let's see!

Made the decision (with a podiatrist) that I'm going to get the sides of my toenail removed and that part of the nail bed killed, to just get rid of the toenail sitch once and for all.  The appointment's scheduled right after our last practice, and I'm told I'll only need to spend a week off skates anyway, so I should (hopefully) be right as rain for the games after that (a men's triple header on 8/3).

Speaking of men's triple headers, had one on Saturday.  'Twas quite warm.  I anticipated trouble with my toenail (and I was right), so I only refereed two of the games....and did scoreboard for the third!  It was fun - I only screwed up a few times, mostly with assigning time outs to the wrong team.  (At one point I realized that I'd screwed up and was trying to fix it and it wasn't working [I was trying to change the Official Review number] and the team's coach was starting to walk over to ask about it, and I was like I KNOW IT'S WRONG I'M TRYING TO FIX IT.  Then there was the jam timer, signaling to me with big huge arm motions which team was supposed to be using their time out.)

This weekend also featured the debut of my son as an NSO for adult games!  He penalty box timed and scorekept (while I was scoreboard operating).  He does really well; just needs to work on a few things and he'll be amazing.  I hope he continues with it; I kind of voluntold him this last time.   (Now that he's 18*, my husband and I are both trying to pull him towards our hobbies - bowling and derby.  Unfortunately, I think bowling has won, because they're going to be doing my husband's adult bowling league on Thursday nights in the fall, which is when we have scrimmage and our NSOs practice.  Ah well.)

The expected window for my new skate boots to arrive starts next Monday.  It's going to be a very WHERE'S MY SPY CAMERA** few weeks.  I hope the plates I already have work on them; we'll find out.


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**This Simpsons reference is twenty-nine years old ZOMFG