still here, sorta

I'M GETTING REAL TIRED OF THIS, YO

our league is inching ever closer to meeting baseline, but I'm not going back to indoor practices until there's a viable vaccine

which probably means my derby days are over

but I'm not thinking of it like that

I'm not sure what I'm thinking of it like, TBH

 

helmet decoration ahoy!

 

(the black sticker is covering the S1 logo)

the Miffy design is one I created a few years ago, based off a "Queen Miffy" design (I added the stripes and the wheels)

I have a sticker that says "YOU'RE HECKLING THE WRONG RULE SET" that I want to put on the other side so badly but I should probably refrain.

optimistic? for once in my life, kinda

I bought a new helmet and wrist guards last week.  I do occasionally* skate outdoors, so I have them for that, at least.

I HAVE FOUND A LIPSTICK THAT WILL LAST ON MY FACE FOR MORE THAN THIRTY SECONDS.  Revlon ColorStay Overtime LipColor.  The glossy topcoat is gummy AF but once it dries, it legit works.  With it on, I have eaten dinner, wiped my mouth with a napkin, drunk from a water bottle, spit my whistle out repeatedly, pulled my whistle out of my mouth while creating as much friction as possible on it with my lips, and only the tiniest bit of it wore away.  

So of course I find it when (a) I'm not officiating and (b) when the lip part of my face is covered with a mask any time I am not at home

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*Skating outdoors is nice in theory, but in practice it turns into "sweating up a storm in 85° weather with all my safety gear on" and the roads right around my house aren't very smoothly paved.  There's one street about two blocks away that was paved not too long ago, so the last time I went I just went up and down it about twenty times.

happy derbyversary to me....snif snif

I've spent the last twelve years of my life involved in roller derby

hard to believe, sometimes

it's all becoming a misty memory now....

like....I used to officiate roller derby?  what was that like?

anyway, I guess there are a few things I can update -

the games on 2/29 went well.  I didn't HR either of them, which was a nice change of pace.  My son was, apparently, a frickin' BOSS in the penalty box - there were 109 penalties for the game and he didn't miss a beat.  (I asked him about it, and he kinda shrugged it off as not that big a deal.) 

Unfortunately, as we all know, that was kinda it for his 2020 derby career.

so......yeah.

this weekend I was SUPPOSED to be going to Official Relief, for my first time being a crew head referee.

whomp whomp....

eight thousand things to do in the next fifteen hours

League's home opener is tomorrow; yay!  I am not rostered (even as an ALT!) for the sanctioned game because we have SO MANY visiting referees.  (And these are all, like, playoffs-level visiting referees.)

Meanwhile, my kid will be making his Roc City debut as an NSO in the penalty box.  That's weird, lemme tell ya.  He was seven years old when I started.