Today/tomorrow is, I think, the end of the six weeks of habit forming that I had set up for myself. The six habits were to (daily)

1. work on the current recorder piece (I want to be able to play all four movements by the end of the year)
2. play a scale on the viola
3. go into the garage and find something to deal with (1 piece of paper or bringing food in from the freezer *totally counted*)
4. deal with 1 (or more) emaills on the desktop machine
5. deal with 1 (or more) historical DW comments (deleting them out of either inbox without reply *totally counted*)
6. sort at least one book in the 'reshelving' pile. 

The first three weeks were easy - I missed one day in the 'any one' week, and none in the 'any two' and 'any three' weeks. Week four was a disaster. I made notes M-Th, of which two were happy faces, one was 'sick' and one was 'argh, assignment' (as in, nothing got done until it was submitted). And then I stopped taking note. I do not think that there was a single day that I managed all six, but there was at least one where I did five. Getting back on the bike Wednesday helped, because I was already in the garage, so didn't have to remember to do so. 

Going forward - I think I've got the recorder playing habit fairly well set. I need to get some of the mess in front of the music stand dealt with so that I am more motivated to pick up the viola, but I spent enough time on it that reading music is nearly effortless for simple pieces - I need to find the duets that I found for playing with youngest, and work on those. I'm not going to aim to go in the garage every day, because I'm typically finding more than one thing to deal with, and the pattern seems to be bring stuff in to the house one day, deal with it over the next two, so going in each day was overwhelming. Comments and email - I'm logging in to the computer most days, and I think I'll just leave it at that. Most days that I do I'm dealing with more than one email, and when I look at the comments I try and do three (not always the oldest, but getting there). This was thus a win. I'm going to take a week or two, and then think about doing another one. I'll probably keep books and viola on the list, maybe add in piano (>5 mins) because this is about finding time to do things that I value/will make life better. I might keep garage on the list, or I might swap it out for the spare room. The other two might be weeding in the front yard (which I've been doing intermittently - I'm not on top of it yet, but the season has only just started, so I need to be a bit more active) and going into the back garden, which I realised the other day I'm doing at most once a week, and sometimes not even that. Or I'll put something on about craft, or writing, or....