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Well, this has been a very long time since I have made an entry. It has been crazy in my life and I have been having a hard time getting more than a few minutes each day to do my practicing. I do that much. Seems strange that on weekends I don't make any more time than during the week. I thot that I would have spent lots and lots of time just sitting back and playing to my heart's content. But, no. Instead my concentration is so bad that I can't do any - thing except sleep that is.

I'm still working on all the same pieces of music and I am still trying to get Swan Lake and Danny Boy with both hands. I want to start thinking of other ways that I can do more to enhance my music. If I can't play more than I do, there must be other things that I can be doing to get more involved with it. Meeting with Karen weekly is good, it keeps me on track with the bit of daily practice I do allow myself. Tonight was three more notes with each hand and practice practice practice.

Thanks for dropping in,

Meg

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I did not get back to this place again yesterday, it was a hectic day so you know how that goes. I did go in and review my September progress and found that I touched on each item that I had hoped to; there were a lot of basic refresher things that made it easier to just attempt for a short period of time.

Now that I have a set of easy warm-up tunes that I can work on improving while I am getting ready to get into the real music for the day, I will be able to go ahead with harder pieces to use as things to practice. I am pleased that I got the Star of County Down at least back to where it was when I last played it. I had some pieces in my mind to bring to the table for this month, but now that I have been given the Swan Lake and Danny Boy to work on with hands together, I am excited about that. Also, I want to start looking at some Christmas music that I want to play during the season. Huron Carol, Hark the Herald Angels Sing. More, but that's a good start.

I guess the bottom line is that I did some practice, some blogging, some thinking and creating in this area and got off the couch to do a few minutes when I didn't feel like it. Last night I wanted to try both hands on the new pieces and was at it for about an hour.

Goals for October:
Daily work on the practice pieces:
* Happy Birthday
* Westminster Bells
* Sakura
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Work on the two 'hands together' pieces:
* Swan Lake
* Danny Boy
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Pull out the Christmas music to begin making selections:
* Hark The Herald Angels Sing
* Huron Carol
* Good King Wenseslas (sp?)
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I'm not sure what I'd like to be able to do at Christmas time that I want to know the music, but its always a desire to be able to play the music on the harp as it is so wonderful to listen to and usually the pieces are very easy to learn & relearn.

Okay, that's the best I can do for now.

Meg

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Well, I see that it is Oct 1st and there is some housekeeping to do. Need a new slogan for the month. Need to look at my goals for September and discover if I have achieved anything at all. This is something that is brand new for me and am not expecting to be that delighted with the outcome, but we'll see.



For the past few days I have not been getting any practice in. It started on the weekend when I began to have all that heavy landscape work to figure out and trying to do it myself was exhausting. Then I was doing this project that included the employees and they found it truly objectionable. Consequently, it was very difficult to raise interest, never mind get help with. Eventually, it had to be done as the deadline was Sept 30th by end of day. I was exhausted and emotionally drained. Needless to say I was walking around not feeling rested and no concentration.



Having said all that "off topic" discussion, it is my way to remind myself that, altho I am employed and earning income, when I allow the stress to overtake me, I am not able to do things that cause me to feel better. So, this month I might have to use that as an example of finding a way to sit with my harp for even 5 minutes at the end of the day and just run my fingers up and down the strings, doing glissandos if nothing comes to me. The thing is its so comforting for me to hear those sounds. I will do a complete review of my activities for September plus my new goals for October later today (honestly, I forgot to look at it before I began this new entry) but for now I have to get on with important things, like getting a fresh coffee.



Thanks for dropping by, Meg