Tuuuuuuuuuesay Afternoooooooon.....

What a fun surprise on my way to relax before practice - out the door of the establishment comes Nikki Spitts! Inside was Gerle Haggard and Pinkie Lee and how fun we got to hang out for an hour or so before practice...Good, quality derby-gabbing fun! I fully admit that I suggested we blow it off and luckily my team mates talked me down from being a total fuckoff....

Coach Q wasn't in this evening so Sheedabomb directed the practice and I was personally happy we didn't do a hardcore endurance session...Sheeda gave me some good stretching lessons, as I seem to not get the concept...(I always get screwed up on which way to turn to stretch when one leg is over the other...)

Throughout the practice we did the following:

We all partnered up, and Trixxy and I did the drill...which oddly I cannot remember the details of now...(I really have to force myself to write these posts as soon as I get home...I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of things I wanted to write about now)...

Another was three in front and one behind, with the point being for the the three to stay as a wall while knowing where the behind skater was and communicating that information between the three...I learned a lot about blocking doing that one.

We lined up at a far end and took off with a duckwalk and then with toe-starts, went down on one knee in the middle, got up and restarted, down on one knee at the other end and back up and same thing back to the start. Getting up again was not as easy as ususal...My B & C vitamins must have worn off... :)

Thankfully, Rachel Trouble had a bandaid in her purse for my ailing pinky toe... (Thanks Rach!)

Groovily we did the snake weaving drill which I love and that was awesome...I wonder why that one is so fun for me? Trixxy said she liked that one too...Maybe it's the zen-like flow of the line...it's almost like one of those desktop things with the balls that clank together in cadence....

Some of us hung out in front afterwards and then Nikki, Gerle and Shawna and I went to have a beer @ Steves. I hadn't been there before but it's the closest place to the arena. It was closed if you can believe that...So we went to the 'downtown' area (silly..check out that vid!)...The ladies didn't care for that vibe so we went across the street to the bowling alley...Another place I drive by and never have been inside of...Lo and behold when we went in, the WATCH program adults were there and I saw a whole bunch of people I know from work...patrons of the library...That was really cool to see them out having fun, they were doing Karaoke of all things! Very sweet. I purchased my beer and we went from the bar there to the alleys and sat at a table...Those always hungry twins snagged the guy working there and he was so nice he made us some popcorn and gave us some chips...(those taco chips! I love those!)....

I forgot to tip the guy because I thought we were going back in after we went out so I'm going to go by there later today and give him a tip...

And before I forget I wanted to say WELCOME BACK to MERMAD...! She had been back last practice but I wasn't so it's been a while since I've seen her...Got to Love the Mermad...