Wait For Me, March!

March is in a hurry!  I'm slip-sliding my way through it, trying to maintain previous challenges and struggling with the new one this month.

 Here's a perfect evening schedule:

4:30-6:30:  Walk the dogs with Ron, prepare & eat dinner, wash the dishes
6:30-7:00:  Practice violin
7:00-8:00:  Focus reading or watch a video
8:00-9:00:  Yoga & Meditation
9:00-10:00: Snack, prep for bed, read a little in bed, lights out at 10:00


The Challenge for this month is that 6:30-7:00 slot.  I want the working part of my day to be done at 7:00.  This is a double-edged challenge.  One edge is that after the dishes are done, I feel pretty done myself, and want to call it a day.  Ask me how easy it is to kill that half an hour dinking around on the computer or reading.  That wastes a good practice session, especially now that I'm working on Tiny Deck Concert repertoire.  The other edge is that if I don't practice and get to dinking around on the computer or reading, I'll go way over the other direction, often running through Yoga time at 8:00 and Bed Time at 10:00!  Thus the Challenge!   Fail x3 so far!  Try, try again.

I'm thinking of stopping use of the word "goal" and substitute "intention".  "Goal" is too...ambitious.  It has a striving quality I'm trying to get away from.   

March Intentions:

• Music Camp was a February/March Intention; well-blogged previously.  Repertoire is taking shape; the CD's I ordered are arriving; Tiny Desk Concerts are what I'm listening to during my pre-bed snack.
• Cooking school:  "Saute: Fry quickly in a little hot fat." The why and how of it, and how it's different from what I'm doing now.
• File taxes:  done today!
• Quarterly order of books for my home library.  Done a couple days ago, waaay too late at night.  See above challenge!  However, with this order, my home library will have as many books as it can hold, and from here on out I'll only buy as many as I need to replace what I have read over the past quarter.  
• Jasmine to the groomer:  scheduled for March 19.  
• Bathe Gypsy at home.  On a warm, sunny day.  Quite the opposite of our current conditions!
• Plan the One-Woman Sprint Tri.  This has been on hiatus for the past two years due to injury.  It's looking really good for this year!  The timing has to do with my Aquaplex membership expiration on June 11 and our Spring Vacation which has been before Memorial Day weekend but is currently unplanned.  I've chosen the date of May 16, with flexibility.  A sprint tri consists of:  1/2 mile swim, 12 mile bike, 3 mile run.  I'm good on the swimming.  I hope to start biking in early April, but this is completely weather and road condition-determined.  My running has taken a hit from both weather and the trip to Tucson.  I'm on a re-building schedule now and should have no trouble achieving 3 miles by the target date.  Part of the recommended training is called "bricks".  It's biking followed immediately by running.  It's to give your legs the experience of the shock of going from one to the other.  I've done it in the past both with and without brick training.  I'd like to put some in this year.  
• Maintenance:  It's piling up!  Yoga and Meditation!  Getting up and to bed on time!  Tiny Deck Repertoire development!