first bruises, cold sugar

[spacebug]

Newbie rollerderby tip:
When you're doing falling drills, and some might have you sliding on your hip fairly often, it's a good idea to remember to take your big carabiner full of keys out of your side pocket first. D'oh!

Good practice. Had a delicious pint of beer after and went to bed plum tuckered out before midnight. There's something I really enjoy about intentional physical exhaustion and the kind of sleep it tends to net over just emotional exhaustion or other weird stress.
Haven't gotten used to doing yoga on toe stops.
Needneedneed new skates, with silly perks like adjustable trucks and bearings that actually move.
I should be able to do real, live push-ups someday soon.


...Should I make a 'derby filter?

The extension cord inspectors never showed before S4 had to go to work. Big surprise, there.

I've been really into iced coffee lately, except that it's nearly impossible to dissolve my favorite sweet things into it. Yesterday I ended up with my whole crunchy packet of raw sugar on the bottom of my glass, today I was reminded that honey turns into a high viscosity mess if you get it cold.
Oh well. Still yummy. The supercutiepie of a barista girl who sometimes works in the morning, in addition to being a supercutiepie also always remembers that I like soy, which makes me happy.

Low Orbit got Speak 'n' Glitch accepted to a different comp cd via mnartists.org. Yeeeeaaah!
Looking forward both to rehearsal tonight and to playing out again.

Comments

[eqe.livejournal.com]

Yoga on toe stops? Snerk.

No filter necessary, imo.

Simple syrup is the sweetener answer! There are places that have it next to the creamer.

[gunn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, or a lot of places carry sugar water- pre-dilluted for your ease and pleasure.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the track!

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

thankee. I'm hoping it's merit-based and not a thank-you for my helping out with their tech assistance day. It was a panel decision, so I'm not too worried, and hey, either way we're in! ...but still.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

No business decision is ever made for artistic reasons.

Who cares, as long as the back gets washed, eh?

[yaaren.livejournal.com]

Wow, you are awesome. :) Glad you made the team!

[meenk.livejournal.com]

If you happen to find an opportunity to try the mint frappuccinos in the little glass bottles, and you like mint, do it! They taste like liquid andes mints (with a hint of coffee afterrtaste).

[lostbutton.livejournal.com]

I like the crunchy sugar-in-the-raw in the bottom of my iced coffee... though I have a tendency to suck it off the bottom before I get to the end of the drink.

'grats on the compilation!

[omaha.livejournal.com]

agave syrup seems to mix better (and's *really good!)
http://www.shakeoffthesugar.net/article1042.html

[star5.livejournal.com]

on getting stronger: aw man.. you're gonna be so much stronger than i am. hm.. almost have the urge to do more exercise on my own.. perhaps..

on sweetness: you're sweet!

on sweeteners:i use raw sugar too, and i actually kind of like it. i wonder if my teeth will.. but for now.. there's something yummy to it. i just have to pace myself to make it last through the whole iced coffee. you could always get a shot of some flavor.. but that does make it more expensive.

[alisgray.livejournal.com]

if you have a derby filter I want to read it! this makes me want to go get on my bike. maybe *5 and I ought to make a getting-fit plan together.

Yaaaaaaaaaaay, new comp cd!

[denaballerina.livejournal.com]

yeah, the downward dog on toe stops is tricky.

sugar! SUGAR! i heart sugar. sugar sugar sugar.
too bad i'm mostly on the splenda these days.
i tried that natural no-calorie Stevia stuff yesterday and got an instant blinding headache on the left side of my head. so. back to splenda.

[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

the whole downward dog thing with your leg lifted is pretty hard. we did more yoga-type stretches with trixie leading us...i'd just like to say: i am in a wee bit of pain today. woo!

mmmm, sugar. *crunch* *crunch* i only had a cup of black coffee yesterday...maybe i can really do this no coffee (or at least not everyday) thing.

[spacebug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, downward-dog is weird and partially ineffective for me on skates, actually. I'm flexible enough now that, especially being warmed up, I can get my heels on the floor. If I'm on toe-stops, I don't get a stretch in my legs and it just becomes a shoulder workout. The downward-dog with leg lifted up is way easier without a couple pounds of skate back there, but again, it's weird, since one of the points of lifing up that back leg is to get your heel on the other leg closer to or flat on the floor- and you can't do that with a toe stop there. I should ask trixie how to modify that for me, or something.

[echoegami.livejournal.com]

yoga on toestops hard?
try it on toebuttons! i really gotta get my some toestops... and bigger knee pads! in other news, my bruises sure look perty!

[hexagonalcarbon.livejournal.com]

> I should be able to do real, live push-ups someday soon.

Now this I've *got* to see.

[denaballerina.livejournal.com]

i'm kinda sad that when i was in derby, nobody was, and now y'all talk about it, and i'm not in it anymore!!!!
someone else need sto marathon train with me so i can chitchat.
i vote for star5. ;)