Good Day,

First, let me say that I play the Celtic harp and am wanting to improve my technique, skill -level, and increase my music pieces that I have memorized. At the moment I have about six pieces that I would be able to sit down and play at a moment's notice. When I first started, it was with the idea that I would be able to play at Christmas, or a birthday party for friends, it was going to be fun and friendly. Well, I own a harp and have been playing for about 4 years, I have gone back to work and have let it take a hiatus for over a year now, one day I looked at it and saw it as an ornament that needed dusting and maybe it was time to let it go to a good home. That's about the time I decided that I'd better rethink this matter. The movie of Julie/Julia was part of the inspiration to creating a blog and keeping track of my activities in a live sort of way. My hope is that it will keep me motivated like it used to when I was taking university courses online and had to show up with some work accomplished.

This is my first entry as I pre-plan this blog. I will be starting on Labour Day, Sept 7th, 2009, with the actual daily entries for a year to track my trials, failures, retries, and fially my accomplishments. Before the big day of there are several things I have to get in place.

* purchase music cds (music I aspire to play at the end of this)
* set up practice schedule
* set up blogging time
* research new music
* keep a journal for thots - so, get a book
* organize music and pick out first pieces for practice times
* create goals: for the year/monthly/weekly/daily
* phrases to use for encouragement
ie: *Details * Details * Details*

So, here I go, back to school, see you here on Monday September 7th with my harp and music in hand, so to speak.

Cheers, Meg