Piano. Check!

I can hear something in the distance rumbling...it's the sound of a lost possession slowing returning to me...it's...my sanity!!! Yes! I have a piano, in my house. I can walk 5 steps from where I'm sitting and play anything I want on a beautiful, upright Kawaii piano. Life is good. What a great way to start 2008!

I'm getting excited about this year. 2007 was amazing, unexpected, exciting, stressful, full of big changes - but it was a year that I let come to me. I floated along wherever the tide took me, and it was definitely a good year to do that. I'm not saying by any stretch of the imagination that this was a bad thing or I wish I hadn't - quite the contrary, if I'd try to force any number of things on this year I don't think I could have found anything that matched up to what I ended up doing. I just have this feeling that this year I want to drive. Obviously not force things that aren't right, but do a little less riding and a little more planning. My job isn't going to move me to another country (unless it's back to the USA, and I'm not really ready for that). My job isn't going to give me an outlet for music. My flatmates aren't going to always be my flatmates or be my way to cool encounters in the London scene. I'm not going to wake up one morning with a ticket to Africa on my pillow next to a custom 5-year plan on how I can fit in there. Etc, etc - most of what I want out of the next year is going to take some work and some planning. So there is my New Year's resolution - no more sitting back and waiting for what might happen, I'm off to make things happen.

It's amazing the effect a heap of steel, wood and strings can have on my confidence.