Let's not talk about yesterdays post.
Deal?
Let's go back to South Carolina, come along with me, won't you? Awwww, how can you possibly resist my 2013 sweetness?
This is just a fact.. Amy, that girl over at The Dirt Life excels at a lot of the crap she does.
Are you listening? There is not jealousy in our friendship, just a keen awareness of this habit of Amy's.
How anyone could ever make a dead sheep's skin look absolutely awesome in a frame is beyond me, yet she did. Attention Amy: that is a blog, totally blog worthy. I probably would have just used it as a toilet seat cover. Oh my disgusting. I'm sorry about that.
She has hiked across 1/4 of the world. Granted that is not an accurate statement but I'm sticking with it because it's absurd. And the more I think I about it probably close to accurate.
She decided to start a business, boom.. note the ice skate photo? It's so cool, right? so cool.
She is a PHOTOGRAPHEEEEEEEEER Self trained. And me? Her absolute worst client.
She got me to buy a belt, now this was no small feat seeing how I am paranoid about wearing them. I am convinced they make my hips look huge. (back off it's still an issue I swore them off ten + years ago. We were in the middle of Target and she had me come over and try some on and said, "now doesn't that feel good?" I stared at her like she was a lunatic (oh and she HATES it HATES it.) and said, "we're talking about a belt Amy.." And yet several dollar bills later, that very belt is proof that Amy achieved something no one else in my life was ever successful at getting me to do. OF COURSE SHE DID.
So when Amy on our last day gleefully encouraged Ice Skating.. I explained that I suck, but I was willing to go. Look at my track record, you can get me to do anything. Throw that girl in the mix and it's practically a given. But what I did not know about Miss Amy, the girl who can do crazy things so well was this... she uhm isn't very good at ice skating. How she managed to fall with the kid proof contraption they use, I will never know. Mostly because I wasn't looking.. You guys, she totally did. It was so funny. So funny. Before we started she was adamant I hold her hand. Her already sweaty, clammy hand because she knew she was cursed when it comes to this ridiculous sport. She mentioned a friend who had let go of her hand one of her first times ice skating, so I vowed to hold tight. Because I am her best friend, duh. All joking aside, I'll hold your hand too should you ever need me. Probably, eh.. probably not.
And me? Well I glide on that sheet of frozen water.. kinda.. I fly into the walls to stop. It sounds a whole heck of a lot like a gun shot. If there had been more then two people skating besides ourselves I'm sure someone would have called 911 reporting a shooting.
But here's the thing ya'll, the lesson for the day. Amy may be uhm.. questionable at ice skating.. but she challenges herself.. and keeps trying. And that's just one more reason why I'm so fortunate to have her in my life.
I should have you know, while I am somewhat in the business of calling out my best friend, that later that night upon walking into our hotel I literally walked into a sliding glass door with my uhm face.
How are you at Ice Skating?
How do you feel about belts?
Have you walked into any doors lately?
SO many questions.
20 thoughts and things:
My little sister MADE me go ice skating for her birthday.. A kid cut in front of me on the ice, and then I fell. Needless to say I couldn't sleep on my side for days. AND it was COLD.
I haven't been ice skating in quite some time - I think the last time I went was in junior high and one of the kids we went with fell and busted his chin open and we had to leave so he could get stitches.
I keep wanting to go again, but no one else seems to have as much enthusiasm for it as I do.
Belts - I own a few but they mostly hang out in the closet. . .or on the floor. Belts seem useless to me. My pants still fall when I wear them. I used to get lots of "crack kills" comments. Ridiculous.
I haven't walked into any doors lately. I'm pretty careful about that kind of thing, once when I was little I was running inside and went SMACK on the screen door. Since then, sometimes when I THINK there might be a glass door somewhere and I just can't see it . . I stick my arm out. . .and look absurd. But whatever, it's better than running into a door right?
Maybe.
End Novel.
I am shit at ice skating.
I won't do it...all those blades and the cold floor. NOPE.
Closest I got toa cold floor was the Ice Bar in London. Hated that too...
My roommate was a competitive ice skater and used to take me to open skate with her on the weekends. I would estimate that 90% of my time was spent with a back full of ice from falling or a frozen ass from sitting on the bleachers watching her.
I prefer rollerblading. And I am awesome at it.
When we were little my brother ran into a sliding glass door at my aunts, I just laughed (and then got told off!) I really like ice skating despite ending up in the hospital due to it when I was 12. Although i like it i rarely go despite there being a rink a half hour from my house although I sometimes take the children I work with for an activity, it's a lot of fun, I skate in the middle with a child clung to each arm.
I love to ice skate. I'm not great but I'm not awful. And I love that we share the same stopping technique. I can't be bothered to use the brake thing on the front of my skate because I'm CONVINCED I will fly forward and kill myself. I'd rather slam into walls.
Oh, and I don't wear belts either for the exact same reason. That and the belt bump under a shirt makes me look pregnant.
Tell Amy I want her coat.
I used to be a competitive figure skater. True story.
I hate belts with a burning passion. Probably because I had to wear them with my uniform in high school if I wanted to wear pants instead of that hideous plaid skirt.
I walked into a door yesterday. I don't know where it came from. All of a sudden it was just there.
I can rollerblade circles around anyone (is rollerblading even cool anymore?) so you would think that I would be just fine ice skating. Not so much though... Last time I went, little kids laughed on me. And I cried.
I feel the same way about belts. I absolutely hate them. They make me look bigger than I am and it makes my shirts sit funny. But maybe that's better than pulling up your pants every 2 minutes? I haven't decided yet.
Walking into to doors - you're on your own with this one.
PS - drinking my morning coffee and reading your blog is my favorite way to wake up!
My favorite part of this was you walking into the glass. Bahahahaha!
I haven't ice skated in FOREVER, I think I would have to stick close to the wall, death grip it actually. Yes I always run into thing, walls, doors, counters, couches, tables, chairs, seriously it's a problem. I am accident prone and I swear those things jump out at me! and I just started wearing belts this year...I had sworn them off for the same reason, but have started slow with a skinny belt. skinny belt = skinny me right?
I've been ice skating once... I was pretty terrible.. and freezing.. I'm sure I'll do it again at some point..but I didn't like it.
I'm a horrible ice skater. I've tried many times, because I'm damn good at roller blading. But ice skating? FORGET IT.
Also, this whole belt thing? I have a trick up my sleeve. Or on my pants.
Watch for a post.
Where is Andrew?! You said Shay. You said. It is Thursday and I do not want a damn song.
I am a good ice skater. I can do spins. I cannot do that cool hockey skid stop thing though. I simply cannot.
I ice skated once. I was pretty decent at it. But since then I've put on like 100 lbs and got super out of shape. Might be fun though. lol.
I love ice skating...can't say I'm very good at it...especially the stopping part...but if I don't have to stop I'm okay. There's a lake in the middle of town that freezes over a few times each winter, but I have yet to skate on that. Because it's in nature, not in a rink, and that means it's bumpy and doesn't freeze smooth and therefore freaks me out.
I don't wear belts either. I absolutely cannot stand belt bumps under a shirt (holla, Michelle) so I refuse to wear them.
I don't wear belts unless I need them. Which, because my behind is so large right now all of my pants fit nice and snugly. I feel like belts are a tool, not an accessory.
Whoa, who did I just turn in to?
Amy's jacket is fabulous. And I often bump in to walls with my large hips because I forget how large they are. But no glass doors, lately. You win that one!
I'm actually pretty terrible at ice skating. I honestly have no idea why. :/
Puhlease tell me you were the only two schmucks in that place. If not, can you be my personal photographer? I pay in not-belt currency.
I love ice skating. But I am just like you where I go really fast into the wall. And I fall on my butt a lot. I have wanted to go for the past three years but Landon won't go with me because he says he sucks at it. Which is a horrible argument because he was on the hockey team in high school. But maybe if he really sucks at it he was just a benchwarmer....woah.....I need to go confront my husband.
If you looked at me like I was a lunatic, you'd be giving me the same look that 90% of the people around me give me on a daily basis. And I would be too excited to be hanging out with you to care.
I dated an ice dancer my senior year of high school, and we would often go ice skating together, sometimes with his ice dancing partners. It was so embarrassing. I mean, I'm out there with a guy who can skate backwards while lifting a girl into the air by her crotch, and I can barely stay upright.
If it makes it better, the ice dancer was also a hockey player, kind of like the brother and sister duo in "The Mighty Ducks" so it was legit.
Cue lunatic face...
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