How to write when you're happy?

It's often said that creativity comes with depression or intense melodrama - and I have to say I write more music and more frequently make entries in my journal when I'm sad. But wow. Life is Just So Amazing right now. President Obama just swore the Oath of Office. I am overwhelmed with love and pride for my country! The whole thing is just amazing. I mean AMAZING. Such a sobering speech too, not flippantly optimistic, but an appropriate call to action and hope. (I also loved the amazing piano/clarinet/violin/cello piece too, so beautiful!)

In general, things are just falling into place for me, so much so that I'm scared by it. Wondering if I'm going to wake up one day and it was all a dream, or wake up one day and it is all reversed or worse! But I'm not letting myself think like that, I'm just enjoying the fact that I have an amazing part-time job which lets me spend my days surrounded by pianos and music, I have a great place to live, I'm filled with ideas and hopes for things to do this year, I have a great network of friends in London, multiple ways to talk to and see my family, I'm healthy, my family is healthy...I have so much to be grateful for in this gloomy world setting.

I also haven't written lately because I've been trying to decide what to do about my job, and airing all that on my blog has the (very slim) chance of getting back to my current employer, so I decided to just keep quiet. I'll write more about all that when it's truly official later this week.

Go USA! Let's get things working right again! :)

It's me - blogging, for real!

So it's 2009. I have been having this inner debate about whether to keep blogging, I'm so out of the habit, and London is now my life, not just an amazing experience for a few months. But there's still interesting things to write about for sure...it's just that more and more they are too personal, or worse, politically charged with my employment to air in the very public view of the blog. Plus, I kinda want to have some purpose or logic to my posts, but I don't know if that will ever happen!

I was reading over my New Year's blog from '08 and laughing sadly to myself at how perfectly I ignored the profundity of my statement that I was going to have to make things happen if I wanted to have as awesome a 2008 as I did 2007. There's nothing worse than not listening to yourself and finding our you were right. I do it all the time though. Took me until November to take my own advice!! But hey, at least I finally did, and 2009 has the potential to be freakin' awesome because of it.

I'm coming off one of the best Christmas breaks I've ever had - I learned from last year and didn't go home for Thanksgiving (hard to miss being with my family that day, but I had thoroughly enjoyed spending the day cooking for 10 of my friends!) so that I was rested and really looking forward to being home for Christmas AND I stayed for over two weeks. It was perfect.

Looking forward to resting this weekend, and catching up with friends, it's been so long since I've seen everyone!