When I started, I decided to try to play at least 5 minutes per day. If at the end of that time, I wasn't motivated to keep playing, I could put the ukulele away. That did happen sometimes, but mostly not. I was up to an hour or 2 per day, (sometimes more), prior to the pandemic.
Somehow, even though I was home a lot more, I had far less time to play during the pandemic. Maybe it's due to less structured time, or changed schedule, but much time - especially initially - was spent on Zoom meetings, webinars, redoing things so work could continue remotely, and so on. And hunting down PPE. Hard to find at first.
Fast forward to current times, and one job is gone, and the other, I just found out, is mostly gone, (and I wonder how long it will last at all, though I'm set for at least through the summer.) So, while humming "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" to myself, I'm hoping to get in a lot more time for music. I've been back up to around an hour per day for the most part, but now that my schedule is freeing up a lot more, the up side is that maybe I can get more time than that in.
Like peanuts56, that 2nd Moderna shot knocked me down, but since I've had several COVID exposures at work, (since we don't Zoom anything anymore), I figure it was important anyway, even though I couldn't even do my 5 minutes with the ukulele for a couple days. And yes, deciding which arm to get the shot in was determined by which I thought would be less likely to limit playing the ukulele no matter how sore my arm got.
I rotate which ukuleles I'm playing, but have developed a favorite reentrant and a favorite linear, so will have to decide if I'm going to stick to those and sell the others. But, as soon as I think about selling one, I suddenly must play that one, and love it.
They all stay in their cases, but are all handy to grab, so it's easy to rotate through them.
So, off to play a bit before spending mother's day with my mom. I'm lucky. Ukuleles and getting to be with my mom. A good day.