Roller Derby!!

I am the biggest pussy. I can't stand any type of pain (even though I have 2 tattoos)
but I cant wait to join my local roller derby!

I've never even been to a proper match, but my aunt was the Zen Menace, and I watched hours of games online...

One of my favorite things about the derby is the names! They are full of puns, alliterations and other geeky goodness mixed with violence and a dash of femininity.

Here is a small list of my favorites:

Adoll Hitter
Baby Splice
Barba Fett
BareLeigh Legal
Belle E. Dancer
Black Sabbatha
Carrie Go Round
Charli Horse
Dale M. For Murder
Dammage Patch Kid
Dawny Darko
Effie Bomb
Eureeka Havoc
Faith Kill
Foxy Balboa
Full Metal Jacque
Genghis Mom
Giggle byte
Grumbellina
Hard Knox
Heidi Hipwrecker
Helen Killer
Hollynator
Honey Crueler
Icy London
Ima Zombie
Jacknife Jenn
Jenny Rotten
Kandy Barr
Karma Electra
Kat Von Devious
Katie Karnage
Kelly Ripya
Maiden Hell

Marzipain
Medusa Damage
Nuke-Leah
Shannibal Lector
Zombie Stardust

I just need my name and I'll be ready to compare battle bruises with the best of them.

Alberta Labour Minister and James Cameron in a "YO MAMA" battle!

"The Alberta Oil sands are a black eye in Canada"
"Avatar Director slams Alberta Oil sands!"

Apparently these days, you can slam the government,huge companies and those who work there all in the same sentence without knowing much about them.
James Cameron admits he knows very little about the Alberta oil sands. But that doesn't stop him from speaking out against them.

Our labor minister does not shirk from these allegations, retorting that the oil sands are a safe work environment and helps the economy! She also adds she's thinking of making a smurfs movie too.
Yes. That's her argument. So what if it destroys the environment, on paper the people who work there are safe!
Who cares if the government only gets 1% royalties, while the American companies rake in billions of dollars.

Its a classic case of
Eco-nut " Oil sands are bad because of XYZ!"
Government "Oil sands are good because of KLM!"

Except our eco-nut didn't give XYZ, he simply said that he didn't like them. So they must be evil.

I am mostly against the oil sands.I understand they give many people much needed jobs. However, they harm so much in the process that perhaps its time to move all those people to an alternative energy source. I live in Fort McMurray, right near the sands.I know many many people who work there. And I would never want any of them to be unemployed and struggling.
But when a company has to give our "hush money" as part of your pay check somethings not quite working.

There are alternative sources of power. Sources that can be cultivated to be just as lucrative as oil. All they need is the chance. But companies and people don't want to do that.
who wants to spend an extra 20 grand on a car because its electric, sure an extra 5 bucks is okay to spend. That extra 5 bucks can get us 100% recycled paper and make us feel good, but 20 grand is a lot of money to make us feel good.

Companies wont lower the price of electric cars because they make money off of parts and maintenance. Not selling you the car.
Electric car parts don't get as worn, thus needing less maintenance.

Perhaps, you buy that hybrid. Feeling good?
Think about this, parts from your car came from China,Japan and America.
How did it get from Japan to China, from China to America, from America to you?
Boats. Boats burning a lot of oil.

What I'm trying to get across is that oil is a complicated issue that deserves far more letters that XYZ, and KLM. It crosses company lines and creeps into our lives.
It's the best option we have now, but perhaps its time we start investing more into find the best option for later instead of insulting or protecting something can't that be replaced yet.

Boxes.

Boxes have taken over my life.
Empty boxes, full boxes. Boxes for this, for that.
Too many boxes.


I've started looking into apartments in Edmonton. It scares me.
Not because its a new place, I'm used to moving. I've done it all my life, I like it.
I'm scared because V has friends there. Friends that dislike me, for the simple reason he is with me.
I really cant handle being disliked. It stresses me out.
I wish I could be a bitch. Bitches don't care if people don't like them.
Really its not friends its just one.
She still wants him. Still hates me. Even though its almost been a year.
what happens when we move there?
Shes really pretty. (I'm a terrible person... resorting to semi-cyber stalking.)
Shes smart and really great at art.
These thoughts really dont help me. They are only driving a smaller wedge between V and I.
(Something I'm sure she'd be happy to know.)
(or not, she's very nice I'm sure. )

I've started looking into places in Montreal. A cowardly move disguised as something noble or adventurous.

It's very pretty.



I'm going to go drown myself in more boxes.

It's official.

Yup, I have become a stereotype. Wonderful.
You may have noticed that in my last post I mentioned I played Wow. However, my "playing" was just me borrowing someone else's account. Now I have my own.
To make things slightly more geeky, all my characters ( I have two + a pet ) are named after William Shakespear's "A Midsummer's Nights Dream".( Moth,Peaseblossom and Cobweb if you were wondering.)
...

I am unemployed, living in a basement and play WoW. My trinity is now complete.

Are Vaginas synonmous with confusion?

It is naturally assumed that as a women I understand women.
What people forget to add into their assumption is that I was raised mainly by a womanizing father.
He was either wonderful or horrible with women. On one hand he almost always had one, on the other, he lost them all.
So this assumption is wrong. I don't understand women. Hopefully never will.
I don't like to generalize ( OK that's a small lie. I do it often, but I don't like that I do...) and I don't like to be sexist. But seriously, women are CRAZY. I cant even count the times that I fought with a girl over nothing or the amount of times my father got things lobbed at his head because he said the slightest of things (on the flip side, my dad's a real prick sometimes, sorry Dad)
Anyway I bring up crazy women because I have just gotten kicked out my crappy little closet like apartment.
Yeah.
Just like that.
And why? Why am I a refugee? Why have I gotten unceremoniously booted from three places by women? Perhaps its me? I can't say, I know I'm hard to live with, can men do it quite easily, why only women?
Cause they're CRAZY!
This time there wasn't even a fight. I stood there dumbfounded, calmly walked down stairs and then burst into tears. Normally I wouldn't admit that, but really, its the only option I saw, other than punching her in her fat mug. ( I swear I'm not violent! I feel bad even hurting things on WoW. Which I'm sure is another thing my therapist would love to talk about... moving on.) But punching her would really kind of put a damper on my relationship with her fiance. He's a swell guy.
No fight. That I know of.
Key phase "that I know of"
Nope. Apparently we've been fighting for months. Months! And I never knew.
Is that even possible?
As, I am no longer in my cubby we paid too much for I suppose it is and that also would mean that I have lost what ever we were arguing about. Which makes me the most upset. Which then confuses me that THAT is what I'm upset about.
I called my father to let him know the address change (my boyfriend parents took pity on us and now we crash here) and he knew about these secret fights! Yes, the man had been holding out on me!
All the things to keep from his favorite daughter, all the things he's told me! He could have let an information tidbit about boats go and slipped in that women have imaginary fights with you! But no. Perhaps he thought I would be spared due to my matching parts, or perhaps its one of those things you have to learn yourself. But what ever the reason he knew! The traitor.




So yes.
Thats been my week.
Snow up to my waist and getting booted from my room.
On the plus side, I'm fairly certain that this is a bonding moment for me and my father. He's loved me less ever since I became unemployed and started playing WoW...

snow.

I made my first snow man yesterday. I know, I'm 20 years old and it was my first snowman, pathetic. But to make up for it, I made two. I cant really say I made them by myself. my boyfriend helped me. Thats him on the left.
It snowed more after this picture. It snowed so much we now have 54 cm!
that's a lot of snow!
I wanted something to compare it to. This is what I got. 54 cm is the average height of a 9 year old child!
I love snow.