Creative year ahead, I hope

[fluffymark]

Belated new year fishies to everyone, and I hope it has been a happy one for all. *wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

Looking back, 2004 was a very good year, for once. I did lots of new and exciting things, made some very good new friends (libellum and karen2205 spring to mind, but there are many more). Older friendships, particularly arkady, mirabehn, evil_nick and the_lady_lily, and others have blossomed into wonderful things. And, of course, I met, seduced and fell in love with the pretty cassielalone, and I am most happy because of that. *naughtysmile*

I stalked daevas and her band RazorBladeKisses around the country which was a feat of extreme fangirliness. I attended a most lovely Folk Festival at Trowbridge, where I finally saw the Levellers play. I travelled to many cities around Europe, namely Bruges, Ghent, Tampere, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Krakow and Moscow. *happybounces*

Not saying it was all happy roses, and there were some deeply bad bits, but nothing heavy, nothing that mattered. *sigh*

I want to be more creative in 2005. I want to draw. I want to spend lots of quality time with cassielalone (you can tell I’ve not seen her for over 3 weeks....). I want to do more me things. Time also to relax - I spend most of my time at work being actively creative, so by evening time I’m drained and uninspired without a rest. Time to enjoy the small things in life, the scenery, notice little things around me that make me smile. And somehow I’m going to have to make time, as I don’t have any more time. So, aside from inventing a time machine, I’m going to have to control my rampant social life. Which means sadly saying NO to going out a lot more. I’ve already cut down a lot - I’ve not been to Asylum in ages, and B-Movie has been skipped on many an occasion, and Electric Dreams is no more. But I’m going to have to cut out a whole lot more. But where to start? Should I only go to larger gatherings (parties, clubs) where I can see lots of my friends, or smaller gatherings (cafe meetings, dinner invites) where I’ll just meet a few, but more intimately? Wah! Is most distressing. I really don’t know what is going to have to give, but it’s going to be painful. *sobs*

Jellyfish is down. *sob* I knew that power cable would get tripped over, and bang.....down goes my poor helpless webserver. And she’s not coming back up, which is a pain as it’s headless. Which means lugging her into my room for some surgery. *wailingnoises*

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

*Bounce*

I hope you're planning to share the results of your creativity with us. I don't think I've ever seen anything you've drawn...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It may make things a little easier to know that there's no B-Movie this month; the next one is one of their special 80s nights on Feb 11th.

Personally I'd go for "small and intimate" over "large and busy" events, but that's just my personal preference. At smaller gatherings one gets a much better chance to actually talk to people beyond brief chitchat say-hello-wave-goodbye stuff. It's one of the reasons why I like the Tuesday Borders meets so much.

When I get my flat sorted out (it currently resembles my recent state of mind and thus is an utter tip that hasn't been properly tidy since David and Liz stayed with me), I shall have to organise a proper Cake Party. I have the most wonderful recipe for sachertorte that you have to try!

[karen2205]

I did lots of new and exciting things, made some very good new friends

*smiles* - lovely to meet you too:-)

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

*waves*

As Bat & I will be in London at a loose end this evening, we were wondering if you might be up for meeting up for dinner or something? Current plan is that we're meeting at Vauxhall underground at 6pm, so assume an earliest time of meeting up by extrapolating one of those spacetime cone thingies from those coordinates. :-)

[devalmont.livejournal.com]

I have finally got around to friending you, I've been meaning to for ages.
My suggestion is to cut out a few of the larger gatherings, but as for the intimate social gatherings, they're usually fairly cheap, fairly easy on the next-morning situation, and so I don't think you should miss any of those out.
You should however come to my gig at the Purple Turtle on Thursday. This will most likely be an intimate gathering, of the band and the band's girlfriends. I doubt any other buggers will turn up!!

deV x