Editions of Me

Is my derby hero. Photo by LeVar Hurtin' When I grow up...

I needed to be bright today. - UDPP - Sugarpill Dollipop on outer 2/3 of lid - Sugarpill Tako on inner 1/3 - Sugarpill Bulletproof in the crease - UD matte shadow in Naked to blend the crease - UD eye pencil in Zero along upper lash line - UD eye pencil in Asphyxia along lower lash line - UD Supercurl mascara

This weekend: Saturday: Seeing my friend Lillian star in August Osage County . Sunday: Official team photoshoot and then scrimmaging the Undead Bettys in Antioch. Next weekend: Friday: My friend Kathleen's open house for her baking business, A Spoonful of Sugar Saturday: John & Mary's family wedding party thingy Sunday: Wine tasting with my friend Lisa (Tuesday: Circuit Jerks mixed B&W scrimmage) The weekend after that: Saturday: (While PRG is bouting in Redding) Lisa's baby's birthday party Sunday: NIKE WOMEN'S MARATHON with Becca wooooo The following weekend after that: Sunday: SVRG Halloween tournament The weekend after that: Friday: PRG and RRR present MONSTER SKATE!! A fundraiser to benefit PRG The weekend after that (which is the first weekend of November): Saturday: PRG bouting against Mountain Derby Girls in Sonora And then... The weekend after that is WFTDA nationals. (Okay, all this means is that I will be camped out in fro...

I've never been a gushy romantic, but I will make exceptions for poetry because I love the beautiful use of language. I just read this poem for the first time, and I think I'm in love. All night I have slept with you next to the sea, on the island Wild and sweet you were between pleasure and sleep, between fire and water. Perhaps very late our dreams joined at the top or at the bottom, up above like branches moved by a common wind, down below like red roots that touch. Perhaps your dream drifted from mine and through the dark sea was seeking me as before, when you did not exist, when without sighting you I sailed by your side, and your eyes sought what now--- bread, wine,love and anger-- I heap upon you because you are the cup that was waiting for the gifts of my life. I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. NEITHER NIGHT NOR SLEEP COULD SEPARAT...

This one is on my list as an expanding-my-knitting-repertoire item. I've knitted lots of things, but I've never really done a toy before. I found this pattern on Ravelry and thought it would be perfect, as Jolie loves dogs, and it more or less looks like our own little black dog. (He's not a Scottish terrier, but he's smallish. In hindsight, I should've knit floppy ears.) I've named it Bo because that's what Jolie calls our dog (even though that's not his name). Bo was knit using Patons Classic Wool in black and size 6 needles. (And I used all the rest of the yarn from the skein to stuff it, since I couldn't find any stuffing.) The sewing and seaming was tedious and long, but it came together nicely. Bo wears a purple velour ribbon. Jolie's snuggling with Bo in her crib right now as we speak!

Carl and Razor giving us our instructions and positions I'm tired and sore. I have a pretty mauve bruise on the heel of my right palm that showed up pretty much instantly, so it was definitely a hard fall. I think I even twisted my knee a little, because it doesn't quite feel right today. But all in all, I feel pretty great :) We scrimmaged SVRG's Hard Drivers last night (although, truth be told, it wasn't JUST the Hard Drivers, but also a few of their A-level and B-level skaters as well) in our first team-on-team scrimmage. And though we did not emerge victorious, there were lots of tiny triumphs to be had. A team-on-team scrimmage is just about as close to a simulated game as you can get. As you can tell by the name, it's one team against another, as opposed to a mixed scrimmage (which a lot of us have been skating in) where teams come together and mix up all their skaters and divide them into random teams. It also means that we played a full-length game...

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So, I'm a little bit dessert-caked-out after having attended three weddings in the last four weeks, so when I saw this recipe for Applesauce-Sour Cream Coffee Cake, I thought, Bingo! That's something I want to make! I can only handle so much super-sweet cake and frosting, so coffee cake is something I love because I like having it for breakfast :) So, all the ingredients that you see in the above photo went into the cake, and nothing more - flour, brown sugar, applesauce, sour cream, baking soda, baking powder, and a little salt. It's REALLY easy, and tastes really good. (Oh, and cinnamon, which I forgot to grab from the cabinet until after I took the photo. *shrug*) Batter up! Ready to bake All lovely and cinnamon-y and golden brown :)

(That aren't new by any means, but it could be new to you!) The Runaways' self-titled debut album I saw the movie a few months ago (yes, I was madly curious about seeing Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie), and totally fell in love with their music. When I listen to them, I don't get the feeling of "Hey, this is an awesome CHICK band," I feel like they're an awesome band, PERIOD. It's precisely my kind of music - unabashed hard rock with five young girls who are really good at what they do, and have attitude to spare. And there are always so few female rock heroes, particularly teenage ones. For girls who need something edgier than the squeaky-clean Disney-fied pop starlets of today, check out The Runaways. My favorite tracks: "You Drive Me Wild," with the supremely sexy Joan Jett doing vocals (and you have to remember that she probably wasn't even 18 when they recorded this); "Cherry Bomb," the ...

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