Fifteen skaters, a track, a deadleg and a musicvideo

A small but fun gang... SCRIMMAGE TIME!

Monday was a looong day at work, fun, but lots of new things. I am currently working on a project for SQORE. If you are competative in academics, this is really something to check out! Just do it! ok?

Yesterday due to most ppl were a little derbyout after the weekend (BSTRDS played in Barcelona and Team Sweden had practice) we only had 15 people able and willing to scrimmage. And it was fun, everyone got to jam, and play with each other. Having to go in two jams in a row, or even three and then sit one just ot be able to jam, it does wonders for your endurance, my way of reducing having to run, run, run....

But what is cool too, is that about just two years ago, 15 people at practice would have been considered a well attended practice...

I had tons of fun, even if I was feeling a little stressed in the beginning of the scrimmage, running out of work straight to practice while chewing down food does that too you. There something about practice, I don't know if it's because rollerderby is hella fun or because of all the endorphines, but in 99% of the cases I leave practice feeling 100% better than when I came there.

I got a pretty bad "Charlie horse" already on Sunday, but it did only get worse after another bony/muscular ass to it... damn derbygirls I urge you all to eat some more fat so your hits become fluffier and less painful on me! Seriously, I can barley walk today, and tonight is fighting fit! I am taking tomorrow off, and that is probably a real good thing. Sometimes you need to take a deep breath and just take it easy.. .this might not really be what I do, but I am saying... sometimes it is for the best.

After practice I stuffed my car full of ladies... well I stuffed five girls into my volvo, to go and skate back and forth on a bridge for some musicvideo that Amy is in. It was odd but both fun and funny. And then I went home, made a HUGE sallad and watched Penelope. darn, it's the cutest little freaking romantic comedy I've seen in a long time!
HIGHLY recommend it, partly because I think that Christina Ricci is adorable, but the story is for sure really cute (predictble, but cute, and what RomCom is NOT predictble).

Back home from Berlin

Three bouts later and Stockholm Rollerderby came out third - we got medals! I didnt know i am so obsessed with medals - but apperently I am!

I could not be any more proud of my team and myself. We pulled it together and just went out and played rollerderby as a team. I love my team! WELLDONE!

And now, only seven hours after getting of the flight from Berlin, I'm on the way back to the airport to get on a flight to Tallinn, Estonia. Going on an over the day work trip... I'm usually really excited about those trips - today - not so much... Not at all...

And SERIOULY I've washed my hair TWO times since the Sunday afterparty and it still smell like smoke! What is it with Germans and having to smoke inside? It sucks, we had skaters that couldn't come to the afterparty because they are asthmatic - it sucks not vein able to celebrate with the entire team!

Oh and we made it into the Swedish Daily News SPORTS pages!

Eating worms in live radio

Photo from P4 webpage by Ronnie Ritterland

So me and Red got to be on radio, talking about roller-derby... AWESOME you'd think... until they offer up toasted and seasoned WORMS... yepp, so apperently the previous speaker had talked about eating insects... and they just kept the selection for me and Red. Yum yum... another of those things I've don for derby... If you wanna know more or listen... just visit P4 website here! 

Stockholm Rollerderby v.s Stuttgart

Photo by Mandy Ballaschanke

So as I have already said, the game this weekend was so much fun, exciting and utterly nerve-wrecking, it made me smile the entire way. And I must say that playing for over 1200 excited fans was quite amazing. The Stuttgart Newspaper wrote an article about it here, if you just happen to read German, otehrwise I can recommend google translator, and then there is also a press-release from Stockholm Rollerderby here. 

 Playing derby makes me happy, practicing it makes me happy... Somedays I come to practice and am in the worst mood ever, I barly did not go because I was tired, not in the mood and all those things. But I always push through and just go to pracitice, because I know I will leave with a BIG smile!

 Yay for rollerderby! And there will be more exciting news this week - just hold tight and I will let you know as soon as I know... ah ha ha

Who knew my picture would make it to French Elle

Picture stolen from French Elle

Someone should have told me when I was a teenager that my photo would grace the web-edition of French Elle.... ha ha ha... the interview is actually with Fenix Fortsomfan, one of CCR's skaters.I guess I can just sit back and wait for all those modelling agencies to start calling me now... ahhhh... my life is so hard!

Things we do for the league....

On the 15th of June Crime City are doing a mini-demo for what roller-derby is in Malmö during something called Malmö Sommar Scen... so yesterday was the big media release day... and we got to show our cute little faces... in the rain and on the gravel... nothing is perfect I guess!  We got a picture and got mentioned in Sydsvenskan, that's the local newspaper for south of Sweden. Did I mention it rained?