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Welcome to PACT, Animisha - you're added as well 🙂

Thank you for adding me @Sophia !

My PACT goal for 2025: to average 5 days/week across the whole year. My stretch goal is to average more than 6 days/week. The only times I "excuse" myself are when I'm traveling for business. (in 2024, my yearly average was about 5 days/week, but my average was higher for the second half, when PACT started, so that's what I'm aiming for)

As I mentioned in the other thread, I'm not good at keeping up with these big threads, but I will be recording my practice days as I did in 2024 and I'll try to check in here periodically!

🙂

4 days later

I'm in for 2025!

  • Sophia

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And then there were ten 😃 You're added to the list, @bSharp, welcome!

14 days later

"Into each life some rain must fall", and we've been in a bit of a family rough spot this past week. I haven't been playing since Friday the 17th will add my absence to the E-list. I will put the end date on today, because I'm fully planning to be back at the piano tomorrow... if not, I'll extend the time 🙂

First time on the E-list and the first one to be added in 2025!

I would like to be preliminarily excused for the weekend of Friday 24th to Sunday 26th. On Saturday my husband will give a big party and he will cook all the food, except for the cake that I will bake on Friday. There have been some setbacks in his planning and I want to be fully available for him, so I can help him in any way he needs. On Sunday, I may be wiped out completely.

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    I have added those dates to the E-list @Animisha - big parties sound good 🙂

    I went back to playing yesterday, just for a few minutes and it felt like I hadn't played for six years instead of six days - everything I ever knew was gone! So I got my Alfred book 1 out and just started with the easiest pieces again.

      Sophia everything I ever knew was gone!

      Oh poor thing! I hope it all soon comes back to you.

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        I'm sure it will 🙂 Our life has been in some turmoil lately which doesn't help, but things are settling down for the time being. Watch out forum, I'm back and ready to roar play again!

        I'd like to join the challenge. Normally, I don't mind missing a day or two. However, last year I found it very difficult to practise regularly. PACT definitely helped me to play every day, even if it was often only very short practice sessions.

          That's great to hear, @Greta99 🙂 I have added you to the list!

          Animisha except for the cake that I will bake on Friday.

          I would rather practise Hanon for a month than baking cakes! I almost managed to ruin the entire cake by forgetting the crème fraîche in the batter. The cake was already in the oven when my husband asked about it - and then he took it out immediately and rescued it. Everything turned out fine, but I was distraught by my failure.
          Today is party day! Looking forward to it and already wishing I was back at the piano at the same time.

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            I would like to join please. I practice every day I am home but I will have missing days as my daughter has twins(1 month old and cute as they come). I stay overnight when I visit.

            Absolutely @judanne and welcome to the PACT 😃

            Congratulations on the twins.... girls? Boys? Identical? There are "post pictures of your pets" and "post pictures of your piano", as well as "post pictures of your piano room" threads, now I'm thinking perhaps there should be "post pictures of the babies in your family" as well 😄

            Ha! Ha!

            Identical boys 😍
            Thanks for the welcome

            5 days later

            Happy February y’all! I practiced every day in January, yay! Hopefully I can do the same this month. It might be tricky because I have two big presentations this month… but looking at the success of January is pretty motivating!

            😊

            9 days later

            I had a busy day Saturday and was tired but I heard the inner nag and sat down at 8.30 pm and managed an hour. I would have passed without this pledge! Missed one day in January due to visiting my daughter

            I'm on a business trip Monday to Wednesday so I will not be able to practice.