Wed 13 Dec 2006
The house is vibrating with Mr. W’s operation of a red plastic guitar as he strums to Playstation 2’s “Guitar Hero 2.” Yes, he bought the game. Why am I not playing? Because I have gone blind from passing the game on Medium level. Yes! I passed the game. The secret super duper bonus when you get to the end is an encore with the classic Lynard Skynard hit, “Freebird.” Cool! That’s, like, the only song I know in the whole game since I don’t listen to punk or hard core rock.
My head and fingertips hurt.
*listening to Mr. W play a slowed-down practice session on Easy Mode*
Baileys! I need Baileys!
I am so unmotivated to work out. I didn’t eat breakfast and only had lunch less than half the time in the past 2 weeks, so my anorexia kicked in and I gained 3 pounds, despite all the gymming and cardio I’d been doing. So now I’m discouraged. I actually stayed in and worked through lunch today rather than go to the gym. And even tho Mr. W was kindly offering gymming to me this evening, I couldn’t lift my fat ass off the couch, or my eyes from the scrolling TV screen, since my fingers had cellularly bonded to the Guitar Hero guitar buttons. When I finally looked up again the TV and its surroundings were wavy, which I knew to be an optical illusion because of the constant staring at the dropping notes playing the game. It’s the same effect after running on the treadmill, when things seem to fly by you faster after you stop. And since the effect of this game was so similar to the treadmill, I consider myself to have worked out and am going to bed.
Baileys! Hello!! Or maybe a Frangelico. I’m not picky!
no no, don’t become a couch potato! or video game addict. i can’t stand either.
go work out!!!!!!!!!!! (excuse the multiple punctuations).
But its so much cooler to work out WHILE playing video games!!!! 🙂
I am not a video game person or TV watcher, but I will definitely join you for a work out or a Baileys drink 🙂
I have such a great support system. I’ve got Diana encouraging the workouts, James encouraging the gaming (while working out, not sure how that’s accomplished cuz it’s not like I’m playing Dance Dance Revolution), Vanessa offering her camaraderie in working out AND drinking.
I’ve been trying to have at least something for breakfast since Monday, and I’ve dropped 3 lbs this morning on the scale. I feel better. Maybe I will go work out.
Man, this post makes even less sense today than it did yesterday. At least I knew enough, in my confused delirium, to separate the disjointed topics with paragraphs.
If you’re not getting a workout playing guitar hero you’re doing it wrong! All the guitar players at rock concerts swing about and run around wildly while playing! You’re suppose to Rock out! And that’s a big calorie burner!
not really. I wore my new toy — a calorie counter — when I was standing up and rocking and it turns out I barely burned anything. I burn whoppers on the treadmill.
Well, I saw you run on the treadmill — I dont think any level of game playing can burn calories like that!
But it IS better than just sitting watching TV instead though.
You know what’d be freakishly challenging? If you were to lay upside down on your couch and play Guitar Hero looking at the notes backwards. Uh-huh. You should try it.
Did you get the new calorie counter from 24 Hour Fitness?
No, I got it from Sharper Image. You clip it on your waist area and input your weight and it counts how many calories you burn throughout the day, and stores 9 days’ worth of info. It also has some directional sensor so that if you flip it up to see the display, the numbers will automatically invert themselves so you don’t have to turn your head all funny while curling your body into a “C”.
Hey that sounds like a fun idea. I bet I could do it backwards like that!
How accurate are those calorie meters though? What if you sit very still but work your arms. For example, using a rowing machine at the gym? I bet it wouldn’t count it right?
it says it doesn’t work with swimming (cuz it’s not waterproof) or with resistance training (cuz it can’t tell how much weight you’re lifting). It’s more of an activity/cardio thing. It’s sensitive enough to pick up folding laundry, tho.
The one that 24 Hour is selling is $400. That’s INSANE!!! If Chance takes a test and passes, we can get a coupon to purchase it for $189 (for a limited time only). Chance said he is taking the test but not buying it.
I just saw the advertisement for that gadget at 24Hr Fitness earlier, and I thought about what you said. All the flyers say to talk to a trainer about the gadget, which made me think either it’s real expensive, or they were gonna give it to you free if they can talk you into buying massive quantities of training sessions. But $400! Good Lord! Mine was just $39 on sale from Sharper Image!
Teo got one free for being the mgr and I asked ifit was accurate. He looked at me and said for $400 it better be.
I wanna know how many factors it takes into consideration when calculating caloric burn. Height, weight, gender, age, body fat percentage, normal activity level, diet, social security number, last known address? Cuz if it only takes in weight (like mine), it is way overpriced for accuracy. Also, I wanna know what super duper features it has. For $400 that thing better convince me to go to the gym when I’m lazy, and cook healthy meals for me 6 times a day.
I need to get on the treadmill. My caboose is getting bigger!! I find when I’m happiest in life I”m hungrier!!
personally, I think you should play guitar hero while you’re on the treadmill drinking Baileys.
I’m so for that.
Actually, I don’t know how to play guitar hero, so skip that one.
And..I haven’t run on a treadmill in a long time, so skip that too.
So, give me some Baileys and I’m there.
Is it silly that I can actually play some of the guitar hero songs on the real guitar… yet I still “Play” them on Guitar Hero???
Baileys sounds good!
ok come to my blog in a few.. I have a nice drink for you to whip up while playing guitar hero on your treadmill….
Flat Coke – Me too! I gained 12 lbs after Mr. W and I started dating, altho now I’m down 5 from that. I hate how it takes 2 months to gain 12 lbs and 2 years to lose half that.
Jordan – The only way I can drink Bailey’s while on a treadmill is if it’s in a sport bottle. Hmm. I can take alcohol to the gym that way, too! I’m gonna give that a think…
James – That’s cuz you’re a hopeless gamer. =D
Lol, speaking of drinking while exercising… We were in Mammoth last year, and a friend of mine and I spotted a nice bottle of port wine while at the store and wanted to pick it up.
Unfortunately one of the girls we were with was adamament that we not buy it and start drinking… I was ready to get it anyway, but my friend wanted to avoid confrontation so we didn’t get it.
So that night we dropped them off at the cabin, and my friend and I snuck out to the store and bought the port anyway. We got through about half of it that night.
But we still had the other half. So we had the bright idea to bring it to the slopes. So we bought a canteen so we could bring it with us. We were quite proud of ourselves for managing to sneak out and get a canteen and our alcohol with no one the wiser.
But, after we filled the brand new canteen it started leaking port all over the desk! Grr… And of course by now the stores were all closed! So we had to wake up extra early at like 6am the next morning to sneak out and get a replacement canteen before anyone else woke up :P. That really sucked because that early in the morning the ice was still covering all the windows so we had to go scraping!
In the end we finally got a working canteen. Drinking port / riding a ski lift and skiing down the hill was a good combo actually! It kinda warms you up when you take a swig :). Yummm… It really did hit the spot!
Cindy, are you calling me Hopeless???
On the contrary, James. I was thinking, “The girl won’t let people buy some damn wine? What’s wrong with her? If no one is an alcoholic or underage, it’s none of her business if someone wants to buy wine for the cabin!” And then I hear what you guys have to go through to sneak the wine? How lame! You should NOT have gone thru all that for her unless she was someone’s girlfriend or something. And even then…
Yea I know. I really didn’t care but my friend for some reason did. So I followed along since he organized the trip and all. It was kind of fun to be sneaky though 😛 There is a little excitement in that!
By the way, we need to try Jordan’s Baileys concoction!!!
If you think THAT sneakiness is fun, you should try cheating! =/
I’m gonna go look at Jordan’s conCOCtion now.
Speaking of conCOCtions — since you had a potluck there must have been a few CrOCKpots around filled with yummy goodness! Of which you saved NONE for me. Sniff.
So I say sometime next week.. We try out Jordan’s Baileys and Creme!
Cheating, ooh thats a whole other level of sneakiness!
You can totally make the game into a exercise. You should do situps while playing the guitar, or jump off ad on the couch while strumming the guitar during each little break.