🎹 Played 5 days out of 7, for at least 30min a day! Currently working on an étude by Elena Gnyesina. The score suggests "moving" as a tempo and I can play it comfortably at 100bpm. But my teacher seems to be playing at around 200bpm on her demonstration and for a long time now I've struggled with faster pieces. So I'm sticking with this one for another week, and I will bring this up to tempo! I also started working on Heroes of the Galaxy by Christine Donkin.
🎼 Inspired by my renewed commitment to the piano, I have tracked down my old piano progress blog on the wayback machine and imported all the posts into PureBlog! They are all under the tag /piano and I've also created tags for repertoire levels (so far there's only prep and grade 1, lol).
☀️ A heat wave hit us, I think that's the first this year. Earlier this year we had the opposite, weeks and weeks of storms and cold fronts. But anyway, suddenly we went from 20°C and cloudy to 27°C and sunny!
😀 Friends came to visit us for a few days. Beers until 5am (twice!), Água de Valencia in town, cheese fondue, Mexican restaurant, tons of vermut, and Playstation VR games!
📺 Re-watched the finale of After Life Season 2, so we can start watching Season 3 soon-ish.
📺 Still watching Person of Interest (currently in the middle of Season 4).
🍅 Luna ate ALL the tomatoes I had left on the counter (allegedly!). A friend was here recently claiming how tomatoes are so much more delicious if left outside the fridge and I fell for it. Even though I know full well my dog steals food and has stolen: the entire harvest from our tomato plants, my strawberries, the butter cookies I gifted my MIL, meat we were going to grill, even a bag of raw rice; I still fell for it and left the tomatoes right where she could get them. And then there were none. Easy peasy. The perfect crime.
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