Wednesday, April 8

Several Things

1. Last night I started the Naples Permaculture and Edible Forest Garden Meetup. People are joining, including a teacher of such, and I'm so outrageously excited I can hardly stand it. Our first meetup isn't until May, and now I'm wanting it to be sooner. Patience, Grasshopper, eh?

2. Kali's show was great. The content of the play is a bit dated conceptually (How To Eat Like A Child), even with update for details, but the kids rocked it, and Kali's voice was a delight. Not just because I'm her mom, either. She really nailed it. She was mostly Arlene, but played several other characters as well. "I Feel Sick" was her main piece, with solos.

3. I finally had a moment of gnosis on the guitar. It was the guitar, piano, guitar lightbulb. Did scales naturally, got the strings/frets/notes thing without much muddling, and found meaning in a 1, 3, 5, 7 C chord on the guitar for the first time. Got it. Got it, got it. And it rocked. And I have the beginning of callouses. Fierce.

4. My orchids are blooming, which I love.

5. The biggest, baddest most kick-ass thing? Tim and I got up this morning and did our first p90x workout. Chest and back. And we took photos. We don't need to lose weight, but both are looking for more strength, endurance and flexibility while gaining the others. We did a modified version of it, for injuries and to avoid them. So we did about a 1/4 to 1/2 version, modified all the movements, used the Total Gym for the pull ups and inclined pushups. It still rocked.

My voice is resonant, like after yoga, and I have a little burn. We made a whey protein isolate, water, cocoa, brown sugar, green tea extract shake for after. I am a monstahhh! Jah!

2 comments:

Mike McDonnell said...

Give more info on the P90x! Sounds interesting! Go for it on the gut box! Let's play together.

riotwife said...

Wow, beautiful flowers! I can't wait for warmer weather so I can get out in the garden; that's my workout!