When it rains it pours - still frustrated

I've complained a week ago that I feel overwhelmed, more about life (cats) then skating; and a little about the skating organizations I interact with. When I feel like that I get in a vicious circle, I get annoyed by every little thing and that makes me feel even more overwhelmed, and so forth... I tried last weekend to conscientiously reset my mind. I felt it worked...

Monday I usually skate the noon session that is adults only and then I have my lesson at 2.45. This last Monday it was holiday, and each holiday the noon session transforms into public skate... I knew that, but I forgot. But no problem, I went and had a coffee and went to skated half hour before my lesson and then I had a good lesson.

Tuesday I hold myself back to not go skating as I really want to make sure the hip rests enough. I was pain free for a while and I love how it feels. Lately I took a lesson on Thursday too, and I like to skate the day before the lesson, if I would skate on Tuesday I would skate four days in a row, five if I would skate Friday. That was my program before hurting my hip, and I so plan to get back to it...when I will feel the hip allows it. Last year I skated just Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Recently I added the Thursday and I feels good. I don't want to push my luck.

Wednesday as I've got on ice on the adults only session, I've seen that one end  (a quarter of the rink) was barricaded. They wanted to fix something at the ceiling. It wasn't previously announced, I wasn't being told as I payed... I would have skated Tuesday if I knew and not Wednesday... But why should they give any respect to adult figure skaters... I bet they wouldn't have take away one quarter of the ice while hockey guys were playing a game. It was a crowded session too, so I really couldn't practice much for Ice Dancing., or the moves because they all go the whole length of the rink. Of course I could do 3-turns on their own, and jumps and spins. But I'm working now on the Ten Fox for the test, I'm on a schedule... Because I haven't had the chance to practice, it didn't make sense to have my Thursday lesson. And so another week passes...  Then, after running few errands, I've got home exited that I'll watch the European Championship, that day was pairs and men short, only that NBC Gold forgot to put the men short up. You can e-mail them and they usually answer after 48 hours. You can call them, but just between 8am and 5pm or something like that... So, I couldn't do that either.

Same evening, I found that there is a mix up with my judging application. I don't know if the people that are making the decisions are aware of it, or even if it is a  mistake. I also don't know if I should bring it up, or wait for maybe a week. I feel I keep waiting... but complaining may actually do more harm then good.

It was for the best that I haven't committed for the lesson on Thursday, because I woke up with a full on cold/flu, chest and back pain, headache, sore throat, fever... At least there was skating going on, live European championship Rhythm dance, Yum... I use NBC Gold on my computer. It started at 5, I started to watch at 7, from the beginning, plus I paused few times. One pause I used to call them to inquire about the men short event. They apologized, and they thanked me for letting them know. Meanwhile the Rhythm dance event ended. They do stop the live coverage when the event ends but they immediately put the event in the archive, but not this time, just as it happened with the men short. I waited for am hour, then called, waiting time 19 minutes or 90?  I called again in 15 minutes... "the current waiting time is over 2 hour" . No joke... For somebody offering live events, they really have no support. I wasn't able to watch one event (starting from fall when my subscription started) without having some kind of a problem. Later in the day the event was added and then... my internet went off for an hour. Comcast apologized...

Friday I woke up feeling even worse then Thursday. So I didn't go skating and I mostly rested, more exactly moped around.

Saturday I woke up feeling a little better but coughing badly.  I decided to not go to ballet, I would have made it trough but probably not enjoining . Plus it is a quiet class I would have probably be bothering to the others. The European Free dance was running live and I haven't seen yet the US Rhythm dance. You will never guess, or maybe by not it's expected, that NBC Gold had a technical glitch and couldn't be used on the desktop. They did apologized... I did watch on TV trough Comcast, but they have a weird app. You cannot start from the beginning, and you cannot fast forward or back, so it is "the 80's are back live TV", only it wasn't, the broadcast was lagging so interrupting every 30 seconds, and when you watch something with music it is really annoying.

And to hopefully finish with all complaining in this post, have I complained yet about the USFSA new web site? All documents are moved in the members only part of the site. Only, they don't have a "search" option there. And you cannot go from the member only to the general public part of the site, where they offer "search". So I open another window and search, only that the new window doesn't recognize that I'm signed in. It interestingly gives me the search I asked for, and when I click to it, I go to the page but it is not displayed to me (as they think I'm not signed in). So I have to copy, the link of the address of the page and go back to the members only page. I don't understand were USFSA expects the spectators to learn the rules of the sport and the judging rules. I was reading all those before being a member as I tried to understand. Is USFSA demanding that each spectator/ fan pay the membership?

Oh, well I'll try to reset my mind again during the week-end. Anyway, the most important thing, my skating actually felt good, when I've got to skate,, and that wasn't much.