slowly going stir crazy

I JUST WANT TO BE PLAYING AGAIN IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT


The first bout of the season was this past Saturday; I spent the entire time up at the box office RAGE RAGE RAGE.  My team lost both its games (half hour round-robin sorta things).  RAGE RAGE

what's in a name?

our home team is getting new jerseys this year (it rotates each year) so I had to fill out the database with my size, number and name.

Back in the proverbial day, a lot was made about YOUR DERBY NAME IS AN ALTER EGO FOR YOUR AWESOMENESS.  The Two Evils database was religiously checked for duplicates and whatnot.

I had no personal connection to "Queen Kicktoria".  I liked how it sounded and it was available.  (Other names I liked: "Helena Handbasket", "Chick Palahniuk", "Nom de Guerre"*.)   It's not my "alter ego", it's just a nickname that I use on the track.

That's why, for about a day or so, I really agonized about going back to skating under a variant of my real last name - the original spelling of my (married) last name, which had an umlaut in it.

BECAUSE UMLAUT.

Eventually I decided to keep my derby name.  I'm Queenie.  I wear crowns.  I shriek.  I give a royal wave during team intros.  That's who I am now.

 Travel season, who knows.
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*and if I hadn't gotten married (or kept my maiden name), "The Wreck of the Whitney Fitzgerald"

so

Saturday afternoon, shortly after drinking a 20 ounce bottle of water, I had a coughing fit.

and nothing happened.

It was amazing. 

Seriously.  Y'all may not understand - I've spent the last three years of my life having to do all these little tricks and lifehacks to not wet my pants when I cough/sneeze/jump more than once, and to not have to do that..it's going to take a while to get used to.

My follow up appointment is on Thursday.  I'm hoping that my doctor will let me go back on skates, at the very least (when I asked him about going back and he said "six weeks", I'd asked about "playing roller derby") in a week or so. 

I also hope that I can get a green light quickly because I signed up for an Intro to Parkour class!  "Adult Beginner classes are designed for any adult looking to get their foot in the door into the parkour world. We offer rolling admission to all classes – there is no start or end date. Curriculum changes week to week and encompasses all forms of basic vaults, balancing, quadrupedal movements, and climbing."  

I signed Maverick up for a kid class, and we're both pretty excited about it. 

I need to find more stuff like this - jogging and weight lifting and cross training and all that, I hate with the intensity of a thousand suns and want to die.  Roller derby and orienteering, I absolutely adore.

Ow ow ow

So I had the surgery and did not end up like a character in a Robin Cook novel, so that's good.  The incisions are owie but I'm trying to not take my Tylenol + hydrocodone too often.  Whee.

eerps

I didn't realize it'd been so long since I last posted.  I know all y'all are HANGING ON  MY EACH AND EVERY WORD.

First home season practice was last Thursday and it was bittersweet for me - YAY IT'S A NEW SEASON OF ROLLER DERBY but BOO I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SKATE FOR A LONG TIME.  The practice itself was fun, except for the part where I started to get a little light-headed and realized oh yeah, the only things I'd had to eat that day were half a donut and two slices of bread (husband got home late from work so I didn't have dinner beforehand).

Team practice tonight and then my surgery on Wednesday.  Sigh.  On the plus side, my doctor said I should be able to go back to skating after six weeks, not eight like he said before.  So that's something, at least.

FREE TIME IS WEIRD WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN

yeah.  It's only been four days and I'm like I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING GOING ON AND I'M NOT GETTING ELEVENTY THOUSAND E-MAILS THIS IS NOT NORMAL

so because I am a complete glutton for punishment, I'm contemplating running for a board position in September.  NOT TREASURER AND NOT PRESIDENT though.  I've been talking with our current league VP and he's not running in the fall....so maybe.  I've been going to the board meetings in my position as Ticket Queen, and I really miss being behind the scenes on decisions and stuff. 

We'll see.

weekend recap

This is all stuff I've mentioned before, but we had two bouts this weekend.  The first one, on Friday, was a fun bout for our city's Pride Week.  The theme of the week was "There's No Place Like Home", so our fun bout was called "Friends of Dorothy" and we had the Ruby Red Skaters vs. the Yellow Brick Rollers (my idea, Kansas [where everyone dressed in shades of black, white and grey] vs. Oz [everyone dressed in crazy bright colors] went unchosen).

So I made helmet covers, as I mentioned a few times before.  Here's a picture of the jammer covers:

FEAST YOUR EYES UPON THE SPARKLE

(the pivot covers were similar; rainbow stripe with sequins on each side.)

They went over like gangbusters.  Everyone kept saying how awesome they were, which made me very happy.

Anyway, the bout.  I was a Yellow Brick Roller and we lost.  One of our fantastico jammers couldn't get off work so we were short in that respect, and then the refs didn't make a few calls that they should've, but whatevs.

Saturday was an actual bout.  And it was amaaaaaaaaayzing.  We all just clicked as a team, we had each other's backs, we did our THANG.  I bridged like a mofo, keeping my teammates in play as the jammer tried to escape.  I didn't play that much in the second half, though, as I fell badly on my right shoulder and was like OKAY I CAN FINISH THIS JAM BUT JUST BARELY AND THEN I'M OUT.  It's still sore now.

We won, of course.

Now I'm on break.  The season starts up again on August 8, but I'll be out of town.  Then I have, like, a week and a half of practices until my surgery and I'm out.  Boo hoo.