4 days down
So immediately after I committed to six days in a row of working out, I got sick. It's just a cold, not too horrible but it still sucks. So I took it easy on my workouts over the weekend. Friday afternoon I did Low Impact Step because I wasn't sick yet and I didn't have time for anything longer. Saturday I felt crappy but I needed a few things from the store so I used that as an excuse to walk to the store. I ended up walking for about an hour and it felt good to be outside (the weather was amazing all weekend.) Yesterday I was feeling pretty crappy all day but I had a rock concert to go to last night so I rested up all day. I didn't do a formal workout but I spent 4 hours standing up so I'm counting it. If I wasn't sick, I wouldn't have let that slide but I'm counting it.
The concert was a blast! We took the kids to Club Congress to go see Ludo. The doors were supposed to open at 6:00 so we decided to eat dinner right before the show at the restaurant inside the Hotel Congress (a super-old hotel in downtown Tucson). The place looked a little sketchy but I read some glowing reviews online so we tried it. The food turned out to be really, really good. Emily got a burger as big as her head. Nick got a giant pastrami sandwich, Sean got a veggie sandwich with roasted red bell pepper and brie and I got the falafel, which was awesome. After we were done eating it was 6:10 so we headed over to pick up our tickets from will call and got pointed to a line out the door. So we go wait in line and we can hear that they're still doing sound check. They didn't open the doors until 6:30. So anyway, we finally get to the front of the line, they look us up on the list and then we go over to the ID checking guy (they were giving wristbands to the grownups and drawing X's on the kids.) So the guy automatically gives Sean a wrist band and then he asks me, "Over 21? or under 21?" and I go "over" and he goes "I need to see your ID". BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So then we all got T-shirts and they gave away a copy of the CD with every T-shirt so now we have 4 extra copies.
So we go in and this place is seriously the 2nd tiniest venue I've ever been to (the tiniest was a crap-hole bar in Murfreesboro, TN that had ply-wood on sawhorses for tables). Anyway, the place was teeny-tiny. So tiny that I found myself wondering how an actual rock band would fit on the stage. So tiny that I started doing the math in my head: I figured there were maybe 300 people in there at $13 a head, they made about $3900 to split between 4 bands and the venue.
Anyway, the first band was called The Graduate and they were pretty good. They made me wonder when rock bands stopped looking like rock bands and started looking like the AV club or perhaps the guys who run the college radio station. The second band was called Eye Alaska and they were lame. Really lame. Like mullets and scarves lame. The third band was called The Higher and they were pretty good. They did a very rocking cover of "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync, which was cool (Sean loves covers). Then about the time we were tired and sore and ready to go home, the band we actually paid to see came on. They were great! The singer's a total goofball. In the middle of one of the songs, he stopped to tell "a story about his life" and after a few sentences, we realized he was telling the plot of "Die Hard". They ended with their only hit, "Love Me Dead" and then they came back for an encore and played "Ghostbusters"
As we were leaving, Emily saw one of her friends from school. Then on the way out the door the singer was walking in so we got him to sign one of the CDs (so now we only have 3 extras.)
Sean took a bunch of video of the show with his camera (he ran out of memory during "Ghostbusters" but he got the entire "Die Hard" thing). We haven't edited it into a movie yet but when we do, we'll stream it on our website. We haven't gotten around to editing the video from the Ben Folds show either, in case you were wondering.
So here's where I'm at workout-wise:
Day 1 (Thursday): Step Blast *check*
Day 2 (Friday): Low Impact Step *check*
Day 3 (Saturday): 60 minute walk *check*
Day 4 (Sunday): 4 hours of rocking out at a concert *check*
Day 5 (Monday): will probably go for a 30 minute walk with Sean if he's feeling up to it (he's sick too), otherwise, I'll do something easy at home.
Day 6: (Tuesday): If I'm up to a real workout, I'll probably go to the gym with Sean, otherwise, I'll probably go for another walk.
The concert was a blast! We took the kids to Club Congress to go see Ludo. The doors were supposed to open at 6:00 so we decided to eat dinner right before the show at the restaurant inside the Hotel Congress (a super-old hotel in downtown Tucson). The place looked a little sketchy but I read some glowing reviews online so we tried it. The food turned out to be really, really good. Emily got a burger as big as her head. Nick got a giant pastrami sandwich, Sean got a veggie sandwich with roasted red bell pepper and brie and I got the falafel, which was awesome. After we were done eating it was 6:10 so we headed over to pick up our tickets from will call and got pointed to a line out the door. So we go wait in line and we can hear that they're still doing sound check. They didn't open the doors until 6:30. So anyway, we finally get to the front of the line, they look us up on the list and then we go over to the ID checking guy (they were giving wristbands to the grownups and drawing X's on the kids.) So the guy automatically gives Sean a wrist band and then he asks me, "Over 21? or under 21?" and I go "over" and he goes "I need to see your ID". BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! So then we all got T-shirts and they gave away a copy of the CD with every T-shirt so now we have 4 extra copies.
So we go in and this place is seriously the 2nd tiniest venue I've ever been to (the tiniest was a crap-hole bar in Murfreesboro, TN that had ply-wood on sawhorses for tables). Anyway, the place was teeny-tiny. So tiny that I found myself wondering how an actual rock band would fit on the stage. So tiny that I started doing the math in my head: I figured there were maybe 300 people in there at $13 a head, they made about $3900 to split between 4 bands and the venue.
Anyway, the first band was called The Graduate and they were pretty good. They made me wonder when rock bands stopped looking like rock bands and started looking like the AV club or perhaps the guys who run the college radio station. The second band was called Eye Alaska and they were lame. Really lame. Like mullets and scarves lame. The third band was called The Higher and they were pretty good. They did a very rocking cover of "Bye Bye Bye" by NSync, which was cool (Sean loves covers). Then about the time we were tired and sore and ready to go home, the band we actually paid to see came on. They were great! The singer's a total goofball. In the middle of one of the songs, he stopped to tell "a story about his life" and after a few sentences, we realized he was telling the plot of "Die Hard". They ended with their only hit, "Love Me Dead" and then they came back for an encore and played "Ghostbusters"
As we were leaving, Emily saw one of her friends from school. Then on the way out the door the singer was walking in so we got him to sign one of the CDs (so now we only have 3 extras.)
Sean took a bunch of video of the show with his camera (he ran out of memory during "Ghostbusters" but he got the entire "Die Hard" thing). We haven't edited it into a movie yet but when we do, we'll stream it on our website. We haven't gotten around to editing the video from the Ben Folds show either, in case you were wondering.
So here's where I'm at workout-wise:
Day 1 (Thursday): Step Blast *check*
Day 2 (Friday): Low Impact Step *check*
Day 3 (Saturday): 60 minute walk *check*
Day 4 (Sunday): 4 hours of rocking out at a concert *check*
Day 5 (Monday): will probably go for a 30 minute walk with Sean if he's feeling up to it (he's sick too), otherwise, I'll do something easy at home.
Day 6: (Tuesday): If I'm up to a real workout, I'll probably go to the gym with Sean, otherwise, I'll probably go for another walk.
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