Whip It! on Friday, Western Tournament Finals on Sunday, Practice on Tuesday

Friday's Whip It premiere was so much fun! I think we all loved the movie...at least from what I've heard and I don't think it was ONLY because of the derby theme, (maybe it was for me because I don't really ever go to the movies..). The story was sweet, smart and funny in parts and I loved Daniel Stern as Bliss's father...The music was plentiful and great, though I cannot for the life of me remember where I heard the Peaches song that was being played in the previews. I'll have to see it again, Nikki Spitts said she did the next day with her mom, who was also there Friday and night and that was nice to see her...Donna is cool; such a nice woman and incredibly popular for making such very excellent twin ladies for us to enjoy and have fun with.. ;)

We all met at around 6:30pm or so, at the theater, only to find that D*nnis, the manager, didn't say anything to the new general manager of the place so she at first didn't want us to be there. Luckily she changed her mind, possibly because we had some of our friends and family there..Trixie's Great Uncle, who had a great idea of us raffling off the chance to be the ref at the mud wrestling gig that is now not happening until next Summer, mine and P's friend Jerry was visiting us so he could come to the movie, Stihl Queen's best friend, who she actually used to trip us (me) up when we all thought we were busted, (for what I don't know), because he is a cop and drove up in his cop car, that was funny. The twin's mom like I said up thar, and other husband's and friends...

Ok, so,  point being, we were able to stay as long as we didn't skate, and we didn't. We passed out flyers to people, some of us put them on cars. Some of is realized again in life how shy we are...(not just me this time)....

I was BLOWN AWAY at how creative all the ladies were with their Hellcats red and black shirts....Pollyanna had the Pollyanna thing down so I suddenly felt the need to claim hearts and peace signs for my own persona-in-the-making. Doesn't her shirt look incredible?! And she did it overnight! All the Mountain Derby Girls looked smashing and we thank Amanda and Hot Topic for our new plaid skirts...

Our two new self-proclaimed fans helped break the ice...(see pic below)...very cute...

During the movie we laughed and clapped and wooted and all that fun derby girl bonding stuff...

After the movie, I actually have burned the line from the movie into my brain.. "Why don't you put on some skates and be your own hero?" and said it to a young lady at the concession stand as I passed her a flyer (I actually remember from her coming to the library). 

Mermad was hungry, so she and her husband and some of us who stayed, (see pic below) went over to the closest restaurant/bar and had some beers, couple of shots and again with the laughing and this time with added major yacking...Man, we hens can cluck!

We hung out there til someone go the urge to skate, I forget who, and so we took off to the rink, blasted music and skated...Pollyanna Pitchfork was playing hockey with some people when I left with Trixie about 1:30am...She was kind enough to give me a ride back to my car after I ...umm...recovered.

 

I made it home safely and Jerry was sleeping but P was awake..that was a fun talk about the movie and the night and all...Did I mention what a wonderful guy I'm voluntarily hitched-up with?...Love that guy...(I'll call him Pierce)...if I haven't already called him that here...

Derby Girl by ~DirtyGirlKink

So where am I...Ah yes the rest of the weekend..That was all derby, all the time..I watched just about every derby bout in the 2009 Western Regional Tournament...I was trying to get a bunch of other things done at the same time so I think Pierce saw more than I did...He kept scores on the brackets sheet and was all into it...There were a bunch of good bouts, some close and some wide scoring....one being 319-27...Sunday Demanda Riot played her sister Miss E-Vil...FUCKING RAD!! Oly Rollers went into the tourney number 1 and ended up number 1.

Just like Mary, along comes Tuesday...don't even ask me what happened to Monday, I have no clue... Pinkie Lee and I talked fb last night...and looking back it was those finals this past weekend that started chinking away at my idea of playing this game/sport I've seemingly wanted to play since watching the Bay Bombers with my Nona Cristina on Saturday mornings...(she was waiting for Big Time Wrestling to come on)...

Tonight's practice sucked like rubber on rye bread for me...I didn't break anything, which is important, but during my pre-practice shower...I got it loud and clear  - In my way of thinking, which is to see if I can live with the 'worst' outcome I can think of when I make a decision about something... I simply cannot. At least that is my preliminary choice...I realized, and imparted to some of my friends tonight that not because of some moral or ethical ideas, but because I could not live my life normally should there be some tragic outcome to hitting or being hit...or blocking and being blocked or jamming and being slammed...whichever way you slice it, it's not in my nature to be physically aggressive...I cannot see myself getting over guilt of hurting someone or my bitterness should I be hurt...especially if someone were not following the agreed upon rules...My friend online from the Blog actually pointed it out to me today (or yesterday) in an email...and I've all along expressed doubt to Pierce and to my Blog that I was never positive I could do this part of roller derby...

Dangers of Derby by ~Misket1313merp

Longer story shorter...I'm just going to keep doing the best I can for now..I'll admit it wasn't pleasant to see this in myself when I realized it...And I have to thank RevRa, Spitts, Gerle, Trixie and Pinkie for letting me bounce these thoughts off of them tonight and last...We've talked about me reffing..that isn't the worst idea I can think of...just not the number one lucky best idea...

I always say I don't want to regret anything..I regret that I didn't discover derby in it's earliest days so I'd have had possibly more years to play and less years to know about my own non-physically aggressive nature...

Things I'm purposely not blogging about:
The weird moment with Stihl Queen and Chisel Bit Friday night.
The weird moment with Hot Ta Molli tonight.
The weird moment with Coach Quad Queen last week.

death of the derby. by ~dressONbackward-

This "leaving it on the track" thing is a VERY CRUCIAL part of roller derby, imo...Let's say the middle of the track...the circle like we all decided...because ON the track clear heads must prevail.
staring fishnets by *starryday

Nikki Spitts made a comment about 'playing the part' of a derby girl...I forget why, but the phrase stuck in my head...It's a very cool part to play I realized... :) and if I'm lucky (and who knows what else)....I can keep playing. We'll see. For now I'll keep going...




staring fishnets by *starryday