Slow & Painful

Life is currently going very slow, no derby, no work because of my injury. Last monday, 16 of September i was at roller derby practice and fell and landed on my ankle while weaving through a pace line, since then everything has slowed down. I went for an X-ray yesterday, no results back yet but hopefully my ankle isn't broken, i really want to go skating and exercise, but walking isn't easy. I also discovered this week that i am allergic to sports tape after my friend who is a physio, strapped my ankle. The strapping really helped with the pain, until the rash and itching came, I took the tape off last night, which caused my ankle to swell and itch even worse. I went to hospital and i was there for two and a half hours, but my ankle swelling and itching has improved.

The World Of Roller Derby

Last month i decided to join an amazing sport: Roller Derby. I have never loved something this much, Its amazing and so are all the people I've met that are in our league :)

Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups ("jams") in which both teams designate a scoring player (the "jammer") who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team. The teams attempt to assist their own jammer whilst hindering the opposing jammer—in effect, playing both offense and defense simultaneously.^[1] Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, nearly half of them outside the U.S.^[2] 

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_derby}

http://murrayriverderbydames.com.au/

My Week in Melbourne

For the last week I have been in Melbourne,  enjoying the sights and sounds and trying every Chinese food item I can get my hands on, I miss driving my car and I miss my friends but I've figured out more things I want to do with my life while I have been here :)

Happiness & Life

How do you make yourself happy? In the little things, like exploring the culture on a holiday, an episode of simpsons/merlin/doctor who/etc, listening to your favourite band/singer, shopping. These things make me happy for a while, but its a struggle to find things to make me happy in the long term. I never entirely know for sure what job i want, its gone from librarian, to pet store assistant, to childcare worker, to architect, to designer, to nurse, to a doctor. Having a good job is one thing i am sure i want, aside from paying the bills, i want to eventually have a family. So a good job is on my list to happiness, money is important but it doesn't make people happy, nor does beauty. I want to set my life up and show everyone what i can do. Im happier than i have been, Im in a much better place and its just going to get better.

Weightloss (&weight gain)

For several years I've been trying to lose weight, from the diets to exercising twice every day. I'm at a point where motivation is the biggest problem, that and lack of energy, I'm not complaining, I know my problem, and I;m working to overcome it, but i have come far. I'm smaller than I was but I way alot more, but im a happier person now than i was 2-3 years ago :)

End of the World, Or is it?

A couple of weeks ago i had a dream that the world was ending with asteroids, it got me thinking. How many times can the ending of the world be predicted, and is my dream trying to tell me something, or is it just my brain telling me im crazy? How will the world end? We had the Mayan calendar 'scare', The year 2000 Y2K, and Sir Isaac Newton predicted among other things the world ending in 2060. Who is to say that will even happen, the predictions of the past havent come true. The world will one day end but i guess its not in our power to know when.

Here are the stories and poems based on my dream
http://www.wattpad.com/12713181-future
http://www.wattpad.com/12587339-the-end-as-we-know-it

Growing Up

I used to be one of those girls who didn't have many close friends and lived with her parents and went to school, Now I'm 21, I live in a shared accommodation house in Albury, on the lease and pay rent, and i have quite a few close friends, they all know who they are, Things are different to what they were five years ago, even more different from when i moved to Albury/Wodonga, but I can finally see myself getting somewhere with my life. Its only been little things turning into bigger things, like going from L's to P plates, from driving the family car to having my own car, from living with friends to being on a lease and paying properly set up rent. Things that have taken time to get to but have happened. In that sense we are learners, learning how to live.