A Day off From Skating

Today is my day off from skating. I've been skating for 5 days straight, 2 hours a day plus I went running on Friday and Sunday. So, as you can imagine, I'm a little tired. I will be spending my one and only day off painting my toenails and just hanging out.
I have been working my program for a competition in Valencia in September. I will be skating to The Training from the movie Mirror Mirror. Have you seen it yet? I have not. Anyway, my program consists of an Axel, 2 double Salchows, a camel spin, a layback spin, one back spiral, and a back spiral called a Charlotte. In this element you skate backwards, bring your leg straight up like the splits then you bring the rest of your torso down to your skating leg. Its not as difficult as it sounds, okay, maybe a little.
Its so beautiful outside today. I woke up with the sun streaming in just like the movies. It was kind of cool. Its also going to be a warm day, just like every other day.

Have you seen Mirror Mirror?

I passed my test with duct tape on my skates

I passed my Preliminary test! Now I can focus on my jumps and spins, at least when I get my new skates.

We ordered my skates in around Feb. before the accident, and around May we called and asked if we could pick up my skates. The order had been lost. So, we had to drive back down to LA (my mom was not happy) to get fitted again. And that was in May; here and I am in July and I have to put duct tape around the ankles of my skates so they don't collapse on me!! Anyway, my coach is really upset that the skates haven't come in yet. I'm going to call on Tue. cause their closed on Mon. Grrr.

Anyway, I passed my test with flying colors. And my mom wants me to take the next test at the end of September. We'll see about that.

I'm back (again)

Sorry I've been away! I have been a little busy this week.
This week I have been hanging out with my friend Nikki. She my age and so much fun to be around.
This Saturday is my premlimanry test, so here is a video of my freeskate program that I will be skating.
Despite a couple mistakes due to people in the way, I skated a decent program.

Marbled Chocolate Meringues

Just yesterday, me and my cousin made some amazing 'Marbled Chocolate Meringues'. They only required 3 ingredients: melted chocolate, 4 egg whites, and 1 cup of sugar. I know this is not a cooking/baking blog, but I'm very proud of them.
This is how they were supposed to look:

 And this is how they ended up looking. Even though they didn't look like the picture, they still tasted amazing! Crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Family and skating

Once again I had a wonderful practice session at the rink. Today was the first time it was actually busy there since its summer. Earlier this week has been really nice, there were only a couple skaters here and there, but today was crowded.
 Also on the subject of summer, my mom is watching my two cousins (14 & 16). They come over at 8:15 or 9:30 the morning and leave once their mom gets off work at around 4:30 or so. My cousins are very funny and are fun to be around.
My mom's cousin and his wife and daughter along with his mom (my great-aunt) were visiting yesterday from Sacramento area. Their daughter, I'll call her Kayla for her privacy, is 3 years old and a fun ball of energy. I happily spent some of my day watching the adorable toddler yesterday. Kayla had a blast shooting my brothers pistol Nerf guns, she was very good at aiming for a 3 year old.
This weeks weather has been very overcast and warm, kind of unusual for late spring. Maybe tomorrow will be beautiful and sunny for Fathers Day.

A Fantastic Practice Session

       How was everybodys weekend? Mine was quite uneventful. Today's practice session was fantastic, I did my program a couple times and successfully landed many axels and 3 double salchows. I finally got up the courage to try some sit spins(I fell on my head during a sit spin) and I did much better then I had expected. During my lesson, my coach and I worked hard on the arm movements for program ( I am skating to I Do Believe In Fairies from Peter Pan). The whole program is choreographed except the for the arms. I will post a video of it as soon as my program is decent enough to show you. We are dumbing it down for my preliminary test in July. You need to have a program with a flip,(no, not the kind were you turn upside-down, sorry) a sit spin, a forward scratch spin to a backward scratch spin, a single jump-single jump combo. I have, of course, all those, an Axel and my single jump-single jump combo is a flip-toe loop. Tomorrow is my second lesson with my stroking coach and I'm quite excited.  :)

What a Beautiful Day!

Today is such a beautiful day. I woke up to birds chirping and the sun streaming through my window. Seeing I was awake, Lilly jumped up on my bed, begging to be pet.
Skating pratice yesterday was awesome! I landed many axels, and completed some really nice camel spins. I even went through my program three times! My program has 2 axels, 1 camel spin, and a long step squecence. Of course there are some other jumps, but those are simple single jumps. I can't wait to tell my coach tommorrow at my lesson, she will be so pleased.
The rest of my day is busy with a chiropracter appiontment in 45mins, and a babysitting job from 10:30-3:10. So, I'd better get going!