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catsittingstill I try to exercise regularly, and since I never seem to have enough time, this usually involves walking near my house rather than going to the gym, because that way all the time involved can be devoted to exercise rather than wasting some of it driving.
But today the weather was miserable even by my standards; it just would. Not. Quit. Raining and I was feeling very unambitious, so I drove over to the Carson Newman gym and rode the stationary recumbent bike there and read my book. I haven't biked in quite a long time, and while I didn't set the resistance very high I did pedal for 50 minutes, dripping sweat most of the time, and my knees felt quite funny when I stopped. Funny enough that walking up the stairs to walk myself cool on the indoor track did not appeal and I walked up and down the hallway a few times instead.
It's good to do different things for exercise I guess, just to keep the muscles up for different activities, but I will probably mostly walk still. It's just so much more convenient.
I'm working on learning a couple of new pieces on the mandolin. One is Harvest Home which Tim Walker mentioned at FKO and which I found online. The other is a piece one of my old boyfriends used to play and I expect the only way to find out its name will be to play it well enough to put up a recording and ask. I don't know of any way to search on notes, and it has no lyrics. But I guess I can do that.
And I've been practicing vocals for my newer songs, since if all goes well I will start recording in a couple of months. Some of the older newer songs I had kind of set aside by this point, so I hadn't worked on getting all their vowels nice and everything, and it's interesting to hear the changes taking place as I practice the vocals as vocals, instead of singing them while concentrating on the mandolin. It also gives me a chance to think about which ones are ...not the cleverest or the newest, but the nicest sounding when sung, which is something I ought to be considering as I choose what will go on the next CD
But today the weather was miserable even by my standards; it just would. Not. Quit. Raining and I was feeling very unambitious, so I drove over to the Carson Newman gym and rode the stationary recumbent bike there and read my book. I haven't biked in quite a long time, and while I didn't set the resistance very high I did pedal for 50 minutes, dripping sweat most of the time, and my knees felt quite funny when I stopped. Funny enough that walking up the stairs to walk myself cool on the indoor track did not appeal and I walked up and down the hallway a few times instead.
It's good to do different things for exercise I guess, just to keep the muscles up for different activities, but I will probably mostly walk still. It's just so much more convenient.
I'm working on learning a couple of new pieces on the mandolin. One is Harvest Home which Tim Walker mentioned at FKO and which I found online. The other is a piece one of my old boyfriends used to play and I expect the only way to find out its name will be to play it well enough to put up a recording and ask. I don't know of any way to search on notes, and it has no lyrics. But I guess I can do that.
And I've been practicing vocals for my newer songs, since if all goes well I will start recording in a couple of months. Some of the older newer songs I had kind of set aside by this point, so I hadn't worked on getting all their vowels nice and everything, and it's interesting to hear the changes taking place as I practice the vocals as vocals, instead of singing them while concentrating on the mandolin. It also gives me a chance to think about which ones are ...not the cleverest or the newest, but the nicest sounding when sung, which is something I ought to be considering as I choose what will go on the next CD
