1. Are you in a relationship?
Yep, the longest one of my life. Nearly 5 years.

2. Do you hate more than 3 people?
Hate? I don't think that I hate anyone. My mom would be proud.

3. How many houses have you lived in?
Actual houses (and not counting apts) comes to 4.

4. What is your favorite candy?
milk chocolate covered almonds

5. What are your favorite shoes?
my army green/pink trimmed chucks

6. Have you ever tripped someone?
yeah, but only for fun....probably my sister the most

8. What was your favorite summer trip this year?
beach with some of my best friends

9. Do you own a Britney Spears CD?
you're joking, right?

10. Have you ever thrown up in public?
do the bushes count?

11. Name someone that's ALWAYS on your mind.
my husband

12. What is your favorite music genre?
probably industrial

13. What is your sign?
Scorpio

14. What time were you born?
around 6am I think

15. Do you like beer?
absolutely

16. Have you ever made a prank call?
yeah, a looooooooooong time ago.

17. What is the most embarrassing CD you own?
Jessica Simpson

18. Are you sarcastic?
yep, and it got me in the most trouble as a kid.

19. What is your favorite color?
red

20. How many watches do you own?
probably 6, but all the batteries are dead. Is that pathetic or what?

21. Summer or Winter?
Winter, winter, winter. How that I've lasted as long as I have sweating in the South totally escapes me!

22. Spring or fall?
Fall, absolutely no question. Fall is my favorite season of all. The colors, the weather, the smell of leaves, snuggly sweaters, etc.

23. What is your favorite color to wear?
red

24. Pepsi or Sprite?
Diet Pepsi

25. What color is your cell phone?
silver

26. Wheres your second home?
across town at Mom & Dad's

27. Have you ever slapped someone?
Yep, two boys on two separate but similar occasions. They were my boyfriends at the time, and I felt that they were humiliating me in front of other people.

28. Have you ever had a cavity?
yep, 2 and a half. Only one has had to be replaced so far, and it's filled with the new nifty white stuff.

29. How many lamps are in your bedroom?
two

30. How many video games do you own?
24 Xbox games

31. What was your first pet?
Manx cat, Puss'n'Boots

32. Have you ever had braces?
yep, twice

33. Do looks matter?
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

34. Do you use Chapstick?
constantly

36. American Eagle or Abercrombie?
neither for me

37. Are you too forgiving?
yes, I probably am.

38. How many children do you want?
Well, the timing is all off so I'm not sure if I'll have children. There were times in my life that I would have LOVED to have children. However, now is not the time. I love my husband, and I'd love to have his children. However, I'm not ready to be a parent yet. I'm not ready for the life change. I'm not ready to give up derby when I haven't really started. Unfortunately, my clock is winding down.

39. Do you own something from Hot Topic?
No, but my hubby has a bunch of tee shirts.

40. What is your favorite breakfast?
eggs, GimmeLean, grits with cheese, harvest grain pancakes

41. Do you own a gun?
...

42.Whats the last thing you ate?
Broken up granola bars in milk. I was out of cereal.

44. What did you do 3 nights ago?
Friday night, I went for my monthly massage right after work, and she fixed my knee that had been bothering me. Then, I met my hubby and friends at the 'Shroom to celebrate Ian's 40th with pizza and beers

45. When was the last time you went to Olive Garden?
no idea

46. Have you ever called your teacher "mom"?
when I had a teacher, yeah, I did.

48. What is your nickname(s)?
Snad, 'Dra, Trouble

49. Do you know anyone named Bertha?
yep, my step grandma

50. Have you ever been to Kentucky?
nope

51. Do you own something from Pac Sun?
uh, what?

52. Are you thinking about somebody right now?
yep, and wondering when he'll be home

53. Have you ever called someone Boo?
Nope

54. Do you drink?
yep

56. Are you happy with your life right now?
yep

57. Do you dye your hair?
sometimes, just for fun

58. Does anyone like you?
I sure hope so.

59. Who's your best friend(s)?
Rachel and about 15 other folks..... "all y'all"

60. What were you doing May of 1994?
working at the AIDS hotline, single, and headed for a downward spiral

61. Do you own a Backstreet Boys CD?
Ms. Kara said it best: "No, vomit..."

62. McDonald's or Wendy's?
Wendy's. (McDonald's? Haven't you seen "Supersize me"?)

63. Do you like yourself?
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with myself. I just wish that I was younger.

64. Are you closer to your mother or father?
Can't really answer that. I love them both so much, and I'm close to them as one unit. That's what they are after 51 years together. One unit, that is.

65. Favorite feature(s) of the preferred sex?
eyes....the window to the soul

66. Are you afraid of the dark?
not really

67. Have you ever eaten paste?
Probably when I was a kid, but honestly I most likely crammed it up my nose.

68. Do you have a webcam?
Nope

69. Have you ever stripped?
Once on video when I was in college for my boyfriend, but his friends got a hold of it and I had to live with the fact that they all knew what I looked like naked.

70. What are you looking forward to the most this week?
skating on my new skates!!!!

I have my new skates!!! They're here!!!! I ripped them out of the box, strapped them on, and skated around my office for while. The leather needs breaking in of course, but they are AWESOME!!!! For the first time in about 5 months, I'm on balanced skates!!!!!!!

I'm so excited that I can't see straight! All thanks goes to Ivanna and Sin City Skates for arranging for Riedell to replace my lemon R3s.

I love you forever, Ivanna.......

1. In two words, explain what ended your last relationship:
game over

2. When was the last time you shaved?
shaved what? it depends.....

3. What were you doing this morning at 8 a.m.?
driving on I-40 late to work

4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
looking at Tshirts on dirtyshirty.com

5. Are you any good at math?
pre-algebra math? yes Algebra/Calculus/Statistics etc? that would be a big fat NO

6. Your prom night?
Junior year, I almost lost my virginity, but I waited another week. :)

7. Do you have any famous ancestors?
no idea

8. Have you ever taken out a loan to pay for school?
no, I'm one of those lucky people whose parents paid

9. Do you know the words to the song on your myspace profile?
not yet

10. Last thing received in the mail?
Cat Fancy mag (yes, I've been a loyal reader for about 10 years)

11. How many different beverages have you drank today?
Water, Diet Pepsi, Diet Mountain Dew

12. Do you leave messages on people's answering machines?
the only reason that I don't is if I don't need you to call me back

13. Who did you lose your CONCERT virginity to?
Genesis Feb 1987 Dean Dome

14. Do you draw your name in the sand while at the beach?
Yep...and one time I misspelled it.

15. What's the most painful dental procedure you've had?
pain after removal of all four 12 yo molars

16. What is out your back door?
small deck, my upstairs neighbors deck above, small house on the street beside us

18. Do you like what the ocean does to your hair?
the wind makes it tickle my face which drives me bonkers

19. Have you ever received one of those big tins of 3 different kinds of popcorn for Christmas?
Years ago but not for Christmas

20. Have you ever been to a planetarium?
Morehead!

21. Do you re-use towels after you shower?
yeah

22. Some things you are excited about?
my new skates are coming soon, the thought of being assigned to a team one day, going to my 20th high school reunion in October

24. Are any of your great-grandparents still alive?
nope, all died before I was born

25. Describe your keychain:
a small whistle, and my hubby's key fob (the battery's dead in mine!)

26. Where do you keep your change?
pockets

28. What kind of winter coat do you have?
pea coat!

29. What was the weather like on your graduation day?
hot as hell for high school & college

30. Do you sleep with the door to your room open or closed?
closed until my hubby comes to bed so Eomer (ferret) doesn't come in and piss off Nikki (old cat)

I still don't have my skates. Now, I don't blame Ivanna a bit. Sean @ Riedell is the one at whom I'm really pissed me off. After saying that he would be sending me my new 122s, I thanked Ivanna and started dealing only with him by email. He told me that I'd get "EVO swirl wheels or Demon". However, once he told me that the wide boot would take 4-6 weeks, I said I'd just take the regular size and take them locally to be stretched. That was mid-last week. At that point, he threw me back to Ivanna on Thursday. And guess what? She was taking a well-deserved post-Rollercon long weekend vacation!!! So I finally heard from her last night, and we were back at square one. She needed to talk to Sean and figured out what he had promised me exactly, how it would work for her to send them when Riedell is the one that owes me new skates, etc. She'd be able to send them in the next few days, she thought. I offered to pay for freaking overnight shipping. I haven't been to practice in nearly a month since it was confirmed that my old skates were lemons. I'm DYING to skate. Do you know what a skate-less derby girl is capable of? I'm totally off my rocker!!!!

10:21 AM - Riedell is the BEST!!!!!!

I just got a call from Shawn @ Riedell who was at Rollercon with Ivanna. They are upgrading me to a pair of 122s at no cost to me! Ivanna will be sending them soon. Oh, hallelujah!!! It was such a short, to-the-point phone conversation that I can't believe that it just happened. I hope that I get them this week!




9:06 AM - A new chapter

Wow. I haven't been to practice since July 20th which was the night that Tomahawk looked at my skates and deemed them 'wacked'. I'm waiting to hear from Ivanna to see what Riedell had to say when they saw them at Rollercon. I'm no closer to knowing what skates that I want next, but I guess I'm still thinking the 122s.

Getting back on the rink in my new skates is going to be such a turning point. Am I going to finally feel good about my skating, or will I just find something else to bitch/whine about? Have I got what it takes to be a derby girl? Only time will tell. I want to push myself as far as I can go, and, if that's not good enough to get me on a team, then my derby career will end. However, I'm thinking that my new skates will be just what I've needed to pass level 1 & become bout eligible. I can't wait to get them.

My skates went to Rollercon and left me behind....

Yep, my R3s are in Vegas. They arrived today at the Plaza Hotel to be delivered to Ivanna S. Pankin, Queen of Sin City Skates. She is going to take them to Rollercon and show them to the Riedell booth people right next to the Sin City Skates booth. Hopefully, I'll get a credit out of this for new Riedell skates of *another* style. No more R3s for me.

It's funny----I'll miss those stupid R3s even though they seriously stunted my derby progress. What kind of sense does that make? I guess that I was just so excited to finally have my first pair of speed skates. I wanted them so bad back in '79/'80.

Now, I have to decide what skates I want next. 122s? 125s? Suggestions, anybody? Keep in mind I have a wide foot and high instep.