I am a blog slacker... Or: Where I recap May and talk about June.

I've been quite solid on my 30 day challenges but apparently not nearly so solid on keeping up a blog about my experiences with it. Whoops!

Anyway, to bring things up to speed, May's was another exercise challenge, with the primary being a series of increasingly lengthy plankings. I initially scoffed at this, because the challenge starts out with only 20 seconds of planking.... which lasted right up until I tried to do 20 seconds of planking... I made it (barely) but I definitely have a new respect for that exercise.

Long story short, it ramped up daily and by the end I was able to do 3:00 in a row, huzzah! It was a very good ramp, too, as the last 10 seconds of each day felt like my abdominal muscles were going to pop out at any time.

There were squats and crunches too, but they were much less exciting and honestly just kind of boring. Once the squats ramped up into the 150 plus range it became more of a chore than an exercise. I ended up doing goblet squats instead with my 35 pound kettlebell. Way less repetition for a bigger burn.

Aaaaanyway, that's done and it's time I do something a bit more mentally rewarding, instead of all the physical stuff I've been up to so far this year. With that being said, the month of June will be all about MUSIC!

A bit of backstory: one of my hard drives just died on me recently, taking with it my entire (unbacked up) music collection. This pretty much sucked. It especially sucked considering I just purchased a NAS recently to move all my media onto but I was still in the process of doing this and hadn't shimmied the music up yet. The plus side takeaway from this is it finally freed me from the shackles of thousands of individual tracks I'd picked up here and there in my collection. Going forward I can just do entire albums and will make sure everything is sorted in nice and purdy-like as I'm rebuilding the library.

I put out a call to Facebook and many friends answered (thanks everyone!), recommending an assortment of albums and bands worth checking out, becaaauuuuse: June's goal is to listen to a new album every day in it's entirety.

I'd like to take this time to really branch out of my normal music box and experience new bands and genres I normally wouldn't listen to. If you can think of anyone or anything worth checking out, please let me know!