I am having get togethers at my house more often, seriously.

Sunday a girlfriend of mine came by for tea and a chat, a lovely afternoon.
Then the band folks came over for our 2nd strategic planning meeting for 2009.
It was warm and cozy in my house and Juli brought me a book, Andrea tuned my cello, David reconfigured my igoogle home page and reorganized my itunes library, and Keith did my dishes.
Enough said.
I enjoy having conscientious, kind people in my life, those souls who know what friendship means and how to cultivate and care for it. I made tea and hummus and we made a list of every song in the archive and began determining exact tempo, length, feel, instrumentation etc. Which ones are radio friendly? Which ones need more attention? I fixed a few of my own lazy musical details that had been bothering me for a while and needed some focus. A productive evening, and it felt good.

I am headed out the door to go to Long Beach for a week-long sales and marketing meeting. I love my home but staying in hotels is fun too. We are having a cocktail party on the Queen Mary Tuesday evening and the theme is the TV show Mad Men. Dug around for a Breakfast at Tiffany's dress, an easy find in my costume closet..

i
love
my
life

Last night 1/2 of the genitals; Juli, David, Keith, and I drove down to San Diego to see Juli and our new manager Sean perform in Cash'd Out for New Years. It was fun, loud, and full of the things you would expect at a bar on the beach in San Diego on New Years Eve. No one spilled too much Jack Daniels on me and Juli was awesome, I am enjoying watching her grow as an artist. Crazy dancing with Keith (again!) we survived the drunken dryhumpfest mayhem and quickly afterwards drove through the night in the fog..beautiful 2 am fog by the way..to Denny's for some late night coffee, conversation and french toast slam breakfast.
Our hotel room in Encinitas (womb 111) was where we awoke this morning to a beautiful New Year and our trip to the Self Realization Fellowship meditation gardens.
Lying on a bench, overlooking the ocean, listening to the waves and my own heart beating I thought

Life is GOOD

Koi ponds, Keith's first love of photography, a gigantic herd of whales passing by JUST as we stood watching, and the spectacular smell in the air. David kept taking deep breaths and saying "the air..it's so clean I can feeel it going in my body!"

Driving home, listening to the radio and all 4 of us singing the oldies (good AND bad) as LOUD as possible in the car, including all the instrumental parts (Jules and I decided that is a great way for us to have vocal rehearsal, to start having late night drives while listening to K-EARTH101 and work on our harmonies together in the car, although David is more of a smooth jazz guy..) freedom, fearlessness, friendship and fun.

It's the way to go.