I got a little adventurous by opting to participate in an outside thingy and it backfired :(
For most of my life I have as a simple rule of thumb chosen inside instead of outside whenever the interior temperature was more pleasant, which as a strategy has not given me any complaints, although I haven't always had the opportunity to stay inside of course.
However, as a child I did enjoy rollerblading a lot, without being especially good at it. (My coordination isn't such that I could ever be good at any kind of sporty thing.) I chose to participate in an optional class trip to the outdoor skating rink last month because I thought I might enjoy it and I hadn't tried it before, but I had a lot of fun and wanted to go again.
So when the supervisor at my work practice daycare said her class would be going skating, and offered me the option, I first warned that I wasn't good enough on my feet to necessarily be all that useful at supervision, but then said it sounded like fun. Just last Friday she asked me if I wanted to move from the 3-year-olds' to the 6-year-olds' classroom for my last week at work and I said yes, but that I didn't want to miss the skating. So she penciled me in and everything.
Only then on Saturday I went to 6 different shops looking for skates. My feet are US W 9ish or EU 39ish, which is unfortunately very close to the most common size of women's feet, and in the 5 stores with skates I didn't see any in stock between size 37 and 42. Soon the outdoor ice rinks will turn back into football fields, so I guess it makes sense.
I tried to tell the other teacher that I wouldn't be able to come skating this afternoon but she said of course I will be coming anyway, and instead of skating will be standing in one place wearing my snow clothes for over an hour, watching while the 3-year-olds climb on a giant pile of snow. Normally in the summer, standing still outside would be preferable to being forced to do things like hiking around, but standing still outside with shitty circulation is a bad idea, so I might be forced to tramp around a giant pile of snow just to not feel like I'm going to die. While I know that would have seemed like fun when I was a kid and the pile of snow would have looked like a mountain, right now it just makes me make =.= this face. Also I know my nose will be runny and my face numb with cold and it will suck.
BUT IT'S ALL MY STUPID FAULT FOR TAKING A CHANCE ON DOING SOMETHING OUTSIDE VOLUNTARILY THAT I THOUGHT MIGHT BE FUN. If I had followed my own rule and opted automatically not to go skating then I would not have wasted half of Saturday on a fruitless sporting gear quest and I would not be staring down the barrel of Outdoor Activities tomorrow morning at an hour significantly earlier than I should even be out of bed. NEVER BETRAY YOUR PRINCIPLES! And also, always remember, self: OUTSIDE IS BAD.
However, as a child I did enjoy rollerblading a lot, without being especially good at it. (My coordination isn't such that I could ever be good at any kind of sporty thing.) I chose to participate in an optional class trip to the outdoor skating rink last month because I thought I might enjoy it and I hadn't tried it before, but I had a lot of fun and wanted to go again.
So when the supervisor at my work practice daycare said her class would be going skating, and offered me the option, I first warned that I wasn't good enough on my feet to necessarily be all that useful at supervision, but then said it sounded like fun. Just last Friday she asked me if I wanted to move from the 3-year-olds' to the 6-year-olds' classroom for my last week at work and I said yes, but that I didn't want to miss the skating. So she penciled me in and everything.
Only then on Saturday I went to 6 different shops looking for skates. My feet are US W 9ish or EU 39ish, which is unfortunately very close to the most common size of women's feet, and in the 5 stores with skates I didn't see any in stock between size 37 and 42. Soon the outdoor ice rinks will turn back into football fields, so I guess it makes sense.
I tried to tell the other teacher that I wouldn't be able to come skating this afternoon but she said of course I will be coming anyway, and instead of skating will be standing in one place wearing my snow clothes for over an hour, watching while the 3-year-olds climb on a giant pile of snow. Normally in the summer, standing still outside would be preferable to being forced to do things like hiking around, but standing still outside with shitty circulation is a bad idea, so I might be forced to tramp around a giant pile of snow just to not feel like I'm going to die. While I know that would have seemed like fun when I was a kid and the pile of snow would have looked like a mountain, right now it just makes me make =.= this face. Also I know my nose will be runny and my face numb with cold and it will suck.
BUT IT'S ALL MY STUPID FAULT FOR TAKING A CHANCE ON DOING SOMETHING OUTSIDE VOLUNTARILY THAT I THOUGHT MIGHT BE FUN. If I had followed my own rule and opted automatically not to go skating then I would not have wasted half of Saturday on a fruitless sporting gear quest and I would not be staring down the barrel of Outdoor Activities tomorrow morning at an hour significantly earlier than I should even be out of bed. NEVER BETRAY YOUR PRINCIPLES! And also, always remember, self: OUTSIDE IS BAD.