working out for Disney

[MandyMouse]

That does look fun, but it looks pretty high impact. I wonder if I could even do it.

It's definitely a little tough to keep up with at first, but once you get in the rhythm of things it gets a lot easier.

 

[Songbird76]

It's definitely a little tough to keep up with at first, but once you get in the rhythm of things it gets a lot easier.

I forgot to say welcome to the thread. So welcome!
Yes, I'm sure it would take some practice, but I'm more worried about the physical demand. I have bursitis in my hip and it makes certain motions excruciating. I'm mostly ok walking now, though once in a while, I step wrong and it sends a shooting pain through. I'd like to get back to doing more FUN workouts with a bit more of the dance, but I'm afraid I'll end up where I was a year ago when I could hardly walk. I've already had 2 injections in my hip and I've heard you can only have 3 in one area or it starts breaking down the cartilage or something? So I'm very careful with it.

 

[Sans Souci]

Ah, come back home and we can go to RiverNorth downtown.

@Sans Souci how old is the detector. They won't stop going off if they hit their end of life span eventually will go off every 30 seconds. Just did that last week. Check the date.

I am probably going back for a visit at the end of the summer. My mother and my grandmother are here visiting me--so sorry about the late response to you. They have brought some Chicago Mix and some Fannie May. I am not big on Fannie May, but my son will eat any sort of chocolate.


I don't know how old the detector is. It was here when we moved in last summer. We've removed it and we have Kidde ones now.

 

[Sans Souci]

Batten down the hatches!!

My smoke detector randomly went off yesterday morning. We changed the battery and it stopped, but the battery low indicator is supposed to be a chirp, not a full out blast. Glad your tech didn't charge you--keep his number handy!

I hope that broker has your house on the Multiple Listing Service, otherwise it's totally dependent on the listing broker to market it. If this deal falls through because of the buyer's financing, I'd find a new broker and make sure they're not going to pull that dual agency business. It takes very strong ethics to pull that off.

It was on MLS. If this falls through, I am just going to rent the house out. We've thrown away so much money while waiting for it to sell. They had the house inspection yesterday. I told the agent the offer we're accepting is firm, the house is "as-is." I honestly think because we live 800 miles away she didn't aggressively market it as she would have if we were living in the house. Anyway, I can't wait until this chapter closes.

 

[Sans Souci]

Hello--
I'm still working out, I just haven't posted since I have visitors. I've been walking, using my kettle bells and doing some hiit. I don't have the patience for anything beyond 45 minutes nowadays.

I took my mom and my grandmother to this Jazz dinner in a Chinese restaurant Saturday night. You guys. YOU. GUYS. This was like a skit from SNL. The leader of the trio was this 70 yo dude with an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. He looked like he uses black shoe polish to color his hair and beard. He droned on about himself in between songs. He was this musical savant as a child, according to him. He was telling us how lucky we were to hear him. Then he told us someone watched him play the piano and said, "I've never seen someone play the piano like you do. It's like you become one with the piano."

As if that wasn't bad enough, he would make these passive aggressive remarks in between song. He called out people who had the audacity to quietly talk during his totally mesmerizing piano performances. This was during a meal, so I think some conversation is permitted. He said, "It cuts some musicians like a dagger when people talk during their performance, but I am stronger than that." Then another person was talking while he was talking, I guess. I didn't see or hear it, but he did! He said, "I don't appreciate the side bars while I am speaking." I'm sorry, but this was in a Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in South Jersey. This wasn't a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, OK? It's like dinner theater and some ambient noise is to be expected.

So the meal was finished and he started playing after a break. My grandmother is 84 and she uses a walker. She's not in the best health. She asked if we could go, because she wasn't feeling well. I asked her if she could hang on a bit longer. She said she couldn't, so we waited until he was done with his "original composition." This meal was held in a small room for private functions and there were like 5 long tables. We had to walk past Mr. Jazz Extraordinaire to leave the room. So we got up and he sees we're leaving. He saw my grandmother had a walker and he YELLED at her to move through quickly! I was beyond livid. My husband went to get the car and we all got in, then he left the car. He was quiet when he got back in, but I think he had a word with the owner.

Other annoyances, I had no idea were were going to be seating with strangers and that it was a family style meal. The people we sat with were already at the table and the five of us were scattered around the table, so I really couldn't talk to my family.

That was meant to be a Mother's Day present for my mom and my grandmother, but it was a big fail.

 

[Songbird76]

Hello--
I'm still working out, I just haven't posted since I have visitors. I've been walking, using my kettle bells and doing some hiit. I don't have the patience for anything beyond 45 minutes nowadays.

I took my mom and my grandmother to this Jazz dinner in a Chinese restaurant Saturday night. You guys. YOU. GUYS. This was like a skit from SNL. The leader of the trio was this 70 yo dude with an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. He looked like he uses black shoe polish to color his hair and beard. He droned on about himself in between songs. He was this musical savant as a child, according to him. He was telling us how lucky we were to hear him. Then he told us someone watched him play the piano and said, "I've never seen someone play the piano like you do. It's like you become one with the piano."

As if that wasn't bad enough, he would make these passive aggressive remarks in between song. He called out people who had the audacity to quietly talk during his totally mesmerizing piano performances. This was during a meal, so I think some conversation is permitted. He said, "It cuts some musicians like a dagger when people talk during their performance, but I am stronger than that." Then another person was talking while he was talking, I guess. I didn't see or hear it, but he did! He said, "I don't appreciate the side bars while I am speaking." I'm sorry, but this was in a Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in South Jersey. This wasn't a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, OK? It's like dinner theater and some ambient noise is to be expected.

So the meal was finished and he started playing after a break. My grandmother is 84 and she uses a walker. She's not in the best health. She asked if we could go, because she wasn't feeling well. I asked her if she could hang on a bit longer. She said she couldn't, so we waited until he was done with his "original composition." This meal was held in a small room for private functions and there were like 5 long tables. We had to walk past Mr. Jazz Extraordinaire to leave the room. So we got up and he sees we're leaving. He saw my grandmother had a walker and he YELLED at her to move through quickly! I was beyond livid. My husband went to get the car and we all got in, then he left the car. He was quiet when he got back in, but I think he had a word with the owner.

Other annoyances, I had no idea were were going to be seating with strangers and that it was a family style meal. The people we sat with were already at the table and the five of us were scattered around the table, so I really couldn't talk to my family.

That was meant to be a Mother's Day present for my mom and my grandmother, but it was a big fail.

OMG, I would have been so angry! Was the music at least good? As a musician myself, I found the cockiest of them were usually the ones I didn't think were very good...they had to toot their own horns because no one else would. And if you are performing during a meal, it is expected that you are BACKGROUND entertainment, not the main feature. People are coming to eat and the establishment is paying you to provide ambiance, but it is not a concert. It sounds like this guy was not very professional and he was trying to pass himself off as being trained when he's not. You said trio...what were the other musicians like? Did they seem to share his reactions or were they perhaps embarrassed by him?
Did you have a reservation? It seems odd that they would seat you scattered like that if you came in as a group.

 

[Sans Souci]

OMG, I would have been so angry! Was the music at least good? As a musician myself, I found the cockiest of them were usually the ones I didn't think were very good...they had to toot their own horns because no one else would. And if you are performing during a meal, it is expected that you are BACKGROUND entertainment, not the main feature. People are coming to eat and the establishment is paying you to provide ambiance, but it is not a concert. It sounds like this guy was not very professional and he was trying to pass himself off as being trained when he's not. You said trio...what were the other musicians like? Did they seem to share his reactions or were they perhaps embarrassed by him?
Did you have a reservation? It seems odd that they would seat you scattered like that if you came in as a group.

I did have reservations. They just sat people as the arrived. Nowhere did it say that meals were served family style and with people you didn't know. The man sitting to the left of me used HIS FORK that he had been using to serve himself chicken lo mein.There was a a serving spoon on the platter. I passed on that. Then after the food was gone, he picked some foreign object out of his mouth and put it on his plate. There was some serious gag reflex stifling there, let me tell you. When I booked this meal, they didn't communicate the format of the meal and it never even occurred to me that I would be eating family style with strangers.

He was an ok musician, he played jazz renditions of songs from old musicals. His trio sounded an awful lot like the Vince Guaraldi Trio, like the music from The Peanuts specials. I honestly thought we'd have a table of our own and this trio would be playing in the background. I told my husband I don't even want to get carry outs from there anymore. LOL

Oh and he had a tip jar, too! He had a tip jar, but he wasn't taking requests. No requests taken, no tips given.

 

[MinnieM123]

Hello--
I'm still working out, I just haven't posted since I have visitors. I've been walking, using my kettle bells and doing some hiit. I don't have the patience for anything beyond 45 minutes nowadays.

I took my mom and my grandmother to this Jazz dinner in a Chinese restaurant Saturday night. You guys. YOU. GUYS. This was like a skit from SNL. The leader of the trio was this 70 yo dude with an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. He looked like he uses black shoe polish to color his hair and beard. He droned on about himself in between songs. He was this musical savant as a child, according to him. He was telling us how lucky we were to hear him. Then he told us someone watched him play the piano and said, "I've never seen someone play the piano like you do. It's like you become one with the piano."

As if that wasn't bad enough, he would make these passive aggressive remarks in between song. He called out people who had the audacity to quietly talk during his totally mesmerizing piano performances. This was during a meal, so I think some conversation is permitted. He said, "It cuts some musicians like a dagger when people talk during their performance, but I am stronger than that." Then another person was talking while he was talking, I guess. I didn't see or hear it, but he did! He said, "I don't appreciate the side bars while I am speaking." I'm sorry, but this was in a Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in South Jersey. This wasn't a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, OK? It's like dinner theater and some ambient noise is to be expected.

So the meal was finished and he started playing after a break. My grandmother is 84 and she uses a walker. She's not in the best health. She asked if we could go, because she wasn't feeling well. I asked her if she could hang on a bit longer. She said she couldn't, so we waited until he was done with his "original composition." This meal was held in a small room for private functions and there were like 5 long tables. We had to walk past Mr. Jazz Extraordinaire to leave the room. So we got up and he sees we're leaving. He saw my grandmother had a walker and he YELLED at her to move through quickly! I was beyond livid. My husband went to get the car and we all got in, then he left the car. He was quiet when he got back in, but I think he had a word with the owner.

Other annoyances, I had no idea were were going to be seating with strangers and that it was a family style meal. The people we sat with were already at the table and the five of us were scattered around the table, so I really couldn't talk to my family.

That was meant to be a Mother's Day present for my mom and my grandmother, but it was a big fail.

That stinks. And I know it's after the fact now, but it might not hurt to call the restaurant and tell them what you think of the "entertainer" . . . Maybe he won't get asked back again--one would hope. So sorry to hear that this put a damper on such a nice day out, with your mom and grandmother.

 

[Sans Souci]

That stinks. And I know it's after the fact now, but it might not hurt to call the restaurant and tell them what you think of the "entertainer" . . . Maybe he won't get asked back again--one would hope. So sorry to hear that this put a damper on such a nice day out, with your mom and grandmother.

It was a bit stinky, but we've been making jokes about the whole experience since then. Someone who goes to great lengths to tell you how wonderful they are is insecure in my book.

 

[Gabe1]

I am probably going back for a visit at the end of the summer. My mother and my grandmother are here visiting me--so sorry about the late response to you. They have brought some Chicago Mix and some Fannie May. I am not big on Fannie May, but my son will eat any sort of chocolate.


I don't know how old the detector is. It was here when we moved in last summer. We've removed it and we have Kidde ones now.

No worries, enjoy the family. I love the Chicago Mix and I am a big fan of Fannie May. There is now a Garrets at Woodfield but it isn't the same quite yet as the bigger venues off Michigan Ave and the Pier. About the same quality as the kiosk at Olgive Train Station.

On the back of Detectors it generally has a BORN date just like beer does.
Some have a BORN date and DOA date.

 

[Songbird76]

I did have reservations. They just sat people as the arrived. Nowhere did it say that meals were served family style and with people you didn't know. The man sitting to the left of me used HIS FORK that he had been using to serve himself chicken lo mein.There was a a serving spoon on the platter. I passed on that. Then after the food was gone, he picked some foreign object out of his mouth and put it on his plate. There was some serious gag reflex stifling there, let me tell you. When I booked this meal, they didn't communicate the format of the meal and it never even occurred to me that I would be eating family style with strangers.

He was an ok musician, he played jazz renditions of songs from old musicals. His trio sounded an awful lot like the Vince Guaraldi Trio, like the music from The Peanuts specials. I honestly thought we'd have a table of our own and this trio would be playing in the background. I told my husband I don't even want to get carry outs from there anymore. LOL

Oh and he had a tip jar, too! He had a tip jar, but he wasn't taking requests. No requests taken, no tips given.

Yeah, he just sounds REALLY unprofessional. I wonder how often he does gigs and how often he is invited back to a particular venue. I'm sorry it was a bad experience. I love jazz music...it's probably my favorite genre to sing. If I lived closer, I could provide you with entertainment in a much more relaxed atmosphere. I can tell you that's not normal/standard operating procedure., just a bad egg.

 

[Songbird76]

It was a bit stinky, but we've been making jokes about the whole experience since then. Someone who goes to great lengths to tell you how wonderful they are is insecure in my book.

Amen! There was a girl I went to college with who was so rude to everyone. I personally couldn't stand her voice...very glottal. But she told me once that I had no business being a music teacher because I don't really like singing solo. That if I didn't LOVE the attention and being in the spotlight, I should choose a different career. I was like...who are you to tell me what I SHOULD like or want to do? Teaching a classroom of kids about music is WAY different than being under a bright spotlight and everyone expects something beautiful to come out of your mouth. But then, her senior year, we got a new Jazz director and she didn't make vocal jazz and she said "Well, it's probably best...you have to blend in jazz music and I insist that my voice be heard above everyone else's." She also chose her grad school based on "where she could be the star" of the program. She didn't want to go to a school where she was one of many and she didn't care about getting a quality education. She just wanted attention. But for every conceited attention hog like that, there are 20 much better musicians who do it for the love of the music and who actually want people to enjoy the show.

 

[Figgy1]

I did have reservations. They just sat people as the arrived. Nowhere did it say that meals were served family style and with people you didn't know. The man sitting to the left of me used HIS FORK that he had been using to serve himself chicken lo mein.There was a a serving spoon on the platter. I passed on that. Then after the food was gone, he picked some foreign object out of his mouth and put it on his plate. There was some serious gag reflex stifling there, let me tell you. When I booked this meal, they didn't communicate the format of the meal and it never even occurred to me that I would be eating family style with strangers.

He was an ok musician, he played jazz renditions of songs from old musicals. His trio sounded an awful lot like the Vince Guaraldi Trio, like the music from The Peanuts specials. I honestly thought we'd have a table of our own and this trio would be playing in the background. I told my husband I don't even want to get carry outs from there anymore. LOL

Oh and he had a tip jar, too! He had a tip jar, but he wasn't taking requests. No requests taken, no tips given.

Hugs hopefully the next visit will run smoother.

 

[Figgy1]

Good morning. I yesterday was just Leslie Sansone and walking, mount laundry seemed to be calling my name all day Today so far 5 advanced miles and with luck the skies will clear and I'll head over to the pool, I need some vitamin D. I upped my fat intake just a bit and lowered my carbs but not exactly on purpose. It's summer and as much as I LOVE the heat I find I do better eating lighter.

 

[Songbird76]

I got my exercise in, but man was the weather yucky. Good thing I have a rain coat. I rode my bike to work for a meeting and then into the city center to pick up a few things I needed. By the time I came out of the first store, it was pouring. But I didn't melt and I arrived home relatively dry.

 

[93boomer]

Hello--
I'm still working out, I just haven't posted since I have visitors. I've been walking, using my kettle bells and doing some hiit. I don't have the patience for anything beyond 45 minutes nowadays.

I took my mom and my grandmother to this Jazz dinner in a Chinese restaurant Saturday night. You guys. YOU. GUYS. This was like a skit from SNL. The leader of the trio was this 70 yo dude with an ego the size of the Grand Canyon. He looked like he uses black shoe polish to color his hair and beard. He droned on about himself in between songs. He was this musical savant as a child, according to him. He was telling us how lucky we were to hear him. Then he told us someone watched him play the piano and said, "I've never seen someone play the piano like you do. It's like you become one with the piano."

As if that wasn't bad enough, he would make these passive aggressive remarks in between song. He called out people who had the audacity to quietly talk during his totally mesmerizing piano performances. This was during a meal, so I think some conversation is permitted. He said, "It cuts some musicians like a dagger when people talk during their performance, but I am stronger than that." Then another person was talking while he was talking, I guess. I didn't see or hear it, but he did! He said, "I don't appreciate the side bars while I am speaking." I'm sorry, but this was in a Chinese restaurant in a strip mall in South Jersey. This wasn't a performance at the Royal Albert Hall, OK? It's like dinner theater and some ambient noise is to be expected.

So the meal was finished and he started playing after a break. My grandmother is 84 and she uses a walker. She's not in the best health. She asked if we could go, because she wasn't feeling well. I asked her if she could hang on a bit longer. She said she couldn't, so we waited until he was done with his "original composition." This meal was held in a small room for private functions and there were like 5 long tables. We had to walk past Mr. Jazz Extraordinaire to leave the room. So we got up and he sees we're leaving. He saw my grandmother had a walker and he YELLED at her to move through quickly! I was beyond livid. My husband went to get the car and we all got in, then he left the car. He was quiet when he got back in, but I think he had a word with the owner.

Other annoyances, I had no idea were were going to be seating with strangers and that it was a family style meal. The people we sat with were already at the table and the five of us were scattered around the table, so I really couldn't talk to my family.

That was meant to be a Mother's Day present for my mom and my grandmother, but it was a big fail.

Wow just Wow!! My temper would have exploded!! The nerve of some people!

 

[93boomer]

Good morning! Well I have started my indoor painting. I always seem to have inside painting every summer. Lol I am taken my my time @figmentfan423 so I don't mess up my shoulder again.
Getting my walking in each day and started a new arm workout that is already toning those flabby arms! Lol Plus, yoga twice a week.
Dinners are being quick and cold mostly unless I grill a protein to add to it. I hate cooking big meals when it's hot.
Have a great day! Time to start the painting!

 

[Songbird76]

Well, I think all the exercise is doing SOMETHING...my rain coat was much easier to zip up and there was a bit of extra room. So yay.

 

[Sans Souci]

Today was a quick power yoga day.

My mother and grandmother went home today. I am dreading stepping on the scale, because we did dine out a lot. I did try my best. Tomorrow is my weigh in. I am a few pounds below my goal weight, but I like some wiggle room.

 

[Figgy1]

Well, I think all the exercise is doing SOMETHING...my rain coat was much easier to zip up and there was a bit of extra room. So yay.

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!