and now we get to decide on a team name and colors and all that.
For some (bizarre) reason, I *really* want to call our team "The Titans of Industry". I just think that would be really neat. (I really hope we don't decide upon some sort of pin-up related theme. I am *so* not a pin-up type of person.)
As for uniforms, I want a dress of some sort. And for colors, I like ocean blue/black.
We shall see what happens.
Friday, March 5, 2010
looking back and looking forward
I think I might have mentioned before, but Roy has a Thursday night bowling league, and since Maverick isn't old enough to stay home by himself, I miss league scrimmage night. Which is a bummer. There have been nights when my parents have been able to watch him (like, say, the Thursday night before a bout), but (a) they live about twenty minutes away and (b) I don't like obligating them to do it every week.
So! My practice schedule for the season is Sunday morning league skills and drills 10-12:30, Monday night team practice 8-10, and then Thursday league scrimmage 7-9:30 once bowling's over for the year (which is like, May, I think). Bit of a change from last season, when team practice was on Tuesdays. At least I'll be able to take Maverick to his baseball practices and games.
Tonight a few people are getting together to watch Blood on the Flat Track. It's available on Watch Netflix Instantly, you should watch it. (I do not have Watch Netflix Instantly because we are a Linux household. We do, however, have a Wii, so eventually apparently at some point this spring we will get it. HOPEFULLY.)
Tomorrow I really need to get over to the gym. Like, desperately. Going to North Carolina and being sick and Roy doing a lot of extra bowling this week has completely thrown me. I have been somewhat able to keep a little bit of the weight that I lost while sick off (I am now hovering around 165 rather than 169); YAY ME.
I really want to put my outdoor wheels on and skate outside. The streets are dry even though there's like a foot of snow on the ground. Either that or I need to get a real pair of outdoor skates. I tried last year just getting a cheapo pair of skates for my outdoor wheels, but the ones I got, the trucks were too close to the base of the boot, meaning that if I put my (somewhat larger diameter) wheels on them and tried to turn, the wheel pushed into the bottom of the boot and I would stop. (Those were the skates I sold in this entry.) I am lazy and am getting tired of swapping out my wheels every single time I want to skate outside.
I'm so ready for spring. I hate winter so very much. You cannot conceive how thrilled I am every year when Daylight Saving Time starts. Maybe I have Seasonal Whats-its-face Disorder or something.
So! My practice schedule for the season is Sunday morning league skills and drills 10-12:30, Monday night team practice 8-10, and then Thursday league scrimmage 7-9:30 once bowling's over for the year (which is like, May, I think). Bit of a change from last season, when team practice was on Tuesdays. At least I'll be able to take Maverick to his baseball practices and games.
Tonight a few people are getting together to watch Blood on the Flat Track. It's available on Watch Netflix Instantly, you should watch it. (I do not have Watch Netflix Instantly because we are a Linux household. We do, however, have a Wii, so eventually apparently at some point this spring we will get it. HOPEFULLY.)
Tomorrow I really need to get over to the gym. Like, desperately. Going to North Carolina and being sick and Roy doing a lot of extra bowling this week has completely thrown me. I have been somewhat able to keep a little bit of the weight that I lost while sick off (I am now hovering around 165 rather than 169); YAY ME.
I really want to put my outdoor wheels on and skate outside. The streets are dry even though there's like a foot of snow on the ground. Either that or I need to get a real pair of outdoor skates. I tried last year just getting a cheapo pair of skates for my outdoor wheels, but the ones I got, the trucks were too close to the base of the boot, meaning that if I put my (somewhat larger diameter) wheels on them and tried to turn, the wheel pushed into the bottom of the boot and I would stop. (Those were the skates I sold in this entry.) I am lazy and am getting tired of swapping out my wheels every single time I want to skate outside.
I'm so ready for spring. I hate winter so very much. You cannot conceive how thrilled I am every year when Daylight Saving Time starts. Maybe I have Seasonal Whats-its-face Disorder or something.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
okay
so I didn't make the travel team. I've done my five stages of grief* and am now ready to be as much of a motherfucking superstar on the home team as is humanly possible.
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*leaving the practice early in tears, screaming in the car on the way home, wishing damnation and hellfire on everyone and everything in the world, cake and sleep.
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*leaving the practice early in tears, screaming in the car on the way home, wishing damnation and hellfire on everyone and everything in the world, cake and sleep.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
in which your humble narrator starts spazzing the fuck out
okay. I've swapped my wheels but that's it. I don't want to go tinkering with other stuff (toe guards, toe stops) lest I screw something up and make things worse.
sigh.
sigh.
today is the day
so in a wonderous bit of serendipity, Gnomeloaf (my older sister who lives about 6 hours away) is contemplating being in Buffalo on the 27th as part of the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair (she runs an online literary journal, The Northville Review). If all works well, I'd hang with her there for the day and then we'd go to the bout afterwards. Fingers crossed!
Tonight is the travel team tryout. When I get home from work I have to swap out my wheels. I never got around to doing it yesterday. I hope I do okay - I don't necessarily care if I make the team*, but I just don't want to make a complete fool out of myself.
Let's see. The St. Patrick's Day parade is coming up - we marched in it last year and it was hella fun, except for the part where we had to stand around for 3 hours waiting for our turn to march (we were near the back). There was no snow and the streets were dry, though, so we got to skate, which was fun. Hopefully we'll be able to skate again this year.
I am still down about five and a half pounds from where I was last week because of being sick. I have no confidence that I'll be able to keep it off, what with it most assuredly being water weight, but I have to admit it's nice to look at the scale and see different numbers. I am actually trying to eat more proper-like (for example, breakfast today is a banana and a TLC cereal bar). AND I NEED TO GO TO THE GYM. Maybe I'll get up early tomorrow or something. (yeah, that will happen.)
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*who am I kidding, of course I care if I make the team.
Tonight is the travel team tryout. When I get home from work I have to swap out my wheels. I never got around to doing it yesterday. I hope I do okay - I don't necessarily care if I make the team*, but I just don't want to make a complete fool out of myself.
Let's see. The St. Patrick's Day parade is coming up - we marched in it last year and it was hella fun, except for the part where we had to stand around for 3 hours waiting for our turn to march (we were near the back). There was no snow and the streets were dry, though, so we got to skate, which was fun. Hopefully we'll be able to skate again this year.
I am still down about five and a half pounds from where I was last week because of being sick. I have no confidence that I'll be able to keep it off, what with it most assuredly being water weight, but I have to admit it's nice to look at the scale and see different numbers. I am actually trying to eat more proper-like (for example, breakfast today is a banana and a TLC cereal bar). AND I NEED TO GO TO THE GYM. Maybe I'll get up early tomorrow or something. (yeah, that will happen.)
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*who am I kidding, of course I care if I make the team.
so, yeah
tomorrow's the scrimmage for Travel Team tryouts. Actually, make that "later today". Sigh. Right now I am on the "why am I bothering" side of the swinging indecision.
Monday, March 1, 2010
and now we're back at Monday
and not only is it Monday, it's the first day of March. whoa!
So, like I mentioned before, I was really sick on Friday, and spent about 90% of Saturday and 75% of yesterday recovering. This means that I didn't go to practice yesterday. Sundays are league-wide practices that our speed skating coach runs, and as I expected, everyone's Facebook statuses afterwards involve the fact that they can't move their limbs. So I'm not completely upset that I missed it.
Kyle called me on Saturday - I have one more personal training session left of the bunch that I bought. It expired yesterday but he's going to try and hold it for me. Honestly, I don't know when I'll be able to get in - Roy is subbing in for someone tonight bowling, I have travel team tryouts on Tuesday, and then Roy is bowling again Wednesday night and Thursday night. Okay, so maybe I do know when I'll be able to get in - Friday at the earliest. Sigh.
I also (before I got sick) managed to solve an issue that haunted a lot of us all last season. When we come to practices, we need to have scrimmage shirts - one black, one white, each with our number on it. While the black was no problem (I have two bout shirts in black), I only had one official white one, which I lost. So I'd either have to jerry-rig something with duct tape and a Sharpie, or beg to be on the black team.
Well, one of our skaters found that a sports clothing outlet place had reversible black/white mesh basketball shirts for $1. Score! I went on Wednesday and got one (it's a men's XL, so it's basically like a dress), but for $6 I got my number on both sides so I am SET TO GO. I hope that whatever team I'm on does something like this for our uniforms (though I would not be upset if we ended up getting dresses).
I know I've mentioned Roy's bowling tourament in Buffalo - as it turns out, it *does* coincide with a Queen City Roller Girls bout, yay! So all I'll need to do is finangle a ride home, which shouldn't be difficult. I've been jonesing for some live roller derby - watching it on the internet just doesn't suffice.
So while Roy is bowling tonight, I'll need to swap my Heartless wheels for my Fugitives, and I should probably clean my bearings. I also need to see if I can find my old toe guards (I have two sets - plain ones and fancy ones with crowns on them. The fancy ones make my toe stops too low).
So, like I mentioned before, I was really sick on Friday, and spent about 90% of Saturday and 75% of yesterday recovering. This means that I didn't go to practice yesterday. Sundays are league-wide practices that our speed skating coach runs, and as I expected, everyone's Facebook statuses afterwards involve the fact that they can't move their limbs. So I'm not completely upset that I missed it.
Kyle called me on Saturday - I have one more personal training session left of the bunch that I bought. It expired yesterday but he's going to try and hold it for me. Honestly, I don't know when I'll be able to get in - Roy is subbing in for someone tonight bowling, I have travel team tryouts on Tuesday, and then Roy is bowling again Wednesday night and Thursday night. Okay, so maybe I do know when I'll be able to get in - Friday at the earliest. Sigh.
I also (before I got sick) managed to solve an issue that haunted a lot of us all last season. When we come to practices, we need to have scrimmage shirts - one black, one white, each with our number on it. While the black was no problem (I have two bout shirts in black), I only had one official white one, which I lost. So I'd either have to jerry-rig something with duct tape and a Sharpie, or beg to be on the black team.
Well, one of our skaters found that a sports clothing outlet place had reversible black/white mesh basketball shirts for $1. Score! I went on Wednesday and got one (it's a men's XL, so it's basically like a dress), but for $6 I got my number on both sides so I am SET TO GO. I hope that whatever team I'm on does something like this for our uniforms (though I would not be upset if we ended up getting dresses).
I know I've mentioned Roy's bowling tourament in Buffalo - as it turns out, it *does* coincide with a Queen City Roller Girls bout, yay! So all I'll need to do is finangle a ride home, which shouldn't be difficult. I've been jonesing for some live roller derby - watching it on the internet just doesn't suffice.
So while Roy is bowling tonight, I'll need to swap my Heartless wheels for my Fugitives, and I should probably clean my bearings. I also need to see if I can find my old toe guards (I have two sets - plain ones and fancy ones with crowns on them. The fancy ones make my toe stops too low).
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