Kan man bli kär i ett par skor??

Mina drömmars skor, se hur eleganta och speciella de är. Präktigt svarta med något för hög klack för att vara ultimata. Jag tror jag har fallit pladask för dessa underbara Irregular Choice skor.

Flytta till NYC?

Det känns så lockande, med direktflyg till Stockholm, den Amerikanska modeindustrins Mekka och flera goda vänner. Trisha tycker det är en bra idé, mamma tycker det är en bra idé, Em tycker det är en underbar idé och jag börjar själv tycka det låter otroligt lockande!
Mmmm... NYC..

Jag har börjat göra listor, som talar för och emot...

Vad tycker ni?

...det börjar bli lite kallt...

Ni ser ju själva i vilket desperat behov av en klänning jag är. Stackars mig, här står jag iklädd enbart mina rullskridskor... Om någon brukar ha Alexanders nummer, så kan ni ju ta och ringa honom... Hälsa att jag fryser...

...men om han inte vill ge mig den gula klänningen så kanske han bara råkar ha en annan gammal trasa liggandes...

I värsta fall skulle jag kanske kunna övertalas att ligga med en av modellerna... men då ska jag bannemig ha en av klänningarna!

Kanske dags för en ny Lucky Dress...

Alltså jag vill ju inte direkt klaga, men jag har faktiskt ingen ljusgul helt fantastiskt klänning. Jag tycker det är lite trist att inte Alexander McQueen inte har mitt nummer. För att om han hade det, så skulle han tvärsäkert ringa mig och fråga om inte jag skulle vilja ha den här klänningen.

Jag skulle vänta lite med svaret, och sedan säga med släpig röst... ooookeeeeydåååååå....

Lite kul skall man ha

På fredag är det Halloween, och jag har kommit på vad jag skall vara! Jag skall vara en postorder brud… Har kvar bröllopsklänningen från när jag var Zoombie brud för två år sedan…. ”My lucky dress”, med tanke på att jag träffade Carolyn när jag hade på mig den för två år sedan. Ha ha ha, fast för två år sedan hade jag mörkt hår, så vi får hoppas att ljusare hår betyder en ljusare framtid…

Saknar svensk humor...

Ibland blir jag så less på amerikaner och deras brist på svenska kunskaper... AND her name was Börje... ha ha ha... inte alls så kul

Lite ömklig, bara just nu

Ligger i sängen och gör min bokföringsläxa, inte så svårt egentligen, det gäller bara att hålla koll på vad som skall skrivas vart, och vad som skall adderas och subtrheras från vad...

Jag oroar mig inte....

Klockan är fem, och hela dagen har spenderats med olikartade hemuppgifter. Jag har läst igenom förra veckans Womans Wear Daily, skrivit ihop några sammanfattningar av artiklar jag fann intressanta. Bläddrade igenom min bok i modehistoria och funderade lite över mitt arbete om Alexander McQueen som jag skall presentera nästa måndag.

Ovanpå alla läxor har jag mensvärk och könner mig allmönt lite nere. Tröstar mig med att det ialla fall inte regnar ute.

Gårdagen spenderade jag djupt försjunken i marknadsföring tills Summer ringde och övertalade mig att komma till Rat Citys filmvisning. Filmen som visades var en dokumentär om burlesk dans i Seattle området. Känner mig dock lite skyldig idag, eftersom jag hade planerat att åka upp till Everett och köra ett hårt pass för Hollywood. Har dock bestämt mig för att ta ledigt från rullskridskor fram till söndag, eftersom det är då Rat Citys uttagningsläger börjar... Wish me luck...

Det här är hur lycklig jag blir av att åka rullskridskor!

Blast from the past...

73kg och 179cm

Det är jag det, och enligt vissa så skulle jag ligga på gränsen till överviktig. Galet... galet!

En kväll, två bouts, två timmars spel och två klänningar... Jag är nog lite galen!

Let the Swede hold the flag...

Testing, testing...

18 av 20
Antar att det får räknas som godkänt med tanke på att jag numera huserar i USA, och svengengelska är mitt modersmål. Får väl trösta mig med att Mirijam, som är journalist också fick 18 av 20.

mumma mumma

Jag kan inte sova, jag ar sjukt hungrig, jag tavlade idag, jag undrar om jag brutit nasan... ha ha ha

Min nya kärlek kan placeras i micron

Min vetevärmare som jag vann i julas har nu blivit min käraste ägodel. Den senaste veckan har varit stress, stress och mer stress... All denna evinnerliga stress har lett till att jag och min vetevärmare har förlovat oss. Det var en fin cermoni, vetevärmaren kom ut från micron och lade sig runt min hals och vi lovade varandra evig trohet...

TÄNK OM SARAH PALIN BLEV PRESIDENT!!! KLICKA DIG FRAM TILL MARDRÖMSCENARIOT!

Sätta känslor på sparlåga!

Jag trivs fortfarande i mitt korta hår... Det är lite konstigt att bo med någon som man varit ihop med... Jag tippar fortfarande på tå, vill inte trampa för hårt, men disken ligger i drivor ute i köket, och har gjort så i två veckor nu...

Det är bra med mig... så oroa er inte...

Det har varit på gång så pass länge, så visst är det lite smärtsamt, men ändå inte. Kanske är det jag som är känslokall, men det känns ganska skönt att ha ett eget rum. Jag kan stänga av TV:n när jag vill och jag kan vakna tidigt på morgonen och plugga i sängen. Jag kan stänga ute katterna från rummet och städa i min egen takt, och inte ständigt behöva plocka upp efter honom.
Jag har mitt eget hem nu, och jag är ledsen, men samtidigt lite glad.

Det är slut mellan mig och Andy, på riktigt...

Klipp, snipp, klart...

Före:
Efter:

Att bli kysst av Stockholm

Idag när jag loggade in på Facebook låg det hör meddelandet och väntade på mig...

"Hi Gurll,im guy from russia which gonna move to US and lookin for american girlfiend or wife,ive seen ur photo on ur friends page and decided to write u..."

Jag tackade för visat intresse, men jag letar också efter en Amerikansk flickvän eller fru... Jag väntar nu med spänning på svar.

Skolan har borjat och jag maste erkanna att jag trivs

Trivs mycket bra, jag har SJUKT mycket att gora, men jag trivs nog med det...

Elwood Bruises artikel om Treasue Valley vs. Jet City

There's that old saying "when life deals you lemons, make lemonade". Two weeks ago in Portland, I had a rock thrown off an overpass and land on my windshield, thus shattering the thing. And over the next few days, the (stupid) ordeal of me getting a new windshield for a 2002 Mustang caused me to miss so much work up in Seattle, that I couldn't possibly take anymore time off work to make it to Houston for the WFTDA Western Regional tournament.

That was the lemon. In fact, that lemon may very well still be sitting there off to the side of the road on eastbound Powell underneath the 17^th street overpass.

But the lemonade created out of all that was a tall, tasty, cold pitcher that was poured in Boise on Saturday night with a bout between the hometown Treasure Valley Rollergirls and the visiting Jet City Rollergirls out of Everett. The bout had drama, suspense, controversy and…most importantly of all…a GREAT finish!

Since there was only the one game in this bout, the teams played three 20 minute periods (really, I think this is a great idea for anyone playing an interleague bout all by itself on any given night. I think the extra intermission helps keep the skaters a little fresher during the later stages of the game).

Honestly…going into it I thought that Jet City would win this game comfortably. And even before the bout when I learned that (arguably) their two best jammers…Sierra Fist (separated shoulder) and Re-Animate Her (don't know why she wasn't there) weren't playing for the Jet City Bombers, I still thought they would win by a comfortable margin. And early on in the first period, it certainly looked like it was going to turn out that way. After Treasure Valley's star jammer, Jilldozer, ran off with a 7-3 victory in the first jam, the next five jams were all Jet City. The jamming combination of Connie Torturous (twice), Ivanna Hercha, Swede Hurt and Precious N' Metal along with solid, hard-hitting blocking by the Bombers pack resulted in a 33-4 run. However in the 7^th jam of the first period, Jilldozer came through once again and got TVRG back on track with a 7-0 run over Swede Hurt. And beginning at that point, Treasure Valley went on to outscore Jet City 21-15 to end the period. After one period of play, the Jet City Bombers held a 51-32 lead.

If there was one sticky point of the night, it had to do with all the penalties being called on both teams. Of course, during and after the bout both sides (players and refs) were coming up to me and complaining about each other. From my point of view, it was one of those situations where I think both sides had an argument. On one hand, the game was pretty chippy and I thought the refs were doing everything to keep it under control. But on the other hand, I also witnessed some awful calls that shouldn't have been made in the first place by the refs. I definitely saw two instances where the jammer was called for cutting the track that shouldn't have been called (correct me if I'm wrong here, but if a jammer is knocked out of bounds and the opposing blocker who put her there also winds up out of bounds along with her, isn't it legal at that point for the jammer to re-enter the pack immediately before the blocker in question gets back in bounds? Because I saw that happen twice right in front of me and the jammer was still sent to the penalty box. And this was well within the pack…not a "last line of defense" maneuver. And the jammer…outside of passing the blocker who took her there…didn't improve her position at all. In fact, she lost position in the pack both times).

I also have to say that the first 10 minutes or so weren't exactly the jam refs shining moment in this one. In the third jam, even though both jammers (TVRG's Cybill Dizorder and Jet City's Trixxxie's Trash'n Em) were eventually sent to the penalty box, they weren't credited with scoring any points even though each one of them clearly made a scoring pass (although this could also have been attributed to the scorekeepers or the scoreboard operator). Then in the 5^th jam of the second period, Jilldozer made a scoring pass before being sent off to the penalty box. Jet City's Swede Hurt took advantage of that and racked up 14 points of her own before being called off for a penalty herself. Both jammers were in the box for at least 5 seconds together. But with no whistle blowing, Jilldozer came screaming out of the box and picked up an easy 4 more points against a pack of confused blockers who all thought the jam was over. Add to that one other jam in which one of the jammers was given credit for 4 points on the initial pass, and it equaled a bad period for everyone involved.

Amidst all the chaos and confusion on the track (and off it with a guy sitting there trying to take notes and wondering what all was going so wrong out there), Jet City was continuing to build a sizable lead. In the jam right after the aforementioned one with Swede Hurt picking up her 14 points and Jilldozer coming back to score 4 more questionable points, the tall jammer from Stockholm re-entered the fray and promptly reeled-off another 14-0 run to make the score 83-50 in favor of Jet City. In jams 7 & 8, the TVRG duo of The Last Jammurai and Jilldozer picked up a point over Molly Python and Precious N' Metal by a 12-11 margin. But as the period was coming to a close over the last two jams, TVRG jammers B-Header (12 points in jam 9) and The Last Jammurai (10 points in the 10^th and final jam of the period) along with both Bomber jammers Precious N' Metal and Ivanna Hercha being shut-out and serving time in the box gave the Boise squad a much needed boost going into the third period. After 40 minutes of play, Jet City still led Treasure Valley 94-84.

The great thing about how the third period unfolded was how slowly, yet steadily, the drama built to it's climax. The crowd in Boise went nuts after the first jam when Jilldozer was able to take advantage of Bomber jammer Ivanna Hecha's time in the sin bin by racking up a 6-0 run to pull Treasure Valley back to within 4 points. But Precious N' Metal seemed to douse that flame awfully quick with a 12-0 answer in the second jam. The next four jams were hard fought runs. The Treasure Valley blockers shutout the JCRG jammers, while Bar Scar Sally (4 points in the fourth jam) and Skid N Nancy (4 more points in the 6^th) once again pulled the home team back to within striking distance at 106-98. However, with TVRG looking like they were about to make another comeback and Jet City in gobs of penalty trouble going into the 7^th jam (they had two blockers in the box and the penalty board was littered with the numbers of Bombers who had three minors on them), the team from Everett weathered a potentially devastating storm when Swede Hurt eeked out a 4-3 decision over lead jammer Jilldozer. Then after a scoreless jam in the 8^th, Treasure Valley made their move. With Jet City jammer Precious N' Metal sitting in the penalty box to start the 9^th jam, The Last Jammurai hit the track and picked up both lead jammer and a grand slam run to pull Treasure Valley back to within 4.

Then with just a little over two minutes to go in regulation, the crowd erupted when Jilldozer broke out of the pack first and claimed lead jammer. However, Precious N' Metal was hot on her heels. Then after her scoring pass, Jilldozer quickly called it off after picking up the four points to tie it and before Precious could pick up any points of her own. With time running out on the clock, Treasure Valley had fought their way back from a 33 point second period deficit to tie the game at 110-110.

With time running out, Treasure Valley put B-Header out on the jammers line opposite of Jet City's Molly Python. As both jammers entered the pack, Bomber blocker Trixxxie's Trash'n Em was there to stymie the Treasure Valley jammer at every turn almost throughout the entire jam. Python did break out of the pack first, but she didn't have lead jammer status. But with B-Header being bounced around by the tight Jet City defense, Python had no problem scoring points during her first pass. Then as she came around after that pass, she blew a kiss towards her bench before picking up a couple more points for a 6-0 decision that won the game for Jet City, 116-110.

Three Stars

3. Swede Hurt. She was the third leading scorer in the game, but she did have the highest average per jam out of everyone with 36 points in 5 runs.

2. Bar Scar Sally. For me, the most impressive stat was her 5 hole opening blocks. I'm pretty picky about handing those out. So when you get 5 in one game, that's a pretty awesome number. I also had her down with 7 blocked jammers. All this while only serving 2 minutes in the penalty box (a very low number in this game).

1. Nasty Nikki Nightstick. Ordinarily, she would have been eliminated from this discussion with her 6 minutes in penalty time. But not only did that not lead the game, there were so many penalty minutes in this game that I decided to throw that part of the criteria out. Her 13 jammer blocks and 8 big hits will come through for her in this one. I thought the coolest thing about her game on Saturday night was how…even though I'm sure most of them had never seen her before…the crowd in Boise pretty much pegged her as the villain. Every time she would knock a Treasure Valley skater to the ground, they would boo her. And later on in the game when she would go to the penalty box, they would cheer it. And you know…if you are in the other teams barn and the gallery is reacting to you like that, then you must be doing something right out there!

Key Jam of the Game

Of course, it has to be the final jam of the game when Molly Python picked up the winning points for Jet City. Games this close make this decision an easy one for me.

Bad Girl of the Game

There were plenty who would have gotten this award on most nights. But Jet City's Trixxxie's Trash'n Em was the rabbit everyone was chasing into the penalty box with a total of 7 minutes. I will also give a (perhaps not so special) shout-out to both Salma Highkick and another Treasure Valley skater (who it was, I can't remember. Someone told me at the bar afterwards) for each getting ejected from the game at one point or another. According to my stats, there were 64 minutes worth of penalty time in this one. I originally told people there were 63, but I realized I hadn't given Jilldozer credit for the penalty she served. That's how crazy it was. So there very well may have been even MORE than that which I didn't catch. No spotter + lot's of penalties = a very hard night for Elwood.

If you want to read more of Elwoods recaps of Amazing derby bouts in the Northwest read his Myspace blog and here is the link... CLICK HERE!

Självklart så blev jag SJUKT förskyld

Japp, host host host och nys nys nys, två dagar innan en av de viktigaste tävlingarna i år. Ahhh, jobbigt, jobbigt!

Mitt svenska kaffe är nästan slut

Eller nästan och nästan, när jag druckit upp kaffet i min kaffepress. När jag åkte till Sverige för en vecka sedan hade jag en hel påse med kaffe, när jag kom tillbaka hade min kära motorcykelman druckit upp nästan allt... Hm, jag hjärta mitt kaffe... jag ånjuter nu mina sista droppar i sängen samtidigt som jag tittar på Law and Order. Klockan är halv tio, och jag är sjukt sjukt pigg! Antar att kaffe inte egentligen är något jag behöver just nu, men men...