#99 - Only listen to classical music for 1 week

Though I have loved classical music since high school, this one was tougher than I anticipated.  I had a few attempts where I made it a few days but not an entire week.  I picked this as a goal because sometimes I forget my love of classical, particularly the romantic period: Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mahler...  I played the viola growing up.  I even went to orchestra camp.  Laugh if you want but I loved being a part of talented young musicians playing real, heavy music.  Luckily since I played the viola, it was easier to get in than if I had played one of the more popular instruments.  So in an effort not to press "skip" every time classical comes up on my iPod or Pandora, I spent a week with no other music but classical.


The three tough spots were 1) remembering, 2) I lost my iPod until about a month ago, and 3) running.

I generally have my car tuned to NPR, so that wasn't really a problem unless they were doing a music spot, which, unfortunately, they did do during one of my road trips to Michigan when my iPod was still lost, and I had to flip around stations in western Michigan searching for a classical station until I settled on silence for a bit.

I have been picking up running regularly again and I have a hard time running without music, and classical just doesn't cut it for running music.  After that torturous car ride, I totally forgot about my goal and ran 45 minutes listening to my regular running mix.  Oops.  So I had to start all over.

Finally I got my heard in gear and spent a week running with no music, NPR in the car, and the Tchaikovsky station on Pandora.

Got it!

mk