Too Old?

Tuesday night, with my birthday approaching in less than one week, I was left asking myself, Am I too old? or Are they too old?

The popular phrase "if the music is too loud, you're too old" was ringing in my ears as Steve and I drove home from the E Center Tuesday night.

We had gone to see the Depeche Mode concert and I left with several questions:

1) Am I too old for this?
2) Why do I enjoy concerts of other rock bands and stars that are of a similar age?
3) Do I only enjoy concerts of other old rock bands because I get to travel to see the show?
4) But the question that just kept coming back is: Are they too old?

Steve may disagree, but I choose to believe that there is something about the Alternative Genre of music stars, they are not ageing as gracefully as some of their other rock and roll counterparts.

It really isn't me that is too old, it is them. I would encourage them to continue with the music, it is pretty good, but embrace their age and let their shows grow older as well... the shock value described in this article really doesn't work as well 30 years later, and 30 years older.

A night at the Sundstrom's Annual Chili Cookoff and Croquet Tournament

So, late last week I got a call from my brother, Dave, asking me if Jill and I would be interested in attending the annual Chili & Croquet cookoff that he and Kim have hosted at their house for quite a few years. I said we'd love to attend, committed to making my best batch of chili for the chili cookoff competition. Once Jill came home, I relayed the invitation to her and informed her that I'd told Dave that we'd bring some chili. Translation: "Jill, you need to make some chili for the cookoff". On the day of the event, Jill made our favorite homemade chili and we headed on up to the Kaysville Sundstrom home. We had a lot of fun, despite being eliminated early from the Croquet tournament. It was good to be able to spend a fun evening with family, old friends, and even meeting some new friends.

Overstimulation

I think that overstimulation is a word - the definition I found of it referred to overstimulation of the pancreas, that isn't what I am talking about though. I am talking about, when you have worked so hard, and had so many things go right, and had so many opportunities in one week that your mind is done. Not because you are tired but because it is full, and needs some time to process.

That is what my week has been like and don't get me wrong I am not complaining, in fact it is hard to describe my mood as anything besides extremely pleased.

The week started on Monday, it was our friend April's birthday, so following work we went with her and some of her other friends to Desert Star Playhouse to see James Blonde. It was very funny.

Additionally this week, I was in charge of putting together our annual staff retreat, and in conjunction with that since we would have staff from all of our offices in town, we organized several mini trainings. The first training was hosted on Tuesday, with two more being hosted on Wednesday. I got home both nights so tired, but also excited because the trainings went so well.

Thursday, was the day of the staff retreat, the Utah Olympic Park hosted us for a very discounted price. The training was good, then we had the opportunity to watch the flying ace skiers -


After the retreat concluded about 5 of us stayed up at the park to take advantage of the highly discounted ride package we were able to purchase a Gold Package for $45, regularly $90.

The package included a bobsled ride, two zip line rides and the quicksilver Alpine Slide ride.

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I was so proud of myself, the bobsled was rained out so I will have to save that for another day, but I can't believe I did the zip lines, and they were awesome.

All of this activity probably would have caused slight overstimulation anyway, but then Steve and I topped the night off by attending Cirque de Soleil - Saltimbanco performance at the E-Center. Wow!!! It was amazing.





I would highly reccomend the show to anyone, Steve actually got pulled up on stage at the beginning of the night, he pretended to be very nervous about the whole thing, but I think secretly he enjoyed being tickled by the clowns in front of thousands of people. I love you sweetheart!

I wish that I would have had a camera for all of the days extreme activities, but I am so glad that I had the opportunities.