Five minutes
Posted 12 January 2012 @ 12:42 am. 0 comments

I played guitar for like five minutes just now because I want to keep reading (The Fault in Our Stars is brilliant) and I really should try to go to bed in less than an hour. As it is I read instead of studying, so I will have to wake up early to do that. Man, I suck.

I feel like playing guitar for only five minutes doesn’t really count as practicing, but it does mean that I reviewed the new part of “Savior” that I learned yesterday, and even if five minutes doesn’t afford much time for improvement, at least I know I won’t have forgotten it tomorrow when I go to play again.

In the end, I suppose five minutes is better than nothing at all. And soon I will be done with this book and can go back to my regular life where I spend less time reading and can actually do things like write blog posts on Rachel.nu, which I haven’t done since Saturday, et cetera. I really, really suck.

Let it go
Posted 8 January 2012 @ 6:29 pm. 1 comment

If there’s one thing I learned from figure skating, it’s that sometimes there are bad days and you just have to step back and try again another day. I felt like that today with guitar. It might have something to do with how my nails are a bit too long to play comfortably and I need to give them a good trim, but I only played for 20 minutes today and it was quite frustrating, to say the least. I’ll come back to it tomorrow when my nails are shorter and it’s a new day.

I have to make sure to sing later, too. I haven’t practiced in three weeks and I have a lesson on Tuesday. I might have to cut back on my lessons or take a break from them as I will be making less this semester, but I’m at least set for this month.

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