So I've been getting up at 6:30 a.m. to be at the piano, practicing by 7. It kicks my ass! BUT, I have accomplished so much...so much that I've been wondering what I've missed out on in the last 8 years. Anyway, you can't live in the past so I'll only try to improve the present and the future. People keep asking me why I'm doing this. The truth is ZZ just has a way of so bluntly telling me the truth that it completely changes me. Last time we talked and she went on about how the Van Cliburn competitors she just heard couldn't play some things as well as I did. What a shock! So I mulled this over for a few moments and finally blurted out "Then why do they win? Why do they get careers and recordings?!" She looked me straight in the eyes and replied "Because people like you aren't doing anything about it." So here I am, doing something about it. Or at least trying. Then I get stuck in these rehearsals whereI do nothing. Or accompanying or whatever where I can't help but feel like I'm wasting my time. Or invited to so many things where people are like but it's just half an hour? Half an hour?! You have know idea how much I can accomplish at the piano in just 30 minutes. But I don't expect non-pianists or even some "pianists" to understand that so during my downtime I started thinking about all the things I could do in 30 minutes.....and here are just a few:
*get a haircut
*clean the bathroom
*make a complete meal (according to Rachel Ray)
*take a power nap
*watch the Simpson's or Family Guy
*do a crossword (or at least as much of one as I can do)
*read about 30 pages, give or take
*have sex
*wash my car (at the carwash, not on my own)
*order Domino's (they have a 30 minute guarantee)
*go for a drive and a smoke


I'm sure there are so many more....but for now. Ooh, I wrote this blog in less than 30 minutes.