It could very well shape up to be another week where I wind up exhausted and sleep for 15 hours at the end of it.  But I'm hoping I actually do this week right.

Panda isn't on the team anymore.  Since she broke her arm, she hasn't been coming to practice or paying her dues, so it kinda put her out.  Neuron has a broken ankle but still pays and comes to practice.  I'm doing better.  I got my butt pads in.  They work.  I was so excited to get them, the FedEx guy knocked on my door and I snatched the package out of his hand yelling, "THANK YOU!" and ripped it open.  Then I proceeded to do the "limp noodle" thing kids do whenever they don't want you to pick them up as soon as I put them on.  And then I fell during practice.  They work.  I'm skating for more and more time, which is great, I should just start working on core strength to help my lower back not get tired as easy and I should also do feet stretches before I go to practice because my feet go numb.

My mom joined the team.  She came up today and Cupcake taught her the falls and derby form.  She just skated out of bounds.  She'll be here on Wednesday again, and then after that she'll have to pay dues and keep up attendance to stay an active member of the team.

My work schedule this week:

Monday:  Wake @ 9 ish, scan 2 stores, do frontline at 2 if I have time enough to do them, rest for 2 hours before work at 5 pm tomorrow.

Tuesday:  Wake @ 9 ish, scan 2 stores, do frontline at 2 if I have time enough to do them, rest for 2 hours before work at 6 pm Tuesday.

Wednesday:  If I haven't had time to do frontline at the stores, this will be the day I'll do it, starting at 9 ish, and then finishing with enough time to rest for 2 hours before practice at 6 pm.

Thursday - Saturday:  Rest/off.  Probably hang with A.  I have a crush on her.  Neuron's not an active skater, Panda's off the team so technically I have a half-wife.  But April O'Kill (A) and I went on a "date" yesterday which consisted of her and her husband C, who is going to be reffing for us as soon as his skates come in) and she taking me out to Chinese, then we went to her house and painted our nails (bubblegum pink and Tiffany blue), watched Breaking Dawn and played with her dogs.  Then we were standing in the kitchen and she goes, "Poundcake, do you like to shoot guns?"  And I'm like, "I've never shot a gun before."  And so she got really excited and got the gun combination from C, opened her safe and pulled out a pink 22 rifle.  She loaded the magazine and while she was doing that, C pulled out a 40 caliber pistol, loaded it, and handed me some ear muffs and we went out on their back porch.  He said it had a kick to it so I shot once and then just turned my head and looked at him really excited like, :-O!!!  So I shot two more shots from that.  Then A brought her 22 out and I popped off a magazine.  Apparently I'm a pretty good marksman because I hit the same spot on the mountain a bunch of times.

God it was so much fun.

I'm thinking about proposing to her after our first bout in April.  Like making a huge spectacle out of the fact that I really have found my true derby wife.

So that's what's going on with me this week.  I'm tired, and since I have to be up early, I'm going to bed.