More bad news

As the title says, I've got more bad news. I'll save the suspense and say right away, they are little things, some fixed already. BUT they do add up on top of the frustration with the covid cases on the rise and the political tension, and I feel quite irritated. I thought some venting would do me good!

Firstly, the thing that irritated me the most... I almost missed to register for ice for the whole next month! My home rink is part of the park district facilities and the web page and all activities registration goes trough the city, a big city... Do I need to say more? The web page is old and the registration is awkward... Everything goes on sale at the same time and you have to be there right that second, so your activity won't sell out. But as soon as the registration starts there is a queue... I was "let in" after 3 minutes.  Before the registration starts you can put everything on the wish list, but when registering you have to take activity by activity and move it to the cart. And for each one you have to click the name of the participant, then go back to the wish list. The wish list doesn't delete the activity you just put in the cart, so you have to keep track carefully of that. To complicate things, the cart, doesn't show the activity name, just the code... so if you missed up anything there is no way to fix it. Now, for this registration, it was something more... some kind of a glitch, that happened to other people, so don't think I'm crazy... at least not yet, because they drive me crazy... So, after everything was in the cart, you have 15 minutes to pay. But I couldn't pay... I've got an error message that the last two activities are "incomplete" and given the option to edit them or delete them. Of course I tried to edit them... but I couldn't find anything else I had to click or fill. While doing this, probably for 30 seconds... all the activities in the cart went "incomplete". I suspected everything sold out... I had to leave home, I was late already. I left crying :( When I arrived where I had to go, I checked the activities on my cellphone and they weren't sold out. So I registered on my phone, I mean the pain I went thought to click all those activities and boxes on the little screen and keep track on what I've already put in the cart... But miraculously I registered for everything I wanted. Well, wait... sort off... I've registered for everything I wanted from what they have offered for registration. But they've missed the first week of November. They covered 4 weeks, from the second week of November to the first week of December. So, I'll have to go thought all of it again and register for the first week of November.

My next irritation is that the ballet class I started to take two months ago at my rink, was moved to a later hour and another instructor. The time doesn't work for me, and I'm not eager to change the "style" of the class, as the new instructor is a yoga instructor not a ballet instructor. I grew found of my current instructor and our ballet classes, but I needed a couple a weeks to get accustom with her style. She hopes to maybe be able to offer some classes from January, in the weekends. To make it more sour, one of the ballet classes was canceled and a make up is offered on a time I cannot make, and probably they won't give me a refund (because of the city park district registration system I've just complained before).

The one thing that affected my skating the most is the blade sharpening. I've told you my regular sharpener moved away so I've trusted my coach to do them. I've dropped them on his porch and picked them up later. On the bag they were in it was a tag with my info and the blades info, the radius I had them sharpen on. So, after two weeks of not getting used with the sharpening, we figured he may have changed the radius... It seems my coach its not the snoopy kind, and he didn't look at the tag. He is such a trustworthy guy, both in character (not snoopy :))) and skating expertise. I take at least half the responsibility, because I haven't told him the radius...  I dropped them to him again, and he's gonna figure it out, I'm not worried. I hope that all this time I've spent skating on a different radius will help with my awareness of alignment... Because I had to be very cautious  of the alignment and where my weight is on the blade. The radius felt deeper than what I usually skate on, and that made me feel that the blades go wherever they wanted. The harder I pressed, the worse that feeling was, because they got more "into the ice". I'm curious to ask my coach what style of skating benefits of a deeper radius. 

I've fell a lot lately, because I couldn't control my blades. Some were quite big falls. I'll add to the bad news that I've put a hole in my new skating tights. I've caught the toe pick during one of the falls. The hole is quite high on the calf so I've got really scared of the possibility of how bad that fall could have been. But... luckily none of the falls hurt significantly. I wonder if that would qualify as good news? Well, surely is not bad news, and I'll take that!

So, that's all the bad news. Thanks for listening... I do feel better now!