Everyone has their sport or hobby they did growing up. For me, that was figure skating. That meant spending obscene amounts of money on dresses and being immune to the smell of hair spray.

It was hard, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

These are signs that you grew up a competitive figure skater:

1. Saturday morning practices meant no sleepovers on Fridays

2. You had the group of skaters you loved and the group of skaters you hated

S/o to my homies. Love ya’ll.

3. Trying to figure out competition times without your Mom there was just awful.

“Wait, what time is my practice ice?”

4. You loved your coach with all your heart

5. You more than likely showed off a little bit when you went to open skating

6. Double run-throughs of your program

7. The annual Christmas show (if you had one)

8. Knowing the one girl in your section of competition and wanting to beat her every time

9. Off-season? What’s that?

10. Never being able to get a short hair cut because then you wouldn’t be able to do that perfect competition bun

11. Speaking of that competition bun, you probably never really perfected it

At least I didn’t. Stupid bun maker.

12. Getting your boots custom fitted was a gift from the gods

13. Your mom was your biggest fan

14. You most definitely subscribed to SKATING magazine