OW.

Sunday was my first practice after our long off-season (plus being sick for a week), and I had a blast. It felt so weird to be one of the strong skaters for once (since it was a newbie practice) and that's still messing with my head... I can't shake the mental image of being physically larger than the new skaters... Not in a fat-ass way, but in a "little kid drawing with the adults being HUGE" way. Was this how last-year's vets felt?

I think a sad, broken little piece of me is falling away like old skin. Well, at least I hope so. I dragged myself through the year and, from an emotional standpoint, finished the season running on fumes. By getting teamed right at the very end, I didn't have time to adjust to the status of being a teamed skater, and I was still carrying around the "I'm unteamed and everyone is better than I am" mentality. That definitely left scars, but being in the "giving advice" role was extremely healing for me. 

I hope that continues, because it feels so good.


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Vitamin awesome

Being sick is horrendous, but the new skaters are pretty fabulous. :D


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Home sick, day 2.

I made the right decision in staying home. I feel like donkey poop. I'm still going to the Freshmeat and Greet tonight because that doesn't require nearly as much activity. All I have to do is talk about non-skating BDD stuff, smile, be friendly, and drink lots of water. I can handle that.

Since this has taken all of my available energy, here is a photo from Halloween. I wore this to work, and felt pretty cool:

Goodness me...

I'm the featured rollergirl on the Boston Derby Dames site! Great writeup of the quilt, too...

What an eventful couple of days.

Between tryouts, the tryout decision meeting, emailing the new skaters, and the election, I've barely had a second to myself. I'm currently at a small election party at Rumble Pie's house, and while I'm so tired I could cry, I'm also having a lovely time.

I hope the election goes as well as choosing the new skaters did. Fingers crossed...

The quilt so far:

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