I skated at practice Sunday before last! I almost didn't. I got all the way out to practice and realized I didn't have my skates. I had to go back, missed part of the night but I got to skate! I even made a call!

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My roller derby league's Black Eye and Tie fundraiser is happening October 10th!

I know some of you are talented Ducklings and Swans, and I am seeking donations of cool stuff for the silent auction...

anyone willing to send me something neat?

Wookie just texted me:

Hey are you still looking for a Name? Because I just thought of a good one.
Fair May La Bouche.
It means "shut your mouth"
In French

I kind of love it. Bit it has the same problem of my current name, no one uses it.

What do you think?

Break in your new skates before the season starts, they said.

When I got new skates, for weeks, I kept falling over like I was Fresh  Meat, they said.

You're feet are going to hurt SO bad, they said.

Thursday I laced up my new skates for the first time and I skated as the outside pack ref the whole hour-plus scrimmage, occasionally as the only ( Read more... )

The flocks of Canadian geese in the park behind the real estate office are thinning.  The Permanent Fund Dividend amount was announced today, the same morning the first traces of Termination Dust kissed the hills.

Having the crud means lonelydumptruck and I have been exceeding our television quotas. Last week we discovered, and finished, From Dusk Til Dawn the ( Read more... )

I'm still tired from the weekend!  Wah!

I spent Sunday doing clean up and working the Aurora show.  We watched True Blood after, but none of the other Sunday shows.

Yesterday I went in to work at the Real Estate office and then did some piddly things towards the job hunt and house work.  I coached derby last night.  Riot made a huge deal about my ( Read more... )

I'm still recovering from that weekend!

I gave myself the night off from going in to the Real Estate job (but, naturally, now the last mail out is ready and should have been started yesterday) to catch up on some much-neglected housework.

Dad and Ila are in town (lonelydumptruck's dad and step-mom, for new friends) and staying over at Lori-O's, so we went over ( Read more... )

Today I skated in my second Solstice Scrimmage in Town Square.  It definitely went better than last year, though it is SUCH a challenging "floor" with the transitions from polished concrete tiles to rough concrete and all the little rocks that come with skating outside.

I sent four or five girls to the box (Bro overruled one, which is the first ( Read more... )

It's been an exciting Spring/Summer so far.  We've had record-highs and very little rain, which led to huge amounts of dust, record pollen counts and now three massive wildfires.  Needless to say, the air quality is for shit.  I've been having to use my inhaler regularly for the first time in almost 10 years.

Our plants are soooo happy though!  All ( Read more... )