derbyrama
July 23, 2008 10:02 pm
so my derby skates showed up today. (they were not inexpensive, so I am kinda committed to this now.) HOLY COW what a difference proper equipment makes. I went a lot faster, and my legs didn’t get nearly as sore because I didn’t need to push as hard. woot indeed.
Tonight’s exciting adventure was suicides. What’s a suicide, you might ask? Well, I’ll tell you. First you need a rink about 200′ long. Lie down on your stomach at one end. Then get up, skate to the 1/3 line, fall. Get up, skate back to the start. Fall. Get up, skate to the 2/3 line. Fall. Get up, skate back to the start. Fall. Get up, skate to the other side. Fall. Get up, skate back to the start, fall.
And do it as fast as you can.
five word review of the dark knight
July 23, 2008 12:34 pm
(longer review to follow)
awesome movie; needed more Scarecrow.
yay!
July 23, 2008 7:58 am
Amber Richardson is pregnant again!
tonight in derbyland
July 21, 2008 9:49 pm
today was the first practice I attended that wasn’t at a roller rink’s open Adult Skate night, so we actually did more skill-type stuff. Stops, falls. Ripped the heck out of the cheapo pads I got to tide me over until my real pads show up. Got complimented on my crossovers (when you turn, you’re supposed to cross your outer foot over your inner foot). Got real sweaty. Realized that after Saturday morning practices, we can go in the pool afterwards. Realized that I am waaaay out of shape.
All in all, a good night.
I’d also like to state for the record that the only injuries I sustained tonight was when I tripped going up the stairs in my house and hit my knee and the tip of my left ring finger.
a conversation from Tuesday
July 18, 2008 5:07 pm
whitney: By clicking on the button below, you commit to buy this item from the seller.
gnomeloaf: OH NOES
whitney: I’m standing on the edge
whitney: so I walk up on high
whitney: and I step to the edge
gnomeloaf: you are SUCH A DORK
whitney: and I realize what I am doing and am mortified
whitney: this is your fault
whitney: if you weren’t going to be in town I wouldn’t consider it
whitney: 
gnomeloaf: yeah that’s right, blame me if it makes you feel better
whitney: it does
whitney: so you’re okay with this?
gnomeloaf: if I said no, you’d kill me
whitney: I wouldn’t
whitney: I’d just sigh wistfully a whole bunch
whitney: no, seriously, if you don’t wanna do it, it’s cool
whitney: all seriousness here
gnomeloaf: do eet
gnomeloaf: THERE IS NO GOING BACK
whitney: ok
whitney: here we go
whitney: I….
gnomeloaf: you wait much longer someone will BUY IT NOW and you will be PISSED
whitney: I’m never gonna live this down from Mr. Whitney
whitney: Congrats, you just bought the item!
maybe
July 17, 2008 10:57 pm
I’ll just jump in the car and drive to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight.
Nah.
We (Mr. Whitney and I) went to a baseball game tonight. One of the title companies in the area has a suite, and invited people from the firm, so we went. It was air conditioned swankitude with good free food and a DESSERT CAROUSEL. We’d been to a suite before, so we knew what to expect, but it’s still very cool. I had a Diet Coke and will probably be up all night.
Aw. Yeah.
July 17, 2008 5:16 pm
Oh, hey, while I’m thinking of it, I stupidly bought a second copy of #4 of The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home. Free to a good home, just lemme know.
shopping list
July 17, 2008 12:11 pm
I have to go to Target after work (yay) and this is what I need to get:
- new sneakers for Otto (were $17, now $4.50! win!)
- elbow and knee pads for derby until I order decent ones
- new headphones (need something vaguely noise-canceling for the bus) (couldn’t decide on a pair)
- Wii Fit. Hee. (yeah, like anywhere in Rochester has them)
tonight’s derby excitement
July 16, 2008 10:57 pm
here’s how tonight went:
See how you’re at the head of this line of twelve women, skating an arm’s length apart at a fast clip? Sprint around the track so that you’re at the back of the line, slalom until you get to the front of the line, then sprint around again until you’re at the back.
I’m not as exhausted as I was last week, though my left leg will feel it tomorrow.
We start three times a week on Saturday. (I’ll probably only go twice a week though.)
I also revealed what I’ve decided to use as my derby name, which earned an arm slap and a “that is AWESOME” from the leader of the group. (I’m not going to say it until it’s official, so no one else steals it, heh). I thought of another one on the way home, but it might be too obscure - Chick Palahniuk.
I’m putting it here so’s I don’t forget it
July 16, 2008 7:40 pm
the movie I want to see next week (besides Dark Knight) is Tell No One.
i have knife issues
July 14, 2008 10:26 pm
this Tom & Jerry cartoon always freaked me out as a kid:
(particularly the part starting at 3:20)
wow
July 13, 2008 9:40 pm
we had an action-packed weekend. Yesterday we went to the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group airshow. We used to go every year (before it was in Geneseo) but this is the first time we’ve gone since Otto was born. He had a blast (his favorite part was going through the Memphis Belle (not the real one, that’s in Ohio being restored; this was one that they used in the movie). My grandfather flew a B-17 during WWII, here’s a picture of him and the plane (he’s William D. Sajonc).
(Here’s another picture of him; he’s on the right.)
He also got to actually sit in one of the trainer planes (the guys there were really nice). I got sunburned and broiled upon and then rained upon for a little bit.
Then, we *also* went to see Wall-E. What a cute movie. I teared up a few times.
Then today, we went bowling. Otto got his highest score ever, a 108. Yay!
so that was our weekend.
(and today is my mom and dad’s 40th wedding anniversary. yay guys!)
last night
July 10, 2008 8:41 pm
to kind of sum up how it went:
“Okay. See that line of ten women, each about an arm’s length apart, skating away from you at a fairly fast clip? SLALOM THROUGH THEM UNTIL YOU GET TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE.”
And I did it.
back from roller derby
July 9, 2008 10:41 pm
I AM HOT AND I AM SORE AND I AM SWEATY AND I AM GETTING BLISTERS ON MY FOOT BUT HOLY PINK AND PURPLE FLYING COWS THAT WAS THE MOST FUN I HAVE HAD IN ELEVENTY BILLION YEARS.
random musing of the day
July 8, 2008 5:00 pm
should I join the Rochester Women’s Roller Derby league?
how we spend our mornings
July 7, 2008 2:30 pm
(this has bad language. Mom, you’ve been warned.)
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so it’s sparkly and pretty!
July 1, 2008 11:46 pm
after hearing nothing but amazing things about it, I picked up Super Mario Galaxy. And yeah, they’re pretty much right. I’m only on like the second galaxy, but it’s so pretty and so fun. Otto helps me pick up gems and stuff; it works.
I’m making headway in Rock Band; I actually have passed a few songs on guitar on Hard! Wow! “Green Grass & High Tides” absolutely killing me on (Medium) drums; it’s about forty-five minutes long and I crap out at about the 33 minute mark. I lose the rhythm and it takes me too long to pick it up again.
About 80% through Lego Indiana Jones. We (since Otto and I play together) are at the point now where we have all the stud multipliers, so it’s like x3840 or some insane number. We have over a BILLION studs, people. Still don’t have all the treasure chests though..
movie reviewlet #20 > wanted
June 28, 2008 10:20 pm
(2008, directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Starring Mr. Tumnus, Mrs. Smith, God/Grandfather/the President, ANTON GORODETSKY and a bunch of other people.)
once a year…
June 28, 2008 9:31 pm
our next-door neighbors throw an insane party - inflatable water slides for the kids, chicken and steak on a stake, lots of food and drink….so it was today. Otto spent the entire time giddily going down the slides.
this evening…
June 26, 2008 7:17 pm
WHITNEY and OTTO have just finished playing “Wanted Dead Or Alive” on Rock Band - Whitney on guitar and Otto on drums. They have gotten four out of five stars.
WHITNEY: Awesome!
OTTO: TEH ROCK STARS!!!!