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• spending time with friends (Church Dinner on Friday)
• playing the piano (After dinner on Friday, 2 hours)
• going for a long run (Sunday, 9 miles)
• reflecting on past successes (Sunday, email to our church consultant)
• baking (a pie, Monday)
• trying to catch up on work (Tuesday)
• asking for advice on tough decisions (Tuesday)
• cleaning (Brian’s been doing most of this at home, but I did clean my office last week when my new bookcase arrived, and we’re working on cleaning all the leftovers out of the refrigerator)
• getting away (taking a hike this weekend)

I’m glad I have this mental list. I’ve been using it. I think it’s working.

As a side note, playing the piano was really intriguing. I haven’t played that long in years. I mostly played pieces I learned in elementary school. During one section, I found myself wanting to speed up without knowing what came next. Sure enough, a bunch of chromatic scales were in the next movement. I used to race to see how fast I could play them. The muscle memory was still there. For sections that were repeated, I would play a few wrong notes the first time but play it almost perfectly the second time. Really intriguing. I threw in Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury) among Sonatinas by Mozart, Clementi and Kuhlau. Yes Brian noticed.
Thank you Sheldons for the piano!