Wow it's been a while

Every time i sit down to type a post i'm like well... should i write about this... no this... no maybe this... no that seems boring or self involved how about this? nope that's lame...before i know it 20 minutes have passed i'm staring at a blank screen and i start day dreaming of ice cream or tacos or fried pickles and i've closed out the window and let my blog go for yet another week. (ps what is a blog if not self involved... what is wrong with me...)

SO things have been fun and crazy and sometimes not fun. More recently i just came back from a real life grown up vacation!  It all started with going to California LA to be exact to skate in this awesome tournament Battle of the Bank VI. Our league got very short notice so i started a fiverr account with gigs to raise some money. Instead of just asking people for money for nothing. Some people got the concept... some didn't. It's ok. It combined my love for writing and making shit up with raising money. Cool. My fiverr is still active because now i'll just do it for fun. (in case you were interested.)

So back to LA and BOTBVI... Well LA, i still have a friend who lives out there and she had a cute baby in September so i was all about going to LA for this derby event. The husband was all about it too. He gets excited about things that get me excited he is cute like that (you can barf now). So we planned our trip, got excited, some time passed and the husband had the brilliant idea of adding more days and heading to Colorado! Denver, Boulder, and surrounding areas. SO our vacation went from 5 days (1 day of travelish) to 11 days (1 day of travel for certain)!!

The BOTBVI was fun and amazing and i wrote a little about it here... go ahead click on it and read. It made me appreciate OSDA rules more than ever and the game my league strives to play. But i gained a little respect for what other rule sets are doing as well since they have a big arena with everything in it... a guy selling fresh made cookies stuffed with  ice cream that he then rolled in cookie crumbs... come on! A chiropractor and a massage therapist... and a freaking sewing company that makes uniforms and derby wear in general.. you don't have a complete shit game if you have all that going on!

My friend in Cali has a really cute baby. She was a little cranky with the "i'm teething don't even look at me unless your mommy" syndrome kids get. But my friend lives in a very lovely home with a super nice boyfriend. She seems happy for once in her life, are things 100% perfect NO b/c nothing ever is but she seems more adjusted and happy in this life than i have seen her in a really long time. So that was nice to see.

Cali in general was pretty & sad at the same time. it's a giant rolled up ball of feelings for me always. It represents a time in my life when i thought all the members of my little family were happiest. It's were i got to go to Disneyland all the time and my mom had friends and my sister seemed happy. Yes i was like 3 to 9 when we lived there but things seemed great. But it's also sad because it's so crowded and smoggy and there were so many homeless people. It's a rolled up ball of feelings i tell you. Also we took surfing lessons out there... so much fun!

Colorado... was amazing. We ate, hiked, ate, ate, hiked, ate, explored, shopped, ate, saw the rocky mountains, ate, did i say ate?  We relaxed and enjoyed ourselves, each other, and the state of Colorado. I skated with a league out there the Denver Derby Dolls.  They were all super friendly and kind.  Their rules are totally different than my leagues but they were understanding and helpful. I saw them skate some pretty sweet moves on the track even if i don't understand their rules.

So vacation was awesome but now i'm back to real life and this post took me 2 days and in those 2 days a co-worker of mine passed away in his sleep.  He was 49, and i was just talking to him yesterday. They don't know what happened yet and it's all a bit unbelievable still. He was super nice and always did what i asked (which is rare around here).  He will be missed greatly and i feel terrible for his poor wife that went to sleep with a husband and woke up with none. So tonight (tomorrow or whenever you read this) tell the people that are important to you that you love them. Hug them and squeeze them and laugh with them as much as you can. We never know about the next moment, we can only enjoy this one right now!