broken zamboni

obsessed with words, pictures, feelings. i laugh too loudly and cry too easily. and i skate like a broken zamboni.

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happy holidays to one and all! may you get everything you want this year.

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haven’t posted here in ages. haven’t even been on the ice since feb 2013(!). i miss it …

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Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir compete during the Figure Skating Ice Dance Short Dance

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada during the short dance.

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#cdnoly shirt and jacket: check. "i [mapleleaf] canada" pants: check. live coverage is on. let's do this SD, people.

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Olympic practice

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir [Team Short Dance]

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tessa virtue and scott mir, 2014 winter olympics

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working out with tessa virtue

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i often read yoga journal when i can’t sleep; last night, i saw this article on yoga and skating in the february 2014 issue. sweet!!

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Ice <3 

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spin

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the creativity of success

I watched my peers, and my friends, and the ones who were older than me, and I'd watch how miserable some of them were.  I listened to them telling me that they couldn't envisage a world where they did what they've always wanted to do anymore -- because now they had to earn a certain amount every month just to keep where they were.  They couldn't go and do the things that mattered, and that they'd really wanted to do, and that seemed as big a tragedy as any problem or failure.

-- Neil Gaiman, addressing the University of the Arts Class of 2012

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being less happy

It took me so long to do so many important things. It's just hard to accept that I spent so many years being less happy than I could have been. Jim was five feet from my desk and it took me four years to get to him. It'd be great if people saw this documentary and learned from my mistakes. Not that I'm a tragic person. I'm really happy now.

But it would just -- just make my heart soar if someone out there saw this and she said to herself, "Be strong. Trust yourself. Love yourself. Conquer your fears -- just go after what you want. And act fast, because life just isn't that long."

-- Pam Beesly-Halpert, The Office finale

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justtheaveragefigureskater replied to your photo: beautiful trail run this evening.

i’m going to use this as my phone background! Awesome picture, looks like great weather! (Unlike here, we’re expecting an inch or two of snow tonight…..)

aw, thank you! that means we have matching phone backgrounds. it's been so lovely here the last few days (warm! sunny!) that we've been going out after work for hikes or trail runs.

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beautiful trail run this evening.