Death of a Cat

My barely 1 year old cat had to be put down last night after a month of poor health ended in him lying in a puddle of his own dripping urine.  What we originally had been told was a urine infection, and then maybe urine stones in his bladder was in fact his kidneys failing.  With no apparent cause, the best thing to do was to simply put him down as he would most likely relapse as soon as he returned home.  RIP Turkey Bacon aka Jerkface Kitty.

Meltdown

I am terribly broke and depressed and I think it's time for me to move back across the country so that I can get a better job because I can't even get an interview for the life of me here but I don't want to tell my SO because it will mean breaking up.  Anxiety is a powerful force in my life and right now its hitting me with full force and I can barely breathe.  I don't know what to do and I mostly just cry.  I keep thinking, I just need to get through a couple more months, this summer...  I don't know.  But I'm 30 and educated and need a job.

Wheel Review- Heartless

So after playing my first season exclusively on Radar Flat-Outs, last August I took the plunge and bought new wheels.  My rational for not changing them earlier was simply that I wasn't a skilled enough skater to take advantage of any better wheels.  Realistically, it may have been the case that they were holding me back.  So last August I ordered in some new wheels, Heartless Voodoo and Breakers.  These were the Burgundy (Voodoo, 86a) and Red (Breaker, 92a) wheels if you go by the colour coding system.  They look like this:

I put them on my skates, and tried them out during our off season, when we hold boot camps for potential new recruits.  After a couple of clumsy cross-overs, I was skating them just fine...  And I loved them.  Nice and narrow, responsive, and light!, and I was immediately more comfortable lifting my feet and moving around the track, jumping, slicing, running and spinning.

As time wore on, I got more comfortable with the idea of harder wheels, and ended up with Creepers (90a) and Vanish (96a), and I've used those pretty comfortably on some pretty slick surfaces.  I've heard people say that things like snowplows took time to relearn or remaster, but I didn't find it true for myself.

Personally, I think they are a great wheel for a mid-point price range.  You can get them here, but I'm in no way affliated with that site, I just <3 Rollergirl.ca.  I also don't necessarily agree with their assessment of what these wheels are and aren't good for.