YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

We're a WFTDA Apprentice league!!!! YAY ROC CITY!

so!

last night, on a non-practice day, I actually exercised.

To quote Craig Ferguson, I KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ended up doing day two of the Roller Derby Workout stuff from the Facebook group (20 squats/60 second plank/20 lunges right leg/20 lunges left leg/60 second plank/20 pushups/30 second plank).  You're supposed to go through that five times, but I only got through it twice, and some of my 60 second planks were more like 45 second planks with a few collapses in the middle, BUT I DID THEM.  AND THEN I DID A BUNCH OF WII FIT STUFF, AND NOT JUST THE BALANCE GAMES.  I HULA-HOOPED FOR SIX MINUTES, DAMMIT, AMONGST OTHER THINGS.


So, there's that.


I've also switched to a smaller travel coffee mug so I only bring one cup's worth to work instead of two.  And if I have not sung the praises of Greek yogurt in a while, allow me to do it here.  OMFG GREEK YOGURT IS THE BEST, SRSLY.  IT TASTES JUST LIKE SOUR CREAM AND IS NO FAT AND HAS ELEVENTY BILLION GRAMS OF PROTEIN.  Like, wow.  It's a miracle food.

okay!

so last night's practice went much better.  We went around while stretching and told our goals for the upcoming season. Mine were:

1. Actually exercise on non-practice days; and
2. Not be such a negative, pessimistic person.

The captains and other people seemed to appreciate everyone's honesty in their goals, so I feel better about that.  Beyond that practice went really well; I realized that I can still do pushups, even if my chest doesn't touch the ground (and my knees are bent).  We worked on strategy and some new techniques.

So today, I have been told, is a rest day (wahoo) and then tomorrow we're supposed to do half an hour of stuff pretty hard.  Or something. :)

Oh, yesterday I also found out some super duper hyper yay fantastic news that I can't share yet. But it's most cool.  So that put me in a good mood as well.

Oh, and my brand-new kneepad broke last night.  One of the rivets ripped out of the fabric.  I've put an e-mail in to the guy who makes them, we'll see what he says.

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

Yesterday was the first Apolo Anton OhHELLno practice of the season.  I really hate and despise these practices because they're long and tiring and annoying and SUCK.  I DON'T LIKE DOING BURPEES.

I know I've said many times before that I don't like gradual changes in things; I don't notice them, so it's like, what's the point?  I also don't like accomplishing something and then being told "nope, not good enough."  My response is not "Oh, I guess that means I have to try harder!"  My response is "can't win; don't try."  Like, remember how excited I got when I could actually do pushups, only to learn that it's not a pushup if your chest doesn't touch the ground?  Or how I worked out really hard, like 3x a week only to not make the travel team last season?  Can't win, don't try.

I'm a very negative person, this I've learned.

oh, I just realized

I never said how my wheel combo decision went.  Black Stalkers and white Vanish worked beautifully.

first practice of the new year!

and I am soooo incredibly out of shape it isn't funny.  But so are a lot of other people, for which I am grateful.

I had a few people come up to me and ask administrative stuff ("is the practice on Thursday going to be a league meeting or scrimmage?") and I was like DON'T ASK ME BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I AM NOT ON THE BOARD THIS SEASON YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY (well, I didn't say the "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY" part).

happy 2011!

So I am SO COMPLETELY READY to play some roller derby, people!  (Well, maybe not SO COMPLETELY, as I still have not cleaned my bearings*.)   Our first team practice is tonight, YAAAAAAY, and I am going to be turning all the treasurer stuff to the new treasurer, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY, and just have some fun this year, because I am tired of life sucking.

One of my teammates got married on Saturday so a bunch of us were at the wedding and it was sooooooo much fun, although my legs hurt from dancing.  oops :)

*Somewhere in the last year or so I apparently became the league's bearing cleaning expert.  No idea how that happened.  But, if anyone reading this wants to learn how to turn one's bearings from FEELTHY FEELTHY bearings into SPARKLINGLY KLEEN bearings, these are what I use as my instructions.  And, if you accidentally break apart the bearing so that all the little balls fly all over the place, this video will show you how to put them together. And, if you're cleaning them outside on the steps of your house, and the little balls go flying everywhere in the crawlspace under your steps, they *are* magnetic, so you can tape a magnet to a knitting needle and dig around in the crawlspace trying to collect them.  Not that I've ever had to do that or anything.