Physical and musical exercise
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annathepiperLOTS of walking today. Got in my new morning mile, and also some walking in the evening, as I took the bus home rather than riding home with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat--he had to go by his old apartment complex and do a walkthrough with his former landlord, to get formally moved out and stuff. So I got in 2.25 miles doing that, with both the Montlake-to-U-Village and LFP-to-home walks coming into play. Felt good all around.
And for extra energy spending goodness, I did a round of the Great Big Guitar Workout tonight. "Mari-Mac" perfection continues to elude me, for lo, I cannot belt it out quite properly in the key of E minor, and I am not quite sure yet what key I like better. A minor is good for my voice--but the chords don't have quite as much body as they do in E minor. Also, I still can't sing either "Ordinary Day" or "When I'm Up", and I'm not sure if this is a matter of not knowing the chords solidly enough yet; I can't quite get into that necessary zen state for playing them without thinking about it, while singing at the same time.
Unfortunately, the Walk to Rivendell has no accommodation for burning calories through vigorous guitar playing, although I think it damn well should. Middle-Earth would be immensely more lively with a Great Big Sea soundtrack.
Tuesday miles: 3.25
Miles out of Hobbiton: 262.65
Miles to Rivendell: 195.35
spazzkat--he had to go by his old apartment complex and do a walkthrough with his former landlord, to get formally moved out and stuff. So I got in 2.25 miles doing that, with both the Montlake-to-U-Village and LFP-to-home walks coming into play. Felt good all around.And for extra energy spending goodness, I did a round of the Great Big Guitar Workout tonight. "Mari-Mac" perfection continues to elude me, for lo, I cannot belt it out quite properly in the key of E minor, and I am not quite sure yet what key I like better. A minor is good for my voice--but the chords don't have quite as much body as they do in E minor. Also, I still can't sing either "Ordinary Day" or "When I'm Up", and I'm not sure if this is a matter of not knowing the chords solidly enough yet; I can't quite get into that necessary zen state for playing them without thinking about it, while singing at the same time.
Unfortunately, the Walk to Rivendell has no accommodation for burning calories through vigorous guitar playing, although I think it damn well should. Middle-Earth would be immensely more lively with a Great Big Sea soundtrack.
Tuesday miles: 3.25
Miles out of Hobbiton: 262.65
Miles to Rivendell: 195.35
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-27 03:44 am (UTC)Of course, an audience of hobbits gives an entirely new look to what happens when Alan bellows "VERTICAL MOVEMENT!"
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Date: 2005-07-27 06:02 am (UTC)The above fluffs up amusing images in my mind. :)
I sing in a very high key, and what you were saying reminded me of the time I tried to pick out STSO by TOFOG, and was getting confused because i had to first pick out the lower key, them make my way up higher. Though, by the time I was done, I botched the song so horribly, no one knew what the song was, lol.
I can't quite get into that necessary zen state for playing them without thinking about it, while singing at the same time.
Ug, I so understand that. This is why when i had my band, I refused to play any instruments as I needed to focus on singing. How you do it baffles me, and you are a hero in my book ;)
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Date: 2005-07-27 03:35 pm (UTC)Ah now, when it comes to TOFOG, I rarely have problems matching Russell's range. Are you a soprano? I seem to be more in the mezzosoprano/alto ballpark, so usually Russell's notes are pretty good match for me. (Not always--I can't sing "Somebody Else's Princess" in its recorded key, for example. But!)
And awww gosh. *^_^* I'm still not particularly expert at the whole Singing and Playing at the Same Time thing, but thank you! So far, as near as I can tell, the way it seems to work for me is #1, not think about it too hard because if I do I'll screw it up, and #2, to try to think of the act of making a song as something that my hands and my voice have to work together to do. Sort of an extension of having my hands doing different things when I'm playing my guitar or my bouzouki, really.
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Date: 2005-07-27 07:19 am (UTC)Capo. That way you keep the same chord voicings.
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Date: 2005-07-27 02:28 pm (UTC)Doranna Durgin
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Date: 2005-07-31 03:56 am (UTC)I've also read the Peytabee books she did with Anne McCaffrey, though I found them kind of fluffy. And I've got Songs from the Seashell Archive's first volume, but I haven't read that in ages.
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Date: 2005-08-26 05:39 pm (UTC)And I'm doing pretty well!
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Date: 2005-08-26 06:48 pm (UTC)Glad to know you're doing okay.
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Date: 2005-07-31 04:06 am (UTC)I like walking with music on the treadmill--otherwise it'll drive me nuts. If I'm walking outside, though, I actually prefer to have no music at all these days. I'm just kind of grooving on listening to the wind and the birds. Once I get down to the bottom of the hill I live on I have to deal with traffic noise, but that's only for a few minutes. Happily, the noise doesn't carry very far up the hill at all.
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Date: 2005-07-31 09:06 pm (UTC)I miss taking those long walks though. The weather has just been way too hot, and half the time I barely want to go out the door to head into work (especially when the heat index is 95 AT NIGHT). We've had a break the last few days, but they're saying the heat and humidity are on the way back. Yep...just in time for August. :-P
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Date: 2005-08-06 06:18 pm (UTC)Sympathies about the heat! I've definitely gotten to be more of a heat wuss, as I think I've posted before, thanks to living up here for 16 years now (damn, it actually has been that long). Kentucky heat would probably flatten me now!
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Date: 2005-08-06 08:14 pm (UTC)As for quiet....I savor it so much. *g*
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Date: 2005-08-27 06:27 pm (UTC)I've been more temperature-sensitive since last year's thyroid surgery, too... it'll be interesting to see if that continues or stabilizes now that I am totally thyroid-deprived.
My sinuses have been crankier since I moved to Kenmore, too. I am pretty sure that it shouldn't be a matter of being in a different climate; Kenmore is really essentially 'Seattle', locale-wise and climate-wise both. The only difference now is that I live on the north side of Lake Washington instead of on the west side. And there's a bit of a difference in altitude as well.
I wind up having to take an antihistamine on a fairly regular basis these days--usually an allergy med, which helps better than just a regular dose of Sudafed. I begin to wonder if I have developed an allergy to something that I just haven't had confirmed yet.
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Date: 2005-08-27 10:06 pm (UTC)You know, I never really had sinus problems with the intensity of what my mother suffered, but then after I started using fingerprint powders in my job I think I became more sensitive and the next thing I knew, I was worse than ever! My doctor said he thought the powders might have aggravated it, but since he'd never had a patient who worked crime scenes he wasn't sure.
I have a feeling that THAT, along with other things in the air get me. I can walk out the door in the spring, smell fresh cut grass, and feel my throat tightening up as my eyes water!
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Date: 2005-08-31 03:19 pm (UTC)Have you ever been tested for allergies? I need to do that at some point.
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Date: 2005-09-01 05:41 pm (UTC)I remember when I visited Vancouver one year and my sinuses were just feeling great. The second I stepped off the plane in Louisville -- we were on one of the small jets which deplanes you on the tarmac -- my eyes started watering and my head clogged up! LOL I can't believe that's ALL my imagination either!
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Date: 2005-09-23 06:35 pm (UTC)And no, I wouldn't think that experience with the travel from Vancouver to Louisville would be your imagination at all. They are in two completely different climate zones, so I'd totally buy that you'd get slammed upside the head once you re-entered Louisville if there's something local that irritates your system.
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Date: 2005-09-24 05:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-29 05:14 pm (UTC)Dara orders a New Zealand equivalent of Allegra to take care of her allergies, and gets shots from a local clinic as well. That seems to do the job.