Jan 3

Only the 3rd of January, and already life is trying to get in the way!

We woke up this morning to hear that my boyfriend's father was in the hospital again (we moved back here to help take care of him after a stroke and a number of other significant health issues, so it wasn't a surprise). He's about three hours away, so by the time we drove up, visited him, talked with doctors, talked with family, and drove back, it was after 8:00pm. So much for the lots of practice and a chamber music rehearsal that I had planned. We live an apartment, so I don't practice after 9.

Normally this is exactly the kind of day where I'd throw up my hands and sit on my couch and think that since a long, stressful, unexpected disruption had eaten up all of my practice time, I'd just skip it for today.

But now I have fives of people to be accountable to online! I have set a goal in public! And how sad would it be to make it a measly two days???

And so my neighbors just had to deal with an 8:30-9:30pm practice. They have caused their share of ruckuses, so I don't feel too bad.

I spent my one hour on the opening descending scale and first set of ascending triplets in Beethoven's Leonore Overture #3. And I'm glad I did.