You know you got a thing for your piano when...

[Spatula]

You know you’ve got a piano “fetish” when:

PLEASE NOTE: this is for amusement purposes only, please try not to be offended and don’t flame me.  

You think, sleep, doze off, and meditate about your piano all day and all night
You read bedtime stories to your piano
You use your piano as a “security blanket” (don’t ask)
You invite your piano to birthday parties
You hug and kiss your piano
You talk to your piano and share secrets
You ask your piano what he/she/it wants for breakfast, lunch, and dinner
You learn every TV theme song there is and play it on piano simultaneously with the TV program
You say “All your keys are belong to us!” to your friends (if you have any left)
Your piano is your only friend
You get your piano tuned EVERYDAY
You have two pianos and realize that having two or more pianos is alright since they won’t get jealous, unlike the female counterpart…
You watch hockey with your piano
You make your very special own “Piano Idol” and start voting
You make a movie of yourself and your piano journey (not a bad idea)
You replace your piano seat with a toilet and working plumbing and put a computer right on top so you can “multitask”

continued later  

[Spatula]

and of course when you propose to your piano

[Tash]

it's merely a 'fetish', nothing to be serious about...

[Motrax]

You sneak away from parties because you haven't quite reached your 10-hour practice goal for the day.

You're at a party and rather than talking to your good friends, you sit at a piano and work on a few measures that've been giving you trouble all week.

You name your piano.

You go to your piano in the morning before you eat breakfast (assuming you eat breakfast at all).

It's 11:00 pm, you're almost asleep, and suddenly you get a craving to practice a bit more. So you do.

When people ask you to please stop playing, you instinctively feel persecuted and get indignant

[Saturn]

It's 11:00 pm, you're almost asleep, and suddenly you get a craving to practice a bit more. So you do.

Oh man, don't tell me you've never had midnight piano cravings.  I know I have.  Rather than trying to suppress the cravings, I figured out how to practice without waking up my parents.  It's kind of like a drug, really.

- Saturn

[Motrax]

I've actually done all of that (besides naming my piano  )! I have a lot of difficulty practicing late, though, my piano is very loud with respect to the rest of my house. And I'm upstairs and my piano is downstairs, and the floor creaks with each step I take... so basically I sleep in order to practice in the morning.  

[shh its kaya]

wow...

Anybody at all know how to pull off that "midnight piano craving" when you have parents in the house.  I have almost the same situation, where I sleep upstairs, piano is downstairs, piano is pretty loud (and near parent's bedroom also downstairs), and I have hard wood floors.  If I could actually manage to practice at night (especially during the summer, when I'm awake later) without pissing off my parents, that would be the ultimate wish come true (other than being a concert pianist, of course).

[Saturn]

wow...

Anybody at all know how to pull off that "midnight piano craving" when you have parents in the house.  I have almost the same situation, where I sleep upstairs, piano is downstairs, piano is pretty loud (and near parent's bedroom also downstairs), and I have hard wood floors.  If I could actually manage to practice at night (especially during the summer, when I'm awake later) without pissing off my parents, that would be the ultimate wish come true (other than being a concert pianist, of course).

The only reason I can pull it off is because we've got the right house for it.  The parents sleep upstairs, the piano is downstairs.  I just close their bedroom door and they can barely even hear the piano.

Since you probably aren't so fortunate, there are a number of things you could do:

1) practice on a dummy keyboard, or a digital piano with headphones
2) silent practice at the piano.  I read in another thread a post by Bernhard describing how there is a pianist who advocates "silent practice" by pressing the keys in a way so they don't produce sound.  He said it helps to build control.
3) Practice the piece in your mind
4) Study/analyze the score
5) Study recordings (with headphones)
6) get a good night's sleep so you can practice the following morning.

I'm sure there are many other ways to satisfy the urge.  Nearly all of the above have been elaborated on in other threads, so you might want to look for those.

[monk]

You are a REAL piano fetishist if you even try to F*CK it - like Keith Jarrett does in his concerts...