Flutzilla - glad you and coach have come to a compromise. I think it's important to develop your relationship where the coach is really that: someone who "coaches" or "guides" you as to what to do, but not a situation where the coach is king or queen. You get to have a say, too. Sounds like you did it with mutual respect and fairness. It helps to keep in mind that many times your coach is the one who pushes you beyond what you normally do; and sometimes that will be uncomfortable. But only you can know when you've been pushed too far. A great example is that Tigger footwork I had. Honestly, I thought my coach was nuts! It's the suckiest, most uncomfortable, stupidist looking footwork I've ever seen. I was so disappointed. I wanted to look like Sasha or Yags out there, with really cool footwork that sort of trips over the ice. But I stuck with the clunky, horse-clopping piece she had given me. And then ... breakthrough! All of a sudden I started doing it RIGHT and then it was the coolest, really fun, very challenging, but very unique footwork I'd been looking for. So stick with that horrid transition awhile, but if it doesn't work, see if you can tweak it to make it what it needs to be. (BTW, I tweak stuff all the time, and half the time she doesn't even notice, because she really may not remember "exactly" how she positioned my arm or my feet.)
Yaz - sorry for the poopyness. I can relate, as I've been under quite a bit of stress lately, including a former employee filing a bogus unemployment claim that I now have to defend at a hearing next week. Great job on your two-foot spins, and I guess you being a doctor, you already realize that it's better to be too pooped to cross than it is to be too cross to poop!
Pe - Poo - Pep - y: I'm not sure how to describe yesterday's practice. I bounded out of bed with lots of energey, and was further excited to realize that when I got to the rink, everyone was just leaving and I HAD THE ICE ALL TO MYSELF!!! That is always very exciting, and the fact that it was barely skated upon made those back spins, camels, camel/sits go very smoothly. I was actually centered! Also threw in some attitude spins, and I can see that if I only do about one million more, I will finally "get" it. Right now I go up onto my spinning toe too much, but I'm learning where my balance should be and I'm doing better at getting the free leg in position and with the heel of the boot pressed down. However, I noticed that my legs were kind of stiff from the mongo practice the day before, and that bummed me out because I didn't feel like I had the "oomph" and flexibility of Wednesday. Curses, curses, for being old!
Ultimately one of the coaches who was taking a lesson joined me, and she put on her music (to be fair, mine had just finished), but that bummed me because I didn't feel like changing it later to squeeze in my program. Maybe it's just as well, because I only seemed to be able to do small segments of the program (and do them well). I tried a full run-through without any of the jumps and spins, and it tired me out. So I stuck to fine-tuning of everything and was feeling slightly bummed until I decided I was being a lazy butt and should run through all the jumps. The jumps were fine, and I landed the 3 axels I tried. So that was peppy, but then when I tried to do "speed" axels (meaning I would enter them at the speed I'm going in my program), I weenied out and couldn't do them. It was all in my head.
So as you can see, the practice was peppy, poopy, peppy, poopy, etc. and I just have to console myself that I got some extra sleep last night and have high hopes (hight hopes, hot apple pie in the sky hopes) for my practice this afternoon. Hubby is going to video, so I'll be "forced" to be peppy.
So I got a lot of stroking in all over the ice. Speaking of the ice the rink's ice has a hugh crack across it. 
