My Second Blog!

Okay, so I know that in my first blog I said I was going to restore a chest, and I was all into that, but a few things came up. It started when I was doing my research on how to restore a wooden trunk, it was a lot harder then I thought. I figured I would have been putting in at least ten hours a week on just this project, that was a lot especially with working. I was still going to do it though, I didn't want to be the one to switch because I took on more then I could handle. I am a nanny all day for three days a week, I watch three boys while their mom works, that's almost more then I can handle! so the days I worked I figured I would just read the assigned books and the other days I would work on the chest. It didn't happen.
My aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer in January and her condition just worsened over time. On the days I was not working I was up at the hospital with my aunt, or helping the family cope while they made funeral arrangements. My aunt passed on July 15th, I spent three days in browns town, with my family, for the funeral. After that thinking of how much I had to do was stressing me out more then it was helping me, so I figured it was time to change my project to something that is going to benefit me in the things I'm supposed to do every day. I decided to concentrate on my music!
I take voice lessons and piano lessons each once a week, so I'm supposed to be getting in at least one hour of practice on each, every day. That's fourteen hours a week on my music! I came up with a plan! For my piano music I have warm ups, scales and different things to challenge my playing and make me better, and I have three different pieces that I'm supposed to be practicing. This Sunday I was supposed to play one of those pieces for church, that didn't happen either, I wasn't ready to play because I didn't get enough practice time in. So every day for the rest of the summer I am going to try to get my 7 hours of piano practice in. I am going to spend ten minuets on my warm ups and fifty minuets on the rest of my pieces. My voice lessons wont be as tricky, I am learning two English folk songs right now and two Italian songs, along with warm ups! But half of my time is supposed to be spent on warm ups so i don't hurt my vocal chords. So, I am going to spend half an hour warming up and half an hour memorizing! This is going to be a lot harder then it seems. My goal in the long run is to have all of my pieces perfected and ready to preform by the end of the summer. Individually i want to improve my sight reading on both piano and singing. Wish me luck!