What's Your Most Recent NSV

I play Ultimate. It's a really fun game. I've probably been playing for 20 years. I was never much into team sports. I played basketball in high school. But Ultimate is very different. No referees. Everybody calls their own fouls. "Spirit of the game" and all. Some of my most favorite games have happened to be games where my team scored fewer points than the other team (we lost), but it was against another team that exhibited a lot of that spirit.

I play in the "B" division and have for at least a decade. I'm getting old. Every year when the season is over (I play summer recreational league and sometimes spring league, but not fall or winter), I say, "Well, that's it. I think I'm retiring my cleats. I'm getting to old for this excrement." Then spring comes, and I say, "Well. Maybe......"

Summer league was cancelled in 2020. In 2021 it was a "draft" league instead of a team league. I opted out. I had lost my weight in 2018 and 2019, so I had felt a little faster that last year before COVID. This year it's back to a team league. We got many of the old (and most of us ARE older) team back together and recruited some new people. I had not yet donated my cleats to someone else, and I'm back at it.

That's the back story. Now the two NSVs. One last week, one this week.

Last week: I got to the fields early since I no longer am a wage slave. I got my cleats on, and a few people had just started to show up. Never one to run without a reason, I'm not sure what got into me, but I grabbed my disc and ran a couple laps around the field to warm up. Way in the past I might have jogged part way around the field. Nope. Full on trot. Then during our warm-up on field, I was practicing making cuts. Little sprints. That kind of thing. It all felt good. I played pretty well, and I had good field sense. I caught a couple points, and I threw a couple. All good. I was sore the next day, but ... duh.

This week: The team we played this week had a lot of fast players. Last week I matched up with someone faster than I for a point or two. One point someone on the team asked, "Everyone OK with who they're matched up with?" I said no, but when he offered to switch I also said no. I guess that's a second, but a distraction from THIS WEEK....

So there I am covering one of their faster players. During a turnover or some pause in play, he looked at me and said, "Dude, you are FAST." I denied it, but he insisted. I don't think I'm fast, but I did notice later that if I was paying attention and one of their fast people I was covering made a sprint to go long, I could keep up and that would sometimes keep the disc from coming to them. I could get faked off, but also was doing pretty good to just keep up.

I guess that's three.

Sadly, I may have injured myself tonight. I hope not... I want to play next week. We should lose next week. We play an A division team. I bet they will be a fun team to play, even if we lose.

Standing for an entire concert and only sitting when the performers were talking was my most recent NSV!! my feet did hurt still but i toughed it out hehe, i felt so great after that night!

I exercised on a Sunday! I usually nap and be lazy, but Belize in January has me extra motivated.

For about a year now I've been waking myself up by hearing myself snoring. Most days. I just realised that I must have gone 3-4 days in a row without waking myself up. I know that it's going to come back depending on my nose being blocked etc but 3-4 days is pretty much unheard of before now.

I went for my annual physical recently and got my test results back yesterday. My cholesterol and fasting blood glucose levels are down by 10 points from what they were pre-weight loss. Woo hoo!

Size 10 shorts are somewhat big.

Did Elliptical, 215 minutes for 16.3 miles. The amazing thing is I used the arm poles the whole time. I've never done that before as my arms would get tired. I had a total of 4 different ways I would place my hands. On the handle bars and 2 different ways on the mileage/timer console. My mileage was about 13.2 minutes/mile. A bit faster pace!

springlering62 wrote: »

Going overseas to help daughter move.

In a small student sized backpack I have painting clothes, two sets of workout gear, jammies, a dress and five changes of clothes, including jeans and shorts and a jacket, since it gets chill there in the evenings.

There’s plenty of room left over in the backpack for the Nutter Butters and Samoas she asked me to bring. My checked bag is full of painting and moving supplies, and gifts.

In the old days, larger clothes would have taken up the entire checked bag.

I keep reviewing my list because, surely, I’ve forgotten something. It doesn’t seem normal to be able to get by with a backpack.

I love this! How awesome that you're carrying a "lighter load" in more ways than one!!!
My younger sister always manages to pack in the smallest possible suitcase. I always "wonder" how she does it - I'm a minimalist packer and she's not, but my suitcase is always bigger! In reality - I know why - she's tiny and I'm not. But I'll get there someday!

IAmTheGlue wrote: »

I have had a shift of mindset. I was picking up my new, smaller sized clothes thinking “That will never fit” but this morning I picked up a pair of my older pants and was thinking “that is too big. It will never fit” Somehow my brain accepted my new size of clothes as actually belonging to me! 😀😀😀

Congratulations of moving towards getting past the dysmorphia of the new you!

I have that sometimes. I had it happen on Tuesday. I've been shopping for some "vintage retro" clothes for a funky wedding I'm going to soon. I already had the perfect shirt, but my funky pants don't really fit their theme. I can just wear a pair of slacks because... I never do that.... Anyway, one thing I've noticed about shopping for this kind of thing is that I sometimes have better luck if I wander to the women's section of the thrift shop. I've been accumulating funky clothes for some festivals I attend most years.

I found the perfect pair of pants. But the fitting rooms are closed. It's a woman's size, so I have no idea if it would have fit. Plus, with all the vanity sizing - no way to tell without trying it on. I also noticed the tiny tiny pockets. I put it back on the rack. I still wonder if maybe it would have fit. I thought, "No; too small." Then I thought, "You don't even realize how small your clothes have gotten lately." I suppose I could go back. I bet they'll still be there tomorrow or over the weekend. I can bring a tape measure and get a good idea because I know what they should MEASURE.