Achievement of the Day or Week
You guys are much more creative than I am. 
I seem to have an odd mental block when it comes to making up names for anything.
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Today I finally got a satisfactory recording of Aria (Theme from La Traviata). It is the last piece in the second section of Faber Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 1. There are 12 short pieces in that section. In a little over one month, I have all of them learned and recorded. Yay!
Next up, section 3, 11 classic pieces in the key of G major.
My achievement yesterday was getting the knack of Scriabin Op. 11 no. 17, in those moments where there is contrary motion between the hands, the left hand playing descending chords and the right hand ascending melodic notes. I've tended to avoid thicker textured music with a bunch of chords at quickish tempos, and, playing through the piece I was getting mentally bogged down trying to process what's going on and where to put my fingers and how to articulate (the left hand is marked staccato and the right hand not). It's a really good feeling when my brain isn't telling me "lets slow down so I can figure this out" so I can better focus on the music. I'm making an effort this year to do more pieces with thicker textures to get out of my comfort zone.
Another thing is that I've been working on my trills for the last month. In Bach's 6th Sinfonia, one of the weakest parts of my playing is a simple right hand trill while the left hand sounds the theme modulated onto the dominant. Yesterday was the smoothest and most controlled I've managed to yet. I also do daily practice of that part in Sinfonia 2 where the right hand does a 3-5 trill while playing notes with 1-2. It's the one thing that's stopping me from concertedly learning the piece. Yesterday was the quickest and smoothest trill I've managed to do there. It's one thing to do something isolated in practice, and another to be able to do it in the flow of a piece, though, but it's still heartening.
lautreamont I also do daily practice of that part in Sinfonia 2 where the right hand does a 3-5 trill while playing notes with 1-2.
That trill is hard to do well with 3-5. I had trouble with it too when learning that Sinfonia. In the end I decided to play it with 2-3 and play the alto voice with the thumb.
That's a good idea. I've thought of doing that too, but it's one of those things that is a kind of a technical goal, especially since I can do it in the left hand. There's a similar trill towards the end of Chopin 72 no. 1 where you could also cheat or cover thumb movement with a tap of pedal (the trill is why I haven't learned that Nocturne yet). It's funny that it crops up in a couple otherwise early intermediate pieces, when most of that kind of trill is in more advanced repertoire like Thalberg's trill étude or one of the pieces from Feinberg's First Suite (or to an extreme, works with double trills in one hand).
I finally finished Unit 1 in Piano Adventures level 5 book. I started the unit back in September. One of my goals has been to finish with Piano Adventures this year. I thought it would be easy-peasy based on how quickly the other levels went. After spending so much time on just the first 1 of 6 units, I'm not so sure. We'll see...