So 2006 has almost certainly been an amazing year, its been almost certainly the most life changing and enjoyable year I’ve had for a long time.
Even new year was pretty much the best one I’ve been at. We used the farm in Wales again to have a party weekend (more a chilled weekend) from Friday through to Monday. Friday was pretty chilled, getting up there mid afternoon, we had pizza and settled in for the weekend. About fifteen of us were up there this time, and it was a great number. Saturday was chilled (after late night hot tubbing) with most people getting up just before lunch time, New Years Eve itself, the sunday, we decided to dress up in black tie (I had myself a nice little collar and cuffs for the hot tub as well). I actually spent most of sunday afternoon playing with my new toys, Traktor Studio 3, and a Audio Kontrol One unit for the MacBook. I used to DJ many many moons ago, and always wanted to get back into it. Traktor and Kontrol One let me do that directly from my MacBook, and after a few hours in the kitchen at the farm I was almost getting back to being reasonable again.. thankfully when I did the evening bit we all decided to hit the hot tub and things rather than put me through the horror of having to carve up tracks in front of people…
I even got to play some magic the weekend as well, giving the Third Degree Burn a quick outing, a bit of Green Unshuffling of a shuffed deck, and my own Respelt a dusting off..
The only downside is coming back with some weird chest/sinus/head infection that’s had me in bed since Monday evening, but the New Year weekend itself was just great, but I think the thing that really hit home that weekend is just how different my life is now than it was before. I don’t think there’s been a single month where we haven’t gone away for the weekend, or more than a week when we haven’t gone out and done something, or seen friends. Just on the subject of friends alone.. I have probably more people in my life now that mean, and I really mean, mean something to me than ever before. I feel very comfortable just being me, enjoying the things I love doing and the things that make me happy, without having to worry about what people think or what people assume, the people around me like me for me…
I can look back over a amazing year…
Fantastic Trips away, like Oasis, longleat, Wfest 06, the Halloween Ball, attending Fism for the first time, having more people at our birthday than I have ever had, an amazing valentines present of heading down to Cornwall to see Jeff McBride and seeing the sights of Cornwall, perfect nights in, amazing nights out. wonderful company, and probably most importantly enough smiles with the woman I love to last a lifetime
its been a great year, and a lot of that’s been down to meeting and being with Michelle, I hope I have many more excellent years, and my collection of smiles gets much bigger…
..Resolutions?? To try and make each day special for me and Michelle, to love her more than yesterday and less than tomorrow, to never take for granted what I have, and to always remember how lucky I am…
Happy New Year
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