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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... feeling like the pianist on the Titanic ...
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.
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.
Greta99
I enjoyed your 40 piece challenge recordings on PW. Please consider joining our version of the same challenge here:
https://forum.pianotell.com/d/1457-40ish-pieces-in-2025
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
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!
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.
I think if one loves playing the piano enough, one doesn't need some external source to practice. The only time I may have had to force myself to practice was when I had to learn something quickly, like 200 page score of a musical comedy, because of a deadline.
To me, this is similar to those who feel they must "practice" sight reading versus those who became excellent sight readers because they did it a lot because they had a lot of music they wanted to explore.
Waaaaa, and here I got all excited thinking we had you for a new recruit 
pianoloverus I think if one loves playing the piano enough, one doesn't need some external source to practice.
Well, you seem to be an advanced player with many years of experience behind you, so perhaps it's hard for you to remember how steep the leaning curve can feel for players during the first few months/years of learning to play.
I love the instrument and usually enjoy my practice sessions, but there are days when I question whether it's worth the many hours of effort required just to play some simple beginner piece that a talented 8 year old could probably nail in half the time. So, perhaps that's why some people sign up to this accountability thread - it's not because they "don't love playing the piano enough", it's more that they're looking for encouragement from others who may also find piano practice a bit of an endurance test in the early stages.
"Don't let's ask for the moon, we have the stars." (Final line from Now,Voyager, 1942)
Different people may need different approaches to stay motivated. Nothing wrong with that!
I'm not a PACT member but I appreciate the sense of community here and it's great to see everyone supporting each other!
