Just a few of my favorite things...

Playing hockey in Saratoga Springs

Warming up for the SCAR intraleague bout with Bump and Grabher.

Hey Magic, what are you doing sitting down on the job?!

SCAR's twin jammers, Sounds Like Magic and Hootie's Bootie

Burpees on the beach while waiting to take the Polar Bear Plunge with CCR

NY All-Star B team. (We ended up losing to PA's All-Star B.)

Hey! I know that ref! Did you know that the All-Star bout was her very first bout in which she wore the zebra stripes?

I'm missing images for quite a few other favorite things from the past several months. These were all courtesy of Mr. Flower and therefore easy to steal. :-)

What happens when Flower bets.

Wow, I can't believe it's been two weeks since my last post.

I suppose I should explain how I ended up coaching for the BC Rollers. It's fairly simple- I lost a bet. Rusty Nailher and I were playing cards after her bout against the Nurse Ratchets and she decided that we needed to made the game more interesting. So we pitted booty shorts vs coaching (Rusty wins = I coach a practice, I win = Rusty wears booty shorts for the Albany bout) and the game was on. Obviously, Rusty ended up winning.

Last week, Rusty decided that Guitar Hero needed to be made more interesting. Again, we bet booty shorts vs coaching. I lost to Rusty... again. So this past Sunday found me trekking straight from CCR's FreshMeat practice to Binghamton's practice.

After practice we visited a local watering hole for "one drink". (Hah!) After everyone arrived and things settled down (somehow I ended up with three beverages?!?!) Rusty started feeding bills into the "Big Buck Hunter" arcade game. Now this was something I stood a chance in, so I hollered my challenge over to Rusty. Yep, you guessed it- booty shorts vs coaching. We decided this one had to be the best two out of three games. Game one went to Rusty, game two went to me. After bantering and attempts at distractions on both sides; game three went to... ME!!!
RUSTY'S WEARING BOOTY SHORTS ON SATURDAY!!!!!

Since no one would take on the winner for another round of "Big Buck Hunter", we made our way out to the dance floor and pool table. Did someone say pool? Uh-huh... another bet with Rusty. Then on to arm-wrestling. Let's just sum it all up by saying that I now owe Rusty two coaching sessions.

On the plus side, here's a pre-view of our bout-fits for this weekend:

Mask photos!

Browsing dah interwebs this morning brought me to Jacob Cornelius's flickr page here where there are some awesome shots from the 9/10 Bluestockings vs CCR bout and Bluestockings vs Hudson Valley Horrors zomBsquad on 10/1.

This shot is my favorite!

Celebrating Slamboni

Last night I ventured out to "The Betty" and became, for the evening, Slamboni's favorite birthday present.  She wasn't able to join me on the track for CCR's practice but nevertheless, we both had a fantastic time by just being in the same space again.  We're both almost bursting with excitement while we tick down the days until we hit the ice for the 2011-2012 hockey season.  It's been too long since we've had sticks in our hands and skates with blades on our feet.  

With several of Slamboni's teammates asking for help on specific topics, I just might have to return to Betty in the coming weeks to make sure we get those concerns addressed.  That, and Betty proved to be a whole new set of challenges for this roller girl.  Just when I thought I had finally tweaked my skates into perfection, Betty's unique floor threw a wrench into it all.  I'm on a quest now to "catch" Betty and understand her secrets.