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[dragonlady7]

OK, this morning as I was leaving for practice I did something unpleasant to the muscles/nerves between my shoulder blades, with which I've had problems before, while lifting my heavy skate bag. It's been bothering me all day, despite a fairly liberal application of illicit Canadian codeine. So there's that. Grump grump.

MySpace has lived up to many of my fears, and has surprised me in some ways, most notably by being as slow to load, error-laden, and difficult to use as Livejournal was in the worst of its bad days back when it required an invite code for a user to sign up and was generally having terrible growing pains. I had sort of figured MySpace, being pretty overtly commercial, could manage to not suck so much, but... no. I've been trying for 45 minutes to add you back, rootsnradicals, but it keeps giving me really arcane error messages. (Actually about 5 out of 8 times I try to load a page it does that, and at this hour it's doing it, well, about 98% of the time.) [There's some math for ya!]

But, every single Queen City Rollergirl is on there, and I've already learned a lot of things about a lot of girls I'd been meaning to learn more about, so, I guess. I should stop going on and on about it now. (*shakes cane one last time*)

I have done a couple hours' research into socks. Someone mentioned having seen black and blue checkered socks and I have been earnestly searching, but have found no such thing. Tights, yes, but only available in the "90-160 pound" size, which would fit, oh, maybe four of my nine teammates. (Well, maybe five; I'm not so good at guaging sizes.) At any rate, not enough of us to qualify as "uniform".
I would love to find some really knockout-hot socks, especially as the rest of our uniforms are, well, rather plain. Not boring, mind you, they'll just be fairly solid-colored. So really really really hot socks would be a very good finishing touch, rather than making the outfit far too busy.

So if anyone sees any black and blue socks, or combinations thereof (we may wind up wearing layers-- several of us favor wearing tights with socks over them-- so, like, blue and white tights with black fishnets over them, or black patterned tights with blue striped socks over them, or things like that), please do let me know: I know some of you are clothes-horses.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

This won't help you, but now that I've read your post I can't get this song out of my head:

Black socks, they never get dirty
the longer you wear them the stronger they get
sometimes I think I should wash them
but something inside me keeps saying not yet! not yet! not yet!

white socks, they always get dirty
the longer you wear them the blacker they get
sometimes I think I should change them
and something inside me keeps saying right now! right now! right now!

There's a line about knee socks too...something about how they won't stay up, the longer you wear them the downer they get. but when you think about anklets, you decide not to do it...

[rootsnradicals.livejournal.com]

I think part of the problem is that you added me, and before I checked my friends requests, I added you. This definitely confused the myspace system. I think we are now friends, but there may still be some glitches. About once a week, the error messages become unbearable, but usually they're ok.

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

If you could come up with black and white checkered socks, you could consider dying them. If they are mostly cotton, they should dye well.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

It's a possibility. But I would be worried about dye bleeding under the stresses we'd be subjecting it to-- we do sweat a lot and the equipment can rub quite a bit, etc.. Although, as the pads are black anyway, it shouldn't matter...

Well, I'll keep the suggestion in mind, if I can do no better-- a lot of things do come in black and white, and it'd be easy enough to apply blue over the top. Thanks!

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

If you do that, get two packs of blue dye and use the amount of water recommended for one. Don't use a washer, use a pot on the stove and boiling water. Rinse them thoroughly in cold, dry in a hot dryer, then wash in very hot water. That should get rid of most of the dye that will bleed.

[scarlin.livejournal.com]

check out this page for socks :)
http://www.sheplayssports.com/SPSSocks.html

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Ah-ha. Now those are some socks.

Thanks! (and hi, btw!)

:)