Attention span of a gnat

It's no surprise to my friends, family, or me, for that matter, that I have the attention span of a gnat.  But don't get that confused with ADD!  I'm talking about keeping up with an interest.  I rotate through hobbies like underwear.  I just have a hard time staying interested.  Most of the time I generally pick something up, put it down and circle back to it months or years later.  Rarely do I give it up altogether.

Cases in point:

• Piano.  I played for years as a kid and stopped all musical involvement around the age of 18.  I bought a piano and started playing again at 34.  LOVING it!  But it can get frustrating sometimes - knowing what you're supposed to do but still trying to regain lost skills.
• Knitting.  I learned to knit when I was 25.  About every other winter or so I work on a project.  Very sporadic but I keep up my skills - I just don't improve upon them much year after year.
• Running.  Well, I've been running since I've been walking, if you want to get technical about it.  But my interest in "training" for anything from a 5K to a half marathon waxes and wanes.  I can't seem to stay in the consistent "rhythm" of it.
• Cycling.  The hubby and I got into this on a whim about 5 years ago.  He's great at it.  Me... eh.  I continued to train for and ride the century rides with him every other year for something for us to do together.  Don't love it, don't hate it.  But I'm not that strong at it.  If the hubby is in the mood the ride one summer I ride.  If he's not feelin' it I'm certainly not out there by myself....
• Triathlons.  Well, this went nowhere fast.  This past fall I started in the pool at the Y, getting the basics of swimming down with the intent of doing my first Tri this summer.  Let's just say I petered out and do not have a tri on the books for this summer.....  so, ok.  Mark one hobby "incomplete".
• Yoga.  I built a Murphy bed on the premise that I needed more room in the guest room so I could do yoga.  First of all that was kinda crap.  I just wanted an excuse to build a Murphy bed.  Plus, once installed, the Murphy bed really didn't give me as much extra floor space as I had hoped for.  It's not the bed's fault.  The room is just that small....

Well, I've added a new hobby to this ever-growing list. 

Classical guitar. 

My piano teacher gives lessons in piano, voice and classical guitar.  She encouraged me to give it a try.  Ensured me it would be relatively easy since I already know how to play piano.  So last weekend I went and bought the guitar, bag and book and have already started teaching myself.  I have my first guitar lesson tomorrow.  Which is good because I clearly need some technique pointers!!!

But not to worry - KVeg commented that if I kept this up I was going to become a one-man band.  No worries.  I can't sing....

And at least if this gets set aside at some point the guitar was a LOT less expensive than the piano!!  (btw - still playing the piano.  just adding guitar to break up the musical monotony a bit...)