Its Dodgeball time!

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!"

I should be good at both! This weekend is the 6th Annual Dixie Derby Down n Dirty Dodgeball Tournament. It's my 3rd year at the event, and its always a great way to start spring for a fun day in the sunshine.

The event is bigger this year, and so far 22 teams have pre-registered, with more sure to sign up the day of the event.

Come out to Dublin Park and watch or register a team and play!

More details are at: http://www.dixiederbygirls.com/dball.htm

Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon 2011 Edition

Well, its that time of year again, folks.

The 4th Annual Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon is coming up again! This is the fund raiser we do every year to benefit the American Heart Association where we ask for donations per lap we skate during the 2 hour skate-a-thon.

Last year you might remember I was challenged by a friend to do 250 laps in an attempt to "melt my little skate wheels off". I accepted, and turned in a dizzying 316-lap performance which took me about a week to recover from.

Well this year, I'm going to attempt to melt down my new skate wheels and shoot for 325 laps. We raised a ton of $$ last season for the American Heart Association to give back to the "Broken Hearted", and I'm hoping that with your spare change we can beat that this year as well!

Everyone is invited to come skate laps for Broken Hearts with us on February 9th at Roller Time Skate Center (707 Arcadia Cir. Huntsville, AL) for a $10 donation (+$3 for skate rental).

OR

you can make a one-time donation online!

I've made it super easy... just click below to donate via paypal.

Donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

Thanks for all your support!

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, DODGE!

It's that time of year again, folks. The much-anticipated time of year when you can round up 10 of your rowdiest friends and throw them in the cage for all-out ball-busting battle for Dodgeball supremacy.

16 teams will dodge, duck, dip, dive, and DODGE their way through the tournament. The last team standing wins cash and our utmost respect (and believe me, that's a bunch.) Think you've got a team that contend? REGISTER HERE.

For those that want to come watch the assault (and believe me, its BRUTAL), you can catch the fun half-time antics as well as all the other excitment for $5 general admission.

5th Annual Dixie Derby Dodgeball Tournament
Saturday, March 13th noon
Lowe Mill (Below Flying Monkey Arts Center)
2211 Seminole Drive Huntsville, AL

See you there!

Broken Hearted Wheel Melt

Last night was the 3rd Annual Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon. Its a great event where each skater raises pledges per laps (or simple flat donations) to help the American Heart Association.

This year, I was challenged to skate over 250 laps in the 2 hour skate-a-thon time frame, or as my friend so nicely put it, he wanted to know how many it took to make my "little skate wheels melt". Well, I took that challenge, and was ready right at 6pm to start the wheel melting, dizzying warp speed lap journey.

In 2009, I tried counting my laps to myself as I went.... yea, that was a disaster. I apparently can't count past 5 in my head without forgetting what number I was on. So this year, I had a little hand held clicker that I could click each lap to keep track. I knew I had to do about 125 laps an hour to make the goal.

I started off strong, trying to keep a good pace. About 45 minutes into it, my back was aching pretty good from the left-turn leaning and crouched skater-stance. But check-in at the hour marker had been on course for my wheel melting goal. A quick stretch out, a little truckin' music, and I kicked it into high-gear for the last half of the skate-a-thon.

About 5 minutes left, I finally threw in the towel to seek out a quick back massage for my achy back! I called in my lap count, and waited to hear what my ranking was at the end of the tally.

For the 2010 Skate-a-thon, I skated a total of..........................

::DRUM ROLL PLEASE::

316 LAPS!

Oh yes, not only did my little skate wheels melt, but so did my poor legs and feet. I can hardly walk today, and I have all kinds of blisters on my feet from the aforementioned melting. (ewww, gross!) And although I didn't even need a defibrillator on site or a transplant heart from the American Heart Association, I sure did need an epsom salt bath, a heating pad and some shock therapy when I got done!

The finally tally of how many laps we've done as a league whole and how much we've raised overall for the skate-a-thon will not be released until next week when all the pledges are collected. I'm really excited to see what we raised for the AHA and how many laps we finished as a group. I think I came in 2nd or 3rd in overall laps skated as an individual.... yay! I'll keep you posted!

Big thanks to my supporters this year, whom helped me raise my pledged amount to over $200 for the AHA:

• Steve Barone
• Jennifer Stern
• Will Agee
• Bob Sykes
• Kris Combs aka Hell Razor
• Jimmy Pogue
• Robin Bernstein aka @RollerWomyn
• John Ramspott

Its not too late to help! Chip-in below until the 17th. Its tax deductible, and you're really helping a great cause!

Broken Hearted Skate-a-Thon

Can you spare a little change?

Its time for our Annual Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon, where we skate our very festively-dressed bootays off to raise money for the American Heart Association.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

You can come skate laps for Broken Hearts with us on February 10th at Roller Time Skate Rink (707 Arcadia Cir. Huntsville, AL) for a $10 donation (+$3 for skate rental).

OR

you can make a one-time donation online! I've made it super easy... just click below to donate via paypal.

Donations are TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

DDG's 1st Annual Powder Puff Football

We have some awesome new freshmeat, who are really spirited and coming up with some great new ideas to implement. Zombie Kitty and Erica SLAPton came up with the idea to host DDG's 1st Annual Powder Puff football game.

With fall in full swing, and football fever at its height, we figured DDG needed to hit the gridiron for a little action ourselves. About 14 of us signed up to sqaure off into two teams and play some good ole flag football. Carlos and Carson (coach and guard, respectively) from Huntsville's Womens' Football league, the Tennessee Valley Tigers came out to help coach us and ref the game.

The teams looked like this:

THE BOMB SQUAD (black)

• M'Shell O'BombHer
• Legally Bombed
• Snidely Bitchslap
• Blazin Barbie
• Nookie Monster
• Erica SLAPton
• Brutal Honey
• Coach: Carlos

BAMA BITCHES (pink)

• Bama Brewser
• Tallulah Skankhead
• Brigitte Badonkadonk
• eRacer X
• Pinky Tuscadero
• Zombie Kitty
• Bama's daughter, Sidney
• Coach: Carson

After a quick rules overview, and a few quick run-throughs (the extent of our practice for this game) it was coin toss time and away we went. Since catching and running seems to be my forte, I took on the Wide Receiver position.

The Black team had first possession, but we got in there for a safety, and the early lead. Back in our territory for our first possession, Sidney threw me a great pass that I was able to run in for a touchdown on the 2nd down. Some more great runs by our team put us up 22-0 at the half.

Second half, we came out just as strong. Black's defense was improving, but some great running plays by Sidney, Badonkadonk, and some great blocking by Zombie Kitty, Tallulah, and Pinky continued our scoring run. We even organized a beautiful pass-fake run that allowed me to run the ball down the field for my 4th touchdown of the game. There was some great teamwork on both sides, and I know they'll be plenty of good-natured ribbin' until next year's event.

I was pretty excited when they voted Sidney and I game MVPs. Kinda makes me want to give some Tiger Football a try next.... hmmmmm!

Final Score: 44-0 Bama Bitches (pink) over The Bomb Squad (black).

Up Next: Our last away game of the season against the Carolina Rollergirls in Raleigh, NC.