#43: Go on 5 vacations

Okay, so this goal was completed awhile ago, but I'm still going to write about it. In October Robert and I went to Toronto for just a couple days, to celebrate our 5th anniversary. We had good food, and saw lots of sights. We got a CityPass thing that got us into the Royal Ontario Museum (dinosaurs! It blew my mind more than I thought it would, realizing just how old those bones were!), Casa Loma (Robert is seen below peering out the window of the tower), the CN tower (we went at night! So cool!), Science Center (love love love) and the zoo. Coupled with other general explorations and wanderings, we had a great time.








(!!!!!!!!!. Spirit animal.)

#65: Have 10 event nights

So, I believe I mentioned that awhile ago that I was in derby boot camp for the Detroit Derby Girls. I have since finished boot camp, and passes skills test. In October us Fresh Meat were split into two teams for an exhibition scrimmage. I threw a little event night at my place to decorate/alter our jerseys for the scrimmage, and Melissa brought her donut-maker!





Sam assembled this, a display of all the factors of the evening...donuts, tea, her jersey (she put the silver polka dots on the letters, the book Melissa was reading from my shelf (she didn't have her jersey yet), and all the tools we used.

Here's my finished product--took the sides in, cut the sleeves off, and laced polka dot ribbon up the side (our colors were baby pink and polka dot--blame Lazer Beam! But I did end up liking it better than the neon and animal print that Team Sleeze wore).

The Fresh Meat Face-Off was a lot of fun. It was most of ours first time playing roller derby publicly. Robert and my mom came out to cheer me on--my mom even made a sign (cleverly making it black and white, so that when she found out what hometeam I'd been drafted to she could just add that team's colors to it!). I had a blast playing, and I even got to jam a couple times, and kicked some major ass! Okay, so I did go to the penalty box, but that just allowed me to get lead jammer two jams in a row! Hey-oh! Team Beav won, and I was having such a great time that after the game, I remembered we also got to find out what teams we got drafted to! I had forgotten in all the excitement--and then I was doubly excited!

The night before, Kraken Whips, one of the captains of the Detroit Pistoffs, was asking a couple of us what teams we wanted to be on, didn't want to be on, etc., since she knew where we had been drafted already. I told her I thought there was no way the Pistoffs would draft me. Well, the joke was on me, because I am now a Detroit Pistoff! When it was announced, Kraken hugged me and said, "I was laughing so hard in my head last night!"

I'm having so much fun as a Pistoff. My teammates are really fun and funny. Last week at practice we all sang the theme song to the Little Mermaid while stretching. I mean, c'mon, that's pretty awesome. Last weekend was our first game--the season opener and a re-match of last years championships where the Pistoffs beat the D-Funk Allstars. It was probably the most exciting game I've ever seen, and D-Funk ended up winning by one point in the last jam--a real nail biter! I was an alternate for that game and didn't skate in it, but I'm looking forward to the next one where hopefully I'll get to strut my stuff on the track.