Just one day to go!

The much anticipated wedding of the year, if not the decade is upon us, tomorrow is the Royal Wedding Of Prince William and Kate Middleton....btw, does anyone actually know what Prince Williams surname is? Hmmm!

Hands up whose excited! *looks around* No one?

I can't overally say that I'm excited, i mean i don't even get the day off because as a hairdresser bank holidays tend not to exist so i can't enjoying watching it, but oh well that's why laptops and live streaming where invented after all.

I am excited about a couple of things, I'm interested to see what is going on in the hair department; will she wear it up or down? Wear a veil?  Her hair always looks amazing, so I'm interested want to see her interpretation of wedding hair is.  I do the most amazing replica (but before it was seen to have the same) of her day look, which i call the Aussie Blow dry because of where i learnt the skill, its simply fabulous darlllllllllllhing!

My prediction for the hair will be a relaxed up do focused to one side or maybe possibly a bun.  Nothing too fancy or fussy.

And of course, how could we forget the dress?!  I don't have any predictions on the dress, but as long as it isn't a big puffy number (which i highly doubt it will be) then I'm happy.  She's a classic kinda girl and i think she will set the new tradition for classic elegance, not trashy gypsy weddings....*shiver* Could you imagine?!

Love, Sassy

I went along to a Mixed Scrimmage (thats roller derby slang for a practise match) this Sunday with teams from Bedford and Romsey and then my team the MK Roller girls to take part in some bashy bashy fun.

There wasn't really a schedule for the day so it was nice to have change to practise some drills with other teams and get used to playing different people.  When we are at our regular practise and scrimmaging with each other we never give our hits at 100%, we play nicely with each other, but it doesn't prepare us for a real bout (competitive game) situtaion.  When we play other teams, I actually get scared cos some of these girls are huge and throw some means hits.  

Oh I should really explain what a hit is, cos i'm guessing your thinking a hit is a punch in the face?! Although i do describe roller derby as rugby on wheels...its more like Bulldog on wheels. So back to what i was saying, a hit is when your hit your opponant with either your booty or anything between your shoulder and knee.

Here are some of my injuries:

 This is where my tights were rubbing against the knobbly bit on my ankle and it actualy wore away the skin to pretty much down to the bone!  I have to bandage it up everytime I skate now!

From a fall, i gengerally do a baseball slide.

This is where i fell over the person in front of me and landed on their skates.

 

This one i am most proud of, this is the result of baseball sliding on just one side!!

I've got some more from this weekend that i'm sure will get uloaded at some point.  None of my injuries even compare to what happened one girl today, she lost her footing and basically her knee went down to break her fall but her body went the other way and when she went to get up 'POP' she went back down and didnt get back up again.  They guessed that she has torn her ligement and so she's pretty much going to be out of derby action for a least 8-10 months....Oh fuck! If something like that happened to me i would be out of derby and work action!  

Even though i know that, i wouldn't dream of giving it up!

Love,
Sassy

Family.

What a great week its been!!

This week I booked off work just so i can have some home time and catch up with all the things i never get time to do! 

Since, i moved out last October I've been relishing in my freedom away from home but it has occurred to me that most of this week has been spent with family - ranging from blood relatives to those married into the family to those friends that's feel like family.

For someone who doesn't have a mass amount of friends; i could count them on one hand,   Now, once upon a time i felt that was a bad thing, but i have come to realise i would much rather have that handful of people that are truly amazing in my life than a mass of people who aren't.

I spent my weekend with 6 of my relatives, we get together every couple of months for a girls night either at home or out on the town.  I had my renovations about going this weekend because the last time we got together it felt like all they were talking about was kids, husbands, babies, marriage.....and i don't have a sniff of any it.

This time round, it was just hitting a little too close to home because not long ago i had someone in my life which would of given me something in common with them but sadly he isn't around anymore.  So i was back to square one again and didn't need a reminded of it.  I know i can chat about my 'single' life but it just feels like they feel pity for me and its so far away from their life that i really don't think they would want to here about it.

I sucked it up and went along anyway and I'm so glad I did because now i don't feel i have something to be envious of but something to look forward to...but seriously hurry the fuck up already!!!

Love,

Sassy

An end to a trumatic day.

So, for the last week my iphone has been going skitzo on me and not letting me use the left side of my screen.

I'm pretty sure that it wasn't anything to do with me changing my cracked screen :)  What? I said 'pretty sure'! Tbf, i did change it about 5 weeks ago so it definitely maybe wasn't that!

So, by suggestion of one of my friends I tried my luck at the Apple store where I was hoping that they would over look my screen replacement.  

When it was time to go to my "appointment" I had everything crossed. The guy took a look at it and come to conclusion that yes it wasn't right.  Although it was out of it warranty by like 20days (....or had any insurance and also invalidated the warranty by opening the phone, shhh!) he was still going to replace the phone FOC!  My mum later told me that he kept looking down my top, I wonder had I worn a higher cut top would I have still got the phone for free?

Not being 100% sure that I had backed up my phone, I wanted to have whatever could that be transferred moved over to the new handset.  Unfortunately, the guy forgot and restored the phone before doing this and it resulted in me crying!  Imagine how the guy felt!  All my contacts, deleted.  All my messages, vanished.  Me, devastated.

Looking at the bigger picture, at least I got a new phone and didn't have to pay for it and there was a possibility it was backed up, which by the way it was.....

Love,

Sassy

Back to Derby...

It's been 3 weeks since my last roller derby hit and my legs have got the jelly jiggle back and my thigh high socks are cutting in way too much....3 weeks couldn't of come sooner!

So, as i haven't talked about about myself much (yet) i shall elaborate.  Since June last year i have been giving up my Friday evenings in favour of spending it with skantically clad ladies in fishnets and hot pants, (keeping it simple) skating round and round in circles beating the crap out of each other!!  Pure and simple, i love it!  Its just such an energy release and totally gets rid of that pent up aggression i sometimes get!

Roller Derby was something one of my friends said to me about as she was going to some tryouts, I'd seen that Drew Barrymore film and thought what the hey, so i jumped on board!  

I started skating when i was a kid and i remember my grandpa taking me out in my Mum's original 70's blue and yellow skates taking me up and down the street.  It was something i stuck with and when i was a teenage tearaway, i used to go Rollers every Friday night and meet my friends (and of course, boys!)

As i grew older, i just stopped going but although there were many years gap between when i last skated, my heart did shed a little tear when i heard they were tearing my hangout down in favour of a IKEA.....My childhood converted to dust and then manufactured into a maze of MDF, brilliant!

So, here's a little video for titilation!

So anyway, this weekend something HUGE is happening!  Our capital city team the London Roller Girls are hosting an tornament called 'Anarchy in the UK', which they will be playing against some teams coming from the native land of Roller Derby the USA and also Canada.  Its going to be immense!!!  

This is my first every match that i have had chance to watch (i work saturdays when games are on) and i can't wait!! 

It going to be brutal, its going to be hardcore, but most of all its going to be derby!!!!

Love,

Ss

So, here i am!

So, I turned 26yrs old two days ago and I thought now was a good time to start blogging, I sometimes have a lot to say and sometimes not so much, but either way I have stuff to write about.

Something happened today that made me start my blog.

I will begin by telling you that the day after my birthday was spent holed up in my house in bed watching tv, it was bliss! So to counter balance my day of utter laziness, when I got up this morning I promised myself I was going to have the opposite of days, I was going to get up and make myself feel amazing.

So I had a gorgeous bubble bath and as I was getting dressed I decide it was a day to wear red, its my favourite colour and it always makes me feel sexy, powerful and passionate....so naturally I grabbed my red patent shoe boots.  

Whilst getting dressed I thought to myself "I want to look amazing today so someone will ask for my number"...I pictured myself reading my book with a coffee and someone approaching me asking me for my number.  I was snapped back to reality with the realisation that if i didn't get my arse into i was going to miss my dentist appointment.

After my dentist appointment, I wanted to kill some time doing some shopping.  I made a bee line for starbucks and got a delicious caramel macchiato and found a comfy spot by the entrance.  Sat reading 'The Secret' and half way through my coffee and mid bite into a chocolate Whoopie Pie, this guy comes up to me and says "I'm sorry to interupt you but I just had to come and comment on your style, you look amazing' so at that moment, i was more worried whether or not I have chocolate stuck in my teeth to notice whether this guy was cute (which he was) i muttered out 'oh....thanxs'.  

We got chatting and he asked for my number......I was blown away so I gave it to him and he went on his merry way and I was left behind gobsmacked!  There was a gentleman sat across from me who saw the whole thing and I just turned to him and said 'did that really just happen?' - we exhanged a few words and then he asked me 'are you reading what I think your reading?' (meaning 'the secret') and had a chat about it....then the guy came back and asked me what i was reading and he knew it as well and had another quick chat about it.

It wasn't until that moment that I realised that I had gotten what i had asked for, I wanted to feel amazing which I did, I wanted someone to ask for my number, which they did......Result!

It doesn't matter if I text him (which i have), but that i made it happen with the sheer power of my mind.....told you red made me powerful ;)

Love,

Sassy