10 Minutes- Playing Catchup on Piano and Welsh Tonight

Hi. It's Joe.

Tonight I practiced piano for an hour and Welsh for an hour.

Recall that my New Years Resolution was to practice piano and Welsh for 30 minutes thrice per week.

As such, I am going to count tonight's practices as two sessions each. Much like my weekly fitness challenge to workout for 45 minutes five times per week, when I do a double sesh (90 minutes in the case of working out), I can count it twice.

I was able to practice Welsh and piano on Monday this week. I would normally have practiced on Tuesday night, but then GUPPY EFFECT landed a sweet gig performing at the Capitol Ice Hockey Arena on 2/11/12. So Tuesday night was consumed with making this promotional flyer for the event.

It's going to be a really cool party. My band plays from 8 to 11 PM in a mezzanine overlooking two ice hockey arenas, with games going on the whole time. There's a bar too.

But anyway, back to my excuses for not practicing and subsequent redemption. Wednesday night is sacrosanct for Jeebus Preebus band practice, and even though we did not have full band practice Wednesday, Sir Psycho and I got together with my buddy Kyle and rehearsed my kickass rock song "ROUNDHOUSE." By the time I got home it was late and I was tired. I never usually count on doing anything but band practice on Wednesdays, so I didn't.

But tonight I did.

This is the first year I have really embraced new years resolutions. I think the reason why is that they are all POSITIVE resolutions. Instead of abstractions like lose weight, I am actually setting concrete doable goals.

It all began with my resolve at Halloween (not really a resolution, just a strategy) to do five light to moderate 45 minute workouts per week. It was an obtainable goal, and with the exception of the two weeks at Christmas, I was totally successful at it. I continue to be. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week, we had remarkably mild weather for January in Wisconsin. So I did 3-mile power walks each of those days at noon, killing 3 of the 5 workouts for this week, even while I slacked on piano and Welsh.

But tonight, piano and Welsh practice caught up to workouts. Due to the double marathon practices tonight, I have accomplished 3 sessions of piano, Welsh, and working out so far this week. My other fitness challenge, though not technically a NY resolution, is the follow a Paleo diet as strictly and for as long as I am able.

Time.