now for a girly ref post

Normally in my life, I don't wear makeup.  Why would I spend five minutes applying it in the morning when I could spend those five minutes sleeping?  I mean srsly.  I have priorities.

Derby, though - that's an entirely different story.

When I played derby, sparkly eyeblack was my shtick.  I had green for our travel team and purple for our home team.   It's Ben Nye Aqua Glitter, and I bought it at a local costume store.  It was very drippy, from what I remember.

Nowdays....

(hm, I don't have a closeup picture of my ref makeup face.  Will have to rectify that.)

For eyeshadow, I use L'Oreal Infallible Liquid Eyeshadow.   I have Mistress Noir and BRB Blue.  (The latter gets a lot of compliments.)  

For eyeliner, I use Michael Kors Highliner Gel Eye Crayon in Black that I got in a sample pack.  (I'm not about to spend $25 on an eyeliner.)  

For lipstick, as I think I've mentioned many times before, I have tried umpteen squillion brands before finally settling on Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid.  I have Voyager and Romantic and just bought Creator last night.

All of these last well through a game of officiating.  The lipstick wears out a bit because I keep my whistle in my mouth, but I can touch it up at halftime and all is well.

Anyway, that's my girly ref post.

time moves onward, as is its wont

So apparently the goal for me this season is to get to the point where I can HR games.  Whee!  To that end, I HRed scrimmage on Thursday and then a scrimmage yesterday between our local men's team and a team from a town that's about two hours away.

They went pretty well, for various values of "pretty well."  There were only three referees on Thursday (though we were told that it didn't seem like there were only three, as we were able to pick up a lot of penalties on the outside that might have gotten missed otherwise), and yesterday the teams were Black versus Grey but some of the Black skaters were wearing very dark grey and some of the Grey skaters were wearing medium grey and it was very GAAAAH-inducing trying to keep track of where the pack was.  But I muddled through and no one died, so it was all okay in the end.

another season, another season

so last night was the first practice of the new season, yay!  I actually did the off-skates warmup (I KNOW).

Until team tryouts in November, the practices are more skills 'n drills, so I was able to do a lot of them with the skaters.  Lots of toestop work (which killed my feet; my big toenails aren't *quite* back yet), some one foot transitions (where only one foot is on the ground at any point, not where you actually transition on one foot), some work with being strapped with a bungee cord to a column and you have to skate around cones and not die from the resistance.

My legs're feeling it today, to be sure.