A big old pat on the back

I am incredibly proud of myself right now, I should set myself more day long challenges.

Today, when I was getting up, I was reflecting on various things, one of which was the length of a musical.  So, due to this reflection, I decided to set myself a challenge: to listen to the whole of The Phantom of the Opera, the whole of Love Never Dies and the whole of Les Miserables, prologues and all, without skipping through a single song.

I think the challenge was started at about half past ten, maybe as late a half past eleven, and it finished not that long ago.  I sat down, content with a brain numbing Sims 2 game and my headphones glued to my ears, one of which started to feel the strain about an hour or two ago.  I listened to every single song from all three of those musicals with very little distraction, which is quite impressive: those are some long musicals.  It actually got to the point where I missed the start of The Karate Kid because I was on the second last song of Les Miserables and I was not going to give up there.

Anyway, I think that it would be fun to do this again.  I'm sure I could find another challenge that takes up most of the day.  Next time I could try all three extended versions of The Lord of the Rings in one day!  Yeah, right.  One of those films would take up a day, never mind all three.  And the tears... the house would be flooded by the end of that haul.  Well, I'm sure I can find something else.