I got different sore muscles - my edge muscles really hurt after the first day (did I know there were muscles that tilted my foot to each side? not until they started hurt) and the ones right in front of the hip bone the second. The swing rolling muscles. Tripped a few times, but didn't fall until I'd thought about how I hadn't fell, and then proceeded to fall both back and forward in the space of thirty seconds :p It was while working on baby jumps, so hopefully that will help shake out brain jitters.
After the success with modding my SnowWhite boots, I tried it on my figure skates, and I have to say, while not perfect yet, that first session was one of the most pain-free and fuss-free ones I've had in my Edeas, and that was while they were laced such that I felt stable. Harder to tell with the second session, as I had to take a painkiller for something else, and I think I didn't tighten them correctly, but I'm hopeful for more sessions where they feel good and don't need so much adjusting!
Wrist is still hurting but is on the mend. I've been able to do some coding, then talked with my dad about it to refresh my to-do list. I called the IRS without my anxiety exploding and finally received my missing stimulus check. (Meanwhile, Z got me to try driving his car in a parking lot, as in letting my foot off the brake on a gentle incline, and I panicked and slammed the brakes again at 3mph. I think it will be a while before I can attempt real driving. Also, I already resent cars for making me do things with my non-dominant foot.)
I have also signed up for this thing called Tadoku, which is a challenge for reading in foreign languages; it's geared towards Japanese, but it looks like people are using it for a bunch of other languages, too. The challenge spans all of July, if anyone else wants motivation to practice reading.
Most excitingly - besides socializing the most I have in a year at con.txt - I got to go skating again!! Only twice so far before the rink shut down for summer maintenance, but it's a start. I think having the SnowWhites helped a lot even if I can't practice much in them, since I was able to get my balance back much more quickly this time. My mohawks might actually be better than before. I started doing consecutive three-turns in circles before I even realized that I was going to do it. Muscle memory *_*
I'm not 100% back yet, but it's close enough that I should email my coach and say hi. I think my spirals will get better on their own with some more practice, and so will swing rolls. Both times I went, I got different sore muscles - my edge muscles really hurt after the first day (did I know there were muscles that tilted my foot to each side? not until they started hurt) and the ones right in front of the hip bone the second. The swing rolling muscles. Tripped a few times, but didn't fall until I'd thought about how I hadn't fell, and then proceeded to fall both back and forward in the space of thirty seconds :p It was while working on baby jumps, so hopefully that will help shake out brain jitters.
After the success with modding my SnowWhite boots, I tried it on my figure skates, and I have to say, while not perfect yet, that first session was one of the most pain-free and fuss-free ones I've had in my Edeas, and that was while they were laced such that I felt stable. Harder to tell with the second session, as I had to take a painkiller for something else, and I think I didn't tighten them correctly, but I'm hopeful for more sessions where they feel good and don't need so much adjusting!
