OH SWEET JEBUS

Well yesterday was my birthday and this is kind of what it started like....cleaning...what the? on my birthday. I hardly clean so why on my birthday, F knows. must be the Virgo coming out hard. so yes it kind of looked like this

Washing......booo booooring. but necessary.

 so boring I took 2 photos!???




 eep my new garden...

 airing out the gear.  pooweeeee

Our logo which I am obsessed with. Its everywhere, on my phone, my screen saver, my lounge (framed) and of course my car. on each side.

 Pink Moustache's off for a birthday pedicure. yuss.

I cant even be bothered talking about getting old, what I did, think, feel etc etc, which usually runs through my mind because of this.....!!!!!!! OH HOLY SMOKES BATMAN, wait for it, wait for it.............

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

WORD

Pimped out speakers...for real



This end is just asking for our logo bombed on it. hard. WRDL bomb hard.

  waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwoooooooooooooooo.

OH MY OH MY

I cant even begin to describe the fabulousness of finding this. On my birthday no less!

Went out to lunch with my buddy Amanda and she was bursting red with excitement. A freshie and acquaintance of hers, Dave, had rung her to say he got permission from the owner of this old Countdown building, for us to skate it. to use it, whenever we wanted!

So after delcious curry and beer, we hooned there all amped up not knowing what would await us, we were meeting a man in a carpark about a warehouse in Kope. Dodgey and we loved it.

I was expecting a dump with cracks or lino or whatever hideous other abandoned warehouse scenarios. But upon entering we found it was polished concrete and had hardly any crap on the floor! my heart was leaping out of my chest. I have never skated polished concrete before so was thinking eeek will you be just as slippery as our current floor? I COULD NOT GET MY GEAR ON FAST ENOUGH.

HOLY SMOKES BATMAN. It was amazing. Apart from the glass and woodchips and bolts on the floor. which caused me to eat shit numerous times. IT WAS AMAZING. no slip just pure joy, I could just cross and cross and cross. Normally in our hall its a tad frightening crossing over at speed as its so slidey.

After a quick sweep around it was even better.

So excitement ensues we ring our Chairwomen and she is bursting. She has plans to start up a roller rink and sort some kind of deal with the guy for either super cheap lease or to let us run it as a roller rink! haha madness! the possibilities are endless and freaken exciting.

Its been sitting there for so long, and has had 2 fallen through plans for shopping malls and another supermarket. But like we need any more shops?! we need a rink! how rad for the Whakatane community. And how rad for WRDL! gaaaaaaaaaaaaa anyway big ideas and schemes but in the meantime we get to skate it for FREE. I have always been wanting more than 2 trainings a week but because we cant afford the hall hire its not possible, but now free skate!

We will need to remove many many multitudes of hazards. (there is even a creepy meat room) wood lying around and stacked up, glass, and all other forms of hazards but there is so much potential it blows my wee mind. There are separate rooms which have open fronts so people could sit in there but not be on the track but still be able to see. Perfect for our kids that come along to training. We can still see them! Plus the pillars need some serious padding up you could cut your face open on them, they have these weird wood corners. needs to be derby proof.

buzz buzz buzzz out!

So we are heading there today, we are allowed to get the key (from the owners bar) anytime we want. We will do a big sweep out and then roll out. hooooolllly!

Anyway breathe B.Addy breathe.


So the day before my birthday looked like this...

My 10 year old bought home flowers! so sweet he is really growing up!

And then ended kind of like this

He spent half his money on these! so lovely, we gorged them all down, along with pizza and coke.


 34 I'm going to kick your ass!