Start of a new year

It's too bad that my new year of piano lessons coincided with Brian's new job (and change in sleep schedule) because I have had no sleep this week. Last night I woke up at 11:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00... you get the idea! Very hard to concentrate on little black notes. Oh well, at least we ran out of lesson time before testing my memory on the Chopin piece! We did a lot of work on the Pink Panther and I see the light at the end of the rhythmic tunnel. I think my goals for this year should be to play pieces with tricky rhythms and to play pieces with weird chords so that I get used to the sounds and don't keep second-guessing my sight reading.