I can't believe I haven't posted this yet.
It's taken me being home sick from work and trying desperately to do yet more roller derby crap to remind me to spread this particular bit of love.
My team's the one in the navy blue with the stripes. I'm #17, with white caps on my kneepads and red fishnets on my legs.
Check me out at 0:54 getting completely stone-cold blindsided. The awesomest part is that I did not get one bruise from that fall. Actually it didn't hurt at all, it just slowed me down.
I hope that embed thing worked. We'll see.
Just wanted to share. Next one's Feb 2nd!
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01/17/2008 14:08 #42928
highlight reel01/06/2008 15:28 #42770
WE WON!!!!!!The Knockouts won!!!! The Knockouts won last night!!!! OMG!!!
I can't even believe it.
It was so close, so fucking close, I couldn't even tell you, we were sitting on the edge of the bench holding hands through the last jam. It was intense. We were down in the first period with penalty troubles, but we brought it up to a tie in the second and we kept getting ahead by ten, they'd get six, we'd get two, they'd get four, we'd get four, they'd get two, for forty solid minutes of gameplay. It was insane. It was brutal. I got the shit knocked out of me. A lot of the girls write their numbers on their arms in marker and I had black marker all up and down my shoulders and arms from slamming into them. I had nice cloth armbands with white numbers and they're all grungy with other girls' marker.
The final score was within ten points. But I don't have the stats yet.
That was my sixth bout, that I've skated, since February of last year. We're coming up on the first anniversary of that one. I've skated for the Sluggers, the Knockouts, and the QCRG travel team. And I've never had a victory before, never gotten to swarm the track and cry and hug people and shriek. It's been close before, it's been so close, but I've never actually <i>won</i> before. So it was a really intense experience. I want to say it's changed my life but of course it's too soon to tell. ;)
Better still, WE SOLD OUT THE VENUE. We sold every ticket!! We sold 500 tickets in presale, and there was a line across the parking lot when we opened the doors. We packed that place, it was standing-room-in-the-fire-aisles only. We sold out of beer twice. We packed that house and rocked the fuck out of it. It was a good game, a smoothly-run show, and my Knockouts finally fucking won.
I'd say I could die happy, but I've got the rest of the season still to go. The next one's Feb. 5th, the Dollies vs. the Saucies, and then my Knockouts get next crack at those Saucies on March 8th. (The Saucies went undefeated last year while the KOs went winless. Some of us felt they weren't so gracious about it. So we've got a score to settle.)
This is going to be an awesome season. I don't know if any of you made it out, but if you did, let me know what you thought-- all I really know is that it was an incredible experience to be involved in.
Also I feel like I got plowed over by a fucking Mack truck.
And yet?
I don't have a bruise on me.
No trophies! No fair.
Photos to follow-- at the moment I got nothin'. Didn't bring a camera, couldn't have taken any pictures anyway.
I can't even believe it.
It was so close, so fucking close, I couldn't even tell you, we were sitting on the edge of the bench holding hands through the last jam. It was intense. We were down in the first period with penalty troubles, but we brought it up to a tie in the second and we kept getting ahead by ten, they'd get six, we'd get two, they'd get four, we'd get four, they'd get two, for forty solid minutes of gameplay. It was insane. It was brutal. I got the shit knocked out of me. A lot of the girls write their numbers on their arms in marker and I had black marker all up and down my shoulders and arms from slamming into them. I had nice cloth armbands with white numbers and they're all grungy with other girls' marker.
The final score was within ten points. But I don't have the stats yet.
That was my sixth bout, that I've skated, since February of last year. We're coming up on the first anniversary of that one. I've skated for the Sluggers, the Knockouts, and the QCRG travel team. And I've never had a victory before, never gotten to swarm the track and cry and hug people and shriek. It's been close before, it's been so close, but I've never actually <i>won</i> before. So it was a really intense experience. I want to say it's changed my life but of course it's too soon to tell. ;)
Better still, WE SOLD OUT THE VENUE. We sold every ticket!! We sold 500 tickets in presale, and there was a line across the parking lot when we opened the doors. We packed that place, it was standing-room-in-the-fire-aisles only. We sold out of beer twice. We packed that house and rocked the fuck out of it. It was a good game, a smoothly-run show, and my Knockouts finally fucking won.
I'd say I could die happy, but I've got the rest of the season still to go. The next one's Feb. 5th, the Dollies vs. the Saucies, and then my Knockouts get next crack at those Saucies on March 8th. (The Saucies went undefeated last year while the KOs went winless. Some of us felt they weren't so gracious about it. So we've got a score to settle.)
This is going to be an awesome season. I don't know if any of you made it out, but if you did, let me know what you thought-- all I really know is that it was an incredible experience to be involved in.
Also I feel like I got plowed over by a fucking Mack truck.
And yet?
I don't have a bruise on me.
No trophies! No fair.
Photos to follow-- at the moment I got nothin'. Didn't bring a camera, couldn't have taken any pictures anyway.
01/03/2008 12:16 #42736
i feel dirtySo today, I'm at work. Not a lot of motivation: my job seems really really meaningless lately and i can't summon enthusiasm. I don't care enough about money to love my job for it. Just like I don't care enough about the concept of being Skinny to actually bother Dieting for it, so I don't really like the concept of Money enough to make myself motivated to earn it.
Anyway.
Having a tough time here.
Was looking through a folder of info. There was a file on a topic I hadn't thought about in a while, and it looked like it had stuff I didn't know, so I opened it to read it.
The opening paragraph was kinda witty, and I was like, "Who wrote this? I like their style." The info was clearly and engagingly presented, and I read the piece with some enjoyment before I scrolled down to the bottom, looking for the signature lines at the end (it was a letter).
I wrote it.
It must have been some months ago. I have no memory of it.
I feel kinda dirty. I was totally checking myself out and had no idea.
Also I've been here too long, if this sort of thing can happen.
Anyway.
Having a tough time here.
Was looking through a folder of info. There was a file on a topic I hadn't thought about in a while, and it looked like it had stuff I didn't know, so I opened it to read it.
The opening paragraph was kinda witty, and I was like, "Who wrote this? I like their style." The info was clearly and engagingly presented, and I read the piece with some enjoyment before I scrolled down to the bottom, looking for the signature lines at the end (it was a letter).
I wrote it.
It must have been some months ago. I have no memory of it.
I feel kinda dirty. I was totally checking myself out and had no idea.
Also I've been here too long, if this sort of thing can happen.
james - 01/03/08 12:31
If you don't do it for the money, do it for the clearly and engagingly presented information. Meow!
If you don't do it for the money, do it for the clearly and engagingly presented information. Meow!
01/02/2008 21:24 #42729
skating // not skatingHey-- it never occurred to me to ask anyone on here before this moment, but if you're interested in buying a pin-up calendar featuring the members of my roller derby league (I play a featured role in the August photo), they're $11, the extra $1 being a donation to Crisis Services. 
Just thought I'd offer, seeing as they're timely at the moment.
If you want one... You can buy one at the bout on January 5th, in which I will be skating!!
JANUARY 5th 7 PM RAINBOW RINK N.T. TICKETS FOR SALE ONLINE AT QCRG.NET PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE COME I WILL CRY IF YOU DON'T.
Unless my knee doesn't improve. :( My left knee has been bothering me since mid-December, when I fell and bruised it. It hurts, sometimes quite badly, and sometimes not really; for a while I couldn't bend it, but I had convinced myself it was better until I fell again and it hurt a lot...
So I'm spending this week popping ibuprofin and icing it every hour and keeping it elevated and all that.
It doesn't seem to affect my skating.
No, I haven't seen a doctor. I'm an idiot. But I don't want them to say "It's a torn meniscus" and tell me to stay off it, when I know fine well to stay off it, and am doing all I can. I'm pretty sure it's not structurally injured, anyway. It supports me just fine, I just have to think real hard about kneeling on it. (And, usually, decide against kneeling on it.)
I have to decide by tomorrow whether it's fine or I have to tough up and tell my coach to put in one of the subs. I am so excited to have made the primary line-up, I really am, but it wouldn't be fair of me to insist on skating if my knee isn't OK-- there are six girls who have to sit out this first bout because of number constraints, and I don't want us to wind up skating short because I reinjure myself. (Once the squad of 14 is finalized there are no more substitutions.)
Sigh. Hard decision. My knee is mostly fine. But what if I land wrong?
OTHER NOT-SKATING NEWS.
I want a kick-ass garden this year.
Does anyone want to split a seed/plant order at any point?
Am in preliminary planning stages. A friend with a giant suburban yard is thinking of going in on this with me, and another friend who is a crazy subsistence gardener who this year has no yard is also thinking of helping out, so we may have a little weird mini-collective going on. I have high hopes for this year.
And I need to be doing something outside of work that isn't roller derby, so, I think gardening is it. I had a pathetic garden this year and am dying to not repeat that awful experience. (I just didn't have time.)
Just thought I'd offer, seeing as they're timely at the moment.
If you want one... You can buy one at the bout on January 5th, in which I will be skating!!
JANUARY 5th 7 PM RAINBOW RINK N.T. TICKETS FOR SALE ONLINE AT QCRG.NET PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE COME I WILL CRY IF YOU DON'T.
Unless my knee doesn't improve. :( My left knee has been bothering me since mid-December, when I fell and bruised it. It hurts, sometimes quite badly, and sometimes not really; for a while I couldn't bend it, but I had convinced myself it was better until I fell again and it hurt a lot...
So I'm spending this week popping ibuprofin and icing it every hour and keeping it elevated and all that.
It doesn't seem to affect my skating.
No, I haven't seen a doctor. I'm an idiot. But I don't want them to say "It's a torn meniscus" and tell me to stay off it, when I know fine well to stay off it, and am doing all I can. I'm pretty sure it's not structurally injured, anyway. It supports me just fine, I just have to think real hard about kneeling on it. (And, usually, decide against kneeling on it.)
I have to decide by tomorrow whether it's fine or I have to tough up and tell my coach to put in one of the subs. I am so excited to have made the primary line-up, I really am, but it wouldn't be fair of me to insist on skating if my knee isn't OK-- there are six girls who have to sit out this first bout because of number constraints, and I don't want us to wind up skating short because I reinjure myself. (Once the squad of 14 is finalized there are no more substitutions.)
Sigh. Hard decision. My knee is mostly fine. But what if I land wrong?
OTHER NOT-SKATING NEWS.
I want a kick-ass garden this year.
Does anyone want to split a seed/plant order at any point?
Am in preliminary planning stages. A friend with a giant suburban yard is thinking of going in on this with me, and another friend who is a crazy subsistence gardener who this year has no yard is also thinking of helping out, so we may have a little weird mini-collective going on. I have high hopes for this year.
And I need to be doing something outside of work that isn't roller derby, so, I think gardening is it. I had a pathetic garden this year and am dying to not repeat that awful experience. (I just didn't have time.)
janelle - 01/03/08 12:45
Urban Roots is on Rhode Island on the west side. It's a few blocks from where I live so that's how I know about it. It's a cooperative so you can become a member/owner and get a discount on purchases. Volunteer work might be involved. I'm not sure. It has a lot of great plants and very helpful staff. They helped us buy the right stuff to prepare the soil for my garden.
I started a lot of plants from seed last year, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchinni, squash. I also did turnips, radish and lettuce from seeds planted straight into the backyard garden. It takes a bit of work and the right light to grow plants from seed, so I'm considering doing mostly plants from Urban Roots this year.
Let me know in spring if you'd like to split plants from urban roots.
Urban Roots is on Rhode Island on the west side. It's a few blocks from where I live so that's how I know about it. It's a cooperative so you can become a member/owner and get a discount on purchases. Volunteer work might be involved. I'm not sure. It has a lot of great plants and very helpful staff. They helped us buy the right stuff to prepare the soil for my garden.
I started a lot of plants from seed last year, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchinni, squash. I also did turnips, radish and lettuce from seeds planted straight into the backyard garden. It takes a bit of work and the right light to grow plants from seed, so I'm considering doing mostly plants from Urban Roots this year.
Let me know in spring if you'd like to split plants from urban roots.
dragonlady7 - 01/03/08 12:27
I've never been to Urban Roots! Where is it?
I am thinking of buying seeds and starting them, but certain things are just easier to buy the plants... Plant shopping stressed me out, and part of last year's patheticness is that I had no time for seed starting so I ran out to my usual shop, Sunview on Sheridan, to buy plants, and they were OUT OF BUSINESS!!! The shock floored me. I had to buy stuff at Adams and don't know my way around there and I'm just a hopeless fogey.
I wonder if there's any kind of gardening club/collective/association in Buffalo? There should be!
LOL I asked my little sister (who works here:http://www.chicagobotanic.org/) for advice on making a garden to grow more of my food and her first question was, "Does your neighborhood allow chickens?" Whoa, I don't think I'm getting *that* ambitious.
I've never been to Urban Roots! Where is it?
I am thinking of buying seeds and starting them, but certain things are just easier to buy the plants... Plant shopping stressed me out, and part of last year's patheticness is that I had no time for seed starting so I ran out to my usual shop, Sunview on Sheridan, to buy plants, and they were OUT OF BUSINESS!!! The shock floored me. I had to buy stuff at Adams and don't know my way around there and I'm just a hopeless fogey.
I wonder if there's any kind of gardening club/collective/association in Buffalo? There should be!
LOL I asked my little sister (who works here:http://www.chicagobotanic.org/) for advice on making a garden to grow more of my food and her first question was, "Does your neighborhood allow chickens?" Whoa, I don't think I'm getting *that* ambitious.
janelle - 01/02/08 21:55
What type of plants/seeds? Flowers or vegetables? I would consider going in with you and buying vegetable plants at Urban Roots and splitting the packs of plants.
What type of plants/seeds? Flowers or vegetables? I would consider going in with you and buying vegetable plants at Urban Roots and splitting the packs of plants.
Yo, there are pics online, not sure what match these are from, but these were posted by one of my friends on flickr :::link:::
sold out show AND you won! A crowd befitting of your roller derby goddesshood.
That is fantastic. Congratulations.
Glad you won I saw some footage of the bout on the news but they didn't say who won. It was more like that you could see the entire story on the web or that they had another report on there early show.
Congratulations!!!
congrats! can't wait to see the pix!
way to go NCKO!!
and at least the markers maybe look a little like battle bruises?