Current mood:

lethargic

My head wasn't in the game
I didn't get to skate last Saturday because I had dress rehearsal for an orchestra concert. I play oboe. The Wed-Fri before that I was out of town on business, came home for the concert, back on the road Mon-Wed to Vegas for more business. I work for local government. I don't normally travel.

So it's been a week, I hadn't gotten much rest, but I really wanted to skate today. I got on the ice and could only think of 2 things. Ice=slick and ice=cold. I don't know why those two facts finally made it to the forefront of my brain, but there they were. I was cold and I kept just about falling, for no good reason. I decided that the adrenelin I'd been using for the last few days had just about worn off and it was better to just lay off before I really hurt myself.

Oddly, the few things I did try, seemed to go better than normal. I just didn't have any enthusiasm for it. I'm going to have to study this phenomenon. Don't care about skating, skate well. Play music tipsy and/or sleepy, play well. Play full coherent and play badly. Maybe it's just the "I don't care what I look/sound like" factor.

Still eager to join the edges/dance class at the other rink, but now both my daughters are working as helpers at the current rink and I think the edges/dance class is the same time as the class they help with. I could leave them at the rink and they could do the free skate after their lessons. That just sort of feels weird.