Remember the post on “15 Minutes a Day” back at the end of October? I said I had two goals to work on in this very limited regular time: be able to do 20 push-ups and reach C above middle C, both by the end of the year. Today I did 13 push-ups, the most I have ever done in my life, I’m sure. (No, that’s not me in the picture, or even a stylized version of me.) So I’m on track to get to the 20. Yes, they’re just girly push-ups. (The spellcheck on this site seems to think that “pushups” isn’t a word.) But they’re my girly push-ups!
How about the vocalizing? I have been working on that one . . . some. And the reason why I haven’t been very faithful raises an interesting issue, one that I’ve talked about before: our propensity as humans to stop doing whatever it is that we need to do in solving a problem as soon as the problem abates, at which point the problem comes right back. So, if I faithfully use the nasal spray and the sinus medication I have then my chronic allergy symptoms die down. Then what happens? I quit doing those two things, because I don’t need to, because I’m feeling better . . . as which point the symptoms return. So I’m sitting here with the horrible raw scratchy feeling across the back of my throat that is the hallmark of my allergies. While I’ve reviewed my music faithfully and know much of it by heart, I’ve done very little singing over the past few days because I have no voice to speak of. (Or sing of.) I need to just keep on doing what works, because that’s all that does work. I will hope that by tomorrow evening I’ll be able to sing at rehearsal. We have only a few weeks before our next performance, so I don’t have a lot of time.
Another health/fitness endeavor comes in the area of my blood sugar. Many of you reading this post have similar issues, I’m sure. Tomorrow’s post will be on that topic.