Then you missed a lot. I’m still remembering Slamus Aran knocking Kaka Caliente into the suicide seats, and one of the Bleeding Heartland girls (Margles McNasty, I think) hitting Envy MiYoni extremely effectively. Our Envy rarely gets hit like that–she’s just magical in that way! I think I held my breath the entire time the medics were with her, but she was a trooper and skated in the second half of the game, despite that scary hit.

Jailbreak Jenny and Sweet Mama did some decent blocking, & poor Sir Wheel spent most of the game in the box, it seemed. Celia Graves was a joy to watch. Really, our whole team was. I feel so proud of Jimi Hitrix and Anna Nicole Smite, who were in the rookie class after me.

I’m sure I’m forgetting to mention half the team, but I was really proud of all of them. (I love Teeps’ new start strategy, I just remembered! I <3 my Derby Mom.) Not that I have anything to do with their individual success. No one's beat up on me since last fall, and I only recently came back into the fold to do stats (which I'm really enjoying).

At some point in the future when Sirius Trouble recovers from her injury and can skate again, she can give me tons of credit for making her the rollergirl she'll be that day. But, yeah, I'm proud of our DCRG, anyway.

And I still love, love, love Bleeding Heartland, even if they did hand us our ass. It was a truly exciting bout.

Oh, and ironically, our floor was slick as snot last night. I saw so many people wipe out, and I don't think it's normally that bad. I mean, you'd have to talk to someone who skated to know for sure, but from where I was sitting, there had to have been at least upward of 12 wipeouts related to traction.

Oh! It was Johnny Thrash's first bout last night. She and Kennidee and Jailbreak were in my rookie class. I suppose it would be natural to look at them bouting and go "boo hoo, that could be me," but my life has been way too full for roller derby lately, and I'm totally happy, so all I feel is pleasure watching these girls get out there and tear it up.

For those who might be wondering, I'm still working on my book. Thought of a chapter I need to write, this morning. But right now I'm going through a divorce and working out what my new life is shaping up to be, so that's taking priority. I have the three little Durdens to think about, and all.

But it's all good.

<3

Vintage Vi, yours truly, and Sirius

Excerpt:

Watching (never ogling) them from the sidelines, I strike up a conversation with Sirius Trouble, a petite yet masculine woman who reminds me of a young, handsome, peroxide Mickey Rourke.

Things like violence, mayhem and terror.

Read more about DCRG here.

I went Saturday, for a bit again. A little windy in the park, but it was worth it.

Right now I’ve got huge fish to fry. I’m not sure there’s enough tartar sauce to go around.

But I’m still writing, and I’m still skating.

And that’s what happened to Tyra Durden. She lives, she’s just taking care of business right now.

So, I guess I’ll watch Kath and Kim in a few minutes, even though the one time I’ve watched it in the past, I was SO let down. So many talented people, such a boring show! It can’t be boring with a roller derby episode tonight, though, can it?

In other news, I went skating yesterday around the neighborhood. I didn’t skate that long, but the asphalt…OMG. It kicked my butt. I wonder that the conversion is like for exertion. Asphalt-to-rink floor, I mean. It’s so much easier to skate on the rink floor…very little exertion, when just skating at an easy pace. But I skated on the sidewalk, off the sidewalk, and toward the end, just tore down the middle of my street.

And, yes, I’m sore as hell!

More roller derby on its way to network TV.

Read more about it on MissPrint’s blog.

So, I heard through the grapevine tonight that a girl from the Biggest Loser show had joined the Detroit Derby Girls and made a lot of friends and just really ended up getting a lot out of it.

Roller derby is great exercise! There is none like it! It always makes me happy to hear of teams where the girls are close, there’s so much camaraderie, and women bond in a positive manner!

Thumbs up, Detroit.

Hulu link to The Biggest Loser

PS  I hate the name of that weight-loss show, but I guess it does some good, and I get that it’s supposed to be ironic and all…it’s just…icky.

PPS  I DO love the “Delete CyberBullying” ad before the show.

Sorry I haven’t updated for awhile.  I’m still recovering from my LCL injury, and while I haven’t been able to skate as much, I *have* been writing.  I don’t want to say too much about it and jinx it, but I’ve been working on a really trashy roller derby urban fantasy novel.  I’m in the process of polishing it now, and it’s just getting trashier, which makes me incredibly happy.  So freeing, to write what you want, even if you never knew you wanted to write that way.  Hard to explain–but totally worthwhile to do!

Regardless, I read today about a new graphic novel series coming out called Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars by Ron Wimberley.  Should be awesome, and I am super-psyched to read it, whenever it comes out.

In other news, I am tentatively planning a trip to Manhattan for May of this year, in search of an agent to publish my book.  I don’t think I’ll be up for RollerCon this year–mebbe because I’ll be at AuthorCon?  One can only hope.

Also?  I wish we had something like this here.

Sent to me by a friend.  Enjoy!

So, Sirius and I went skating tonight, and if not for her, I definitely would not have done it.  It’s just so hard getting out of the house in the cold weather, you know?  I know she was having issues, too, but I made her do it, and I’m glad we did.

My thighs are so sore.  I didn’t enjoy being sick for weeks, and all the work I’ve had to do has had me stressed out and spread too thin, but one good thing about it is that my shoulder doesn’t seem to be as sore now, and my sore ligament (I think I figured it out it was my LCL) seems to be healing well, so that’s good.  Being sick or busy kinda sucks in general, but obviously my muscles really needed to heal.

I didn’t do a lot of falls tonight, but the ones I did just felt stiff, not painful.  This is a good sign!

I have to keep this short because we are watching the Goonies again, and you know–it’s the last Goonie weekend!  We’re going out in style!