I have several interests in my life, and some of them require very little thought, just activity, to keep up with.

Video games are there for fun, and happen to take up too much of my time...odd, since until the last few days, I hadn't really played video games in years. Every once in a while, I'll get on a kick where I'll play a game for a few days and then stop, and I'm assuming this time is no different.

My car is something that I take pride in, and I have several things to do on it right now, as I'm restoring it. I've bought several new parts to replace/update, and it doesn't take much though, just time, to do these things.

Composing though, takes the effort to sit down and relate what's in my head with the manuscript in front of me. I have to decide what key I'm hearing, and what notes as well. Rhythms, and everything else, can bog down the process when translating it from finished in your head to written out in front of you. I already wrote it once, why should I write it again?

This is the situation I run into daily. Kinda bites.

But this is why I'm going to start treating it like the work that it is and schedule it into my day. Everything else is being scheduled, too, to keep me from spending too much time on things that aren't...work.

I'm cutting my time with the car to 1 day a week, 5 days a month (pick when the extra will be). Video games to only after I've finished working for the day, or on an extended break (work for a couple of hours, take a couple off, return to work). Other things, liek time spent here online, need to be kept in check, and I need to sleep more/better hours.

So here goes.

Soon...a post about key signatures and what moods they mean to me!