Your band sounds amazing! I have great respect for anyone who starts learning an instrument as an adult.
Best of luck with the macros: I hate tracking but I know it's a sensible thing to do.
Thanks Llama! We're kind of a mess but not at all serious as a band. I think we're self-correcting in that we all WANT to sound great, individually, but pointing fingers at others in the band who play bad just isn't acceptable and everybody's cool. So because of this we can sound either pretty good, or absolutely terrible at any gig
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. If we sound terrible, our ridiculous outfits are a good distraction.
I don't know why but this made me giggle.
I really feel for you with the broken fridge and freezer throwing all the nice diet plans out the window. It really is an example of, 'Man makes plans and God laughs.' Anyway, I hope your new strategy works for you!
That's so cool you only took up the trumpet during Covid and are already competent enough to play in a band! Fantastic!
Hah! I love that phrase about laughing at the plans. That has been my experience since I restarted this journal. D'oh! And regarding 'competent' - jury's definitely still out on that one!
Yeah - you know you're exhausted when you fall asleep sitting up watching Shrek - so much screaming and shouting going on!
Oh, I love your band without hearing or seeing it. Irreverence is a wonderful word, as is embouchure (I didn't know that one).
Edited at 5 pm our time. My husband, G got home from golf today & told me one of our younger friends who just turned 53 is going over to see Teddy Swims in concert & that we should listen to some of his music. We just did & we liked it. I see he comes from Georgia. Have you seen or heard of him?
His name isn't familiar to me but my kids almost surely know of him. I see he grew up in Conyers, which is about 10 miles from where we lived when my kids were small.
Liza3 - you're multisectional! Clarinet AND flute! And piano! Great stuff.
Today's attempt to calm my body image/fitness/diet flailing...
I am back solidly to all-or-nothing binges due to the fridge/freezer situation throwing me into a scarcity mindset, which despite my being aware of it, always triggers me into binge eating or overeating. Bugger it. This is REALLY messing with my head. I was aware this morning that anxiety and depressionwise, I'm in survival mode. Get-through-the-next-hour mode. I won't have a fridge/freezer for some days yet. Don't know when. Out of my control (control! Another reason to binge!). It's ridiculous. Nobody is making me buy this bad stuff.
I didn't do any exercise at all yesterday, and this is NOT going to do me any mental health favors.
Ok - yesterday is in the past. Let's go forwards.
I sit here post-binge, with lots of sugar and fat giving me a nice calming high. In this state I can assure myself that in the future between now and whenever I get my stomach back down to a size I like, I will not have any desire to eat unhealthy food at all. I hate that I keep doing this to myself.
Today, as soon as this overstuffed belly goes down I will do my lower body workout. I did go for an hour's walk earlier. I was upset, crying and raging, but by the time I was finished I felt much better. I have just checked the forecast and it looks like tomorrow morning will be great weather to finally get out for a few hours' skate. Oh man. I cannot wait. I just want to feel normal again. I want my brain to be healthy again. Got to make it through the rest of the day today without any more anxiety fits or binges. What an idiot I am. I don't understand how I can't control myself any better than this.