One thing I'm good at is staying busy. Just when the pressure comes off a little at work, I find other ways to fill my time.

( There's the skating.. )

( Then there's hockey.... )


( Then there's the perving... )( And now the Penguins squee... )

1) I suck at technology. Big time. It turns out the story I sent to the wrong person was my own. It went with a lovely little "Dear X, I wrote this and I think it sucks." Kind of note, so X thought I wanted her to read it for me. *headdesk*

Plus, I'm having a bitch of a time trying to figure out how to get Semagic to post to my other journals at the same time. I can do it if they're all LJ ones, but that's not the point.

2) I saved a horse's life on the weekend. Make that two horses. ( This might squick some folk. )

3) I have skates!!! Ice skates of the hockey variety. I had to have them baked in the oven and wear them while hot to make them fit perfectly and now that we've bonded we'll be together for life. They even read my mind. I think I might want to go that way and they just take me. Amazing. No more sliding around on blunt bits of metal.

4) I passed 3 levels in my skating lessons, despite having to deal with the week I couldn't do a damn thing right and then having to take my final test in new skates that are actually sharp and have a break over point much further back than the Tupperskates I had been using. I would have failed the snow plough stops, but Evgeni found it amusing that I just had to think about pushing out and I came to a dead halt and then started gliding backwards. Plus, I'd been the only one in the class that had them nailed from the beginning.( A list of stuff I can do on ice now. )
5) There's a kid at the rink that I want to adopt. He's like 15 or something and he goes out of his way to help Frog and I with everything from skating tips to making hot chips when we take a break. He spends his break time with us and takes us into the pro shop and shows us sticks and pads and gloves and jerseys. He's got an awesome sense of humour and he gets so excited when he has something new. He rushes over and shows us. He even squeed when we got our new skates, even though he helped fit us for them.

6) I just spent a small fortune getting an upgrade to my cable to make sure that every hockey game this season gets recorded for me to watch at leisure. It's brilliant, because it'll get the whole Stanley Cup final game for me, where my DVD recorder just doesn't go long enough. Then I get told that we may not even get any NHL this season. I think I'll die if we don't. I cannot live without hockey. That's like taking due South, Buffy, Firefly and Slings and Arrows away from me all at once. And then hiding all my Duran Duran stuff.