3 day weekend’s ftw
No workout Thursday night. School was having a seminar with Allen Hopkins. Normally I would have gone but having been gone so long I knew there was no chance of a stripe and I am still feeling a wee bit sensitive about weight etc, there is very little working out in the seminar’s its all technique so while good learning not so much good calorie burn.
Friday night is traditionally grocery shopping night so is one of my day’s off. I behaved at the store and didn’t buy anything I shouldn’t have. I did raid the vegetarian Amy’s brand sections for some nice veggie soups and enchiladas. Of course I view these as sides or base’s to add meat to cause I can’t see me giving up my meat any time soon. Don’t panic Pa, I’m never gonna go veggie 
I wandered through Sams club on thursday night as well, amazingly managed to get out without spending a fortune. With all my recent reading I am now firmly convinced that being afraid of carbs is a no no. It’s all down to the calories. Funny how we tend to go in circles in nutrition. That said I am looking at the quality of my calories. Quinoa and steel cut oats instead of caramel coloured white bread (what americans call ‘wheat bread’) etc. Good healthy whole foods, not processed junk.
That said I picked up some parmesan encrusted tilapia which was pretty good and even Koby liked, I am always on the lookout for something I can easily bake while I’m in the shower and serve for dinner as opposed to making us different meals. I also found some cod with a cracker based coating. Oh and my sams club finally started carrying the chicken and asaigo sausages a few people have told me are heavenly. They had some cooked up in the store for you to try and wow, talk about yummy. So we have a variety of grub to keep us going for a while.
Saturday didn’t quite work out for workouts. We ended up playing Rockband till 2am so a 9am workout class wasn’t happening. I planned to go to my ladies class at 11 instead but managed to sleep to late. Ho hum.. I did get to my guitar lesson though.
That was awesome. I decided to go with the actual guitar instead of bass in the end. I love my bass but I can apply a lot of what I learn from the guitar to the bass while not so much vice versa. I also gravitated to the bass cause I found it a lot easier to play with the thicker wider spaced strings. Now I have a proper teacher to show me stuff I think I will find it easier.
My teacher is awesome, he has way too much energy but it definitely helps inspire you First lessons are always a bit awkward but he showed me how to read tab which I already knew to some extent and showed me some chord changes and scales to work on. I am also learning Frera Jacka, woot! Thankfully we will be working up to the rock and metal He is gonna tab out Money by Pink Floyd for me which is pretty cool
My fingers are already sore and I barely played anything during the lesson, gonna start with 10 mins practice a night, hopefully that will let the callouses develop without shredding them completely.
