Happy 4th of July!

Hope you had a great 4th weekend. Mine was ok. I definitely slowed down a bit this weekend on the practicing, partly because I actually didn't have the time, and partly because it is a holiday weekend after all.

Saturday's memory progress (July 2, 2011):

Chopin Op.17 Mazurka, no.1 - 0.4/2 pages or 20%
Op.17 no.4 - 0.33/3 pages or 11%
Ravel Waltz No.3 - 0.4/3 pages or 13%
Ginastera Mvt 1 - 4.5/7 pages or 64%
Beethoven - 7.66/11 pages or 70%

Sunday I basically just maintained what was already memorized.

Today (July 4, 2011):

Chopin #1 - 0.6/2 pages or 30%
#4 - 1/3 pages or 33%
Ravel Waltz #3 - 1/3 pages or 33%
Ginastera mvt 1 - 4.83/7 pages or 69%

And... Crap! Writing this, I just realized that I forgot Beethoven AGAIN. Poor Ludwig. I have to stop doing that. Tomorrow I will start with Beethoven and learn the rest of that 8th page!

Decided to wait til tomorrow to paint my nails again. That Essie I used last week was kind of a fail. It needed pretty constant touching up/redoing. Sometimes it would just peel off! I'm back to a Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure polish this week. Stay tuned to see what color!

WOO HOO!!!

Yippee! The Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody #11 is memorized!
The picture shows me very happy, and a little tired, at the end of my practicing today.

I'm still waiting for the Polish National edition of the Chopin Mazurkas and the Durand Ravel edition. Apparently the Chopin has been ready since last week, but it's the Ravel that's holding up the mailing. Not wanting to wait any longer for the Chopin, I remembered that the Catholic University library has an online database of classical scores. I checked, and printed off Op.17 Nos. 2 and 3 of the mazurkas.
Memory Progress as of today, 6/28/11:

Liszt - 100% MEMORIZED!!!
Ginastera mvt 1 - 1.5/7 pages or 21%
Ravel Waltz #2 - 1.2/2.6 pages or 46%
Chopin Mazurka Op.17 no.2 in e minor - 0.8/2 pages or 40%
Mazurka Op.17 no.3 in A-flat Major - .33/2 pages or 17%

STILL MEMORIZED:
Ginastera mvts 2 and 4
Ravel Waltz #1

NAIL POLISH NOTES:
The Essie does not seem to stay on my nails as well as the Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure did last week. I also found the Sally was easier to apply, due to the flat brush. I'll probably have to redo at least the thumbs tomorrow. (They take a beating on the piano.)

2nd week already?!?

Today was Day 9. Tomorrow will be 80 days remaining, and I can't believe that!

Today I did a lot of memory "maintenance" but also memorized more of the Liszt and Ginastera.

Liszt: 7.6/9 pages or 84%

Ginastera mvt 1: 1.55/7 pages or 22%

I took a break from memorizing more Beethoven and Ravel today, and instead just focused on becoming more comfortable with what I've already memorized. For the Beethoven, I only have Variations 5 and 6 left, so I feel pretty good about that.

I took my Fairy Teal nail polish off a couple of days ago with the intention of reapplying, but never got around to it. I think I've been feeling a little bummed the last couple days while practicing, and I'm wondering if that bright nail color wasn't actually motivating me to keep going. Well, we will find out this week with my new color, Essie's Braziliant! I almost didn't find the color but luckily spotted a special display at CVS all by itself. I'm going to paint tomorrow.

I've also chosen the color for the following week, but you'll have to wait and see. (Hint: It was an Allure readers' choice bright color.)

Confession: I still haven't read all the Ravel notes, etc in the Alfred edition. But I will... soon...