I skated! and other good things

My first ice skating class was this morning and I actually moved around the rink! I didn't suck more than the other people, either (except one person, who was well ahead of the rest of us). We progressed a lot further than I was expecting in one lesson. I managed to lift my feet off the ice, stop, kind of go backwards and do a couple of other things I can't explain. It seemed so much easier than last time I tried and I didn't even fall over.

That got my day off to a good start. I also got my pretty, flannelette sheets today (since I wasn't loving my cosy, warm bed enough, or having a hard enough time getting out of it in the morning...) and I bought myself an advent calendar when I went grocery shopping. When I was a kid, my brothers and I would fight over who got to go third in the sequence of opening windows, since that person would get to open the last, biggest one. This was even more pathetic, since my mum never let us get a chocolate-containing calendar, so we were just fighting over opening little religious pictures. So, anyway, I thought an advent calendar would make it feel more like Christmas, even if I don't have anyone to fight over the crappy chocolate with.

In other happy news, I started playing with my data and it looks all cool and exciting! I haven't normalised anything yet, so I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I may have cool results! Yay!