Band-aid Mustache
Jun. 6th, 2011 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
batskeetsOpen Scrimmage was pretty excellent. Joe came to watch me, and it was also my first open scrimmage since returning from my injury, so it was a little nerve-wracking, but it went fine. I didn't think I did particularly well--my head wasn't in the game and my legs were oddly tired--but people said I looked good out there, so I'm just going to assume they're right and stop being hard on myself.
I also took a pretty spectacular spill during the co-ed hour: the thing about skating with dudes is that, well, they're kind of tall, so one of them threw a shoulder check right at my head-level. I was already tired at that point, so I fell and rolled, and I'm sure it was an exciting sight for anyone watching.
It wasn't particularly painful, though, so I got up and started to skate again, only to realize that my face was bleeding! Heh. It was just a scrape on my upper-lip, but I had to stop after the jam ended to clean it up. Then, I grabbed a mini-band-aid from the first-aid kit, and rocked a band-aid mustache for the rest of the co-ed hour. ;)
I wound up taking on a merch shift at the 11th hour for the bout on Saturday night, but the merch table was apparently unusually slow, so I got to stand there and watch for most of it, and the Heathers rocked it. <3 After that, I got to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
twilite_embrace's new digs, and have good chow and drinks with her, Neal, and katlyn. It was really nice to just sit back and unwind after a long day.
After doing some boring chore-type things around the house on Sunday morning, a gaggle of us got together to watch Season 4 Buffy and Season 1 Angel, and it was fantastic. Joss' dialogue is so giggle-inducing and clever on those shows, hee. Also: Oz! And Doyle! Bawwww.
Endurance practice afterwards was the most wonderful of beatings, and then I headed to dinner at Joe's sister's place. We'd already made plans in advance to do dinner with her and her husband, and I'd met her before, and she was nice and she apparently liked me quite a bit, so that was no big deal. However, a day-of change in plans came from Sister, in the form of, "hey, let's have a BBQ at my place! And I'll also invite Dad!"
Needless to say, J and I both felt kind of ambushed by that, and it caused more than a little stress, but I'm pretty good at being all polite and non-offensive around parents, so I was less worried about it than he was. I was late getting there due to practice, but there were two other couples there, too, so things stayed fairly relaxed-and-groovy. I don't know that I made much of an impression, seeing as Father didn't get much chance to talk directly to me, but Joe and Sister thought it all went fine, so good on me, I guess!
Anyhoo, it's Monday, and I'm back to working away on things. I'm hoping to get a big chunk of stuff done before Hood Canal. Holy crap, Hood Canal is next weekend. Hot damn!
Also, this weather? SO AWESOME. Tank tops, come to me now.
I also took a pretty spectacular spill during the co-ed hour: the thing about skating with dudes is that, well, they're kind of tall, so one of them threw a shoulder check right at my head-level. I was already tired at that point, so I fell and rolled, and I'm sure it was an exciting sight for anyone watching.
It wasn't particularly painful, though, so I got up and started to skate again, only to realize that my face was bleeding! Heh. It was just a scrape on my upper-lip, but I had to stop after the jam ended to clean it up. Then, I grabbed a mini-band-aid from the first-aid kit, and rocked a band-aid mustache for the rest of the co-ed hour. ;)
I wound up taking on a merch shift at the 11th hour for the bout on Saturday night, but the merch table was apparently unusually slow, so I got to stand there and watch for most of it, and the Heathers rocked it. <3 After that, I got to see
twilite_embrace's new digs, and have good chow and drinks with her, Neal, and katlyn. It was really nice to just sit back and unwind after a long day.After doing some boring chore-type things around the house on Sunday morning, a gaggle of us got together to watch Season 4 Buffy and Season 1 Angel, and it was fantastic. Joss' dialogue is so giggle-inducing and clever on those shows, hee. Also: Oz! And Doyle! Bawwww.
Endurance practice afterwards was the most wonderful of beatings, and then I headed to dinner at Joe's sister's place. We'd already made plans in advance to do dinner with her and her husband, and I'd met her before, and she was nice and she apparently liked me quite a bit, so that was no big deal. However, a day-of change in plans came from Sister, in the form of, "hey, let's have a BBQ at my place! And I'll also invite Dad!"
Needless to say, J and I both felt kind of ambushed by that, and it caused more than a little stress, but I'm pretty good at being all polite and non-offensive around parents, so I was less worried about it than he was. I was late getting there due to practice, but there were two other couples there, too, so things stayed fairly relaxed-and-groovy. I don't know that I made much of an impression, seeing as Father didn't get much chance to talk directly to me, but Joe and Sister thought it all went fine, so good on me, I guess!
Anyhoo, it's Monday, and I'm back to working away on things. I'm hoping to get a big chunk of stuff done before Hood Canal. Holy crap, Hood Canal is next weekend. Hot damn!
Also, this weather? SO AWESOME. Tank tops, come to me now.
